About

I recently joined the faculty in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. I earned my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and WESEP at Iowa State University in 2021 and was a member of the Computational Fluid–Structure Interaction (CFSI) Laboratory.

My unique expertise lies at the intersection of parametric modeling, computational mechanics, and isogeometric analysis (IGA), and the approaches that I have developed integrate these three different areas to support a more comprehensive understanding of the model design space. The approaches that I have developed focus on the performance-based design of complex engineering structures, including in the fields of renewable energy, aerospace engineering, and healthcare. Some of the specific applications that I have worked on include structural analysis of composite wind turbine blades, algorithmic design and IGA of aircraft stabilizers and airframe structures, and analysis of heart valves with a focus on parametric design and IGA of the tricuspid valve.

Research Interests

Parametric design; isogeometric modeling and analysis; computational mechanics; high-fidelity computation; wind turbine blade design and structural analysis; composite materials; heart valve modeling and analysis; reliability-based design optimization; design, modeling, and analysis of complex engineering applications