John Dabiri

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John O. Dabiri
Bioengineering
Mechanical engineering
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
Stanford University
Doctoral advisorMorteza Gharib

John Oluseun Dabiri

cardiac flows, as well as applying theoretical methods in fluid dynamics and concepts of optimal vortex
formation.

In 2010, Dabiri was awarded a

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).[8]

Early life and education

Dabiri's parents are Nigerian immigrants, who settled in Toledo, Ohio, in 1975. Dabiri's father was a mechanical engineer who taught math at a community college. His mother, a computer scientist, raised three children and started a software development company.[9] It was watching his father, who would occasionally do engineering work on the side, that encouraged Dabiri's love of engineering.[10]

Educated at a small Baptist high school, where he graduated first in his class in 1997, Dabiri was accepted by

Caltech,[6] rejecting an internship offer from Ford at the urging of a professor. The summer project on the vortices created by a swimming jellyfish enticed him to the growing field of biomechanics.[6]

Dabiri graduated

summa cum laude with a B.S.E. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 2001 after completing a 66-page-long senior thesis, titled "An Investigation of Small-Scale Rotor Blade Aerodynamic Phenomena Using Particle Image Velocimetry and Computational Models", under the supervision of Frederick L. Dryer.[12][13] Dabiri then returned to Caltech for graduate studies. He was a finalist for both the Rhodes Scholarship and the Marshall Scholarship. He has been awarded NSF research grants eight times in five different fields.[14]

Research

Jellyfish tend to be very efficient when they swim, which means that on a given amount of energy they can go farther than many other animals can. As one of the simplest multicellular organisms, jellyfish (medusae) contract cells to generate jet forces. By mathematically analyzing the fluid vortex rings that form as a result of the contraction, Dabiri was able to model the formation of optimal vortex rings.[15][16] Moreover, Dabiri and his colleagues experimentally confirmed that such propulsion becomes "a more efficient means of locomotion as animals grow larger",[4] because the relative impact of viscosity on propulsion decreases with greater size.[17]

To further

blood flow in the human heart to the design of wind power generators."[4][19]

The wind energy industry is scaling to larger and larger blades, which harvest more energy. However, Dabiri believes that problems associated with large turbines—design difficulties, building costs, increasing areal needs (turbines are sometimes erected a mile apart to ensure good wind flow), eyesore complaints and accidental

U.S. Navy funding development of an underwater craft that propels on these concepts, using up to 30% less energy than formerly.[7][24]

Harvard students and professors published a paper that outlined a tissue engineering method for building a jellyfish out of rat heart muscle cells and a silicon polymer.[25] On a basic level, the function of a jellyfish - using a muscle to pump a fluid - "is similar to that of a human heart, which makes the animal a good biological system to analyze for use in tissue engineering."[26] The next step this research will take is towards a self-sustaining prototype - one that can gather food and activate muscular contractions internally.[27]

Teaching

Dabiri was offered a

Caltech.[29] In 2014, he was appointed the undergraduate Dean at Caltech and he was elected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.[30]
He was named Professor of the Month at Caltech in February 2012.[31] He served as chair of the faculty board and as dean of students during his 10 years in the Caltech Faculty.[citation needed] At the research institute, he has taught several classes, including a graduate class on propulsion, a biomechanics course, a lab class on experimental methods in aeronautics and applied physics, and the introduction fluid mechanics course for which he was highly recommended by students.[31][32] In 2015 he became a professor at Stanford University.[30]

He is interested in motivating kids considering

STEM fields. As recounted in his NPR
interview,

Having two parents there who encouraged me and in some cases forced me to study and to really take academics seriously, was very important at an early stage. And then going through school, the role of my teachers was always so important. I remember my fourth grade teacher ... [she] made me believe that I was smart and so I took that and sort of owned that and tried to live up to the expectations that she had placed on me, even as a fourth grader. And so we really want to grab hold of the imagination of the first graders and the second graders at a very early stage, and get them excited about becoming scientists, as excited as they are about becoming a fire fighter or the next rap star.[11]

He is also involved in his church's mentoring program, The Faith Foundation.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Self-contained underwater velocimetry apparatus". Google Patents. Retrieved September 26, 2015.
  2. ^ Dabiri Lab. John Dabiri. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b Biological Propulsion Laboratory Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine. See the People page. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  4. ^ a b c MacArthur Foundation. John Dabiri. 25 January 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  5. ^ Caltech Field Laboratory for Optimized Wind Energy. Includes list of relevant publications. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  6. ^ a b c Jellyfish Engineer. Popular Science. Posted 15 October 2008. Retrieved 19 Jan 2018. "Popular Science Homepage". Archived from the original on 8 March 2012. Retrieved 24 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ^ a b John Dabiri Unlocks the Mysteries of Jellyfish. Published 05 April 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  8. ^ "President Biden Announces Members of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology". whitehouse.gov. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  9. ^ USA Africa Dialogue. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  10. ^ Caltech PR. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  11. ^ a b c NPR. California Biophysicist Named MacArthur Fellow. 6 October 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  12. ^ Dabiri, John (2001). "An Investigation of Small-Scale Rotor Blade Aerodynamic Phenomena Using Particle Image Velocimetry and Computational Models". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  13. ^ EQuad, Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science. See here for honors awarded by the department. Summer 2001. Retrieved 06-08-12.
  14. ^ curriculum vitae. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  15. ^ [1]. Flow patterns generated by oblate medusan jellyfish: field measurements and laboratory analyses. Journal of Experimental Biology. Accepted 31 January 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  16. The Royal Society
    B. Published online 21 June 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  17. ^ [3] Vortex motion in the ocean: In situ visualization of jellyfish swimming and feeding flows. Physics of Fluids. Published 26 August 2005. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  18. ^ [4] Self-Contained Underwater Velocimetry Apparatus (SCUVA). Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 2008. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  19. PNAS
    . Optimal vortex formation as an index of cardiac health. 27 January 2006. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  20. ^ LA Times. Wind turbines growing larger and more powerful. 24 July 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  21. ^ a b Dabiri challenges the status quo. Archived 2013-05-01 at the Wayback Machine 14 November 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  22. ^ [6] Renewable fluid dynamic energy derived from aquatic animal locomotion. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. IOPScience. Published 10 September 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  23. ^ [7] Whittlesey, R.W., Liska, S., Dabiri, J.O. Fish schooling as a basis for vertical axis wind turbine farm design. BIOINSPIRATION & BIOMIMETICS. IOPScience. Published 20 August 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  24. ^ Jellyfish engineer. Princeton Alumni Weekly. Published 21 October 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  25. ^ [8] Nature Biotechnology. A tissue-engineered jellyfish with biomimetic propulsion. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  26. ^ Reverse Engineering a Jellyfish Archived 2013-01-31 at archive.today. Published 23 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  27. ^ Lab-Made Jellyfish. Updated 22 July 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  28. ^ America's Geniuses. Posted 14 October 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  29. ^ Caltech Today. 9 September 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  30. ^ a b "John O. Dabiri's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  31. ^ a b Prof of the Month. Filed 27 February 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  32. ^ Dabiri courses. Caltech ASCIT. Retrieved 23 July 2012.

Notable publications

External links
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