Alumni

Graduate Student (Ph.D. 2000)

Now: Principal Systems Engineer at Raytheon

Linkedin

Graduate Student (Ph.D. 1999)

Now: Professor, College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison

chinwu (at) engr.wisc.edu

Administrative Assistant II
Nepf Lab, June 2011- September 2020

pepebe (at) mit.edu

Brenda has happily retired from MIT and makes her home on the South Shore. She is now enjoying time with family, friends, and her various hobbies such as genealogy, travel, and knitting.

Brenda is a proud Boston College alumnus and double eagle, having received both her Undergraduate degree and Master’s degree from the College.

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow

hgildeh@mit.edu

Vegetation plays an important role in the natural systems, including rivers and coats. Vegetation impacts the fluid mechanics as well as sediment transport. In my research at MIT, I am interested in investigating the interaction between fluid mechanics and channel bed sediment (i.e., scour and deposition) numerically, under different vegetation scenarios. This will have significant practical engineering applications in both river and costal engineering designs, especially in nature-based solutions (NBS) designs. I am using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools to predict the behavior of vegetated flows.