Biography

Appointments

Assistant Professor, Florida State University and Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Florida. Oct 2016 - now

• Mechanical Engineering & Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion

Assistant Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. July 2015 - Sep 2016

• Mechanical Engineering & Institute of Computational Medicine (ICM)

  • Primary research: Fluid-structure interaction in engineering and biological systems; coupled aerodynamic-hydrodynamic modeling of offshore floating wind farms.

Postdoctoral Associate, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, Sep 2013 - July 2015

• Mentor: Rajat Mittal

  • Primary research: Computational modeling of flexible electromechanical structures; aeroelastic heat transfer enhancement; fluttering response of flexible membranes.

Project Research Engineer, RE Vision Consulting, Sacramento, California, Oct 2011 - Sep 2013,

• Primary research: Analysis and design of offshore structures; hydrokinetic energy conversion systems;

Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, Aug 2011 - Oct 2011

• Mentor: Qiang Zhu

  • Primary research: Fluid-structure interaction of offshore wind turbines; fluid dynamics of skeleton-reinforced flexible insect wings.

Education

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 2011 (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

• Advisor: Qiang Zhu

• Thesis Title: Flow interaction with highly flexible structures

M.S., Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2005

• • Thesis Title: Online identification of nonlinear crack with the use of sequential nonlinear least square and adaptive tracking technique

B.S., University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran, 2003