This year’s incoming faculty members exhibit a wide range of engineering expertise and bring research interests that range from nuclear and computational engineering to extreme environments and environmental fluid mechanics. Learn more about our newest Texas Engineers:
William Charlton
Director, Nuclear Engineering Teaching Laboratory
John J. McKetta Energy Professor in Engineering
Ph.D. Texas A&M University
Previously: Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor and Research Director for the National Strategic Research Institute, University of Nebraska
Research interests include: application of nuclear science and engineering to national security, including nuclear nonproliferation, counter-proliferation, security and deterrence
Learn more: William Charlton Faculty Profile
Blair Johnson
Assistant Professor, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Ph.D. Cornell University
Previously: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Arizona State University
Research interests include: environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence, sediment transport and mixing processes, experimental methods
Learn more: CAEE Department Welcomes New Faculty Member
Filippo Mangolini
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Ph.D. ETH Zurich
Previously: University Academic Fellow, University of Leeds
Research interests include: investigation of surface phenomena in extreme environments (e.g. high temperatures and pressures, ionizing radiation, corrosive chemicals or mechanical wear)
Learn more: Filippo Mangolini Faculty Profile
Edison Tomaz
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology
Previously: Research Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Research interests include: sensing, recognizing and modeling health and human behaviors with sensor data; computational perception; wearable computing; machine learning; signal processing
Learn more: Edison Thomaz Faculty Profile
Junmin Wang
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Accenture Endowed Professor in Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin
Previously: Professor, The Ohio State University
Research interests include: control, modeling, estimation, optimization and diagnosis of dynamical systems, especially for automotive, vehicle, transportation, smart, automated and sustainable mobility, and human-machine applications
Learn more: Junmin Wang Faculty Profile
Karen Willcox
Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Director, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
W.A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Endowment in Simulation-Based Engineering and Sciences — Endowed Chair #5
Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Computing Systems
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Previously: Professor and Founding Co-Director of the Center for Computational Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research interests include: 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
