Ben Davis is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia. He leads the Dynamic Devices and Solutions Lab, which houses the only high-speed water tunnel in the Southeast—unique in its focus on fluid-structure interaction research. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Davis spent six years at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center as a propulsion structural dynamics and acoustics analyst. His professional and research expertise encompasses structural vibration, acoustics, acoustic-structure interaction, nonlinear dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, and elastic stability. He earned a B.S.E. from Duke University, an M.S. from Georgia Tech, and a Ph.D. from Duke University, all in Mechanical Engineering.