Graduate Students
Current Graduate Students
Sahar Asrari
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: saasrari@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal processes, sediment transport, scour, coastal erosion and impact of sea level rise to coasts
Emily Chapman
MCE/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: echapman@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal processes, nearshore hydrodynamics, coastal erosion, and sediment transport
Gabriela Salgado Dominguez
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: gsd@udel.edu
Research Interests: Nearshore hydrodynamics, coastal processes, wave dynamics, infragravity waves, ship wakes, and harbour resonance
Delaney Doran
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: deldoran@udel.edu
Research Interests: Coastal processes, nearshore hydrodynamics, nature-based solutions, extreme events
Danial Golbaz
Advisor: Yao Hu
Email: dgolbaz@udel.edu
Research Interests: Nearshore hydrodynamic, storm surge, compound flooding, optimization
Shadrack Kwaku Hinson
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: skhinson@udel.edu
Research Interests: Nearshore Hydrodynamics, Sediment transport, Nature-based Coastal Protection, Physical Modeling, and Coastal Processes
Temitope E. Idowu
Ph.D.
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: teidowu@udel.edu
Research Interests: Objects’ migration and burial in swash and surf zones, Coastal processes, sustainability of coastal environments, GIS applications
Jirat Laksanalamai
Advisor: Nobu Kobayashi
Email: jiratlak@udel.edu
Research interests: Coastal Erosion, Sediment Transport, Nearshore Hydrodynamics.
Narayan Kumar
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: narayank@udel.edu
Research Interests: CFD simulation of nearshore wave breaking and sediment transport processes
Christopher Malone
MCE/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: cmalone@udel.edu
Research Interests: Physical impacts of coastal hazards, impacts of sea-level rise and climate change to the coast, breaking waves, nearshore nonlinear wave dynamics, stormwater management and flood modeling, hydraulics and hydrology, and ocean wave propagation
Onur Manat
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: manat@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling, Sediment Transport, Surf-Zone Wave Transformations
Mohammadsadegh Nouri (Sadegh)
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: msnouri@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, sediment transport, scour, and landslide-generated tsunamis
Jorge A. Penaloza-Giraldo
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: japg@udel.edu
Research Interests: Cohesive Sediments
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Rafiu Oyelakin
PhD/Coastal Program
Advisor: Jack A. Puleo
Email: rafiuoye@udel.edu
Research Interests: Swash zone hydro-morphodynamics, sediment transport, flow structure, obliquely incident waves, and coastal processes
Dannielle Pratt
Ph.D./Civil and Environmental Engineering program
Advisor: Holly Michael
Email: depratt@udel.edu
Research Interests: Hydrogeology, Sea Level Rise, Coastal Marshes, Salinization, Coastal Critical Zone
Ryan Schanta
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tom Hsu
Email: rschanta@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical Modeling, Nearshore Hydrodynamics, Machine Learning, Coastal Hydrology & Hydraulics
Daniel Sharar—Salgado
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Jim Kirby
Email: dsharars@udel.edu
Research Interests: Riverine-Coastal Compound Flooding, Numerical Modeling (Finite Volume & Spectral Element Methods), Scour, Water Waves and Machine Learning
Jiaye Zhang
MCE/Coastal program
Advisor: Tian-Jian (Tom) Hsu
Email: jiaye@udel.edu
Research Interests: Numerical modeling, sediment transport