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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, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2004
MS, Mathematics, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2002
MS, Applied Mechanics, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1999
MS, Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, 1995
BS, Mechanical Engineering, The American ³Ô¹ÏÍø in Cairo, 1994

Professional Experience

2019 - Present, Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2017 - Present, Vice President, International Phononics Society
2021 - 2022, Faculty Director, Program for Exploratory Studies, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2017 - 2021, Faculty Director, Pre-Engineering Program, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2014 - 2019, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2007 - 2014, Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
2005 - 2007, Research Associate, Department of Engineering, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Cambridge
2004 - 2005, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Awards (selected)

Dean's Faculty Fellowship, College of Engineering and Applied Science, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (2025)
Marinus Smith Award, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (2022)
Outstanding Faculty Service Award, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (2020)
Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (2018 - present)
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2018)
Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for Tenured Faculty, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (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, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (2014 - 2018)
Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (2014)
NSF CAREER Award (2013)
DARPA Young Faculty Award (2011)
Dean's Faculty Fellowship, College of Engineering and Applied Science, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder (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, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Michigan-Ann Arbor (2002)
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, Rackham Graduate School, ³Ô¹ÏÍø 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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