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, UK
     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


Extended visits to other institutions:

     Spring 2006 (on leave)
       - 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 (on leave)
       - Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA

     May 2005
       - Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota


     Spring 2002 (on leave)
       - Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton


Collaborators:

       - Dan Anderson, Mathematics, George Mason University
       - Weinan E, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton
       - Shaun Hendy, Industrial Research Limited/Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
       - Peter Smereka, Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
       - Grae Worster, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, UK