Below is a list of Researchers with full bios on the COE Research site.
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Research Areas: Activated carbon materials, Agriculture, Biotechnology, carbon fiber formation, Carbon materials, Energy, Environment, Nanotube synthesis, Nanotube-polymer and nanotube-carbon composite materials, Pitch chemistry and characterization
Research Areas: Biomechanical outcomes of treatment for low back pain, Biomechanics of human musculoskeletal system, Finite element modeling of the musculoskeletal system, Mechanical behaviors of the human trunk, Occupational biomechanics, Spine Biomechanics
Research Areas: Computational Neural Engineering, Signal Analysis for Epilepsy, State-Space Models of Behavior
Research Areas: Near-Infrared Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy/Tomography
Research Areas: Data Mining, Image and Video Processing, Information Retrieval
Research Areas: Acoustics, Electromagnetics, High-performance Computing, Immersive Virtual Environments, Spatial Audio Rendering, Wave Propagation
Research Areas: 3-Dimensional Data Acquistion, pattern recognition, Signal and Image Processing, Stochastic Systems
Research Areas: Biocompatible Surfaces, Cancer Cell Metastasis, Cell-Based Biosensors, Microfluidic Devices for Biological Applications
Research Areas: Activated carbon materials, Agriculture, Biotechnology, carbon fiber formation, Carbon materials, Energy, Environment, Nanotube synthesis, Nanotube-polymer and nanotube-carbon composite materials, Pitch chemistry and characterization
Research Areas: Deformation Mechanisms and Mechanical Behavior of Nanoporous Metals, in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy, Structure, Thin Film Plasticity
Research Areas: Application of Novel Quantum Mechanical Methods to Diffusion, Computational Materials Science of Nanomaterials and Materials for Energy, Electron Transport and Catalysis.
Research Areas: biomolecular interactions with interfaces, coatings for drug delivery, electrode modification, enzyme mediated polymerization, interfacial transport phenomena, Materials for biological detection
Research Areas: Membrane Separation, Nanotechnology, Tunable Membranes and Biocatalysis, Water Treatment
Research Areas: Biomedical Devices, Conservation, Energy, Nanostructured Materials, Sustainable Manufacturing
Research Areas: Active Polymeric Biomaterials, Drug Delivery, Functionalized, including Polymer Nanocarriers, Postsurgical Adhesions., Pro/antioxidant Biomaterials, Wound Healing
Research Areas: Ceramics, Clinical and Translational Science, Lab-on-a-Chip, Materials Science and Engineering, Microfluidics, Smart Materials and Devices
Research Areas: Advanced Carbon Materials and Nanotechnology, Diffusion in Polymers, Polymerization
Research Areas: Biomaterials, Bionanotechnology, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine, Nanotechnology, Polymer Science
Research Areas: Molecular Electronics, Nanoscale Device Fabrication, Nanotechnology, Spintronics, Thin Film Processes
Research Areas: Polymer Physics Viscoelastic Behavior of Materials Rheology
Research Areas: Blends and Synthetic Membranes, Polymer Nanocomposites, Polymer Processing, Rheology
Research Areas: Biotechnology, Materials Processing, Self-Assembly in Compressed Fluids, Separations, Solution Thermodynamics, Supercritical Fluid Technology for Biosynthesis
Research Areas: Biotechnology, Interfacial Science, Multiscale Modeling, Nanotechnology, Reaction Engineering, Renewable Energy, Separations
Research Areas: Chemical and Transprort Processes Associated with Microparticles, Light-scattering, Optical Microsensors based on Spherical Microparticles, Physical, Synthesis of Tailored Micro- and Nano-particles
Research Areas: Biofuels, Computer Aided Process Engineering, Energy, Green Engineering, Process Design, Process Safety, Sustainability
Research Areas: colloids and interfacial phenomena, distance learning, Fluids modeling in porous media, interactive multimedia educational software, model-based process control, surface kinetics, surfactant induced water movement
Research Areas: Use of Membranes for Water Purification
Research Areas: Parallel Computation of Three-Dimensional Transport of Reactive Species in Air Pollution Modeling
Research Areas: Contact Deformation of Materials, Electrical-Chemical-Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Micromechanics of Advanced Materials
Research Areas: Electron Microscopy, Failure Analysis, Fatigue and Fracture, Micro and Macrotexture, Simulation of Fatigue Damage, Structure/Property Relations
Research Areas: Finite Element Analysis, Numerical Methods, Structural Analysis
Research Areas: Control of Waterbourne Disease, Disinfection, Environmental Virology, Fate of Pathogens in Water Environments, Public Health, Water Reuse, Water Treatment
Research Areas: Field instrumentation, ground modification, insitu and laboratory testing of soils, insitu response of geotechnical systems, monitoring of constructed facilities, performance prediction of supported excavations, soil improvement
Research Areas: Congestion Pricing, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Simulation and Forecasting., Transportation Network Modeling, Transportation System Analysis
Research Areas: Water resources
Research Areas: Limit Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs and Frames, Practical Design Applications, Reinforced Concrete, Structural Engineering
Research Areas: Economics, Equipment technology in Construction, Productivity Analysis and Improvement, safety, Workforce Issues and Strategies in Construction.
Research Areas: Construction Equipment and Methods, Construction Management and Administration, Estimating and Value Engineering, Planning and Scheduling, Total Quality Management
Research Areas: Constitutive Relations of Soils, Dynamic Soil Problems, Experimental Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, Foundation Vibrations, Geo-Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering
Research Areas: Bridges, Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites, Hazard Mitigation, Impact Forces on Bridges, Mitigation, Plates and Shells, Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures, Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit, Structural Analysis and Design
Research Areas: Earthquake Engineering, Engineering Geophysics, Geotechnical Site Characterization, Landfill Geotechnology, Vibration Monitoring and Mitigation
Research Areas: Construction Management, Materials Engineering, Pavement Design, Transportation Engineering
Research Areas: High Performance Work Organizations, Labor-Management, Learning Organizations in Engineering and Constuction, Management of Construction Organizations, Work Organization
Research Areas: Genetic Algorithms/Artificial Neural Networks, GIS/Simulation Model Interface/Environmental Informatics, Mathematical Modeling of Hydraulic and Hydrologic Systems, Operations Research/Systems Analysis, TMDL Modeling and Methodologies, Water Distribution Network Modeling, Water Supply Planning, Watershed Management
Research Areas: Civil Engineering Construction Materials, Coal Waste Utilization, Railroad Engineering, Transportation Facilities Design
Research Areas: highway safety, information systems, planning models, railroads, transportation management
Research Areas: driver eduction and licensing, evaluation of crash rates, highway geometric design and capacity, human factors, measures of congestion mitigation, public transportation, Traffic safety, traffic simulation
Research Areas: Management of Complex Projects, Public Policy for Large Systems, System Dynamics
Research Areas: Biotransformation of Metals Areas, Kinetics of Anaerobic l Processes, Water Pollution Control
Research Areas: Computer Modeling, Computer-Aided Design, Steel and Metal Structures, Structural Damage and Failure Analysis, Structural Stability and Post-Buckling Analysis
Research Areas: Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrologic Modeling of Waterseds, Numerical Modeling of Surface-Water Environments, Open Channel Flow, Parameter Estimation and Optimization Techniques
Research Areas: computer managed instruction/research, interactive media with instruction
Research Areas: active networks, formal methods, network security, Next-generation computer network protocols and architectures
Research Areas: collaborative CAD, Computer Graphics, Computer-aided geometric design
Research Areas: multimedia networking, Networking protocols and architectures, Smart Grid communications
Research Areas: distributed algorithms, Operating Systems, programming languages
Research Areas: and parallel and distributed systems, Databases and systems, including database security and privacy, sensor networks, uncertain data management
Research Areas: Computational complexity, computational learning theory, computational social choice, planning under uncertainty, preference handling in artificial intelligence, stochastic models, X Comparative decision-making studies
Research Areas: distributed systems, Network protocols
Research Areas: Computer vision, Geo-spatial sensing, Gis, Image-Processing, medical imaging, multimedia, Sensor Network Visualization, Time-lapse video, video surveillance
Research Areas: Algorithms, Biomedical and Bioinformatics Algorithms and Applications, Research in Computing for the Humanities (Digital Libraries), Robust Implementations
Research Areas: Pseudorandom sequences for cryptography and communications
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Data Mining
Research Areas: Fault-tolerance in distributed mobile computing systems, mobile ad hoc networks, sensor networks, vehicular ad hoc networks
Research Areas: constraint satisfaction, design of databases and knowledge bases, Logical foundations of AI
Research Areas: Computer vision, Digital Libraries, multimedia, surgical technology, visualization
Research Areas: cloud computing, Computer Security, Distributed computing systems, wireless networks
Research Areas: Artificial intelligence, constraint satisfaction, declarative programming, knowledge representation and reasoning
Research Areas: Computational complexity, numerical analysis
Research Areas: Computer Graphics, Computer vision, Image-Processing, multimedia
Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Computational medical imaging and data analysis, Data Mining, scientific computing
Research Areas: Applied Electromagnetics, Computational Electromagnetics, Theoretical Electromagnetics
Research Areas: Control of Electric Machines, Electric Drive Applied to Vehicles, Electric Machine Design and Analysis, Solid-State Power Conditioning
Research Areas: CMOS Transistor Reliability, Microelectronic Fabrication, Microsensors, Novel Semiconductor Devices and Materials
Research Areas: Data Mining, Image and Video Processing, Information Retrieval
