Faculty Directory


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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