Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students
Alex Baffour Akoto
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: abaffour@udel.edu
Research Interests: Sediment transport in nearshore environment, Morphodynamics, Coastal Processes and Shoreline Protection
Emily Chapman
MCE/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: echapman@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal processes, nearshore hydrodynamics, coastal erosion, and sediment transport
Gabriela Salgado Dominguez
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack Puleo
Email: gsd@udel.edu
Research Interests: Nearshore hydrodynamics, coastal processes, wave dynamics, infragravity waves, ship wakes, and harbour resonance
Maria Fotia
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: fotia@udel.edu
Research Interests: Water Waves and Computational Methods
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
Jirat Laksanalamai
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: jiratlak@udel.edu
Research interests: Coastal Erosion, Sediment Transport, Nearshore Hydrodynamics.
Narayan Kumar
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian Hsu
Email: narayank@udel.edu
Research Interests: CFD simulation of nearshore wave breaking and sediment transport processes
Christopher Malone
MCE/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: cmalone@udel.edu
Research Interests: Physical impacts of coastal hazards, impacts of sea-level rise and climate change to the coast, breaking waves, nearshore nonlinear wave dynamics, stormwater management and flood modeling, hydraulics and hydrology, and ocean wave propagation
Mohammadsadegh Nouri (Sadegh)
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian Hsu
Email: msnouri@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, sediment transport, scour, and landslide-generated tsunamis
Jorge A. Penaloza-Giraldo
Advisor: Tom Hsu
Email: japg@udel.edu
Research Interests: Cohesive Sediments
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Rafiu Oyelakin
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack Puleo
Email: rafiuoye@udel.edu
Research Interests: Swash zone hydro-morphodynamics, sediment transport, flow structure, obliquely incident waves, and coastal processes
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
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
Daniel Sharar—Salgado
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tian-Jian Hsu
Email: dsharars@udel.edu
Research Interests: Riverine-Coastal Compound Flooding, Numerical Modeling (Finite Volume & Spectral Element Methods), Scour, Water Waves and Machine Learning
Benjamin Tsai
Ph.D.
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: btsai@udel.edu
Research Interests: Dune Erosion, Sediment Transport, Turbulence Modeling, Large Eddy Simulation
Jiaye Zhang
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tian-Jian Hsu
Email: jiaye@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, sediment transport
Sudhanshu .
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: sanshu@udel.edu
Research Interests: Turbulence modeling, large eddy simulation, bubble dynamics, multi-phase flow, breaking waves