ODES-lab People
faculty mentor | post-docs | ph.d. & m.s. students | undergraduates | visitors
Vivek Sharma
Professor (08/2025-) & Principal Investigator of the ODES-lab (11/2012-)
Email: viveksATuic.edu
Team Leader || Google Scholar || Biosketch || Poet/Writer
Ph. D. Students
Yash Vidyasagar
Ph. D. student (Jan 2023-)
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Viscoelastic instabilities and nonlinear rheology. (on leave)
yvidya2ATuic.edu
Louie Edano
Ph. D Student (Jan 2023-)
M. S. Chemical Engineering, UIC, Chicago, IL. (2022)
B. S. Chemical Engineering, UIC, Chicago, IL. (2016)
Centrifugal Spinning; Fibrous membranes
ledano2ATuic.edu
Somayeh Sepahvand
Ph. D Student (Jan 2023-)
M. S. Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran. (2016)
B. S. Chemical Industries Engineering, Valiasr Technical University, Tehran. (2011)
Protein-Polysaccharide Mixtures. Polysaccharide Thickeners. Rheology of Plant-based Foods.
ssepah2ATuic.edu
Kim Ngo
Ph. D Student (Aug 2024-)
M. S. Organic Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN. (2020)
B. S. Chemistry, Emphasis on Coatings & Polymeric Materials, North Dakota State University. (2017)
Stratifying foam films. Antifoaming.
Abdullah Amer
Ph. D. Student (Aug 2024-)
M. S. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago. (2023)
B. S. Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago. (2022)
Rheology and tackiness of dense suspensions and dispersions
Ece Bayraktar
Ph. D. Student (Jan 2025-)
M. S. Chemical Engineering, Atilim University. (2024)
B. S. Chemical Engineering, Atilim University. (2023)
Food and cosmetic emulsions. Drop deformation and rheology.
Debjani Bhakta
Ph. D. Student (Aug 2025-)
M. S. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. (2025)
B. S. Chemical Engineering, University of Calcutta. (2023)
Rheology of food emulsions. Coating flows. Hydrodynamic instabilities
M. S. Students
Srija Somma
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago.
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago. 2026
Yinjin Zheng
Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
B. S. Students
Sarah Schroll
Sophomore in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Esha Patel
Junior in Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
Lama Alsurakhi
Sophomore in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago.
Foam drainage
Aaron Casas
Junior in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Varun Maheshwari
Junior in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Extensional Rheology
Miriam Jaber
Junior in Chemical Engineering, the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Spinnability and rheology
Ria Patel
Junior in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Extensional Rheology
Qussay Suleinman
Junior in Chemical Engineering, the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Spinnability and rheology