Pirouz Kavehpour
PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
BIOENGINEERING
46-147G, Eng IV
Email: pirouz@seas.ucla.eduPhone: (310) 825-6494
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Biofluids
- Microfluids
- Heat Transfer
- Artificial organ
- Drug delivery
- Cardiovascular System
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Glymphatic system
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wUdo1fEAAAAJ
IN THE NEWS
- Polar Bear Fur has a Built-in Deicing Feature | Science
- UCLA Professor Leading Team to Develop Breathalyzer-Like Tool for Rapid COVID-19 Test | NBC News
- UCLA researchers develop Breathalyzer-like diagnostic tool to test for COVID-19 | KTLA
- Team to develop breathalyzer-like diagnostic test for COVID-19 | Science Blog
EDUCATION
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 1990
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 1998
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2003
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Surface & Science Scholarship, University of Rhode Island, 1995-1998
- Winner of Gallery of Fluids Motion, APS-DFD, Tampa, FL, 2006
- Army Young Investigator Award (YIP), 2007
- Winner of Gallery of Fluids Motion, APS-DFD, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
- L. E. Scriven Young Investigator award, the International Society of Coating Science, 2010.
- Invited visiting professor, University of Paris 7, 2010
- Visiting professor, University of Paris 7, 2013
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, 2015
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2023