Faculty Directory
Energy and Environment
David Allen
Professor
Chemical Engineering
allen@che.utexas.edu
512-471-0049, 512-475-7842
Office Location: CPE 3.462, PRC 1.320
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Atmospheric chemistry; urban air quality and pollution prevention; environmental and industrial reaction engineering
Hal Alper
Professor
Chemical Engineering
halper@che.utexas.edu
512-471-4417
Office Location: CPE 5.408
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Metabolic engineering; synthetic biology; systems biology; biofuels production using microbial and fungal sources; mammalian cell culture engineering; pathway engineering for the production of novel biofuels and biochemicals; protein engineering and evolution strategies applied to cellular engineering; value-added products and bioactive molecules in eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems; novel molecular biology tools for gene expression and regulation
Narayana Aluru
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
aluru@utexas.edu
Office Location: POB 3.340
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Development of multiscale methods combining quantum, atomistic, mesoscale and continuum scales; Application of multiscale methods to study nanofluidics, bionanotechnology, nanomaterials/nanoelectromechanical systems, and soft matter
Vaibhav Bahadur
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
vb@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-0233
Office Location: ETC 7.138
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Thermal and other energy systems, oil and gas flow assurance, materials and micro-and-nanofabrication
Michael Baldea
Professor
Chemical Engineering
mbaldea@che.utexas.edu
Office Location: CPE 4.466
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Statically equivalent models for simulation and optimization of complex engineered systems; proactive energy management for buildings; optimal operation and strategic decision support; fault detection and isolation for multi-scale systems
Matthew Balhoff
Department Chair and Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
balhoff@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3246
Office Location: CPE 4.182A
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Pore scale and multiscale modeling; flow and transport in porous media; reservoir engineering
Seth Bank
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
sbank@ece.utexas.edu
512-471-9669
Office Location: MER 2.606C, EER 3.876
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices; molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), Semiconductor nanostructures, metal and semiconductor hetero- and nano-structures
Matthew Bartos
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
mdbartos@utexas.edu
Office Location: ECJ 8.610
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Developing the next generation of smart urban water systems, including real-time flood monitoring and stormwater control; algorithms for data assimilation, event detection and sensor/controller placement
Chandra Bhat
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
bhat@mail.utexas.edu
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
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
J. Eric Bickel
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
ebickel@mail.utexas.edu
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
Decision making under uncertainty; value of information; economics; business strategy; energy and climate policy
Joan Brennecke
Professor
Chemical Engineering
jfb@che.utexas.edu
512-471-5092
Office Location: EER 3.614
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Ionic liquids; thermodynamics; gas separations; supercritical fluid technology; environmentally benign chemical processing
Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Environmental and energy justice, sustainable transportation, renewable energy technology manufacturing and deployment, and energy systems modeling
Jingyi "Ann" Chen
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
jingyi.ann.chen@utexas.edu
(512) 471-7034
Office Location: ASE 3.214
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Space and Aeronautics
Satellite geodesy and remote sensing; Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) image processing algorithms; InSAR-based earth observation applications
Kevin Clarno
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
kevin.clarno@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 7.154
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Computational research on nuclear reactors; development and application of advanced reactor analysis software; nuclear data; cross section processing; deterministic and Monte Carlos transport; isotopic depletion and decay; nuclear fuel performance; nuclear core analysis
Hugh Daigle
Associate Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
daigle@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-3775
Office Location: CPE 5.174
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Pore-scale physics; methane hydrates; shale geomechanics, formation evaluation
David DiCarlo
Associate Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
dicarlo@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-1283
Office Location: CPE 4.174
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Fluid flow; pore-scale physics; preferential and compositional displacements; gas injection processes
Chadi El Mohtar
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
elmohtar@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3695
Office Location: ECJ 9.227K
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Transportation and Infrastructure
Pore fluid engineering; non-aqueous flow through porous media; earthquake engineering; liquefaction; fatigue life and behavior of asphalt concrete
Nicolás Espinoza
Associate Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
espinoza@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-8280
Office Location: CPE 3.118A, CPE 2.502
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Mechanics and physics of natural porous solids, methane recovery from microporous organic rocks, methane hydrate-bearing sediments and geological carbon sequestration
Ofodike Ezekoye
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
dezekoye@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3085
Office Location: ETC 7.130
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Security
Jet flames; aerosols; fire dynamics; flame ignition
Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Infrastructure management and decision making; infrastructure interdependencies; intersection of engineering and policy; public involvement in infrastructure decisions; coupled human infrastructure interdependencies; impact of urban decline on infrastructure systems
Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Next-generation HVAC and thermal systems; Energy efficient air dehumidification (selective membranes, desiccants, and other sorbents); Atmospheric water harvesting systems and materials; Membrane gas separations; Thermal energy storage
