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Principal Investigators at MIT and Collaborators in Singapore:

MIT	Singapore
Andrew J. Whittle: Lead PI E. Eric Adams George Barbastathis Elfatih A. B. Eltahir Dara Entekhabi Charles F. Harvey V. Judson Harward Harold F. Hemond Franz S. Hover John Leonard Steven R. Lerman Ole S. Madsen Leslie Norford Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Paola Rizzoli Peter Shanahan Michael S. Triantafyllou	Adams, Martin David Chan, Eng Soon Cheong, Hin Fatt Chitre, Mandar A. Chua, Hock Chye Lloyd Koh, Tieh-Yong Law, Wing-Keung Adrian Lim, Hock Beng Lo, Yat-Man Edmond Miao, Jianmin Mueller-Wittig, Karl Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Seah, Harry Shuy, Eng Ban Wijesoma, Wijerupage Sardha Wittkopf, Stephen K. Wong, Nyuk Hien

Senior Staff and Postdocs:

MIT	Singapore
Research Scientists: Wonjoon Cho Lewis Girod Research Associates: Jun Wei Postdoctoral Associates: Sai Ravela Alfred Tan ... to be added ...	Program Manager: David Burke Research Engineers: Chee Wee Tan Ruoqian Wang Postdoctoral Associates: Tirtha Bandyopadhyay Alex Cobb Peifeng Ma Ami Preis ... to be added ...

Graduate Students:

MIT	Singapore
Charlie Ambler Julie Chalfant Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero Vicente Fernandez Terianne Hall Stephen Hou Satoshi Takahashi Laura Waller ... to be added ...	Rebecca Gianotti Kam Shing Leung Rebecca Neumann ... to be added ...

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Michael S. Triantafyllou

Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Room 5-323, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-253-4335, E-mail: mistetri@mit.edu

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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