
Steven L. Brunton
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute
University of Washington, Seattle
Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University, 2012
B.S. in Mathematics and Minor Control and Dynamical Systems,
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 2006
email: sbrunton@uw.edu
Current Members
Ana Larrañaga
Postdoctoral Fellow,
2025-Present

Sara Ichinaga
PhD Candidate
2021-Present
Joeseph Williams
PhD Candidate
2020-Present
Nick Zolman
PhD Candidate
2022-Present
Sajeda Mokbel
PhD Candidate
2023-Present

Sam Schneider
PhD Candidate
2023-Present

Patricia Garcia Caspueñas
PhD Candidate
2025-Present
Michael Garcia
PhD Candidate
2025-Present
Alumni
Postdocs

Esther Lagemann
Postdoctoral Fellow
2023-2025

Christian Lagemann
Postdoctoral Fellow
2023-2025

Hangjun Cho
Postdoctoral Fellow
2023-2025

Doris Voina
Postdoctoral Fellow
2022-2025

Zachary Nicalaou
Postdoctoral Fellow
2019-2025

Prerna Patil
Postdoctoral Fellow
2022-2025

N. Ben Erichson
Next position: Postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow
2016-2018

Ryan Raut
Next position: Research Faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Postdoctoral Fellow
2022-2024

Sam Otto
Next position: Assistant Professor at Cornell University
Postdoctoral Fellow
2022-2024

Urban Fasel
Next position: Assistant Professor,
Imperial. College London
Postdoctoral Fellow
2020-2022

Jason Bramburger
Next position: Assistant Professor, George Washington University. College London
Postdoctoral Fellow
2020-2022

Anastasia Bizyaeva
Next position: Assistant Professor at Cornell University
Postdoctoral Fellow
2022-2024

Jordan Snyder
Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen
Postdoctoral Fellow
2019-2021

Benjamin Herrmann
Next position: Assistant Professor,
University of Chile
Postdoctoral Fellow
2019-2021

Eurika Kaiser
Next position: Private Consultant,
Berlin, Germany
Postdoctoral Fellow
2016-2021

Aditya Nair
Next position: Assistant Professor, UN Reno
Postdoctoral Fellow
2018-2020

Bethany Lusch
Next position: Argonne National Labs
Postdoctoral Fellow
2016-2018

Simon Vanpaemel
Next position: Continued postdoc, KU, Leuven
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow 2023
PhD Graduates

Brittany Lydon
Next position: Postdoctoral Scholar at UW
PhD 2025

Kartik Krishna
Next position: Postdoc at Washington University, St. Louis
PhD 2025

Frank Mei
Next position:
PhD 2024

Michelle Hickner
Next position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering
PhD 2023

Aleksei Sholokhov
Next position: MERL
PhD 2023

Dan Shea
Next position: Head of AI @Prahsys
PhD 2023

Jared Callaham
Next position: Engineer at Atomic Industries
PhD 2022

Kadierdan Kaheman
Next position: Researcher at Dolby
PhD 2022

Yuying Liu
Next position: Amazon
PhD 2022

Chen Gong
Next position: Inuit
PhD 2022

Isabel Scherl
Next position: Assistant Professor,
UMass, Amherst
PhD 2022

Ariana Mendible
Next position: Assistant Professor, Seattle University
PhD 2021

Alan Kaptanoglu
Next position: Assistant Professor,
NYU Courant Institute
PhD 2021

Brian DeSilva
Next position: Amazon, Seattle
PhD 2020
Emily Clark
Next position: Engineer, BAE Systems
PhD 2020

Kathleen Champion
Next position: Machine Learning Engineer, Amazon
PhD 2019

Ben Strom
Next position: XFlow Energy
Company, Co-Founder
PhD 2019

Sam Rudy
Next position: NSF Postdoctoral
Fellow, MIT
PhD 2019

Krithika Manohar
Next position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, ME
PhD 2013-2018

Zhe Bai
Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
PhD 2018

Michael Au-Yeung-
Next position: Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University
PhD 2016
Former Master Students

Max Gray
Next position: Cytek Biosciences
Masters 2022

Emma Hansen
Next position: PhD student, UBC
Masters 2020

Tadbhagya Kumar
Next position: PhD student, UF
Masters 2016

Sudharsan Madhavan
Next position: PhD student, Tufts
Masters 2015
Former Undergraduate Students

Seth Pendergrass
Next position: ByteDance
Bachelor's Degree 2017
Jessica Fortino
Next position: Engineer, Seattle Public Utility
Bachelor's Degree 2014
Former High School Students
Arlene Shengel
Next position: Undergraduate,
High school intern, 2025
Jayanth Ananth
Next position: Undergraduate,
High school intern, 2024

Jessica Ruan
Next position: Undergraduate, CMU
High school intern, 2021

Sanya Gupta
Next position: Undergraduate, Columbia
High school intern, 2021

Aria Tang
Next position: Undergraduate, UW
High school intern, 2021

Christina Yao
Next position: Undergraduate, CMU
High school intern, 2020

Eric Chen
Next position: Undergraduate, Princeton
High school intern, 2020

Surtaz Khan
Next position: Undergraduate, Yale
High school intern, 2020












