Hideaki Tsutsui

Vita

I am a Ph.D candidate in Professor Ho's research group at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA.

Before joining Ho group, I completed undergraduate education at the University of Tokyo in Japan. I spent my senior year as an undergraduate researcher in the research lab led by Professors Nobuhide Kasagi and Yuji Suzuki, and developed miniature electrostrictive polymer actuators for flow control as a part of my undergraduate thesis. After graduation I pursued graduate-level education in University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to study numerical simulations and advanced fluid mechanics. There I worked with Professors Keiko K. Nomura and James W. Rottman and studied instabilities of a pair of counter-rotating vortices in a stratified flow using direct numerical simulations.

Research

Development of bioMEMS toward efficient stem cell differentiation

Education

Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Mechanical Engineering, expected in 2008

M.S. University of California, San Diego, Mechanical Engineering, 2003

B.Eng. The University of Tokyo, JAPAN, Mechanical Engineering, 2001

Work Experience

Graduate Student Researcher (2004 - Present)
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Teaching Assistant (2003)
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Graduate Student Researcher (2002)
Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Publications

• H. Tsutsui, H. Wu, and C.M. Ho, “Stable Poly(ethylene glycol) Microwell Arrays for Long-term Cell Patterning”, the 10^th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS2006), Tokyo, Japan, November 5-9, 2006, pp. 242-244.
• K.K. Nomura, H. Tsutsui, D. Mahoney, and J.W. Rottman, "Short-Wave Instability and Subsequent Decay of a Vortex Pair in a Stratified Fluid", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 553, pp. 283-322, 2006.
• H. Tsutsui, H. Wu, and C.M. Ho, “Directed Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells in Patterned Microchannels”, The International Conference on Bio-Nano-Informatics (BNI) Fusion, Marina del Rey, USA, July 2005.
• K.K Nomura, H. Tsutsui, D. Mahoney, J. Crockett, and J.W. Rottman, "Evolution of a Counter-Rotating Vortex Pair in a Stably Stratified Fluid", Proc. of 3rd Int. Symp. on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Sendai, June, 2003. pp. 769-774.
• K.K. Nomura, D. Mahoney, H. Tsutsui, J. Crockett and J.W. Rottman, "Effects of Stable Stratification on the Short Wave Instability in a Vortex Pair", Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., Vol. 46, No. 10, 2001.
• H. Tsutsui, Y. Suzuki, and N. Kasagi, "Development of Electrostrictive Polymer Actuators for Active Control of Turbulence", Proc. Meeting of Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, July-August, 2001, pp.441-442 (in Japanese).

Contact Info

Mailing Address:
44-121 Engineering IV
420 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Phone: 310-825-8275
Fax: 310-825-1350
Email: htsutsui@ucla.edu