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Team Members
Principal Investigator

Taiho Yeom
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
University of Mississippi
Ph.D. - University of Minnesota, USA, 2012
M.S. - Oklahoma State University, USA, 2008
B.S. - Ajou University, South Korea, 2005
Graduate Students

Kiyun Kim
Ph.D. Student
M.S. - University of Mississippi, USA, 2015
B.S. - University of Mississippi, USA, 2012
Research project:
Investigation of convection heat transfer enhancement by a piezoelectric fan using experimental and computational methods.

Tanjid Khan Saad
M.S. Student
B.S. - Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, 2024
Research project:
Experimental characterization of turbulent boundary layer using particle image velocimetry.
Former Students
John Barch, MS
John graduated in May 2025. He is currently a design engineer at Sprinksys.
Tyler Moore, MS
Tyler graduated in December 2023. He continues his Ph.D. journey in the Chemical Engineering department at the University of Mississippi.
Jhalak Dhakal, MS
Jhalak graduated in December 2023. Currently, he is working as an engineer at Lennox International.
Janak Tiwari, MS
Janak graduated in May 2021. He has completed a Ph.D. degree at the Mechanical Engineering department of the University of Utah in 2026. He is currently a postdoc researcher at the Idaho National Laboratory.
Pravesh Pokharel, MS
Pravesh graduated in May 2021. He is now working as an engineer at Sanofi
Bibek Gupta, BS
Bibek graduated in May 2021 with an honor's thesis. Currently, He is a Ph.D. student at Northestern University.
Kenechukwu Okoye, BS
Kenechukwu graduated in May 2020 with an honor's thesis. He is now an MS student at the University of Waterloo
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