Lab Director & Principal Investigator

Yang Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The City College of New York
Steinman Hall, Room 253
275 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031, USA
Tel: (212) 650-7346
Email: yliu7@ccny.cuny.edu
Dr. Yang Liu is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at CUNY – The City College of New York. He obtained his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University (ISU) in 2016 and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Beihang University (BUAA) in 2011. His current research interests include multiphase flow and heat transfer in additive manufacturing, plasma-droplet interactions, blast/shock-surface interactions, high-speed multiphase interactions driven by blast/shock, aircraft icing physics and anti-/de-icing technologies, and unsteady multiphase flow in energy devices. Dr. Liu has published 1 book, 2 book chapters, 35 peer-reviewed journal papers, and more than 40 conference papers in the field of thermal fluids. He has received several awards in recent years, including the CET Outstanding Faculty Research Award, The ASME MFTC Best Paper Award, The ASME FMITC Best Presentation Award, and Best CET Research Poster Competition Award.
Current Team Members
Postdoc Researchers

Dr. Haipeng Zhang (hzhang4@ccny.cuny.edu)
Dr. Haipeng Zhang is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of New York. He received his Ph.D. degree and M.S. degree in Mechanical & Materials Engineering from the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln in 2022 and in 2018, respectively, and his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan in 2007. He also worked for the pump department at the Beijing Office (China) of the KUBOTA Corporation between 2009 to 2015.

Dr. Jorge Ahumada Lazo (jahumadalazo@ccny.cuny.edu)
Dr. Jorge Ahumada Lazo is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of New York. He obtained his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 2024. Prior to that, he earned a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from New Mexico State University in 2018 and 2015, respectively. His past research includes the characterization of supersonic swirling jets using PIV, and the study of evaporation behavior of sub-millimeter droplets of pure and nanofluids.
Ph.D. Students

Xiaoxiao (Eva) Zhang (xzhang012@citymail.cuny.edu)
Xiaoxiao (Eva) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. Her research is focused on the dynamic and thermal behaviors of colloidal droplet in freezing-based inkjet 3D printing processes.

MD Sohaib Bin Sarwar (msarwar003@citymail.cuny.edu)
Sohaib is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. His research is focused on the multi-state inter-phase transport processes and thermal energy transfer during interactions between plasma discharge and supercooled droplets.

Sandeep Kumar (skumar007@citymail.cuny.edu)
Sandeep is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. His research is focused on the plasma-assisted hydrogen production. Outside of the lab, he enjoys music and games.

Jooi Choi Albano (jalbano000@citymail.cuny.edu)
Jooi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. She is working on the flow-structure interactions of aerodynamically coupled oscillators and offshore wind farm aerodynamics.
MS Students

Petr Lelikov (pleliko000@citymail.cuny.edu)
Petr is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York. He received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from CCNY in 2023. He is working on plasma discharge characterization in interactions with droplets.

Jerzy Misztal (tmiszta000@citymail.cuny.edu)
Jerzy is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is working on Shock Tube instrumentation and experiments.
Undergraduate Students

Pieter Orlandini (porland000@citymail.cuny.edu)
Pieter is pursuing a B.E. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is working on PIV measurements and deep-learning-based image preprocessing for PIV.

Tasfia Kabir Pushpita (tpushpi000@citymail.cuny.edu)
Tasfia is a junior pursuing a B.E. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. She is working on Shock Tube instrumentation and experiments.

Navdeep Badhan (nbadhan000@citymail.cuny.edu)
Tasfia is a junior pursuing a B.E. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is working on Shock Tube instrumentation and experiments.

Julian Lam (jlam006@citymail.cuny.edu)
Tasfia is a junior pursuing a B.E. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The City College of New York. He is working on Wind Tunnel Experiments.
Alumni

Andro Abdelmalek
Current Position: Associate Energy Engineer at NYC Citywide Administrative Services
Website: Andro Abdelmalek | LinkedIn

Parker Zieg
Current Position: Mechanical Engineer II at Lockheed Martin Space
Website: Parker Zieg | LinkedIn

Danielle Flores
Former REU Research Assistant student at East Carolina University
Current Position: Honors Senior Chemical Engineering Student at University of South Alabama
Website: Danielle Flores | LinkedIn

Zachary Pakulniewicz
Current Position: Electrical Engineer at Newcomb & Boyd, LLP
Website: Zach Pakulniewicz, EIT | LinkedIn

Nicholas Paul
Current Position: Project Engineer at Gilbane Building Company
Website: Nicholas Paul | LinkedIn

Andrew Thomas
Current Position: Automation Field Engineer III at Hyster-Yale Group
Website: Andrew Thomas | LinkedIn

John Benson
Current Position: Design Engineer at Carolina Components Group, Inc
Website: John Benson | LinkedIn

Josh Sutton
Research Assistant student at East Carolina University