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Gregory D. Abowd


Dean of the College of Engineering, 
Office of the Dean

Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Software Engineering

Ali Abur


University Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Monitoring power grid operating state during normal and faulted conditions. Modeling and estimation of power system operating condition to facilitate improve reliability and operating efficiency.

Alp Akcay


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Simulation-based optimization, digital twins, data analytics, predictive maintenance, semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains

Derya Aksaray


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Planning, learning, and control of autonomous robots with theoretical guarantees

Muhammad Noor E Alam


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Serena Alexander


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in School for Public Policy and Urban Affairs & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Climate change, sustainable and resilient transportation systems, environmental policy

Akram N. Alshawabkeh


George A. Snell Professor of Engineering and University Distinguished Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Geoenvironmental engineering, soil and groundwater remediation; electrokinetic and electrochemical processes; contaminant fate and transport environmental restoration

Mansoor Amiji


University Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Pharmaceutical Sciences & Chemical Engineering

Polymeric biomaterials, drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies

Rouzbeh Amini


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering

Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport

Mahshid Amirabadi


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Design, modeling and control of power converters, power electronics for renewable energy systems, microgrids, variable speed drives and wireless power transfer

Anand Asthagiri


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

cell and tissue engineering, quantitative principles of cancer cell biology and developmental biology

Debra Auguste


Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Bioresponsive drug delivery; cell and tissue engineering; tissue architecture; targeted therapeutics; breast cancer

Ruobing Bai


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Multifunctional materials towards durable, intelligent, and sustainable mechanical systems

Ambika Bajpayee


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

Drug delivery; bio-electrostatics; transport phenomena in biological systems; biomechanics; osteoarthritis

Magda Barecka


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Electrochemical methods for transformation of CO2 into the next generation of chemical building blocks.

Stefano Basagni


Associate Dean of the Global Engineering Campus, 
Office of the Dean

Wireless networks; ad hoc networks; underwater and terrestrial sensor networking; protocol design and testing

R. Edward Beighley


COE Distinguished Professor and Chair, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling; remote sensing of the hydrologic cycle; hydrologic impacts of climate and/or land use change; flood hazard and risk assessment

Chiara Bellini


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for PhD Program and Research, 
Bioengineering

Diseases of the cardiovascular system; effects of cellmediated growth and remodeling processes on tissue and organ mechanics

James Benneyan


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Healthcare systems engineering, operations research, quality and reliability engineering, statistical quality control, high reliability design, patient safety

Dionisio P. Bernal


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

System identification, fault detection and fault localization, earthquake engineering, soil structure interaction, structural stability

Ahmed Busnaina


WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Octavia Camps


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Adam Caparco


DiPietro Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Engineering proteins and nanobiomaterials to improve sustainable agriculture and environmental biotechnology

Rebecca L. Carrier


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Intestinal tissue engineering, retinal regenerative medicine, oral drug delivery

Cristian Cassella


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Acoustic resonators, nonreciprocal components, zero-power sensors for IoT, nonlinear dynamics, ultrasonic transducers

Srirupa Chakraborty


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Theoretical biology and biophysics; Computational modeling and simulations; Structure-dynamics of complex bio-systems; Rational design of glycoprotein-based therapeutic strategies

Kenle Chen


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

AI-driven design, heterogeneous integration, and co-design of spectrum- and energy-efficient wireless systems

Qin Jim Chen


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Adaptive Coastal Intelligence and Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience

Samuel Chung


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

Cell type-specific genetics of neuroregeneration, Long-term longitudinal imaging at subcellular resolution, High-speed and low-cost confocal imaging

Pau Closas


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Statistical and array signal processing; estimation and detection theory; Bayesian inference; stochastic filtering; robust statistics; and game theory, with applications to positioning systems (GNSS and indoor technologies); wireless communications, and mathematical biology

Arthur J. Coury


University Distinguished Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Polymeric biomaterials for medical products such as implantable electronic devices, hydrogel-based devices and drug delivery systems

Ravinder Dahiya


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Flexible printed electronics, robotics (soft robotics), electronic skin, tactile sensing, haptics, intelligent interactive systems, wearable systems

Guohao Dai


Professor, 
Bioengineering

3-D bioprinting technology, stem cells technology and vascular bioengineering

Damilola Daramola


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Electrochemical engineering for wastewater treatment, polymer upcycling, and sustainable resource recovery

Mallesham Dasari


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Networked systems and optimization for immersive XR and spatial computing

Benyamin Davaji


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

MEMS and integrated microsystems; ultrasound based sensing and computation; digital twins and AI/ML for MEMS, semiconductor manufacturing, and flexible hybrid electronics; microcalorimetry; and BioMEMS and microfluidics for microbiology and biosensor development.

