Faculty Directory


Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

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Maruthi Akella

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-9493
Office Location: ASE 3.224

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Nonlinear and robust adaptive control; dynamics of networked systems and sensors; control applications for supersonic flows

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Jonathan Bard

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3076, 512-471-1336
Office Location: ETC 5.126

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Design and analysis of manufacturing systems; large-scale hierarchical optimization; healthcare delivery improvement; workforce planning & scheduling

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Chandra Bhat

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4535
Office Location: ECJ 6.810

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Activity and travel behavior analysis; travel demand modeling; application of econometric, discrete choice and market research techniques in transportation planning; logistics and freight modeling; transportation energy and transportation air quality analysis; urban form and spatial data modeling

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J. Eric Bickel

Professor

Mechanical Engineering
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-232-8316
Office Location: ETC 5.128D

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Decision making under uncertainty; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy

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George Biros

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-8248
Office Location: POB 5.234

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Parallel algorithms; numerical algorithms for integral and differential equations; inverse problems; data assimilation; computational statistics; biological complex fluids; blood rheology; soft tissue and cardiovascular mechanics; and medical image analysis

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Raghavendra Bollapragada

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 5.118

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Nonlinear optimization, stochastic optimization, derivative-free optimization, distributed optimization, machine learning

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Maura Borrego

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


(512) 471-3083
Office Location: EER

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Successful transfer of Hispanic engineering students from two-year to four-year institutions; engineering undergraduate student resistance to active learning; how engineering instructors make decisions about their teaching; learning in graduate engineering research groups; interdisciplinary education and teamwork

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Alan Bovik

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-5370
Office Location: EER 7.862

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Digital and wireless video communication; image and video processing and quality assessment; computer vision; computational aspects of biological visual perception

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Constantine Caramanis

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-9269
Office Location: EER 6.820

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Robust and adaptive optimization and control; statistical learning; applications in telecommunications; applications in air traffic control

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Kaushik Chowdhury

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.878

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Pervasive computing; Machine learning; Wireless communications

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Richard Crawford

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3030
Office Location: ETC 4.108

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Computer-aided mechanical design and manufacturing; geometric modeling; solid freeform fabrication

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Gustavo de Veciana

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


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

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Ashish D. Deshpande

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


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

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Georgios-Alex Dimakis

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


510-388-1905
Office Location: EER 6.816

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Information theory; coding theory; signal processing; networking

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Dragan Djurdjanovic

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


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

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Thinh Doan

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


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

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Mattan Erez

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-7846
Office Location: EER 5.872

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computer architecture; high-performance computing; programming languages and models

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Brian Evans

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-1457
Office Location: EER 6.882

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Digital signal processing; image processing; communication systems; electronic design automation

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Kevin Folliard

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-3591, 512-232-7820
Office Location: ECJ 4.716, PRC 18B

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Portland cement concrete; concrete durability; high-performance concrete; controlled low-strength materials

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Andreas Gerstlauer

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-8294
Office Location: EER 5.882

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Embedded system design; electronic system-level (ESL) design automation, modeling, languages, methodologies and tools; embedded hardware and software synthesis

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Omar Ghattas

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-232-4304
Office Location: POB 4.236A

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Computational fluid, solid, bio, and geomechanics; inverse problems and optimization; uncertainty quantification; parallel numerical algorithms and large-scale supercomputing

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Joydeep Ghosh

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-8980
Office Location: EER 6.812

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Data mining; web mining; predictive analytics, machine learning; large-scale statistical analysis; high-performance computing

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Alex J. Hanson

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(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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Zoya Heidari

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


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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Jean Anne Incorvia

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(737) 808-4124
Office Location: EER 3.820

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Nanotechnology, Spintronics, Magnetic Memory

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Brandon Jones

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 471-4743
Office Location: ASE 3.230

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Orbit state and uncertainty propagation; Multi-target, multi-sensor tracking and filtering; Space situational awareness; Satellite navigation; Numerical methods and modeling

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Sarfraz Khurshid

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-8244
Office Location: EER 7.880

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

Software testing; specification languages; code conformance; model checking; heuristics in program analysis; data structure repair; program repair

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Hyeji Kim

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-8117
Office Location: EER 6.870

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Information theory, machine learning and wireless communications

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Jaydeep Kulkarni

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 471-4802
Office Location: EER 4.882

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Integrated Circuits; Emerging Nano-technologies

