Dennice Gayme, Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar, and assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to win the Office of Naval Research’s prestigious 2017 Young Investigator Program award. This award supports early-career academic researchers whose scientific pursuits show exceptional promise for supporting the Navy and Marine Corps while also promoting professional development.

Dennice GaymeGayme studies large-scale networked and spatially distributed systems in applications such as power networks, wind farms, and wall-turbulence. Her ONR research plan focuses on a Restricted Nonlinear (RNL) Framework for Navy vessel boundary layers, and will exploit reduced order modeling to inform new drag reduction strategies. In 2015, she was selected to receive a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, a grant given to promising early career faculty members.