Ali Beskok

1323 ENGR & COMP SCI BLDG
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,, Princeton University, (1996)

M.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, (1994)

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Indiana University - Purdue University in Indianapolis, (1991)

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, (1988)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Pillai, S. and Beskok, A. "A microfluidic device based capture and concentration of microbial contaminants from recycled water" $89,000. -
"A Nonconforming Spectral Element Method for Electroosmotically Induced Microfluidic Mixing" $21,947. -
"Concentrating Bacterial Spores from Milk and Juices using Dielectrophoresis based Microfluidic Capture Systems" $55,086. -
Qian, S., Baumgart, H. and Beskok, A. "Novel nano-porous electroosmotic micropump: Basic technology development and its lab-on-a-chip applications" $70,000. -
Beskok, A. "Request for Software Support for Microfluidic and MEMS Design" $1,500. -
Beskok, A., Lagoudas, D., Bevan , M. and Ounaies, Z. "Reversible Control of Anisotropic Electrical Conductivity Using Colloidal Microfluidic Networks" $100,000. -
Beskok, A. "Reversible Control of Anisotropic Electrical Conductivity Using Colloidal Microfluidic Networks" $28,707. -
Qian, S., Beskok, A., Gauthier, D. and Hao, J. Z. "A learning community for engineers and biologists at the bio-micro/nano interface" $175,000. Federal. 2010 - 2012
Qian, S., Beskok, A., Cooper, R. A., Gauthier, D. and Hao, J. Z. "MRI: Acquisition of a four-probe MultiView4000 AFM/NSOM/SPM system" $310,401. Federal. 2009 - 2012
Luo, L. and Beskok, A. "0807983, A Unified Modeling Approach for Micro- and Nano-Scale Gas Flows" $265,000. July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2011
Beskok, A., Luo, L., Qian, S., Ferdjallah, M. and Stacey, M. W. "Multi-scale modeling of nano-particle cell dynamics" $999,998. Federal. - 2009
Beskok, A. "A Microfluidic Approach for Separation and Concentration of Bacterial Spores from Milk and Juices" $73,236. May 2008 - May 2009
Beskok, A., Kolb, J., Beebe, S. and Joshi, R. . "Disease-Specific Trapping of Human Cancer Cells" $70,700. January 2008 - June 2008
Luo, L., Abraham, J., Beskok, A., Ladd, A. and Mavriplis, D. "Proposal CBETS-0733134, Collaborative proposal to support US participation in ICMMES" $1,500. Federal. July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008
Pillai, S. and Beskok, A. "A Microfluidic Approach for Separation and Concentration of Bacterial Spores from Milk and Juices" $95,558. October 2007 - May 2008
Pillai , S. and Beskok, A. "Concentrating Bacterial Spores from Milk and Juices using Dielectrophoresis based Microfluidic Capture Systems" $127,021. October 2006 - September 2007
Lagoudas, D. and Beskok, A. "Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles" $15,000,000. August 2002 - August 2007
Beskok, A., Lagoudas, D., Bevan, M. and Ounaies, Z. "Microfluidic Systems for Reconfigurable RF Surfaces and Systems" $300,000. October 2006 - July 2007
Pillai , S. and Beskok, A. "Microfluidic System for Capture and Concentration of Microbial Contaminants in Drinking Water" $126,550. January 2004 - December 2005
Beskok, A. "A Nonconforming Spectral Element Method for Electroosmotically Induced Microfluidic Mixing" $157,755. September 2003 - September 2005
Ficht, A. and Beskok, A. "Modeling of protein composite bio-fluids for encapsulation process design" $250,000. September 2003 - September 2004
Beskok, A. "Faculty Workstation Program" $1,500. - 2003
Andrews, M. and Beskok, A. "Demonstration of Nano-Pinning for Terascale Information Storage" $200,000. September 2001 - September 2003
Kihm, K., Beskok, A. and McIntyre, P. "Development of Microfluidic Nozzle Concepts for Biomedical Applications" $25,000. April 2000 - May 2003
Cremer, P. and Beskok, A. "Designing New Experimental and Computational Methods in Microfluidics" $35,000. May 2001 - December 2002
Beskok, A. and Lucht, R. "Development of Forced Convection Micro Heat Spreaders" $127,980. January 2000 - July 2002
Kihm, K. and Beskok, A. "PUF-01: Purchase of a CLSM system" $110,000. - 2001
Beskok, A. "Numerical Simulation of Gas Transport in Micron and Sub-Micron Scales" $10,000. - 2000
Beskok, A. "Faculty Workstation Program" $1,500. - 1999
Beskok, A. "Scientific Simulations for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) On PC-Based Linux Clusters" $25,000. - 1999
Beskok, A. "Hardware Support for the New Computational Microfluidics Laboratory" $750. - May 1999
Beskok, A. "TAMU Faculty Startup Grant" $50,000. August 1998 -

