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News and fun facts about our Lab!
It is a special day for Mitesh, for me, and for the Sun Lab. Mitesh is the my PhD student who built the lab together with me from scratch. I am very lucky to have him as my first PhD student, and now we should call him Dr. Thakor! The atmosphere in our lab is unique-they work hard and support each other, and most importantly, they are cool and fun people like you see in the last photo! hahaha~
May 9
Huge congrats to Daniel Podzunas for winning the Outstanding Achievement Award in Graduate Study from MAE! So proud of this guy and all the hard work he put in. Well deserved, Daniel!
Apr 30
Proud to be here watching Thalia Lee present her honors thesis today. Seriously impressive work from an undergrad. SU’s honors program keeps producing talented, driven students and it never gets old seeing it up close. If you’re an undergraduate at Syracuse interested in fluid mechanics or aerospace research and want to get involved, reach out. My lab is always happy to welcome curious people. Congrats Thalia!
Apr 30
Rashid presented his work of “bi-global optimal perturbation of a laminar separation bubble using harmonic resolvent analysis” at AIAA SciTech 2026 in Orlando. Nice job!
Jan 29
Congrats! Mitesh’s new publication with AIAA Journal 2025. The work focuses on applying resolvent analysis to the 2D complex rectangular jet flow at a high Reynolds number. The complexity stems from the interactions of three shear layers in the jet flow.
Dec 11
Presentations at APS DFD 2025 in Houston! Md Rashidul Islam and Melissa Yeung did great job in presenting their latest work on biglobal harmonic resolvent analysis of separated flow and 3D ROM DMD method applied to complex rectangular jet flow at the APS DFD 2025 in Houston.
Dec 5
Feeling truly honored to be named TACNY’s 2025 STEAM Outreach Individual of the Year! None of this would be possible without the support from TACNY, my college, department, and the wonderful students who make every outreach event meaningful. 💛
Oct 22
Had the pleasure of presenting “Shaping the Air: Fluid Flow Control from Air Vehicles to Smart Buildings” at SyracuseCoE yesterday. Grateful for the thoughtful questions and stimulating discussion with experts from the built environment community.
Oct 22
🎓Congratulations to Dr. Miteshkumar Thakor! On August 7 2025, Mitesh successfully defended his Ph.D., a proud and memorable milestone. His dedication, curiosity, and perseverance over the years have been truly inspiring. Wishing him the very best in the exciting journey ahead!
Aug 11
Thrilled to share that my PhD student, Melissa Yeung, has been awarded the 2025 Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship! Proud advisor moment!👏
Jun 10
Dr. Sun received 2025 Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award from Syracuse University. Huge thanks to my amazing grad students-this recognition is yours as much as mine. Grateful as well to AFOSR and NSF for supporting our research journey.
Apr 30
Dr. Sun shared her career path experience on Highlighting Women in Aerospace panel at AIAA SciTech 2025. Melissa also gave an excellent presentation on adaptive control of jet flow studies using online DMD method.
Jan 12
Three lab members presents at APS DFD 2024 in Salt Lake City! Melissa presents parameter identification through DMD-ROM; Rashid presents bi-global harmonic resolvent analysis of cavity flow; Mitesh presents tri-global resolvent analysis of jet flow. Good jobs! Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 26
New publication with JFM! Congratulations to Md Rashidul Islam’s harmonic resolvent analysis of cavity flow work published with JFM!
Nov 25
Thalia Lee receives undergraduate research funding from SOURCE! We are looking forward to explore new research topic with her.
Nov 6
New publication with JFM! Congratulations to Melissa Yeung’s active flow control of dual-stream jet work published with JFM in her second year!
Nov 4
AFOSR 2024 YIP Award! The group receives AFOSR funding through Dr. Sun’s AFOSR 2024 Young Investigator Award on a project investigating nonlinear modal interactions in complex unsteady aerodynamic flows.
Sep 4
Congrats! Mitesh Thakor’s new publication with PRF. The work focuses on exploring input-output dynamics of a supersonic shear layer flow, which is a ubiquitous flow phenomenon in many engineering applications of high-speed flows.
Aug 12
AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award 2024 - Prof. Mark Glauser. Sun’s lab members are very grateful to all the mentorship and supports provided by Dr. Glauser since Dr. Sun joins SU in 2021. Congratulations to Mark!
Aug 2
Rashid presents at AVIATION 2024 in Las Vegas. Md Rashidul Islam gives an excellent talk on the topic of harmonic resolvent analysis applied to laminar separation bubble. We are so excited to exploit the use of this method in understanding unsteady fluid flow behaviors! The work is supported by AFOSR YIP Program.
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