Research ActivitiesAlternative fuels for propulsion and internal combustion engines, supercritical CO2 power cycles, shock wave physics and chemistry, detonations and explosions, energy conversion processes, laser diagnostics and sensors for combustion and emission, laser spectroscopy, space sensors, chemical kinetics experiments and modeling, non-equilibrium aerothermodynamics, laser ignition, high-altitude balloon measurements, and advanced propulsion engines. Work History

Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department	University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL	2021-Present
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department	University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL	2018-2021
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department	University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL	2012-2018
Post Doctoral Appointee, Combustion Research Facility	Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA	2010-2011
Post Doctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering	Stanford University, Stanford, CA	2010-2010

Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (major)	Stanford University, Stanford, CA	2004-2010
M.Tech, Aerospace Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India	2004
B.Tech, Aerospace Engineering	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India	2004