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Laurens E. Howle Profile Photo
Laurens E. Howle Profile Photo

Laurens E. Howle

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science

Research Interests

Hydroelastic modeling of deformable structures, transport in thermal and chemical systems, experimental and computational fluid dynamics, nonlinear and complex systems, heat and mass transport in…

Po-Chun Hsu Profile Photo
Po-Chun Hsu Profile Photo

Po-Chun Hsu

Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Smart multifunctional textiles, camouflage fabrics, stimuli-responsive polymer, wearable electronics, photon management, radiation heat transfer, solar desalination and water harvesting, electrochemical devices, electrospinning and fiber fabrication

Prof Tony Jun Huang Profile Photo
Prof Tony Jun Huang Profile Photo

Prof Tony Jun Huang

William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Acoustofluidics, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, biomedical micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMS), optofluidics, plasmofluidics.

Prof Andrew D Jones, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Prof Andrew D Jones, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Prof Andrew D Jones, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Biofilms, cardiovascular infections, infectious diseases, biomaterials, antibiotics, porous media flows, fate and transport of nanomaterials in biofilms, water quality sensors, environmental systems analysis, environmental equity,…

Bavand Keshavarz Profile Photo
Bavand Keshavarz Profile Photo

Bavand Keshavarz

Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Mechanics of Soft Materials,  Bioinspired Hydrogels,  Metal-Coordination Networks,  Fluid Dynamics of Complex Fluids in Fragmentation and Capillary Phenomena,  Mechanical Spectroscopy of Soft Materials During Gelation, …

Robert Kielb Profile Photo
Robert Kielb Profile Photo

Robert Kielb

Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Unsteady aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, mistuning, damping, and probabilistic methods. Principal investigator on AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, and industry-funded research projects.

Josiah Knight, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Josiah Knight, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Josiah Knight, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and dynamics

Dr Brian Mann, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Dr Brian Mann, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Dr Brian Mann, Ph.D.

Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Nonlinear dynamics and vibration utilizing analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Fundamental investigations of phenomenon and application areas where dynamical systems theory plays an important role.

Piotr Marszalek, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Piotr Marszalek, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Piotr Marszalek, Ph.D.

Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Investigating relationships between structural and mechanical properties of biopolymers (polysaccharides, DNA, proteins), at a single molecule level.

Shana L. McAlexander Profile Photo
Shana L. McAlexander Profile Photo

Shana L. McAlexander

Assistant Research Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

STEM Education, Representation in science and engineering careers, Access to internships, Undergraduate/Graduate student professional development, Team Science/Convergence/Interdisciplinarity.

Dr David Mitzi, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Dr David Mitzi, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Dr David Mitzi, Ph.D.

Simon Family Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

Making emerging photovoltaic materials more effective, cost-efficient and competitive for the energy market.

David Needham Profile Photo
David Needham Profile Photo

David Needham

Professor Emeritus in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Needham’s research and development is nothing if it is not collaborative. Highlights: Anti-cancer drug delivery inspired by how cancer's survive and spread due to their…

Xiaoyue Ni Profile Photo
Xiaoyue Ni Profile Photo

Xiaoyue Ni

Assistant Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Flexible electronics, precision measurement, non-destructive testing, deformation physics of random media, mechanical metamaterials, robotic materials and smart structures, machine learning

Siobhan Rigby Oca Profile Photo
Siobhan Rigby Oca Profile Photo

Siobhan Rigby Oca

Director of Master's Studies, Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of MEMS

Research Interests

Robotics Education, Medical Robotics, Human Robot Interaction, Engineering Education

Miroslav Pajic, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Miroslav Pajic, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Miroslav Pajic, Ph.D.

Director of Master's Studies, Professor in the Department of ECE

Research Interests

Design and analysis of autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS), and in particular, embedded systems, AI, learning and controls, CPS security and high-assurance autonomy, with various application…

Christine Payne Profile Photo
Christine Payne Profile Photo

Christine Payne

Donald M. Alstadt Chair of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Yoh Family Professor

Research Interests

Molecular mechanisms by which cells interact with nanomaterials with applications in nanomedicine and environmental exposure

Amanda Randles Profile Photo
Amanda Randles Profile Photo

Amanda Randles

Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences

Research Interests

Biomedical simulation and high-performance computing

Hossein (Amir) Salahshoor Profile Photo
Hossein (Amir) Salahshoor Profile Photo

Hossein (Amir) Salahshoor

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Mechanics of biological and bio-inspired systems, brain mechanics, data-driven methods, advanced (meta)materials and (meta)structures, material design, and mathematics of materials and structures.

Sophia Santillan Profile Photo
Sophia Santillan Profile Photo

Sophia Santillan

Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Thomas Lord Department of MEMS

Research Interests

Engineering education, nonlinear systems, structural mechanics and numerical methods.

Guglielmo Scovazzi, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Guglielmo Scovazzi, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Guglielmo Scovazzi, Ph.D.

Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Finite element methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics, multiphase porous media flows, computational methods for fluid and solid materials under extreme load conditions, turbulent flow…

Teh Yu Tan Profile Photo
Teh Yu Tan Profile Photo

Teh Yu Tan

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Jeffrey P. Thomas Profile Photo
Jeffrey P. Thomas Profile Photo

Jeffrey P. Thomas

Assistant Research Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Shyni Varghese Profile Photo
Shyni Varghese Profile Photo

Shyni Varghese

Laszlo Ormandy Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Research Interests

Musculoskeletal tissue repair, disease biophysics and organ-on-a-chip technology

Manolis Veveakis Profile Photo
Manolis Veveakis Profile Photo

Manolis Veveakis

Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests

Theoretical and applied mechanics, Geomechanics, Irreversible Thermodynamics. Emphasis on the multiphysical modelling of plasticity of solids, solid-fluid interactions, friction laws and rheology of geomaterials

Lawrie Virgin, Ph.D. Profile Photo
Lawrie Virgin, Ph.D. Profile Photo

Lawrie Virgin, Ph.D.

Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Research Interests

Study of the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems, including the investigation of the fundamental nature of nonlinear systems based on a mathematical description of their…

Donald Wright Profile Photo
Donald Wright Profile Photo

Donald Wright

Associate Professor Emeritus of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science