Faculty Directory
Larry Lake
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
larry_lake@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-8233, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 4.108
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Enhanced oil recovery; reservoir engineering; reservoir characterization; geochemical modeling; simulation
Chad Landis
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
landis@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4273
Office Location: ASE 5.214
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Mechanics of materials; ferroelectrics; ferromagnetic shape memory alloys; fracture mechanics; continuum thermodynamics
Sheldon Landsberger
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
s.landsberger@mail.utexas.edu
512-796-0287
Office Location: ETC 7.116
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Radioactive and solid waste management; low-level counting of natural radioactivity; compton suppression gamma-ray spectrometry; risk assessment in radioactivity handling
Jun-Whan (Michael) Lee
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
junwhanlee@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ECJ 4.722
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Coastal engineering; coastal hazard forecasting and assessment; disaster resilience and risk management; flood mitigation using nature-based solutions; sea level rise vulnerability; ocean resource management
Benjamin Leibowicz
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
bleibowicz@utexas.edu
512-475-9550
Office Location: ETC 5.128D
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Energy economics; technological change; energy and climate policy analysis; integrated assessment modeling; industrial organization; innovation
Fernanda Leite
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
fernanda.leite@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-5957
Office Location: ECJ 5.302
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Autonomy and Robotics
Transportation and Infrastructure
Information technology for project management; building information modeling; life-cycle information integration; collaboration and coordination technologies; information technology-supported construction safety management
Sensen Li
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
sensen.li@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: EER 4.864
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
RF/millimeter-wave/terahertz integrated circuits; antennas and antenna arrays; microwave devices and circuits
Wei Li
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
weiwli@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 5.146
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Manufacturing and Materials
Polymer nanofoam and nanocomposites; biomedical micro devices; 3D cell culture and drug discovery; nanoporous materials; manufacturing processes for alternate transportation energy
Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices
Howard Liljestrand
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
liljestrand@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4604
Office Location: ECJ 8.206
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Aquatic chemistry; contaminant transport; pollutant containment and remediation acid deposition; air pollution modeling
Yijin Liu
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
yijin.liu@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 9.174
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Battery manufacturing, safety, degradation and failure analysis
Yuanyue Liu
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
yuanyue.liu@austin.utexas.edu
(512) 232-3788
Office Location: ETC 9.168
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Apply theory and atomic scale simulations to solve materials problems; room-temperature electron transport in materials and how it would be affected by the atom vibrations (phonons), defects, and the interface
Raul Longoria
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
r.longoria@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-0530
Office Location: ETC 5.134B
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Physical system modeling, analysis and control; evaluation of robotic ground vehicles; vehicle system dynamics and control; electromechanical systems and mechatronics
Hannah Lu
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
hannah.lu@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ASE 5.242
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Scientific computing; Model reduction; Uncertainty quantification; Machine learning in applications of environmental fluid mechanics
Nanshu Lu
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
nanshulu@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4208
Office Location: EER 7.614B
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Wireless and Network Science
Mechanics of thin films on compliant substrates; mechanics of flexible electronics with extreme deformability and compliance; mechanics at bio-electronics interface; development of novel bio-integrated soft electronics for cardiac, neural and epidermal applications
Ruochen Lu
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ruochen@utexas.edu
Office Location: MER 2.606B, EER 3.870
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Areas of Impact
Wireless and Network Science
Communications, control theory, data science, information theory, machine learning, networking, optimization, signal processing and system theory
Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Paraffin gelation and deposition in multiphase flow; asphaltene precipitation and deposition; rheological and flow behaviors of non-Newtonian petroleum fluids; and applications of molecular simulation in oil and gas production
Nathaniel Lynd
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
lynd@che.utexas.edu
512-232-2534
Office Location: CPE 3.408
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Polymer sciences, including areas such as modeling, design and synthesis of membranes for capture of carbon dioxide; synthesis of degradable biomedical materials; and understanding ion transport in polymer electrolytes