Faculty Directory


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Maruthi Akella

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-9493
Office Location: ASE 3.224

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Nonlinear and robust adaptive control; dynamics of networked systems and sensors; control applications for supersonic flows

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Deji Akinwande

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-4345
Office Location: MER 1.206L

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanoscale devices, carbon nanotubes and graphene; plastic nanoelectronics and nanotechnology; high-frequency analog circuit design; biosensors

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Farshid Alambeigi

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 3.144

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Computer integrated surgery and medical robotics; soft robotics; autonomous surgical manipulation; design and manufacturing; applications of control theory

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David Allen

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-0049, 512-475-7842
Office Location: CPE 3.462, PRC 1.320

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Atmospheric chemistry; urban air quality and pollution prevention; environmental and industrial reaction engineering

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Hal Alper

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-4417
Office Location: CPE 5.408

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; systems biology; biofuels production using microbial and fungal sources; mammalian cell culture engineering; pathway engineering for the production of novel biofuels and biochemicals; protein engineering and evolution strategies applied to cellular engineering; value-added products and bioactive molecules in eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems; novel molecular biology tools for gene expression and regulation

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Narayana Aluru

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: POB 3.340

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Development of multiscale methods combining quantum, atomistic, mesoscale and continuum scales; Application of multiscale methods to study nanofluidics, bionanotechnology, nanomaterials/nanoelectromechanical systems, and soft matter

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Jeffrey Andrews

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-0536
Office Location: EER 6.880

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Multiuser wireless networking; wireless ad hoc networks; multiuser techniques for code division multiple access, multiple-input multiple-output, and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing; WiMAX

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Vaibhav Bahadur

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-0233
Office Location: ETC 7.138

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Thermal and other energy systems, oil and gas flow assurance, materials and micro-and-nanofabrication

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Aaron Baker

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


Office Location: BME 5.202D

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Cardiovascular biology including atherosclerosis, thrombosis and in-stent restenosis; vascular biomechanics and mechanotransduction; development of medical devices, drug delivery and tissue engineering systems for enhancing tissue repair; glycobiology

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Jonathan Baker

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 5.870

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Quantum computing; fault tolerant quantum computation

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Efstathios Bakolas

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4250
Office Location: ASE 4.232

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Systems and control theory, optimal control, differential games, nonlinear control, computational geometry, applications of autonomous vehicles

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Michael Baldea

Professor

Chemical Engineering


Office Location: CPE 4.466

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

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

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Matthew Balhoff

Department Chair and Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-3246
Office Location: CPE 4.182A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Pore scale and multiscale modeling; flow and transport in porous media; reservoir engineering

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Sanjay Banerjee

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-6730
Office Location: MER 1.606B, EER 3.884

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

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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Seth Bank

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-9669
Office Location: MER 2.606C, EER 3.876

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices; molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), Semiconductor nanostructures, metal and semiconductor hetero- and nano-structures

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K. Suzanne Barber

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-6152
Office Location: EER 7.804

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Areas of Impact

Security

Research Interests

Software engineering, design and architectures; distributed artificial intelligence; information assurance, trust and security; multi-agent systems

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Jonathan Bard

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3076, 512-471-1336
Office Location: ETC 5.126

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Design and analysis of manufacturing systems; large-scale hierarchical optimization; healthcare delivery improvement; workforce planning & scheduling

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Matthew Bartos

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 8.610

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Developing the next generation of smart urban water systems, including real-time flood monitoring and stormwater control; algorithms for data assimilation, event detection and sensor/controller placement

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Oguzhan Bayrak

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-7826, 512-232-6409
Office Location: ECJ 4.720

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Areas of Impact

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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Joseph Beaman

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3058
Office Location: ETC 4.116A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Freeform fabrication; system dynamics; control; mechanical engineering in oil and gas

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Brian Belardi

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Molecular engineering, biotechnology, therapeutics and drug delivery, epithelial biology and extracellular matrix, post-translational modifications, synthetic cells and tissue, biophysics and biointerfaces

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Adela Ben-Yakar

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering


512-475-9280
Office Location: ETC 7.132

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

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

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Srinivas Bettadpur

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-7587
Office Location: MCC 2.6038, ASE 3.212

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Areas of Impact

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Orbital mechanics, perturbations, and orbit determination; space geodesy (earth's shape, orientation and gravity field); modeling, determination and interpretation of gravity field; space mission design; data processing and numerical methods

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Amit Bhasin

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3667
Office Location: ECJ 6.108

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Material science aspects and mechanistic modeling of distresses in pavement materials (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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Chandra Bhat

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4535
Office Location: ECJ 6.810

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

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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J. Eric Bickel

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-232-8316
Office Location: ETC 5.128D

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Decision making under uncertainty; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy

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George Biros

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-8248
Office Location: POB 5.234

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

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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Fabrizio Bisetti

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-5696
Office Location: ASE 4.206

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computational fluid mechanics; turbulent flows; aerosols and chemical reacting flows; numerical methods; massively parallel computing; flame plasmas; electrically and plasma assisted combustion

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David Bogard

Associate Department Chair and Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3128, 512-471-5727
Office Location: ETC 5.206, ETC 6.106EB

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

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

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Raghavendra Bollapragada

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 5.118

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Nonlinear optimization, stochastic optimization, derivative-free optimization, distributed optimization, machine learning

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Roger Bonnecaze

Dean and Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-1497
Office Location: CPE 2.802 E

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

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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Maura Borrego

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


(512) 471-3083
Office Location: EER

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

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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Alan Bovik

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-5370
Office Location: EER 7.862

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Wireless and Network Science

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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Stephen Boyles

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3548
Office Location: ECJ 6.204

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

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

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Joan Brennecke

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-5092
Office Location: EER 3.614

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Ionic liquids; thermodynamics; gas separations; supercritical fluid technology; environmentally benign chemical processing

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Amy Brock

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering


Office Location: BME 4.202F

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Cancer systems biology; heterogeneity and cell state plasticity; gene regulatory networks; chemotherapy drug resistance; normal differentiation and differentiation therapy

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Tan Bui-Thanh

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 471-8176
Office Location: POB 4.244, ASE 4.220

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Development of scalable methods for large-scale uncertainty quantification; numerical methods for exascale supercomputers

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David Burghoff

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 3.814

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Quantum optoelectronics; nonlinear optics; mid-infrared and terahertz photonics; frequency combs

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Adam Bush

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-1885
Office Location: BME 5.202J

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Novel MRI methods. Novel blood flow and oximetry methods in cardiovascular disease, anemic disorders and cancer.

