Justin C.T. Kao

Postdoctoral Fellow
kaoj @ mit . edu

Professor Anette (Peko) Hosoi
Hatsopolous Microfluids Laboratory
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Education

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University, 2008
Dissertation: Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis of Two Problems in Interfacial Fluid Dynamics
Advisors: Stephen H. Davis and Alexander A. Golovin

B.S., Applied and Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 2003

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Publications

———, Alexander A. Golovin and Stephen H. Davis. “Particle capture in binary solidification”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 625:299-320, 2009.

———, Alexander A. Golovin and Stephen H. Davis. “Rupture of thin films with resonant substrate patterning”, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 303(2):532-545, 2006.

Chad T. Kishimoto, ———, and Jeffrey A. Edlund. “Safe Landings”, UMAP Journal, 24(3):221-243, 2003. (SIAM Prize, 2003 Mathematical Contest in Modeling)

———, Qing Nie, Angie Teng, Frederic Y.M. Wan, Arthur D. Lander, and J. Lawrence Marsh. “Can morphogen activity be enhanced by its inhibitors?”, Proceedings of the Second M.I.T. Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, 2003.

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Honors and Awards

NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2008-2011
NSF IGERT Fellowship in Dynamics of Complex Systems, 2003-2006
SIAM Prize, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2003
NASA Group Achievement Award, 2002

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