TEAM
Xinyu Zhao
Centennial Term Associate Professor
Prof. Zhao joined University of Connecticut since Feb. 2015 as an Assistant professor and became an Associate professor in 2021. She is currently the Centennial Term Professor of College of Engineering. She is the founder and advisor of the CTF@UCONN.
Education:
Ph. D., Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2013
M. Sc., Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2008
B. Eng., Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2006
POSTDOC AND GRADUATE STUDENTS
Weiye Wang
Postdoctoral researcher
Research interest: multiphase combustion and detonation
Fuga Sato
Ph.D. candidate
Research interest: flame extinction, multiphase combustion
Fahim Rijvi
Ph.D. candidate
Research direction: Fire suppression
Yaminul Hoque
Ph.D. candidate
Research direction: Turbulent combustion modeling, conjugate heat transfer
Nicholas Meister
Master candidate
Research direction: heat transfer through thermal barrier coating
ALUMNI
Patrick Meagher
Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida
Luis Pires Rodrigues
Postdoctoral researcher at FM Global
Nicolas Tricard (M.Sc 2023)
Ph.D. Candidate at MIT
Guilherme Fraga (Postdoc 2022)
Assistant Professor at UNICAMP in São Paulo
Peiyu Zhang (Ph.D. 2022)
Physicist/Scientist at Applied Materials
Joseph Squeo (M. Sc 2021)
Aerospace research engineer at Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.
Samuel Calello III (M. Sc 2021)
Modeling and Simulation Specialist at Infinity Labs
Bifen Wu (Ph.D. 2020)
Senior Engineer at ExxonMobil
Julian Toumey (M.Sc 2020)
R&D Engineer at API Heat Transfer
Andressa Johnson (M. Sc 2020)
Senior Engineer at Pratt & Whitney
Hasret Turkeri (Postdoc 2019)
Advanced Lead Engineer at TEI Turkey
Andrew Caratenuto (Undergraduate Research Assistant)
Postdoc at Harvard University
Our team over the years…
2024
2022
2021
2020
Conference March 2020
2019
Combustion Group Dec 2019
