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IMAN BORAZJANI

Associate Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Department

University at Buffalo, SUNY

337 Jarvis Hall, SUNY University at Buffalo

Buffalo, NY 14260

Tel: (716) 645-1468

iman@buffalo.edu

http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~iman/

EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

2005 M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2002 B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

RESEARCH INTERESTS My research interests are in developing advanced computational tools for biofluids and fluid-

structure interaction problems, which we employ to advance knowledge and gain insights into

the physics of important biological/engineering flows.

APPOINTMENTS University at Buffalo SUNY, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department

Associate Professor 2016-

Assistant Professor 2010-2016

University of Minnesota, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory/Mechanical Engineering Department

Postdoctoral Research Associate 2008-2010

Graduate Research Assistant 2006-2008

Georgia Tech, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Graduate Research Assistant 2003-2006

HONORS & AWARDS

Fulbright Scholar (2017)

UB Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator Award (2015), University at Buffalo (UB),

State University of New York

Early CAREER award (2015), National Science Foundation

Doctoral New Investigator award (2013), American Chemical Society

Scientific Development award (2013), American Heart Association

Inside JEB featured article: Journal of Experimental Biology, January issue, vol. 213

(2010) http://jeb.biologists.org/content/213/1/i.1

Cover story: Journal of Experimental Biology, February issue, vol. 212, (2009)

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/4.cover-expansion

Gallery of Fluid Motion (2008) best movie award – 61st Annual American Physical Society

(APS) Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, title “Why don't

mackerels swim like eels? The role of form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of

undulatory swimming” (November 25, 2008) http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3205869

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RESEARCH & OUTREACH SUPPORT The PI has attracted 1.3M in funding to date, out of which more than 700K are currently active.

Fulbright Scholar (PI: Borazjani)

Total award: Stipend & Health insurance 3/1/2018-6/31/2018

Title: Self-organization in Aquatic Environment

The Fulbright Program is an American scholarship program of competitive, merit-based grants

for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists

and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946.

Role: scholar (co-PI: None)

NSF CAREER, Fluid Dynamics Award# 1453982 (PI: Borazjani)

Total award: $503,777 (Direct costs: $341,452) 02/01/2015-01/31/2020

Title: CAREER: Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) for biological flows

The major goal of this project is to develop a fluid-structure interaction framework and apply it to

investigate the generation of the leading edge vortex (LEV) in aquatic swimming and use it in bio-

inspired design of wind turbines. This research can generate a paradigm shift from suppressing

separation to generating separation (e.g., LEV) to improve force generation and performance.

Role: PI (co-PI: none)

Doctoral New Investigator, American Chemical Society PRF# 53099-DNI9 (PI: Borazjani)

Total award: $100,000 (Direct costs: $100,000) 09/01/2013-09/01/15

Title: The Effects of Micro-Structure on the Rheology of Heavy Crude Oil

The goal of this proposal is to identify the effects of asphaltene aggregates on the macroscopic

rheological behavior of heavy crude oil.

Role: PI (UB share 100%) (co-PI: none)

National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering# R03 EB014860A (PI: Borazjani)

Total award: $146,096 (Direct costs: $100,000) 09/01/2013-09/01/15

Title: A new parameter for prediction of intracranial aneurysm hemodynamics and risk of

rupture

The goal of this proposal is to test a new parameter based on basic fluid mechanics principle that

depends on both geometric and parent artery features to characterize the risk of rupture for

intracranial aneurysms.

Role: PI (UB share 100%) (co-PI: Meng, UB)

American Heart Association, National Center #3SDG17220022 (PI: Borazjani)

Total award: $308,000 (Direct costs: $280,000) 7/01/2013-6/30/17

Title: Hemodynamics & Optimum Placement of Mechanical vs. Bio-prosthetic Heart Valves

The goal of this proposal is to compare hemodynamics of mechanical and bio-prosthetic heart

valves to improve their designs, and also find the optimum placement of these valves in both

mitral and aortic positions.

Role: PI (UB share 100%) (co-PI: None)

American Heart Association, Founder Affiliate (PI: Borazjani)

—declined by the PI because had to accept either this award or the AHA National Center award

Total award: $231,000 (Direct costs: $210,000) 7/01/2013-6/30/16

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Title: Hemodynamics & Optimum Placement of Mechanical vs. Bio-prosthetic Heart Valves

The goal of this proposal is to compare hemodynamics of mechanical and bio-prosthetic heart

valves to improve their designs, and also find the optimum placement of these valves in both

mitral and aortic positions.

Role: PI (UB share 100%) (co-PI: None)

Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. (PI: Borazjani)

Total award: $10,500 (Direct costs: $7,500) 06/01/2013-09/01/13

Title: Flow through Tricuspid valves

The goal of this work is to analyze the direction of blood flow through the tricuspid valve orifice

and in the right side of the heart.

Role: PI (UB share 100%) (co-PI: none)

Physics Outreach Grants, New York State Section - American Physical Society (PI: Borazjani)

Total award: $1,000 (Direct costs: $1,000) 01/01/2013-01/01/14

Title: Educational videos of the principles of aquatic propulsion and their role in the evolution

for Buffalo Science Museum

The goal of this outreach proposal is to communicate research findings to the general public in a

simple yet exciting language to raise their interest in science and engineering thorough

educational videos displayed at Buffalo Science Museum.

Role: PI (UB share 100%) (co-PI: none)

PUBLICATIONS The student names and main author papers are highlighted. The papers that I am the lead/corresponding author are denoted by *.

Citation Metrics Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AZzujP4AAAAJ&hl=en

Citation indices All Since 2012

Citations 1748 1428

h-index 21 20

i10-index 26 25

Web of Science: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-5548-2013

Total Articles in Publication List: 46

Articles With Citation Data: 36

Sum of the Times Cited: 996

Average Citations per Article: 27.67

h-index: 17

Supervised students are denoted by superscript letters: 1, post-doctoral; 2, graduate; and 3 undergraduate student. The papers that

I am the lead/corresponding author are denoted by bold letters.

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Peer Reviewed Journal Papers [37] Hedayat2, M., Asgharzadeh2, H., and Broazjani, I. (2017). Platelet activation of mechanical

versus bioprosthetic heart valves during systole. Journal of Biomechanics, 56, 111-116

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.03.002

[36] Daghooghi1, M. and Borazjani, I. (2017). The effect of undulations on the particle stress in

dilute suspensions of rod-like particles. European Journal of Computational Mechanics,

In press, DOI: 10.1080/17797179.2017.1321204

[35] Asgharzadeh2, H., and Broazjani, I. (2016). A Newton-Krylov method with an approximate

analytical Jacobian for implicit solution of Navier-Stokes equations on staggered overset-

curvilinear grids with immersed boundaries. Journal of Computational Physics, 331 (15),

227–256 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2016.11.033 click here

[34] Asgharzadeh2, H., and Broazjani, I. (2016). Effects of Reynolds and Womersley numbers on

the hemodynamics of intracranial aneurysms. Computational and Mathematical Methods

in Medicine, 2016, 7412926 DOI: 10.1155/2016/7412926 click here

[33] Daghooghi1, M. and Borazjani, I. (2016). Self-Propelled Swimming Simulations of Bio-

inspired Smart Structures. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 11 (5), 056001

DOI:10.1088/1748-3190/11/5/056001 click here

[32] Bottom2, R.G., Borazjani, I., Belevins, E., and Lauder, G.V. (2016). Hydrodynamics of

swimming in stingrays: Numerical simulations and the role of the leading edge vortex.

Journal of Fluid Mechanics 788, 407-443 DOI:10.1017/jfm.2015.702.

[31] Rajan2, N. K., Song2, Z., Hoffmann, K. R., Belohlavek, M., McMahon, E. R., and Borazjani,

I. (2015). 3D reconstruction of the left ventricle from multiple-axis echocardiography.

ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 138 (1), 011003-12 DOI:

10.1115/1.4031976.

[30] Daghooghi2, M. and Borazjan, I. (2015). The Hydrodynamic Advantages of Synchronized

Swimming in Rectangular Patterns. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 10 (5), 056018 DOI:

10.1088/1748-3190/10/5/056018.

[29] Song2, Z., and Borazjani, I. (2015). The Role of Shape and Heart-rate on the Performance of

the Left Ventricle. ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 137 (11), 114501-6 DOI:

10.1115/1.4031468. click here

[28] Daghooghi2, M. and Borazjani, I. (2015). The influence of inertia on the rheology of a

periodic suspension of neutrally buoyant rigid ellipsoids. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 781,

506-549.

[27] Borazjani, I. (2015). Simulations of Unsteady Aquatic Locomotion: From unsteadiness in

straight-line swimming to fast-starts. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 1-13, DOI:

10.1093/icb/icv015.

[26] Borazjani, I. (2015). A review of fluid-structure interaction simulations of Prosthetic Heart

Valves. Journal of Long-term Effects of Medical Implants, Special Issue on Heart Valves

25 (1-2), 75–93.

[25] Borazjani, I., Westerdale, J., McMahon, E., Rajaraman, P. K., Heys, J., and Belohlavek, M.

(2013). Left Ventricular Flow Analysis: Recent Advances in Numerical Methods and

Applications in Cardiac Ultrasound. Computational and Mathematical Methods in

Medicine, Special Issue: Computational Analysis of Coronary and Ventricular

Hemodynamics 2013, 395081-11 DOI:10.1155/2013/395081. click here (Open Access)

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[24] Borazjani, I., Le, T., Ge, L. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2013). A parallel overset-curvilinear-

immersed boundary framework for simulating complex 3D incompressible

flows. Computers and Fluids 77, 76-96 DOI:10.1016/j.compfluid.2013.02.017.click here

[23] Borazjani, I. (2013). Fluid-Structure Interaction, Immersed Boundary-Finite Element

Method Simulations of Bio-prosthetic Heart Valves. Computer Methods in Applied

Mechanics and Engineering 257, 103-116 DOI:10.1016/j.cma.2013.01.010. click here

[22] Borazjani, I. (2013). The functional role of caudal and anal/dorsal fins during the C-start of

a bluegill sunfish. Journal of Experimental Biology 216, 1658-1669

DOI:10.1242/jeb.079434. click here

[21] Borazjani, I. and Daghooghi2, M. (2013). The fish tail motion forms an attached leading edge

vortex Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280(175), 20122071. click here

[20] Kang, S. Borazjani, I., Colby, J.A., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2012). Numerical simulation of 3D

flow past a real-life marine hydrokinetic turbine. Advances in Water Resources 39, 33-43.

[19] Coffey, D., Malbraaten, N., Le, T., Borazjani, I. , Sotiropoulos, F., Erdman, A. G., and Keefe,

D. F. (2012). Interactive Slice WIM: Navigating and Interrogating Volume Datasets Using

a Multi-Surface, Multi-Touch VR Interface. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and

Computer Graphics PP(99), DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2011.283. click here

[18] Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F., Tytell, E.D. and Lauder, G.V. (2012). On the hydrodynamics

of the bluegill sunfish c-start escape response: three-dimensional simulations and

comparison with experimental data. Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 671-684.

[17] Le, T., Borazjani, I., Kang, S., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2011). On the structure of vortex rings

from inclined nozzles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 686, 451-483.

[16] Behara, S., Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2011). Vortex-induced vibrations of an

elastically mounted sphere with three degrees of freedom at Re = 300: Hysteresis and

vortex shedding modes Journal of Fluid Mechanics 686, 426-450.

