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Postdocs
Chang Hsin Chen, Ph.D.
Modeling, Simulation, and Big Data
Research
We focus on turbulent buoyant plumes and use large-eddy simulations to analyze turbulent fluctuations in the plumes. Turbulent plumes exist in many natural and engineering systems, such as volcanic eruptions and supersonic combustion. The studies will provide a better understanding of turbulent processes in the systems.
Grant Macdonald, Ph.D.
Geophysical Sciences/Polar Studies
Research
I use remote sensing and field data to investigate surface hydrology on ice shelves and sea ice. In particular, I am interested in analysing the formation of surface lakes/ponds on and around the Antarctic Ice Sheet, and assessing the implications of their formation for ice-sheet stability. As temperatures rise, it is important that we better understand these features and processes in order to predict Antarctica’s response to climate change.
Doctoral Students
Protik Banerjee
UTSA
Environmental Science and Engineering
PI: Dr. Saugata Datta
Eugene Hoffman
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Mansi Joshi
UTSA
Environmental Science and Engineering
PI: Stephen Ackley/Dr. Hongjie Xie
Gina Jozef
University of Colorado, Boulder
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
PI: Dr. John Cassano
YoungHyun Koo
UTSA
Environmental Science and Engineering
PI: Dr. Hongjie Xie
Eric Kouba
UTSA
Environmental Science and Engineering
PI: Dr. Hongjie Xie
Elijah LaLonde
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Hazem Mahmoud
UTSA
Environmental Science and Engineering
PI: Dr. Hongjie Xie
Karen Mendiondo
UTSA
Environmental Science and Engineering
PI: Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez
Pratik Mitra
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Jose Rodriguez
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Jesse Slaten
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Elina Valkonen
University of Colorado, Boulder
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
PI: Dr. John Cassano
Jullian Williams
UTSA
Environmental Science and Engineering
PI: Dr. Hongjie Xie
Zachary Williams
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Master's Students
Ashley Aguilar
UTSA
Geology
PI: Dr. Saugata Datta
Diego Bass
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Ishan Bhattatai
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Daniel Brun
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Valeria Delgado
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Matt Garcia
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Dean Kaialau
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Michael McMahan
UTSA
Geology
PI: Dr. Yongli Gao/Dr. Hongjie Xie
Thomas Nordstrand
UTSA
Geology
PI: Stephen Ackley/Dr. Yongli Gao
Iyare Oseghae
UTSA
Geoinformatics
PI: Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez/Dr. Hongjie Xie
Raj Patel
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Lauren Schwartz
UTSA
Geology
PI: Dr. Alan Whittington
Christian Sustayta
UTSA
Geoinformatics
PI: Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez
Sergio Teran
UTSA
Geology
PI: Stephen Ackley/Dr. Blake Weissling
Thanh Tran
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Undergraduate Students
Leah Andino
UCLA
Geography-Environmental Studies
PI: Dr. Marilyn Raphael
Hayden Bilbo
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Jaydne Blomfield
UTSA
Geology
PI: Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez
Finn Burmeister-Morton
UTSA
Computer Science
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Ivana Chen
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Angie De La Cruz
UTSA
Geology
PI: Stephen Ackley/Dr. Yongli Gao
Rodolfo Fernandez
UTSA
Geology
PI: Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez
Joshua Le
UTSA
Computer Science
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Crystal Moreland
UTSA
Geology
PI: Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez
Khiem Nguyen
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Samantha Pickell
Lead for UTSA NASA MINDS project
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Zach Riddle
Lead for UTSA Mars Rover Team
UTSA
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Student Interns
Desiree Arbizu
Northeast Lakeview College
Engineering
PI: Dr. Yongli Gao
Chrishall Armstrong
St. Philip's College
