Texas Engineering Welcomes Newest Faculty Members, 2018
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
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
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)
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
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
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