Faculty Directory
Autonomy and Robotics
Maruthi Akella
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
makella@mail.utexas.edu
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
Nonlinear and robust adaptive control; dynamics of networked systems and sensors; control applications for supersonic flows
Farshid Alambeigi
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
farshid.alambeigi@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 3.144
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Bioengineering and Health
Computer integrated surgery and medical robotics; soft robotics; autonomous surgical manipulation; design and manufacturing; applications of control theory
Efstathios Bakolas
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
bakolas@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-4250
Office Location: ASE 4.232
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Systems and control theory, optimal control, differential games, nonlinear control, computational geometry, applications of autonomous vehicles
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
Alan Bovik
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
bovik@ece.utexas.edu
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
Digital and wireless video communication; image and video processing and quality assessment; computer vision; computational aspects of biological visual perception
Sandeep Chinchali
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
sandeepc@utexas.edu
Office Location: EER 6.870
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Wireless and Network Science
Robotics; Edge computing; Wireless networks; Energy-Efficient Deep Learning
John-Paul Clarke
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
johnpaul@utexas.edu
512-471-4371
Office Location: ASE 3.222
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Environmental impact of aviation; trajectory prediction and optimization; stochastic models and optimization algorithms; increasingly autonomous aircraft-enabled mobility; human-machine teaming
Gustavo de Veciana
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
gustavo@ece.utexas.edu
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
Analysis and design of wireless and wireline telecommunication networks; architectures and protocols to support sensing and pervasive computing; applied probability, queueing and information theory
Ashish D. Deshpande
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
ashish@austin.utexas.edu
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
Design and building of robots for rehabilitation, prosthetic and assistive purposes; study of human movement control through experiments and mathematical modeling
Thinh Doan
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
thinhdoan@utexas.edu
Office Location: ASE 3.206
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Autonomy and Robotics
Real-time decision making for autonomy; Control theory; Optimization, applied probability theory; Reinforcement learning, generative AI, and distributed learning
Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Bioengineering and Health
Neuromuscular biomechanics, rehabilitation robotics, and prosthetics and orthotics
David Fridovich-Keil
Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
dfk@utexas.edu
512-471-4257
Office Location: ASE 3.232
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Optimal control theory; dynamic game theory; motion planning; multi-agent decision making; machine learning and control
Andreas Gerstlauer
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
gerstl@ece.utexas.edu
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
Embedded system design; electronic system-level (ESL) design automation, modeling, languages, methodologies and tools; embedded hardware and software synthesis
Todd Humphreys
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
todd.humphreys@utexas.edu
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
Estimation and filtering; satellite navigation technology and security; software-defined radio
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
Information technology for project management; building information modeling; life-cycle information integration; collaboration and coordination technologies; information technology-supported construction safety management
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
José Del Rocio Millán Ruiz
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
jose.millan@austin.utexas.edu
(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
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI); neuroengineering; neuroprosthetics; human-robot interaction; statistical machine learning; neuroscience; neurorehabilitation
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
Luis Sentis
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
lsentis@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-5987
Office Location: ASE 4.204
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Computational Engineering/Science
Human-centered robotics; mathematics of movement and manipulation; building legged humanoid robots; software architectures for sensing and acting; biomechatronics
Takashi Tanaka
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
ttanaka@utexas.edu
(512) 232-0830
Office Location: ASE 4.230
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Systems and control theory; Networked and multi-agent systems; Information theory in control
Ufuk Topcu
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
utopcu@utexas.edu
Office Location: POB 5.436
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Autonomy and Robotics
Computational Engineering/Science
Design and verification of autonomous networked systems
Junmin Wang
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
jwang@austin.utexas.edu
(512) 232-2392
Office Location: ETC 4.152C
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Computational Engineering/Science
Transportation and Infrastructure
Control, modeling, estimation, optimization, and diagnosis of dynamical systems, especially for automotive, vehicle, transportation, smart, automated, and sustainable mobility applications
Fangzhou Xia
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
fangzhou.xia@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 4.158
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Bioengineering and Health
Manufacturing and Materials
Precision mechatronics, instrumentation, dynamic systems and control, nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopy, miniaturized robots, medical devices
Renato Zanetti
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
renato@utexas.edu
Office Location: ASE 3.210
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Computational Engineering/Science
Space and Aeronautics
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
Amy Zhang
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
amy.zhang@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: EER 6.878
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Reinforcement learning; generalization; representation learning; robotics