Faculty Directory

Carlos Caldas
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
caldas@mail.utexas.edu
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

Constantine Caramanis
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
caramanis@mail.utexas.edu
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

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

Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Research Interests
Theoretical development, implementation, and clinical deployment of numerical methods for medical image analysis

Chih-Hao Chang
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
chichang@utexas.edu
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

William Charlton
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
wcharlton@austin.utexas.edu
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

James Chelikowsky
Professor
Chemical Engineering
jrc@ices.utexas.edu
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

Dongmei "Maggie" Chen
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
dmchen@me.utexas.edu
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

Jingyi "Ann" Chen
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
jingyi.ann.chen@utexas.edu
(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

Ray Chen
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
chen@ece.utexas.edu
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

Lillian Chin
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ltchin@utexas.edu
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

Sandeep Chinchali
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
sandeepc@utexas.edu
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

Leah Chong
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
eah.chong@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 4.116A
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Advanced Manufacturing and Design

Kaushik Chowdhury
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
kaushik@utexas.edu
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

Shwetadwip Chowdhury
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
shwetadwip.chowdhury@utexas.edu
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

John-Paul Clarke
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
johnpaul@utexas.edu
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

Kevin Clarno
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
kevin.clarno@austin.utexas.edu
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

Christian Claudel
Associate Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
christian.claudel@utexas.edu
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

Noel Clemens
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
clemens@mail.utexas.edu
(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

Lydia Contreras
Professor
Chemical Engineering
lcontrer@che.utexas.edu
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

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernández
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Professor
Biomedical Engineering
cosgriff.hernandez@utexas.edu
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

Richard Crawford
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
rhc@mail.utexas.edu
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

Michael Cullinan
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
michael.cullinan@austin.utexas.edu
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