People
Principal Investigator
Laura Villafañe Roca
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Beckman Institute
AIAA Illinois Section Chair
Graduate Students
Tuhin Bandopadhyay
Ph.D. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Particle-laden flows,
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
tuhinb2@illinois.edu
Hussein Al-Rashdan
Ph.D. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Plume surface interactions,
Flow diagnostics
halras3@illinois.edu
Nicolas Rasmont
Ph.D. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Plume-surface interactions,
Mmwave interferometry,
Ejecta modeling and reconstruction
rasmont2@illinois.edu
Cutler Phillippe
Ph.D. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Parachute textile mechanics and FSI
cutlerp2@illinois.edu
German Saltar Rivera
Ph.D. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Machine learning models for turbulent particle-laden flows
germans3@illinois.edu
Abhisheka Mathur Sekar
M.S. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Carla Conesa Fuentes
M.S. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Liam Heuser
(incoming) Ph.D. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Plume surface interactions
Lorenzo Bruni
Ph.D. Student
Aerospace Engineering
Plume-surface interactions, data reduction and model discovery
UnderGraduate Students
Jeremy Huang
Senior
Aerospace Engineering
Multiphase flows
Ishaan Bansal
Junior
Aerospace Engineering
Plume surface interactions
Liam Heuser
Senior
Aerospace Engineering
Plume surface interactions
Vinay Varghese Vellara
Sophomore
Aerospace Engineering
Multiphase flows
Pranet Patil
Sophomore
Aerospace Engineering
Multiphase flows
Alumni
Evan Crowe
NASA Ames
MS Thesis 2022
Ari Jain
MS Thesis 2022
Alvaro Tomas
MS Thesis 2020
Undergraduate Students Alumni
(Underlined major contributors to research activities)
Group Photos
Eclipse day - Spring 2024
With MRI test preparation ready in advance... decided to go Eclipse watching with West Point visitors and friends
Post-pandemic BBQ - Spring 2022
Mission accomplished! Vertical channel team - Fall 2021
Design, structural analysis, manufacturing, lots of polishing, and channel rising completed!