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