Experience

University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

Scientist
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Oct 2018 – Present1 year 10 months

Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico

Associate Professor
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Feb 2016 – Jul 20182 years 6 months

San Juan, Puerto Rico

DNS and Reduced Order Modeling of Vascular Hemodynamics (Mechanical and Biomedical
Engineering). Teaching Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics, Applied
Mathematics for Engineering.

University of Texas at Dallas

Research Associate
University of Texas at Dallas
Jul 2014 – Jan 20161 year 7 months

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

DNS of Cardiovascular Flows specially stenotic arteries, DNS/LES of Turbulent

Channel Flows. Rough/Smooth Turbulent Boundary Layers.

New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Associate
New York University Abu Dhabi
Sep 2012 – May 20141 year 9 months

United Arab Emirates

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Turbulence Modeling & CFD: DNS of Turbulent Channel Flows, POD and Dynamical
Systems Approaches for the Turbulence Physics of Mixed Convection and Channel
Flows; Rough/Smooth Turbulent Boundary Layers; Inflow Generation Techniques for LES
in Turbulent Boundary Layers.
Nonlinear Optimization, Discrete Ordinates Method.

Technische Universitaet Ilmenau

Research Fellow
Technische Universitaet Ilmenau
Mar 2008 – Aug 20124 years 6 months

Thuringen, Germany

Aspect ratio dependence of heat transfer and large-scale flow in turbulent

convection using DNS and POD.
Low dimensional modeling of turbulent convection

University of Puerto Rico

Researcher & Instructor
University of Puerto Rico
Aug 1998 – Dec 20035 years 5 months
Education
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteRensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
PhDMechanical Engineering
2004 – 2007

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, APS, SIAM, AGEP.

Dissertation: "Numerical study of rough surfaces in wall bounded flows", ExLibris

DigiTool,
Rensselaer Digital Collections, Record No 000000684, 2007

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
MSMechanical Engineering
1998 – 2000

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant

Thesis Title: "Application of the Discrete Ordinates Method to a Radiantly Heated

Environment", Oct. 2000

Languages
English
Native or bilingual proficiency
Spanish
Native or bilingual proficiency