# Kunihiko “Sam” Taira

PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Email: ktaira@seas.ucla.edu
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Websites

- Taira Lab - Computational Fluid Dynamics

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

Analysis, modeling, and control of fluid flows using high-performance computing by combining concepts from fluid mechanics, dynamical systems theory, network science, and data science.

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

Google Scholar page

##### IN THE NEWS

- Department Of Defense Names Nine University Faculty To Receive Vannevar Bush Fellowships | Forbes, July 2022
- Department of Defense Announces 2022 Class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship | U.S. Department of Defense, July 2022

##### EDUCATION

CalTech, 2008

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- AIAA Associate Fellow, 2017
- ONR Young Investigator Award, 2016
- AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2013
- AFRL Summer Research Faculty Fellowship 2012, 2013
- Developing Scholar Award (FSU), 2018
- University Undergraduate Teaching Award (FSU), 2017
- Research Excellence Award (COE, FSU), 2013
- Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award (Caltech), 2008