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Biological Science

Faculty Name Areas of Research Expertise
Brittany Anderson Detection of protein palmitoylation in cell culture and brain lysates
William Driscoll Interplay of genetic and environmental change in microbial communities
Brenna Hill Pedagogical research to determine the impact of engaging learning strategies on student success outcomes
 Shobha Potlakayala Molecular plant pathology and gene expression
 Sairam Rudrabhatla Metabolic engineering of plants
 Nikolaos Tsotakos Non-coding RNAs and other factors in regulating gene expression in health and disease

Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Joseph Cecere Safety, planning & scheduling, estimating, construction management
Y. Frank Chen Numerical analysis, floor vibrations, bridge engineering, composite structures
Yen-Chih Chen (David) Wastewater treatment, biological treatment, anaerobic digestion, biosolids management, environmental biotechnology
Shirley Clark Land development and climate change impacts on urban hydrology, water quality, human/ecosystem health
Saravanan Gurupackiam Traffic operations, microscopic traffic simulation, and highway safety
Seroj Mackertich Structural analysis, solid mechanics, structural dynamics, vibrations
Shashi Marikunte High performance concrete, self-consolidating concrete, fiber reinforced concrete, lightweight concrete, durability of concrete
Grady Mathews Use of waste/recycled products in construction materials, concrete durability 
Nikhil Menon Emerging transportation technologies, new mobility services, travel behavior, transportation planning, data collection experiments, econometric modeling
Mijic Zoraja Earthquake engineering, geotechnical engineering, soli liquefication, adaptation of infrastructure to climate change, environmental geotechnics, sustainable infrastructure
Rajarajan Subramanian Portland cement concrete, asphalt cement concrete, and engineering education
Sofia Vidalis Construction management, building information modeling, quality control on concrete pavements, transportation planning and operations
Yuefeng Xie Formation & control of disinfection by-products in drinking water, analysis & control of emerging contaminants in drinking water, water/wastewater disinfection, physical, chemical, & biological processes in water treatment, wastewater reuse

Chemistry

Abu Asaduzzaman Computational chemistry, materials sciences, cosmochemistry, geochemistry
Xianlong Ge Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) and CPVC thermal degradation and stabilization, free-radical chlorination, microstructure analysis
Theodore Underiner Applying organic/medicinal chemistry techniques to prepare, isolate and understand behavior of biological relevant molecules

Computer Science

Jeremy Blum Intelligent transportation systems, combinatorial optimization, algorithmic game theory
Thang Bui Algorithms, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, combinatorial optimization
Sukmoon Chang Visualization, medical imaging processing, computer graphics, internet technology
Md Faisal Kabir Data mining, machine learning, health informatics
Wanda Kunkle Computer science education, human-computer interaction (HCI), web-based application development
Hyuntae Na Bioinformatics, computational structural biology, computational geometry, computer vision
Hien Nguyen Cancer informatics, biostatistics and systems biology
Linda Null Computer security, operating systems/distributed systems, databases, computer organization & architecture, computer science education
Truong Tran Machine learning, artificial intelligence, data analytics, computer vision, biomedical informatics, and software engineering

Electrical Engineering

Sedig Agili Signal integrity for high-speed interconnects, fiber optic communications, fiber optic sensors
Omid Ansary Control systems, signals and systems, model order reductions, computer architecture
Rafic Bachnak Control and automation, solar power and sensor networks, systems design and integration, non-destructive evaluation, STEM education and research
Nashwa Elaraby Field programmable gate array design, multi-gig-bit transceivers and jitter modeling, brain-machine-interface, and neural engineering
Robert Gray Systems engineering, data analyst, intelligent/AI systems, monte carlo modeling, avionics and rail systems
Peter Idowu Power systems operation and control, microgrid testbed design, fabrication, and intelligent agent-based operation
Kiana Karami Mathematical modeling and system identification of nonlinear systems, control systems and optimization
Aldo Morales Signal integrity for high-speed applications, wavelets, digital signal processing, neural networks, mathematical morphology & non-linear signal processing
Xinwei Niu High-performance computing, hardware acceleration, machine learning, embedded system design
AB Shafaye Digital systems, control systems, microcontrollers, data communications, wind power
Mohammad-Reza Tofighi Radio frequency (RF) and microwave, antenna, electromagnetic, and medical applications
Ullah Md Habib Quantum computing for smart grid applications, distributed cyber-physical power systems, peer-to-peer transactive energy management systems, load restoration and network reconfiguration for resilient cyber-physical dc power systems
Seth Wolpert Modeling of neural devices and processes, medical instrumentation design, IC design

