
We improve materials to solve technological and societal problems.
Materials Science & Engineering Researchers
Jorge Almodovar

Chemical Engineering
- Biomaterials
- Biomedical Engineering
- Tissue Engineering
- Cell Manufacturing
Juan Carlos Balda

Electrical Engineering
- Power Electronics
- Electric Power Distribution
- Electrical Machinery
- Motor Drives
Zhong Chen

Electrical Engineering
- Novel Semiconductor Devices for Harsh Environment
- High Voltage Power Device and Packaging
- Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)
- IC and System Level Reliability and Modeling
Jeff Dix

Electrical Engineering
- Electronics
- Materials Science
- Optoelectronics
Samir El-Ghazaly

Electrical Engineering
- High Frequency and high-speed systems
- Wireless Communication Devices and Circuits
- Microwave-Optical Interactions
- Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Semiconductor Devices, Circuits, and Components
- Semiconductor Device Simulations and Numerical Techniques Applied to Microwave Integrated Circuits
- Electromagnetics
Magda El-Shenawee

Electrical Engineering
- Terahertz imaging and spectroscopy of biomedical, national security, and reverse engineering applications
- Inverse scattering problem
- Microwave imaging of breast cancer
- Computational electromagnetics
- MEMS antennas
- Landmine detection
- Rough surface scattering
- RF microwave modeling
- Radar absorbing material characterization in the microwave, millimeter, and terahertz wave
- Terahertz antennas on new semiconductor materials
- Wireless communications - 5G and 6G material characterization
Jamie A. Hestekin

Chemical Engineering
- charged separations
- extraction of oils and carbohydrates from algae
David Huitink

Mechanical Engineering
- Applied Materials for Power Electronic Optimization
- Test development and analysis of interfacial stress induced reliability failures
- Electronic Packaging design and operational enhancement for high temperature reliability
- Thermal dissipation enhancement using nanostructured materials for heat transfer
- Multi-Physical Material Interactions
- Mechanical, thermal, & chemical interactions in novel nanostructured material systems
- Mechanochemical Synthesis techniques for generating novel materials and metastable films with unique electro-optical properties
- Nanocomposites and Nanofluids for enhanced Thermal and Mechanical behaviors
Jin-Woo Kim

Biological & Agricultural Engineering
- Self-assembly of nanomaterials with designed arbitrary shapes and functions
- Bio-driven nanostructure self-assembly
- Nanoscale bio/abio interfacing technology
- Nanobiotechnology for hybrid device development
- Nucleic acid technology for molecular computation, genomics and proteomics
Baohua Li

Electrical Engineering
- GeSn Material Characterization & Devices Fabrication
- Fabrication Structures Using EBL
Yanbin Li

Biological & Agricultural Engineering
- Biosensors and bioinstrumentation
- Microbial predictive modeling
- Quantitative risk assessment
- Food safety engineering
Omar Manasreh

Electrical Engineering
- Electronics
- Energy
- Materials Science
- Optoelectronics
Alan Mantooth

Electrical Engineering
- Analog and mixed-signal IC Design and CAD
- Power electronics design and CAD
- Semiconductor device modeling
Marty Matlock

Biological & Agricultural Engineering
- Life Cycle Assessment of agricultural, urban, and supply chain systems
- Ecological services design and restoration
- Watershed restoration and management
- Ecological risk assessment Complex Systems Theory
Roy A. McCann

Electrical Engineering
- Machine learning and adpative control of electric power systems
- Cyber-physical systems and optimal control
- Electric machinery and motor drives
Xiangbo Meng

Mechanical Engineering
- Smartly controllable nanosynthesis using atomic and molecular layer deposition
- Development of next-generation high-performance advanced battery technologies
Paul Millett

Mechanical Engineering
- Computational design of advanced membrane nanostructures
- Nanoparticle self-assembly in multi-phase liquids
- Low-density, nanoporous materials and membranes
- Computational materials science and design
Arun Nair

Mechanical Engineering
- Multiscale materials modeling
- Bio-inspired materials
- Mechanical properties of biomaterials
Hameed A. Naseem

Electrical Engineering
- Electronics
- Energy
- Materials Science
- Optoelectronics
Karthik Nayani

Chemical Engineering
- Soft Materials
- Biomaterials
- Self Assembly
William Richarson

Chemical Engineering
- computational modeling
- data science
- in vitro screening tools
- engineer personalied medicine approaches for combatting cardiac disease
Keisha Bishop Walters

Chemical Engineering
- Stimuli Responsive Polymers
- Advanced Separations
- Nanomaterials
- Surface and Interfacial Engineering
- Functional (Bio)polymers
- Sustainable Polymers
Morgan E. Ware

Electrical Engineering
- Semiconductors
- Crystal growth
- Electronic materials
- Nanostructures
- Nanomaterials for Quantum computing / Quantum cryptography
- Optical materials
Uche Wejinya

Mechanical Engineering
- Robotics and mechatronics
- Nano systems engineering and application
- Control systems and application
- Modeling and simulation of mechatronic systems
- Micro systems engineering application
Ranil Wickramasinghe

Chemical Engineering
- membrane science
- membrane technology
Fisher Yu

Electrical Engineering
- Electronics
- Energy
- Materials Science
- Optoelectronics
Yue Zhao

Electrical Engineering
- Power Electronics
- High Power Converters
- Electric Drives
- Renewable Energy Systems
Min Zou

Mechanical Engineering
- Nano-surface-engineering
- Nanomechanics
- Nanotribology