[15] Khosronejad, A., Kang, S. Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2011). Curvilinear Immersed

Boundary Method For Simulating Flow/Bed Morphodynamic Interaction due to Sediment

Transport Phenomena. Advances in Water Resources 34(7), 829-843.

[14] Le, T., Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). Pulsatile Flow Effects on the

Hemodynamics of Intracranial Aneurysms. ASME Journal of Biomechanical

Engineering 132(11), 111009-11 DOI:10.1115/1.4002702 click here.

[13] Keefe, D.F., Sotiropoulos, F., Interrante, V., Birali Runesha, H., Coffey, D., Staker, M., Chi-

Lun Lin, C., Sun, Y., Borazjani, I., Le, T., Rowe, N., and Erdman, A. (2010). A Process

for Design, Verification, Validation, and Manufacture of Medical Devices using

Immersive VR Environments. ASME Journal of Medical Devices 4(4), 045002-6.

DOI:10.1115/1.4002561. click here.

[12] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). The effect of implantation orientation of a bi-leaflet

mechanical heart valve on kinematics and hemodynamics in an anatomic aorta. ASME

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 132(11), 111005-8 DOI:10.1115/1.4002491 click

here

[11] Tytell, E., Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F., Baker, T. V., Anderson, E. J. and Lauder, G. V.

(2010). Disentangling the functional roles of morphology and motion in fish

swimming. Integrative and Comparative BiologyDOI:10.1093/icb/icq057 click here

[10] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F., Malkiel, E., Katz, J. (2010). On the role of copepod antenna

in the production of hydrodynamic force during hopping. Journal of Experimental

Biology 213, 3019-3035.

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[9] Simon, H. A., Ge, L., Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F. and Yoganathan, A. P. (2010). Simulation

of the three-dimensional hinge flow fields of a bileaflet mechanical heart valves under

physiologic conditions. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 38, 1257 DOI:

10.1007/s10439-010-9913-9. click here

[8] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). On the role of form and kinematics on the

hydrodynamics of body/caudal fin swimming. Journal of Experimental Biology 213, 89-

107. (Featured on Inside JEB) click here

[7] Borazjani, I., Ge, L. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). High resolution fluid-structure interaction

simulations of flow through a bi-leaflet mechanical heart valve in an anatomic

aorta. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 38(2), 326-344 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9807-

x. click here

[6] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Why don't mackerels swim like eels? The role of

form and kinematics on the hydrodynamics of undulatory swimming. Physics of Fluids 21,

091109. (Winner of Gallery of Fluid Motion 2009) click here

[5] Sotiropoulos, F. and Borazjani, I. (2009). A review of the state-of-the-art numerical methods

for simulating flow through mechanical heart valves. Medical & Biological Engineering

& Computing 47, 245–256.(Open Access)

[4] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of

anguilliform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes. Journal of

Experimental Biology 212, 576-592. (Cover Story) click here

[3] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Vortex-induced vibrations of two cylinders in tandem

in the proximity-wake interference region. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 621, 321-364.

[2] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2008). Numerical investigation of the hydrodynamics of

carangiform swimming in the transitional and inertial flow regimes. Journal of

Experimental Biology 211, 1541-1558.

[1] Borazjani, I., Ge, L. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2008). Curvilinear immersed boundary method for

simulating fluid structure interaction with complex 3D rigid bodies. Journal of

Computational Physics 227, 7587-7620.

Peer Reviewed Conference Proceedings and Abstracts [17] Bani-Hani, M., Borazjani, I., Esfahani, E., Krovi, V., and Karami, A. (2015) Generation and

optimization of traveling vibrating waves in self-assembling swimming smart boxes. In

ASME 2015 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers

and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2015), August 2-5, 2015, in

Boston, MA, pp. DETC2015-47681.

[16] Daghooghi2, M., Borazjani, I., Karami, A., and Esfahani, E. (2014). Self-propelled

swimming simulations of self-assembling smart boxes. In Proceedings of the ASME 2014

Smart Materials, Adaptive Structure and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS 2014), September 8-

10, 2014, in New Port, Rhode Island, USA, pp. SMASIS2014-7654.

[15] Karami, A., Esfahani, E., Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2014). Self-assembling

swimming smart boxes. In Proceedings of the ASME 2014 Smart Materials, Adaptive

Structure and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS 2014), September 8-10, 2014, in New Port,

Rhode Island, USA, pp. SMASIS2014-7533.

[14] Asgharzadeh2, H., Borazjani, I., Xia, J., and Meng, H. (2014). Vortex generation in two

intracranial aneurysms. In ASME 2014 International Design and Engineering Technical

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Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE

2014), August 17-20, 2014, in Buffalo, NY, pp. DETC2014-3703.

[13] Vruddhula3, V., and Borazjani, I. (2014). 3D Flow Simulations of a Simplified Right

Ventricle Model. In ASME 2014 International Design and Engineering Technical

Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE

2014), August 17-20, 2014, in Buffalo, NY, pp. DETC2014-35476.

[12] Madduri2, B., and Borazjani, I. (2014). Aerodynamic Design of Flat Delta Kite based on

Polhamus Concept of Leading Edge Suction Analogy. In ASME 2014 International Design

and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering

Conference (IDETC/CIE 2014), August 17-20, 2014, in Buffalo, NY, pp. DETC2014-

35097.

[11] Rajan2, N. K., Song2, Z., Hoffmann, K. R., Belohlavek, M., McMahon, E. R., and Borazjani,

I. (2014). 3D reconstruction of the left ventricle from four echocardiographic projections.

In ASME 2014 International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers

and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2014), August 17-20, 2014, in

Buffalo, NY, pp. DETC2014-34463.

[10] Grigoriev2, E., and Borazjani, I. (2014). NREL phase VI wind turbine modeling using an

unsteady panel method. In ASME 2014 International Design and Engineering Technical

Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE

2014), August 17-20, 2014, in Buffalo, NY, pp. DETC2014-34141.

