Mitchell Smooke

Interim Dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, and Strathcona Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University

Dr. Smooke received a B.S. degree in physics from RPI in 1973, a Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1978, and M.B.A. in finance from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. Before coming to Yale, he served as a staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, California. Professor Smooke joined the Yale faculty in 1984 as an assistant professor and was promoted to professor in 1993. Prof. Smooke is an authority on computational techniques for chemically reacting flows and has published extensively in this area.