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Carlos Caldas

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-6014
Office Location: ECJ 5.210

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Information technologies for project management; life-cycle information integration; project data analysis; construction knowledge discovery and dissemination; product and process modeling; project control systems; field management technologies; communication, collaboration and coordination technologies

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Constantine Caramanis

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-9269
Office Location: EER 6.820

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Robust and adaptive optimization and control; statistical learning; applications in telecommunications; applications in air traffic control

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Sergio Castellanos

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Environmental and energy justice, sustainable transportation, renewable energy technology manufacturing and deployment, and energy systems modeling

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Edward Castillo

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Theoretical development, implementation, and clinical deployment of numerical methods for medical image analysis

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Chih-Hao Chang

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 4.152A

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Advanced design and manufacturing; Nano and micro-scale engineering

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William Charlton

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-5380
Office Location: ETC 7.114

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

Development of technological solutions to counter nuclear threats; nuclear nonproliferation and counter-proliferation; detector development and testing; interpretation of technical nuclear forensics data; reactor physics calculations for analysis of nuclear systems

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James Chelikowsky

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-232-9083
Office Location: ACE 4.324

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computational materials science; quantum modeling for electronic materials; high-performance computing

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Ray Chen

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-7035, 512-471-4349
Office Location: MER 1.606G, EER 3.808

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Micro-and nano-optical interconnect devices; polymer-based guided-wave optical interconnection and packaging; true time delay wide band phased array antenna; bio and environmental sensors; silicon nanophotonics

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Dongmei "Maggie" Chen

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-4487
Office Location: ETC 5.136

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Fuel cell systems and control; nonlinear systems and optimal control; hybrid propulsion system architectures and control; wind turbine systems

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Jingyi "Ann" Chen

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 471-7034
Office Location: ASE 3.214

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Satellite geodesy and remote sensing; Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) image processing algorithms; InSAR-based earth observation applications

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Lillian Chin

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 4.820

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Soft robotic actuators; Force and tactile sensors; Computational design; Robotic manipulation; Participatory design

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Sandeep Chinchali

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.870

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Robotics; Edge computing; Wireless networks; Energy-Efficient Deep Learning

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Derek Chiou

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-7722

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computer system simulation; rapid hardware design; computer architecture; parallel computer architecture; internet router architecture

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Shwetadwip Chowdhury

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 5.808

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Optical microscopy, computational reconstruction, wave propagation through optical scatter, multi-dimensional imaging, large-scale data analysis, and scientific and medical translation

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Kaushik Chowdhury

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.878

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Pervasive computing; Machine learning; Wireless communications

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John-Paul Clarke

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4371
Office Location: ASE 3.222

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Environmental impact of aviation; trajectory prediction and optimization; stochastic models and optimization algorithms; increasingly autonomous aircraft-enabled mobility; human-machine teaming

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Kevin Clarno

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 7.154

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Computational research on nuclear reactors; development and application of advanced reactor analysis software; nuclear data; cross section processing; deterministic and Monte Carlos transport; isotopic depletion and decay; nuclear fuel performance; nuclear core analysis

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Christian Claudel

Associate Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 6.208

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Control and estimation of distributed parameter systems; transportation systems; wireless sensor networks; unmanned aerial vehicles

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Noel Clemens

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 471-773-
Office Location: ASE 4.224, PRC 3

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Areas of Impact

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Fundamental studies of turbulent combustion and mixing; unsteadiness of shock-induced turbulent separation; supersonic cavity flows

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Lydia Contreras

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-2453
Office Location: CPE 5.410

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Fundamental aspects of RNA regulation and intracellular RNA assaying; applications to neurodegenerative diseases, air quality and metabolic engineering

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Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez

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Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-4679
Office Location: BME 3.503D

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Tissue repair and regeneration; polymer science; bioengineering

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Richard Crawford

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3030
Office Location: ETC 4.108

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Computer-aided mechanical design and manufacturing; geometric modeling; solid freeform fabrication

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Michael Cullinan

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-0262
Office Location: ETC 4.154

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

The design and development of nanomanufacturing processes and equipment; application of nanoscale science in engineering; engineering of thin films, nanotubes and nanowires; manufacturing and assembly of nanostructured materials; design of micro/nanoscale machine elements for mechanical sensors and energy systems

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Hugh Daigle

Associate Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-3775
Office Location: CPE 5.174

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Pore-scale physics; methane hydrates; shale geomechanics, formation evaluation

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Poulami Das

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 5.806

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Quantum computing; memory systems; computer architecture; emerging technologies

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Clinton Dawson

Department Chair and Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 475-8627
Office Location: POB 6.430, ASE 2.210

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Numerical solution to partial differential equations; algorithms for massively parallel scientific computation; application to surface and subsurface flow and transport in earth systems

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Gustavo de Veciana

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-1573
Office Location: EER 6.874

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Analysis and design of wireless and wireline telecommunication networks; architectures and protocols to support sensing and pervasive computing; applied probability, queueing and information theory

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Leszek Demkowicz

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4199
Office Location: POB 6.326

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computational acoustics and electromagnetics; HP-adaptive finite and boundary element methods; applied functional analysis, computational fluid dynamics

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Ashish D. Deshpande

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-475-7773
Office Location: ETC 5.134

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Design and building of robots for rehabilitation, prosthetic and assistive purposes; study of human movement control through experiments and mathematical modeling

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David DiCarlo

Associate Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-1283
Office Location: CPE 4.174

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Fluid flow; pore-scale physics; preferential and compositional displacements; gas injection processes

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Tyler Dick

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-4252
Office Location: ECJ 6.902

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Railway mainline, yard and terminal capacity, design and interaction; railroad network operations and performance resiliency; operations potential of advanced railway traffic control systems with virtual and moving blocks; railway energy efficiency and alternative energy locomotives; technology-assisted train operations and self-propelled autonomous railcars; predictive analytics for operations and maintenance planning; safety of rail operations and hazardous materials transportation.

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Kenneth Diller

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-7167
Office Location: BME 4.202A

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Biomedical heat and mass transfer; hyperthermia treatment of tumors; therapeutic hypothermia for treating stroke, cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury; devices for intermittent and continuous cooling of body core temperature; prevention and treatment of burn injuries; cryotherapy of injured tissues; cryopreservation of cells and tissues

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Georgios-Alex Dimakis

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


510-388-1905
Office Location: EER 6.816

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Information theory; coding theory; signal processing; networking

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Dragan Djurdjanovic

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-0815
Office Location: ETC 5.122

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Advanced quality control in multi-station manufacturing systems; immunity inspired approaches to diagnosis and control of complex dynamic systems; maintenance decision-making in flexible and reconfigurable systems; applications of advanced signal processing in biomedical engineering

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Thinh Doan

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


Office Location: ASE 3.206

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Real-time decision making for autonomy; Control theory; Optimization, applied probability theory; Reinforcement learning, generative AI, and distributed learning

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Ananth Dodabalapur

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-1890
Office Location: MER 2.206E, EER 6.816

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Plastic transistor technology; organic transistors; sensors; solar cells; organic-based laser physics and optics

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Berkin Dortdivanlioglu

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.730

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Areas of Impact
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Andrew Dunn

Professor

Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-2808
Office Location: BME 1.108D

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Optical microscopy; functional brain imaging; molecular imaging; neuroscience

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Chadi El Mohtar

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3695
Office Location: ECJ 9.227K

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Pore fluid engineering; non-aqueous flow through porous media; earthquake engineering; liquefaction; fatigue life and behavior of asphalt concrete

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Janet Ellzey

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-7020
Office Location: IO1 2.200C, ETC 7.148B

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Combustion in porous media; low-emission burners; fuel reformers, biomass combustion

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Mattan Erez

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-7846
Office Location: EER 5.872

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computer architecture; high-performance computing; programming languages and models

