Faculty Directory


Autonomy and Robotics

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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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Farshid Alambeigi

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 3.144

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Computer integrated surgery and medical robotics; soft robotics; autonomous surgical manipulation; design and manufacturing; applications of control theory

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Efstathios Bakolas

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4250
Office Location: ASE 4.232

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Systems and control theory, optimal control, differential games, nonlinear control, computational geometry, applications of autonomous vehicles

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Seth Bank

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


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

Research Interests

Semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices; molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), Semiconductor nanostructures, metal and semiconductor hetero- and nano-structures

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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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Sandeep Chinchali

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.870

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Robotics; Edge computing; Wireless networks; Energy-Efficient Deep Learning

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John-Paul Clarke

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4371
Office Location: ASE 3.222

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Environmental impact of aviation; trajectory prediction and optimization; stochastic models and optimization algorithms; increasingly autonomous aircraft-enabled mobility; human-machine teaming

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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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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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Nick Fey

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3434

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Research Interests

Neuromuscular biomechanics, rehabilitation robotics, and prosthetics and orthotics

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David Fridovich-Keil

Assistant Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4257
Office Location: ASE 3.232

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Optimal control theory; dynamic game theory; motion planning; multi-agent decision making; machine learning and control

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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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Todd Humphreys

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-4489
Office Location: ASE 3.234

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Estimation and filtering; satellite navigation technology and security; software-defined radio

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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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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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Ryan Russell

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-4190
Office Location: ASE 3.216

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Astrodynamics; orbital mechanics; numerical methods; nonlinear estimation; spacecraft trajectory design; optimal control

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Luis Sentis

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-5987
Office Location: ASE 4.204

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Human-centered robotics; mathematics of movement and manipulation; building legged humanoid robots; software architectures for sensing and acting; biomechatronics

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Takashi Tanaka

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


(512) 232-0830
Office Location: ASE 4.230

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Systems and control theory; Networked and multi-agent systems; Information theory in control

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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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Junmin Wang

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


(512) 232-2392
Office Location: ETC 4.152C

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Control, modeling, estimation, optimization, and diagnosis of dynamical systems, especially for automotive, vehicle, transportation, smart, automated, and sustainable mobility applications

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Fangzhou Xia

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 4.158

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Precision mechatronics, instrumentation, dynamic systems and control, nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopy, miniaturized robots, medical devices

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Renato Zanetti

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


Office Location: ASE 3.210

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Computational Engineering/Science

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Stochastic estimation of non-linear/non-Gaussian dynamical systems; GNC of autonomous systems; Spacecraft attitude dynamics, determination, and control; Simulation of large, complex dynamical systems; Vision-based navigation; Sensor fusion, sensor technology, and sensor utilization planning

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Amy Zhang

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


Office Location: EER 6.878

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Research Interests

Reinforcement learning; generalization; representation learning; robotics