Dennice Gayme

Dennice F. Gayme is a professor of mechanical engineering. Her research focuses on modeling, analysis, and control of spatially distributed and large-scale networked systems in applications such as wall-bounded turbulent and transitional flows, wind farms, and power grids. Her lab utilizes computational and theoretical methods from applied mathematics, dynamics, controls, optimization, and fluid mechanics.

She received the Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP12) Nobuhide Kasagi Award in 2022, the JHU Discovery Awards in 2024, 2022 and 2019, a WSE Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020, a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 2017, the Office of Naval Research’s prestigious Young Investigator Program award in 2017, and a JHU Catalyst Award in 2015.

Gayme serves as an editorial board member for PRX Energy of Physical Review Fluids, an editorial committee member of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, and an associate editor of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. She is a senior member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). She is also the faculty representative for the Johns Hopkins undergraduate chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and the Hopkins Students Wind Energy Team (HSWET).

Gayme received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and society from McMaster University in Ontario in 1997 and an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998. She went on to earn a PhD in control and dynamical systems from California Institute of Technology in 2010 and stayed on as a postdoctoral fellow in computing and mathematical sciences. Prior to earning her doctorate, she was a senior research scientist for Honeywell Laboratories in Minneapolis.

She joined Johns Hopkins’ Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2012, and was the Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar from 2017 to 2024. She holds secondary appointments in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics.