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Eva Kanso, head

Eva Kanso is an assistant professor at USC in the Aerospace and mechanical engineering department. Her current areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
  • Mechanics and Dynamical systems; application to modeling aquatic locomotion.
  • Differential Geometry (continuous and discrete); application to solid-fluid interactions.


Post-doc


Roxana Tiron, post-doc


Roxana Tiron

Research project: Locomotion of spring-mass system in a ring formation
co-advised with Prof. P.K. Newton



Graduate Students


Fangxu Jing, RA


Fangxu Jing

Research project: Viscous evolution of point vortex equilibria
co-advised with Prof. P.K. Newton



Babak Oskouei, RA

Babak Oskouei

Research project: Stability and Control of a Vortex-Body System



Adam Ysasi, RA

Adam Ysasi

Research project: Wake Structure of Flapping Airfoils
co-advised with Prof. P.K. Newton



Undergraduate Students


Rustom Jehangir


Rustom Jehangir
University of Southern California

Research project: Passive tracers in the flow field of stochastically perturbed doublets
co-advised with Prof. P.K. Newton
Spring 2010




Kurt Bitter


Kurt Bitter
University of Southern California

Research project: Interactions of multiple particles subject to social forces
Supported by Rose Hill Fellowship
Spring 2010



Sarine Babikian, Summer 2008

Sarine Babikian
American University of Beirut, AUB

Research project: Stability of a Submerged Elliptic Body
Summer 2008



Vincent Lubrano, Summer 2008

Vincent Lubrano,
Ecole Nationale Superieure de Mecanique et d'Aerotechnique, ENSMA

Research project: An inviscid model for shedding vortex pairs from a swimming cylinder
Summer 2008



Paul Kleinknecht, Summer 2007

Paul Kleinknecht American University of Beirut, AUB

Research project: Parametric study of the dynamics of a submerged three-link fish.
Summer 2007


Alumni
Sujit Nair, postdoc
Sujit Nair
Postdoc in 2006
Now Postdoc at Caltech
George Chamoun, PhD
George Chamoun
Graduated from USC in 2008 (main advisor: Prof. Newton)
Now Postdoc at Virginia Tech