Faculty Directory
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Vaibhav Bahadur
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
vb@austin.utexas.edu
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
abbaker@austin.utexas.edu
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
jonathan.baker@austin.utexas.edu
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
bakolas@austin.utexas.edu
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
mbaldea@che.utexas.edu
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
balhoff@mail.utexas.edu
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
banerjee@austin.utexas.edu
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
sbank@ece.utexas.edu
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
sbarber@identity.utexas.edu
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
jbard@mail.utexas.edu
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
mdbartos@utexas.edu
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
bayrak@mail.utexas.edu
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
jbeaman@mail.utexas.edu
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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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
ben-yakar@mail.utexas.edu
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
srinivas@csr.utexas.edu
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
a-bhasin@mail.utexas.edu
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
bhat@mail.utexas.edu
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
ebickel@mail.utexas.edu
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
biros@oden.utexas.edu
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
fbisetti@utexas.edu
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
dbogard@mail.utexas.edu
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
raghu.bollapragada@utexas.edu
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
rtb@che.utexas.edu
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
![Photo of Maura Borrego](/images/faculty/Borrego-Maura.jpg)
Maura Borrego
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
maura.borrego@austin.utexas.edu
(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
bovik@ece.utexas.edu
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
sboyles@austin.utexas.edu
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
![Photo of Joan Brennecke](/images/faculty/Brennecke-Joan.jpg)
Joan Brennecke
Professor
Chemical Engineering
jfb@che.utexas.edu
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
amy.brock@utexas.edu
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
![Photo of Tan Bui-Thanh](/images/faculty/Bui-Thanh-Tan-2022.jpg)
Tan Bui-Thanh
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
tanbui@oden.utexas.edu
(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
burghoff@utexas.edu
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
adambush@utexas.edu
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.