Faculty Directory
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Derek Haas
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
derekhaas@utexas.edu
512-471-7916
Office Location: ETC 7.136
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Security
Research Interests
Technology development, data analysis and policy support related to environmental monitoring for nuclear proliferation and arms control
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Michael R. Haberman
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
haberman@utexas.edu
512-471-8317
Office Location: ETC 4.165, ARL NX315
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Elastic and acoustic wave propagation in complex media, acoustic metamaterials, new acoustic transduction materials, ultrasonic nondestructive testing, and vibro-acoustic transducers
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Matthew Hall
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
mjhall@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-1292
Office Location: ETC 7.148
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Internal combustion engines; hazardous waste incineration; combustion and flow in porous media
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Neal Hall
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
nahall@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-2349
Office Location: EER 4.802
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Manufacturing and Materials
Space and Aeronautics
Research Interests
Silicon micromachining (MEMS); acoustics and dynamics; optics and photonics; technology transfer
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Mark Hamilton
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
hamilton@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3055
Office Location: ETC 4.146C
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Security
Research Interests
Nonlinear propagation of ultrasound in tissue; biophysical responses to underwater sound; acoustic cavitation in shock wave lithotripsy; micro- and electro-mechanical systems-based parametric acoustic arrays
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Alex J. Hanson
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ajhanson@utexas.edu
(512) 232-8110
Office Location: EER 7.886
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Research Interests
Component- and system-level power electronics; high-frequency magnetics and circuits
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John Hasenbein
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
jhas@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3079
Office Location: ETC 5.128B
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Stochastic models; multiclass queueing networks; semiconductor wafer fabrication
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Matthew Hebdon
Associate Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
matt.hebdon@utexas.edu
512-571-1619
Office Location: ECJ 4.718
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Areas of Impact
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Bridge engineering; large-scale testing of structures; in-situ monitoring and testing; use of drones for structural inspection, structurally redundant systems, fatigue and fracture evaluation of steel structures; the corrosion behavior of steels; historical fabrication methods and materials; evaluation and repair of deteriorated infrastructure
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Zoya Heidari
Associate Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
zoya@utexas.edu
512-471-7218
Office Location: PGE 5.108
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Petrophysics; borehole geophysics; formation evaluation; rock physics; inverse problems; integrated reservoir characterization of carbonates and unconventional resources; completion petrophysics
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Todd Helwig
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
thelwig@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-2239, 512-475-8195
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Areas of Impact
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Design and behavior of steel structures
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Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
lhr@che.utexas.edu
512-471-1050
Office Location: CPE 3.470, EME 1.320E
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Air quality, focusing on atmospheric nanoparticles and aerosols
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Ben Hodges
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
hodges@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4730, 512-471-1807
Office Location: ECJ 9.102G
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Hydrodynamics; transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries
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Alex (Qin) Huang
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
aqhuang@utexas.edu
(512) 232-6647
Office Location: EER 7.878
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Space and Aeronautics
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Power Semiconductor Devices; Advanced Power Electronics; Renewable Energy Integration and Smart Grid; Power Management Integrated Circuits
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Rui Huang
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
ruihuang@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-7558
Office Location: ASE 5.210
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Mechanics of integrated materials and structures at micro-and nano-scales; reliability of advanced interconnects and packaging for microelectronics; mechanical instability of thin films and nanostructures; multiscale modeling and simulations
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Thomas Hughes
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
hughes@oden.utexas.edu
512-232-7775
Office Location: POB 5.430A
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Research Interests
Computational mechanics; isogeometic analysis; stabilized and variational multiscale methods; phase-field modeling; cardiovascular bioengineering; complex fluids and turbulence
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Todd Humphreys
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
todd.humphreys@utexas.edu
512-471-4489
Office Location: ASE 3.234
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Security
Transportation and Infrastructure
Wireless and Network Science
Research Interests
Estimation and filtering; satellite navigation technology and security; software-defined radio
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Tanya Hutter
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
tanya.hutter@utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 9.158
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Molecular sensing technologies; nanomaterials, microfabrication, and nanophotonics with applications in environmental sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics
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Gyeong Hwang
Professor
Chemical Engineering
gshwang@che.utexas.edu
512-471-4847
Office Location: CPE 4.404
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Areas of Impact
Research Interests
Computational chemistry and materials science; doping and defect engineering in electronic materials; surface chemistry and catalysis; modeling of energy and catalytic materials for fuel cells; supercapacitors; Li ion batteries; thermoelectrics; photovoltaics