MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING GRAD STUDENT SEMINAR

Dr. Gokul Pathikonda is an Assistant Professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE) at Arizona State University. His team designs laboratory experiments to identify and measure fundamental turbulence behavior relevant to aerospace, energy, astrophysics, maritime and atmospheric sciences. Specifically, they design innovative boundary layer control approaches and hybrid application of laser-based techniques (particle image velocimetry, laser-induced fluorescence, etc.) to study wall-bounded turbulent flows, shear-driven turbulent mixing, and reacting flows. He is a recipient of 2025 ONR Young Investigator Award, Stanley Weiss Outstanding Dissertation Award and RISE Fellowship. He received his PhD in 2017 in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and was a researcher at Georgia Tech, Indian Institute of Science and Jawaharlal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research at Bangalore.

Gokul Pathikonda, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy (SEMTE)

Arizona State University