Our book “A Primer on the Kinematics of Discrete Elastic Rods” has been published. It is available free of charge to students through institutional subscription: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-76965-3

May 6, 2018

“Patterns of carbon nanotubes by flow directed deposition on substrates with architectured topographies” has been published in Nano Letters. More details on this research here.

February 16, 2018

I joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, as an Assistant Professor.

July 1, 2017

“Dynamics of a flexible helical filament rotating in a viscous fluid near a rigid boundary” has been published in Physical Review Fluids. More details on this research here.

March 24, 2017

I joined Integrated Soft Materials Laboratory for Human-compatible Machines and Electronics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, as a postdoctoral fellow.

September 1, 2016

I defended my doctoral thesis titled “Geometrically nonlinear configurations in rod-like structures” at 10:00-11:00am on July 14, 2016 in Room 3-333, MIT.

July 14, 2016

Our work on the effect of a rigid boundary on the propulsion and instability of flagellar propulsion will be presented at American Physical Society (APS) March meeting to be held in Baltimore, MD. The presentation is scheduled for 1:27-1:39pm, March 14, 2016, in Baltimore Convention Center. Click here for details. More details on our research on flagellar mechanics can be found here.

March 14, 2016

Our paper “Deformation of a soft helical filament in an axial flow at low Reynolds number” has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter. More details on our research on the mechanics of bacterial flagella can be found here.

December 15, 2015

Our work on the effect of a rigid boundary on the propulsion and instability of flagellar propulsion was presented at American Physical Society (APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) annual meeting to be held in Boston. The presentation is scheduled for 1:29-1:42pm, November 24, 2015, in Hynes Convention Center. Click here for details. More details on our research on flagellar mechanics can be found here.

November 24, 2015

Our paper “Propulsion and instability of a flexible helical rod rotating in a viscous fluid” has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. More details on our research on the mechanics of bacterial flagella can be found here.

September 14, 2015