Articles

Barisik, M. and Beskok, A. (2011). Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Studies on Nanoscale-Confined Fluids. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
Barisik, M. and Beskok, A. (2011). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Shear Driven Gas Flows in Nano-Channels. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics.
Ai, Y., Beskok, A., Gauthier, D., Joo, S. W. and Qian, S. (2009). DC electrokinetic transport of cylindrical cells in straight microchannels. Biomicrofluidics 3 , pp. 44110-11016.
Hu, Q., Joshi, R. and Beskok, A. (2009). Model Study of Electroporation Effects on the Dielectrophoretic Response of Spheroidal Cells. Journal of Applied Physics 106 (024701) , pp. 1-8.
Kim, H. and Beskok, A. (2009). Numerical Modeling of Chaotic Mixing in Electroosmotically Stirred Continuous Flow Mixers. ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
Park , S., Koklu, M. and Beskok, A. (2009). Particle trapping in high conductivity media with electrothermally enhanced negative dielectrophoresis. Analytical Chemistry.
Park, S. and Beskok, A. (2008). Alternating current electrokinetic motion of colloidal particles on interdigitated microelectrodes. Analytical Chemistry 80 (8) , pp. 2832-2841.
Celik, B., Akdag, U., Gunes, S. and Beskok, A. (2008). Flow Past an Oscillating Circular Cylinder in a Channel with an Upstream Splitter Plate. Physics of Fluids 20 (10) , pp. 103603.
Kim, B., Beskok, A. and Cagin , T. (2008). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Thermal Resistance at the Liquid-Solid Interface. Journal of Chemical Physics 129 , pp. 174701.
Bahukudumbi, P. and Beskok, A. (2008). Quantification of Energy Dissipation for Laterally Oscillating Microstructures. Physics of Fluids 20 (3) , pp. 033603.
Kim, B., Beskok, A. and Cagin, T. (2008). Thermal Interactions in Nanoscale Fluid Flow—Molecular Dynamics Simulations with Solid-Liquid Interfaces. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 5 (4) , pp. 551-559.
Soni, K., Balasubramanian, A., Pillai, S. and Beskok, A. (2008). Zeta Potential of Selected Bacteria in Drinking Water When Dead, Starved, or Exposed to Minimal and Rich Culture Media. Current Microbiology 56 (1) , pp. 93-97 .
Balasubramanian, A., Soni , K., Pillai, S. and Beskok, A. (2007). A Microfluidic Device for Continuous Capture of Pathogens from Water. Lab on a Chip 7 , pp. 1315-1321.
Bahukudumbi, P., Everett, W., Beskok, A., Huff, G., Lagoudas, D., Ounaies, Z. and Bevan, M. (2007). Colloidal Microstructures, transport, and Impedance Properties within Interfacial Microelectrodes. Applied Physics Letters 90 (224102).
Hahm, J., Balasubramanian, A. and Beskok, A. (2007). Flow and Species Transport Control in Grooved Micro-Channels Using Local Electrokinetic Forces. Physics of Fluids 19 (013601).
Balasubramanian, A., Pillai, S. and Beskok, A. (2007). In-situ analysis of bacterial capture in a microfluidic channel. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 17 , pp. 1467-1478.
Kumar, S., Kim, H. and Beskok, A. (2007). Numerical Simulations of Peristaltic Mixing. Journal of Fluids Engineering 129 , pp. 1361-1371.
Kim, H. and Beskok, A. (2007). Quantification of Chaotic Strength and Mixing in a Microfluidic System. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering 17 , pp. 2197-2210.
Pillai, S., Beskok, A., Balasubrahmanian , A. and Soni, K. (2006). A Microfluidic Device for Capture and Concentration of Microorganisms in Recycled Water. Habitation 10 (3/4) , pp. 224.
Sert, C. and Beskok, A. (2006). Spectral Element Formulations on Nonconforming Grids: A Comparative Study of Pointwise Matching and Integral Projection Methods. Journal of Computational Physics 211 (1) , pp. 300-325 .
Hahm, J. and Beskok, A. (2005). On-Chip Multi-Species Detection Using Hydrodynamic/ Electrokinetic Focusing. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences 53 (4) , pp. 325-334.

