Group Members


  • There is an open postdoctoral position in the group!
  • Amit Kumar Bhattacharjee will join the group in March 2013.
  • Mingchao Cai joined the group as a Postoctoral Associate starting summer of 2012.
  • Courant Ph.D. student Steven Delong joined my research group in the Fall of 2011.
  • Courant Ph.D. student Thomas Fai works with Professor Charles Peskin and has joined our research effort in fluctuating hydrodynamics for fluid mixtures with the help of the DOE CSGF program.
  • Undergraduate junior Yifei Sun did a summer research internship at NYU.

collaborators, Future and past members



  1. I collaborate closely with Boyce Griffith from the NYU Department of Medicine on several research projects involving his code IBAMR, as well as with my colleague Eric Vanden-Eijnden.
  2. UAM Physics Ph.D. student Florencio Balboa works with my collaborator Rafael Delgado-Buscalioni (UAM, Madrid, Spain) and visited the Courant institute during the Spring of 2011.
  3. Research scientist Andy Nonaka works with my collaborator John Bell at the LBNL Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, and has recently joined our efforts to develop low Mach number schemes for fluctuating hydrodynamics of fluid mixtures.
  4. I recently began a collaboration with Northwestern University graduate student Amneet Bhalla and his advisor Neelesh Patankar.