Cockrell School Welcomes Newest Faculty Members, 2019
From developing bio-inspired membranes for more effective wastewater treatment to creating electromagnetic-based solutions for medical technologies, the Cockrell School’s new faculty members span a wide range of engineering expertise.
Learn more about how our newest Texas Engineers are pushing technological boundaries and changing the world.
Farshid Alambeigi
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins UniversityResearch interests include: computer-integrated surgery and surgical robotics, autonomous surgery, surgineering, soft robotics, innovative design, biomechanics and applications of control theory
Kevin Clarno
Ph.D. Texas A&M UniversityAssistant Professor, University of Tennessee
Research interests include: computational research on nuclear reactors, development and application of advanced reactor analysis software, with expertise in nuclear data, radiation transport, isotopic depletion and decay, nuclear fuel performance and nuclear core analysis
Shadi Goodarzi
Ph.D. HEC ParisAssistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton
Research interests include: computational research on nuclear reactors, development and application of advanced reactor analysis software, with expertise in nuclear data, radiation transport, isotopic depletion and decay, nuclear fuel performance and nuclear core analysis
Alex Hanson
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyResearch interests include: design and applications of high-performance power electronics and magnetics
Tanya Hutter
Ph.D. University of CambridgeResearch Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge
Research interests include: molecular sensing technologies, nanomaterials, microfabrication, and nanophotonics with applications in environmental sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics
Krishna Kumar
Ph.D. University of CambridgeResearch Associate in Computational Geomechanics, University of Cambridge
Research interests include: multi-scale modeling of natural hazards, landslides, earthquakes, debris flows, material point method, discrete element, and lattice Boltzmann, high-performance computing in geomechanics
Manish Kumar
Ph.D. University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAssociate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
Research interests include: membrane processes and bio-inspired membranes for wastewater treatment and water reuse
Department Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Diana Marculescu
Ph.D. University of Southern CaliforniaDavid Edward Schramm Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Research interests include: sustainability- and energy-aware computer system modeling and optimization, reliability- and variability-aware system design, discrete modeling and analysis of non-silicon networks
José del R. Millán Ruiz
Ph.D. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaAssociate Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Research interests include: brain-computer interfaces (BCI) & BCI-based neurotechnologies, mainly based on electroencephalogram (EEG) signals
Pawel Misztal
Ph.D. University of EdinburghResearch Specialist, University of California, Berkeley
Research interests include: indoor chemistry and implications on indoor air quality and occupants’ health
David Mitlin
Ph.D. University of California at BerkeleyProfessor and General Electric Chair, Clarkson University
Research interests include: electrochemical and chemical energy storage (batteries, supercapacitors, hybrid devices, metal hydrides), thin films, materials design, transmission electron microscopy and corrosion
Aryan Mokhtari
Ph.D. University of PennsylvaniaPostdoctoral Associate, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interests include: optimization, machine learning, data science, artificial intelligence and signal processing
Sapun Parekh
Ph.D. University of California, BerkeleyGroup Leader, Molecular Spectroscopy Department, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Research interests include: using chemical microscopy to diagnose and predict specific pathologies and properties of biological tissues
Emily Porter
Ph.D. McGill UniversityEU Marie-Curie Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Galway
Research interests include: electromagnetics and acoustics, computational and applied electromagnetics, developing electromagnetic-based solutions with applications in diagnostic, therapeutic, supportive or assistive medical technologies.
Samantha Santacruz
Ph.D. Rice UniversityPostdoctoral researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Research interests include: neural engineering, brain-machine interfaces, neurotherapeutic devices and neuromodulation
Shyam Shankar
Ph.D. Princeton UniversityResearch Scientist, Yale University
Research interests include: quantum information science with superconducting quantum circuits, quantum measurement, quantum feedback and error-correction, remote entanglement for quantum networks and quantum-limited amplification
Wen Song
Ph.D. Stanford UniversityResearch interests include: management of subsurface energy resources through experimental micro/nanofluidics, multiphase reactive transport, and fluid-fluid/ fluid-rock interactions in porous media
Venkat Subramanian
Ph.D. University of South CarolinaChief Scientist, PNNL
Research interests include: model-based Battery Management System (BMS) of current and next-generation lithium batteries, electrochemical engineering, model predictive control, multiscale simulation & design, mathematical model reformulation, differential-algebraic equations
Mehran Tehrani
Ph.D. Virginia TechAssistant Professor, University of New Mexico
Research interests include: mechanics and material science of additively manufactured composites, advanced electrical conductors