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

We welcome questions, suggestions, curiosities