Professional experience:

Professor (2010 to present)
Associate Professor (2003 to 2010)
Assistant Professor (1999 to 2003)
Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee
Research: modeling, computation & analysis of interactions between fluid flow & phase change processes
  
Associate Research Scientist (1997 to 1999)
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Advisors: Professor Robert V. Kohn and Professor Weinan E
  
NSF-NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1996 to 1997)
Postdoctoral Research Associate (1995 to 1996)
Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge
Advisor: Professor M. Grae Worster

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1991 to 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 to 1991)
University of Washington, Seattle
Area of focus: Applied Mathematics

     
Extended visits:

Fall 2012 (on leave)
      - Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA

Spring 2006 (on leave)
      - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
      - Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton
      - Industrial Research Limited/Victoria Univ., Wellington, NZ
      - Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    
Fall 2005 (on leave)
      - Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA
     
May 2005
      - Institute for Mathematics & its Applications, Univ. of Minnesota
  
Spring 2002 (on leave)
      - Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton