Current & Former Ph.D. students and Postdocs

Ilya Prigogine Prize in Thermodynamics - May 2025
Recipient: Olga Movilla Miangolarra
For her PhD thesis work entitled
Stochastic Thermodynamic Treatment of Thermal Anisotropy
In the News!

Ralph Sabbagh - On the Weyl symbols of Gaussian semigroups - IPAM at UCLA
Ralph's master class!! at IPAM

The team - May 2025
Jordi (when his thesis was complete, or, almost complete :)

The team - October 2024
From the left: Tryphon, Mahmoud, Olga, Asmaa, Jordi, Ralph, Fariba

Members of the team - May 2024
From the left: Mahmoud and Olga - An amazing result :)

Pizza time - May 2024
From the left: Tryphon, Olga, Asmaa, Jordi, Ralph

The team - April 2024
From the left: Ralph, Jordi, Yongxin, Wuwei, Tryphon, Olga, Asmaa, Mahmoud

The team - April 2024
From the left: Ralph, Yongxin, Wuwei, Jordi, Mahmoud, Asmaa, Fariba, Tryphon

Members of the team - April 2024
From the left: Tryphon, Olga, Yongxin, Wuwei Wu, Asmaa

The team - August 2023
CW from the center: Anqi, Tryphon, Mahmoud, Asmaa, Fariba, Ralph, Jordi, Olga
Anqi's departure!

The team - April 2023
Mahmoud, Asmaa, Anqi, Ralph, Olga, Jordi, Tryphon, Fariba
& two prospective young members!

Member of our team during a break :) October 2022

The team - November 2022
Tryphon, Amir K, Arthur, Jordi, Olga, Amir T, and Anqi
With one guest (Amir T now at UW) one missing (Fariba)

The team - September 2021
Anqi, Amir K, Zahra, Olga, Amir T and Tryphon
With two guests and two missing (Rui and Fariba)

The team - September 2020
Covid years - zoom gathering
Clockwise from NW: Anqi, Tryphon, Rui, Olga, Fariba, Zahra, Amir T
and in the center Amir K

The team - September 2019
From the left: Amir K, Olga, Fariba Ariaei, Amir T, Rui, Zahra, Luigia, Anqi, Tryphon

The team - October 2018
From the left: Tryphon, Sofia, Yongxin, Luigia Ripani, Amir K, Anqi, Vanentina Ciccone, Zahra, Rui

The team - February 2018
Tryphon, Anqi Dong, Amir Karimi, Mattieu Dolbeault, Zahra Askarzadeh, Rui Fu
With two guests and two missing (Rui and Fariba)

The team - August 2017
Abhishek Halder, Amir Karimi, Giovanni Conforti, Anna, Zahra Askazadeh, Qiaoqian Hu, Rui Fu, Tryphon

Asmaa Eldesoukey (postdoctoral fellow)
Alma mater: Zewail University of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
Hometown: Cairo, Egypt

Ralph Sabbagh
Alma mater: American University of Beirut
Hometown: Maghdouche, Lebanon

Jordi Ventura Siches
Alma mater: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Hometown: Barcelona, Spain

Asmaa Eldesoukey
Alma mater: Zewail University of Science and Technology, Giza, Egypt
Hometown: Cairo, Egypt

Olga Movilla, PhD 2023
Marie Curie Fellow at Instituto Universitario de Estudios Avanzados (IUdEA), Universidad de La Laguna
Alma mater: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Hometown:San Sebastián, Spain

Mahmoud Abdelgalil, PhD 2023 (co-advised)
Postdoctoral Fellow UCSD
Hometown: Cairo, Egypt

Anqi Dong, PhD 2023
Research Associate, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Alma mater: Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Hometown: Beijing, China

Amirhossein Karimi PhD 2022
Alma mater: University of Tehran

Zahra Askarzadeh, PhD 2021
Alma mater: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran

Rui Fu, PhD 2020
Assistant Professor, Nanjing University, Suzhou, China
Alma mater: Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China

Hamza Farooq, PhD 2017
Research Associate, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota

Yongxin Chen, PhD 2016
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech

Lipeng Ning, PhD 2013
Assistant Professor, Harvard

Wuwei Wu
Alma mater: City University of Hong Kong (current)
Hometown: Loudi, China

Fariba Ariaei, PhD – Research Associate
Alma mater: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
and University of Southern California

Amir Taghvaei (PhD, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
UCI Academic year 2019-2021

Rui Fu, (PhD, UCI)
UCI Academic year 2021

Luigia Ripani, (PhD, Universite de Lyon, France)
UCI Academic year 2018-2019

Abhishek Halder, (PhD Texas A&M University)
UCI Academic year 2016-2017

Dr. Kaoru Yamamoto, (PhD University of Cambridge)
ECE UMN Academic year 2015-2016

Dr. Francesca Carli (PhD University of Padova)
ECE UMN Academic year 2013-2014

Qiaoqian Hu, MS 2018

November 2024 - after Franca's seminar
From the left: Tryphon, Franca, Donipolo, Jordi, Asmaa, Ralph

UCI Formula Racing team - October 2024

part of the team – SoCal January 2020 at UCSD

with students after class MAE 170

Lecture MAE 170 - Fall 2018

Lecture MAE 170 - Fall 2018

Professor Tryphon Tournesol :)