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Nicolás Espinoza

Associate Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-8280
Office Location: CPE 3.118A, CPE 2.502

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Mechanics and physics of natural porous solids, methane recovery from microporous organic rocks, methane hydrate-bearing sediments and geological carbon sequestration

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Brian Evans

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-1457
Office Location: EER 6.882

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Digital signal processing; image processing; communication systems; electronic design automation

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Ofodike Ezekoye

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-3085
Office Location: ETC 7.130

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Security

Research Interests

Jet flames; aerosols; fire dynamics; flame ignition

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Eric Fahrenthold

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3064
Office Location: ETC 4.136

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

System dynamics; impact dynamics; constitutive modeling

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Donglei “Emma” Fan

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-5874
Office Location: ETC 9.144

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanomaterials design and synthesis; nano-biotechnolgy; nano-manipulation; nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS); energy

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Linran Fan

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 3.826

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Integrated photonics; quantum information; nonlinear optics; hybrid quantum system

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Kasey Faust

Associate Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Infrastructure management and decision making; infrastructure interdependencies; intersection of engineering and policy; public involvement in infrastructure decisions; coupled human infrastructure interdependencies; impact of urban decline on infrastructure systems

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Anca Ferche

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.706

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Analysis and performance assessment of concrete structures, structural implications of deterioration mechanisms, development of constitutive models for evolving concrete and reinforcement materials, and sustainability of concrete structures

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Raissa Ferron

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-2691
Office Location: ECJ 4.704

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Rheology; characterization of fresh concrete micro-and nano-structure; cement chemistry and aggregation mechanisms; self-consolidating concrete; affordable sustainable housing materials

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Ann Majewicz Fey

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Robotics, dynamic systems and control, medical and surgical robots, teleoperation and haptics

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Nick Fey

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3434

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Neuromuscular biomechanics, rehabilitation robotics, and prosthetics and orthotics

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Andrew Fix

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Next-generation HVAC and thermal systems; Energy efficient air dehumidification (selective membranes, desiccants, and other sorbents); Atmospheric water harvesting systems and materials; Membrane gas separations; Thermal energy storage

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Kevin Folliard

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3591, 512-232-7820
Office Location: ECJ 4.716, PRC 18B

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Portland cement concrete; concrete durability; high-performance concrete; controlled low-strength materials

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Xavier Fonoll Almansa

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: 9.102D

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Resource recovery from wastes; microbial community engineering; decentralized sanitation

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John Foster

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-6972
Office Location: CPE 3.108

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Experimental and computational geomechanics and multi-scale modeling with applications to well completions, lost circulation, hydraulic fracturing and anomalous flow in porous media

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Benny Freeman

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-232-2803
Office Location: EER 4.614 B

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Gas separation materials; gas-vapor barrier materials; membranes for water purification; membrane module modeling

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David Fridovich-Keil

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4257
Office Location: ASE 3.232

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Optimal control theory; dynamic game theory; motion planning; multi-agent decision making; machine learning and control

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Jan Fuhg

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


Office Location: ASE 5.234

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Scientific machine learning; computational mechanics; solid mechanics; scientific computing

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Venkat Ganesan

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-4856
Office Location: CPE 3.414

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Self-assembly in polymer-particle mixtures; simulations of dynamics of self-assembled materials; theory and simulation of rod-coil and crystallizable polymers; simulations of structure and properties of materials for fuel cell and photovoltaic applications

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Courtney Gardner

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 9.102E

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Environmental biotechnology and microbiology; microbiome engineering; environmental fate of chemical and biological pollutants; stormwater quality; wildfire microbiology and ecosystem recovery

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Vijay Garg

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-9424, 512-750-9761
Office Location: EER 7.884

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Distributed systems; discrete event systems; software engineering

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George Georgiou

Professor

Chemical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering


512-471-6975
Office Location: CPE 4.410

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Discovery, preclinical and clinical development of protein therapeutics; vaccine evaluation; analysis of human immune responses in health and disease

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Andreas Gerstlauer

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-8294
Office Location: EER 5.882

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Embedded system design; electronic system-level (ESL) design automation, modeling, languages, methodologies and tools; embedded hardware and software synthesis

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Omar Ghattas

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-4304
Office Location: POB 4.236A

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Computational fluid, solid, bio, and geomechanics; inverse problems and optimization; uncertainty quantification; parallel numerical algorithms and large-scale supercomputing

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Joydeep Ghosh

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-8980
Office Location: EER 6.812

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Data mining; web mining; predictive analytics, machine learning; large-scale statistical analysis; high-performance computing

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Robert Gilbert

Department Chair and Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3688
Office Location: ECJ 9.227H

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Performance reliability and risk management for slopes, dams, levees, foundations, waste containment and site remediation

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Milos Gligoric

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 7.886

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

The field of software engineering and formal methods, especially in designing techniques and tools that improve software quality and developers productivity

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David Goldstein

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4187
Office Location: ASE 4.214

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Development of numerical methods; applications of computational fluid dynamics; detailed flow physics

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Zhaomiao Guo

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 6.104

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Applied mathematics and computation focusing on transportation and energy systems modeling and optimization; Sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems, transportation electrification, smart mobility, multi-modal transportation systems, energy and transportation systems interdependence, shared mobility, freight systems

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Derek Haas

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-7916
Office Location: ETC 7.136

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Security

Research Interests

Technology development, data analysis and policy support related to environmental monitoring for nuclear proliferation and arms control

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Michael R. Haberman

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-8317
Office Location: ETC 4.165, ARL NX315

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Elastic and acoustic wave propagation in complex media, acoustic metamaterials, new acoustic transduction materials, ultrasonic nondestructive testing, and vibro-acoustic transducers

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Neal Hall

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-2349
Office Location: EER 4.802

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Silicon micromachining (MEMS); acoustics and dynamics; optics and photonics; technology transfer

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Matthew Hall

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-1292
Office Location: ETC 7.148

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Internal combustion engines; hazardous waste incineration; combustion and flow in porous media

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Mark Hamilton

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3055
Office Location: ETC 4.146C

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

Nonlinear propagation of ultrasound in tissue; biophysical responses to underwater sound; acoustic cavitation in shock wave lithotripsy; micro- and electro-mechanical systems-based parametric acoustic arrays

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Alex J. Hanson

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 232-8110
Office Location: EER 7.886

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Component- and system-level power electronics; high-frequency magnetics and circuits

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John Hasenbein

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3079
Office Location: ETC 5.128B

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Stochastic models; multiclass queueing networks; semiconductor wafer fabrication

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Zoya Heidari

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-7218
Office Location: PGE 5.108

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Petrophysics; borehole geophysics; formation evaluation; rock physics; inverse problems; integrated reservoir characterization of carbonates and unconventional resources; completion petrophysics

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Todd Helwig

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-2239, 512-475-8195

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Design and behavior of steel structures

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Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-1050
Office Location: CPE 3.470, EME 1.320E

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Air quality, focusing on atmospheric nanoparticles and aerosols

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Ben Hodges

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4730, 512-471-1807
Office Location: ECJ 9.102G

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Hydrodynamics; transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries

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Rui Huang

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-7558
Office Location: ASE 5.210

