Ann Renee Karagozian is an aerospace engineer known for her work on combustion, fluid dynamics, advanced propulsion techniques, and transverse jets in supersonic flows.
She is a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she is also the former interim vice chancellor for research, the director of the Collaborative Center for Aerospace Studies, the director of the Promise Armenian Institute, a trustee of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a trustee of the American University of Armenia.
[2] As a high school student in Los Angeles, Karagozian was able to take classes in both engineering and Armenian literature at UCLA.
[3] She graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 1978, majoring in engineering,[4] and earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1982.
[4] Karagozian was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2004, after a nomination by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for extensive contributions in the fluid mechanics of combustion systems, including the study of jets in crossflow, strained flames distorted by complex flows, acoustically driven reactive cavity flows, and detonation phenomena".