Faculty and Staff Directory

Professor and Associate Chair for Research Affairs, 

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, 

Executive Director of Core Research Facility, 

Assistant Professor, 

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

Administrative Assistant, 

Professor Emeritus, 

Industrial engineering/operations research

Research Coordinator, 

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Internet of Things (IoT) and intelligent factory transformation; Price recommendation and optimization using machine learning models; Image search engines and semantic segmentation; Applications of artificial intelligence in business; and Biomedical signal processing for healthcare applications

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

COE Distinguished Professor, 

New magnetic and magnetoelectric materials and device physics; integrated magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials and microsystems for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics; novel electrochemical sensors for sensing different pathogens and biomarkers for the diagnosis of various diseases, including COVID-19, Alzheimer’s disease, lung cancer, drug abuse, diabetes, etc.

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

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

Associate Teaching Professor, 

Business Manager, 

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

Senior Fellow of Defense & Security Research Programs, 

Professor, 

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

Associate Professor, 

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

Affiliated Faculty, 

Associate 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

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Assistant Professor, 

Multi-robot systems, planning and control, distributed autonomy

Associate Professor, 

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.

Assistant Professor, 

Optoelectronic and mechanical properties of quantum materials, van der Waals heterostructures, engineering light-matter interactions, ultrafast optical and THz spectroscopy, THz-induced phenomena, coherent control of material properties

Assistant Professor, 

Federated data analytics, Bayesian optimization, continuous optimization, Gaussian processes, deep learning

Postdoctoral Research Associate, 

Professor, 

Mechanics; personalized medicine; simulation techniques and complex networks analysis

Associate Professor, 

Nanoscale thermal transport; Nanoengineered materials; Multifunctional composites; Microfluidics; Chemical and biological nanosensors; Renewable energy harvesting; Thermophotovoltaics; Photon-based radiative cooling; Interfacial water desalination; Battery thermal management system; Proton-exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell; Biomass hydrogel; Energy storage system; Nanophotonics; Light-matter interaction

Associate Professor, 

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 electronics; Investigations of sustainable biomaterial, like cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, materials-structure-performance-application correlations.

Assistant Professor, 

Electro-chemo-mechanics, energy storage systems, scientific machine learning, battery sustainability and safety