Faculty & Staff Directory

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor, 

Operations Research, Machine Learning, and Causal AI to develop interpretable solutions for public health, energy, and manufacturing

Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, 

Economic-environmental assessment of alternative manu/nanomanufacturing routes towards sustainable design and manufacturing, societal implications of nanomanufacturing, with interdisciplinary collaborations in political science, philosophy, industrial hygiene and industrial engineering, development and assessment of educational games for engineering students and for K-12 outreach activities.

Professor of the Practice, 

Associate Professor Emeritus, 

Energy related and calorimeter studies related to pharmaceutical developments; simulation of thermal effects on laser beam propagation through heated materials; simulating microscale heat transfer phenomena and its effects on laser beam propagation; Simulation of laser welding processes

Professor, 

emerging interdisciplinary design involving lightweight polymeric multifunctional materials, structural design and reliability, packaging, and energy systems

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Combustion engineering and sustainable fuel technologies for efficient energy conversion, pollution reduction and greenhouse gas control.

Distinguished University and Cabot Professor, 

Structure-property relationships in magnetofunctional materials for energy transformations including advanced permanent magnet materials and magnetocaloric materials; strategic materials and supply chains for technological application

COE Distinguished Teaching Professor, 

Current Research: Experiential Engineering Education via Innovation and Invention. Focus on the Technical Design, Energy System, and Medical Engineering (MedEng) Design Innovations via Prototyping and Proof of Concept. Past Research: High-Temperature Superconductors, Two-Dimensional Electron Gas, and Engineering Physics Education.

Professor, 

Thermodynamics, combustion, chemical kinetics, renewable energy, exergy analysis

Assistant Professor, 

Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics in multiphase and multiscale systems for advanced manufacturing, energy, and medical applications

Professor, 

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer for Plasma Torches related to Additive Manufacturing technology, Fluid-Surface Interactions for Newtonian and non-Newtonian liquid droplets, Droplets in Levitated State, Droplets in Vacuum, Nano-sensors

Associate Professor, 

Nanophotonic materials and radiative heat transfer for energy harvesting systems

Associate Professor, 

All solid state batteries; Flow Batteries; Batteries fast charge; High energy density batteries; Advanced manufacturing; Sustainable biomass-derived material from Nature; Bendable, implantable, and biocompatible devices; and fundamental investigations of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, including materials–structure–performance–application correlations.

Assistant Professor, 

AI-driven discovery and characterization of complex multifield materials systems such as electro-chemo-mechanical coupling in batteries, for sustainability, reliability, and security