Kazuki Tojo
Kazuki Tojo is an AeroAstro Ph.D. candidate in the MIT Gas Turbine Lab, examining the automation of flow mechanism extraction from CFD solutions, using AI and ML, under Professor Masha Folk. His interests lie in the thermofluids of aerospace propulsion. He has previously worked on compressor rotating stall under Ed Greitzer, electric propulsion (MPDT) under Edgar Choueiri, MEMS heat transfer gas sensing under Kam Chana & John Coull and drop coalescence under Howard Stone.
Selected publications
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A Compressor Rotating Stall Criterion For Radially Nonuniform Flow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2026.
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Coalescence of Viscoelastic Sessile Drops: The Small and Large Contact Angle Limits
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2026.
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B.S.E. Thesis: Thermal Behaviour of a Lithium Self-Field Magnetoplasmadynamic Thruster
Princeton University, 2024.
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M.Eng. Thesis: Gas Sensing for Cooling and Combustion using Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems
University of Oxford, 2023.
Awards
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Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Graduate Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024–present.
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Magna Cum Laude
Princeton University, 2024.
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Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Princeton University, 2024.
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Tau Beta Pi, The Engineering Honor Society
Princeton University, 2023.
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M.Eng. Thesis First-Class Honours
University of Oxford, 2023.
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Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation Undergraduate Scholar
Princeton University, 2020–2024.