
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.


Tyler Moore
M.S. Student
B.S. - University of Mississippi, USA, 2021
Research project:
Experimental study of skin-friction drag reduction and wall turbulence control with 3D printed surface microstructures.

Jhalak Dhakal
M.S. Student
B.S. - Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 2016
Research project:
Experimental and numerical investigations of flow separation control using high-frequency translational surface actuation.

John Barch
M.S. Student
B.S. - University of Mississippi, USA, 2023
Research project: TBD
Former Students
Janak Tiwari, MS
Janak graduate in May 2021. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the Mechanical Engineering department of the University of Utah.
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.
Kenechukwu Okoye, BS
Kenechukwu graduated in May 2020. He is now an MS student at the University of Waterloo