• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech (2023)
• Future Professoriate Graduate Certificate, Virginia Tech (2022)
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech (2018)
• B.S. in Physics, Virginia Tech (2018)

• Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Fluid Mechanics: studying the application of fluctuation-dissipation theorem towards Micro- and Nano-scale electromechanical (MEMS and NEMS) devices immersed in fluids
• Insect Flight: Characterizing the lift and drag of insects and other small scale flying devices
• Dynamical Systems and Reduced Order Models (ROMs): developing interpretable reduced order models to simplify high dimensional systems
• Engineering Education: investigating self-assigned project-based learning for a customized learning experience

• ENGR 312: Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
• ENGR 314: Materials and Intermediate Solid Mechanics
• Engineering courses throughout the design sequence (112, 231, 232)

J. Barbish, and M. R. Paul, “Using Covariant Lyapunov Vectors to Quantify High Dimensional Chaos with a Conservation Law,” Phys. Rev. E, vol. 108, no. 5, p. 054202, Nov. 2023. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.054202

H. Gress, J. Barbish, C. Yanik, I. I. Kaya, R. T. Erdogan, M. S. Hanay, M. González, O. Svitelskiy, M. R. Paul, and K. L. Ekinci, “Multi‐mode Brownian Dynamics of a Nanomechanical Resonator in a Viscous Fluid,” Phys. Rev. Appl., vol. 20, no. 4, p. 044061, Oct. 2023. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.044061

J. Barbish, C. Ti, K. L. Ekinci, and M. R. Paul, “The dynamics of an externally driven nanoscale beam that is under high tension and immersed in a viscous fluid,” Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 132, no. 3, p. 034501, Jul. 2022, doi: 10.1063/5.0100462