Dr. Mohsen Zayernouri 

Associate Professor

About the PI:

Mohsen Zayernouri is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Statistics and Probability at Michigan State University (MSU). He joined MSU in Fall 2015, where he established and began to direct the Fractional Mathematics for Anomalous Transport and Hydromechanics (FMATH) group. Dr. Zayernouri obtained a second MSc. and a second Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Brown University under the mentorship of Prof. George Em Karniadakis in 2015. Prior to joining MSU, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University as well. However, even before Mother Nature bent his life pathway into this deeper academic direction, Dr. Zayernouri has been always a passionate mechanical engineer too! He acquired his first M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic, Iran, in 2006 and subsequently, he joined the University of Utah, where he acquired his first Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2010. 

His hobbies include: performing music, calligraphy, reading, meditation, traveling, and hiking.

Dr. Zayernouri’s research and approach to computational fluids/solid mechanics in addition to data-driven anomalous transport/fluids/materials at MSU have been well received by the research community, also the US federal funding agencies. He has received to date the total $1.85M single-PI research awards/grants from US AFOSR YIP-1, US ARO YIP-2, US ARO MURI, US ARL Seed Grant, and NSF/DOE-AMPS Awards. 

     Graduate Students

     Alumni

Eduardo A. B. de Moraes (PhD)

Jorge Suzuki (PhD)

Mehdi Samiee (PhD)

Pegah Varghaei

Ehsan Kharazmi (PhD)

Ehsan Kharazmi graduated as a dual PhD and currently is a post-doctoral fellow at Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.

Vikram Dharodi (PhD)

Vikram Dharodi joined FMATH group as a postdoctoral research associate in May 2019, involved in the study of solid micro-structures and defect dynamics.

 Yongtao Zhou
(Visiting PhD Student)

Yongtao Zhou joined the FMATH group as a visiting scholar, and is now a post-doctoral fellow at the Beijing Computational Science Research Center.

Hadis Nouri
(Visiting PhD Student)

Hadis Nouri is currently a PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at MSU.

     Undergrad Students

Alysia E. Irwin 

Alysia is an undergrad student in Mathematics and Computer Science at Fort Valley State University. She joined FMATH group through the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) in summer 2018..

Sean Connelly

Sean is a junior studying computer science at Michigan State University. He has worked as a Professorial Assistant to Dr. Zayernouri since 2016, where he has done work on two-dimensional mathematical modeling of temperature diffusion. 

Will Dixon

As a Professorial Assistant, Will is assisting Dr. Zayernouri in modeling the effects of fractional-order dashpots on oscillatory systems. Eventually, they plan to use this modeling to analyze and approximate oscillations in viscoelastic materials, such as the skin.

Songhao Li

Songhao Li joined FMATH group as an undergrad student (from University of California, Berkeley, Chemical Engineering) through the NSF REU Site “Advanced Computational Research Experience for Students (ACRES)” (see https://iceracres.msu.edu/), on May 22, 2017. On a 10-week summer research project, he worked on numerical and statistical analysis of fractional PDEs with applications in anomalous diffusion in underground water flow field in heterogeneous disordered media.