[9] Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2014). Parallel Implementation of Periodic Boundary

Conditions for a Curvilinear Immersed Boundary Method. In ASME 2014 International

Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in

Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2014), August 17-20, 2014, in Buffalo, NY, pp.

DETC2014-34069.

[8] Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2014). An Immersed Boundary Method for Calculating

the Relative Viscosity of Dilute Suspension of Rigid Spheres. In ASME 2014 International

Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in

Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2014), August 17-20, 2014, in Buffalo, NY, pp.

DETC2014-34061.

[7] Borazjani, I. (2013). Fluid-structure interaction simulations of tissue heart valves with a

calcified leaflet using immersed boundary-finite element method. In Heart Valve Modeling

Symposium, at the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Mathematical

Biomedical Engineering (CMBE13), December 16-18, 2013, in Hong Kong.

[6] Borazjani, I., Daghooghi2, M., Barlow, N., Innus, M., Levesque, A., Neeman, A., Jones, M.

and Cornelius, C. (2011). Visualizing the wake of aquatic swimmers. In Proceedings of

the 2011 companion on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis

Companion, pp. 127-128: ACM.

[5] Coffey, D., Malbraaten, N., Le, T., Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F., and Keefe, D. F. (2011) A

Multi-Surface, Multi-Touch Interface for OverviewDetail Exploration of Volume

Datasets in Virtual Reality. In Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on

Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Pages 191-198, 2011.

[4] Borazjani, I., Le, T., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Hemodynamic Effects of the Orientation of

a Bi-leaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Implanted in an Anatomic Aorta. In The World

Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7-12, 2009,

Munich, Germany.

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[3] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). On the Hydrodynamics of Unsteady Swimming

Maneuvers. In The Fourth International Symposium on Aero Aqua Bio-Mechanisms, 29h

August - 2nd September 2009, Shanghai, China.

[2] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Numerical simulations of self-propelled fishlike

swimming in uniform and vortical flows. In The Sixth International Symposium on

Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-6), June 22-24, 2009, Seoul National

University, Seoul, Korea.

[1] Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Direct numerical simulation of fluid-structure

interaction in heart valve prosthesis in an anatomic aorta. In The Sixth International

Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-6), June 22-24, 2009,

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

Book Chapters [1] Sotiropoulos, F., Aidun, C., Borazjani, I. and MacMeccan, R. (2010). Computational

Techniques for Biological Flows: From blood-vessel scale hemodynamics to blood cells.

In Modeling and Imaging in the cardiovascular system eds. H. S. Udaykumar and K. B.

Chandran.

Selected Conference Abstracts and Presentations Borazjani, I. Asgharzadeh2, H., and Hedayat, M. H. (2016). Simulations of heart valves by thin

shells with non-linear material properties. In American Physical Society, 68th Annual Meeting

of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20-22, 2016. Portland, Oregon.

Asgharzadeh2, H., Varble, N., Meng, H. and Borazjani, I. (2016). A hemodynamic-based

dimensionless parameter for predicting rupture of intracranial aneurysms. In American

Physical Society, 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20-

22, 2016. Portland, Oregon.

Hedayat2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2016). Platelet activation through a Bi-leaflet mechanical heart

valve. In American Physical Society, 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid

Dynamics, November 20-22, 2016. Portland, Oregon.

Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2016) A particle-particle collision strategy for arbitrarily

shaped particles at low Stokes numbers. In American Physical Society, 68th Annual Meeting

of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 20-22, 2016. Portland, Oregon.

Hedayat2, M., Asgharzadeh2, H., and Borazjani, I. (2016) Flow-induced platelet activation in

simulations of artificial heart valves. In the 8th International Bio-Fluid Symposium, February

12-14, 2016, Pasadena, California.

Asgharzadeh2, H., and Borazjani, I. (2016) A dimensionless parameter for quantifying the risk

rupture of intracranial aneurysms. In the 8th International Bio-Fluid Symposium, February 12-

14, 2016, Pasadena, California.

Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2016) How fish schooling improves swimming performance?

In the Annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB16),

January 3-7, 2016. Portland, Oregon, USA.

Asgharzadeh2, H., and Borazjani, I. (2015). Implicit solution of Navier-Stokes equations on

staggered curvilinear grids using a Newton-Krylov method with a novel analytical Jacobian.

In American Physical Society, 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 22-24, 2015. Boston, Massachusetts.

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Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2015) Three-dimensional collision of general-shaped particles

in a viscous fluid. In American Physical Society, 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of

Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2015. Boston, Massachusetts.

Hedayat2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2015). Three-dimensional simulation of flow-induced platelet

activation in artificial heart valves. In American Physical Society, 67th Annual Meeting of the

APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2015. Boston, Massachusetts.

Asgharzadeh2, H., and Borazjani, I. (2015). A dimensionless parameter for classifying

hemodynamics in intracranial aneurysms. In American Physical Society, 67th Annual Meeting

of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2015. Boston, Massachusetts.

Borazjani, I., Rajan2, N.K, Song2, Z., Hoffmann, K., McMahon, E., and Belohlavek, M. (2014).

A new parameter for cardiac efficiency analysis. In American Physical Society, 66th Annual

Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 23-25, 2014. San Francisco,

California.

Asgharzadeh2, H., and Borazjani, I. (2014). A Newton-Krylov method with approximate Jacobian

for implicit solution of Navier-Stokes on staggered overset-curvilinear grids with immersed

boundaries. In American Physical Society, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid

Dynamics, November 23-25, 2014. San Francisco, California.

Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2014). The effect of geometry on the particle stress in

suspensions of rigid particles in simple shear. In American Physical Society, 66th Annual

Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 23-25, 2014. San Francisco,

California.

Daghooghi2, M., Bottom2, R., and Borazjani, I. (2014) Leading edge vortex formation during

undulatory swimming. In 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, July 6-11, 2014, in Boston,

Massachusetts, USA.