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Mechanics of integrated materials and structures at micro-and nano-scales; reliability of advanced interconnects and packaging for microelectronics; mechanical instability of thin films and nanostructures; multiscale modeling and simulations

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Alex (Qin) Huang

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 232-6647
Office Location: EER 7.878

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Space and Aeronautics

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Power Semiconductor Devices; Advanced Power Electronics; Renewable Energy Integration and Smart Grid; Power Management Integrated Circuits

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Thomas Hughes

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-232-7775
Office Location: POB 5.430A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computational mechanics; isogeometic analysis; stabilized and variational multiscale methods; phase-field modeling; cardiovascular bioengineering; complex fluids and turbulence

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Todd Humphreys

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-4489
Office Location: ASE 3.234

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Estimation and filtering; satellite navigation technology and security; software-defined radio

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Tanya Hutter

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 9.158

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Molecular sensing technologies; nanomaterials, microfabrication, and nanophotonics with applications in environmental sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics

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Gyeong Hwang

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-4847
Office Location: CPE 4.404

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Computational chemistry and materials science; doping and defect engineering in electronic materials; surface chemistry and catalysis; modeling of energy and catalytic materials for fuel cells; supercapacitors; Li ion batteries; thermoelectrics; photovoltaics

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Jean Anne Incorvia

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(737) 808-4124
Office Location: EER 3.820

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanotechnology, Spintronics, Magnetic Memory

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Moriba Jah

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 471-5322
Office Location: POB 3.446

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Non-gravitational astrodynamics and advanced/non-linear multi-sensor/object tracking, prediction, and information fusion; Space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization; Spacecraft navigation

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Yaoyao Jia

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 4.868

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Analog/Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits Inductive, Ultrasonic, and Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting; Implantable and Wearable; Biomedical Devices; Miniature Neural Interface Implants

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Lizy John

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-1455
Office Location: EER 5.876

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

Design of high-performance, low-power microprocessors; multicore processors; memory Systems; performance evaluation and benchmarking; workload characterization; adaptive computing

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Blair Johnson

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


(512) 232-1863
Office Location: ECJ 8.214

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Environmental fluid mechanics; turbulence; sediment transport and mixing processes; experimental methods

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Brian Johnson

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 7.812

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Power Electronics and Power Systems (PEPS)

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Keith Johnston

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-4617
Office Location: CPE 5.414

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Particle engineering including nanotechnology; drug delivery; polymer thin films including nanocrystal composites; environmentally responsible processing with solvents including carbon dioxide for materials science and separation processes; carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery

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Brandon Jones

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 471-4743
Office Location: ASE 3.230

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Orbit state and uncertainty propagation; Multi-target, multi-sensor tracking and filtering; Space situational awareness; Satellite navigation; Numerical methods and modeling

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Maria Juenger

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3593, 512-471-7751
Office Location: ECJ 4.736

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Hydration chemistry and microstructural characterization of portland cement and related materials; mechanisms of chemical deterioration in concrete; concrete durability; reducing the environmental impact of concrete production

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Loukas Kallivokas

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-5769
Office Location: ECJ 4.734

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computational mechanics; inverse problems in engineering; wave propagation and structural dynamics; earthquake engineering; numerical methods; large-scale computational modeling

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Lynn Katz

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4244
Office Location: ECJ 9.102H

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Contaminant fate and transport; combined abiotic and biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation; environmental surface chemistry

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Benjamin Keitz

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-232-2373
Office Location: CPE 4.462

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Influence of porous materials on abeta amyloid formation

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Sarfraz Khurshid

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-8244
Office Location: EER 7.880

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

Software testing; specification languages; code conformance; model checking; heuristics in program analysis; data structure repair; program repair

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Hyeji Kim

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-8117
Office Location: EER 6.870

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Information theory, machine learning and wireless communications

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Spyros Kinnas

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-475-7969, 512-232-1887
Office Location: ECJ 8.610

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Ocean engineering; hydrodynamics; cavitation; wave mechanics; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems; tidal turbines

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Kerry Kinney

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-1740
Office Location: ECJ 9.102A

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Beneficial application of microorganisms to the treatment of pollutants in the environment; algae-to-biofuel production processes; potentially detrimental microbial communities that develop in indoor environments

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Mary Kirisits

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-7120
Office Location: ECJ 8.216

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Biological drinking water treatment processes; microbial transformation of inorganic contaminants; application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; rainwater harvesting; impacts of nanomaterials on microorganisms in engineered water treatment systems; biofilms; quorum sensing in pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms; microbial community structure of pediatric otitis media

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Dale Klein

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


+1 202-731-6797

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Security

Research Interests

Radioactive waste disposal; thermal analysis of nuclear shipping containers; nuclear weapon dismantlement; nuclear power

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Kara Kockelman

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-0210, 512-471-4379
Office Location: ECJ 6.904

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Travel behavior modeling; Transport data analysis; Transport economics and energy policy; Roadway safety; The connection between urban form and transportation

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Brian Korgel

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-5633
Office Location: CPE 4.462, CPE 2.802

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanostructure assembly and organizational strategies; development of new approaches for nanoscale material synthesis and applications, including photovoltaics, thin film transistors, lithium ion batteries and medicine

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Desiderio Kovar

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-6271
Office Location: ETC 9.146

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Production and characterization of nanoparticles; nanostructured thick films; solid oxide fuel cells; honeycomb ceramics

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Jaydeep Kulkarni

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 471-4802
Office Location: EER 4.882

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Integrated Circuits; Emerging Nano-technologies

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Krishna Kumar

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-4406
Office Location: ECJ 9.227B

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Multi-scale modeling of natural hazards, landslides, earthquakes, debris flows, material point method, discrete element and lattice Boltzmann, high-performance computing in geomechanics; large-scale big data frameworks for modeling infrastructure systems

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Manish Kumar

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Chemical Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 8.212

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Membrane processes and bio-inspired membranes for wastewater treatment and water reuse

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Erhan Kutanoglu

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-7194
Office Location: ETC 5.114

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Applied operations research; supply chain management; manufacturing and transportation logistics; game theoretic and distributed mechanisms (e-commerce and auctions)

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Stelios Kyriakides

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4167
Office Location: ASE 5.230

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Instability in solids and structures (plastic buckling of structures, propagating instabilities in shape, memory metals, composites and foams); modeling of nonlinear behavior and failure of solids (metals, composites and foams)

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Larry Lake

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-8233, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 4.108

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Enhanced oil recovery; reservoir engineering; reservoir characterization; geochemical modeling; simulation

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Chad Landis

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4273
Office Location: ASE 5.214

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Mechanics of materials; ferroelectrics; ferromagnetic shape memory alloys; fracture mechanics; continuum thermodynamics

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Sheldon Landsberger

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-796-0287
Office Location: ETC 7.116

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Radioactive and solid waste management; low-level counting of natural radioactivity; compton suppression gamma-ray spectrometry; risk assessment in radioactivity handling

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Jun-Whan (Michael) Lee

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.722

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Coastal engineering; coastal hazard forecasting and assessment; disaster resilience and risk management; flood mitigation using nature-based solutions; sea level rise vulnerability; ocean resource management

