Our Team

Faculty

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Undergraduate Researchers

Madeleine Bardy

Gurnoor Bhatti

Jackson Christopher

Carol Gonzalez Perez

Mia Aniya Jones

Casey Isabel Lin

Lia Makhulyan

Vic May

Kimia Sattary

Ting Wang

Alumni (UC Berkeley)

Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley
Shaorun Lin, Ph.D., 2022-2024 (First Position, Research Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Xiaoyu Ju, Ph.D., 2023 (First Position, Research Professor, USTC)
Luca Carmignani, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, UC Cooperative Extension, Assistant Fire Advisor)
Sriram Bharath Hariharan, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, Lucid Motors)
Franz Richter, Ph.D., 2020-2021 (First Position, McKinsey & Company)
Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, Ph.D., 2020-2021 (First Position, Assistant Professor, UC Merced)
Mohammadhadi Hajilou, Ph.D., 2021-2022 (First Position, Assistant Professor, University of Portland)
Charles Scudiere, Ph.D., 2021-2022 (First Position, Lucid Motors)

Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley
Priya Garg, Ph.D., 2023 “An experimental study of smoldering-to-flaming transition and emissions from wildland vegetative fuels” (First Position, Senior Test Engineer, Rivian)

Masters of Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Michael Wright
Andy Rodriguez

Undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley
Madeleine Bardy, Gurnoor Bhatti, Abhik Dutta, Lilly Etzenbach, Carol Gonzalez Perez, Jason Guardado, Ronaldo Lopez-Tucux, Yichi Ma, Andrew Petrak, Sebastián Quiroz, Carina Romerod, Kimia Sattary, Katrina Sharonin, Stephen Salazar, Kenny Song, Jingtao Tan, Jacqueline Thibault

Alumni (University of Maryland)

Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of Maryland
Hamed Farahani, Ph.D., 2017-2018 (First Position, Postdoctoral Scholar at WPI, Current Position, FM Global)
Ali Tohidi, Ph.D., 2016-2017 (First Position, One Concern, Current position, Assistant Professor San Jose State University)
Mohammadhadi Hajilou, Ph.D., 2019-2020 (First Position, Senior Engineer at GexCon)

Ph.D. at the University of Maryland
Ajay V. Singh, Ph.D., 2015 “A Fundamental Study of Boundary Layer Diffusion Flames” (First Position, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. Current Position, Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur)
Colin H. Miller, Ph.D., 2017 “Fluid Dynamics of Boundary Layer Combustion“.
Wei Tang, Ph.D., 2017 “Forward Heating in Wind-Driven Flames,” (First Position: National Institute for Standards and Technology, Wildland-Urban Interface Group, Current position, FPE at NIOSH)
Pietro Maisto, Ph.D., 2019 “Turbulent Transport and Mixing of Unconfined and Sloped Fire-Induced Flows Using a Laser-Assisted Saltwater Modeling Technique” (First Position, Postdoctoral Scholar, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland).
Sriram Bharath Hariharan, Ph.D., 2020, “Experimental Investigations and Scaling Analyses of Whirling Flames” (Current Position, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley)
Raquel Hakes Weston-Dawkes, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, postdoctoral scholar, Sandia National Laboratories)
Xingyu Ren, Ph.D., 2022 (First Position, Thermal analysis engineer, Rivian)
Sriram Bharath Hariharan, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, Lucid Motors)

Masters of Science at the University of Maryland
Brian Hall, M.S., 2014 “Transient Fire Load on Aluminum Ferries”
Zhao Zhao, M.S., 2014 “Flame Spread Through Wooden Dowels”
Daniel Gorham, M.S., 2014 “Studying Wildland Fire Spread Using Stationary Burners”
Colin Miller, M.S., 2014 “Upward Flame Spread Over Discreet Fuels”
Brian Cohen, M.S., 2014 “In Situ Burning Alternatives“
Sara Caton, M.S., 2016 “Laboratory Studies on the Generation of Firebrands from Cylindrical Wooden Dowels“
Nathaniel May, M.S., 2017 “Moisture Content Effects on Energy and Emissions Released During Combustion of Pyrophytic Vegetation“.
Raquel Hakes, M.S., 2017 “Thermal Characterization of Firebrand Piles”
Wuquan Cui, M.S. as part of the IMFSE Program, 2017 “Influence of Double-Skinned Facades on Fire Safety.”
Sriram Barath Hariharan, M.S., 2017, “The Structure of the Blue Whirl: A Soot-Free Reacting Vortex Phenomenon.”
Lana Benny, M.S., 2019
Hamed Salehizadeh, M.S., 2019
Evan Sluder, M.S., 2019
Lanford Price, M.S., 2021

Undergraduates at the University of Maryland
Bryce Bathras, Sara Caton, Stephen Ernst, Alicea Fitzpatrick, Daniel Gorham, Erin Griffith, Raquel Hakes, Matthew Kaminow, Kyle Kohler, Seth Lattner, Irene Lemboros, Conor McCoy, Stephanie Poole, Joseph Praydis, Peter Raia, Thomas Roche, Stephen Salazar, Maxwell Scott, Nicole Welch, Matthew Weston-Dawkes

Visiting Graduate Students at UMD
Zhenxiang Tao, Tsinghua University, China, 2018-2019
Xiaoyu Ju, PhD, University of Science and Technology, China, 2018
Lin Jiang, USTC, 2015-2016
Yu Hu, Tsinghua University, China, 2017-18
Kun Zhao, USTC, China, 2016-17

Visiting Undergraduate Students at UMD
Janis Tieck, Mannheim University, Germany, 2018
Jessen Chrisyla Oey, Mannheim University, Germany, 2018
Jan Zimlich, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2015
Jens Triller, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2014-15

Visiting Faculty at UMD
Xinje Huang, Anhuhi University, China, 2016-17
Liu Quiong, Central South University, China, 2016-17
Tao Xu, Shanghai Maritime University, 2019-20

Collaborators

Mark Finney, USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory

Sara McAllister, USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory

Daniel Jimenez, USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory

Antonio L. Sánchez, University of California, San Diego

Xinyan Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Yuji Nakamura, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

Ali Rangwala, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Forman A. Williams, University of California, San Diego, USA

Elaine S. Oran, University of Maryland, USA

Jessica Oakes, Northeastern University

Chiara Bellini, Northeastern University