TENURE STREAM ASSISTANT PROFESSORS

BIOENGINEERING

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BISTRA IORDANOVA

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Bioengineering

Research Interests: Adult Neurogenesis, Bioimaging and Signaling Processing Brain Imaging, Brain Metabolism Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurovascular Coupling

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Katrina Knight

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Bioengineering

Research Interests: Improving the lives of women with pelvic floor disorders through development of novel and innovative devices and treatments, Understanding pathogenesis of synthetic mesh complications, Developing novel devices and treatments for urogynecological applications, Understanding combined role of collagen, elastin and smooth muscle in maintaining structure and function of the vagina, Defining impact of mechanics on vaginal cellular function, Regenerative medicine techniques for muscle injury repairs following vaginal delivery

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HELEN SCHWERDT

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Bioengineering

Research Interests: Building and applying implantable tools to probe multi-modal, electrical and chemical forms of neural activity to understand brain function and to create translatable micro-invasive interfaces to treat neurological disease in humans, Dopamine and neural plasticity in motor and mood disorders

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Daniel Shiwarski

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Bioengineering

The Shiwarski Tissue Engineering Lab conducts research that integrates vascular hematology, developmental and mechanobiology, with cell biology, biomechanics, and tissue engineering. Using a combination of microfluidic systems, 3D bioprinting, biomechanical analyses, fluorescence microscopy, and next-Gen omics our goal is to determine how extra cellular matrix (ECM) composition and 3D structure elicit biomechanical cues that alter receptor signaling to drive tissue maturation and disease progression. Current projects have translational implications for the fields of cardiology, pulmonology, vascular medicine, hematology, cancer invasion, renal disease, and regenerative medicine. 

Ioannis Zervantonakis

Ioannis Zervantonakis

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Bioengineering

Research Interests: Microfabricated and microfluidic technologies to study cancer progression, Metastasis and response to therapies, Systems biology modeling of cell-cell interactions, cell signaling and localized drug release technologies in cancer

CHEMICAL & PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

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Mohammad Masnadi

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Chemical & Petroleum Engineering

Research Interests: Applied Catalysis, Reaction Engineering, Biomass and Biofuels, Life-Cycle Assessment, System-Level Analysis

CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

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Lei Fang

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Active Particles, Crowd Dynamics, Turbulent Flows, Advanced Flow Measurement

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Alessandro Fascetti

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Digital Twin Modeling of Civil Infrastructure Systems, Computational Mechanics, Reality Capture, Mechanistic Machine Learning

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Sarah Haig

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Combining environmental microbiology, environmental chemistry and public health with a focus on assessing and reducing health risks from pathogens transmitted from the built environment, with an emphasis on drinking water systems

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Meng Wang

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Environmental Microbiology, Bioremediation, Bionanotechnology, Resource Recovery Waste Treatment, Protein Compartments, Biocatalysis

ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING

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Masoud Barati

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Power System Computational Problems, AC Optimal Power Flow (ACOPF), Convex and Non-Convex Optimization, Power System Control and Dynamics, Prediction and Forecasting with AI, Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision in Power System Applications, Learning with Bayesian Optimization and Kernels, Community Engagement in Energy Sector, Algebraic Topology, Geometry and Mathematical Structuralism, Applied Graph Theory

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Rajkumar Kubendran

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Secondary Department: Bioengineering

Research Interests: Biomedical Instrumentation, Compute-In-Memory Architectures, Bio-Inspired Computer Vision, Dynamic Vision Sensors

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In Hee Lee

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Application-Specific Integrated Analog, Mixed-Signal & Digital Circuit Design, Energy-Efficient & Low-Power Circuit Design, Miniature Wireless Sensing & Computing System Design

natasa miskov

Natasa Miskov-Zivanov

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Secondary Department: Bioengineering

Research Interests: Automated Information Retrieval, Complex System Modeling, Knowledge Representation, Biological Design Automation, Systems and Synthetic Biology

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Nathan Youngblood

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests: 2D Materials and Devices, In-Memory Computing, Machine Learning, Phase-Change Photonics, Silicone Photonics

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Peipei Zhou

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering

Research Interests: Customized architecture and programming abstraction for applications including healthcare, e.g., precision medicine and Artificial Intelligence

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

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TAPOSH BANERJEE

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Industrial Engineering

Research Interests: Developing Theory and Algorithms for Sequential Analysis, Quickest Change Detection, Stochastic Optimal Control, Machine Learning

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Oliver Hinder

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Industrial Engineering

Research Interests: Continuous Optimization, Machine Learning, Network Optimization

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Jourdain Lamperski

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Industrial Engineering

Research Interests: Optimization, Machine Learning, Applications in Healthcare

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TAEWOO LEE

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Industrial Engineering

Research Interests: Applications of optimization techniques such as inverse optimization, robust optimization and dynamic programming to healthcare operations and medical decision making

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Amin Rahimian

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Industrial Engineering

Research Interests: Social and Economic Networks, Distributed Inference, Decentralized Interventions, Statistical Decision Theory, Estimation and Interference, Team Decision Making, Social Learning and Collective Intelligence, Optimal and Adaptive Experimentation, Active Learning

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Nikhil Bajaj

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Research Interests: Nonlinear Dynamics and Nonlinear Oscillations, Cyberphysical Systems and Mechatronics, Machine Learning in Dynamic Systems and Controls, Resonant Sensor Design, Control and Instrumentation for Nuclear and High-Reliability Applications, Control of Manufacturing Systems

zachary harris

ZACHARY HARRIS

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Research Interests: Stress Corrosion Cracking, Hydrogen Embrittlement, Fatigue and Fracture of Structural Metals, High Temperature Mechanical Behavior, Advanced Materials Characterization

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Qihan Liu

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Research Interests: Mechanics of Soft Materials, Additive Manufacture of Soft Materials, Functional Soft Devices

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Juan Jose Mendoza Arenas

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Research Interests: Quantum Computation, Quantum Materials, Heat, Electric and Magnetic Transport, Quantum Phase Transitions, Quantum-Inspired Computational Simulations (Tensor Networks), Turbulence

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Xiayun Zhao

Title: Assistant Professor
Primary Department: Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Research Interests: Advanced Manufacturing Methods, Measurement Science and Metrology Systems, Advanced Control Strategies, High-Fidelity Process Modeling and Simulation