Expertise

Research Interests:

  • Space plasma physics and space weather.
  • Design and development of next generation instruments for space science and space plasma characterization.
  • Development of theoretical and analytical frameworks to analyze and interpret the measured data from instruments immersed in or proximate to a plasma.
  • Interaction of the solar wind with the earth's magnetosphere.
  • Nonlinear dynamics of growth, onset, expansion and recovery phases of geomagnetic substorms.
  • Nonlinear dynamics of the initial, main and recovery phases of geomagnetic storms.
  • Development of Full Electromagnetic 3D Particle in Cell codes for the analysis of RF instrument behavior in space plasmas.
  • Analyzing and synthesizing models to explain satellite and ground based measurements of solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere activity.
  • Genetic Algorithms, Particle Swarm Optimization, Differential Evolution and other stochastic optimization algorithms and applications.

Expertise:

  • Space plasma physics and space weather
  • Instruments for space science and space plasma characterization
  • Interaction of solar wind with the earth's magnetosphere 
Communities
Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering
Degrees
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006
MS, University of Texas at Austin, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001
BEng, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1991