• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech (2023)
• Future Professoriate Graduate Certificate, Virginia Tech (2022)
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech (2018)
• B.S. in Physics, Virginia Tech (2018)

Fall 2024

• ENGR 231: Engineering Design 1
• ENGR 314: Materials and Advanced Mechanics
• ENGR 413: Systems Analysis

• Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Fluid Mechanics: studying the application of fluctuation-dissipation theorem towards Micro- and Nano-scale electromechanical (MEMS and NEMS) devices immersed in fluids
• Dynamical Systems: exploring the dynamics of chaotic systems
• Reduced Order Models (ROMs): developing interpretable reduced order models to simplify high dimensional systems
• Operations Research: developing mathematical models for insight into real-world problems
• Engineering Education: investigating self-assigned project-based learning for a customized learning experience

J. Barbish, and M. R. Paul, “Using Covariant Lyapunov Vectors to Quantify High Dimensional Chaos with a Conservation Law,” Phys. Rev. E, vol. 108, no. 5, p. 054202, Nov. 2023. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.054202

H. Gress, J. Barbish, C. Yanik, I. I. Kaya, R. T. Erdogan, M. S. Hanay, M. González, O. Svitelskiy, M. R. Paul, and K. L. Ekinci, “Multi‐mode Brownian Dynamics of a Nanomechanical Resonator in a Viscous Fluid,” Phys. Rev. Appl., vol. 20, no. 4, p. 044061, Oct. 2023. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.044061

J. Barbish, C. Ti, K. L. Ekinci, and M. R. Paul, “The dynamics of an externally driven nanoscale beam that is under high tension and immersed in a viscous fluid,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 132, no. 3, p. 034501, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1063/5.0100462

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