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Yawo Ezunkpe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, San Diego. Yawo obtained his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering (emphasis on Space Exploration and Transportation) with honor from San Jose State University. He went on to receive his Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at University of California, San Diego. He has been working under the supervision of Professor Daniel M. Tartakovsky in the areas of Fluid Mechanics, and Applied and Computational Mathematics. Yawo’s dissertation focuses on stochastic analysis of fluid flows in domains whose rough surfaces are modeled as random fields. His work addresses some of the unresolved theoretical and practical questions concerning differential equations defined on random domains. It sheds new light on the ability of random roughness of a surface to induce its hydrophobicity. It has significant impact on biological flows and could be extended to other areas where surface roughness affects fluid flows, such as environmental engineering and nanoscale devices.
