My fields of Research in this area are:

• Nonlinear Elasticity (classical and nonclassical)

• Elasticity of consolidated and unconsolidated granular media

• Computational Elastodynamics (simulation of elastic wave propagation in solid media)
• Finite Difference Method (FDM)
• Finite Element Method (FEM)
• Finite Volume Method (FVM) (also known as Finite Integration Technique, FIT)
• Pseudo-Spectral Method (PSM)
• Spectral Element Method (SEM)

• Time Reversal Acoustics in solid media

• Ultrasonic and Seismic Imaging
• Two-way elastic wave equation Reverse Time Migration (RTM)
• Imaging conditions in presence of multiple scattering and reverberation

• Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) techniques based on Ultrasonics for materials characterization

Additional Research interests in this area

• Mesoscopic Physics of elastic wave propagation
• multiple scattering and diffuse waves
• reverberation and diffuse waves
  
• Green's functions synthesis from cross-correlation of diffuse elastic wave fields

• Applications of the Mesoscopic Physics of elastic wave propagation
• Coda Wave Interferometry (CWI) - Diffuse acoustic Wave Spectroscopy (DWS)
• passive imaging via noise
• Structural Health Monitoring via  Coda Wave Interferometry

• Array signal processing
• beamforming
• subspace methods (TR-MUSIC)
  
• Matched-Field Processing (MFP) in Ocean Acoustics for source localization

• Statistical and model-based signal processing

• Digital Image Processing in Ultrasound and Seismic Imaging

• Mathematics of Imaging by waves

• Inverse source and scattering problems
  

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