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Michael S. Triantafyllou

Academic Preparation:

ScD in Ocean Engineering, MIT, 1979
SM in Ocean Engineering and SM in Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 1977
Diploma in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1974

Appointments:

2005-present: Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Director, Center for Ocean Engineering; Head, Area of Ocean Science & Engineering
1990-2005: Professor of Ocean Engineering; Director Towing Tank
1986-1990: Associate Professor with tenure
1983-1986: Associate Professor, Doherty Professor of Ocean Utilization
1979-1983: Assistant Professor
1978-1979: Research Associate

Honors:

Article on trout swimming through vortices and cover of Science, Nov. 28, 2003
RoboTuna on permanent exhibit at the Museum of Science, London (since 1998); prototype RoboTuna in Science Museum of Minnesota (2003-2004)
Smithsonian Magazine Article on Robotic Tuna (August 2000)
Highlight Paper of 1995 Scientific American

Four Recent Publications:

M.S. Triantafyllou, F.S. Hover, A.H. Techet, & D.K.P. Yue, 2005, "Review of Hydrodynamic Scaling Laws in Aquatic Locomotion and Fish-Like Swimming", Applied Mechanics Reviews, 58, (4), 226-237
F.S. Hover, & M.S. Triantafyllou, 2006, "Dynamic optimization using Hermite chaos", Automatica, 42, 789-795
D.N. Beal, F.S. Hover, M.S. Triantafyllou, J.C. Liao, & G.V. Lauder, 2006, "Passive propulsion in vortex wakes", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 549, 385-402
G.V. Papaioannou, D.K.P. Yue, M.S. Triantafyllou, & G.E. Karniadakis, 2006, "Evidence of holes in the Arnold tongues of flow past two oscillating cylinders", Physical Review Letters, 96, 014501 (4 pp)

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