Borazjani, I. (2014) Fluid-structure interaction simulations of artificial heart valves. In 7th World

Congress of Biomechanics, July 6-11, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Borazjani, I. (2013). Fluid-structure interaction simulations of tissue heart valves with a calcified

leaflet using immersed boundary-finite element method. In Heart Valve Modeling Symposium,

at the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical

Engineering (CMBE13), December 16-18, 2013, in Hong Kong.

Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2013). An immersed boundary method for investigating the

rheology of heavy crude oil. In American Physical Society, 65th Annual Meeting of the APS

Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 24-26, 2013. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Borazjani, I., and Daghooghi2, M. (2013). On the hydrodynamics of fish schooling. In American

Physical Society, 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 24-

26, 2013. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Bottom2, R.G., Borazjani, I., Blevins, E., and Lauder, G.V. (2013). On the hydrodynamics of ray-

like swimming. In American Physical Society, 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of

Fluid Dynamics, November 24-26, 2013. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Borazjani, I. (2011). Fluid-structure Interaction Simulations of Deformable Soft Tissue. In

American Physical Society, 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 20-22, 2011. Baltimore, Maryland.

Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2011). The Effect of Caudal Fin Shape on the Hydrodynamics

of Swimming. In American Physical Society, 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid

Dynamics, November 20-22, 2011. Baltimore, Maryland.

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Borazjani, I., Daghooghi2, M., Barlow, Innus, M., Levesque, A., Neeman, A., Jones, M. and

Cornelius, C. (2011). Visualizing the wake of aquatic swimmers. In Scientific Computing

(SC11) Visualization Show Case, November 14-17, 2011. Seattle, Washington.

Daghooghi2, M., and Borazjani, I. (2011). The Effect of Caudal Fin Shape on Hydrodynamics of

Swimming. In 1000 Islands Fluid Dynamics Meeting, April 15-17, 2011. The Glen House

Resort, Gananoque, Ontario, Canada. Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). Large-eddy simulation of flow past wind turbine rotors.

In American Physical Society, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 21-23, 2010. Long Beach, California. Le, T., Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). High resolution simulation of the left heart

hemodynamics in patient-specific anatomies. In American Physical Society, 63rd Annual

Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 21-23, 2010. Long Beach,

California. Khosronejad, A., Kang, S., Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). Curvilinear Immersed

Boundary Method for Simulating Sediment Transport and Scour in Open Channel Flows. In

American Physical Society, 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 21-23, 2010. Long Beach, California. Borazjani, I., Behara, S., Natarajan, G., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). Large-Eddy Simulation of

Wind and Hydrokinetic Turbine Flows: Rotor Tip Vortices and Wake Turbulence. In iTi

Conference on Turbulence IV, September 19-22, 2010. Bertinoro, Italy. Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2010). The effect of orientation of a bi-leaflet mechanical heart

valve implanted in an anatomical aorta on its performance. In Design of Medical Devices

(DMD) Conference, April 13-15, 2010. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Borazjani, I., Behara, S., Natarajan, G. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). An overset

curvilinear/immersed boundary framework for high resolution simulations of wind and

hydrokinetic turbine flows. In American Physical Society, 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS

Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2009. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Behara, S., Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Vortex-induced vibrations of an elastically

mounted sphere at Re = 300: Hysteresis and vortex shedding modes. In American Physical

Society, 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2009.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Narayanan, V., R.T., Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F., Tytell, E.D., Lauder, G.V. (2009). 3D

Numerical simulations of the C-start of a Bluegill Sunfish. In American Physical Society, 62nd

Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2009. Minneapolis,

Minnesota. Kang, S., Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Coherent-Structure Resolving Simulations of

Turbulence in Natural Streams with the Curvilinear Immersed-Boundary Method. In

American Physical Society, 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 22-24, 2009. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sotiropoulos, F., Borazjani, I. and Le, T. (2009). Flow patterns and shear stress waveforms in

intracranial aneurysms: The effect of pulsatility. In American Physical Society, 62nd Annual

Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2009. Minneapolis,

Minnesota. Le, T., Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Fluid Structure Interaction simulation of heart

prosthesis in patient-specific left-ventricle/aorta anatomies. In American Physical Society,

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62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 22-24, 2009.

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Borazjani, I., Le, T., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Hemodynamic Effects of the Orientation of a

Bi-leaflet Mechanical Heart Valve Implanted in an Anatomic Aorta. In The World Congress

on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7-12, 2009, Munich, Germany. Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). On the Hydrodynamics of Unsteady Swimming

Maneuvers. In The Fourth International Symposium on Aero Aqua Bio-Mechanisms, 29h

August - 2nd September 2009, Shanghai, China. Borazjani, I., Behara, S., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Numerical Simulation of Fluid-Structure

Interaction in 3D Engineering and Biological Flows. In 3rd International Conference on

Experimental-Process-System-Modeling-Simulation-Optimization, July 9-11, 2009, Athens,

Greece. Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Direct numerical simulation of fluid-structure

interaction in heart valve prosthesis in an anatomic aorta. In The Sixth International

Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-6), June 22-24, 2009, Seoul

National University, Seoul, Korea. Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Numerical simulations of self-propelled fishlike

swimming in turbulent flows. In The Sixth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear

Flow Phenomena (TSFP-6), June 22-24, 2009, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Borazjani, I., Le, T. , Kang, S. K. , Behara, S., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). Sharp Interface

Immersed Boundary Method: From Wind Turbines to Cardiovascular Flows. In Academy

Colloquium Immersed Boundary Methods: Current Status and Future Research Directions,

June 15-17, 2009, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam,

Netherlands. Borazjani, I., Le, T., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2009). A multi-block/immersed boundary numerical

framework for simulating cardiovascular flows. In FDA Workshop on Computer Methods for

Cardiovascular Devices, June 1-2, 2009, Rockville, MD. Borazjani, I. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2008). On the hydrodynamics of fishlike swimming:

Anguilliform vs. Carangiform locomotion. In American Physical Society, 61st Annual

Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 23 - 25, 2008. San Antonio, Texas. Sotiropoulos, F., Borazjani, I., Malkiel, E. and Katz, J. (2008). Numerical simulation of a self-

propelled copepod during escape. In American Physical Society, 61st Annual Meeting of the

APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 23 - 25, 2008. San Antonio, Texas. Le, T., Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2008). Vorticity dynamics in an intracranial aneurysm.

