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
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
Radioactive and solid waste management; low-level counting of natural radioactivity; compton suppression gamma-ray spectrometry; risk assessment in radioactivity handling

Desmond Lawler
Professor Emeritus
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
dlawler@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4595
Office Location: ECJ 8.6
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Particles in water and wastewater treatment processes; mathematical modeling of treatment processes; physical-chemical treatment; drinking and industrial process water treatment

Jack Lee
Associate Department Chair/Research & Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
jacklee@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-8423
Office Location: MER 1.606D, EER 3.806
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
High-K gate dielectrics and gate electrodes; alternative channel materials for MOSFET applications; fabrication methods and novel device structures for future integrated circuit device applications; compound semiconductor device design and fabrication

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
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
Nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices

Kenneth Liechti
Professor Emeritus
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
kml@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4164
Office Location: ASE 5.228
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Delamination fracture mechanics; adhesive bonding and composite materials; microelectronics packaging; mechanics of adhesion and friction at small scales

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
Research Interests
Aquatic chemistry; contaminant transport; pollutant containment and remediation acid deposition; air pollution modeling

Hao Ling
Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ling@ece.utexas.edu
512-471-1710
Office Location: ENS 622
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Research Interests
Computational electromagnetics; radar sensors and radar signal processing; antennas and propagation

Yuanyue Liu
Assistant 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
Research Interests
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

Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment

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
Research Interests
Physical system modeling, analysis and control; evaluation of robotic ground vehicles; vehicle system dynamics and control; electromechanical systems and mechatronics

Nanshu Lu
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
nanshulu@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4208
Office Location: EER 7.614B, ASE 5.242
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Wireless and Network Science
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
Communications, control theory, data science, information theory, machine learning, networking, optimization, signal processing and system theory

Areas of Impact
Research Interests
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
Research Interests
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