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Fernanda Leite

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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

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Diana Marculescu

Department Chair and Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 471-6179
Office Location: EER 5.814

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

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Mia Markey

she/her/hers

Professor

Biomedical Engineering


512-471-1711, 512-471-8660
Office Location: BME 5.202L, BME 5.108

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Biomedical informatics; decision support; biomedical image analysis; biometrics

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José Del Rocio Millán Ruiz

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering


(512) 232-8111
Office Location: EER 7.822

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Brain-computer interfaces (BCI); neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics; human-robot interaction; statistical machine learning; neuroscience; neurorehabilitation

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Ilias Mitra

Assistant Professor

Chemical Engineering


Office Location: CPE 4.468

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Artificial intelligence assisted optimization, control, and modeling of complex process systems

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Javad Mohammadi

Assistant Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Optimization and artificial intelligence in power grids; Electrified transportation systems, smart buildings, and smart cities; Modeling implications of transitioning to a low-carbon energy economy

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Aryan Mokhtari

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-8112
Office Location: EER 6.826

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Optimization; machine learning; data science; artificial intelligence and signal processing

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Michael Orshansky

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-1082
Office Location: EER 4.814

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Security

Research Interests

Statistical analysis and optimization algorithms for yield improvement; circuit design for manufacturability; robust low-power circuit design

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Michael Pyrcz

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


(512) 471-3252
Office Location: CPE 4.186B

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Integrated Reservoir Characterization; Unconventional Resources; Petrophysics and pore-scale processes; Geologic Carbon Storage

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Sujay Sanghavi

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-475-9798
Office Location: EER 6.824

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Security

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Algorithms for wireless, sensor and peer-to-peer networks and the Internet; machine learning and data mining; social networks; optimization

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Surya Santoso

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-3371
Office Location: EER 7.876

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Electromagnetic transient and electric power quality in power systems; development of intelligent systems for enabling self-healing and self-restoring power systems; wind power interconnection and integration

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Anastasia Schauer

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 4.165

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Design cognition; Design theory and methodology; Humanitarian engineering; Cognitive bias and empathy in design; Innovation and creativity; Equity and social impact in engineering; Design for manufacturing; Engineering education

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Sanjay Shakkottai

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-5376
Office Location: EER 6.802

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Scheduling and QoS in wireless networks; ad-hoc and sensor networks; congestion control in the internet; resource allocation for heterogeneous networks

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August Shi

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Software testing and regression testing

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David Soloveichik

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 7.814

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Molecular programming, including the engineering of complex molecular systems for synthetic biology, nanotechnology and bioengineering.

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Hewei Tang

Assistant Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


Office Location: CPE 3.118

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Direct air capture with geothermal energy, fracture characterization in enhanced geothermal systems, and using neural operators for subsurface simulations

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Edison Thomaz

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 7.818

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Modeling health-related behaviors, with specific focus on scalable computational methods and novel sensing approaches

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Ufuk Topcu

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: POB 5.436

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Design and verification of autonomous networked systems

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Carlos Torres-Verdin

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-4216, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 5.182A

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Borehole geophysics; petrophysics; formation evaluation; well logging; rock physics; multi-physics geophysical detection and imaging; geophysical imaging of time-lapse subsurface phenomena; inverse problems; signal processing

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Eric van Oort

Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-6262
Office Location: CPE 4.182A

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Rig automation; zonal isolation; borehole stability and lost circulation; frac optimization; frac water management, drilling and completion fluids

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Haris Vikalo

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-232-7922
Office Location: EER 7.810

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Bioengineering and Health

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Statistical signal processing; bioinformatics and computational biology; wireless communications systems

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Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.886

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Automated machine learning (AutoML), learning-based optimization, machine learning robustness and efficient deep learning

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Karen Willcox

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-232-6259
Office Location: POB 4.102

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Data to decisions in engineering systems; computational models and methods for design, optimization, control and uncertainty quantification of engineering systems; reduced-order modeling and multi-fidelity modeling; future aircraft technologies; aircraft system optimization; aircraft environmental impact; multidisciplinary design; unmanned aerial vehicles; digital twins

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Neeraja Yadwadkar

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 5.884

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Cloud computing systems; machine learning; serverless computing; machine learning for systems; systems for machine learning

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Hao Zhu

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 471-1722
Office Location: EER 7.868

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Cyber-physical power systems, Energy data analytics, Signal processing over networks