Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 4 Winter 2018

news notes for Excellence in Career, during Foundation Day celebrations Nov. 14 at Punjab Engineer- ing College, Chandigarh India. Mahajan’s brother-in-law accepted the award on his behalf. Yang Liu Nain seminars Yang Liu’s research group recently won best paper awards for two conference papers. Mechanobiology of cell protrusions – to the Uni- versity of North Carolina Department of Pharmacology Shanbin Shi, Yalan Qian, Dewei Liu Wang, Yang Liu, Xiaodong Sun, Liquid phase turbulence measurements in air-water two-phase flows using particle image velocimetry, presented at the 12th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety in Qingdao, China. Associate Professor Am- rinder Nain gave the follow- ing invited seminars: Nain and Bucky Fiber curvature drives cell protrusive behavior – to the University of Wisconsin Department of Biomedical Engineering Quantitating fiber curvature driven protru- sive behavior in-line and lateral to cell migra- tion direction – to University of Pennsylvania, Physical Sciences and Oncology Nain is also scheduled to be a speaker at Innovate Nanomedicine 2019 in Houston, Texas. Wing Ng Gave the keynote lecture in October at the International Con- ference on Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics in Berlin, Germa- Ng ny. Ng spoke on: Gas turbine flow characterization using non-intrusive acoustic measurements. Roop Mahajan Roop Mahajan, the Lewis E. Hes- ter Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering, was presented the Distinguished Alumnus Award MOMENTUM Mahajan FALL 2018 Yucheng Fu, Yang Liu, Bubbly flow synthe- sis and labeling using the bubble generative adversarial networks, presented at the 2018 International Topical Meeting on Advances in Thermal Hydraulics, Orlando, Florida Lei Zuo Lei Zuo and doctoral student Yongjia Wu received the 2018 ASME Best Paper Award in Ad- vanced Modeling and Simulation, Zuo for their paper, Energy harvesting for nuclear waste sensing and monitoring. The paper included Wu, Jackson Klein, Hanchen Zhou, and Zuo. Romesh Batra Romesh Batra, Clifton C. Garvin Professor in the Biomed- ical Engineering and Mechanics department, and an affiliate faculty member of mechanical engineering, recently had the following publications: PAGE 6 Batra

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