This year’s incoming faculty members exhibit a wide range of engineering expertise and bring research interests that range from tissue regeneration and space situational awareness to geostatistical reservoir modeling and energy and sustainability. Learn more about our newest Texas Engineers:
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering No. 16
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1998-2017
Research interests include: ionic liquids, thermodynamics, gas separations, supercritical fluid technology, spectroscopic methods, phase equilibrium under extreme conditions, environmentally benign chemical processing
Learn more: Alumna Joan Brennecke to Join Faculty
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Ph.D. Stanford University
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University, 2014-16
Research interests include: satellite geodesy and remote sensing, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) image processing algorithms, InSAR-based earth observation applications
Learn more: Welcome New Faculty — Jingyi “Ann” Chen
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
L.B. (Preach) Meaders Professor in Engineering
Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, 2013-17
Research interests include: design of polymeric biomaterials scaffolds for tissue engineering applications
Learn more: Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez Joins BME Faculty
Michael Haberman
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Scientist, Applied Research Laboratories, UT Austin, 2014-17
Research interests include: elastic and acoustic wave propagation in complex media, acoustic metamaterials, new acoustic transduction materials, ultrasonic nondestructive testing, vibro-acoustic transducers
Learn more: Michael Haberman Faculty Profile
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering #1
Ph.D. Cambridge University
Professor, North Carolina State University, 2004-17
Research interests include: power electronics, power semiconductor devices, smart grid, renewable energy systems
Learn more: Alex Huang Faculty Profile
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Harvard University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 2015-17
Research interests include: physical properties of nanoscale magnetic materials and applications for logic devices, utilizing spin for more energy efficient computing, 3D monolithic integration of spin Hall magnetic memory
Learn more: Jean Anne Incorvia Faculty Profile
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder
Director, Space Object Behavioral Sciences; Associate Research Scientist and Professor, College of Engineering, University of Arizona, 2016-17
Research interests include: non-gravitational astrodynamics and advanced/non-linear multi-sensor/object tracking, prediction, and information fusion; space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization; spacecraft navigation
Learn more: Space Traffic Expert Moriba Jah Joins UT Austin Engineering
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Purdue University
Senior Staff Research Scientist, Intel Corporation Circuit Research Lab, 2009-17
Research interests include: integrated circuits and systems
Learn more: Jaydeep Kulkarni Faculty Profile
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. Rice University
Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 2015-17
Research interests include: materials theory and simulations for electronics, optoelectronics, energy conversion, energy storage
Learn more: Yuanyue Liu Faculty Profile
Associate Professor, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Fellow of the H.B. (Burt) Harkins, Jr. Professorship in Petroleum Engineering
Ph. D. University of Alberta
Team Leader and Research Scientist, Reservoir Modeling R&D, Chevron Energy Technology Company, 2004-17
Research interests include: geostatistics, numerical modeling, uncertainty characterization, including technology related to emerging unconventional assets
Learn more: Q&A with New Associate Professor Michael Pyrcz
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Ph.D. Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, 2015-17
Research interests include: soft tissue biomechanics, nonlinear continuum mechanics, numerical modeling, material characterization, constitutive modeling
Learn more: Welcome New Faculty — Manuel Rausch
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2013-17
Research interests include: biomolecular and biomimetic materials, hydrogel development, cell-matrix interactions, dynamic materials
Learn more: Alumna Adrianne Rosales Accepts Texas ChE Faculty Appointment
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dean of the UT Austin Graduate School and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael and Katherine Birck Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of the Graduate School, Purdue University, 2009-17
Research interests include: voice, audio, image and video signal processing; data compression; applications of wavelets and filter banks
Learn more: Mark Smith Appointed Dean of Graduate School and Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at UT Austin and Mark J.T. Smith Faculty Profile
Research Professor, Chemical Engineering
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin
Professor, University of Notre Dame, 1996-2017
Research interests include: reliable engineering computing, process systems engineering, applied interval mathematics, deterministic global optimization, verified solution of nonlinear dynamic systems, modeling and computation of phase behavior, ecological and environmental modeling
Learn more: Mark Stadtherr Faculty Profile
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Postdoctoral Research, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2015-17
Research interests include: systems and control theory, networked and multi-agent systems, information theory in control
Learn more: Welcome New Faculty Member Takashi Tanaka
Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
GN&C Engineer, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2013-17
Research interests include: 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
Learn more: Welcome New Faculty — Renato Zanetti
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2014-17
Research interests include: power system monitoring, operations and control, energy data analytics
Learn more: Hao Zhu Faculty Profile
