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Energy and Natural Resources Faculty

Mark Abkowitz

Research Focus: Risk management, risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, freight transportation, spatial analysis, disaster preparedness
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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
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A. V. Anilkumar

Research Focus: Drop dynamics, aero-propulsion, energy conversion, design and development of experimental facilities, flow diagnostics and instrumentation
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Robert Joel Barnett

Research Focus: Welding and welding controls, weld pool thermal and fluid modeling, sensor development, machine-vision-based quality control systems, robotic weld-path programming and robotic welding, alternative fuel engines, technical photography and imaging systems.
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Hiba Baroud

Research Focus: critical infrastructure systems modeling, risk analysis, statistical modeling, risk-informed decision analysis, resilience monitoring
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Prodyot (P.K.) Basu

Research Focus: Multiscale behavior of composites, rapid repair of damaged structures using composite patches, real-time health monitoring of bridge structures, and accurate modeling and simulation of complex high-performance material systems
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David Berezov

Research Focus: Tech-based entrepreneurship, finance and accounting, engineering economy
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Kevin Brown

Research Focus: Life-cycle risk evaluation, model integration, and waste management issues related to proposed advanced nuclear fuel cycles and cementitious barriers for nuclear applications.
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Joshua Caldwell

Research Focus: Nano-optics, polaritonics, nanophotonics, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, active photonics, infrared optics and imaging, power electronic materials, defects in semiconductors
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Janey Camp

Research Focus: Spill management information system, geographic information system mapping, impacts of climate change on civil infrastructure
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Peter Cummings

Research Focus: Molecular modeling of fluids, computational nanoscience, molecular rheology of lubricants, mathematical modeling of biological systems
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Abhishek Dubey

Research Focus: Decision Procedures, Big Data, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart-Cities, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems
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Russell Dunn

Research Focus: Polymer and chemical technologies, plant-wide design and optimization strategies, chemical product and process safety, polymer product characterization and failure analysis, and process integration
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Douglas Fisher

Research Focus: Artificial Intelligence, particularly machine learning.
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Andrew Garrabrants

Research Focus: transportation of contaminants, subsurface environments, leaching methods, energy production residuals, construction waste reuse
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Jesus Gomez-Velez

Research Focus: Environmental flow and transport, groundwater-surface water interactions, watershed hydrology, analytical and numerical modeling, data mining and assimilation
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George Hornberger

Research Focus: Hydrology, water scarcity, infrastructure resiliency, transport of dissolved and suspended constituents through catchments and aquifers
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Kane Jennings

Research Focus: Surface chemistry, self-assembly, films, coatings, biohybrid materials, bioinspired materials, and bioreplica materials.
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Weng Poo Kang

Research Focus: Solid-state sensors, semiconductor devices, VLSI design
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David Kosson

Research Focus: Nuclear waste management, environmental remediation, leaching assessment and methods, management of residuals from energy production, contaminant mass transfer applied to groundwater, soil, sediment and waste systems.
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Steven Krahn

Research Focus: Nuclear and environmental policy and regulation; risk assessment and risk management; operational readiness and technology insertion in nuclear facilities; the nuclear fuel cycle.
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Matthew Lang

Research Focus: Biological motors, cell signaling and immunology
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Eugene LeBoeuf

Research Focus: Environmental and water resources engineering, hydropower optimization and management, sustainability engineering, environmental security, and contaminant fate and transport applied to groundwater, soil, and sediment systems
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M. Douglas LeVan

Research Focus: Fixed-bed adsorption, adsorption from the vapor phase, adsorption equilibria
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Deyu Li

Research Focus: Micro/Nano scale energy and molecular transport phenomena,. Nanofabrication techniques, Molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulation, Micro/Nanofluidics.  
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Shihong Lin

Research Focus: Membrane processes, water-energy-environment nexus, environmental surface science, environmental application and implication of nanotechnology
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Himanshu Neema

Research Focus: Heterogeneous simulation integration, modeling and simulation, cloud computing, model-integrated computing, design-space exploration, artificial intelligence, planning and scheduling
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Craig Philip

Research Focus: Management and design of urban and freight transportation networks and operations, infrastructure resilience and application of risk management tools to public policy making, carrier safety management and regulation of 24/7/365 operations, water resource management and balancing multistakeholder interests.
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Peter Pintauro

Research Focus: New proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells, development of space-charge models for ion uptake and transport in ion-exchange membranes, organic electrochemical synthesis
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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.
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Bridget Rogers

Research Focus: Surfaces, interfaces, and films of technically important materials
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Florence Sanchez

Research Focus: Chemo-mechanical behavior and long-term performance of cement-based composites; Nanoscale behavior and nanomodification of cement and concrete materials; 3D printing of infrastructure materials; Mechanical/chemical/energy responses at material interfaces; Nanoscale interfacial interactions and dynamics in heterogeneous materials; Chemomechanically adaptive materials; Coupled chemo-transport-mechanical modeling
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Ahmad F. Taha

Research Focus: Dynamic networks and cyber-physical systems sciences; Sustainable power systems control, operation, and planning; Water distribution networks control and optimization; Transportation systems state estimation and feedback control problems; Cyber-security of power grids, water networks, and global positioning system (GPS)
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Lori Troxel

Research Focus: Sustainable Design, Structural Design
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Hamp Turner


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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.
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Eugene Vorobeychik

Research Focus: Adversarial machine learning and data mining, data-driven agent-based modeling, economics of data sharing, game theoretic modeling of security and privacy, cyber-physical system security.
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Greg Walker

Research Focus: Micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing
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Francis Wells

Research Focus: Arc detection in power equipment, discontinous control of space conditioning processes
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Arthur Witulski

Research Focus: Radiation effects on electronic power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters, radiation reliability of complex systems in radiation environments such as satellites and robots in nuclear disasters.
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Ryszard Wycisk

Research Focus: Energy conversion and storage; membranes and separators from functional polymers and composites.
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Jamey Young

Research Focus: Metabolic engineering; metabolic flux analysis; diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders; cancer and immune cell metabolism; photosynthesis research; cell culture engineering
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