Department of Mathematics and Statistics Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, NL, Canada A1C 5S7 Office: HH-3032 tel: (709) 864-8790 fax: (709) 864-3010 email: serpil at dot mun dot ca MENU   Main Page     Fluid Mechanics     Research Interests     Highly Qualified   Personnel Training   Students' Achivements     Teaching     Applied Mathematics   Poster     Computational Science   Poster     Biographies of   Women Mathematicians     The New York Times     The Economist   Serpil Kocabiyik Professor of Mathematics Ph.D. Western Ontario 1987 M.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1981 B.Sc. Middle East Technical Univ. 1979 Winner of the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award 2000 CAIMS Arthur Beaumont Distinguished Service Award, 2006 " Instrumental; or mechanical science   is the noblest and above all others,   the most useful "   Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)       Serpil Kocabiyik, Istanbul Modern Art Gallery Cafe (June 2005), Istanbul, Turkey    Photo by Ergun Kocabiyik (Literary Editor and Writer, Bosphorus University Press) TRAINING OF HIGHLY QUALIFIED PERSONNEL AND MENTORING: Dr. Kocabiyik has provided research training to more than 30 students (13 females), undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. These students have gone on to successful careers in academe, software companies and the other professions. She has served on numerous graduate student committees in science and engineering throughout her career. She has played a key role in the explosive growth of the number of graduate students in the department, which has gone from 17 to 50 (1999-09). In addition to student mentoring and giving of herself as a role model, Dr. Kocabiyik's contributions include the personal mentoring of junior faculty and young scholars on strategies for success in academe. Name Type of HQP Training and Status Years Supervised or Co-supervised Title of Project or Thesis Present Position Seyed M. Razavi Doctoral (In Progress) Co-supervised (with Muzychka) 2013- Advanced thermal analysis of microelectronics using resistance models Ph.D. Student, Memorial University of Nfld Mehdi Ghobadi Doctoral (Completed) Co-supervised (with Muzychka) 2010-2014 Experimental measurement and modelling of heat transfer in spiral and curved channels Posdoctoral Fellow C-Core, Memorial University of Nfld Smart Solutions for Challenging Environments, St. John's Vandad Talimi Doctoral (Completed) Co-supervised (with Muzychka) 2009-2013 Numerical modeling of segmented flows in microscales Project Engineer, C-Core Memorial University of Nfld Smart Solutions for Challenging Environments, St. John's Gina Reid Master's (Completed) Supervised 2009-2011 On application of active open-loop and closed-loop controls on a circular cylinder in the presence and absence of a free surface Assistant Programmer/Analyst, Oceanic Consulting Corporation St. John's Matthew Fitzpatrick Undergraduate NSERC USRA (Completed) Supervised Summer 2010 Free surface flow past an obliquely oscillating cylinder and its visulazation M.Sc. Student Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC Elizabeth Liverman Undergraduate Honors Thesis (Completed) Supervised 2009-2010 Free surface flow with a circular cylinder under rotational oscillations M.Sc. (Victoria, 2011) Administrative Assistant, NLSA St. John's Canan Bozkaya Postdoctoral (Completed) Supervised 2008-2010 Free surface fluid-structure problems: Application to bluff body control Associate Professor Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Elizabeth Liverman Undergraduate NSERC USRA (Completed) Supervised Summer 2009 Free surface flow simulations and its visualization M.Sc. (Victoria, 2011) Administrative Assistant, NLSA St. John's Mahmud Faisel Master's (Completed) Co-supervised (with Muzychaka) 2008-2009 Experimental measurements of thermal-hydraulic performance analysis: wavy fin heat exchanger Innovation Specialist, (Mechanical/HVAC) Marble Resort DEV Ltd. Larisa Mironova Doctoral (Completed) Supervised 2003-2008 Accurate computation of free surface with an oscillating circular cylinder based on a viscous incompressible two-fluid model Specialist, Quant. Research & Invest. MGMT - Standard Life Investments, Montreal Oleg Gubanov Master's (Completed) Supervised 2004-2007 Design of CFD code using high level programming paradigms: Free surface flows with arbitrary moving rigid bodies Ph.D. (McGill 2010), Software Developer Fujitsu, Montreal Kimberley O'Keefe Undergraduate (Completed) Co-supervised Summer 2006 Free surface flow simulations and its visualization B.Ed. (MUN, 2009) Jeanette Wheeler Undergraduate NSERC USRA (Completed) Co-supervised Summer 2006 Numerical modeling and error estimation of variable coefficient PDEs MSc (Alberta, 2008), PhD Student, MIT Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA Qasem Al-Mdallal Postdoctoral (Completed) Supervised 2004-2005 Flow topology analysis using critical point theory Assoc. Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Jennifer Woodrow Master's (part-time) (Completed) Co-supervised 2001-2008 The detection and classification of seal pups from aerial images Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Medicine Memorial University Karl Lawrence Master's (Completed) Supervised 2002-2004 Computation of unsteady viscous incompressible flow past an obliquely oscillating cylinder using parallelized finite difference algorithm Ph.D. (Waterloo, 2009) Geomechanical Modelling Specialist, Golder Associates Guelph/Mississauga Qasem Al-Mdallal Doctoral (Completed) Supervised 2000-2004 Analysis and computation of the cross-flow past an oscillating cylinder with two degrees of freedom Assoc. Professor, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Rebecca White Undergraduate (Completed) Supervised Summer 2003 & 2004 Art of organizing scientific documentation Ph.D. (Dalhousie, 2011), Assist. Professor Mount Allison University Shauna Gammon Undergraduate NSERC USRA (Completed) Co-supervised Summer 2003 Electromagnetic spin forms Software Designer Ayogo, Inc, Vancouver Karl Lawrence Undergraduate Honors Thesis (Completed) Supervised Fall 2002 Initial flow past accelerating and oscillating cylinders Ph.D. (Waterloo, 2009) Geomechanical Modelling Specialist, Golder Associates Guelph/Mississauga Karl Lawrence Undergraduate NSERC USRA (Completed) Supervised Summer 2002 The analysis of the initial flow past an accelerated circular cylinder Ph.D. (Waterloo, 2009) Geomechanical Modelling Specialist, Golder Associates Guelph/Mississauga Daniel Deacu Master's (Completed) Co-supervised 2000-2002 Finite element solution of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations Ph.D. (Alberta, 2005) Karl Lawrence Undergraduate (Completed) Supervised Summer 2001 Initial flow past an oscillating cylinder Ph.D. (Waterloo, 2009) Geomechanical Modelling Specialist, Golder Associates Guelph/Mississauga Nancy Fisher Undergraduate (Completed) Supervised Summer 2001 Initial flow past an accelerating cylinder Teacher, Brother Rice High School, St. John's, NL Fathi Mahfouz Postdoctoral (Completed) Supervised 2000-2001 Fluid flow and heat transfer problems Assoc. Professor, Menoufia University, Egypt Leo Li Tzou Undergraduate NSERC USRA (Completed) Co-supervised Summer 1999 Transient chaos in population models Ph.D. (Washington, 2007), Assist. Professor University of Arizona Tim Rogalsky Master's (Completed) Co-supervised 1997-1998 Aerodynamics shape optimization of fan blades Assoc. Professor, Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, MB Tracy Ewen Undergraduate (Completed) Supervised Summer 1997 Flow past an oscillating elliptic cylinder Ph.D. (Victoria, 2004) Senior Research Scientist University of Zurich Switzerland Phu Nguyen Research Associate (Completed) Supervised 1996-1998 On transverse oscillations of a horizontal cylinder Technical Specialist, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Toronto ON Magdalena Luca Master's (Completed) Co-supervised 1995-1996 Mass transport of cholesterol in arteries Assoc. Professor, Massachusetts College (PHS), Boston MA Made by Steven Penney Last updated by S. Kocabiyik on  March 20th, 2013