In American Physical Society, 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 23 - 25, 2008. San Antonio, Texas. Kang, S., Borazjani, I., and Sotiropoulos, F. (2008). Curvilinear immersed-boundary method for

simulating unsteady flows in shallow natural streams with arbitrarily complex obstacles. In

American Physical Society, 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 23 - 25, 2008. San Antonio, Texas. Borazjani, I., Ge, L., Simon, H., Sotiropoulos, F. and Yoganathan, A. (2008). Toward patient-

specific simulations of mechanical heart valve hemodynamics. In 3rd Biennial Heart Valve

Biology and Tissue Engineering, May 3 – 5, 2008. London. Simon, H. A., Ge, L., Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F. and Yoganathan, A. P. (2008). Simulations

of the hinge flow fields of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve under physiologic pulsatile aortic

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conditions. In ASME 2008 Summer Bioengineering Conference. June 25-29, Marriott Resort,

Marco Island, Florida. Borazjani, I., Le, T. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2008). Toward the numerical simulation of self-

propelled aquatic swimming: Recent progress and the future challenges. In Inaugural

International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EM08), May 18-21, 2008.

Minneapolis, MN. Borazjani, I., Ge, L., Le, T., Simon, H., de Zelicourt, D., Sotiropoulos, F., Yoganathan, A. P. and

Kallmes, D. (2008). Toward patient-specific cardiovascular flow simulations with sharp

interface immersed boundary methods: Recent successes and future ventures. In Inaugural

International Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EM08), May 18-21, 2008.

Minneapolis, MN. Borazjani, I., Ge, L., Simon, H. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2008). Toward patient-specific direct

numerical simulation of fluid-structure interaction in prosthetic heart valves. In Fifth

International Bio-Fluid Symposium and Workshop, March 28 – 30, 2008. Pasadena,

California. Borazjani, I., Sotiropoulos, F., Malkiel, E. and Katz, J. (2007). On the hydrodynamics of

planktonic microcrustacean locomotion: Numerical simulations and experiments. In

American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 18-20, 2007. Salt Lake City, Utah. Sotiropoulos, F. and Borazjani, I. (2007). On the hydrodynamics of body/caudal fin locomotion

for carangiform swimmers. In American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the APS

Division of Fluid Dynamics, November 18-20, 2007. Salt Lake City, Utah. Borazjani, I., Ge, L., Dasi, P. L., Sotiropoulos, F. and Yoganathan, A. (2007). Fluid-structure

interaction in bi-leaflet mechanical heart valves. In Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, June 7-

8, 2007. Irvine, California. Borazjani, I., Ge, L. and Sotiropoulos, F. (2007). Flow simulations in bi-leaflet mechanical heart

valves with fluid-structure interaction. In Design of Medical Devices (DMD) Conference,

April 17-19, 2007. Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Invited Talks Borazjani, I. (2016) Bioinspiration from aquatic swimming: The leading edge vortex. In Society

of Engineering Science 53rd Annual Meeting (SES 2016), October 2-5, 2016, in University of

Maryland College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Maryland, USA.

Borazjani, I. (2016) From aquatic locomotion to bioinspired design. Invited by Universidad

Nacional de Ingeniería and Sponsored by IAHR - Young Professionals Network

(https://www.iahr.org/site/cms/contentCategoryView.asp?category=304) of Peru, June 20,

2016, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru.

Borazjani, I. (2016) Studies in aquatic locomotion: discovery through simulations. GALCIT

colloquium, April 22, 2016, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA.

Borazjani, I., Asgharzadeh2, H., and Hedayat2, M. (2015) Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations

of Heart Valves on Parallel Computing Clusters. In Platform for Advanced Scientific

Computing (PASC15) Conference, June 1-3, 2015, in Zurich, Switzerland.

Borazjani, I. (2015) Driving Discovery in Complex 3D Biological/Engineering Flows through

Simulations. April 27, 2015, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.

Borazjani, I. (2015) Unsteady Aquatic Locomotion Simulations: from unsteadiness in straight-

line swimming to fast-starts. In Unsteady Aquatic Locomotion with Respect to Eco-Design

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and Mechanics Symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and

Comparative Biology (SICB), January 3-7, 2015, in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.

Daghooghi2, M., Bottom2, R., and Borazjani, I. (2014) Leading edge vortex formation during

undulatory swimming. In 7th World Congress of Biomechanics, July 6-11, 2014, in Boston,

Massachusetts, USA.

Borazjani, I. (2014) Fluid-structure interaction simulations of artificial heart valves. In 7th World

Congress of Biomechanics, July 6-11, 2014, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Borazjani, I. (2013). Fluid-structure interaction simulations of tissue heart valves with a calcified

leaflet using immersed boundary-finite element method. In Heart Valve Modeling Symposium,

at the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Biomedical

Engineering (CMBE13), December 16-18, 2013, in Hong Kong.

Borazjani, I. (2011). The role of fish tail during steady swimming and maneuvering. In Daniel

Reid’s defense ceremony, September 26, 2011, in Groningen, Netherlands.

Borazjani, I. (2011). The functional design of fish tail. In Coupled Problems conference, June 20-

22, 2011, in Kos Island, Greece.

Workshop Participation NSF CyberBridges Workshop for Career awardees, August 31 and September 1, 2015 at the CEB

Waterview Conference Center in Arlington, VA.

