Faculty Directory

Department Areas

Computational Mechanics

Research Interests

Numerical methods for the solution of partial differential equations; Computational mechanics; Finite element methods; Theory of partial differential equations

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Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS)

Research Interests

Intersection of mathematics, telecommunications, and information theory

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Thermal/Fluid Systems

Research Interests

Thermal Sciences, Energy Systems, Oil and Gas Flow Assurance, Water, Materials

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Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering

Research Interests

Cardiovascular biology including atherosclerosis, thrombosis and in-stent restenosis; Vascular biomechanics/mechanotransduction; Development of medical devices, Drug delivery/tissue engineering systems for enhancing tissue repair; Glycobiology

Department Areas

Guidance and Control

Research Interests

Systems and Control theory, optimal control, control of multi-agent networks, nonlinear control, constrained control systems, differential games, applications of autonomous vehicles

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Modeling, simulation, optimization and control of process and energy systems

Research Interests

Statically Equivalent Models for Simulation and Optimization of Complex Engineered Systems; Proactive Energy Management for Buildings: Optimal Operation and Strategic Decision Support; Fault Detection and Isolation for Multi-Scale Systems

Department Areas

Energy Systems; Communications, Networks, and Systems(ISE)

Research Interests

Optimization and economics applied to electric power systems, the public policy and technical issues of electric transmission under electricity market restructuring, the robustness of the electricity system to terrorist interdiction, electrification of the transportation industry, and the economic implications of integration of renewables.

Research Interests

Pore scale and multiscale modeling; Flow and transport in porous media; Reservoir engineering

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Solid-State Electronics

Research Interests

Ultra-high vacuum and remote plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition; Silicon-germanium-carbon heterostructure MOSFETs and nanostructures; Ultra-shallow junction technology; Semiconductor device modeling

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Plasma/Quantum Electronics and Optics; Solid-State Electronics

Research Interests

Semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices; Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), Semiconductor nanostructures, Metal/Semiconductor hetero- and nano-structures

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Computer Engineering; Software Engineering

Research Interests

Software engineering, design and architectures; Distributed artificial intelligence; Information assurance, trust and security; Multi-agent systems

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Operations Research

Research Interests

Design and analysis of manufacturing systems; Large-scale hierarchical optimization; Healthcare delivery improvement; Workforce planning & scheduling

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Biomechanical Engineering; Dynamic Systems and Control

Research Interests

Biosignal analysis; Electrical function of brain and muscle; Computer graphics modeling

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Environmental and Water Resources Engineering

Research Interests

Quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff

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Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials

Research Interests

Behavior, analysis, and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures; Bridge engineering; Evaluation of structures in distress; Use of fiber reinforced polymers for structural repair;

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Dynamic Systems and Control; Manufacturing and Design; Materials

Research Interests

Freeform fabrication; System dynamics; Control; Mechanical Engineering in Oil and Gas

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Plasma/Quantum Electronics and Optics

Research Interests

Light-matter interaction; Laser interactions with materials; High-performance nanoparticles and nanomaterials; Optical signal processing using nonlinear and modulation optical devices

Department Areas

Systems biology, computational modeling, dynamics of signal transduction and gene regulatory networks.

Research Interests

Understanding the functional principles underlying how biological networks collect, process, and use different types of information available in their environment.

Department Areas

Plasma/Quantum Electronics and Optics; Solid-State Electronics

Research Interests

Terahertz and mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers, including devices with giant optical nonlinearities; mid-infrared and terahertz photonic components and systems for chemical sensing and microscopy; optical metamaterials in mid-infrared and terahertz spectral ranges;

Department Areas

Thermal Fluids

Research Interests

Development of femtosecond laser nanosurgery techniques for manipulation of biological systems; Two-photon fluorescence laser scanning microscopy; Development of miniaturized endoscopes for in-vivo cancer detection and treatment; Applications for nerve regeneration processes, and early cancer detection and treatment;

Department Areas

Structural Dynamics

Research Interests

Computation in Structural Dynamics; Noise and Vibration Analysis of Vehicles; Minimum Time Control of Structures

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Orbital Mechanics

Research Interests

Orbital Mechanics, Perturbations, and Orbit Determination; Space Geodesy (Earth's Shape, Orientation & Gravity Field); Modeling, Determination and Interpretation of Gravity Field; Space Mission Design; Data Processing and Numerical Methods

Department Areas

Transportation Engineering; Infrastructure Materials Engineering

Research Interests

Material science aspects and mechanistic modeling of distresses in pavement materials (e.g. fatigue cracking, moisture damage); Self healing properties of bituminous materials; Structure-property relationships in composite materials; Surface properties and interfacial adhesion of materials; Development of test methods to characterize properties and performance of pavement materials

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Transportation Engineering

Research Interests

Activity and travel behavior analysis; Travel demand modeling; Application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; Logistics and freight modeling; Transportation energy and transportation air quality analysis; Urban form and spatial data modeling;

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Operations Research

Research Interests

Decision-making under uncertainty; analytics; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy; decision-making in sports; free-market solutions to policy challenges.

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Thermal/Fluids Systems

Research Interests

Parallel algorithms; Numerical algorithms for integral and differential equations; Inverse problems; Data assimilation; Computational statistics; Biological complex fluids; Blood rheology; Soft tissue and cardiovascular mechanics; and Medical image analysis

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Engineering Mechanics

Research Interests

Computational fluid mechanics, turbulent flows, aerosols, chemical reacting flows, numerical methods, massively parallel computing, flame plasmas, electrically & plasma assisted combustion.

Department Areas

Thermal Fluids

Research Interests

Gas turbine engines, specifically film cooling and internal cooling of turbine components; Experimental techniques for thermal-fluid measurements

Department Areas

Advanced Materials; Modeling, Simulation & Theory; Surface & Interface Science

Research Interests

Rheology of complex fluids; Immersion and imprint lithography; Self-assembly of nanoparticulate films; Modeling of the formation of oil reservoirs

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Engineering Education Research

Research Interests

Successful transfer of Hispanic engineering students from two-year to four-year institutions, engineering undergraduate student resistance to active learning, how engineering instructors make decisions about their teaching, learning in graduate engineering research groups, interdisciplinary education and teamwork

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Manufacturing and Design; Materials

Research Interests

Freeform fabrication; Rapid prototyping; Materials processing, mechanical behavior and selection

Department Areas

Biomedical Engineering; Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS); Computer Engineering

Research Interests

Digital and wireless video communication; Image and video processing and quality assessment; Computer vision; Computational aspects of biological visual perception

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Transportation Engineering

Research Interests

Network modeling; traffic assignment; transportation user behavior; infrastructure systems

Department Areas

Complex Biological Systems

Research Interests

Cancer systems biology; Heterogeneity and cell state plasticity; Gene regulatory networks; Chemotherapy drug resistance; Normal differentiation and differentiation therapy

Department Areas

Dynamic Systems and Control; Manufacturing and Design

Research Interests

Tribology and mechanics; Mechatronics, modeling and control of dynamic systems; Integrated systems design and manufacturing; Mixed-signal electronics;

Department Areas

Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES)

Research Interests

Inverse problems; Uncertainty quantification; Numerical analysis; Numerical optimization; Reduced-order modeling (model order reduction); Scientific computing; Parallel computing; Applied mathematics