Faculty Directory

	Eric Barth Research Focus: Dynamic systems and control. Design, modeling and control of mechatronic and fluid power systems, free-piston internal combustion and free-piston Stirling engines, power supply and actuation for autonomous robots, and applied non-linear control.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Leon Bellan Research Focus: Microfluidics, microfluidic materials, smart materials, biomaterials, micro and nanotechnology, bioMEMS.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	David Braun Research Focus: Robotics, optimal control, system dynamics, compliant robot actuators, human performance augmentation technology	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Joshua Caldwell Research Focus: Nano-optics, polaritonics, nanophotonics, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, active photonics, infrared optics and imaging, power electronic materials, defects in semiconductors	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Xiaoguang Dong Research Focus: The design, manufacture and control of miniature soft robots, and their applications in minimally invasive medicine, microfluidics and biomechanics. The design, manufacture and control of miniature swarm robots, and their applications in biomedicine and biomechanics. The modeling, design, manufacture and control of intelligent soft materials	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Michael Goldfarb Research Focus: Design, modeling, and control of electromechanical devices and systems. Design of high-energy-density robotic actuators. Control of fluid-powered actuators and devices.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Deyu Li Research Focus: Micro/Nano scale energy and molecular transport phenomena,. Nanofabrication techniques, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, Micro/Nanofluidics.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Haoxiang Luo Research Focus: Computational fluid dynamics, biofluids, fluid-structure interaction, microfluidics; biomimetic aerial/underwater vehicles, biomedical flows.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Robert Pitz Research Focus: Laser diagnostics, laminar & turbulent combustion, turbulence-chemistry interaction, pollutant formation, supersonic combustion, gas turbine combustion, rocket propulsion, Raman scattering, laser-induced fluorescence, molecular-tagging velocimetry.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Nilanjan Sarkar Research Focus: Robotics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interactions, Socially Assistive Intelligent Systems for Healthcare with particular interest in Autism, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Down and Rett Syndrome, Dynamics and Control	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Nabil Simaan Research Focus: Robotic systems for surgical assistance, theoretical kinematics of mechanisms, synthesis and optimization of robots and mechanisms, design of flexure mechanisms and flexible robots, parallel robots, actuation redundancy and kinematic redundancy	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Alvin Strauss Research Focus: Nuclear Propulsion, Friction Stir Welding, Direct Energy Conversion, Variational Methods in Mechanics, Mechanical Properties of Actinides, Macro-Engineering, Spacecraft Design	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Jason Valentine Research Focus: Optical metamaterials, plasmonics, transformation optics, nanophotonics, nanoimaging, active photonics, gradient index optics, high spatial resolution bioimaging and sensing, solar energy conversion, scalable 3D nanomanufacturing.	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Greg Walker Research Focus: Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Robert Webster Research Focus: Image guidance, robotic surgery, screw theory, mechanics-based modeling, and optimal mechanism design	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	Karl Zelik Research Focus: Biomechanics of legged locomotion, lower-limb prosthetics, assistive technology, dynamic walking principles, neural control, human-device interfaces, mobility, rehabilitation engineering	01Tenure/Tenure-Track
	A. V. Anilkumar Research Focus: Drop dynamics, aero-propulsion, energy conversion, design and development of experimental facilities, flow diagnostics and instrumentation	02Teaching
	Kenneth Frampton Research Focus: Vibrations, Acoustics, and Controls	02Teaching
	Jason Mitchell Research Focus: Human augmentation through engineering, wearable sensors, exoskeletons, prosthetics; mechanical simulation and design	02Teaching
	Ranjana Sahai Research Focus: Design, simulation, development, and testing of bio-inspired, robotic systems and microfluidic devices	02Teaching
	Thomas Withrow Research Focus: Development, design and testing of surgical robots, improvement of design methods, cyber physical systems, biomechanics, especially the biomechanics of the ACL and injury prevention.	02Teaching
	Kevin Galloway Research Focus: Design of robotic systems from the micro- to the macro-scale, soft robotics, rapid prototyping materials and methods, human-centered design, mechanical design, medical device design, assistive technology.	03Research
	William Emfinger Research Focus: Cyber-Physical Systems, Control Systems, Model-Integrated Computing, Model-Based Engineering / Model-Driven Development	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Ahad Nasab	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Peiyong Wang Research Focus: Combustion laser diagnostics, Laminar combustion, Turbulent combustion model, NOx formation mechanism in turbulent combustion.	04Adjunct/Adjoint
	Douglas Adams Research Focus: Nonlinear structural dynamics and vibrations, structural health monitoring/diagnostics and damage prognosis, noise and vibration control, aerospace and automotive systems, energy systems, defense and security platforms	05Affiliated
	Ravindra Duddu Research Focus: Computational solid mechanics, multi-scale and multi-physics fracture mechanics, constitutive modeling, cohesive zone modeling of fatigue delamination, extended finite element method and level set method, computational geophysics.	05Affiliated
	Sankaran Mahadevan Research Focus: Structural mechanics, materials durability, reliability and risk engineering, structural health diagnosis and prognosis, computational model uncertainty, optimization under uncertainty.	05Affiliated
	Justus Ndukaife Research Focus: Nanophotonics, microfluidics, novel bio-inspired soft actuators and robots	05Affiliated
	Caglar Oskay Research Focus: Multiscale computational failure modeling of solids and structures, life prediction and performance assessment of structures, computational modeling of composites and other heterogeneous materials, modeling of multiphysics systems	05Affiliated
	Bernard Rousseau	05Affiliated
	Thomas Cruse Research Focus: Mechanical system reliability and design, solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, stress analysis, composite materials, thermal barrier coatings, design, boundary integral equation methods.	06Emeritus
	Donald Kinser Research Focus: Electronic ceramics and glass science with emphasis on adverse environmental effects upon systems containing glasses and electronic ceramics.	06Emeritus
	Carol Rubin Research Focus: Theoretical and applied mechanics, finite element analysis, computer aided design.	06Emeritus
	Taylor Wang Research Focus: Microgravity science and applications; drop physics; physical acoustics; biotechnology	06Emeritus
	John Williamson Research Focus: Fluid dynamics, modeling of turbulent flow; aerodynamic levitation of solid and liquid shapes; optimal shapes in fluid mechanics; metal hydide energy storage; hydrogen fuel for IC engines	06Emeritus