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Benjamin Leibowicz

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-475-9550
Office Location: ETC 5.128D

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Energy economics; technological change; energy and climate policy analysis; integrated assessment modeling; industrial organization; innovation

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Fernanda Leite

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-5957
Office Location: ECJ 5.302

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Information technology for project management; building information modeling; life-cycle information integration; collaboration and coordination technologies; information technology-supported construction safety management

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Wei Li

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 5.146

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Polymer nanofoam and nanocomposites; biomedical micro devices; 3D cell culture and drug discovery; nanoporous materials; manufacturing processes for alternate transportation energy

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Xiuling Li

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices

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Sensen Li

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 4.864

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

RF/millimeter-wave/terahertz integrated circuits; antennas and antenna arrays; microwave devices and circuits

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Howard Liljestrand

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4604
Office Location: ECJ 8.206

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Aquatic chemistry; contaminant transport; pollutant containment and remediation acid deposition; air pollution modeling

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Yuanyue Liu

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


(512) 232-3788
Office Location: ETC 9.168

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Apply theory and atomic scale simulations to solve materials problems; room-temperature electron transport in materials and how it would be affected by the atom vibrations (phonons), defects, and the interface

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Yijin Liu

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 9.174

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Battery manufacturing, safety, degradation and failure analysis

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Raul Longoria

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-0530
Office Location: ETC 5.134B

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Physical system modeling, analysis and control; evaluation of robotic ground vehicles; vehicle system dynamics and control; electromechanical systems and mechatronics

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Nanshu Lu

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4208
Office Location: EER 7.614B

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Mechanics of thin films on compliant substrates; mechanics of flexible electronics with extreme deformability and compliance; mechanics at bio-electronics interface; development of novel bio-integrated soft electronics for cardiac, neural and epidermal applications

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Yingda Lu

Assistant Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Paraffin gelation and deposition in multiphase flow; asphaltene precipitation and deposition; rheological and flow behaviors of non-Newtonian petroleum fluids; and applications of molecular simulation in oil and gas production

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Ruochen Lu

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: MER 2.606B, EER 3.870

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Areas of Impact

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Communications, control theory, data science, information theory, machine learning, networking, optimization, signal processing and system theory

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Hannah Lu

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


Office Location: ASE 5.242

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Scientific computing; Model reduction; Uncertainty quantification; Machine learning in applications of environmental fluid mechanics

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Nathaniel Lynd

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-232-2534
Office Location: CPE 3.408

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Polymer sciences, including areas such as modeling, design and synthesis of membranes for capture of carbon dioxide; synthesis of degradable biomedical materials; and understanding ion transport in polymer electrolytes

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Randy Machemehl

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4541, 512-232-3107
Office Location: ECJ 6.902, CTR 200

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Transportation system operational analysis and design software development; transport system demand estimation

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Lori Magruder

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-6069
Office Location: ASE 3.220

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Areas of Impact

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Remote sensing and 3D geospatial data exploitation for earth science

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Filippo Mangolini

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


(512) 471-3244
Office Location: ETC 9.176

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Structural transformations and chemical reactions occurring on material surfaces and at solid/solid, solid/liquid interfaces under extreme environments and conditions far from equilibrium

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Arumugam Manthiram

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Chemical Engineering


512-471-1791, 512-471-7394
Office Location: ETC 9.104

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Clean energy materials; electrochemical energy conversion and storage; Lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and solar cells; nanomaterials

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Lance Manuel

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-5691
Office Location: ECJ 4.718

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Random vibration; structural dynamics; structural reliability; atmospheric inflow turbulence simulation for wind turbine loads analysis; computational methods for windstorm field generation; performance of deepwater offshore platforms; probabilistic seismic hazard analysis

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Diana Marculescu

Department Chair and Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 471-6179
Office Location: EER 5.814

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

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Radu Marculescu

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-8132
Office Location: EER 5.816

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Architecture, computer systems, and embedded systems (ACSES); Decision, information, and communications engineering (DICE); bioECE

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Mia Markey

she/her/hers

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-1711, 512-471-8660
Office Location: BME 5.202L, BME 5.108

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Biomedical informatics; decision support; biomedical image analysis; biometrics

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Alexander Marras

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 7.140

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Polymeric nanoparticles for RNA delivery; soft matter characterization; and structural DNA nanotechnology for sensing; nanorobotics; smart soft materials.

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Jennifer Maynard

Professor

Chemical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering


512-471-9188
Office Location: CPE 5.466

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Control of cellular immunity through manipulation of T-cell receptor interactions; reverse-engineer pathogenic strategies used by bacterial pathogens for biotechnological applications; apply protein engineering approaches to issues in structural biology

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Mark Mear

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4212
Office Location: ASE 5.220

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Micromechanics; fracture mechanics; boundary element methods

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José Del Rocio Millán Ruiz

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering


(512) 232-8111
Office Location: EER 7.822

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI); neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics; human-robot interaction; statistical machine learning; neuroscience; neurorehabilitation

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Delia Milliron

Department Chair and Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-232-5702
Office Location: NHB 6.404

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Chemical synthesis and assembly of nanostructured electronic and electrochemical materials; processing-structure-property relationships; energy; electronic devices

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Pawel Misztal

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-5840
Office Location: ECJ 5.428

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Indoor chemistry and implications on indoor air quality and occupants' health

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David Mitlin

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: EER 4.620

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Electrochemical and chemical energy storage; thin films; materials design; transmission electron microscopy and corrosion

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Ilias Mitra

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering


Office Location: CPE 4.468

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Artificial intelligence assisted optimization, control, and modeling of complex process systems

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Javad Mohammadi

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Optimization and artificial intelligence in power grids; Electrified transportation systems, smart buildings, and smart cities; Modeling implications of transitioning to a low-carbon energy economy

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Kishore Mohanty

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-3077
Office Location: CPE 3.168

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Transport of simple and complex fluids in complex microstructured materials for applications in energy, environment and biotechnology

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Aryan Mokhtari

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-8112
Office Location: EER 6.826

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Optimization; machine learning; data science; artificial intelligence and signal processing

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Robert Moser

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-0093
Office Location: ETC 7.142D

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Turbulence physics; direct numerical simulation and spectral methods; large-eddy simulation; cardiovascular fluid mechanics

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C. Buddie Mullins

Assistant Department Chair & Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-5817
Office Location: CPE 4.418

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Materials chemistry for energy studies regarding solar photoelectrocatalysis; catalysis of nano-structured surfaces; materials for lithium-ion battery electrodes

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Richard Neptune

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-0848
Office Location: ETC 4.132

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Musculoskeletal modeling and simulation of human movement; biomechanics and neuromotor control; rehabilitation engineering; sports biomechanics and equipment design; prosthetic and orthotic design optimization

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Quoc Nguyen

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-1204
Office Location: CPE 5.104 A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Chemical and gas enhanced oil recovery; conformance control technology; stimulated production of unconventional resources; thermal and chemical conversion of tar sand and oil shale; nanoparticle functionalization and processing for subsurface applications

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Dev Niyogi

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Understanding of the Earth system and the dynamic role of coupled land surface processes on regional hydroclimatic and environmental extremes; translating the scientific work undertaken into decision tools and portals with a focus on sustainable climate-ready/resilient coastal, cities and agricultural systems

