Lab Members

Sicheng Kevin Li, PhD

• PhD, Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2022

• MS, Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2020

• BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2018

• BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2018

Positions: 

• Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• PI of Rotorcraft Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics (RAA) Lab

• Faculty Fellow of LaunchPad AAM Center at Oklahoma Aerospace Institute for Research and Education (OAIRE)

Steven Yon

• BS, Aerospace Engineering, University of Hartford, 2025

Position:

• PhD student, 1st year

Research Areas: 

• Rotorcraft in-ground effects, ship airwake - rotor interactions, gust interactions, experimental fluids, lower-order modeling

Andrew Alm

• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Oral Roberts University, 2025

Position:

• PhD student, 1st year

Research Areas: 

• Tip vortex, leading-edge vortex, vortex-wing interactions, formation flights, blade wake interaction (BWI), and blade vortex interactions (BVI)

Sandip Ghimire

• BS, Aerospace Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2024

Position:

• PhD student, 1st year

Research Areas: 

• Computational fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics, boundary layer flows

Grace Sian

• BS, Aerospace Engineering, United States Air Force Academy, 2024

Position:

• MS student, 2nd year

Research Areas: 

• Anechoic chamber, propeller recirculation mitigation, rotorcraft noise measurement

Molly Dolan

• BS, Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 2026

Position:

• Undergraduate student researcher, 4th year

Research Areas: 

• Rotorcraft unsteady loading, rotor-gust interactions