Rate My Professor Ioannis Karmpadakis

His academic interests encompass hydrodynamics, experimental fluid mechanics, hydrodynamic modeling, coastal oceanography, ocean modeling, physical oceanography, and coastal processes. Karmpadakis teaches modules on coastal engineering, wave mechanics, and statistics. He supervises PhD students such as Umniya Al Khalili, Yusuf Almalki, Vasilis Bellos, Steven Huo, Lucy Mao, and William Wright on topics including wave predictions, nature-based reefs, and fluid-structure interactions. Key publications include 'Tsunami-induced loads on coastal structures: Experimental investigation' (2025, Ocean Engineering), 'Experimental assessment and prediction of wave loading around abrupt depth transitions' (2025), 'The influence of directional spreading on rogue waves triggered by abrupt depth transitions' (2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics), 'Rogue wave occurrence over planar coastal bathymetries' (2024), 'An Efficient Method of Defining the Tail of a Distribution' (2025, OMAE), and 'Numerical Modelling of Extreme Irregular Waves' (thesis-related). His work has garnered over 327 citations on Google Scholar. He leads Imperial HydroLab and contributes to fluid mechanics research groups.