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Daniel Pineda
Ta'lya Brooks
St. Philip's College
Mechanical Engineering
PI: Dr. Christopher Combs
Juan Carrasco
Northeast Lakeview College
Engineering
PI: Dr. David Restrepo
Vincente Flores
St. Philip's College
Biochemistry
PI: Dr. Saugata Datta
Steve Lara
Palo Alto College
Engineering
PI: Christopher Combs
Alexandra Lee
UTSA
Physics
PI: Dr. Hongjie Xie
Emily Pressler
San Antonio College
Cyber Security
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Bianca Reusch
San Antonio College
Cyber Security
PI: Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar
Ashton Stepter
North Carolina A&T
Computer Science
PI: Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez
Nicholas Tkatchuk
Northeast Lakeview College
Engineering
PI: Stephen Ackley and Dr. Hongjie Xie
Jaylin Wilson
St. Philip's College
IT-Cyber Security
PI: Dr. Sushil Prasad and Dr. Wei Wang
Alumni
Postdoc/Student Alumni
Postdoc/Student |
Academic Level |
Discipline |
PI |
Program Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adetunji Adeleye |
MS student |
Geoinformatics |
Dr. Hongjie Xie |
2019-2020 |
Ashley Aguilar |
UG student |
Geology |
Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez |
2019-2020 |
Ian Bashor |
PhD student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2019-2020 |
Ethan Beeman |
MS student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2019-2020 |
Ambica Behara |
Postdoc |
Ocean Modelling/Atmospheric Science |
- |
2020 |
Sudheer Bhimireddy |
PhD student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2019-2020 |
Shamar Bradley |
MS student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2019 |
Giselle Contreras-Velarde |
UG student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2020 |
Prince Dukuze |
MS student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2020 |
Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui |
PhD student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2020 |
Sean Foote |
UG student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2019-2020 |
Desiree Garcia |
UG student |
Computer Science |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2020 |
Matt Garcia |
UG student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2019-2020 |
Samuel Guevara |
MS student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2019-2020 |
Jens Knudsen |
UG student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2019-2020 |
Rajitha Meka |
PhD student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2019-2020 |
Karen Mendiondo |
MS student |
Geology |
Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez |
2019-2020 |
Nilusha Navodiya |
MS student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2019 |
Adalberto Rodriguez |
UG student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Christopher Combs |
2019-2020 |
Douglas Schoenenberger |
MS student |
Geology |
Dr. Hongjie Xie |
2019 |
Priscila Sol |
UG student |
visiting student |
Stephen Ackley |
2019 |
Lijun Tian |
PhD student |
Environmental Science and Engineering |
Stephen Ackley |
2019 |
Liuxi Tian |
PhD student |
Environmental Science and Engineering |
Dr. Hongjie Xie |
2019-2020 |
Jahsiah Toby |
UG student |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2019-2020 |
Student Intern Alumni
Intern |
Institution |
Major |
PI |
Program Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Nii nmashie Adjei |
Northwest Vista College |
Information Assurance and Cyber Security |
Dr. Sushil Prasad |
2020 |
Raul Flores |
Palo Alto College |
Mechanical Engineering |
Dr. Yongli Gao |
2020 |
Marcelina Garcia |
St. Philip's College |
IT-Cyber Security |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2020 |
Alyssa Guzman |
San Antonio College |
Mathematics |
Stephen Ackley; Dr. Hongjie Xie |
2020 |
Elizabeth Hebel |
University of Colorado-Boulder |
Geography |
Dr. Hongjie Xie |
2020-2021 |
Jacob Lyda |
Palo Alto College |
Mathematics |
Dr. Adel Adaeddini |
2020 |
Andre Michon |
San Antonio College |
Physics |
Dr. Alberto Mestas-Nunez |
2020 |
David Perez |
Palo Alto College |
Engineering |
Dr. Wei Gao |
2020 |
Haylie Schulmeier |
Northeast Lakeview College |
Biology |
Dr. Wei Wang |
2020 |
Lyann Serrano |
Northeast Lakeview College |
Mathematics |
Dr. David Restrepo |
2020 |
Alejandro Zarate |
St. Philip's College |
Engineering |
Dr. Kiran Bhaganagar |
2020 |
