Recent studies by Professor Karagozian and her collaborators have focused on:

Prior studies have concerned:

Professor Karagozian's abbreviated CV, with a list of representative publications, may be found here in pdf.

Teaching Activities

Professor Karagozian regularly teaches a number of courses in the MAE Department at UCLA, all of which have their own homepages on the WWW:

Honors and Professional Activities

Professor Karagozian is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. She is the recipient of a Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service from the U.S Air Force (2001), and is a member of the Combustion Institute, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Professor Karagozian is the current Vice Chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). She recently chaired SAB studies on Air Vehicle Fuel Efficiency (2006) and on Persistence at Near Space Altitudes (2005). The publicly-released Fuel Efficiency study may be obtained from the SAB report website; a recent article on the Air Force's synthetic fuel testing, which was a major recommendation of the study, may be found at the Air Force Link website. A recent Defense Daily article describes the Near Space study. In the past Prof. Karagozian has chaired panels for the SAB dealing with sensor technologies for Hard and Deeply Buried Targets (HDBTs) and with reviews of the Air Force Research Lab. She also recently chaired the External Advisory Board of Sandia National Labs' Grand Challenge Laboratory Director's R&D Project on Near-Real Time Sensing for HDBT Defeat. She is an alumna of the Defense Science Study Group, sponsored by DARPA and the Institute for Defense Analyses.

Professor Karagozian has been an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal (2002-5) and of the AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power (1996-98). In 2001 she was co-organizer of an international meeting on the Manipulation and Control of Transverse Jets in Udine, Italy, sponsored by CISM (Centre International des Sciences Mecaniques), from which a Springer-Wein text is available. She is currently on the Executive Committee for the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute and has been on that for the American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics. She has also served as a member of the NASA Aero-Space Technology Advisory Committee (1995-2001) and the NASA Federal Lab Review Task Force (1994-5). She has served on technical panels for the National Academy of Science's Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (click here for a report on U.S. Leadership in Aeronautics and Space Technology), the Naval Studies Board, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation.