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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

Current Members

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Chace Wilcoxson

PhD Candidate

2023-Present

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Sam Schneider

PhD Candidate

2023-Present

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Elania Opusunju

PhD Candidate

2025

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Patricia Garcia Caspueñas

PhD Candidate

2025-Present

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Michael Garcia

PhD Candidate

2025-Present

Alumni

Postdocs

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Esther Lagemann

Postdoctoral Fellow

2023-2025

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Christian Lagemann

Postdoctoral Fellow

2023-2025

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Hangjun Cho

Postdoctoral Fellow

2023-2025

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Doris Voina

Postdoctoral Fellow

2022-2025

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Zachary Nicalaou

Postdoctoral Fellow

2019-2025

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Prerna Patil

Postdoctoral Fellow

2022-2025

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N. Ben Erichson

Next position: Postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016-2018

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Ryan Raut

Next position: Research Faculty at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Postdoctoral Fellow 

2022-2024

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Sam Otto

Next position: Assistant Professor at Cornell University

Postdoctoral Fellow

2022-2024

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Urban Fasel

Next position: Assistant Professor,

Imperial. College London

Postdoctoral Fellow

2020-2022

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Jason Bramburger

Next position: Assistant Professor, George Washington University. College London

Postdoctoral Fellow

2020-2022

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Anastasia Bizyaeva

Next position: Assistant Professor at Cornell University

Postdoctoral Fellow

2022-2024

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Jordan Snyder

Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen

Postdoctoral Fellow

2019-2021

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Benjamin Herrmann

Next position: Assistant Professor,

University of Chile

Postdoctoral Fellow

2019-2021

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Eurika Kaiser

Next position: Private Consultant,

Berlin, Germany

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016-2021

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Aditya Nair

Next position: Assistant Professor, UN Reno

Postdoctoral Fellow

2018-2020

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Bethany Lusch

Next position: Argonne National Labs

Postdoctoral Fellow

2016-2018

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Simon Vanpaemel

Next position: Continued postdoc, KU, Leuven

Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow 2023

PhD Graduates

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Brittany Lydon

Next position: Postdoctoral Scholar at UW

PhD 2025

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Kartik Krishna

Next position: Postdoc at Washington University, St. Louis

PhD 2025

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Frank Mei

Next position: 

PhD 2024

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Michelle Hickner

Next position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering

PhD 2023

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Aleksei Sholokhov

Next position: MERL

PhD 2023

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Dan Shea

Next position: Head of AI @Prahsys

PhD 2023

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Jared Callaham

Next position: Engineer at Atomic Industries

PhD 2022

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Kadierdan Kaheman

Next position: Researcher at Dolby

PhD 2022

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Yuying Liu

Next position: Amazon

PhD 2022

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Chen Gong

Next position: Inuit

PhD 2022

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Isabel Scherl

Next position: Assistant Professor,

UMass, Amherst

PhD 2022

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Ariana Mendible

Next position: Assistant Professor, Seattle University

PhD 2021

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Alan Kaptanoglu

Next position: Assistant Professor,

NYU Courant Institute

PhD 2021

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Brian DeSilva

Next position: Amazon, Seattle 

PhD 2020

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Emily Clark

Next position: Engineer, BAE Systems

PhD 2020

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Thomas Mohren

Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University

PhD 2020

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Kathleen Champion 

Next position: Machine Learning Engineer, Amazon

PhD 2019

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Ben Strom

Next position: XFlow Energy

Company, Co-Founder

PhD 2019

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Sam Rudy

Next position: NSF Postdoctoral

Fellow, MIT

PhD 2019

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Krithika Manohar

Next position: Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, ME

PhD 2013-2018

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Zhe Bai

Next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Labs

PhD 2018

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Michael Au-Yeung-

Next position: Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University

PhD 2016

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Filippo Zacchei

Visiting PhD Candidate

2025

Former Master Students

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Max Gray

Next position: Cytek Biosciences

Masters 2022

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Emma Hansen 

Next position: PhD student, UBC

Masters 2020

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Tadbhagya Kumar 

Next position: PhD student, UF

Masters 2016

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Sudharsan Madhavan

Next position: PhD student, Tufts

Masters 2015

Former Undergraduate Students

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Seth Pendergrass

Next position: ByteDance

Bachelor's Degree 2017

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Jessica Fortino 

Next position: Engineer, Seattle Public Utility 

Bachelor's Degree 2014

Former High School Students

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Arlene Shengel

Next position: Undergraduate,  

High school intern, 2025

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Jayanth Ananth

Next position: Undergraduate,  

High school intern,  2024

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Jessica Ruan 

Next position: Undergraduate, CMU

High school intern, 2021

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Sanya Gupta

Next position: Undergraduate, Columbia 

High school intern, 2021

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Aria Tang 

Next position: Undergraduate, UW

High school intern, 2021

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Christina Yao

Next position: Undergraduate, CMU

High school intern, 2020 

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Eric Chen

Next position: Undergraduate, Princeton 

High school intern, 2020

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Surtaz Khan 

Next position: Undergraduate, Yale

High school intern, 2020

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