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The latest. I'm the Communications Manager for Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer.

Interested in fish hydrodynamics? In 2008 I finished my doctoral research at Princeton University where my advisor was Dr. Clarence Rowley. You can download my dissertation titled "A hierarchy of models for the control of fish-like locomotion" (pdf, 3.6 MB).

Interested in New Jersey politics? Check out the blog I started in 2005, BlueJersey.com (which I no longer run). Blue Jersey was the first web site to have a blogger covering the New Jersey State House (see New York Times article).

Blue Jersey was awarded Garden State Equality’s Laurel Hester Prize for Citizen Courage in 2007 and the Commercial Closet Award for Outstanding Nonprofit Campaign in 2008 for the "Think Equal" television/online ad campaign.

I was named Politician of the Year in 2006 by PolitickerNJ.com and ranked #17 on PolitickerNJ.com's Power List of 100 most politically influential personalities in 2007.

Some more news coverage on Blue Jersey:

• A voice for blue Jerseyans (page 2), Philadelphia Inquirer
• Blog Thinks Aide to Kean Posted Jabs At Menendez, New York Times
• Blue Blogging Blues, South Jersey Magazine (registration required)
• ABC 7

I worked for Politicker.com in 2008 as associate editor and columnist. You can read my old columns at PolitickerNJ.com. In 2009, I was Director of New Media for Governor Jon Corzine.

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Education
Ph.D. Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2008. Funded by NSF & NDSEG fellowships.

B.S. Rutgers University, summa cum laude, major in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, minor in Economics, 2002.

Publications (Google Scholar search)
Motion planning for an articulated body in a perfect planar fluid
J. B. Melli, C. W. Rowley, and D. S. Rufat
SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 5(4) : 650–669, November 2006.

Locomotion of articulated bodies in a perfect fluid
E. Kanso, J. E. Marsden, C. W. Rowley, and J. Melli-Huber
Journal of Nonlinear Science 15(4) : 255–289, July 2005.

An Exoskeleton with On-Demand Controlled Resistivity and Operability (ExODeCRO) Using ERF-Based Elements, Y. Bar-Cohen, C. Mavroidis, J. Melli-Huber and A. Fisch, NASA Tech Briefs, 2002.

Book Contribution
Fisch A., Mavroidis C., Melli-Huber J. and Bar-Cohen Y., "Chapter 4: Haptic Devices for Virtual Reality, Telepresence, and Human-Assistive Robotics", Invited Chapter in Biologically-Inspired Intelligent Robots, Editors: Yoseph Bar-Cohen and Cynthia Breazeal, SPIE Press, 2003.