Houssam Abbas
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:
Research interests span the design, control and verification of cyber-physical systems, with particular emphasis on autonomous systems, like self-driving cars and drones, and medical devices. In particular, he is interested in the development of light-weight verification techniques that can run on-board autonomous systems and their dual use for control. He is also investigating distributed control algorithms for complex aerial missions. On the medical side, he is currently investigating programming languages suited for programming resource-constrained medical devices, and developing theoretical guarantees on their energy use.
Roberto Albertani
Associate Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Research Interests:
Experimental aerodynamics and stress analysis of flexible structures, environmental impact of wind energy, high-performance sailboats testing techniques, fiber composites technology, micro air vehicles, and biological flight mechanics.Composites prosthetic feet; Distributed propulsion Wind energy and wildlife; Non-destructive inspections; Albatross flights research
Sourabh Apte
Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Research Interests:
Prediction of pollutant residence times in environmental flows; Wavelet-based data compression and analysis to quantify clustering of inertial particles (droplets in clouds, solid particles in reactors)
Nick AuYeung
Associate Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Thermal/thermochemical storage – High temp HX-reactors – Waste heat recovery – Thermochemical cookstoves – Low temp thermal storage • Solar displacement of fossil fuels – Renewable process heating for industry – Alternative fuels (e.g. H2) • Open to your interests!
Mike Bailey
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests:
Scientific visualization, high performance computer graphics, solid freeform fabrication, geometric modeling, and computer aided design and analysis.
Projects include: GPU programming for volume and flow visualization, volume data analysis and interaction, dome projection, stereo displays, tsunami visualization, mechanical stress absorption, and understanding the proliferation of a tree virus.
Ravi Balasubramanian
Associate Professor of Mechanical, Indust & Mfgr Engr
Research Interests:
Tendon biological response to dynamic loading (working on project w/ Morgan Giers); Robustness of non-fouling coating to handling during surgery
Michelle Bothwell
Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Engineering and social justice and have some data sets already recorded that could be used in analysis, or a student could set their own project; Towards a socially just engineering profession: interrogating engineering culture; feminist theory that centers intersectionality; critical disability theory; professional engineering ethics and social responsibility; institutional transformation
Samuel Briggs
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Design, development and construction of molten salt flow and materials test loop; Technique development for sensing materials degradation in-situ via acoustic emission monitoring; Characterization of materials degradation following exposure to extreme environments
David Cann
Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Research Interests:
Synthesis and electronic properties of metal oxides; Focus on the role of crystal structure and point defects on the dielectric and electromechanical properties; Ceramic materials with electric-field induced phase transitions: Cooling devices; Development of new materials for oxygen conductors/electrolytes; Development of new ceramic capacitor materials for mobile applications
Chih-hung Chang
Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Fabrication of Functional Metal Organic Frameworks Thin Films using Microfluidic Pen; Microreactor-Assisted Nanomaterial 3D printing
Sasha Chemey
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Interdisciplinary study of nuclear chemistry, physics, and engineering to synthesize new elements and compounds to solve generational challenges in pollution and green energy.
Lizhong Chen
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests:
Machine learning accelerators, applications of AI in computing systems, intelligent mobile and wearable devices, general purpose CPU and GPU designs, and data centers and supercomputer optimization.
Tianyi Chen
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
Modeling the microstructure evolution of materials under laser-based surface treatments; Development of electrochemistry based methods for corrosion and stress corrosion cracking tests.
Onan Demirel
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests:
Intersection of human factors engineering, engineering design, and systems engineering. His work includes developing computational and experimental human-centered design theory and methodology, specifically digital human modeling and human-in-the-loop design to incorporate human factors engineering principles early in the design for automotive, aviation, consumer, and healthcare product development.
Pallavi Dhagat
Associate Professor of Electrial Engineering
Research Interests:
Write code in LabView for automating measurements. The equipment involves an ultrafast laser and high field magnet, and lots of other instrumentation. A great opportunity to learn how to write real-world user-friendly code, make sophisticated measurements and interact with professors and students from physics and electrical engineering.
Make measurements on 2D materials (graphene) You will have the chance to work setting up experiments and conducting measurements using a state-of-the-art ultrafast laser and cryogenic magnet to explore new properties in new materials.
Andy Dong
School Head, Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Strategy in the design of engineered products and systems
Martin Erwig
Stretch Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests:
Language design, domain-specific languages, functional programming, visual languages
Zhenxing Feng
Associate Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Conversion type electrocatalysts for water-splitting for hydrogen production; Aqueous lithium- and sodium-ion batteries
Naomi T. Fitter
Assistant Professor of Robotics
Research Interests:
Socially Assostive robotics; haptic; entertaining interactions
Morgan Giers
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Research Interests:
Tendon biological response to dynamic loading (project with Ravi Balasubramanian)
Adam Higgins
Associate Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Strategies for delivery of cryoprotectants into tissues for cryopreservation
Sanghyun Hong
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests:
Breaking deep learning models Breaking existing defenses against attacks Understanding why attacks are possible Develop a better defense mechanism
Chris Hundhausen
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests:
Computing & Engineering Education • Learning and data analytics • Collaborative software engineering • Social learning environments • Human-computer interaction
Xue Jin
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Optimizing membrane drinking water treatment process; Aerobic granular membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment/reclamation; Osmotic membrane photobioreactor for wastewater treatment and microalgae harvesting
Matt Johnston
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:
Biosensor and bioelectronic platforms; massively-parallel sensing; lab-on-chip technologies for medical monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics
Goran Jovanovic
Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Investigating blood damage within microchannel lamina systems; Modeling & simulating device operation and physiological responses; Blood oxygenation and gas management applications; Therapeutic plate surface functionalization: attachment, entrapment, encapsulation; Advanced manufacturing of microchannel lamina plates (ATAMI)
Christine Kelly
Associate Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
- Project 1 (ENVE or BIOE): Characterization of an engineered wetland's performance in treating wastewater treatment plant effluent. Molecular biology knowledge would be beneficial.
