Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students
Erika Beddings
MCE
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: ecbedd@udel.edu
Research Interests: Beach Nourishment, Sediment Transport, Coastal Flooding
Mithun Deb
Ph.D.
Advisor: James T. Kirby
Email: mdeb@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Flooding, Hydrodynamics, Hazard Assessment, Remote Sensing and GIS
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Maria Fotia
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: fotia@udel.edu
Research Interests: Water Waves and Computational Methods
Jirat Laksanalamai
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: jiratlak@udel.edu
Research interests: Coastal Erosion, Sediment Transport, Nearshore Hydrodynamics.
Mike Larner
MCE
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: mjlarner@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Processes, Shoreline Protection, Ship-wake-induced Morphodynamics
Jorge A. Penaloza-Giraldo
Advisor: Tom Hsu
Email: japg@udel.edu
Research Interests: Cohesive Sediments
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Maro Pontiki
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: mpontiki@udel.edu
Research Interests: Investigation of physics of dune erosion, during extreme surge and wave events, physical modeling, probabilistic modeling for the prediction of coastal floods
Yashar Rafati
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: yashar@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Sediment Processes, Multiphase Flow, Nearshore Hydrodynamics
Ali Salimi Tarazouj
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: alisalim@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling, Sediment Transport, Multi Phase Modeling and Turbulence
Benjamin Tsai
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: btsai@udel.edu
Research Interests: Dune Erosion, Sediment Transport, Turbulence Modeling, Large Eddy Simulation
Wanyi Xing
Liangyi Yue
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: liangyi@udel.edu
Research Interests: Sediment Transport and Waver Waves (surface and internal)
Cheng Zhang
Ph.D.
Advisor: James T. Kirby
Email: chzhang@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling, Computation Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Coastal Engineering, Multiphase Flow, Wave-structure Interaction, Landslide Tsunamis
Tingting Zhu
Ph.D.
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: ztting@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal Structures, Coastal Erosion Control Strategies, Sediment Transport, Nearshore Hydrodynamics
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