My Ph.D. research at Penn State focuses on the prediction of the rotor noise from helicopters through Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) predictions of the airflow around the helicopter. I am developing a new computer program to calculate the airflow in a way that reduces the complexity of the user inputs, but still preserves the complicated interactions needed to predict the noise. This research is funded by the U.S. Army under the Vertical Lift Research Centers of Excellence (VLRCOE) program.

When I’m not at the office I’m probably in the kitchen: I love to cook almost as much as I love to eat. I spend quite a bit of time talking about food at www.egullet.org, among other food-related websites that I read. In addition I collect books, cooking-related and otherwise, primarily from Easton Press and the Library of America.