Bio

Bhargav Rallabandi combines mathematical modeling and experiments to understand and design complex flowing systems. Bhargav received a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2010 from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. He received an MS (in 2012) and a PhD (in 2015) in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying flows created by oscillating microbubbles. He then joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher, where he worked on a range of problems involving hydrodynamics in soft systems. Bhargav joined UC Riverside in 2018, where he is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

Teaching

• ME240A Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics
• ME201 Computational Methods in Engineering
• ME018B Introduction to Computation in Mechanical Engineering
• ME135 Environmental Fluid Mechanics
• MEFUN Asymptotic and Perturbation Methods

Awards

• UCR Regents Faculty Development Award (2023)
• NSF CAREER Award (2022)
• USNC/TAM & NSF Early Career Fellowship (2021)
• UCR Honors Mentor of the Year (2021)
• Hellman Foundation Fellow (2020)
• UCR Regents Faculty Fellow (2020)
• Best Paper Award for Postdoctoral Fellows, Carbon Mitigation Initiative, Princeton University (2017)
• Commendation for Outstanding Teaching, Princeton University (2016)
• Hassan Aref Memorial Award for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, UIUC (2014)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent, UIUC (2012, 2013, 2014)