Current Students

Meet Our Team

Students in this group do far more than assist. They design experiments, build systems, analyze data, present their work, and grow into confident researchers along the way. Across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels, the work is shared, hands-on, and deeply collaborative.

Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate students

Undergraduate researchers play an active role in the group’s ongoing work, contributing to experiments, data analysis, design, and discovery across multiple projects.

Jessica DeMoor
Undergraduate

Jessica DeMoor

Flight Test Validation of Tandem Propeller Performance with Vertical Offset

Selected publication: Foster, Michael, Jessica DeMoor, Sidaard Gunasekaran, and Jielong Cai. "Flight Test Validation of Tandem Propeller Performance With Vertical Offset." In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, p. 1445. 2025. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-1445
Samuel Parlett
Undergraduate

Samuel Parlett

Experimental Investigation of a Variable Pitch Propeller at Various Incidence Angles in Forward Flight

Selected publication: Parlett, Samuel L., Jielong Cai, Sidaard Gunasekaran, and Michael Ol. "Experimental Investigation of a Variable Pitch Propeller at Various Incidence Angles in Foward Flight." In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, p. 1267. 2025. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-1267
Brock Greenwood
Undergraduate

Brock Greenwood

Characterization of Agricultural Nozzle Spray Geometry in Propeller Wake

Selected publication: Greenwood, Brock A., Abdul Khan, and Sidaard Gunasekaran. "Characterization of Agricultural Nozzle Spray Geometry in Propeller Wake." In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, p. 1269. 2025. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-1269
Grace Schreyer
Undergraduate

Grace Schreyer

Exploration of Nearly Two-Dimensional Wake Structure of Non-Elliptical Lift Distributions

Selected publication: Schreyer, Grace A., Sidaard Gunasekaran, Julian A. Pabon, and Jielong Cai. "Variations in the Wake Structure of Non-Elliptical Lift Distributions Near Wingtip." In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, p. 0253. 2025. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-0253
Grace Selm
Undergraduate

Grace Selm

Design and Testing of Morphing Wing with Spanwise Twist

Selected publication: Schreyer, Grace A., Grace N. Selm, Julian A. Pabon, and Sidaard Gunasekaran. "Experimental Investigations of a Dual-Mode Skin-Actuated-Camber with Embedded Twist (SACET) Morphing Wing." In AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum, p. 0256. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-0256
Megan Bender
Undergraduate

Megan Bender

Characterization of Agricultural Nozzle Spray Geometry in Propeller Wake

Selected publication: Grenwood, Brock A., Abdul Khan, Megan Bender, and Sidaard Gunasekaran. "Characterization of Rotary Atomizer Spray Geometry Under the Influence of a Propeller." In AIAA SCITECH 2026 Forum, p. 2700. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-2700
Tyler Wethington
Undergraduate

Tyler Wethington

Evaluation of Wing-Embedded Propulsor Systems in Maritime Ground Effect

Publication information is not currently listed on this page.
Nolan Elo
Undergraduate

Nolan Elo

Characterization of Highly Focused Ultrasonic Transducer for Flow Control

Publication information is not currently listed on this page.
Autumn Randall
Undergraduate

Autumn Randall

Flight Test Validation of Tandem Propeller Performance with Vertical Offset

Publication information is not currently listed on this page.
David Agyei
Undergraduate

David Agyei

Event-based Characterization of Focused-Ultrasound-Induced Acoustic Streaming

Publication information is not currently listed on this page.
Emilee Weir
Undergraduate

Emilee Weir

Modeling Bird Strike Impact on Flight Dynamics

Publication information is not currently listed on this page.
Elle Pasquillini
Undergraduate

Elle Pasquillini

Characterization of Highly Focused Ultrasonic Transducer for Flow Control

Publication information is not currently listed on this page.
Master's Students

Master's researchers going deep.

Master's students working on current research problems and related publications.

Julian Pabon
Master's

Julian Pabon

Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Pitching Effects on a Delta Wing with Blown Jet

Selected publication: Pabon, Julian A., Xinyu Gao, Jielong Cai, and Sidaard Gunasekaran. "Experimental Investigation of a Novel Morphing Wing Design." In AIAA 2023 Region III Student Conference, Dayton, OH https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-71704
Ph.D. Students

Doctoral researchers pushing the frontier.

Doctoral students pursuing longer-term research directions within the group.

C.B. Cain
Ph.D.

C.B. Cain

Tailoring Lift Distribution of Wings through Non-Elliptical Spanwise Twist and Active Flow Control

Selected publication: Cain, Charles B., and Sidaard Gunasekaran. "Wake Characteristics of a Bell-Shaped Lift Distribution." In AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum, p. 2327. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-2327

Current Undergraduate Students

  • Jessica DeMoor - Flight Test Validation of Tandem Propeller Performance with Vertical Offset
  • Samuel Parlett - Experimental Investigation of a Variable Pitch Propeller at Various Incidence Angles in Forward Flight
  • Brock Greenwood - Characterization of Agricultural Nozzle Spray Geometry in Propeller Wake
  • Grace Schreyer - Exploration of Nearly Two-Dimensional Wake Structure of Non-Elliptical Lift Distributions
  • Grace Selm - Design and Testing of Morphing Wing with Spanwise Twist
  • Megan Kelly - Flight Test Validation of Tandem Propeller Performance with Vertical Offset
  • Megan Bender - Characterization of Agricultural Nozzle Spray Geometry in Propeller Wake
  • Tyler Wethington - Evaluation of Wing-Embedded Propulsor Systems in Maritime Ground Effect
  • Hai Long Le - Characterization of Agricultural Nozzle Spray Geometry in Propeller Wake
  • Nolan Elo - Characterization of Highly Focused Ultrasonic Transducer for Flow Control
  • Autumn Randall - Flight Test Validation of Tandem Propeller Performance with Vertical Offset
  • David Agyei - Event-based Characterization of Focused-Ultrasound-Induced Acoustic Streaming
  • Emilee Weir - Modeling Bird Strike Impact on Flight Dynamics
  • Elle Pasquillini - Characterization of Highly Focused Ultrasonic Transducer for Flow Control

Graduate Students

  • Julian Pabon - Experimental Investigation of Dynamic Pitching Effects on a Delta Wing with Blown Jet
  • Charles C. B. Cain - Tailoring Lift Distribution of Wings through Non-Elliptical Spanwise Twist and Active Flow Control (Primary Advisor)