Sami Yamani: News

Sami Yamani Douzi Sorkhabi

Awarded Mathworks Graduate Fellowship


June 2023

I was honored to receive the prestigous Mathworks fellowship for the academic year of 2023-2024.

Featured in Epsiloon magazine


November 2021

Our work on the spectral universality of elasto-inertial turbulence was featured in Epsiloon, a French science magazine that focuses on a striking sceintific stories.

Featured in Physics magazine


August 2021

Our work on the spectral universality of elasto-inertial turbulence was featured in Physics, a free, online magazine from the American Physical Society. Physics magazine primarily reports on papers from the Physical Review journals, focusing on results that will change the course of research, inspire a new way of thinking, or spark curiosity. In this article Professor Michael D. Graham from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why it is important to study the fascinating interactions between polymer dynamics and flow.

The Birth of a Liquor


April 2020

Our work on the interfacial turbulence of water, ethanol, and anise oild was featured in the FYFD, a science and engineering outreach blog with posts about the physics of fluids.

Awarded Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Program


May 2019

I was honored to receive the prestigous Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Program after being ranked 4th among the 77 finalists of the Canadian national competition for Canada graduate scholarship and NSERC postgraduate scholarship in the in the selection committee of Mechanical Engineering.

Serving up brunch for the MIT graduate community


February 2019

As the president of the Sidney-Pacific graduate community during the academic year 2018-2019, I was honored to have President L. Rafael Reif and Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Education Blanche Staton visiting our community and helping Sidney-Pacific students cook and serve Sunday brunch.