Career Summary and Resume

I have a diverse background in science and engineering, leading projects in plasma physics, pulsed power, electromagnetics, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

I started my career in 1999 at the General Electric Company as a High Intensity Discharge Lighting Product Scientist. At GE, I worked in a group tackling premature darkening in quartz metal halide HID lamps. I moved from GE to the NASA Glenn Research Center, where I worked as a contractor research scientist studying xenon hollow cathodes, ferroelectric cathodes, and small ion thrusters for advanced electric space propulsion applications.

Since 2003, I have worked as a professor and scientist in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, MO. At Mizzou, my research interests have been varied and diverse, including vacuum electronic devices, cathode materials and physics, carbon nanotubes, ion and electron charged particle sources, charged particle accelerators and systems, electromagnetics, AI and machine learning, pulsed power, and plasma physics. My work has been funded by the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, among many others.