Before then, he was an Instructor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from where he also received his Ph.D. in 2005. His current research interests are in high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for computational fluid and solid mechanics, with applications to many important problems such as the simulation of flapping flight and vertical axis wind-turbines, quality factor predictions for micromechanical resonators, and noise prediction for aeroacoustic phenomena.