Research Areas: control systems, electric machines, optimization of power electronics, power systems
Research Areas: Compilers, Digital Imaging, Hardware Architectures and Networking, Operating Systems, Parallel Processing
Research Areas: biomedical signals, detection and estimation theory, distributed sensors systems, music, pattern recognition, psychophysics, Signal Processing, speech, ultrasound
Research Areas: Computational Electromagnetics, Electromagnetic Scattering, Microwave Circuit Device Modeling, Parallel Computational Methods, Parasitic Extraction of Mixed Signal Systems
Research Areas: Acoustics, Electromagnetics, High-performance Computing, Immersive Virtual Environments, Spatial Audio Rendering, Wave Propagation
Research Areas: 3-Dimensional Data Acquistion, pattern recognition, Signal and Image Processing, Stochastic Systems
Research Areas: Biological Sensors, Biotechnology, Chemical Sensors, Nano-fabrication, Nanotechnology, Photonics
Research Areas: Computer engineering, digital signal processing, machine vision and intelligence, software engineering
Research Areas: discrete event control systems, embedded systems, Energy, fault detection, fault diagnosis, fault monitoring, manufacturing automation, Manufacturing Systems, power, power systems, production control
Research Areas: digital communications, Image-Processing
Research Areas: Energy, energy management system, intelligent techniques, Power quality monitoring and analysis, Power system economics and optimization, Protective relaying, Security, Signal Processing
Research Areas: antenna analysis and design, Electromagnetic wave propagation and scattering, fast numerical algorithms for computational electromagnetics, inverse scattering, microwave imaging
Research Areas: lasers, Materials, microelectronics
Research Areas: Aerospace Systems (UAVs and Small Satellites), embedded systems, Networks, Safety Critical Systems, Wireless Communication
Research Areas: Computer and Network Security, Data Mining and Fusion, embedded systems, Hardware/Software Codesign, Heterogeneous Sensor Network, Low Power Chip Design, Mobile Interface Browsing, Parallel Architecture
Research Areas: Electroluminescence, Electronic Devices, Electronic Materials, Energy, Flat-Panel Displays, Photovoltaics, Solar, Thin Film Solar Cells, Thin-film Technology
Research Areas: Antennas, Electromagnetic Compatibility, Radio Communications
Research Areas: Electronic materials and devices, Nanotechnology, semiconductor device fabrication and characterization sensor design and development, VLSI/CAD
Research Areas: all-digital control design, deterministic control of uncertain systems, deterministic estimation of uncertain systems, modeling of flexible systems by uncertain methods, nonlinear systems, output feedback stabilization of nonlinear systems, symbolic control
Research Areas: antenna analysis and design, Computation Electromagnetics, Microwave Circuits, Radar, Theoretical Electromagnetics
Research Areas: Applied machine vision, control systems, Manufacturing processes, robotic welding
Research Areas: Control of Waterbourne Disease, Disinfection, Environmental Virology, Fate of Pathogens in Water Environments, Public Health, Water Reuse, Water Treatment
Research Areas: Polymer Physics Viscoelastic Behavior of Materials Rheology
Research Areas: composites, elastomers, finite element modeling, Materials, micromechanics, nanomechanics, polymers, Solid Mechanics, vibration
Research Areas: Biofuels, Computer Aided Process Engineering, Energy, Green Engineering, Process Design, Process Safety, Sustainability
Research Areas: colloids and interfacial phenomena, distance learning, Fluids modeling in porous media, interactive multimedia educational software, model-based process control, surface kinetics, surfactant induced water movement
Research Areas: Use of Membranes for Water Purification
Research Areas: Automobile Surface Coating and Inspection, Combustion, Fire Research, Lean Manufacturing, Nano-Technology, R4D, Scale Modeling, Thermal Sensing and Control
Research Areas: Combustion, Droplet transport and behavior in spray applications, Electrostatic effect on paint spray transport and deposition, Energy, Energy conversion and conservation, Energy efficiency of industrial processes, Nondestructive evaluation of surface and subsurface defects in coated surfaces, Renewable Energy, Renewable energy conversion from biomass sources
Research Areas: Activated carbon materials, Agriculture, Biotechnology, carbon fiber formation, Carbon materials, Energy, Environment, Nanotube synthesis, Nanotube-polymer and nanotube-carbon composite materials, Pitch chemistry and characterization
Research Areas: coherent structures, homogeneous turbulence, microelectromechanical systems, scaling wall-bounded flows, turbulent drag reduction, turbulent flows, unsteady vortex flows, wake turbulence, wall flows
Research Areas: Elastic Wave Propagation, Mechanics, Thermoelasticity
Research Areas: Computational implementation of physically significant eigenfunction solutions to the 3D Helmholtz equation
Research Areas: Continuum Mechanics, Coupled Thermoelasticity, Materials Science
Research Areas: Civil Engineering Materials, Engineering Education, Mechanics, Structural Steel Design
Research Areas: Sustainable Quality Healthcare Doctor of Practice Curriculum, Sustainable Quality Research Design Teams
Research Areas: Edge effects on concentrated contacts, Fracture Mechanics, Fragmentation, Tribology
Research Areas: acoustic materials, Acoustics, mufflers and silencers, structural dynamics
Research Areas: adaptive control, Aerospace, flow control, robust control, structural control, System Identification, vibration control
Research Areas: Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Manufacturing Process
Research Areas: active materials for actuators, Composition-processing-microstructure-mechanical property relationships, Energy Harvesting, high strength shape memory alloys, high temperature shape memory alloys, iron ore sintering, magnetic refrigeration, magnetic shape memory alloys, nanotube fabrication, phase transformations, severe plastic deformation, shape memory composites, shape memory polymers, thermodynamical modeling
Research Areas: Deformation of Advanced Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Manufacturing processes, Solid Mechanics, Superplasticity and Superplastic Forming
Research Areas: Combustion, Waste Incineration
Research Areas: Combustion and Energy Utilization, Material Synthesis, Nanotechnology, Pollutant Generation and Control
Research Areas: composites, elastomers, finite element modeling, Materials, micromechanics, nanomechanics, polymers, Solid Mechanics, vibration
Research Areas: Processing of Metals and Alloys
Research Areas: ablation, Aerospace, Aerothermodynamics, compressible aerodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, gas surface interactions, Heat Transfer, Hypersonic, material response, Numerical Methods, Re-entry
Research Areas: Applied Mathematics, Combustion, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Convective Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics
Research Areas: Applied Optics, Heat Transfer, Radiation Transfer
Research Areas: Image-Processing, Imaging Sensor/System Modeling, Vision System Hardware/Software Design
Research Areas: Dynamics, Finite Elements, Vibrations
Research Areas: Automobile Surface Coating and Inspection, Combustion, Fire Research, Lean Manufacturing, Nano-Technology, R4D, Scale Modeling, Thermal Sensing and Control
Research Areas: CFD, Painting Technology Research
Research Areas: Aerospace, inflatable satellite structures, intelligent material systems, modeling and control of nonlinear mechanical systems, morphing aircraft, piezoelectric actuated devices, shape-memory alloy actuated robotics
Research Areas: Heat Exchanger Theory and Design, Thermodynamics, Transport phenomena for materials processing
Research Areas: Noise and Vibration Control, Noise and Vibration Modeling and Prediction
Research Areas: Aerospace, Flexible and Nonlinear Structures, Structural Analysis, System Identification, Vibration Testing and Composites
Research Areas: Bearing and Sealing Systems, Controls, Machine Design, Magnetic Suspensions
Research Areas: computer managed instruction/research, interactive media with instruction
Research Areas: Boiling and Two Phase Flow, Heat Transfer
Research Areas: Biologically-Inspired Design, MEMS, Micro-scale Design and Fabrication, Microfluidic Systems, Precision Machine Design
Research Areas: Design with Smart Materials, Distributed Control of Shell/Plate Structures, Multi-field Hybrid Photo-magneto-piezoelectric-thermoelastic/Control System Integration, Precision Micro-/Nano-Actuation, Smart Structures and Structronic Systems
Research Areas: Cardiovascular Mechanics, Finite Element Methods, Fluid-Structure Interaction Modeling, Multi-scale Modeling, Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Numerical Optimization
Research Areas: Acoustics and Vibration, Boundary Element Methods
Research Areas: Advanced Physical Processing, Applied Surface Chemistry, Automation and Control, Coal Preparation, Fine Particle Processing, Introductory Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing
Research Areas: Mine Plant Engineering, Underground Mining Operations
Research Areas: blast mitigation, blasting, explosives, mine operations and management, public relations
Research Areas: detection of electrical component incipient failure, electrical energy management, electrical engineering applications to mining, electrical system protection, Energy, safety
Research Areas: Geotechnology, Groundwater, Soil Reconstruction, Surface Mining
Research Areas: acid mine drainage control, coal cleaning, Coal Preparation, column flotation, dewatering, filtration, fine particle separation, metal surface treatment, mineral activation, mineral depression, phosphate beneficiation, solid waste disposal solid, Surface and colloid chemistry, triboelectrostatic separation, waste utilization, waste water treatment
Research Areas: Mine Design, Strata Control, Underground Construction
Research Areas: Elements of Mining, Mine Electricity, Mine Ventilation
Research Areas: Application of Metaheuristics, Manufacturing Systems, Mass Customization, Optimization
Research Areas: Sustainable Quality Healthcare Doctor of Practice Curriculum, Sustainable Quality Research Design Teams
Research Areas: CFD, Painting Technology Research