• Physical Behavior of Shape Memory Alloys
• Microstructure Characterization
• Underlying mechanisms-properties-processing relationships
• Thermal and Mechanical Activation of Martensitic Phase Transformation
• Experimental Solid Mechanics
• Micro-mechanical Constitutive Modeling of Martensitic Phase Transformation

2000-2008 University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

• Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering 2008
  
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering 2003
  

Graduate Advisor: Dr. Huseyin Sehitoglu, Dept. Engineering Mechanics & Science, UIUC

1993-1998 Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA

• B.S. Mechanical Engineering

• Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, PSU, Jan 2010-date
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC, Aug. 2008- Dec. 2009
• Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC, 2001-2004
• Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC, 2000-2008
• Instructor, Engineering Science, Parkland College, 2003

• Serving in ESM Undergraduate Curriculum Mechanics Review Committee
• Serving in ESM Graduate Mechanics Candidacy Exam Committee
• Serving in ESM Graduate Student Recruitment & Admissions Committee
• Developed teaching module in digital image correlation for junior and senior level experimental stress analysis courses (EMCH 402, 506A).
• Developed a graduate level elective course on “Thermo-mechanics of Shape Memory Alloys” for the Engineering Mechanics curriculum (EMCH 597A).
• Continuously serving in M.S. and Ph.D Thesis committees.

• College of Engineering SURGE Doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, 2000-2006
• The National GEM Consortium Fellow, University of Illinois, Sponsored by Lucent Technologies, 2000-2002
• Southern University NASA Research Scholar, Southern University, 1998

American Society of Metals (ASM) – International

Materials Characterization