NSF Career Proposal Writing Workshop, March 26, 2012 to March 27, 2012 at University of

Nevada, Reno, NV

RECOGNITIONS & MEDIA COVERAGE UB Engineering website (Fulbright story):

http://engineering.buffalo.edu/home/news-

events.host.html/content/shared/engineering/home/articles/news-articles/2017/borazjani-

receives-fulbright-scholar-award.detail.html

UB reporter (UB Exceptional Scholars Young Investigator Award):

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/research/news.host.html/content/shared/university/news/ub-

reporter-articles/stories/2015/06/exceptional_scholars.detail.html

UB Engineering website (award winning faculty): http://engineering.buffalo.edu/home/news-

events.host.html/content/shared/seas/home/articles/news-articles/2015/borazjani-receives-nsf-

career-award.detail.html

The discovery of leading edge vortex in aquatic swimming:

UB reporter:

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/research/news.host.html/content/shared/university/ne

ws/ub-reporter-articles/stories/2013/stingrays.detail.html

UB engineering: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2013/11/013.html

Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/why-underwater-robots-

should-swim-stingrays

Live Science: http://www.livescience.com/41225-stingrays-inspire-submarine-

design.html

Phys.org: http://phys.org/news/2013-11-stingray-movement-submarines.html

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Science World Report:

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/10885/20131113/stingrays-unique-and-

round-shape-may-inspire-improvement-of-deep-sea-vehicles.htm

United Press International:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Technology/2013/11/13/Study-of-stingray-

swimming-could-improve-underwater-vehicles/UPI-13931384386789/?spt=rln&or=1

Nature World News:

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/4903/20131114/researchers-decode-stingray-

movements-create-next-gen-submarines.htm

Different kinematics and body shape of fish might depend on the flow regime they swim in:

University of Minnesota main page:

http://umnews.ur.umn.edu/news/features/2010/UR_CONTENT_175431.html

e-science news:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/02/04/research.finds.water.movements.can.shape.f

ish.evolution

US news: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/02/09/research-finds-water-

movements-can-shape-fish-evolution

Eureka! Science News: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/uom-

rfw020410.php

PhysOrg.com: http://phys.org/news184509983.html

DailyTech.com: http://www.dailytech.com/Researchers+Use+Computing+Power+to+Sh

ow+Water+Currents+Shaped+Fish+Evolution/article17627.htm

Science Daily: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100204144813.htm

One India: http://www.oneindia.com/2010/02/05/watermovements-can-shape-

fishevolution.html

Newstrack India: http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/147280

DailyIndia.com: http://www.dailyindia.com/show/358293.php

Featured article in Inside JEB: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/213/1/i.1.full

On the cover of Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 212, Issue 4:

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/4.cover-expansion

Winner of the 2008 Gallery of Fluid Motion competition: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3205869

The front cover article in MSI's Spring 2008 Research Bulletin:

http://static.msi.umn.edu/research_bulletin/2008-24-1.pdf

STUDENT SUPERVISION

Current Students Postdoctoral Scholars:

Mohsen Daghooghi

Hafez Asgharzadeh

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PhD Students:

Mohammadali Hedayat (expected 2018)

Amir Akbarzadeh (expected 2020)

Hossein Asadi (expected 2020)

MSc Students:

Tatsat Patel

Munjal Purnkant Shah

Abhishek Shashikant Yeola

Undergraduate Students:

Alexander Carr

Previous PhD Students Hafez Asgharzadeh, PhD Dissertation, Numerical Simulations of Cardiovascular Flows, January

6, 2017

Mohsen Daghooghi, PhD Dissertation, Fluid-structure interaction simulations of flows with

symmetry: From fish schooling to rheology of suspensions, January 23, 2016

Previous MSc Students Yusuf Esmail Neemuchwala, MSc Project, Design and Lateral Stability Analysis of Delta

Planform for applications in Kites, May 15, 2015

Pranav Prashant Ladkat, MSc Project, 3D Unsteady Vortex Panel Method and its applications in

Aerodynamics, May 7, 2015

Bharath Madduri, MSc Thesis, Design and Longitudinal Dynamic Stability Analysis of a Slender

Delta Kite for High Altitudes Using Leading Edge Suction Analogy, January 2, 2015

Navaneetha Krishnan Rajan, MSc Thesis, Automated Reconstruction of the Left Ventricle using

Multiple-Axis Echocardiography, May 22, 2014

Richard Bottom, MSc Thesis, On the Hydrodynamics of Ray-like Swimming, May 14, 2014

Eugene M. Grigoriev, MSc Project, Unsteady Force Calculation via Vortex Panel Method,

December 10, 2013

Qiping Yu, MSc Project, Visualization and Simulation of Fish C-start Swimming, August 14, 2013

Zeying Song, MSc Project, Left-ventricular flows: A computational approach, May 3, 2013

Murali Krishna Atluru, MSc Project, Calculating Thrust Generated by Mackerel Fish Caudal Fin

Using Vortex-Panel Method, December 14, 2012

Jay Patel, MSc Project, CFD Simulations of a Data Center, November 26, 2012

Haridas Attur, MSc Project, Automotive Condenser Pass Arrangement Optimization, December

2, 2011

Previous BSc Students Julia Page Risueno, Individual Problem, Numerical Solution of Non-linear Hyperbolic PDEs:

Shallow Water Equations, May 12, 2014

Varunkumar Vruddhula, Generated geometries for the right ventricle and visualized flow, Fall

