Investigation and development of innovative teaching methodologies and pedagogic practices with a focus on engaged teaching, active learning, educational technology and student-center classrooms, pedagogic innovations in teaching mechanics, materials, computation and design courses, curriculum design
Hard-disk drives, granular media, recording heads, bit-patterned media, heat-assisted magnetic recording
Spin valves, magnetic tunnel junctions, magnetic random access memory, spin-torque oscillators, nanowire devices for memory and logic applications
Development of general finite-element codes for large-scale simulation of magnetic nanodevices and nanostructures, Voronoi and particulate media simulators, minimum energy path methods, and reduced-complexity spin-chain models
