• B. E. Computer Science & Engineering, University of Madras, 1998.
• M. S. Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2002.
• M. S. Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 2004.
• Ph D. Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 2006.

• Professional Training:
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Engg., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 2000-2002.
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 2002-2003.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. 2003-2006.
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, T-CNLS & MPA-10, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM. 2006 - present

Research Interests:

• Any ubiquitous phenomenon that captures my fancy, so far it includes some experimental problems in fluid turbulence, amorphous media, and interfacial dynamics of surfactants and/or particles at air-water interfaces.

Selected Recent Publications:

1. M. M. Bandi, Jason Larkin, Walter Goldburg. Statistics of particle concentration in free-surface turbulence. (In preparation).
2. Jason Larkin, Walter Goldburg, M. M. Bandi. Time evolution of the fractal distribution of particle clusters in free-surface turbulence. (submitted).
3. M. M. Bandi, Sergei Chumakov, and Colm Connaughton. Probability distribution of power fluctuations in turbulence, Phys. Rev. E. 79, 016309 (2009).
4. Mahesh Bandi and Colm Connaughton. Lagrangian power fluctuations in two-dimensional turbulence. (Available at arXiv:0710.3368).
5. Mahesh Bandi and Colm Connaughton. Craig's XY-distribution and the statistics of Lagrangian power in two-dimensional turbulence, Phys. Rev. E. 77, 036318 (2008) (Also available at arXiv:0710.1133).
6. M. M. Bandi, J. R. Cressman and W. I. Goldburg. Test of the Fluctuation Relation in Lagrangian Turbulence on a free surface. J. Stat. Phys., 130, 27 (2008). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607037).
7. M. M. Bandi, W. I. Goldburg and J. R. Cressman. Measurement of Entropy Production Rate in Compressible Turbulence., Europhys. Lett. 76, 595 (2006). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607036).
8. M. M. Bandi, W. I. Goldburg, J. R. Cressman Jr., and H. Kellay. Where Surface Physics and Fluid Dynamics meet: Rupture of an Amphiphile layer by fluid flow., J. Chem. Phys., 124, 104701 (2006). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607045).
9. M. M. Bandi, W. I. Goldburg, J. R. Cressman Jr., and A. Pumir. Energy flux fluctuations in a finite volume of turbulent flow., Phys. Rev. E., 73, 026308 (2006). (Also available at arXiv:nlin/0607044).