2013- Aug 2014

Hao Kiat Tan, Generated complex geometries in Ansys to be used in simulations of suspensions

as complex-shaped particles, Spring 2014

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Seamus Lombardo, Swimming and Flying in Nature, BioFluid Gallery YouTube Channel,

http://www.youtube.com/user/BioFluidGallery

Joseph Materski, Swimming and Flying in Nature, BioFluid Gallery YouTube Channel,

http://www.youtube.com/user/BioFluidGallery

Committee Member

Mathew Burge, PhD Dissertation, Vortex Structure Variation with Flapping-Wing

Stroke-Reversal Kinematics, October 21, 2016

Reza Jahanbakhshi, PhD Dissertation, DNS of Compressible Reacting Turbulent Shear Layer,

August 19, 2016

Navid S. Vaghefi, PhD Dissertation, Simulation and Modeling of Compressible Turbulent Mixing

Layer, August 8, 2014

Gabriel Trylesinski, MSc Thesis, Vortex Dynamics in Ruptured and Unruptured Intracranial

Aneurysms, January 10, 2014

Adam Devoria, PhD Dissertation, On The Flow Generated By Rotating Flat Plates Of Low Aspect

Ratio, April 30, 2013

Zackery Carr, PhD Dissertation, Investigation Of Finite-Span Rotating Flat-Plate Wings At Low

Reynolds Number And The Effects Of Aspect Ratio, February 1, 2013

Jared Kuhl, MSc Thesis, Power Production Locality of Bluff Body Flutter Mills Using Fully

Coupled 2D Direct Numerical Simulation, July 8, 2011

Adam Devoria: MSc Thesis, Vortex Formation and Saturation for Low-Aspect-Ratio Rotating Flat

Plates at Low Reynolds Number, January 13, 2011

Rahul Sankapal, MSc Project, Design and Calculation of Power/Load Carrying of Capacity of

Airborne Wind Energy System, December 20, 2010

TEACHING & OUTREACH MAE540/CIE548: Computational Fluid Mechanics Spring 2011-present

MAE542/442: Computer-Aided Analysis in Fluid and Thermal Sciences Fall 2011-present

MAE335: Fluid Mechanics Fall 2013-present

MAE503: Co-organizer of Graduate Seminar Series Fall 2012-Spring 2015

Outreach at Buffalo Museum of Science: I am engaged in outreach activities to increase the

interest of general public in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) by creating

educational movies for the Buffalo Museum of Science, which are displayed in the “Motion and

Health” studios (supported by APS-NYSS outreach grant).

Outreach Lectures:

WNY STEM Forum talk (11/9/2016): “Simulation-based engineering: bio-fluids applications”

Western New York (WNY) STEM Forum is a continuing education program for local

science school teachers (mostly High School level teachers) with the intent to help them

upgrade their knowledge about various scientific topics.

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & SERVICE

Professional Affiliations American Physical Society (APS)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

American Heart Association (AHA)

High-Performance Computing (HPC) advisory council

Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)

Professional Service Editorial Boards:

PLOS ONE

Acts as an academic editor for the journal since 2014: handles articles in the areas of fluid

dynamics, computational methods, and biological/biomedical flows, invites reviewers, and

makes a recommendation to the editor for the publication of an article.

Reviewer of more than 25 journals:

Computational Methods Journals

Computer Methods in Applied

Mechanics and Engineering

SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics

International Journal for Numerical

Methods in Fluids

Computer Physics Communications

Journal of Computing in Civil

Engineering

Journal of Computational Physics

Theoretical and Computational Fluid

Dynamics

International Journal for Numerical

Methods in Biomedical Engineering

Computers and Fluids

Fluid Mechanics Journals

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Journal of Fluids and Structures

International Journal of Heat and Fluid

Flow

Physics of Fluids

Experiments in Fluids

Ocean Engineering

Journal of Vibration and Control

Biological/Aquatic Swimming Journals

Journal of the Royal Society (Interface,

Proceedings B)

Transaction of American Fisheries

Society

Applied Sciences

Journal of Experimental Biology

Fish and Fisheries

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Journal of Zoology

Biomedical/Medical Journals

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Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Biomechanics and Modeling in

Mechanobiology

PLOS ONE

Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and

Biology

Physiological Measurement

Journal of Biomechanical

Engineering

ASME Journal of Biomechanical

Engineering

European Heart Journal -

Cardiovascular Imaging

Medical & Biological Engineering &

Computing

Reviewer of conference proceedings:

IDETC conference (Buffalo 2014) reviewer

Reviewer of grant proposal: NSF Panel review, Fluid Dynamics

NSF Panel review, CDS&E

NSF outside (ad hoc) proposal reviewer, Expeditions-in-computing program

NSF outside (ad hoc) proposal reviewer, Software Infrastructure for Sustained

Innovation (SI2-SSI) program

NASA postdoctoral fellowship

PhD thesis reviewer (opponent) for Daniel Reed (Groningen University)

Expert Witness:

Provided expert opinion on a legal case involving a patent dispute between two medical

device companies about the direction of blood flow in tricuspid valves.

Session Chair:

American Physical Society, 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 24-26, 2013. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

American Physical Society, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics,

November 23-25, 2014. San Francisco, California.

Symposium Chair:

International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers & Information in

Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2016), 9th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices

(BIOMED), Computational Modeling and Simulation Symposium, August 21-24, 2016,

Charlotte, North Carolina.

Departmental/University Service and Administrative Assignments SEAS Tenure Committee Alternate Spring 2017

Graduate committee member Fall 2015-present

Fall 2012-2013

Oral MSc examiner Fall 2012, Spring 2014-present

PhD qualifier examiner Spring 2012-present

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Co-organizer of the MAE seminar series Fall 2012-Spring 2015

Search committee member Fluids Area Spring 2017 (chair: P. Desjardin)

Search committee member Fluids Area Spring 2016 (chair: C. Madnia)

Search committee member Fluids Area Spring 2014 (chair: P. Desjardin)

Search committee member Design Area Spring 2012 (chair: T. Kesavadas)

Poster competition judge Spring 2013

Sigma Xi graduate poster judge Spring 2014

Panelist, New faculty research orientation Fall 2016