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Dr. Gecheng Zha, Professor, director of the Aerodynamic and CFD Lab at the University of Miami(UM), is specialized in aerodynamics, aircraft design, flow control, CFD(computational fluid dynamics) high order algorithm/code development, wind tunnel testing, turbulence simulation, turbomachinery aeromechanics and aerodynamics, fluids-structural interaction, and design optimization. Before joining UM, Dr. Zha had extensive experience working in the aerospace industry (GE Aircraft Engines, Pratt & Whitney) and government labs (US Air Force Research Lab). Dr. Zha’s research at UM has been funded by various agiencies, including DARPA, NASA, ARO, AFOSR, NRC, AFRL, GUIde, Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust, CIRA, Siemens, FSGC, etc. Dr. Zha received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Montreal in 1994 with FCAR scholarship from the Quebec government. In Spring of 2000, he studied at MIT as a special student in the Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is an ASME Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow, NASA NIAC Fellow, AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Technical Committee member, ASME IGTI Committee member of turbomachinery and wind turbine. He is also the executive committee member of Center for Computational Sciences at the University of Miami. Form March 2006 to June 2009, Dr. Zha was the director of Miami Wind research center. Currently, Dr. Zha is also the co-director of the Center for Green Aviation at University of Miami. Dr. Zha has 6 patents granted by USPTO and one patent granted by Patent and Trademark Office of China. Dr. Zha has numerous journal publications and international conference publications.