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 at:

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 twice received the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service from the U.S Air Force (2001, 2010), and is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, the Combustion Institute, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Professor Karagozian is the immediate Past Chair of the American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics. She has served as APS DFD Chair (2010-11), Chair-Elect (2009-10), and Vice Chair (2008-9), as well as chair of several DFD committees.

Professor Karagozian is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses. She was a member of the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) from 1997 - 2001 and from 2002 - 2010, and was the SAB Vice Chair from 2005 - 2009. In 2010 she chaired an AF SAB study on the Future of Launch Vehicle systems for the Air Force; a publicly released abstract of the study's findings and recommendations may be obtained from the SAB report website. Prof. Karagozian previously chaired SAB studies on Air Vehicle Fuel Efficiency (2006) and on Persistence at Near Space Altitudes (2005). The publicly-released Fuel Efficiency study report may be obtained from the SAB report website; an 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 Defense Daily article describes the Near Space study. Prof. Karagozian has also 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 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 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, the Naval Studies Board, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation.