Faculty Directory

Hugh Daigle
Associate Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
daigle@austin.utexas.edu
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

Poulami Das
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
pdas@utexas.edu
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

Clinton Dawson
Department Chair and Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
clint.dawson@austin.utexas.edu
(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

Gustavo de Veciana
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
gustavo@ece.utexas.edu
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

Leszek Demkowicz
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
leszek@ices.utexas.edu
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

Ashish D. Deshpande
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
ashish@austin.utexas.edu
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

David DiCarlo
Associate Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
dicarlo@mail.utexas.edu
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

Tyler Dick
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
ctdick@utexas.edu
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.

Kenneth Diller
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
kdiller@mail.utexas.edu
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

Dragan Djurdjanovic
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
dragan.djurdjanovic@mail.utexas.edu
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

Thinh Doan
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
thinhdoan@utexas.edu
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

Ananth Dodabalapur
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ananth@mail.utexas.edu
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

Berkin Dortdivanlioglu
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
berkin@utexas.edu
Office Location: ECJ 4.730
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Areas of Impact

Andrew Dunn
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
adunn@mail.utexas.edu
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