Leah Mendelson
Associate Professor
Claremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeah Mendelson is an associate professor of engineering at Harvey Mudd College who blends experimental fluid mechanics research with hands-on teaching and lab leadership. She specializes in particle image velocimetry, three-dimensional flow measurement, and applying computational photography and computer vision techniques to challenging biological and bioinspired hydrodynamics problems. Leah runs the Flow Imaging Lab (FILM), advises industry-sponsored capstones, and emphasizes experiential, interdisciplinary engineering education. Her MIT PhD work combined advanced PIV with biological observation—studying archer fish launching out of water—illustrating her knack for using sophisticated measurement to reveal surprising biomechanics. She is also committed to lowering the cost barrier for state-of-the-art flow diagnostics, making high-end experimental tools more accessible to students and researchers.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, BS at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringOwego Free Academy
Github Skills (21)
visualization10
fluid-dynamics10
measurements5
journal4
volume-rendering4
imaging4
python4
discourse4
creative-commons3
open-access3
academia3
particle3
benchmarking2
image-processing2
pii2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Flow-Imaging-Lab-at-Mudd/openfv
Jun 2021 - Jul 2023
Open Source Flow Visualization
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years
flow-visualizationvolume-renderingimagingvisualization
abhishekbajpayee/openfv
Jun 2017 - Nov 2021
Open Source Flow Visualization
Contributions:6 reviews, 41 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 5 months
pivfluid-dynamicsflow-visualizationptvvisualization
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