Presenter Biographies

Endicott | Grigoriev | Hoverman | Karman | Long | Luo | Noack | Perez | Saxena | Shipman | Tani | Vaitekunas | Wooden | Yamanishi

Derick Endicott is an undergraduate mechanical engineering student at Ohio Northern University.

Mikhail M. Grigoriev has been a senior aerodynamic engineer with Cameron, Compression Systems in Buffalo, NY, for five years. Dr. Grigoriev earned a Ph.D. in thermodynamics and thermal systems from Kazan State Technology Institute in 1987 and a Ph.D. in computational engineering mechanics from State University of New York at Buffalo in 2000. He has been published in around 60 peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings. He has three pending patent applications. Prior to joining Cameron, Dr. Grigoriev was a senior research scientist with the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. His professional interests include compressible flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), boundary element methods, finite element methods and fast numerical algorithms.

T.J Hoverman, a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, TX, is a specialist in propulsion CFD. He has nine years of experience in structured and overset grids and two years' experience in unstructured gridding. Mr. Hoverman earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University in 2000 and 2002.

Dr. Steve Karman has been a professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the SimCenter: National Center for Computational Engineering for eight years. He earned his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. His B.S. and M.E. in aerospace engineering are from Texas A&M University. He was an engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, TX, from 1983-2003.

Aaron Long, a bachelor's student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington, is a member of the UTA Formula SAE team. He was a fabricator for the hybrid-electric formula car. Mr. Long is a member of the aerodynamics team that is developing a new aero package for the 2012 formula SAE car.

Andy Luo is lead CFD engineer on the aero group at Swift Engineering, Inc., in San Clemente, CA. He works with automotive and aerospace projects. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in 2007 and an M.S. in 2008.

Dr. Ralph Noack is the lead developer of the DiRTlib, SUGGAR, and Suggar++ software packages. He is a senior research associate at the Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University and is president of Celeritas Simulation Technology, LLC. Dr. Noack is a veteran of 15 years in the overset community, 10 of which has been devoted to developing general overset software tools.

Eduardo Perez, a graduate research assistant at Texas A&M University, uses CFD to study the laminar-to-turbulent transition of three-dimensional boundary layers in hypersonic flow. He is pursuing an M.S. degree in aerospace engineering at A&M, having earned his B.S. in 2010.

Swati Saxena, a two-time recipient of the International Amelia Earhart Fellowship, is working on her Ph.D. thesis, entitled "The Prediction of Noise and Installation Effects of High-Subsonic Dual-Stream Jets," under the guidance of Prof. Philip J. Morris at Pennsylvania State University. Ms. Saxena received the Best Student Paper Award at the AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics conference in 2008. The paper was her master's thesis, entitled "A New Algorithm for Nonlinear Propagation of Jet Noise." She received her bachelor's degree with a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, in 2006.

Since joining CRAFT Tech, Inc., in 1998, Jeremy Shipman has been involved in the numerical simulation of a broad range of applications, including IR suppression, chemically reacting and particle laden flows, high altitude jet interactions, aeroacoustics, and cryogenic turbopump and feed systems. He supports the U.S. Navy with CFD studies relating to the integration of V/STOL aircraft with ship operations. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Juaniata College in 1994 and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from George Washington University in 1994.

Dr. Naoki Tani is a specialist in turbomachinery CFD, optimization, cavitating flow and the application of large-scale CFD to engine development. He has been an engineer at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) since 2006. Dr. Tani earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2003. He was a post-doctoral researcher at JAXA from 2004-2005.

David Vaitekunas is a manager of IR Software Development at W.R. Davis Engineering, Ltd., and has been the key developer of the ShipIR/NTCS model since 1990. His research interests include geometric modeling, thermal modeling, target and background radiometric modeling, synthetic scene generation, and engagement simulation. He is a member of SPIE, the International Society of Optics and Photonics, and has published numerous articles on thermal infrared simulation and modeling.

Perry Wooden, a senior engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, TX, specializes in aerodynamics and CFD on the F-35 fighter jet, applying CFD to internal and external flows. He has 25 years' experience in structured and overset grid experience and has worked in unstructured grids for two years. He holds a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in CFD from the University of Texas at Arlington.