Science - From swimming fish and flying birds to marine bionic technology
Sat, Mar 13
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Dixia Fan Ph.D. MIT Mechanical Engineering Founder of MIT Smart Hydrodynamics Lab Scientist for MIT Sea Grant Asistant Professor Queen's University of Canada
Time & Location
Mar 13, 2021, 9:00 PM EST
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About the Event
Dixia Fan obtained his Ph.D. (2019) and MSc (2016) from MIT Mechanical Engineering and BSc (2013) from Shanghai Jiaotong University Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering. He is an assistant professor at Queens University, and a research scientist at MIT Sea Grant, the 2019 Energy fellow at MIT Energy Initiative, and the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) research fellow. He founded the MIT “lab of pink coach” in 2019, featuring the world's first intelligent towing tank (ITT), and will be in charge of the i4-FSI lab at Queen's University (intelligent, informational, integrative, and interdisciplinary fluid-structure interaction).
His research interests focus on physics-informed machine learning and bio-inspired design of vortical flow control and sensing for marine and aerospace applications. Recently he has been awarded the de Florez prize from MIT and the Nico van Wingen prize from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), and his work has been featured in multiple media, including the cover page of the 40 years anniversary of the Discover Magazine.