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Meet the Lab!

PI: Nick Battista

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        Associate Professor of Mathematics, TCNJ

        Degree: Ph.D. Mathematics from UNC-CH

        Math Office: Science Complex P209

        Email: battistn[at]tcnj[.]edu

        Office HoursM (8:45-10:15a), W (4-5pm), Th (2:45-4:15pm)

        Research Interests: Biological fluid dynamics, fluid-structure                  interaction, machine learning, numerical analysis, and          

​             applied math education

        Hobbies: Weightlifting, scuba diving, Ghostbusters trivia
        CV: October-2024

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Manasvi Mamilla

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Major/Year: Biology (4th year)

Research: collective behavior of fish schools

Lab Alumni!

Anna Dorval

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Major: Applied Math

Year: 2023

Research: Machine learning (polynomial chaos expansions) and jellyfish locomotion

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Eileen Yizzi

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Major: Applied Math

Year: 2023

Research: Lion's mane Jellyfish and Deep Neural Networks

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Lauren Terr

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Major Statistics

Year: 2024

Research: Using deep neural networks to study pelagic polychaetes

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Kendra Ebke

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Major: Mathematics

Year: 2023

Research: Marine snow and           zooplankton interactions

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John Phelan

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Major: Applied Math

Year: 2022

Research: Box jellyfish locomotion

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Lana Abdelmohsen

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Major: Computer Science

Year: 2023

Research: Using convolutional neural networks to learn about swimmers from their vortex wakes

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Miruna Baciu

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MajorApplied Math

Year: 2022

Research: Reduced-order models in

                  locomotion 

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Zain Moin

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Major: Biomedical Engineering

Year: 2022

Research: Biomimetic Pumping

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Spencer Haber

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 Major: Biomedical Engineering

Year: 2022

Research Focus: Modeling adult dermal                               wound healing

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Lilly Hoffman

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Major/Year: Mathematics, 4th Year

Research: Lion's mane Jellyfish

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Stephanie Shen

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Major: Communications

Year: 2022

Research Focus: Ebola epidemics

                  and social campaigns

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Natalia Sokolnicki

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Major: Mathematics

Year: 2022

Research Focus: Ebola epidemics

                  and social campaigns

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Tierney Baldwin

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Major: Mathematics

Class: 2021 (TCNJ)

Research Focus: "Hopscotching" Jellies

                             and Siphonophores

Papers: Hopscotching Jellyfish

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Rose Pereira

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 Major: Mathematics

Class: 2022

Research Focus: Anguilliform swimming

                         through saturated media

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Michael Mongelli​

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Major Computer Science

Class: 2021 (TCNJ)        

Research Focus: Pendulums in fluids!

Papers: Pendulums

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Chris Jakuback​

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Major: Statistics/Physics

Class: 2021 (TCNJ)

Research Focus: Massive jellyfish

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Erin Haus​

 

Major: Biology

Class: 2019 (TCNJ)

Research: Immunology Modeling and Machine Learning

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Jason Miles

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 Major: Mathematics

 Class: 2019 (TCNJ)       

 Research Focus: Jellyfish locomotion!

 Papers

  1. ​Jellyfish Tentacles

  2. Jellyfish Sensitivity                 

     

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Leigh Pearcy
 
Major: Math & Math Education
Class: 2017 (UNC-CH)
Currently: PhD program in Applied Math UTK
Awards/Honors: NSF GRFP Recipient 2017
Research Focus: Modeling the opioid epidemic 
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Andrea Lane


Major: Math & Biostatistics

Class: 2016 (UNC-CH)

Currently: PhD program in Biostatists at Emory 

Awards/Honors: NSF GRFP Recipient 2016

Research Focus: Blood flow in heart development

Papers:

  1. Trabeculated Cavity

  2. Trabeculated Pumping Heart

  3. Heart-Tube with Blood Cells

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