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

Program Coordinator, 

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

Senior Machinist, 

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

Associate Research Scientist, 

Professor, 

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.

Teaching Professor, 

Biomechanics and Mechanobiology, Motor Control, Healthcare Systems, Human Factors Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Operations Research, Business, Data Management and Statistics, Engineering Training and Education, Safety Management, Information Processing, Cognition/Cognitive Psychology, Human Performance Engineering, Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing, Process Control

Assistant Professor, 

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

Academic Support Coordinator, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Associate Teaching Professor, 

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, 

Machine learning applications in smart and sustainable manufacturing; predictive analytics for smart and connected health; data driven approaches to mass customized instruction

Graduate Affairs Coordinator, 

Professor, 

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

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

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Student Services and Data Manager, 

Associate Professor, 

control theory, linear systems, optimization algorithms, machine learning

COE Distinguished Professor, 

Gasification and combustion of solid fuels, generation and containment of combustion-generated pollution, synthesis and characterization of combustion-generated materials, fire suppression – fire extinction, engine design and operation

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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

Mechanics of materials, bio-inspired engineering, and additive manufacturing; mechanics of innovative architectured materials; mechanical metamaterials; biological materials

Associate Research Professor, 

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

multiscale/multiphysics computational modeling of complex materials and structures; computational mechanics; large scale impact and blast simulation; high performance computing; mechanics-encoded deep learning for material modeling.

Associate Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

MEMS-enabled systems for assistive technologies, energy harvesting, and microscale vacuum applications; origami-enabled microfluidics and tissue engineering; carbon nanomaterials

Assistant Coop Coordinator, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President, 

Security, intelligence and resilience; corporate partnerships; intellectual property policy; technology readiness and transition; engineered materials; additive manufacturing; expeditionary cyber; cybersecurity; UAS swarms; workforce training and development

Assistant Professor, 

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

Senior Machinist, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Associate Professor, 

Modeling, simulation, and theory of nanoscale mechanics, soft matter, and glasses and amorphous materials.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

First-Year and Mechanical Engineering Class of 2022–2025 (O-Z) Academic Advisor, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Simulation, Stochastic Processes, Applied Statistics, Optimization, Healthcare Delivery Systems, Disease Modeling, Systems Engineering

Associate Professor, 

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.

Professor, 

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

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Student Services and Data Manager, 

Professor, 

Deterministic operations research and multi-criteria optimization; facility location; supply chain, transportation and logistics; wireless sensor networks wildfire prediction and mitigation

Professor, 

Fundamentals of combustion such as burning speed and onset of autoignition measurement and flame stability analysis; development of chemistry reduction such as rate-controlled constrained-equilibrium method; non-equilibrium thermodynamics

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 Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Professor, 

Cyber-Physical Manufacturing, Human-Machine Teaming, User-Centered Design, Use-Inspired Artificial Intelligence

Assistant Dean & Senior Co-op Coordinator, 

Departmental Programs: Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Data Analytics, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Energy Systems, Engineering Management, Engineering Public Policy, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Robotics, and Sustainable Building Systems.

Professor Emeritus, 

Virtual Environments; 3D Simulation and Open Source Game Engines

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, 

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

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Associate Professor Emeritus, 

Biomechanics on respiratory systems, Turbine blade cooling

Professor, 

Biomechanics and mechanics

Research Coordinator, 

Senior Co-op Coordinator & Assistant Director of Co-op, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Computer Systems Manager, 

Research Assistant Professor, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Assistant Co-op Coordinator, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Affiliated Faculty, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

Professor, 

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

University Distinguished Professor, 

Health care initiatives; industrial engineering; operations research

Professor, 

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

Professor, 

Robotic sensors, systems, platforms, and algorithms including high resolution optical and acoustic sensing; underwater vehicles (AUV, ROV, towed and manned vehicles), unmanned surface vehicles, and unmanned aerial systems; system architectures for navigation, docking and power; and the interactions between these subsystems

Professor, 

Control systems and mechatronics; stability analysis and control synthesis of dynamical systems with delays; interplay between stability, delays, and graphs; control-systems-aided human-machine systems; engineering education research; disability research; systems biology

Teaching Professor and Director for Lab Space and Safety, 

Director, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Industrial engineering/operations research

Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Fluid mechanics, soft matter, microfluidics, active colloidal systems, electrokinetic flow, interfacial phenomena, complex fluids, reactive flow, biological flow; additive manufacturing, material synthesis and processing in flow, oil/gas recovery and remediation

Professor, 

Experimental and numerical research in gas turbine cooling technology, solar and wind energy, non-newtonian liquid droplet interactions with hydrophobic surfaces, nano-sensors

Assistant Teaching Professor, 

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.

Professor, 

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

Business Manager, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

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

Professor, 

Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis

Assistant Teaching Professor - Seattle, 

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Professor, 

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

Assistant Professor, 

Advanced manufacturing; Multifunctional bio-inspired material from nature; Sustainable energy storage; Nano/micro fabrication of devices and materials; Bendable, implantable and biocompatible electronics; Application of sustainable biomaterial, like the cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin, in life science. Zhu Lab’s research interests include sustainable energy storage, multifunctional materials, and advanced manufacturing. In focusing on sustainable energy storage, biodegradable materials, and manufacturing, Zhu Lab’s objective is to better address the needs of society by linking nature with people through technology. Their work has made strides in identifying sustainable natural materials to develop multifunctional materials and advanced devices for future technologies to reduce our dependence on petroleum.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Associate Co-op Coordinator and Data Strategy Lead for Co-op,