Xavier Fonoll Almansa
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
xavier.fonoll@utexas.edu
Office Location: 9.102D
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Resource recovery from wastes; microbial community engineering; decentralized sanitation
John Foster
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
jfoster@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-6972
Office Location: CPE 3.108
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Experimental and computational geomechanics and multi-scale modeling with applications to well completions, lost circulation, hydraulic fracturing and anomalous flow in porous media
Benny Freeman
Professor
Chemical Engineering
freeman@che.utexas.edu
512-232-2803
Office Location: EER 4.614 B
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Gas separation materials; gas-vapor barrier materials; membranes for water purification; membrane module modeling
Venkat Ganesan
Professor
Chemical Engineering
venkat@che.utexas.edu
512-471-4856
Office Location: CPE 3.414
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Self-assembly in polymer-particle mixtures; simulations of dynamics of self-assembled materials; theory and simulation of rod-coil and crystallizable polymers; simulations of structure and properties of materials for fuel cell and photovoltaic applications
Courtney Gardner
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
courtney.gardner@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ECJ 9.102E
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Environmental biotechnology and microbiology; microbiome engineering; environmental fate of chemical and biological pollutants; stormwater quality; wildfire microbiology and ecosystem recovery
Omar Ghattas
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
omar@ices.utexas.edu
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
Computational fluid, solid, bio, and geomechanics; inverse problems and optimization; uncertainty quantification; parallel numerical algorithms and large-scale supercomputing
Robert Gilbert
Department Chair and Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
bob_gilbert@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-3688
Office Location: ECJ 9.227H
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Performance reliability and risk management for slopes, dams, levees, foundations, waste containment and site remediation
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
Technology development, data analysis and policy support related to environmental monitoring for nuclear proliferation and arms control
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
Internal combustion engines; hazardous waste incineration; combustion and flow in porous media
Zoya Heidari
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
Petrophysics; borehole geophysics; formation evaluation; rock physics; inverse problems; integrated reservoir characterization of carbonates and unconventional resources; completion petrophysics
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
Air quality, focusing on atmospheric nanoparticles and aerosols
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
Hydrodynamics; transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries
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
Power Semiconductor Devices; Advanced Power Electronics; Renewable Energy Integration and Smart Grid; Power Management Integrated Circuits
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
Molecular sensing technologies; nanomaterials, microfabrication, and nanophotonics with applications in environmental sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics
Jean Anne Incorvia
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
incorvia@austin.utexas.edu
(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
Nanotechnology, Spintronics, Magnetic Memory
Blair Johnson
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
blairjohnson@utexas.edu
(512) 232-1863
Office Location: ECJ 8.214
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Environmental fluid mechanics; turbulence; sediment transport and mixing processes; experimental methods
Keith Johnston
Professor
Chemical Engineering
kpj@che.utexas.edu
512-471-4617
Office Location: CPE 5.414
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Particle engineering including nanotechnology; drug delivery; polymer thin films including nanocrystal composites; environmentally responsible processing with solvents including carbon dioxide for materials science and separation processes; carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery
Maria Juenger
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
mjuenger@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-3593, 512-471-7751
Office Location: ECJ 4.736
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Transportation and Infrastructure
Hydration chemistry and microstructural characterization of portland cement and related materials; mechanisms of chemical deterioration in concrete; concrete durability; reducing the environmental impact of concrete production
Lynn Katz
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
lynnkatz@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4244
Office Location: ECJ 9.102H
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Contaminant fate and transport; combined abiotic and biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation; environmental surface chemistry
Benjamin Keitz
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
keitz@utexas.edu
512-232-2373
Office Location: CPE 4.462
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Influence of porous materials on abeta amyloid formation
Spyros Kinnas
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
kinnas@mail.utexas.edu
512-475-7969, 512-232-1887
Office Location: ECJ 8.610
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Ocean engineering; hydrodynamics; cavitation; wave mechanics; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems; tidal turbines
Kerry Kinney
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
kakinney@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-1740
Office Location: ECJ 9.102A
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Beneficial application of microorganisms to the treatment of pollutants in the environment; algae-to-biofuel production processes; potentially detrimental microbial communities that develop in indoor environments
Mary Kirisits
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
kirisits@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-7120
Office Location: ECJ 8.216
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Biological drinking water treatment processes; microbial transformation of inorganic contaminants; application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; rainwater harvesting; impacts of nanomaterials on microorganisms in engineered water treatment systems; biofilms; quorum sensing in pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms; microbial community structure of pediatric otitis media
Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Security
Radioactive waste disposal; thermal analysis of nuclear shipping containers; nuclear weapon dismantlement; nuclear power
Kara Kockelman
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-0210, 512-471-4379
Office Location: ECJ 6.904
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Travel behavior modeling; Transport data analysis; Transport economics and energy policy; Roadway safety; The connection between urban form and transportation
Brian Korgel
Professor
Chemical Engineering
korgel@che.utexas.edu
512-471-5633
Office Location: CPE 4.462, CPE 2.802
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Nanostructure assembly and organizational strategies; development of new approaches for nanoscale material synthesis and applications, including photovoltaics, thin film transistors, lithium ion batteries and medicine
Desiderio Kovar
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
dekovar@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-6271
Office Location: ETC 9.146
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Production and characterization of nanoparticles; nanostructured thick films; solid oxide fuel cells; honeycomb ceramics
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
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
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
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
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
Arumugam Manthiram
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
rmanth@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-1791, 512-471-7394
Office Location: ETC 9.104
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Clean energy materials; electrochemical energy conversion and storage; Lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and solar cells; nanomaterials
Lance Manuel
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
lmanuel@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-5691
Office Location: ECJ 4.718
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Random vibration; structural dynamics; structural reliability; atmospheric inflow turbulence simulation for wind turbine loads analysis; computational methods for windstorm field generation; performance of deepwater offshore platforms; probabilistic seismic hazard analysis
Diana Marculescu
Department Chair and Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
dianam@utexas.edu
(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
Delia Milliron
Department Chair and Professor
Chemical Engineering
milliron@che.utexas.edu
512-232-5702
Office Location: NHB 6.404
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Chemical synthesis and assembly of nanostructured electronic and electrochemical materials; processing-structure-property relationships; energy; electronic devices
Pawel Misztal
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
misztal@utexas.edu
512-232-5840
Office Location: ECJ 5.428
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Indoor chemistry and implications on indoor air quality and occupants' health
David Mitlin
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
david.mitlin@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: EER 4.620
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Electrochemical and chemical energy storage; thin films; materials design; transmission electron microscopy and corrosion
Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
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
Kishore Mohanty
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
mohanty@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3077
Office Location: CPE 3.168
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transport of simple and complex fluids in complex microstructured materials for applications in energy, environment and biotechnology
C. Buddie Mullins
Assistant Department Chair & Professor
Chemical Engineering
mullins@che.utexas.edu
512-471-5817
Office Location: CPE 4.418
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Materials chemistry for energy studies regarding solar photoelectrocatalysis; catalysis of nano-structured surfaces; materials for lithium-ion battery electrodes
Quoc Nguyen
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
quoc_p_nguyen@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-1204
Office Location: CPE 5.104 A
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Chemical and gas enhanced oil recovery; conformance control technology; stimulated production of unconventional resources; thermal and chemical conversion of tar sand and oil shale; nanoparticle functionalization and processing for subsurface applications
Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Understanding of the Earth system and the dynamic role of coupled land surface processes on regional hydroclimatic and environmental extremes; translating the scientific work undertaken into decision tools and portals with a focus on sustainable climate-ready/resilient coastal, cities and agricultural systems
Atila Novoselac
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
atila@mail.utexas.edu
512-475-8175
Office Location: ECJ 5.422
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Ventilation and indoor air quality; computations and measurements of airflows in buildings; pollutants transport modeling; building energy analysis
James O'Connor
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
jtoconnor@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-4645
Office Location: ECJ 5.2
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Project constructability; advanced construction technologies; pre-construction management systems; project decision/risk analysis; systems for work process integration; benchmarking of capital projects; value management processes
Ryosuke Okuno
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
okuno@utexas.edu
512-471-3250
Office Location: CPE 5.118B
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Enhanced oil recovery; thermal oil recovery; oil displacement theory; numerical reservoir simulation; thermodynamics; multiphase behavior and applied mathematics
Jon Olson
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
jolson@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-7375, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 5.168B, CPE 2.502
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Hydraulic fracturing, petroleum rock mechanics, naturally fractured reservoirs, structural geology
Paola Passalacqua
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
paola@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-3319
Office Location: ECJ 8.612
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Multi-scale analysis of hydrological processes; dynamics of environmental transport on river networks and deltaic systems; quantitative analysis and modeling of landscape forming processes, geomorphic transport laws and subgrid-scale parameterization.
Masa Prodanovic
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
masha@utexas.edu
512-471-0839
Office Location: CPE 4.186A
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Fluid displacement in porous media; porous matrix and microfractured media characterization; unconventional reservoirs modeling; ferrohydrodynamics
Michael Pyrcz
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
mpyrcz@austin.utexas.edu
(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
Integrated Reservoir Characterization; Unconventional Resources; Petrophysics and pore-scale processes; Geologic Carbon Storage
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
Surya Santoso
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ssantoso@mail.utexas.edu
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
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
Alexandra Clará Saracho
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
alexandra.clara.saracho@utexas.edu
Office Location: ECJ 9.227F
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Biogeotechnics; erosion of soils; carbon capture and storage; 3D printing in geotechnical engineering; thermal properties of soils; laboratory testing of soils; biotechnology
Kamy Sepehrnoori
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
kamys@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-0231, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 2.502
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Reservoir simulation development and application; simulation of enhance oil recovery processes; computational methods; parallel computations; applied mathematics; naturally fractured reservoir modeling; co-optimization of CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery; inverse modeling
Mukul Sharma
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Chemical Engineering
msharma@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3257, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 5.118A
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Formation damage; petrophysics; fluid flow in porous media
Wen Song
Assistant Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
wensong@utexas.edu
512-471-5789
Office Location: CPE 4.118B
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Enhanced oil recovery; petrophysics and pore scale processes; reservoir engineering; unconventional resources; geologic carbon storage; natural gas engineering; reservoir simulation
Gerald Speitel
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
speitel@utexas.edu
512-471-7995
Office Location: ECJ 10.326
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals, including biodegradation and adsorption; drinking water treatment; computer models of treatment processes
Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Multiscale simulation of electrochemical systems; model-based battery management systems and real-time state-of-charge/real-time state-of-health estimation of Lithium-ion batteries
Hewei Tang
Assistant Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
hewei.tang@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: CPE 3.118
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Energy and Environment
Direct air capture with geothermal energy, fracture characterization in enhanced geothermal systems, and using neural operators for subsurface simulations
Carlos Torres-Verdin
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
cverdin@mail.utexas.edu
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
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
Eric van Oort
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
vanoort@austin.utexas.edu
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
Rig automation; zonal isolation; borehole stability and lost circulation; frac optimization; frac water management, drilling and completion fluids
Michael Webber
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
webber@mail.utexas.edu
512-475-6867
Office Location: ETC 6.106EA
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Energy policy; energy and water; alternative and renewable energy; biofuels; energy in Texas; energy systems; waste to energy
Charles Werth
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
werth@utexas.edu
512-232-1626
Office Location: ECJ 8.206
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Reactive transport and fate of pollutants in water resources, including groundwater and urban lakes and the development of sustainable technologies for pollution removal from impacted waters
Guihua Yu
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
ghyu@austin.utexas.edu
512-232-5276
Office Location: ETC 9.144
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Nanomaterials for energy science and environment; energy storage and conversion devices; nanoelectronics; nano-biotechnolgy; self-assembly of nanostructures
Yuebing Zheng
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
zheng@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-0228
Office Location: ETC 9.174
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Nanophotonics; micro and nanofluidics; molecular engineering; nanobiotechnology; lab on a chip; solar energy; information technology
Hao Zhu
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
haozhu@utexas.edu
(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
Cyber-physical power systems, Energy data analytics, Signal processing over networks
Jorge Zornberg
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
zornberg@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-3595
Office Location: ECJ 9.227A
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Soil mechanics; soil reinforcement and improvement; environmental geotechnics; geosynthetics; numerical and physical (centrifuge) modeling of geotechnical and geoenvironmental systems