Dr. Narayanaswamy obtained the doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin specializing in shock boundary interaction physics and plasma-based control. Subsequently, he pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at The University of Texas at Austin and RWTH Aachen, Germany before joining the North Carolina State University in 2012. Since then Dr. Narayanaswamy has been recognized with numerous research awards and honors including the US Air Force Young Investigator Program Award (2016), the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship (2016), and North Carolina Space Grant New Investigator Award (2014). Dr. Narayanaswamy was also invited to write a journal article on "Low Frequency Unsteady in Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction" by Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics in 2014