Books

Karniadakis, G., Beskok, A. and Aluru, N. (2005). Microflows and Nanoflows: Fundamentals and Simulation. Springer.

Book Chapters

Qian, S., Celik, B. and Beskok, A. (2011). Characterization of Chaotic Stirring and Mixing Using Numerical Tools Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Handbook CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group.
Pillai, S. and Beskok, A. (2009). A Microfluidic Device for Continuous Capture of Pathogens from Water Horizon Scientific Press.
Beskok, A., Hahm, J. and Dutta , P. (2004). Electrokinetic Transport Phenomena in Micro-Fluidics Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Beskok, A. (2001). Molecular-Based Microfluidic Simulation Models Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Conference Proceeding

Barisik, S. and Beskok, A. (2011). Interface Thermal Resistance in Liquid Argon Filled Silver and Graphite Nanochannels Denver, CO: ASME IMECE Meeting, IMECE 2011-66283.
Barisik, M. and Beskok, A. (2011). MD Simulations of Nano Scale Gas Flows Denver, CO: ASME IMECE Meeting, IMECE 2011-66282.
Sabuncu, A. C. and Beskok, A. (2011). Probing Gold Nanoparticle and Cell Interactions in Cell Culture Medium Istanbul, Turkey: 7th Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Conference of Turkey.
Zhuang, J., Sabuncu, A. C., Beskok, A., Schoenback, K. H. and Kolb, J. F. (2011). Time domain dielectric spectroscopy of biological cells after pulsed electric field exposure Atlanta, GA: Workshop on Novel Sampling and Sensing for Improving Food Safety.
Gu, D., Yalcin, S., Baumgart, H., Zian, S., Baysal, O. and Beskok, A. (2010). Electrophoretic Light Scattering for Surface Zeta Potential Measurement of ALD Metal Oxide Films (pp. 37) ECS Transactions.
Kim, B., Beskok, A. and Cagin, T. (2008). Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Thermal Interactions in Nanoscale Liquid Channels Boston, MA: ASME IMECE 2008.
Beskok, A. and Çelik, B. (2008). Mikro Akışlı Sistemlerde Elektrokinetik Taşıma İTU, İstanbul: Ulusal Havacılık ve Uzay Konferansi.
Beskok, A. (2008). An Electrokinetically Stirred Continuous Flow Micromixer Darmstadt: 6th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels (ASME).
Kim, H. and Beskok, A. (2007). Numerical Studies of Mixing in an Electroosmotically Stirred Continuous Micro Mixer Seattle, WA: ASME IMECE 2007.
Akdag, U., Gunes, S. and Beskok, A. (2007). The Vorticity Dynamics of Flow Past an Oscillating Cylinder in Microscale Ankara: 4th Ankara International Aerospace Conference.
Huff, G., Bahukudumbi , P., Everett, W., Beskok, A., Bevan, M., Lagoudas, D. and Ounaieas, Z. (2007). Electromagnetically Functional Hybrid Composites for Structurally Embedded Load Breaing Aerosurface Antennas Ottawa, ON: CNC/USNC North American Radio Science Meeting.
Huff, G., Bahukudumbi, P., Everett, W., Beskok, A., Bevan, M., Lagoudas, D. and Ounaieas, Z. (2007). Electromagnetically Tunable Fluids for Microfluidic Reconfiguration of Antennas Ottawa, ON: CNC/USNC North American Radio Science Meeting.
Akdag, U. and Beskok, A. (2007). A Review of Electrokinetic Transport in Microfluidics Kayseri: 16th Ulusal Isı Bilimi ve Tekniği Kongresi.
