Gayme graduated in 1992 from the Trafalgar Castle School in Ontario, listing her home address at the time as in Phoenix, Arizona.[6] She studied mechanical engineering and society as an undergraduate at McMaster University in Ontario, a program focusing on sustainable applications of engineering;[3] she earned a bachelor's degree there in 1997.[5] She cites Mohamed Elbestawi as a McMaster faculty mentor.[1]
After postdoctoral study at Caltech, she took her present faculty position at Johns Hopkins in 2012.[5] She was named as the Carol Linde Croft Faculty Scholar in 2016.[8]
Recognition
Gayme was the 2022 recipient of the Nobuhide Kasagi Award of the International Symposia on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP), "for deep insights in developing reduced models for wall bounded, turbulent dynamic processes".[9] She won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015,[10] and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2017.[4]
She was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2023, after a nomination from the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, "for the development of reduced order models of wall-bounded turbulent flows and their use in elucidating dominant flow dynamics and processes".[11]