Faculty & Staff Directory

Assistant Professor, 

Applied operations research, healthcare, supply chain, large scale optimization, and big data analytics

WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, 

Nanomanufacturing; nano and microscale printing of sensors and electronics; nano and micro-scale defects in semiconductor manufacturing; high rate nanomanufacturing; power electronics, RF, NEMS devices and nanomaterials based nanoelectronics, flexible and hybrid electronics

Associate Professor, 

Structure/property relationships in composites and ceramics, magnetic manipulation, colloidal physics

Associate Professor, 

socio-technical systems, systems engineering and design, social and economic networks, resilience of networked systems, computational social sciences, platform-based systems, sharing economy systems, computational social sciences, game theory, artificial intelligence

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, 

Synthesis of low dimensional nanomaterials and engineering their molecular structures; assembly, transfer and integration of nanomaterials and nanostructured architectures and study properties and underlying fundamental science; nanoelectronics, flexible devices, chemical sensors and energy application

Professor, 

• Sensing, diagnostics and prognostics for manufacturing machines and equipment • AI for smart and sustainable manufacturing and manufacturing systems integration • Machine learning models for personalized medicine and healthcare • Computational methods for pain assessment physiological sensing systems • Engineering education, personalized learning, and mass-customized instruction model

Associate Professor, 

Nano optics, nanoscale materials and engineering, nano devices, plasmonics, metamaterials, and applied physics

Associate Professor, 

MEMS-enabled actuator systems (assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and flow control); origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials

Professor and Chair, 

Process-structure-properties relationships in polymer-based nano-composites fibers; polymer/nano-carbon interfacial interactions and interphase formations; lightweight composite materials; carbon-carbon composites

Assistant Professor, 

Human-Machine Teaming, Extended Reality, User-Centered Design, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Professor, 

Computational techniques that span multiple scales, atomic- to continuum, to quantify the structure property relations in established and emerging material systems, both in technology and nature.

Assistant Professor, 

interpretable AI, IoT, computer simulation, data integrity and big data analytics, data-driven stochastic optimization, blockchain design and development for complex end-to-end cyber-physical system learning and risk management with applications, including biopharmaceutical manufacturing and supply chains, smart power grids with renewable energy, and health care

Associate Professor, 

Nanoscale thermal transport; Nanoengineered materials; Multifunctional composites; Microfluidics; Chemical and biological nanosensors; Renewable energy harvesting; Thermophotovoltaics; Photon-based radiative cooling

Assistant Professor, 

Energy storage, advanced manufacturing, multifunctional bio-inspired material from nature; nano/microfabrication of devices and materials; bendable, implantable, and biocompatible electronics; application of sustainable biomaterial, like cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, in life science and engieering.