- Project 2 (ENVE or BIOE): Wastewater-based epidemiology for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
- Project 3 (any major): Development of lyophilization (freeze drying) experiments for a laboratory.
Bioreactor design and cost analysis of preparing microorgnaisims for bio-cementation to stabilize coastal dunes; Bio-cementation of fine-grained soils, specifically liquefiable silts (works T. Matthew Evans-CCE, Burkan Isgor -CCE and Jason Weiss- CCE)
Fuxin Li
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests:
For many applications, high predicted accuracy is insufficient, we want to know when our models are uncertain • One hypothesis suggests: given many models, each model responds to outlier data differently, and by averaging their predictions, we can identify anomalies. • This can be achieved by Ensemble of models. However, training large number of models is computationally inefficient. • We are investigating this problem using Generative Particlebased Variational Inference, that is capable to output samples weights for the target neural network.
Kaichang Li
Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Development of novel biodegradable polymers from renewable materials; Investigation of vegetable oil-based pressure sensitive adhesives
Arun Natarajan
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research Interests:
mm-wave and sub-mmwave integrated circuits and systems for high-speed wireless communication and imaging
Jeff Nason
Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Research Interests:
Researching Physical and Chemical Processes for Water Quality Control, Aquatic Chemistry, and Fate and Transport of Particulate Contaminants
Ean Ng
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests:
Economic modeling of systems/initiatives that involve social aspects; Validation of a project termination model based on engineering economy and decision theory; Development of models to correlate culture with actual performance in an organization; Development of a decision model of students’ choice between online and in person classes
Kyle Niemeyer
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Reduce/simplify models for the combustion of fuels; Simulate combustion, flames, and fires; Develop Python software for testing combustion models against experimental data; Simulate fluid mixing in the ocean
Clotilde Pierson
Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering
Research Interests:
Analyze the effect of wood finishes (masstimber buildings) on the indoor lighting environment - Compare electrochromic glazing strategies in the case of an energy crisis Experimental testing: - Validate an open-source, low-cost sensor for light measurement and glare assessment - Test the accuracy and reliability of new wearable light sensors
Skip Rochefort
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering
Research Interests:
Waste Plastics to Fuel (Pyrolysis/Gasification); Wildland Firefighter Fireproof Shelter; Hydrogels for Delivery of Botanicals; Menstrual Health & Hygiene - Botswana; Hemp Processing and Color Filtration; Recycled Plastics for use in Inkjet Cartridges
Greg Rorrer
Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests:
Photosynthetic organisms for sustainable CO2 capture, biofuels, and valued products; CO2 capture and nutrient removal by algae in engineered flow systems; Product analysis
Melissa Santala
Associate Professor of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering
Research Interests:
Role of surfaces and interfaces in the structural and phase stability of nanostructured materials; the kinetics of phase transformations; and has extensive experience in the application of transmission electron microscopy to problems in materials science, including aberration-corrected S(TEM) and photo-emission TEM.
John Selker
University Distinguished Professor of Crop and Soil Science
Research Interests:
Make new sensing systems for environmental monitoring; Improve African meteorological data by cross-comparison between stations; Fiber Optic Sensors to improve understanding of environmental processes; Unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing Open-Sensing.org
Prasad Tadepalli
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, automated planning and reasoning, natural language processing
Chet Udell
Assistant Professor of Biological and Ecological Engineering
Research Interests:
Make new sensing systems for environmental monitoring; Improve African meteorological data by cross-comparison between stations; Fiber Optic Sensors to improve understanding of environmental processes; Unmanned vehicles for environmental sensing Open-Sensing.org
Pam Van Londen
Computer Science Senior Instructor
Research Interests:
Incorporating a Cognitive Styles assessment into computing courses helps students understand their learning style, which can help them avoid imposter syndrome. Looking into reasons why women and marginalized groups leave STEM jobs at higher rates: "The Leaky Pipeline"
Hector Vergara
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Research Interests:
Application of methods and tools of operations research to problems in transportation, logistics and distribution, supply chain design and optimization, facility location, and network design; Manufacturing systems and data collection and decision support systems
Kiri Wagstaff
Computer Science Senior Instructor
Research Interests:
Create a competency-aware classifier for Mars data; Anomaly/novelty detection in planetary science images; Explainable machine learning for science applications
Tom Weller
School Head, Michael and Judith Gaulke Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests:
Reconfigurable microwave circuits, microwave applications of additive manufacturing and 3D printing, electromagnetic sensors, microwave circuit and antenna design, and equivalent circuit modeling
Meagan Wengrove
Assistant Professor of Civil & Construction Engineering
Research Interests:
Relationship between scales of sediment transport, large wave fumes, marsh restoration strategies. Using subsea fiber optic cables (think the cables that provide internet across the ocean and connect instrument platforms to shore) to measure ocean waves and currents.
Richard E. Wirz
Executive Director of Aerospace Research Programs, Boeing Professor
Research Interests:
Advanced space propulsion - Air-breathing electric propulsion - Fusion energy - Plasma-material interactions - Plasma-medicine - Plasma devices and cathodes
Eugene Zhang
Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests:
Visualization: earthquake, hurricane data; Geometry: shape matching, texture synthesis; Art: computer-generated painting and drawing; Animation: solid/fluid simulation Math visualization: a concept of your interest