Karuna Agarwal, Ph.D

Email: kagarwal@fau.edu

Mentor: Aditya Nayak, Ph.D.

Affiliation: Florida Atlantic Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Karuna Agarwal, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow at the Florida Atlantic Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. She received her doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, with her dissertation on experimental studies of cavitation in turbulent flows. She also developed a machine learning model for habitat classification using data from acoustic surveys as a postdoctoral fellow at Alaska Fisheries Science Center.

Her current research focuses on studying the organization of diatoms with respect to flow conditions, studying microcystis colony morphology and designing low-cost systems with improved data processing for wider in situ implementation of holography.

Her broader research interests include studying environmental flows, especially interactions of particles, bubbles and plankton with turbulence, and developing instrumentation in that aim.

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