Faculty Directory

Babuska, Ivo
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Professor
Robert B.Trull Chair in Engineering
babuska@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2156
POB 6.416
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

Baccelli, Francois
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
Simons Chair in Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
baccelli@math.utexas.edu
RLM 8.100
Department Areas
Communications, Networks, and Systems (CommNetS)
Research Interests
Intersection of mathematics, telecommunications, and information theory

Bahadur, Vaibhav
Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor
vb@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0233
ETC 7.138
Department Areas
Thermal/Fluid Systems
Research Interests
Thermal Sciences, Energy Systems, Oil and Gas Flow Assurance, Water, Materials

Baker, Aaron
Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor
Marion E. Forsman Centennial Professorship in Engineering
abbaker@austin.utexas.edu
BME 5.202D
Department Areas
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

Bakolas, Efstathios
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Assistant Professor
bakolas@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4250
WRW 401E
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

Department Areas
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

Baldick, Ross
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
Leland Barclay Fellowship in Engineering
baldick@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5879
UTA 7.231
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.

Balhoff, Matthew
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Associate Professor
Frank W. Jessen Centennial Fellowship in Petroleum Engineering
balhoff@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3246
CPE 4.182A
Research Interests
Pore scale and multiscale modeling; Flow and transport in porous media; Reservoir engineering

Banerjee, Sanjay
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering No. 4
banerjee@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6730
MER 1.606B, ENS 520A
Department Areas
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

Bank, Seth
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor
Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellowship No. 5
sbank@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9669
MER 2.606C, ENS 312
Department Areas
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

Barber, K. Suzanne
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
AT&T Foundation Endowed Professorship in Engineering
sbarber@identity.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6152
ACE 5.440
Department Areas
Computer Engineering; Software Engineering
Research Interests
Software engineering, design and architectures; Distributed artificial intelligence; Information assurance, trust and security; Multi-agent systems

Bard, Jonathan
Mechanical Engineering
Professor
Industrial Properties Corporation Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
jbard@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3076, +1 512 471 1336
ETC 5.126
Department Areas
Operations Research
Research Interests
Design and analysis of manufacturing systems; Large-scale hierarchical optimization; Healthcare delivery improvement; Workforce planning & scheduling

Department Areas
Biomechanical Engineering; Dynamic Systems and Control
Research Interests
Biosignal analysis; Electrical function of brain and muscle; Computer graphics modeling

Barrett, Michael
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Research Professor
mbarrett@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0935
PRC 119
Department Areas
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Research Interests
Quality, impacts, and mitigation of urban, agricultural, and construction site stormwater runoff

Bayrak, Oguzhan
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Professor
Charles Elmer Rowe Fellowship in Engineering
bayrak@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7826, +1 512 232 6409
ECJ 4.720
Department Areas
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;

Beaman, Joseph
Mechanical Engineering
Professor
Earnest F. Gloyna Regents Chair in Engineering
jbeaman@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3058
ETC 4.116A
Department Areas
Dynamic Systems and Control; Manufacturing and Design; Materials
Research Interests
Freeform fabrication; System dynamics; Control; Mechanical Engineering in Oil and Gas

Becker, Michael
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
William H. Hartwig Fellowship in Electrical Engineering
becker@uts.cc.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3628
UTA 7.342
Department Areas
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.

Belkin, Mikhail
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor
mbelkin@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4424
MER 2.606A
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;

Ben-Yakar, Adela
Mechanical Engineering
Professor
Mr. N. Doug Williams Memorial Centennial Fellowship in Engineering
ben-yakar@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 9280
ETC 7.132
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;

Bennighof, Jeffrey
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Professor
bennighof@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4709
WRW 308B
Department Areas
Structural Dynamics
Research Interests
Computation in Structural Dynamics; Noise and Vibration Analysis of Vehicles; Minimum Time Control of Structures

Bettadpur, Srinivas
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Associate Professor
srinivas@csr.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 7587
MCC 2.6038
Department Areas
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

Bhasin, Amit
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor
a-bhasin@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3667
ECJ 6.108
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

Bhat, Chandra
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Professor
Adnan Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professorship in Transportation Engineering
bhat@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4535
ECJ 6.810
Department Areas
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;

Bickel, J. Eric
Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor
ebickel@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 8316
ETC 5.128C
Department Areas
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.

Biros, George
Mechanical Engineering
Professor
W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Endowment in Simulation-based Engineering EFF #2
biros@ices.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9566
ACE 4.250
Department Areas
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

Bisetti, Fabrizio
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Assistant Professor
fbisetti@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5696
WRW 301A
Department Areas
Engineering Mechanics
Research Interests
Computational fluid mechanics, turbulent flows, aerosols, chemical reacting flows, numerical methods, massively parallel computing, flame plasmas, electrically & plasma assisted combustion.

Bogard, David
Mechanical Engineering
Associate Department Chair & Professor
Baker Hughes Incorporated Centennial Professorship in Mechanical Engineering
dbogard@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3128, +1 512 471 5727
ETC 5.206, ETC 6.106EB
Department Areas
Thermal Fluids
Research Interests
Gas turbine engines, specifically film cooling and internal cooling of turbine components; Experimental techniques for thermal-fluid measurements

Bonnecaze, Roger
Chemical Engineering
Professor
William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering
rtb@che.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1497
CPE 5.454, MER 1.206
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

Department Areas
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

Bourell, David
Mechanical Engineering
Professor
Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 2
dbourell@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3170
ETC 9.182
Department Areas
Manufacturing and Design; Materials
Research Interests
Freeform fabrication; Rapid prototyping; Materials processing, mechanical behavior and selection

Bovik, Alan
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering # 3
bovik@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5370
UTA 7.204
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

Boyles, Stephen
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor
sboyles@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3548
ECJ 6.204
Department Areas
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

Bryant, Michael
Mechanical Engineering
Professor
Accenture Endowed Professorship in Manufacturing Systems Engineering
bryantmd@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4870
ETC 4.152B
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;

Bui, Tan Thanh
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Assistant Professor
tanbui@ices.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3453
POB 4.244, WRW 308C
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