Faculty and Staff Directory

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor Emeritus, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

Biomechanics, mechanobiology, biotransport

Professor, 

Rapid solidification processing, droplet-based materials processing, powder metallurgy, material processing by severe plastic deformation, processing-structure-property relationships in materials

Assistant Professor, 

Solid mechanics and large deformation, soft active materials: hydrogels, liquid crystal elastomers, and biomaterials, fracture and adhesion of materials, multi-physics of materials: mechanics, thermodynamics, chemistry, optics, and electromagnetism, instability of materials

Affiliated Faculty, 

Senior Advisor to the President, 

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, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Research Engineer, 

First-Year & Mechanical Engineering (H-N) and Class of 2020 & 2021 (H-R) Academic Advisor, 

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Academic Assistant, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator and Assistant Director, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Professor Emeritus, 

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

Associate Co-op Coordinator, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Administrative Assistant, 

Professor Emeritus, 

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

First-Year & Mechanical Engineering (A-G) and Class of 2020 & 2021 (S-Z) Academic Advisor, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Simulation optimization; healthcare operation management; supply chain finance

Associate Professor, 

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

First-Year, NU Start (A-K), Study Abroad Programs, & Industrial Engineering Academic Advisor, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Professor, 

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, 

Biomechanics, material science, engineering mechanics

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

Future Faculty Fellow, 

Program Coordinator, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Senior Research Engineer, 

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