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Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi

Professor, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Director, Fluid-Structure Interactions Lab
Affiliated Faculty

BIO

Education

  • 2006. Ph.D. of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

  • 2001. M.Sc. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

  • 1998. B.Sc. of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Academic Experience

  • 2020-present. Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.

  • 2015-2020. Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.

  • 2009-2015. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA.

  • 2009-present. Research Affiliate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.

  • 2006-2009. Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.

  • 2007-2009. Instructor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA.

  • 2002-2006. Research Assistant, Fluid-Structure Interactions Research Group, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Recent Publications

Patel, Umang, N., Sup IV, Frank C., Modarres-Sadeghi, Y., (2025). Numerical simulation of flow around the legs during walking in water with implications for hydrotherapeutic exercise, Journal of Fluids and Structures, 137, 104352.
Bose, R., Carelton, A., Sitole, S., Modarres-Sadeghi, Y., Sup IV, Frank C., (2024). Force Transmission in Non-Uniform Fluid Flow by Controlling Vortices, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Boston, MA, USA.
Carleton, A. G., Sup, F. C., & Modarres-Sadeghi, Y. (2022). Passive double pendulum in the wake of a cylinder forced to rotate emulates a cyclic human walking gait. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 17(4), 045006.