Research Group

• Current Members
• Alumni
• Photo Album

Bazant Research Group, August 2010. Front: Daosheng Deng, Linda Mousseau, Yeqing Fu; Back: Mathias Andersen, Xiaochuan Yang, Matthew Pinson, Ben Derrett, Todd Ferguson, Martin Bazant, Peng Bai, Henrik Bruus. Absent: Boris Zaltzman, Dan Cogswell, Markus Schmuck, Joseph Atnafu.

Graduate Students

1. William Braff (Mechanical Engineering)
2. Todd Ferguson (Chemical Engineering)
3. Yeqing Fu (Chemical Engineering)
4. Edwin Khoo (Chemical Engineering)
5. Evan Piephoff (Chemical Engineering)
6. Matthew Pinson (Physics)
7. Carlos Sauer (Mathematics)
8. Sven Schlumpberger (Chemical Engineering)
9. Raymond Smith (Chemical Engineering)
10. Juhyun Song (Chemical Engineering)
11. Yi Zeng (Mathematics)

    Postdocs

12. Peng Bai
13. Daosheng Deng
14. Ji-Hyung Han

    Undergraduates

15. Elaine McVay

    Visiting Graduate Student

16. Ianis Bernard

    Administrator

17. Linda Mousseau

Ph.D. Students
• Jaehyuk Choi. Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2005). Thesis: Advection-Diffusion-Limited Aggregation and Dense Granular Flow.
• Kevin T. Chu Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2005). Thesis: Asymptotic Analysis of Extreme Electrochemical Transport. Next: Postdoc in mechanical engineering at Princeton University.
• Jeremy A. Levitan. Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, MIT (2005). Thesis: Experimental Investigation of Induced-Charge Electro-osmosis.
• Chris H. Rycroft Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2007). Thesis: Multiscale modeling of granular flow. Next: Postdoc in mathematics at University of California, Berkeley.
• Kenneth N. Kamrin Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2008). Thesis: Stochastic and deterministic models for dense granular flow. Next: Lecturer in applied mathematics at Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT (2010).
• Mustafa Sabri Kilic Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2008). Thesis: Induced-charge electrokinetics at large voltages.
• Damian Burch Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2009). Thesis: Intercalation Dynamics in Li-ion Batteries.

  Postdocs

• Birger Horstmann (2012, coadvised by Y. Shao-Horn) Phase-field modeling of Li-air batteries.
• Dan Cogswell. (2010-2012) Phase-field modeling of Li-ion batteries.
• Ali Mani. (2011) Nonlinear electrokinetics, desalination shocks. Next: Stanford, mechanical engineering.
• Markus Schmuck. (2009-2011) Homogenization analysis of ion transport in porous media. Next: Imperial College London.
• Chien-Chih Huang . (2007-2009) Induced-charge electro-osmosis, microfluidic pumps. MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. (Co-advised by Prof. T. Thorsen, Mechanical Enginering.)
• Jeremy Levitan (2007). Applications of nonlinear electrokinetics in microfluidic devices. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.
• Gogi Singh (2006-2007). Modeling lithium rechargeable batteries. Center for Materials Science and Engineering (IRG IV).
• Yuxing Ben (2004-2005). Simulation and design of ICEO-based microfluidic devices.

  M.S. Students

• Ken Gosier . M.S. in Financial Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (2002). Thesis: Generalized Black-Scholes models for pricing and hedging options with residual risk.
• Young Han Lee. M.S. in Applied Mathematics, MIT (2002). Thesis: Noise detection in financial correlation matrices.

  B.S. Students

• Joseph Atnafu. (2010) Desalination experiments.
• Ben Derrett. Cambridge-MIT exchange student. Li-ion battery modeling. (2009-2010)
• Matt Fishburn B. S. in Electrical Engineering, MIT (2007). Advanced Undergraduate Project: Electronics for control of portable electrokinetic microfluidic devices.
• Jakub Kominiarcz B. S. in Physics, MIT (2007). Senior thesis: Numerical simulations of AC electro-osmotic pumps.
• Camilo Guaqueta. B. S. in Materials Science, MIT (2003). Thesis: Computer simulations of a stochastic model for granular drainage.
• Mani Mahjouri. B.S. in Mathematics and Economics, MIT (2000). Thesis: Pricing risky derivative securities.

  Research Assistants

• Wassim Aouad. Desalination experiments, intern from Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal 2012.
• Michael Hess. Undergraduate intern, from Magdeburg, Germany, spring/summer 2009. Modeling lithium intercalation in graphite.
• Hoyin Au. Undergraduate intern, from Bunker Hill Community College, summer 2009. Modeling Li-ion battery composite electrodes.
• Brian Wheeler UROP 2007. Applications of ACEO pumps.
• Kapil Subramanian Undergraduate intern, summer 2007, from Indian Institute of Technology. ACEO experiments (with T. Thorsen).
• Andrew Jones UROP spring 2007. ACEO experiments (with T. Thorsen).
• Jeremie Palacci. Undergraduate intern, summer 2005. Visiting from Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. Thesis: Spot-model simulations of periodic systems.
• Serginio Sylvain. UROP, Dry Fluids Lab, 2005.
• Ken Weaver. Undergraduate intern in the MIT Materials Processing Center, summer 2002. Simulations of granular drainage.

  Faculty visitors

• Armand Ajdari. ESPCI, Paris, France. 2005-2006.
• Henrik Bruus. Technical University of Denmark, Microtechnology. Fall 2010.
• Evgeny Demekhin. Kuban State Univ., Russia. Fall 2010.
• Arshad Kudrolli. Clark University, Physics. 2003-2007.
• Brian Storey. Olin College, Mechanical Engineering. 2006-2007.
• Boris Zaltzman. Ben-Gurion University, Israel, Applied Mathematics, 2009-2010.

  Ph.D. student visitors

• Mathias Andersen. Ph.D. student from Technical University of Denmark. Desalination simulation. 2011.
• Costas Anastassiou. Imperial College Department of Bioengineering. summer 2006, Theory of electrochemical sensors.
• Peng Bai. Ph.D. student from Tsinghua Univ., automotive engineering. Li-ion battery modeling. 2009-2011
• Raul Rica. Univ. de Granada, Spain, physics dept. 2009. Electrodiffusiophoresis.

Photo Album

Group dinner, June 26, 2007: Gogi Singh, Yee Lok Wong, Ken Kamrin, MZB, Chris Rycroft, Kapil Subramanian	The group, led by Dr. Rycroft, dancing to soul music on the Blues Barge.

Candlelin bowling, June 2005 (clockwise from top left):
Jean-Christophe Nave, Jeremy Levitan, Jeremie Palacci, Kevin Chu, Ken Karmin, Yuxing Ben, Jaehyuk Choi, Chris Rycroft, and MZB. Group dinner, Dec. 2003 (clockwise from center left):
Kevin Chu, Jeremy Levitan, Chris Rycroft, Jaehyuk Choi, Ruben Rosales, Dionisios Margetis, and MZB. Ken and Chris disco dancing ("shootin' the floor") 2007.

Graduate student lunch, October 2006.

Kenny Karmin, MZB, Sabri Kilic, Damian Burch, and Chris Rycroft. Back to the top