Lital Davidi


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Biology & Bioengineering

Phyto-molecular biotechnology, with a focus on biofuels, natural products, and extreme environment adaptation

Enrique M. del Castillo


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Computational geomechanics; granular materials and flows; failure and fracture in natural and engineered materials; geohazards impacting infrastructure resilience

Peter "James" Dennedy-Frank


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ecohydrologic modeling for water resources and conservation

Allison Dennis


Associate Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) for biomedical imaging and biosensing

Charles DiMarzio


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Optics, microscopy, coherent detection, interaction of light and sound waves, hyperspectral imaging, diffusive optical tomography multi-model imaging and remote sensing. Activities include computer modeling, designing, building, and testing of hardware, and processing the resulting data

Ivana Dimitrova


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering

quantum networking and quantum computing with neutral atom arrays and optical cavities

Kris Dorsey


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences

Wearable sensors and robotics for physical rehabilitation and sensors for soft robotics

Ken Duffy


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mathematics

Information theory, error correction decoding, communications, and applied probability

Jennifer Dy


COE Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Machine learning; data mining; statistical pattern recognition; computer vision and image processing

Eno E. Ebong


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering

Studying the means by which endothelial cell mechanotransduction occurs in order to prevent or promote diseases related to blood vessel dysfunction

Najme Ebrahimi


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Broadband, energy-efficient, reconfigurable, and high data rate RF, mm-wave, and THz integrated circuits and systems; and security, connectivity, and localization of IoTs

Matthew J. Eckelman


Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, sustainable production and green design, energy systems and emissions modeling, climate change and health, healthcare sustainability

Yonina Eldar


Professor and Joseph E. Aoun Chair, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Resource-aware sensing and AI systems integrating physics, hardware, and signal processing for healthcare, communications, automotive and defense applications.

Randall Erb


Professor and Associate Chair for Research Affairs, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Advanced manufacturing, thermal management and RF materials, radiation shielding.

Deniz Erdogmus


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Signal Processing & Machine Learning; Human-Centric Foundational & Physical AI; AI for Health, Quality-of-Life, and Clinical Innovation; AI for Scientific Discovery & Engineered Systems

Ozlem Ergun


COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Network optimization, logistics and transportation, resilient supply chain and infrastructure systems design and operations, health, humanitarian, and emergency response systems, digital platforms

Michael Everett


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Robotics, motion planning, control theory, neural network verification, reinforcement learning

Qianqian Fang


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Masters Programs and Global Network programs, 
Bioengineering

Innovations in translational medical imaging devices to better diagnose cancers, low-cost point-of-care diagnostic tools to delivery life-saving medicines to the resource-poor regions, and high performance computing tools to facilitate the development of the next-generation imaging methods

David Fannon


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in School of Architecture & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Sustainable and high performance building design; persistent architecture and resilience; human health, safety, and comfort in the built environment.

Yunsi Fei


Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs, 
Office of the Dean

Hardware-oriented security, computer architecture, embedded systems, design automation, IoT and cyber physical systems

Yinnian (Andy) Feng


Assistant Professor, 
Bioengineering

Leveraging high-throughput mechanoimmunology to systematically investigate how immune cells sense mechanical forces and translate that knowledge into therapy

Loretta A. Fernandez


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Community and Outreach, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Environmental organic chemistry; passive sampling methods; transport and transformation of contaminants in built and natural environments

Kin Chung Fong


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Physics

Quantum technologies such as quantum sensing, quantum network, and quantum computation using lowdimensional quantum materials and applying quantum sensors to investigate novel physics phenomena

Kevin Fu


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Protecting emerging sensor technology in biomedical engineering and cyber-physical systems

Yun Raymond Fu


COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair of ECE Research, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-AI Interaction

Canek Fuentes Hernandez


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Organic and printed electronics for sustainable sensing, energy harvesting and computation

Peter G. Furth


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bicycle transportation, traffic signal control including transit priority, and urban street design

Joshua Gallaway


Associate Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Electrochemical engineering, batteries and energy storage, and energy sustainability

Auroop R. Ganguly


College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Physics-integrated data science and machine learning for weather extremes and infrastructure resilience in sustainability and security

Khaled Ghannam


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Boundary-layer meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, air quality modeling, hydroclimatology

Fatemeh Ghoreishi


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Uncertainty-Aware Machine Learning for Reliable Decision-Making in Autonomous and Infrastructure Systems

