Faculty

Research Interests: Data-Intensive Analytics and Simulation. Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing and Supply Chain System. Industry 4.0 and Digital Twins. Design of Experiments

Research Interests: Rapid Prototyping, CAD/CAM, Rapid Product Development

Research Interests: Computer Architecture, DSP and Digital Image Processing, Embedded System Design, Hardware Design with FPGAs and VLSI, Hardware Performance Optimization

Research Interests: Epitaxial thin film materials for next generation high speed optoelectronic devices, Heterointegration of dissimilar materials, High mobility compound semiconductor channels CMOS devices, Functional oxides integrated onto semiconductors

Research Interests: Energy efficient building and construction, Sustainable concrete, Aliphatic Polyketones, Lightweight composites, Recruitment and retention of women and minorities in STEM, Cooperative education

Research Interests: Optimal decision policies for system configuration and resource allocation, Health care systems engineering and analysis of patient flow, Reliability analysis and maintenance decisions for wind energy systems, Discrete event modeling and simulation. Stochastic Programming

Research Interests: Transportation Engineering, Pavement Management Systems, Emergency Evacuation

Research Interests: Vision-based Structural Health Monitoring Technologies, Pavement Condition Survey, Assessment and Management, Structural Design for Buildings, and Bridges Generative AI

Research Interests: Nano-electronics: nano-FET, nano-antenna, carbon-nanotube, Microwave photonics, Photonic true-time delay beamformer for phased array antenna, Silicon nanophotonics: modulators, switches, light emitting devices, beamsteering devices, integration and packaging, Polymer photonics devices: optical switches, E-O modulators, Photonic crystals: photonic crystal fibers, slow-light photonic crystal waveguides and devices

Research Interests: Smart infrastructure, Connected and Automated Vehicles, Foundation Models, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Causal AI, Traffic Safety and Operations, Natural Language Processing, Advanced Language Models, Digital Twin, GIS, & Systems Engineering.
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Research Interests: AI for Engineering Applications; AI in Healthcare; Edge AI; Agentic AI

Research Interests: Integration of artificial intelligence in additive manufacturing, Design optimization of structured materials, Contact mechanics, friction, and wear of viscoelastic materials, Process optimization in advanced manufacturing

Research Interests: Wide and ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, MOCVD epitaxial growth, Microelectronics fabrication, Power electronics, & TCAD simulation .

Research Interests: PFAS, Water Sustainability, Green Stormwater Infrastructure, Nature-Inspired Engineering

Research Interests: Sustainable water resources management, Advanced water and wastewater treatment, Environmental chemistry and toxicology

Research Interests: Sustainable manufacturing operations, Net-zero energy, Space supply chain design, reliability and maintenance logistics.
 

Research Interests: Development, analysis, and design of response-modification devices for protecting structures against natural and human-induced hazards; enhancing the seismic resilience of buildings; applying alternative solutions in structural components; and improving the strengthening and stability of temporary structures.

Research Interests: Micro/nano-systems for bio-medical/analytical applications, Experimental microfluidics and optical measurements, Transport phenomena as related to micro/nano-fluidic systems, Advanced multi-scale manufacturing and surface modification

Research Interests: Wide Bandgap Semiconductors & Devices, Electronic Materials, Solid-state Electronics, and Microscopy Characterization.

Research Interests: Mathematical optimization and prescriptive analytics (i.e., linear, non-linear, integer, stochastic, dynamic, or neuro-dynamic programming, and heuristic optimization), data science,  parallel computing to solve large-scale optimization problems and machine learning methods. Applications in renewable energy planning and supply chain optimization under uncertainty, stochastic and dynamic facility layout, vehicle routing, and supplier selection. Minor interest in additive manufacturing and statistical design of experiments to optimize the quality of 3D manufactured parts. 

Research Interests: Use of advanced composite materials in design, repair, and strengthening of structures to enhance resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure, Development of resilient and sustainable composite structural systems incorporating bio- and waste-based materials, Development of sustainable waste-based structural concretes using recycled materials.

Research Interests: Cementitious Materials Containing Recycled Aggregates, Multifunctional Construction Materials for Smart Infrastructure, Sustainable, High Performance Fiber Reinforced Construction Materials, Concrete Durability

Research Interest: Microwave devices and systems, Engineering ethics, Atmospheric physics and plasmas, History of engineering and technology

Research Interest: Makerspace: Inclusivity, Retention, & Student Learning, Senior Design: Mentorship, Impacts, & Senior Design Day, STEM Project Based Learning, STEM Active Learning

Development, manufacturing, and characterization of high-performance thermoset and thermoplastics polymeric matrix composites for industrial, aerospace, sports, biomedical, and energy applications.

Research interests: low-cost electronics, brain-computer interface, longitudinal health and sleep monitoring, performance measurement, EEG and BCG.

Research Interests: High Performance Computing (HPC) ,Computer Architecture & Digital Designing, Embedded Systems, Machine Learning, Visualization

Research Interests: Mechanics and characterization of soft materials and biological materials; Theoretical and computational fracture mechanics; Damage and failure behavior of soft polymers; Biomechanics of natural stingers and animal protective structures; Design and fabrication of bio-inspired functional materials and soft composite materials.