People

The Lab

A group of researchers working across fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, and machine learning.

Qi Wang

Qi Wang, Ph.D. — Lab Director

Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University. Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University. Research interests: adjoint-based data assimilation, machine-learning-based reduced-order models, particle–shock interactions, scalar-source identification, extreme-event detection, Gaussian Process Regression, Hamiltonian Markov Chain, the Fast Multipole Method, and generative diffusion models for inverse problems in physics.

qwang4@sdsu.edu · Office PSFA-435

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Ph.D. Students

Zejian You
Zejian You
Ph.D. Candidate
Gaussian Process Regression, adjoint-based data assimilation, automatic differentiation
zyou6474@sdsu.edu
Hongyi Ke
Hongyi Ke
Ph.D. Student
Auto-encoder, Kolmogorov–Arnold networks, diffusion models, hierarchical data assimilation
hke@sdsu.edu
Nicolas Escobar Castaneda
Nicolas Escobar Castaneda
Ph.D. Candidate · co-advised w/ Prof. Gustaaf Jacobs
Adjoint-based data assimilation, particle-laden flows
nescobarcastan6489@sdsu.edu
Rylie Foster
Rylie Foster
Ph.D. Candidate · co-advised w/ Prof. François Primeau (UCI)
Adjoint-based assimilation, dangerous-event detection, measurement attention, machine learning
rfoster3688@sdsu.edu

Collaborator

Anqiao Ouyang
Anqiao Ouyang
International Collaborator (Canada)
Reduced-order models, manifold learning, Kolmogorov–Arnold networks, computational & algebraic topology
aqouyang.com

Master's Students

Aastha Joshi
Aastha Joshi
M.S.
LLM-enabled education
ajoshi8879@sdsu.edu
MG
Meet Nileshkumar Gajjar
M.S.
LLM-enabled education
mgajjar8404@sdsu.edu
Aaron Christian
Aaron Christian
M.S.
LLM-enabled education
achristian7182@sdsu.edu

Undergraduate Students

Leopoldo Gutierrez
Leopoldo Gutierrez
Undergraduate
Data assimilation in 3D wall-bounded turbulence, extreme-event reconstruction
lgutierrez0984@sdsu.edu
Jackson Tuday
Jackson Tuday
Undergraduate
Data assimilation in 3D turbulence
jtuday@sdsu.edu
LG
Laasya Gangavarapu
Undergraduate
Informative–non-informative decomposition
lgangavarapu4825@sdsu.edu

Alumni

Ph.D.: Daniel Domínguez (co-advised with Prof. Gustaaf Jacobs) · Mohamed Amine Abassi (co-advised with Prof. Xiaofeng Liu)

Master's: Michael Sanders

Undergraduate: Ivonne Arriaga · Eduardo Sanchez