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Faculty Affiliates

Ma'Moun Abu-Ayyad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6786
Area of research/interest: Control Systems, Model Predictive Control, Nonlinear System Identification, and Optimization

A. Patricia Aguilera-Hermida, D.Ed.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Human Development and Family Studies
[email protected]
717-948-6227
Area of research/interest: Elderly Education, Cognitive Health, Community Well-Being, and Neuroplasticity

Anilchandra Attaluri, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6702
Area of research/interest: Safety of Wireless Power Transfer, Remote Health and Rehabilitation Monitoring, Thermal Process Monitoring and Control, and Smart and Sustainable Homes

Richard Ciocci, Ph.D., P.E.
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Professor-in-Charge, Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6095
Area of research/interest: Sustainable and Independent Living, and Renewable Energy

William Driscoll, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
[email protected]
717-948-6308
Area of research/interest: Interplay of genetic and environmental change in microbial communities

Nashwa Elaraby, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor of Electrical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6382
Area of research/interest: Embedded System Design, Multi-Gigabit Transceivers, and Brain Machine Interface

Susan Lemieux Eskin, Ph.D.
Associate Teaching Professor of Physics
[email protected]
717-948-6353
Area of research/interest: Motion Detection, Sensory Neuroscience and Medical Imaging

Renee Flasher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Accounting
[email protected]
717-948-4316
Area of research/interest: Fraud, Sustainability, Data Security, Standard Setting

Md Faisal Kabir
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
[email protected]
717-948-6110
Area of research/interest: Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Health Informatics

Kiana Karami, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6743
Area of research/interest: Control Systems, Nonlinear System Identification, and Optimization

Dariush Khezrimotlagh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
[email protected]
717-948-6179
Area of research/interest: Performance Evaluations, Productivity and Efficiency measurements, Ranking and Benchmarking, Data Envelopment Analysis, and Data Mining and Analytics

Tyler Love, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Elementary/Middle Grades STEM Education
[email protected]
717-948-6635
Area of research/interest: STEM Education and Outreach

Grady Mathews IV, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6356
Area of research/interest: Use of Waste/Recycled Products in Construction Materials, Durability of Cementitious Materials

Nikhil Menon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-4387
Area of research/interest: Sustainable Transportation, Emerging Mobility, Travel Behavior, Disadvantaged Populations, and Econometric Modeling

Hyuntae Na, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
[email protected]
717-948-6438
Area of research/interest: Bioinformatics, Computational Structural Biology, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning

Hien Nguyen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
[email protected]
717-948-6669
Area of research/interest: Cancer informatics, Biostatistics, Systems Biology, Computational Structural Biology, and Pattern formation

Xinwei Niu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6202
Area of research/interest: High performance Computing, Hardware Acceleration and Embedded System Design

Esfakur Rahman, Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6576
Area of research/interest: Materials Science, Biomaterials, and Additive Manufacturing

Ola Rashwan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6628
Area of research/interest: Photovoltaic Materials, 3D Printing of Recycled Polymers, Additive Manufacturing of Composite Materials, and Multiscale Surface Texturing

R. Tyler Richardson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology 
[email protected]
717-948-6214
Area of research/interest: Shoulder Mechanics, Musculoskeletal Modeling, and Remote Motion Monitoring

Sairam Rudrabhatla, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biology Program Chair, Biology & Science Director, Central Pennsylvania Research and Teaching Laboratory for Biofuels
[email protected]
717-948-6560
Area of research/interest: Hydroponics, Biofuels, Industrial Hemp, and STEM Education and Outreach

Joseph Seidel, Ph.D., P.E.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering & Structural / Construction Engineering Technology
[email protected]
717-948-6421
Area of research/interest: Construction Materials Engineering, Sustainability, and Engineering Education

Hessam Taherian, Ph.D
Assistant Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6097
Area of research/interest: Renewable Energy in Buildings, Net-Zero Energy Building, Air Conditioning, and Air Flow Modeling in Buildings

Mohammad Tofighi, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6112
Area of research/interest: Radio frequency (RF) and microwave, antenna, electromagnetic, and medical applications

Truong Tran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
[email protected]
717-946-6081
Area of research/interest: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Computer Vision, Biomedical Informatics, and Software Engineering

Md Habib Ullah, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
[email protected]
717-948-6364
Area of research/interest: Transactive Energy Systems, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) Coordination, Cyber-Physical Power Systems, Electric Vehicles, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, IoT, and AI in Smart Grid

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