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Atila Novoselac

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-475-8175
Office Location: ECJ 5.422

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Ventilation and indoor air quality; computations and measurements of airflows in buildings; pollutants transport modeling; building energy analysis

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William O'Brien

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4638
Office Location: ECJ 5.430

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Production systems: project supply chain management, project controls; computer integrated construction: information integration, collaborative systems, human-computer interaction, implementation issues

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James O'Connor

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4645
Office Location: ECJ 5.2

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Project constructability; advanced construction technologies; pre-construction management systems; project decision/risk analysis; systems for work process integration; benchmarking of capital projects; value management processes

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Ryosuke Okuno

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-3250
Office Location: CPE 5.118B

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Enhanced oil recovery; thermal oil recovery; oil displacement theory; numerical reservoir simulation; thermodynamics; multiphase behavior and applied mathematics

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Jon Olson

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-7375, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 5.168B, CPE 2.502

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Hydraulic fracturing, petroleum rock mechanics, naturally fractured reservoirs, structural geology

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Michael Orshansky

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-1082
Office Location: EER 4.814

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Security

Research Interests

Statistical analysis and optimization algorithms for yield improvement; circuit design for manufacturability; robust low-power circuit design

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Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.706

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

In-space Assembly and Manufacturing, Lunar Infrastructure, Wave Mechanics, Homogenization, Inverse Problems

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David Pan

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-1436
Office Location: EER 4.880

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

VLSI computer aided design; physical design and circuit optimization; design and manufacturing process integration; vertical integration of technology, circuit, CAD and system

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Sapun Parekh

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-232-3466
Office Location: BME 4.202E

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Development of label-free imaging and analytical tools with nonlinear chemical microscopy to predict type 2 diabetes and other diseases

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Paola Passalacqua

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-3319
Office Location: ECJ 8.612

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Multi-scale analysis of hydrological processes; dynamics of environmental transport on river networks and deltaic systems; quantitative analysis and modeling of landscape forming processes, geomorphic transport laws and subgrid-scale parameterization.

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Yale Patt

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-4085
Office Location: EER 5.802

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Areas of Impact

Security

Research Interests

Microprocessor architecture in the many core era; parallelism and superscalar processor design; seriously heterogeneous chip multiprocessors; how to help students learn

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Nicholas Peppas

Professor

Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering


512-471-6644
Office Location: CPE 3.466

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Biomaterials; controlled drug delivery; molecular modeling of protein structures in contact with biomaterials and tissues; modeling of biomedical devices; bionanotechnology; molecular recognition processes

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Emily Porter

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 232-8114
Office Location: EER 5.806

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Electromagnetics and acoustics; computational and applied electromagnetics; developing electromagnetic-based solutions with applications in diagnostic, therapeutic, supportive or assistive medical technologies

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Tyrone Porter

he/him/his

Department Chair and Professor

Biomedical Engineering


Office Location: BME 3.503B

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Image-guided drug delivery, ultrasound, acoustics

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Masa Prodanovic

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-0839
Office Location: CPE 4.186A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Fluid displacement in porous media; porous matrix and microfractured media characterization; unconventional reservoirs modeling; ferrohydrodynamics

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Jorge Prozzi

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3488
Office Location: ECJ 6.112

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Highway pavement design and rehabilitation; monitoring, evaluation and performance analysis of highway pavements; asphalt technology; accelerated pavement testing; sustainable pavement engineering; environmentally-friendly pavement technologies; applied probability and statistics; applied econometrics; life-cycle cost analysis; transportation infrastructure management

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Michael Pyrcz

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


(512) 471-3252
Office Location: CPE 4.186B

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Integrated Reservoir Characterization; Unconventional Resources; Petrophysics and pore-scale processes; Geologic Carbon Storage

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Laxminarayan Raja

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4279
Office Location: ASE 4.234

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Low-temperature glow discharge plasma

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Ellen Rathje

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3683
Office Location: ECJ 9.227C

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology; seismic stability of earth structures and slopes; earthquake-induced landslides; seismic site response; field liquefaction evaluation and soil improvement; application of remote sensing to earthquake damage assessment

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Manuel Rausch

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Biomedical Engineering


(512) 471-5147
Office Location: EER 7.620

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Soft Tissue Biomechanics; Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics; Numerical Modeling; Material Characterization & Constitutive Modeling

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Christopher Rausch

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 5.428

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Industrialized construction; modular construction; geometric digital twins; digitization; building information modeling; computational design; circular economy; materials reuse.

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K. Ravi-Chandar

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4213
Office Location: ASE 5.222

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Mechanical behavior of materials at high strain rates; fracture in nominally brittle materials; shear banding in polymeric materials; phase transformation in shape memory alloys

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Leonard Register

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-1868
Office Location: MER 2.606B, EER 3.882

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Theory of electronic and optoelectronic devices, particularly at the nano-scale; semi-classical and quantum mechanical device modeling; alternative materials and geometries for CMOS (non-classical CMOS); alternative state variables and switching methods (beyond CMOS)

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Pengyu Ren

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-232-1832
Office Location: BME 5.202M

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Molecular modeling of biological systems; computational drug discovery

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Joaquin Resasco

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-5238

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Understanding the structure and properties of catalysts to enable next-generation sustainable technologies

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Gary Rochelle

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-7230
Office Location: CPE 5.458

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

CO2 capture from coal-fired power plants by aqueous amine scrubbing; mass transfer with fast reaction in the boundary layer

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Adrianne Rosales

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering


(512) 471-6300
Office Location: CPE 3.418

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Biomolecular and biomimetic materials, hydrogel development, cell-matrix interactions, dynamic materials

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Ryan Russell

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4190
Office Location: ASE 3.216

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Astrodynamics; orbital mechanics; numerical methods; nonlinear estimation; spacecraft trajectory design; optimal control

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M. Nichole Rylander

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering


512-232-0865
Office Location: ETC 7.142B

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Multi-disciplinary elements of bioheat transfer; nanomedicine; biomedical optics; tissue regeneration; cancer engineering

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Chris Rylander

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering


512-232-6144
Office Location: ETC 7.142D

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Solving healthcare related problems using mechanical engineering design and manufacturing techniques

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H. Grady Rylander III

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-1995
Office Location: ENS 617C

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Vision research; biomedical sensors; laser applications; neuroprosthesis design

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Michael Sacks

he/him/his

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-232-7773
Office Location: ACE 5.428, BME 5.202J

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Cardiovascular biomechanics; computational simulation of the behavior of the cardiovascular system; advanced constitutive models, biomechanical interactions of cell, tissue and organ in native and engineered heart valves and myocardium

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Amaresh Sahu

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-232-2272
Office Location: CPE 3.462

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Soft and living matter systems: theory, simulation, and machine learning; Advanced materials, polymers and nanotechnology; Biotechnology; Modeling and simulation

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Salvatore Salamone

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3427, 512-232-4464
Office Location: ECJ 4.710

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Structural health monitoring; non-destructive evaluation; ultrasonic sensing methods for smart structures; wave propagation in solids; digital signal processing and pattern recognition

