Anette (Peko) Hosoi

Research Interests

• Fluid mechanics
• Bio-inspired design
• Sports data and technology

Bio

Anette “Peko” Hosoi is the Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Mathematics, and a core faculty member of the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT. Her research contributions lie at the junction of fluid dynamics, biomechanics, and bio-inspired design. More recently, she has turned her attention to problems that lie intersection of biomechanics, applied mathematics, and sports. She previously served as the Associate Dean of the MIT School of Engineering. Prof. Hosoi has received numerous awards including the American Physical Society Stanley Corrsin Award, the SIAM I. E. Block Community Lectureship, and the Jacob P. Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Radcliffe Institute Fellow, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. 

Honors + Awards

• 2023 MIT’s Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising
• 2018 Stanley Corrsin Award, American Physical Society
• 2013 I. E. Block Community Lecturer (SIAM Award)
• 2012 American Physical Society Fellow
• 2012 Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award
• 2011 Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching
• 2010-2020 Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow
• 2009 G. K. Batchelor Lecure, Cambridge University
• 2007 Radcliffe Institute Fellow    
• 2006 School of Engineering Junior Bose Award for Education    
• 2005 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching  

Memberships

• American Physical Society
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Professional Service

• APS-DFD: Vice-chair, Chair Elect, Chair, Past Chair (2021-present)
• University of Chicago MRSEC External Advisory Board Member (2018-present)
• Physical Review Fluids, Editorial Advisory Board (2016-2021)
• APS-DFD: Fellowship Committee (2017-2020)
• APS-DFD: Executive Committee Member at Large (2007-2010 & 2015-2018)
• SIAM: 2018 Julian Cole Lectureship Committee (2017-2018)
• Chaos Advisory Board (2010-2018)
• APS-DFD: Media and Science Relations Committee (Member 2010-2011, Chair 2011-2012)
• APS-DFD: Member of the local organizing committee (2014-2015)
• Experimental Mechanics, Associate Editor (2008-2014)
• APS-DFD: Acrivos Dissertation Award Committee (2005-2007)

MIT Service

• Associate Chair of the Faculty (2023-present))
• Associate Dean of the School of Engineering (2017-2021)
• Associate Department Head, Mechanical Engineering (2016-2017)
• Co-Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Freedom and Campus Expression (2024-present)
• Faculty Policy Committee (2023-present)
• MIT Health Management Board (2024-2025)
• Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs (2014-2017)
• Chair of the Lincoln Labs Campus Interaction Committee (2010-2013)

Teaching

• 2.086: Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers
• 2.001: Mechanics and Materials I
• 2.005: Thermalfluids Engineering I
• 2.006: Thermalfluids Engineering II
• 2.009: The Product Engineering Process
• 2.98: Sports Technology, Engineering and Innovation
• 2.25: Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Publications

• X Mao, I Bischofberger, AE Hosoi. "Particle focusing in a wavy channel." JFM 968, A25 (2023).
• X Mao, AE Hosoi. "Estimating the filtration efficacy of cloth masks." Physical Review Fluids 6 (11), 114201 (2021).
• J Alvarado, J Comtet, E De Langre, AE Hosoi. "Nonlinear flow response of soft hair beds." Nature Physics 13 (10), 1014-1019 (2017).
• Tony Yu, Bulovic, Vladimir, and A. Hosoi. "Coarsening and solidification via solvent-annealing in thin liquid films" JFM 723. (2013): 69-90.
• D Crowdy, S Lee, O Samson, E Lauga, AE Hosoi. "A two-dimensional model of low-Reynolds number swimming beneath a free surface." JFM 681, 24-47 (2011).
• D Tam, AE Hosoi. "Optimal feeding and swimming gaits of biflagellated organisms." PNAS 108 (3), 1001-1006 (2010).
• D Tam, V Von Arnim, GH McKinley, AE Hosoi. "Marangoni convection in droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces." JFM 624, 101-123 (2009).
• R Trouilloud, TS Yu, AE Hosoi, E Lauga. "Soft swimming: exploiting deformable interfaces for low Reynolds number locomotion." PRL 101 (4), 048102 (2008).
• RH Ewoldt, AE Hosoi, GH McKinley. "New measures for characterizing nonlinear viscoelasticity in large amplitude oscillatory shear." Journal of Rheology 52 (6), 1427-1458 (2008).
• D Tam, AE Hosoi. "Optimal stroke patterns for Purcell’s three-link swimmer." PRL 98 (6), 068105 (2007).
• J Zhou, B Dupuy, AL Bertozzi, AE Hosoi. "Theory for shock dynamics in particle-laden thin films." PRL 94 (11), 117803 (2005).
• AE Hosoi, L Mahadevan. "Peeling, healing, and bursting in a lubricated elastic sheet." PRL 93 (13), 137802 (2004).
• J Ashmore, AE Hosoi, HA Stone. "The effect of surface tension on rimming flows in a partially filled rotating cylinder." JFM 479, 65-98 (2003).
• AE Hosoi, JWM Bush. "Evaporative instabilities in climbing films." JFM 442, 217-239 (2001)

