Fluid-Structure Interactions Lab (FSI)

While pursuing my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, I worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the Fluid-Structure Interactions Laboratory at University of Massachusetts Amherst from October 2015 to May 2019.

Through my research in the FSI lab, I gained valuable skills that not only helped my research at the time, but have also come in handy in my work today in the fields of Robotics and Motor Control.

I had the opportunity to conduct experiments in a recirculating water tunnel and used high speed cameras to record kinematic data from structures placed in the flow of the water tunnel.

I worked with machine shop technicians and designed an MRI-safe recirculating water tunnel from scratch.

Lastly, in my senior year I designed and tested an energy extraction device that exploited the (typically) destructive nature of oscillating structures in flow to generate clean renewable energy.

Below are more detailed descriptions of the major projects I was involved with in the FSI Lab: