Bio Sketch
 

Dr. Lyrintzis joined Purdue in 1994 as an Associate Professor, was tenured in 1996 and became a Full Professor in 2002.  He served seven years on the faculties of University of Minnesota, Cornell and Syracuse University.  His research interests are computational aeroacoustics and aerodynamics.  One of his goals is to investigate noise reduction from aircraft engines and rotorcraft.  He has written 54 journal papers and 92 conference papers.  He has been awarded several external grants (including grants from NASA, ARO [Army Research Office], Department of Education, Rolls-Royce, Sikorsky Aircraft Company, and the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund).  He spent summers of 1993 and 1999 at NASA Glenn (Cleveland)  summer of 1998 at Boeing and fall of 2000 (Sabbatical) at Rolls-Royce (Indianapolis).   He has advised or co-advised 12 Ph.D. and 15 M.S. (thesis) students.  He is the current (since Fall 2003) Graduate Chair of the School (advising 270+ graduate students) and he is a University Faculty Scholar (Fall 2004-09). Dr. Lyrintzis teaches courses in fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, aeroacoustics and rotorcraft aerodynamics, and won the Department's Teaching Award in the Fall of 2002.  Dr. Lyrintzis is a registered Professional Engineer, an AIAA Associate Fellow, an ASME Fellow, and a Boeing Welliver Fellow. He has been a member of the AIAA Aeroacoustics Technical Committee (Vice-Chair 05-07, Chair 07-09), the AHS Acoustics Committee, and the ASME Coordinating Group for CFD and he is an associate editor for AIAA Journal and the International Journal of Aeroacoustics. He has organized several Sessions and Forums in AIAA, ASME and AHS Conferences, including co-organizing the 10th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference in Manchester UK, May 2004.  Finally, Dr. Lyrintzis has participated in the development of the award-winning (American Helicopter Society, Howard Hughes Award, NASA Group Achievement Award) TRAC (TiltRotor Aeroacoustic Codes) system of codes from NASA Langley.