Education

2002

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan

1997

M.S. with thesis, Aerospace Engineering, Saint Louis University

1995

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, Saint Louis University

1997

Certificate in University Teaching Skills

Research  and  Work  Experience

2011-present

Associate Professor, MAE, Rutgers University

2005-2011

Assistant Professor, MAE, Rutgers University

2005

Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan

2002-2005

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan

1999-2000

Invited Scientist, Sandia National laboratories, Livermore, CA

1997-2002

Graduate Student Research Assistant, University of Michigan

1995-1997

Graduate Researcher, Saint Louis University

Professional Affiliation

AIAA, APS, ASME

Recent Publications

Diez, F.J., Cheng, Y., Villegas, A., Time Resolved Visualization of Structures of Velocity Gradients Measured with Near Kolmogorov-Scale Resolution in Turbulent Free-Shear flows, Exp. Thermal Fluid Sci., vol. 35, pp. 1223-1229, 2011.

Cheng, Y.,Torregrosa, M.M., Villegas, A., Diez, F.J., Time Resolved Scanning PIV Measurements at Fine Scales in a Turbulent Jet, Int. J. Heat Fluid Flow, vol. 32, pp. 708-718, 2011.

Diez, F.J., Torregrosa, M.M., Pothos, S., A comparison between jets and particle-laden jets in crossflow by using time-resolved stereoscopic PIV, J. Fluids Engineering, vol. 133, no 9, 091301, 2011.

Cheng, Y., Pothos, S., Diez, F.J., Phase Discrimination Method for Simultaneous Two-Phase Separation in Time-Resolved Stereo PIV Measurements, Experiments in Fluids, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1375-1392, 2010.

Cheng, Y., Diez, F.J., A 4D Imaging Tool for Lagrangian Particle Tracking in Stirred Tanks, AIChE Journal, 2010.