Faculty Research Expertise
Field of Study
| Faculty Name | Areas of Research Expertise |
|---|---|
| Biological Science | |
| 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 |