Beskok, A., Bevan, M., Ounaieas, Z. and Lagoudas, D. (2007). Reversible control on anisotropic electrical conductivity San Diego, CA.: SPIE Smart Structures and materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, 14th International Symposium.
Bahukudumbi, P., Everett, W., Bevan, M. and Beskok, A. (2006). Engineering Colloidal Microfluidic Networks with Directed Assembly University Park, PA: The 43rd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science.
Kim, K., Kerr, M., Beskok, A. and Jayasuriya, S. (2006). Frequency-domain based Feedback Control of Flow Separation using Synthetic Jets Minneapolis, Minnesota: Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC 2006).
Hahm, J. and Beskok, A. (2005). Flow and Species Transport Control in Grooved Micro-Channels Proceedings of ASME IMECE Meeting.
Bahukudumbi, P., Bevan, M. and Beskok, A. (2005). Self and Directed Colloidal Assembly On Patterned Electrodes Proceedings of ASME IMECE Meeting.
Ford, D., Bevan, M., Beskok, A. and Schielack, J. (2005). High School Science Teachers Use Scientific Inquiry in Nanotechnology to Build Instructional Frameworks Cincinnati, OH: AIChe Annual Meeting.
Kim, K., Beskok, A. and Jayasuriya, S. (2005). Nonlinear System Identification for the Interaction of Synthetic Jets with a Boundary Layer Portland, Oregon: Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC 2005).

Presentations

Beskok, A. (June , 2008). An Electrokinetically Stirred Continuous Flow Micromixer 6th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels (ASME) Darmstadt, Germany.
Beskok, A. (October 1, 2007). Shear Driven Oscillatory Gas Flows in the Entire Knudsen Regime DSMC07, Direct Simulation Monte Carlo, Theory, Methods and Applications Santa Fe, NM.
Beskok, A. (July 25, 2006). An Electroosmotically Stirred Continuous Micro-Mixer International Conference on Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES) Old Dominion University, Hampton VA.
Beskok, A. (November 5, 2005). Microfluidic Capture and Concentration of Bacteria from Drinking Water In Enterprise Forum of Micro-technologies with Applications in Food Industry Mexico City.
Beskok, A. (July 26, 2005). Chaotically Stirred Electrokinetic Micro Mixers International Conference on Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES) Hong Kong.
Beskok, A. (January 28, 2005). Microfluidic Capture and Concentration of Bacteria from Drinking Water First National Conference on Environmental Sampling for Bio Threat Agents Baltimore, MA.
  • 2010: ODU Shining Star Award,
  • 2005: Advisor of the Year Award, •Texas A&M University Recognized Student Organization
  • 2004: BP Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence,
  • 2004: Honorary Faculty Member, Sigma Delta Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma
  • 2003: Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award,
  • 2002: Nat'l Research Council, Faculty Summer Research Fellowship,
  • 2000: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award,
  • 1999: David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Engineering and Science, Texas A&M University