Faculty Research Interests | Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Fatemeh Ahmadpoor Assistant Professor	Mechanics of nanomaterials and biological systems
Farid Alisafaei Assistant Professor	Mechanobiology, Mechanics of cells and tissues
Peter Balogh Assistant Professor	Research Interests: Computational biofluid dynamics and high performance computing, red blood cell resolved simulations, angiogenic microvascular network flows and microvascular sprouts, microcirculatory transport of circulating cells (e.g. cancer cells, leukocytes), coupled blood and lymphatic circulation modeling, numerical methods for flows involving complex interfaces (e.g. deformable, moving).
Wenbo Selina Cai Associate Professor	Develop innovative analytical methods using Operations Research and Economic methodologies to enhance the operational efficiencies in various systems, such as the management of invasive species, energy systems, and digital services.
Shawn Chester Associate Professor	Solid mechanics and materials, large deformation elasticity and plasticity, multiphysics behavior of materials, computational mechanics.
Dibakar Datta Associate Professor	Modeling of energy storage systems such as rechargeable batteries, Mechanics and electronics of nanomaterials (e.g., graphene) and other two-dimensional materials such as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), Modeling of imperfections in crystalline materials, and nanomaterials for biological problems
Lin Dong Assistant Professor	Functional nanomaterials design and synthesis; energy harvesting and sensing devices; human-machine interaction; biomedical devices; and soft robots.
Samaneh Farokhirad Assistant Professor	Theory and Simulation of Soft Biological Materials, Computational Physical Biology, Membrane and Polymer Biophysics, Colloid and Interface Science
Ian S. Fischer Professor	Spatial mechanisms, dual-number kinematics, robotics, multi-phase, particulate and interfacial flows
Zhiming Ji Professor	System Integration and Robotics: design and control of mechanical and electromechanical systems (Mechatronics). New vacuum generation technology and its use in flash distillation and desalination for water treatment
Eon Soo Lee Associate Professor	Energy Materials and Systems Research: Graphene-based catalyst materials synthesis and characterizations Batteries and Fuel cell catalysts, electrode materials and reaction performance characterizations Solid-state electrolyte cell materials and characterizations Polymer-based and ceramic-based electrolyte fuel cell system characterization Thermal analysis and characterization of new energy materials and system Flow and mass diffusion characterization of new energy systems Nano BioChip Research: Electrochemical Nanodevice characterization Nano Biochip fabrication and characterization Biomarker-based Biosensing characterization Micro and Nano biofluidics in microdevices Flow and Thermal Analysis in Electronics and Energy Materials and Systems Research: Microchannel Convection Microporous channel heat transfer Two-phase flow and heat transfer Phase change materials thermal characterizations Cryogenic system working fluids and thermal analysis Solar cell and power system thermal analysis EV charging system thermal analysis Advanced Energy Systems and Microdevices Laboratory
Simone Marras Assistant Professor	Research Interests: Spectral element methods for geophysical computational fluid dynamics and high performance computing. Atmospheric and ocean modeling by high-order numerical methods. Analysis of natural hazards: tropical cyclones and tsunamis. Coastal resilience. Quantum computing/algorithms.
Kwabena A. Narh Professor	Crystallization kinetics and phase transitions, plastics processing, polymer degradation, melt extrusions
Sangwoo Park Assistant Professor	Optimization and machine-learning algorithms for complex and large scale problems, spanning areas such as the electric power systems, transportation systems, healthcare systems, supply chains. Projects include fault detection in power systems using measurements, multi pickup & delivery problem, demand response with price incentives, dynamic power grid using swarm robotics, renewable energy integration, energy efficient treatment of fruit juice using high pressure processing.
Paul Ranky Professor	Sustainability; Engineering Project Management; Quality Management; Intelligent Engineering Systems: AI/ML; Cybersecurity for Complex Engineering Systems; Smart manufacturing and automation (more here: https://www.cimwareukandusa.com/aboutpgr.htm)
I. Joga Rao Professor	Continuum mechanics and constitutive modeling. Modeling of non-linear phenomena observed in mechanics with an emphasis on applications in polymers, biomechanics, manufacturing processes and other novel materials. Specific areas of research are: Shape Memory Polymers, Multi-Physics Polymer Systems, High Temperature Materials, Growth in Biological Tissues, Non-Newonian Fluids.
Anthony D. Rosato Professor	Mechanics and behavior of granular flows and materials, discrete element simulations, discrete dynamics, Monte Carlo methods, application of dynamical systems to granular flows, machine learning approaches in granular flows.
Bo Shen Assistant Professor	Methodology: High dimensional (Tensor) data analysis; Optimization for machine learning; Physics-informed learning; Deep learning. Application: Solar physics; Smart manufacturing; Wearable robotics and exoskeletons.
Pushpendra Singh Professor	Computational fluid dynamics, multi-phase and particulate flows and their control through the application of electric and magnetic fields, stability of Newtonian and viscoelastic flows, free boundary problems
Rajpal S. Sodhi Professor	Mechanical design, computer methods in design, kinematics, linkage synthesis, rehabilitation engineering, demanufacturing processes
Chao Zhu Professor	Particulate multiphase flows, pollution control, membrane separation