Mathematics

Brian Adams Computational & statistical modeling, simulation, statistical analysis, operations research
Erol Akbas Topology, 3-manifolds, mathematics education, survival analysis, machine learning
Muhammad Akram Approximation techniques and fixed-points theory
Eugene Boman Numerical linear algebra, history of mathematics
Craig Culbert Discrete mathematics and incidence geometry, especially combinatorics, finite geometries and associated algebraic structures
Andrew Fenta Real analysis, functional analysis, operator theory, approximation theory
John Grosh Logic and set theory
Ibrahim Rukayya High-dimensional multivariate time series analysis, dimension reduction in multivariate time series and spatiotemporal data modelling, tensor decomposition and its applications in multivariate time series and spatiotemporal data analysis  
Dariush Khezrimotlagh Operations research, data envelopment analysis, performance evaluation, benchmarking and ranking, linear programming, decision making
Kevin Li Differential geometry, geometric analysis
Oscar Lopez Combinatorics, cryptography, coding theory and group theory
Anita Mareno Non-linear elasticity, partial differential equations, functional analysis
Andrew McHugh Mathematical physics, complex manifolds, super geometry, twistor theory, non-kahler manifolds
Taoufik Meklachi Cloaking, data fitting, inverse problems, electrodynamics, metamaterials, wave mechanics, differential equations, optics, asymptotic analysis
Ilya Shvartsman Optimal control theory, nonlinear & nonsmooth analysis
Masoud Tabatabai Statistical quality control
Ronald Walker Several complex variables, partial differential equations

Mechanical Engineering

Ma'Moun Abu-Ayyad Advanced predictive control, instrumentation and nonlinear modeling, optimization and artificial neural networks
Issam Abu-Mahfouz Machinery vibration, machine learning, rotating dynamics, automatic control manufacturing process monitoring, sound & noise analysis, isolation
Anilchandra Attaluri Thermal-fluids, bio transport, multi-physics modeling, magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia, thermal oncology, medical device development
Amit Banerjee Design optimization, genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, clustering algorithms
Richard Ciocci Advanced manufacturing & design, lead-free solder in electronics manufacturing, design for the environment, sustainable engineering
Mike Dideban Thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, heating, ventilation and air conditioning
Shadi Emam Biomedical devices: electrochemical sensors for diagnosis purposes, 2-d material, stretchable, wearable, self-healing sensors
Sheikh Fahad Ferdous Nano-mechanics and nano-composites, multi-functional materials, multi-scale modeling, traumatic brain injury, bone scaffold, additive manufacturing, engineering education
Zhezhen Fu Materials processing: Ceramic materials, microstructures and properties, advanced manufacturing: 3D printing, powder metallurgy
Harris Imadojemu Heat transfer
Brian Maicke Thermofluids, propulsion, analytical and numerical methods, combustion instability
Vahid Motevalli Combustion and fire research, power train analysis of hybrid-electric vehicles, aviation safety, and security systems
Dassou Nagassou Concentrated solar power, renewable energy, plasma engineering and technology
Ahm Esfakur Rahman

Joining of metallic alloys, physical metallurgy, structural ceramics, failure analysis

Ola Rashwan Additive manufacturing, PV solar cells, tribology, micro/nano surface texturing
Hessam Taherian Ground-source heat pumps, energy-positive buildings, distributed energy generation, liquid desiccant dehumidification
Fariborz Tavangarian Nanomaterials, composite materials, biomaterials, self-healing materials, engineering design, ceramics, tissue engineering, gas sensors

Physics

Wolfram Bettermann Nanotechnology education in higher education institutions, biomedical engineering, modeling and simulation of nanoelectronic devices
Steven Carabello Superconductivity, low-noise electronic measurements, cryogenics, physics education research
Susan Eskin Experimental atomic/nuclear physics and diagnostic imaging physics specializing in magnetic resonance imaging
George Gehring Nonlinear optics, slow & fast light propagation, entanglement & quantum optics, quantum tunneling, and nonlocal phenomena
Arthur Pallone Nondestructive testing & evaluation, ion beam analysis, image processing, experimental nuclear physics

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