“The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.”
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Kinetic modeling of hypersonic and plasma flows
Effect of kinetically-modeled shocks in the process of receptivity in laminar to turbulent transition
Data-driven Closure for Continuum formulations of fluid and plasma flows
Plasma-assisted control of shock-dominated flows
Hypersonic fluid-structure interaction
ACHIEVEMENTS
Plasma-processes for renewable energy
FRONTERA Leadership Resource Allocation (LRAC) April 2020
AE Outstanding Graduate Student Fellowship Spring 2020
MAVIS Future Faculty Fellows (MF3) Program Fall 2019-2020
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Dec. 2015-Aug. 2021 (expected)
University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign
Tentative Thesis: Kinetic modeling of the hypersonic environment: stability analysis of shock-dominated flows and thermal response of ablative materials.
Advisor: Prof. Deborah A. Levin
M.S. Aug. 2013-Dec. 2015
University of Illinois at Urbana-champaign
Thesis: Development of AMR/octree Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) approach for shock-dominated flows.
Advisor: Prof. Deborah A. Levin
The painting in the background was made by my better half and me in the summer of 2020 of a scene at the Japan Garden near the UIUC campus.