Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Stanford Borrell
MS
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: sborrell@udel.edu
Research Interests: Rapid sensor deployment during extreme storm events, coastal morphology and hydrodynamics
Demetra Cristaudo
PhD
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: demetra@udel.edu
Research Interests: Observations of munition mobility in the swash zone, Nearshore processes, Beach morphodynamics
Mithun Deb
Ph.D.
Advisor: James T. Kirby
Email: mdeb@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal flooding, hydrodynamics, hazard assessment, remote sensing and GIS
Maria Fotia
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: fotia@udel.edu
Research Interests: Water waves and computational methods
Benedict Gross
MCE
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: bmgross@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal engineering, munition mobility
Yeulwoo Kim
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: ykim@udel.edu
Research Interests: Dam-break swash, sediment transport, turbulence modeling, large-eddy simulation
Rory O'Boyle
Advisor: Jack Puleo
Email: roboyle@udel.edu
Research Interests: Sea mine burial due to sediment type and scour, nearshore hydrodynamics, coastal engineering
Jorge A. Penaloza-Giraldo
Advisor: Tom Hsu
Email: japg@udel.edu
Research Interests: Cohesive Sediments
Maro Pontiki
Advisor: Jack 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
Tarazouji Salimi
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: alisalim@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling
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