Faculty Directory
Laxminarayan Raja
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
lraja@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4279
Office Location: ASE 4.234
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Space and Aeronautics
Low-temperature glow discharge plasma
Ellen Rathje
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
e.rathje@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-3683
Office Location: ECJ 9.227C
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Transportation and Infrastructure
Geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology; seismic stability of earth structures and slopes; earthquake-induced landslides; seismic site response; field liquefaction evaluation and soil improvement; application of remote sensing to earthquake damage assessment
Christopher Rausch
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
c.rausch@utexas.edu
Office Location: ECJ 5.428
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Industrialized construction; modular construction; geometric digital twins; digitization; building information modeling; computational design; circular economy; materials reuse.
Manuel Rausch
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Biomedical Engineering
manuel.rausch@utexas.edu
(512) 471-5147
Office Location: EER 7.620
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Soft Tissue Biomechanics; Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics; Numerical Modeling; Material Characterization & Constitutive Modeling
K. Ravi-Chandar
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
ravi@utexas.edu
512-471-4213
Office Location: ASE 5.222
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Manufacturing and Materials
Space and Aeronautics
Mechanical behavior of materials at high strain rates; fracture in nominally brittle materials; shear banding in polymeric materials; phase transformation in shape memory alloys
Leonard Register
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
register@mer.utexas.edu
512-232-1868
Office Location: MER 2.606B, EER 3.882
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Theory of electronic and optoelectronic devices, particularly at the nano-scale; semi-classical and quantum mechanical device modeling; alternative materials and geometries for CMOS (non-classical CMOS); alternative state variables and switching methods (beyond CMOS)
Pengyu Ren
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
pren@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-1832
Office Location: BME 5.202M
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Molecular modeling of biological systems; computational drug discovery
Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Understanding the structure and properties of catalysts to enable next-generation sustainable technologies
Gary Rochelle
Professor
Chemical Engineering
rochelle@che.utexas.edu
512-471-7230
Office Location: CPE 5.458
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
CO2 capture from coal-fired power plants by aqueous amine scrubbing; mass transfer with fast reaction in the boundary layer
Adrianne Rosales
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
arosales@che.utexas.edu
(512) 471-6300
Office Location: CPE 3.418
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Biomolecular and biomimetic materials, hydrogel development, cell-matrix interactions, dynamic materials
Ryan Russell
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
ryan.russell@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-4190
Office Location: ASE 3.216
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Computational Engineering/Science
Space and Aeronautics
Astrodynamics; orbital mechanics; numerical methods; nonlinear estimation; spacecraft trajectory design; optimal control
Chris Rylander
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
cgr@austin.utexas.edu
512-232-6144
Office Location: ETC 7.142D
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Manufacturing and Materials
Solving healthcare related problems using mechanical engineering design and manufacturing techniques
M. Nichole Rylander
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
mnr@austin.utexas.edu
512-232-0865
Office Location: ETC 7.142B
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Manufacturing and Materials
Multi-disciplinary elements of bioheat transfer; nanomedicine; biomedical optics; tissue regeneration; cancer engineering
H. Grady Rylander III
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
rylander@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-1995
Office Location: ENS 617C
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Vision research; biomedical sensors; laser applications; neuroprosthesis design