People

Head of the Laboratory

Giacomo Valerio Iungo

Associate Professor
Email: valerio.iungo@utdallas.edu

Ph.D. Students

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Matteo Puccioni

Email: Matteo.Puccioni@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Lidar measurements, atmospheric boundary-layer turbulence

Wasi Uddin Ahmed

Email:  Wasi.Ahmed@utdallas.edu

Research Interests:  Wind Tunnel testing of wind farms, Aerodynamic control of wind turbine blades with plasma actuators

Keshav Panthi

Email: Keshav.Panthi@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Field testing and modeling of leading-edge erosion of wind turbine blades, HIL wind tunnel testing of floating wind turbines, machine-learning modeling of wind farms

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)

Reina Simone Woolridge

Email: rsw180001@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Marine atmospheric boundary layer. Awardee in 2022 of an NSF GRFP fellowship. Previously as REU: Design and prototyping of an emulator of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) for wind tunnel testing (UTDesign Capstone project 2020/2021)

Undergraduate Students

Basel Jazzar

Email: Basel.Jazzar@UTDallas.edu

Research Interests: REU Summer 2022, Design and prototyping of an emulator of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) for wind tunnel testing (UTDesign Capstone project 2022/2023)

Rachel Elizabeth Perry

Email: Rachel.Perry@UTDallas.edu

Research Interests: Design and prototyping of an emulator of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) for wind tunnel testing (UTDesign Capstone project 2022/2023)

Gabriel Aaron Shurtleff

Email: Gabriel.Shurtleff@UTDallas.edu

Research Interests: REU Summer 2022. Design and prototyping of an emulator of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) for wind tunnel testing.

Mohit Shahu

Email: Mohit.Shahu@UTDallas.edu

Research Interests: Design and prototyping of an emulator of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) for wind tunnel testing. (UTDesign Capstone project 2022/2023).

Nicolas Alexander Burgess

Email: nab160630@utdallas.edu

Research Interests: Design and prototyping of an emulator of floating offshore wind turbines (FOWT) for wind tunnel testing. (UTDesign Capstone project 2022/2023).

WindFluX Alumni

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