• Henry Wang, Arnab Parker, AE Hosoi. "The Effect of Basketball Analytics Investment on National Basketball Association (NBA) Team Performance." Journal of Sports Economics OnlineFirst (2025).
• Ivan Jutamulia, AE Hosoi. "Leveraging expected action value to measure on-court decision-making skills in basketball." Journal of Sports Analytics 11 (2025). 
• SC Fay, AE Hosoi, "Modeling Running via Optimal Control for Shoe Design." Journal of Biomechanical Engineering 146 (4), 041004 (2024).
• L. Brink, S. K. Ha, J. Snowdon, F. Vidal-Codina, B. Rauch, F. Wang, D. Wu, M. A. López-Felip, C. Clanet, AE Hosoi. "Measuring skill via player dynamics in football dribbling." Scientific Reports 13:19004 (2023)
• B. García Bulle, D. Shen, D. Shah, AE Hosoi. "Public health implications of opening National Football League stadiums during the COVID-19 pandemic." PNAS 119 (14) e2114226119 (2022).
• D Getty, H Li, M Yano, C Gao, AE Hosoi. "Luck and the law: Quantifying chance in fantasy sports and other contests." Siam Review 60 (4), 869-887 (2018).
• AE Hosoi. "Drag kings: characterizing large-scale flows in cycling aerodynamics." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 748, 1-4 (2014).

• X. Mao, I. Bischofberger, AE Hosoi. "Permeability–selectivity trade-off for a universal leaky channel inspired by mobula filters." PNAS 121(50):e2410018121 (2024).
• AJ Wiens, AE Hosoi. "Self-similar kinematics among efficient slender swimmers." Journal of Fluid Mechanics 840, 106-130 (2018).
• J Comtet, KH Jensen, R Turgeon, AD Stroock, AE Hosoi. "Passive phloem loading and long-distance transport in a synthetic tree-on-a-chip." Nature Plants 3 (4), 1-8 (2017).
• A Nasto, PT Brun, AE Hosoi. "Viscous entrainment on hairy surfaces." Physical Review Fluids 3 (2), 024002 (2018).
• A Nasto, M Regli, PT Brun, J Alvarado, C Clanet, AE Hosoi. "Air entrainment in hairy surfaces." Physical Review Fluids 1 (3), 033905 (2016).
• Amos Winter, Robin Deits and AE Hosoi. “Localized fluidization burrowing mechanics of Ensis directus." JEB 215, 2072-2080 (2012).
• B Chan, NJ Balmforth, AE Hosoi. "Building a better snail: Lubrication and adhesive locomotion." Physics of fluids 17 (11) (2005).

• K Bhuwalka, J Sonner, L Lin, M Ambrosius, AE Hosoi. "When is it Profitable to Make a Product Sustainable? Insights from a Decision‐Support Tool." Technology Innovation for the Circular Economy: Recycling, Remanufacturing, Design, Systems Analysis and Logistics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2024).
• A. E. Hosoi and S. Johnson, "How to implement an EU embargo on Russian oil", Centre for Economic Policy Research Insight No. 116 (2022).

Patents

• Irmgard Bischofberger, Tianshi Fang, Anette E Hosoi, Youzhi Liang, Yongbin Sun, Qing Zhang, "Adaptive self-sealing micro fluidic gear pump", US Patent No. 11208998. Granted 12/28/2021.
• Anette E Hosoi, Alexander Joshua Wiens, "Actuation system for swimming robots", US Patent No. 10717508. Granted 7/21/2020.
• Youzhi Liang, Anette Hosoi, Matthew P. Demers, Karl D. Iagnemma, Jose R. Alvarado, Regan A. Zane, "Solid State Pump Using Electro-Rheological Fluid", Patent No. 10,309,386. Granted 6/4/2019.
• Nadia Gen-San Cheng, Anette E Hosoi, Karl D Iagnemma, Maxim B Lobovsky, "Continuum style manipulator actuated with phase change media", US Patent No. 9713873. Granted 7/25/2017.
• Amos Greene Winter, V, Anette E. Hosoi, Alexander Henry Slocum, "Method and apparatus for penetrating particulate substrates." US Patent No. 8496410. Granted 7/30/2013.
• Brian Chan, Julio Guerrero, Anette Hosoi, "Mechanical crawler." US Patent No. 7617891. Granted 11/17/2009.