Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students
Sahar Asrari
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: saasrari@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal processes, sediment transport, scour, coastal erosion and impact of sea level rise to coasts
Issac Blackburn
MCE Program
Advisor: Jack Puleo
Gabriela Salgado Dominguez
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: gsd@udel.edu
Research Interests: Nearshore hydrodynamics, coastal processes, wave dynamics, infragravity waves, ship wakes, and harbour resonance
Delaney Doran
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: deldoran@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal processes, nearshore hydrodynamics, nature-based solutions, extreme events
Danial Golbaz
Advisor: Yao Hu
Email: dgolbaz@udel.edu
Research Interests: Nearshore hydrodynamic, storm surge, compound flooding, optimization
Parvez Hossain
MCE program
Advisor: Jack Puelo
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, Wave Modeling, Nearshore Hydrodynamics, Coastal Processes
Temitope E. Idowu
Ph.D.
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: teidowu@udel.edu
Research Interests: Objects’ migration and burial in swash and surf zones, Coastal processes, sustainability of coastal environments, GIS applications
Mary Kate Kaczynski
MCE Program
Advisor: Jack Puelo
Narayan Kumar
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: narayank@udel.edu
Research Interests: CFD simulation of nearshore wave breaking and sediment transport processes
Onur Manat
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: manat@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling, Sediment Transport, Surf-Zone Wave Transformations
Mohammadsadegh Nouri (Sadegh)
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: msnouri@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, sediment transport, scour, and landslide-generated tsunamis
Dannielle Pratt
Ph.D./Civil and Environmental Engineering program
Advisor: Holly Michael
Email: depratt@udel.edu
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, Sea Level Rise, Coastal Marshes, Salinization, Coastal Critical Zone
Ryan Schanta
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tom Hsu
Email: rschanta@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling, Nearshore Hydrodynamics, Machine Learning, Coastal Hydrology & Hydraulics
Daniel Sharar—Salgado
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: dsharars@udel.edu
Research Interests: Riverine-Coastal Compound Flooding, Numerical Modeling (Finite Volume & Spectral Element Methods), Scour, Water Waves and Machine Learning
Topher Swanson
Ocean Engineering Masters
Advisor: Jack Puelo
Research Interests: Sediment movement over munitions
Jiaye Zhang
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: jiaye@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, sediment transport
Julia Zimmerman
Graduate College Non-Degree
Advisor: Jack Puleo