Each year, the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering graduates between 30 and 40 doctoral students - each with unique contributions to make in research, academia, industry, and the evolution of the discipline itself. On this page, we provide links to their abstracts and their published dissertations. We're also introducing Next Gen Ideas, a video series in which our doctoral candidates will have ~ 3 minutes to explain research that took them years to produce. (No one ever said aerospace engineering was easy.) Click on the video above to get started.
| Name: | Ph.D. Title: | Advisor: | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Gregory Andriano | System of System Stakeholder Planning in a Multi-Stakeholder, Multi-objective, and Uncertain Environment | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Mackenzie Lau | A Methodology to Enhance Quantitative Technology Evaluation Through Exploration of Employment Concepts for Systems-of-Systems | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Paola Zanella | A Methodology to Improve the Proactive Mitigation of Helicopter Accidents Related to Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness | Prof. Dimitri Mavris and Prof. J.V.R. Prasad | read the dissertation |
| Matthew Guckenberger | A Methodology for Reducing Uncertainty in Performance Evaluations for Increasingly Automated Systems | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Ana Bella Gabrielian | Capturing the Acoustic Properties of Small Unmanned Aerial System Noise with a Novel Frequency Weighting | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Auraluck Pichitkul | A Unified Approach for Modeling Fluid-Structure Interactions of Large-Scale Offshore Wind Turbines | Prof. Lakshmi Sankar | read the dissertation |
| Ethan N. Evans | Spatio-Temporal Optimization for Control of Infinite Dimensional Systems in Robotics, Fluid Mechanics, and Quantum Mechanics | Evangelos A. Theodorou | read the dissertation |
| Coline Ramée | Conceptual-Level Analysis and Design of Unmanned Air Traffic Management Systems | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Kiran Ravikumar | Extreme-Scale Computing and Studies of Intermittency, Mixing of Passive Scalars and Stratified Flows in Turbulence | Prof. P. K. Yeung | read the dissertation |
| Po-Wei Chen | A Physics-Based Model for Inflow Characteristics of Multi-Rotor Configurations | Prof. Lakshmi Sankar | read the dissertation |
| Bin Wu | Investigation of Ozone Initiated Ethylene Oxidation at Room Temperature: Chemistry and Flame Dynamics | Prof. Wenting Sun | read the dissertation |
| Domitille Commun | An Approach for UAV-enabled Remote Camera Calibration in Various Environments | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Andrew K. Hull | A Methodology for Technology-tuned Decision Behavior Algorithms for Tactics Exploration | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Colby J. Weit | A System-of-Systems Approach to Aerospace Systems Design Decision-Making | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Avani Gupta | Application of an Extended Messinger Model for Ice Accretion on Complex Geometries | Prof. Lakshmi Sankar | read the dissertation |
| Thanakorn Khamvilai | Optimization-Based Design of Fault-Tolerant Avionics | Prof. Eric Feron and Kyriakos Vamvoudakis | read the dissertation |
| Yining Chen | Molten-Based 3-D Directwrite Fabrication of Micro Structures | Prof. George A. Kardomateas | read the dissertation |
| Umesh Unnikrishnan | Subgrid Scale Modeling for Large Eddy Simulation of Supercritical Mixing and Combustion | Prof. Joseph C. Oefelein and Prof. Vigor Yang | read the dissertation |
| Harold Nikoue | Model-Based Approaches to the Utilization of Heterogeneous Non-Overlapping Data to Dynamically Update Airport Queue Estimates | Prof. John-Paul Clarke and Prof. David Goldsman | read the dissertation |
| Joshua Daniel Brooks | A Framework for Selecting Multi-Attribute Optimal Renewable-Energy Driven Desalination Architectures | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Hsiang-Jui Chin | Retrospective and Exploratory Analyses for Enhancing the Safety of Rotorcraft Operations | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Petro Junior Milan | Deep-Learning Enhanced Multiphysics Flow Computations for Propulsion Applications | Prof. Vigor Yang | read the dissertation |
| Samantha Corrado | A Data-Driven Methodology to Analyze Air Traffic Management System Operations within the Terminal Airspace | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Ruthvik Chandrasekaran | Performance Advantages and Resonance Analysis of a Variable Speed Rotor Using Geometrically Exact Beam Formulations |
Prof. Dewey H Hodges | read the dissertation |
| Aris Kanellopoulos | Control and Game-Theoretic Methods for Secure Cyber-Physical-Human Systems | Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis | read the dissertation |
| Raffaele Gradini | Ship And Naval Technology Trades-offs for Science and Technology Investment Purposes | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Corbin Klett | "Towards Tractable Methods for Formal Verification of Autonomy in Aerospace Systems" |
Prof. Eric Feron | read the dissertation |
| Achyut Panchal | "Modeling Moderately Dense to Dilute Multiphase Reacting Flows" | Prof. Suresh Menon | read the dissertation |
| John Matthew Brewer | "Planning for Satellite Actuator Failure: A Falsification Approach Towards Certification of Contingency Controllers" | Prof. Panagiotis Tsiotras | read the dissertation |
| Zhaoyi Xu | "Novel Architecture and Machine Learning Models for System Prognostic and Remaining Useful Life Prediction with Uncertainty Quantification" | Prof. Joseph Homer Saleh | read the dissertation |
| Zhenyu Gao | "Representative Data and Models for Complex Aerospace Systems Analysis" | Prof. Dimitri N. Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Marc Salvadori | "Numerical Investigations of Fuel-Oxidizer Mixing on the Propagation of a Detonation Wave" | Prof. Devesh Ranjan & Prof. Suresh Menon | read the dissertation |
| Hernán J. Logarzo | "A Plasma-Wall Interaction Model for the Erosion of Materials Under Ion Bombardment" |
Prof. Julián J. Rímoli | read the dissertation |
| Amanda Grubb | "Computational Investigation of Separated Flow and Stall Events on Rotating Systems" |
Prof. Marilyn Smith | read the dissertation |
| Aroua Gharbi | "Toward A Robust Computational Solution for Formal Verification and Validation in Model-Based Systems Engineering" |
Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |
| Raghul Manosh Kumar | "Kinetic-Hydrodynamic Instability Interactions in Near Blowoff Bluff Body Flames" | Prof. Tim Lieuwen | read the dissertation |
| Alex Michael Moushegian | “Dual Solver Computational Modeling of Ship-Helicopter Dynamic Interface Aeromechanics” | Prof. Marilyn J. Smith | read the dissertation |
| Siddarth Niranjan Babu | "Closed / Semi-Closed Form Solutions for Face/Core Debonds in Sandwich Beams" |
Prof. George Kardomateas | read the dissertation |
| Aarohi Shah | "Physics-Enabled Data-Driven Structural Analysis for Mechanical Components and Assemblies" | Prof. Julian J. Rimoli | read the dissertation |
| Robert Walters | "Augmented Reality Cueing Methodologies for Rotorcraft Shipboard Landings" | Prof. JVR Prasad | read the dissertation |
| Chams Eddine Mballo | "Model-Based Life Extending Control for Rotorcraft" | Prof. J.V.R. Prasad | read the dissertation |
| Junsoo Lee | "Finite Time Stability, Semistability, and Optimality of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems with Application to Network Consensus" | Prof. Wassim M. Haddad | read the dissertation |
| Jeremy Epps | "Rotor-rotor Interactions in the Design of Unmanned Aerial Systems" | Prof. Eric Feron | read the dissertation |
| Marc Muehlberg | "A Methodology for the Modularization of Operational Scenarios for Modelling and Simulation" | Prof. Dimitri Mavris | read the dissertation |