Parviz Moin is the Franklin P. and Caroline M. Johnson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1974 and his master's and PhD degrees in mathematics and mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1978. He held the posts of National Research Council Fellow, Staff Scientist, and Senior Staff Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. He joined the Stanford faculty in September 1986. He founded the Center for Turbulence Research and the Stanford Institute for Computational and Mathematical...