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Navid Saleh

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-9175
Office Location: ECJ 8.608

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Environmental nanotechnology; physicochemical processes; fate and transport of nanomaterials in the environment; groundwater remediation

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Sujay Sanghavi

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-475-9798
Office Location: EER 6.824

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Security

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Algorithms for wireless, sensor and peer-to-peer networks and the Internet; machine learning and data mining; social networks; optimization

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Gabriel Sanoja Lopez

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering


(512) 471-5238

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Engineering mechanical properties and lifetime of soft polymeric materials

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Samantha Santacruz

she/her/hers

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-7440
Office Location: 5.202E

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Neural engineering; brain-machine interfaces; neurotherapeutic devices; neuromodulation

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Surya Santoso

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-3371
Office Location: EER 7.876

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Electromagnetic transient and electric power quality in power systems; development of intelligent systems for enabling self-healing and self-restoring power systems; wind power interconnection and integration

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Alexandra Clará Saracho

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 9.227F

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Biogeotechnics; erosion of soils; carbon capture and storage; 3D printing in geotechnical engineering; thermal properties of soils; laboratory testing of soils; biotechnology

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Anastasia Schauer

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 4.165

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Design cognition; Design theory and methodology; Humanitarian engineering; Cognitive bias and empathy in design; Innovation and creativity; Equity and social impact in engineering; Design for manufacturing; Engineering education

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Stephanie Seidlits

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-3434

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Developing clinical therapies for central nervous system injury and disorder, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and glioma formation.

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Polina Sela

Associate Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-6879
Office Location: ECJ 8.208

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Water resources systems management; cyber-physical urban systems

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Luis Sentis

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-5987
Office Location: ASE 4.204

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Human-centered robotics; mathematics of movement and manipulation; building legged humanoid robots; software architectures for sensing and acting; biomechatronics

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Kamy Sepehrnoori

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-0231, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 2.502

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Reservoir simulation development and application; simulation of enhance oil recovery processes; computational methods; parallel computations; applied mathematics; naturally fractured reservoir modeling; co-optimization of CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery; inverse modeling

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Zhenghui Sha

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-1818
Office Location: ETC 4.142

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Intersection of system and design science

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Sanjay Shakkottai

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-5376
Office Location: EER 6.802

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Scheduling and QoS in wireless networks; ad-hoc and sensor networks; congestion control in the internet; resource allocation for heterogeneous networks

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Shyam Shankar

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 232-8115
Office Location: EER 4.878

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Quantum information science with superconducting quantum circuits; quantum back action of qubit measurement; quantum feedback with reservoir engineering and realization of remote entanglement and quantum-limited amplification

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Mukul Sharma

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Chemical Engineering


512-471-3257, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 5.118A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Formation damage; petrophysics; fluid flow in porous media

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Li Shi

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3109
Office Location: ETC 7.140

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Energy and environment; thermal management; electronics, photonics and sensors; biomedical technologies

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August Shi

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Software testing and regression testing

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Donald Siegel

Department Chair and Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 5.208A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Development of energy storage materials and lightweight alloys; Electrical energy storage (batteries), thermal energy storage and materials for gas capture and storage (H2 and natural gas storage; CO2 capture)

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Jayant Sirohi

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 471-4186
Office Location: ASE 5.216

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

High power density solid state actuators; multifunctional structures; multi-mission capable micro and unmanned aerial vehicles; rotorcraft design

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David Soloveichik

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 7.814

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Molecular programming, including the engineering of complex molecular systems for synthetic biology, nanotechnology and bioengineering.

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Wen Song

Assistant Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-5789
Office Location: CPE 4.118B

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Enhanced oil recovery; petrophysics and pore scale processes; reservoir engineering; unconventional resources; geologic carbon storage; natural gas engineering; reservoir simulation

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Gerald Speitel

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-7995
Office Location: ECJ 10.326

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals, including biodegradation and adsorption; drinking water treatment; computer models of treatment processes

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S.V. Sreenivasan

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-6546
Office Location: ETC 5.134C

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nano-resolution lithography; flexure-based micro- and nano-precision machines; precision optical systems; real-time nano-resolution optical sensor architectures

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Jeanne Stachowiak

Professor

Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering


Office Location: BME 5.202G

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Biophysical mechanisms; cellular and biomolecular engineering; molecular, cellular and tissue biomechanics

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Kenneth Stokoe

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3689
Office Location: ECJ 9.227

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics; non-destructive testing of pavements, soils and structures; offshore geotechnical engineering

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Venkat Subramanian

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Multiscale simulation of electrochemical systems; model-based battery management systems and real-time state-of-charge/real-time state-of-health estimation of Lithium-ion batteries

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Laura Suggs

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-232-1671
Office Location: BME 4.202D

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Cardiovascular tissue engineering; Adult progenitor cells and vasculogenesis; Biologically active materials

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Earl Swartzlander

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-5923
Office Location: EER 5.874

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

VLSI circuit technology; special purpose processors; computer arithmetic; digital signal processing; quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology

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Eric Taleff

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-5378
Office Location: ETC 9.170

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Processing-microstructure-property relationships in light alloys; refractory metals; superalloys; hypereutectoid steels

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Jon Tamir

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-496-0722
Office Location: EER 7.872

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Computational magnetic resonance imaging, machine learning for inverse problems, and clinical translation

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Takashi Tanaka

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 232-0830
Office Location: ASE 4.230

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Systems and control theory; Networked and multi-agent systems; Information theory in control

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Hewei Tang

Assistant Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


Office Location: CPE 3.118

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Direct air capture with geothermal energy, fracture characterization in enhanced geothermal systems, and using neural operators for subsurface simulations

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Edison Thomaz

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 7.818

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Modeling health-related behaviors, with specific focus on scalable computational methods and novel sensing approaches

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Maryam Tilton

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 4.138

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Visible light-induced 3D printing of bio-functionalized scaffolds for tissue engineering applications; AD processes for multi-material 3D biofabrication; in vitro 3D modeling; orthopaedic biomechanics

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Mohit Tiwari

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 5.886

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

Cybersecurity with a focus on computing systems, hardware design, processor architecture, embedded systems and cloud computing

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Ufuk Topcu

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: POB 5.436

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Design and verification of autonomous networked systems

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Carlos Torres-Verdin

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-4216, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 5.182A

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Borehole geophysics; petrophysics; formation evaluation; well logging; rock physics; multi-physics geophysical detection and imaging; geophysical imaging of time-lapse subsurface phenomena; inverse problems; signal processing

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Nur Touba

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-1456
Office Location: EER 4.870

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Areas of Impact

Security

Research Interests

VLSI testing; fault-tolerant computing; computer-aided design

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Thomas Truskett

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-6308
Office Location: CPE 5.454

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Self-assembly; design of materials; protein therapeutics and biomedical Imaging; water’s role in biological processes; complex fluids

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James Tunnell

Professor

Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-2110
Office Location: BME 1.108B

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Diagnostic and therapeutic optical technologies; molecular imaging; nanophotonics; cancer

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Emanuel Tutuc

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-4960
Office Location: MER 1.606E, EER 3.890

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanoelectronics; chemical vapor deposition; graphene; semiconductor nanowires and devices

