Faculty and Staff Directory

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Contact mechanics including adhesion, friction, and plasticity; modeling and analysis of MEMS; modeling and analysis in nanomechanics

Interdisciplinary Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Associate Teaching Professor , 

Nonlinear dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid mechanics, disaster response, experimental fluids

Associate Professor, 

Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport

Professor Emeritus, 

Densification and metallurgical bonding in high strain-rate deformation powder processing, modeling of rapid solidification

Assistant Professor, 

Research focus in the Bai group includes: Solid mechanics and large deformation; Damage, fracture, fatigue, debonding, strengthening, toughening, and adhesion; Stimuli-responsive actuation and instability; Soft active materials and sustainable materials; Multi-physics of materials: mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry, optics, and electromagnetism

Affiliated Faculty, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

Geographic resource allocation, logistics, scheduling, multimodal transport systems, shared mobility, decentralized systems and resilient networks, data visualization, computational social science; Data-driven robust optimization, computational geometry, geometric probability theory, and geospatial analysis.

Professor, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Research Engineer, 

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

Student Services & Data Manager, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator & Associate Director, 

Assistant Professor, 

Mathematical Optimization, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Healthcare Analytics, Computational Neuroscience, Decision Support Systems

Professor Emeritus, 

Mathematical methods and modeling; thermodynamics; fluid dynamics; kinetic theory of gases; thermophoresis of aerosols

Associate Co-op Coordinator Global Engineering & Assistant Director, Global, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering, 

Teaching Professor, 

Administrative Assistant, 

Professor Emeritus, 

analysis and design of efficient facilities focusing on inventory space control, materials handling and staffing levels

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Reinforcement Learning, Simulation Optimization; Healthcare Operations

Academic Assistant, 

Program Coordinator, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

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

COE Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, 

Design and management of large-scale networks, supply chain design and resilience, collaboration and crowdsourcing in logistics, humanitarian logistics

Associate Professor, 

Systems reliability, accelerated life testing in reliability prediction; big data-data driven decision making in spatiotemporal streaming environment; life data (survival data) analysis; robust design of experiments

Professor and Associate Chair for Experiential Innovation, 

Biomechanics, material science, engineering mechanics

Senior Lab Technician, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Green manufacturing; green supply chains; disassembly modeling; remanufacturing; reverse logistics; managing end of life products; environmentally conscious manufacturing; manufacturing sustainability; reverse and closed-loop supply chains; just-in-time (jit) manufacturing and materials management; operations research: stochastic and simulation modeling

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

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

Associate Professor, 

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

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

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.