Siddhartha Ghosh


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Acousto-optic and acousto-electric signal processing devices, integrated photonics, piezoelectric MEMS, oscillator-based computing, nanofabrication techniques and heterogeneous material integration

Jacqueline Griffin


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Health care resource allocation with multi-objective resource allocation models; modeling resiliency in complex systems; design and management of outpatient health care clinics; simulation: discrete event simulation and systems dynamics; deterministic and stochastic optimization

Benjamin Gyori


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Bioengineering

Intersection of systems biology, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence to understand how biological cells work and react to drugs and environmental signals

Christa Haase


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Physics

advanced microscopy and spatial single-cell technologies to decode cell fate regulation and uncover novel therapeutic strategies

Jerome F. Hajjar


University Distinguished Professor and CDM Smith Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Experimental testing, computational formulations, and design of sustainable and resilient steel and composite steel/concrete structures, regional modeling and assessment of infrastructure systems, and earthquake engineering

Vincent G. Harris


University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Functional materials used in high frequency applications such as sensors, radar, and communication platforms, and nanotechnology, power electronics, and medical diagnostics and therapeutics

Sara M. Hashmi


Assistant Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Complex fluids, biomaterials & soft materials: manipulation of nanoscale and single-particle properties to control macroscale transport & assembly; microfluidics for biomedical, pharmaceutical & energy applications

Babak Heydari


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Carlos Hidrovo


Associate Professor and Director of Global Programs, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Multiscale and multiphase flow and transport phenomena, surface tension interactions in micro/nanoengineered structures, and electrokinetic ion transport in porous media for applications in energy storage, portable biochemical diagnostics, thermal management, and water treatment systems

Megan Hofmann


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Accessibility and fabrication, digital fabrication in healthcare, automatic machine knitting

David Horsley


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Micro-electromechanical Systems (MEMS), design and manufacturing of microfabricated sensors and actuators, mechatronics and control systems.

Aileen Huang-Saad


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

Biomedical engineering education and entrepreneurship ecosystem development through evidence-based instructional design

Francisco Hung


Associate Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Computer simulation of interfaces, nano-confined systems and mixtures for applications in separations, healthcare, energy and the environment

Seth Hutchinson


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robotics: planning, sensing, control, human-robot interaction, bio-inspired robotics, multi-robot systems

Mahdi Imani


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Machine learning and decision-making in complex cyber-physical systems

Vinay Ingle


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Multidimensional signal processing and Hyperspectral imaging

Stratis Ioannidis


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Machine learning and optimization

Jacqueline Isaacs


Professor and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, 
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

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.

Miten Jain


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Physics

Nanopore technology, single-cell techniques, computational biology

Safa Jamali


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Microstructure-macroscopic properties relationship in complex fluids; rheology and physics of complex and structured fluids; colloidal suspensions; mesoscale computational science; computational fluid dynamics; physics of living systems; hemorheology and hemodynamics

Bryan James


Assistant Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Using green chemistry and engineering principles to design of functional, sustainable, and benign materials, products, and processes

Xiaoning “Sarah” Jin


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Developing advanced models for prognostics and health management using physics-based models and data analytics; designing preventive strategies for manufacturing operations

Kristina Johnson


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Communication Sciences and Disorders

Intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and autism

Josep Miquel Jornet


Associate Dean of Research, 
Office of the Dean

Terahertz communications for 6G systems, wireless nano-bio-communication networks, Internet of Nano-Things

Abraham Joy


Professor and Chair, 
Bioengineering

Design and use of biomaterials for wound healing; antimicrobial/antibiofilm strategies; soft-tissue replacement; polymer condensates; and sustained delivery of therapeutics

Yung Joon Jung


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

David Kaeli


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computer architecture; GPUs; heterogeneous computing; performance analysis; security, data privacy and encryption; hardware reliability and recovery; simulation; and workload characterization

Sagar Kamarthi


Associate Dean of Graduate Education, 
Office of the Dean

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

Michael Kane


Associate Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Citizen-centric controls, infrastructure automation; community resilience; grid-interactive efficient buildings; sustainability

Hyeon Yu Kim


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Mechanobiology, tissue engineering, cardiovascular diseases, stem cells, organoids, 3D printing

Yong-Bin Kim


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated circuit design and for nanoelectronics and nano technology, high speed system integration for signal processing and communication applications, bio-chip and bio-sensor interface circuit design, electronic neuron circuit design, low power adaptive robot controller circuit design; high performance and low power vlsI design, system-on-chip (soc), and Physical VLSI CAD

Engin Kirda


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Malware analysis and detection; web security; social network security; reverse engineering; intrusion detection

Abigail N. Koppes


Associate Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Bioelectric medicine, development of novel interventions and tissue engineered platforms for nerve regeneration and repair, body-on-a-chip for enteric-gut interactions

Ryan Koppes


Associate Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Neural interface technology, tissue engineering, and musculoskeletal biomechanics

Dimitrios Koutsonikolas


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

5G and Beyond networks and latency-critical applications (AR, VR, CAVs) over 5G

Haris Koutsopoulos


COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Urban transportation networks and informatics, public transportation operations, mobility on demand

Philip Larese-Casanova


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Physical, chemical, and electrochemical transformation processes of metallic, inorganic, and organic water pollutants, with applications to groundwater environments and unit operations

Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Production of valuable pharmaceutical compounds from plant cell cultures, specifically the production of important anti-cancer drug molecules from cell cultures of Catharanthus roseus

Miriam Leeser


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Accelerators for computer intensive applications from the edge to the cloud. Applications of FPGAs including wireless communications, machine learning and data privacy

Bradley Lehman


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Power electronics, dc-dc converters, pulse width modulation, motion control, electric motor drives, analog circuits, control theory, differential equations, time delays, nonlinear systems and control, industrial control

Jack Lesko


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering

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

Laurent Lessard


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning

Yiannis Levendis


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Herbert Levine


University Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physics & Bioengineering

Physical modeling of cancer progression, metastasis and interaction with the immune system. Most recent interests include the role of metabolic plasticity in these processes and the co-evolution of the tumor and the adaptive immune system. Other areas include spatial organization of the actin cytoskeleton, the mechanics of collective cell motility, and the analysis of genetic circuits involved in cell fate decisions.

Laura H. Lewis


Distinguished University and Cabot Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemical Engineering & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Yaning Li


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Mechanics of materials and structures, Architected materials and metamaterials, Bio-Inspired Engineering, Additive manufacturing, AI-aided design

Yanjing Li


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

AI and optimization for secure IoT and cyber-physical systems

Elizabeth Libby


Assistant Professor, 
Bioengineering

Synthetic biology, microbiology, biosensor development

Hongfei Lin


Arthur W. Zafiropoulo Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

developing AI-driven catalysis for sustainable manufacturing, critical materials recovery, and clean energy

Xue "Shelley" Lin


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robust and Secure Machine Learning; Deep Learning on the Edge; Cyber-Physical Systems

Yingzi Lin


COE Distinguished Professor and Chair, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Human-machine systems, human factors, biosensing and smart systems, human state and behavior modeling, transportation safety, healthcare and patient safety, human-friendly mechatronics, and human-robot interaction

Jeffrey Ian Lipton


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Robotics, 3D Printing, and Mechanical Metamaterials with applications in Manufacturing

Shang Liu


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Air pollutant origin, transport, and formation; aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics; indoor air quality

Yongmin Liu


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Carol Livermore


Associate Professor and Director of Operations, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Fabrizio Lombardi


ITC Endowed Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fault-tolerant computing, VLSI CAD, testing, configurable computing, distributed systems

Francis Loth


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Bioengineering

Biological flows, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, blood flow simulation, cerebrospinal fluid simulation, Chiari malformation, syringomyelia, medical image processing, magnetic resonance imaging

Mingyang Lu


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

Computational systems biology, an integration of mathematical modeling and bioinformatics for studying gene regulatory networks, single cell genomics, epithelial-mesenchymal transition, coarse-graining, reverse engineering, machine learning, stochasticity and heterogeneity in gene expression

Steve Lustig


Associate Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Design and manipulation of molecular/materials chemistry and structure for new property discovery, new functionality and technology development by combining theoretical and experimental methods; high performance computing, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, polymer physics, materials and biomolecular engineering

David Luzzi


Senior Vice Provost and Vice President for Business Development, 
SVP and VP

Research leadership, including complex multi-investigator and multi-institutional programs, research administration, compliance, development, finance, and technology transition. Review leader of multi-billion-dollar nation-scale research enterprises.

Tong Ma


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Dynamics, Control, and AI for Automation

Kayse Lee Maass


Associate Professor and Director of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Stochastic optimization, network theory, facility location modeling, and supply chain design for applications regarding equity, access, human trafficking, mental health, and humanitarian logistics

Hessam Mahdavifar


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Coding and information theory, wireless communications, data privacy and security, privacy-preserving computing and learning

Lee Makowski


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Image and signal processing as applied to biophysical data designed to answer fundamental questions about the molecular basis of living systems, and progression of Alzheimer's Disease

Craig Maloney


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Theory, simulation, and modeling of disordered materials and soft matter systems.

Edwin Marengo


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electromagnetic theory and wavefield imaging

Tucker Marion


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Group & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

New product development process, lean processes for innovation, IT and design tools, sourcing and cost engineering

Tugce Martagan


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Stochastic modeling and optimization, Markov decision processes, and game theory with applications in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry

Jose Martinez Lorenzo


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Devices, circuits and sensing; antenna analysis, modeling, design, and optimization; subsurface scattering analysis; computational methods of electromagnetics; novel radar system specification and design; explosives detection

Nicol McGruer


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

MEMS, NEMS, RF MEMS; nanotechnology; micro/nanofabrication; microsystems; microrelay; nanoswitch; microspectrometer; microfluidics; organic FETs, organic solar cells

Waleed Meleis


Vice Provost for Graduate Education, 
Office of the Provost

Combinatorial optimization, function approximation for large-scale machine learning, platforms for large-scale social experimentation, assistive technology

Tommaso Melodia


William Lincoln Smith Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Institute for Intelligent Networked Systems

Modeling, optimization, and experimental evaluation of wireless networked systems; Networked implantable medical systems; Multimedia sensor networks; Secure tactical cognitive radio networks; Underwater networks; Mobile cloud computing

Hameed Metghalchi


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Ningfang Mi


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Capacity planning; Resource Management; Storage Systems; NVMe Flash Memory Devices; Distributed Data Processing Scheduling; Cloud Computing; Performance Evaluation; Workload Characterization; Simulation

Yu (Rain) Miao


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Microbial Ecology; Groundwater and Soil Bioremediation; Saltmarsh Ecosystem; Multi-Omics; Synthetic Microbial Community.

Mona Minkara


Assistant Professor, 
Bioengineering

Computationally modeling the molecular interactions of the human pulmonary surfactant system, with a focus on collectins and their role in innate immune recognition

Sunil Mittal


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Quantum Photonics, Topological Photonics, On-Chip Optical Frequency Combs, On-Chip Quantum States of Light, Two-Dimensional Materials

Hossein Mosallaei


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electromagnetics and optics, quantum systems, nanoscale materials and metamaterials, nanoantennas, THz-IR Devices, multiscale computation and mathematical-numerical models

Amy Mueller


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Civil and Environmental Engineering & Marine and Environmental Sciences

Physics-informed ML-driven sensor and sensor network approaches for understanding and optimizing urban and urban-coastal environmental systems

Sinan Müftü


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Cold-spray additive manufacturing; high-velocity impact of micron-scale particles; mechanics and tribology of axially moving materials; numerical simulation of tissue healing and bone remodeling; helmet and brain mechanics.

Samuel Munoz


Associate Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

rivers and fluvial processes, hydroclimatic extremes, paleoclimate and climate change, sedimentary records of environmental change

Andrew T. Myers


Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Probabilistic simulation and experimental testing for performance-based design of resilient and sustainable structures

Aravind Nagulu


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Analog/RF/millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems, analog computing, bio-medical scanners, and hardware for large-scale quantum computing systems

Tiffany Nichols


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in History & Civil and Environmental Engineering

History of physics, astrophysics, and astronomy and how these subfields intersect with environmental history.

Mark Niedre


Associate Dean of PhD Education, 
Office of the Dean

Biomedical optics and non-invasive imaging, rare cell detection and tracking in the body, ultrafast time-domain diffuse optical imaging, image reconstruction and biomedical signal processing

Stephanie Noble


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Psychology & Bioengineering

Computational neuroscience developing machine learning tools for precision brain mapping and prediction

Beth Simone Noveck


Professor, 
jointly appointed in School of Law & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Industrial and software engineering; solving public problems

Jessica Oakes


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

Myself and my research team are passionate about uncovering cell and molecular mediated changes in respiratory function following exposure to environmental pollutants through state-of-the-art computational and experimental models. We are also interested in direct therapeutic delivery to the lungs.

Marvin Onabajo


Professor and Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Energy-efficient analog circuits and mixed-signal circuits for IoT devices

Sarah Ostadabbas


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Data-efficient machine learning and computer vision for real-world video perception and generation

Ozan Cagatay Ozdemir


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Advanced metal additive manufacturing, compressible flows, multiphase flows, heat and mass transfer, thermodynamics, and failure analysis

Taskin Padir


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Experiential robotics, human-robot teaming at the extremes, embodied artificial intelligence

Harikrishnan Parameswaran


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

We study cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions in the airway to understand the fundamental mechanisms that regulate airway caliber and why they fail in diseases like asthma.

Mark Patterson


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Development of autonomous underwater robots for civil infrastructure and marine sensing; decision support tools for gray/green infrastructure like tide gates; environmental fluid mechanics; biomechanics and mass transfer in living systems

Bipin Rajendran


Professor, 
Intelligent Networked Systems Institute

hardware–software co-design, novel devices and architectures, neuromorphic algorithms

Alireza Ramezani


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Design, Modeling and Control of Bioinspired Locomotion Robots

Carey Rappaport


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Electromagnetics, antennas, computational modeling, imaging radar hardware and alogorithms, bioelectromagnetic sensing and treatment

Purnima Ratilal-Makris


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Remote sensing, underwater acoustics, acoustical oceanography, bioacoustics, ultrasound imaging, nonlinear scattering, wave propagation in random media, signal, image and array processing, statistical inference theory

Francesco Restuccia


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems

Matteo Rinaldi


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

MEMS, piezoelectric and acoustic devices for sensing, RF, and semiconductor systems

Wil Robertson


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Trustworthy computing architectures, web security, statistical machine learning for anomaly detection, malware analysis using adversarial program analysis, reverse engineering, intrusion detection

David M. Rosen


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Mathematics

Robotics, computer vision, machine learning, optimization, geometry and topology, probability and statistics

Sara Rouhanifard


Associate Professor, 
Bioengineering

Developing chemical approaches to track and quantify important RNA processing events and modifications in single cells; DNA: protein interactions that drive differences in gene expression; understanding differences in RNA expression and the impacts on disease and development

Jeffrey W. Ruberti


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Bioengineering

Tissue engineering of load-bearing matrix (bone, cornea); bioreactor design; multi-scale mechanobiochemistry; statistical mechanics; energetics microscopy; high-resolution imaging; biopolymer self-assembly

Masoud Salehi


Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies , 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Error correcting codes; information theory; digital communications

Mauricio Santillana


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Modeling of geographic patterns of population growth, modeling fluid flow to inform coastal floods simulations and atmospheric global pollution transport models, and design and implementation of disease outbreaks prediction platforms and mathematical solutions to healthcare

Mehrdad Sasani


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Progressive collapse of structures; earthquake engineering; structural integrity and reliability; building and community resilience

Hannah Sayre


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Chemical Engineering

Design photocatalysts to improve efficiency and reactivity. Elucidate light-activated chemical reaction mechanisms with time-resolved spectroscopy.

Peter Schindler


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Discovery of novel materials for renewable energy applications using high-throughput density functional theory calculations and data-driven materials property predictions. Additional focus on surface science of thin-film growth, semiconductor fabrication, and heterogeneous catalysis.

Gunar Schirner


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Embedded computer systems; novel architectures for embedded vision; cyber-physical systems; system-level design and methodologies; hardware/software co-design

Cristina Schultz


Foley Family Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Influence of long-term climate change and of climate variability on ocean biogeochemistry

Bahram Shafai


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Control Systems and Signal Processing; Robust and Optimal Control, Positive Dynamic Systems, Fault Detection, Observer Theory, Robotics and Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems, Control of Biological Systems

Shahin Shahrampour


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

- Optimization and Control - Multi-Agent Systems - Machine Learning - Reinforcement Learning

Thomas C. Sheahan


Executive Vice Provost, 
Office of the Provost

Geotechnical testing and soil characterization for infrastructure and sustainability applications.

Sandra Shefelbine


Senior Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives, 
Office of the Dean

Multi-scale bone biomechanics–how the structure and composition of bone influences its mechanical properties; mechano-adaptation of bone and joint– how tissue responds to mechanical signals

Max Shepherd


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences & Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Wearable robotics and machine learning for personalized gait rehabilitation systems

Rebecca Sherbo


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Chemical Engineering

Electrochemical and biological ways to make important chemical products from gases and renewable energy

David A. Sherman


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Movement neuroscience, sensorimotor physiology, clinical research, orthopedics, rehabilitation

Weiyan Shi


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Persuasive dialogues, dialogue systems, natural language processing, AI safety, machine learning, artificial intelligence

Aatmesh Shrivastava


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ultra-low Power Circuits and Systems, Analog Computing, Precision Circuits, Hardware Security

Milad Siami


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Distributed optimization and learning for networked cyber-physical systems

Michael B. Silevitch


Robert D. Black Professor, COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Subsurface sensing and imaging systems, detection of explosives-related anomalies, engineered system development and engineering leadership

Osvaldo Simeone


Professor, 
Intelligent Networked Systems Institute

Information theory, Quantum information processing, Machine learning, Neuromorphic computing, Wireless communications

Hanumant Singh


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering , Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Institute of Experiential Robotics

Geometric and Machine Learning based methods for mapping, SLAM and field deployments of Unmanned Aerial, Marine and Ground vehicles in extreme environments

Rifat Sipahi


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

control theory and network control for autonomous and human-in-the-loop systems (robotics, transportation, manufacturing)

Nikolai Slavov


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Bioengineering

Single-cell proteomics, immunology, cancer drug resistance, translational regulation, quantitative systems biology, mass spectrometry, RNA decoding, protein synthesis and degradation, macrophage polarization, aging, neurodegenerative diseases

Seungmoon Song


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Modeling the neuromechanics of human movement and applying it to assistive devices and rehabilitation treatment

Soner Sonmezoglu


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated Circuits, Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS), Implantable and Wearable Medical Devices and Systems, Neural Interfaces

Eduardo Sontag


University Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Bioengineering

Feedback control theory, systems biology, cancer, and biomedicine

Dagmar Sternad


University Distinguished Professor, 
jointly appointed in Biology & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computational motor neuroscience, human movement control and learning, human-robot interaction, and clinical applications

Milica Stojanovic


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wireless communications and networks, underwater acoustic transmission, statistical system characterization, adaptive signal processing

Aron Stubbins


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Marine and Environmental Sciences , Chemistry and Chemical Biology & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Plastics, including their impact on the environment and human health

Lili Su


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Distributed machine learning, security and fault-tolerance, neural computation, bio-inspired distributed algorithms, blockchains, autonomous cars, algorithm design

Ming Su


Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Biosensing, nanomedicines, nanoparticles, nano enhanced process

Hongwei Sun


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Multiphase thermal transport phenomena, acoustic wave bio and chemical sensors and actuators, thermal management of fibers and films, thermal energy storage materials and processing, microchannel cooling systems, nanoimprinting process and applications, MEMS/NEMS fabrication, microfluidics and bioMEMS; nanoscale magnetic assembly and applications

Nian X. Sun


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Magnetoelectric materials and devices for wireless power and biomedical sensing

Tao Sun


Assistant Professor, 
Bioengineering

Focused Ultrasound, Immunoengineering, Immunomodulation, Ultrasound Imaging, Neuroimaging, Drug Delivery, Gliomblastoma, Alzheimer’s Disease

Mario Sznaier


Dennis Picard Trustee Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dynamics-enabled machine learning, robust control, control oriented identification, semi-algebraic optimization, dynamic computer vision

Srinivas Tadigadapa


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sensor Devices and Smart Sensor Systems realized through interdisciplinary field of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); including the design, optimization, fabrication, testing, and networking of such transducers; fabrication of novel micro and nano-sensors and actuators by integrating non-traditional materials using silicon planar microfabrication techniques and exploring phenomenon at the micro-nano interfaces; development of sustainable sensing solutions for biomedical applications including investigation of robust magnetic technologies for interfacing to the brain

Xiaoyu Tang


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Mohammad E. Taslim


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Devesh Tiwari


Associate Vice Provost for Research Computing, 
Office of the Provost

High performance computing (HPC), Quantum Computing, and Sustainable Computing.

Ali Touran


Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Risk assessment; construction cost/schedule uncertainty; project delivery systems; simulation; construction productivity

Moneesh Upmanyu


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Amir Vahabikashi


Assistant Professor, 
Bioengineering

Cell and nucleus mechanobiology, soft bioelectronics for organoid/tissue scale mechanobiology and regenerative engineering, mechanotransduction, implantable bioelectronics

Julia Varshavsky


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Department of Health Sciences & Civil and Environmental Engineering

Human health impacts of environmental pollutants and interventions to protect susceptible and highly exposed populations

Sara Wadia-Fascetti


Professor and Vice Provost of PhD Network, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Condition assessment methodologies for infrastructure systems; life cycle and life span analysis; structural and earthquake engineering uncertainty

Kai-tak Wan


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Cellular biomechanics; water filtration; thin film adhesion and characterization; subsurface mechano-sensing; shell adhesion; fundamental intersurface forces

Lei Wang


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Bioengineering & Biology

Synthetic biology and microfluidic systems for disease modeling, regenerative medicine and therapeutic development

Ming L. Wang


COE Distinguished Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Network-wide pavement and bridge deck inspections: sensor technology for infrastructure; saliva-based sensor technology for disease diagnosis and monitoring; structural health monitoring for bridges; subsurface fault detection using air-coupled GPR systems

Ning Wang


Professor, 
Bioengineering

Mechanobiology and mechanomedicine investigating mechanomemory in cancer and stem cell systems

Qi “Ryan” Wang


Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Urban and social resilience; geo-social networking; coupled, human-natural systems, natural disaster response and evacuation; urban computing

Yanzhi Wang


Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Real-time and energy-efficient deep learning and artificial intelligence systems, model compression of deep neural networks (DNNs), neuromorphic computing and non-von Neumann computing paradigms

Meni Wanunu


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physics & Bioengineering

Our group investigates biomolecules at the single-molecule level. We develop nanopore-based and other nanotechnology-based methods for probing the structure and dynamic behavior of biomolecules. We employ optical waveguides and single-molecule enzymatic approaches for RNA sequencing, and utilize engineered nanopore sensors for applications in single-molecule proteomics. We are experimentalists, but we also use advanced computational tools to perform big data analysis.

Jing-Ke Weng


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Chemistry & Chemical Biology & Bioengineering

Plant biochemistry, agricultural biotechnology, food allergy, drug discovery

Richard West


Professor and Associate Chair for Research, 
Chemical Engineering

AI and automated mechanism generation for sustainable fuels, catalysis, and combustion chemistry

John “Peter” Whitney


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Human-safe robots, medical robotics, soft robotics and soft material manufacturing, MEMS, microrobotics, bio-inspired design, flapping aerodynamics and insect flight

Rebecca Willits


Professor and Chairperson, 
Chemical Engineering

Mechanobiology of neural systems; Systems for nerve regeneration; Inclusive workforce development

Beth A. Winkelstein


Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, 
Office of the Provost

mechanisms of bodily injury and pain – especially injuries from sports, automobile accidents, and/or degenerative diseases

Raimond Winslow


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Bioengineering , Khoury College of Computer Sciences & Clinical and Rehabilitation Sciences

Computational modeling of the cardiac myocyte to understand the molecular basis of arrhythmias; machine learning in critical care medicine to identify those patients who require urgent care

Benjamin Woolston


Assistant Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Metabolic engineering and synthetic biology for sustainable biochemical production and human health

Mingzhong Wu


Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physics & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Spintronic and magnonic devices for computing, memory, and microwave applications

Wei Xie


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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

Xiaolin Xu


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Security, Machine Learning, AI Security/Privacy, Energy-efficient Deep Learning, Computer Architecture, FPGA, Embedded Systems, VLSI

Mathew Yarossi


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Movement neuroscience, motor physiology, clinical research, physiological signal processing, and biomechanics

Mohammad Abbas Yaseen


Assistant Professor, 
Bioengineering

Advanced microscopy for minimally invasive, in vivo characterization of brain function

Yasin Yazicioglu


Assistant Professor, 
jointly appointed in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Multi-robot systems, planning and control, distributed autonomy

Gilbert Ye


Assistant Professor, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Human-machine systems and embodied AI for civil infrastructure systems and workforce

Edmund Yeh


Professor and Chair, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

AI/machine learning, wireless communication networks, Internet, content distribution networks, edge computing, image and video processing.

Sze Zheng Yong


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Control, estimation, planning, learning and analysis of hybrid systems, with applications to autonomous, robotic and cyber-physical dynamic systems and their safety, robustness and resilience.

Yoseob Yoon


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Ultrafast spectroscopy and coherent control of quantum materials through engineered light-matter interactions

Yuan Yuan


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

optoelectronic devices, single-photon detection, silicon photonics, large-scale photonic integrated circuits for interconnects and computing

Xubo Yue


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

AI and Statistical Learning for Smart Manufacturing

Ibrahim Zeid


Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis

Xuan (Silvia) Zhang


Associate Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, machine vision sensors, machine learning for electronic design automation, efficiency/security/privacy for autonomous systems, computer architecture, integrated circuits/VLSI design

Xufeng Zhang


Assistant Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering

nonlinear photonic devices and quantum optics for sensing applications" to the new one "spin wave dynamics and hybrid magnonic devices

Yang Zhang


COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Research, 
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Air quality; atmospheric chemistry; cloud/aerosol microphysics; sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; multiscale atmospheric modeling and forecasting; climate and Earth system modeling; health impact assessment; eco-environmental sustainability; human-Earth system interactions

Qing Zhao


Assistant Professor, 
Chemical Engineering

Computational modeling of heterogeneous catalysis for energy and sustainability

Yi Zheng


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Nanophotonic materials and radiative heat transfer for energy harvesting systems

Hongli (Julie) Zhu


Associate Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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.

Juner Zhu


Assistant Professor, 
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

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