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Courtesy Faculty Appointment, Department of Physics
Affiliate Faculty Appointment, Department of Applied Mathematics

Focus Area

Structural & Material Systems

Education

PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2004
MS, Mathematics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2002
MS, Applied Mechanics, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1999
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 1995
BS, Mechanical Engineering, The American University in Cairo, 1994

Professional Experience

2019 - Present, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ
2017 - Present, Vice President, International Phononics Society
2021 - 2022, Faculty Director, Program for Exploratory Studies, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ
2017 - 2021, Faculty Director, Pre-Engineering Program, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ
2014 - 2019, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ
2007 - 2014, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ
2005 - 2007, Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
2004 - 2005, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Awards (selected)

Marinus Smith Award, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ (2022)
Outstanding Faculty Service Award, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ (2020)
Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ (2018 - present)
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2018)
Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured Faculty, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ (2017)
Lloyd Hamilton Donnell Applied Mechanics Reviews Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2016)
H. Joseph Smead Faculty Fellow, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ (2014 - 2018)
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ (2014)
NSF CAREER Award (2013)
DARPA Young Faculty Award (2011)
Dean's Faculty Fellowship, College of Engineering and Applied Science, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ (2010)
Robert J. Melosh Medal for Best Student Paper on Finite Element Analysis (2005)
1st Prize, Student Paper Competition, Society of Engineering Science (2003)
Distinguished Achievement Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2002)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2001)

Research Interests

Theoretical, computational, and experimental dynamics of materials and structures; dispersive, resonant, dissipative, and nonlinear wave propagation; periodic and disordered materials/structures; phononics including phononic crystals and metamaterials; vibrations, acoustics, and elastodynamics; nanoscale thermal transport, nanophononic metamaterials (NPMs), and thermoelectricity; fluid-structure interaction, phononic subsurfaces (PSubs), and flow control; piezoelectric phononics; fast band-structure calculations.
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