Professor (2010 to present)
     Associate Professor (2003 to 2010)
     Assistant Professor (1999 to 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 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


Education:

     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 to other institutions:

     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
   
   
Collaborators:

      - Dan Anderson, Mathematics, George Mason University
      - Weinan E, Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton
      - Shaun Hendy, Industrial Research Limited/Victoria Univ., Wellington, NZ
      - Christian Ratsch, Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics, UCLA
      - Peter Smereka, Mathematics, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      - Grae Worster, Dept. of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge