People

Head of the Laboratory

Giacomo Valerio Iungo

Associate Professor
Email: valerio.iungo@utdallas.edu

Research Staff

Dr. Sayahnya Roy (Postdoc)

Email: Sayahnya.Roy@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Scanning Doppler LiDAR, Marine atmospheric boundary-layer, Wind Energy

Dr. Wasi Uddin Ahmed (Wind Tunnel Engineer)

Email:  Wasi.Ahmed@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:  Wind Tunnel testing of wind farms, Wind Farm modeling

Doctoral Students

Keshav Panthi

Email: Keshav.Panthi@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Field testing and modeling of leading-edge erosion of wind turbine blades, Wind tunnel testing of floating offshore wind turbines

Coleman Fuller Moss

Email: Coleman.Moss@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Machine-learning and RANS modeling of wind farms, wind LiDAR. Previously as REU: design and prototyping of an emulator of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) for wind tunnel testing (UTDesign Capstone project 2020/2021)

Mojtaba Sahms Solari

Email: Mojtaba.ShamsSoulari@UTDallas.edu

Research Interests: Marine atmospheric boundary layer, Scanning Doppler LiDAR

Mohamad Mehdi Sabaghi

Email: m.sabaghi@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Boundary Layer turbulence, Wind Tunnel testing of wind farms

WindFluX Alumni

  1. Matteo Puccioni, Ph.D. student, 08/2017-12/2022, now Post-doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  2. Stefano Letizia, Ph.D. student, 01/2017-12/2021, now Researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  3. Lu Zhan, Ph.D. student, 08/2015-12/2019, now Researcher at the Argonne Laboratory
  4. Jose’ Francisco Herbert Acero, Post-doc, 2018, now a lecturer at UT San Antonio
  5. Behzad Najafi, M.Sc. student 09/2017-01/19
  6. Ryan Ashton, M.Sc. student 09/2014-07/2016, now a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
  7. Said El-Asha, M.Sc. student 08/2015-12/2017
  8. Vignesh Santhanagopalan, M.Sc. student 09/2015-12/2017
  9. Mithu Debnath, Ph.D. student 01/2015-05/2018