Dr. Tinney is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department at The University of Texas at Austin.  He has concentrated interests in designing novel experiments capable of fostering the development of low-dimensional and dynamical system models of turbulent flows. Dr Tinney's background has covered a broad spectrum of research initiatives including airfoil separation and control, jet aeroacoustics of both single and co-axial nozzles with and without control, micro-air vehicles (particularly the physics of flapping flight), rotor noise, boundary layer control/suction and transient supersonic rocket nozzles. He joined the Cockrell School of Engineering in the Fall of 2008 after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Florida and spending over two years at the Laboratoire d'Etudes Aerodynamique as a post-doctoral fellow with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.  He is a senior member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the American Physical Society.