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Thomas Underwood

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-1730
Office Location: ASE 4.208

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Areas of Impact

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Understanding how the chemistry and dynamics of reactive flows can be leveraged to address challenges in energy, transportation, the environment and security

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Jonathan Valvano

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-5141, 512-471-7323
Office Location: EER 5.820

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Embedded medical devices; measurements of volume and pressure in the heart; low-power electrical, mechanical, and thermal measurements; hardware/software co-simulation of real-time embedded systems

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Eric van Oort

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-6262
Office Location: CPE 4.182A

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Rig automation; zonal isolation; borehole stability and lost circulation; frac optimization; frac water management, drilling and completion fluids

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Philip Varghese

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-3110
Office Location: ASE 4.222

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Laser based sensors; flow diagnostics using raman and rayleigh scattering; scramjet combustion; rarefied flow analysis using the Boltzmann equation and Monte Carlo simulation

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Haris Vikalo

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-7922
Office Location: EER 7.810

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Statistical signal processing; bioinformatics and computational biology; wireless communications systems

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Sriram Vishwanath

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-1190
Office Location: EER 6.814

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Networks; wireless systems; system security; information theory; resource allocation in systems; networked control; energy systems; bioinformatics

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Yaguo Wang

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-475-9556
Office Location: ETC 7.150

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Ultrafast carrier dynamics and micro/nanoscale heat transfer in nanomaterials with optical spectroscopy; thermoelectrics; photovoltaics; gas fuel generation; quantum-cascade lasers

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Junmin Wang

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


(512) 232-2392
Office Location: ETC 4.152C

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Control, modeling, estimation, optimization, and diagnosis of dynamical systems, especially for automotive, vehicle, transportation, smart, automated, and sustainable mobility applications

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Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.886

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Automated machine learning (AutoML), learning-based optimization, machine learning robustness and efficient deep learning

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Evan Wang

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-6215
Office Location: BME 3.503B

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Development of new tools to modulate and record neural activity from targeted neuronal populations using minimally invasive methods

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Wennie Wang

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering

512-471-9894
Office Location: CPE 4.450

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Areas of Impact
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Jamie Warner

Professor, Director of Texas Materials Institute

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.620

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Advanced materials science and engineering

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Daniel Wasserman

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-9818
Office Location: MRC 1.606

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Optics; infrared luminescence; fields and waves; solid state devices; nanophotonics

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Michael Webber

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-475-6867
Office Location: ETC 6.106EA

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Energy policy; energy and water; alternative and renewable energy; biofuels; energy in Texas; energy systems; waste to energy

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Charles Werth

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-1626
Office Location: ECJ 8.206

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Reactive transport and fate of pollutants in water resources, including groundwater and urban lakes and the development of sustainable technologies for pollution removal from impacted waters

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Karen Willcox

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-232-6259
Office Location: POB 4.102

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Data to decisions in engineering systems; computational models and methods for design, optimization, control and uncertainty quantification of engineering systems; reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity modeling; future aircraft technologies; aircraft system optimization; aircraft environmental impact; multidisciplinary design; unmanned aerial vehicles; digital twins

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Eric Williamson

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-475-6175, 512-471-4594
Office Location: ECJ 4.722, PRC 177

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Response of structures to blast and impact; progressive collapse; structural response modelling and simulation; static and dynamic stability; failure modeling; damage mechanics

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Preston Wilson

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-475-9093
Office Location: ETC 4.152B

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Underwater, physical and biomedical acoustics; acoustic propagation and scattering in multiphase media; seismoacoustics; novel experimental techniques and transduction

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Sharon Wood

Executive Vice President and Provost and Professor (not currently teaching)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-1166
Office Location: ECJ 10.310, PRC 177

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Design and behavior of reinforced concrete structures; infrastructure monitoring; earthquake engineering

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Fangzhou Xia

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 4.158

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Precision mechatronics, instrumentation, dynamic systems and control, nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopy, miniaturized robots, medical devices

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Neeraja Yadwadkar

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 5.884

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Cloud computing systems; machine learning; serverless computing; machine learning for systems; systems for machine learning

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Jin Yang

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-1486
Office Location: ASE 5.236

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

ML/data-driven material characterization; deformation measurements: digital image correlation/volume correlation & particle tracking; Laser-induced inertial cavitation (hydrogels/biomaterials); Dynamic instability in viscoelastic materials

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Thomas Yankeelov

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


Office Location: BME 4.202L

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Medical imaging; computational oncology

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Hsin-Chih (Tim) Yeh

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-7931
Office Location: BME 5.202C

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Nanobiosensor development; cancer biomarker detection; single-molecule spectroscopy for biomolecule and nanomaterial characterization; 3D molecular tracking and super-resolution imaging

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Qian Yin

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering


Office Location: BME 4.202C

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Biomaterials & systems immunology to investigate mechanisms for potentiating/diversifying immune responses while modulating the immune system to create cancer immunotherapies or anti-viral vaccines.

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Edward Yu

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-5167
Office Location: MER 1.206M, EER 3.802

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Photovoltaics and other technologies for energy generation; scanning probe characterization of advanced electronic materials and devices; III-V nitride heterostructure materials and device physics; solid-state nanoscience and nanotechnology

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Guihua Yu

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-5276
Office Location: ETC 9.144

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanomaterials for energy science and environment; energy storage and conversion devices; nanoelectronics; nano-biotechnolgy; self-assembly of nanostructures

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Renato Zanetti

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


Office Location: ASE 3.210

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Stochastic estimation of non-linear/non-Gaussian dynamical systems; GNC of autonomous systems; Spacecraft attitude dynamics, determination, and control; Simulation of large, complex dynamical systems; Vision-based navigation; Sensor fusion, sensor technology, and sensor utilization planning

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Elena Zannoni

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 7.138

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Nuclear and radiation engineering; Development of nuclear medicine imaging instrumentation and data analysis techniques for advanced applications in radiological science and molecular imaging

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Yunlan (Emma) Zhang

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


Office Location: ECJ 4.732

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Architected materials (mechanical metamaterials), deployable structures, extraterrestrial structures and materials, bio-inspired materials, additive manufacturing, and shape morphing structures. 

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Amy Zhang

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.878

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Reinforcement learning; generalization; representation learning; robotics

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Yuebing Zheng

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-0228
Office Location: ETC 9.174

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanophotonics; micro and nanofluidics; molecular engineering; nanobiotechnology; lab on a chip; solar energy; information technology

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Kent Zheng

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-232-2048
Office Location: CPE 3.404

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Understanding and controlling electrochemical synthesis of crystalline materials for energy & sustainability; Advanced materials, polymers and nanotechnology energy

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Hao Zhu

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 471-1722
Office Location: EER 7.868

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Cyber-physical power systems, Energy data analytics, Signal processing over networks

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Janet Zoldan

Associate Professor

Biomedical Engineering


Office Location: BME 4.202D

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Molecular cell biology and tissue engineering

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Jorge Zornberg

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3595
Office Location: ECJ 9.227A

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Soil mechanics; soil reinforcement and improvement; environmental geotechnics; geosynthetics; numerical and physical (centrifuge) modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems