==Awards and honors==*Full tuition Scholarship (Columbia University)*Sheffield Fellowship (Yale University)*Group Achievement award NASA for flight experiments*Science Achievement award for Principal Investigator team NASA*NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal*NASA Space Flight Medal==Research activities==Physical acoustics, fluid dynamics and containerless materials processing.
* Full tuition Scholarship (Columbia University)* Sheffield Fellowship (Yale University)* Group Achievement award NASA for flight experiments* Science Achievement award for Principal Investigator team NASA* NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal* NASA Flight Medal* NASA biography