Professional Experience:

     Associate Professor (2003-present)
     Assistant Professor (1999-2003)
     Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee
     Research: modeling, computation and analysis of interactions between fluid flow and phase
     change processes

     Associate Research Scientist (1997-1999)
     Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
     Advisors: Professor Robert V. Kohn and Professor Weinan E

     NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1996-1997)
     Postdoctoral Research Associate (1995-1996)
     Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
     Advisor: Professor M. Grae Worster


Education:

     Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1991-1995)
     Northwestern University
     Thesis topic: Shear stabilization of morphological instability during directional solidification.
     Thesis advisor: Professor Stephen H. Davis

     B.S.E. in Interdisciplinary Engineering (1987-1991)
     University of Washington, Seattle
     Area of focus: Applied Mathematics


Recent Extended Visits:

     Summer 2007
     - Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
     - Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

     Summer 2006
     - CEASAR Research Institute, Bonn
     
     Spring 2006
     - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
     - Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton
     - Industrial Research Limited/Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
     - Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

     Fall 2005
     - Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA

     Summer 2005
     - Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota