We welcome the following new faculty members to their roles at the College of Engineering and Computing.
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Previous position: Senior Scientist, Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.
Ph.D. – Texas Tech University
Research interests: growth and study of ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors including high aluminum content AlGaN, boron nitride and gallium oxide, fabrication of novel high-power electronic and photonic devices, and computer simulation of these devices
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Previous position: Associate Research Scientist, The Biodesign Institute, School of Biological and Health systems Engineering, Arizona State University
Ph.D. – Florida International University
Research interests: Nanopore based point-of-care biosensors for personalized medicine, Biomarkers and biosensing platforms for clinical diagnosis and therapeutic strategies development, nanotechnology based tools for fundamental biomedical studies, and nanomaterials based implantable bioelectronics
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Previous position: Graduate Research Assistant, Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University
Ph.D. – Iowa State University
Research interests: investigation of algorithms enabling condition assessment, characterization of sensors, and design and development of structural control systems
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Previous position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California Water Security and Sustainability Research Initiative (UC Water), Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis
Ph.D. – University of Utah
Research interests: water resources systems analysis and integrated management of water resources. He develops complex quantitative and computational models with the purpose of providing enhanced knowledge needed to better understand interactions in coupled human-natural systems and water-energy-food nexus, and how they are shaped by climate, environmental, economic, social and political changes
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Previous position: Assistant Professor, Georesources and Materials Engineering, RWTH Aachen University
Ph.D. – Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research interests: modeling and simulation of micro-/nano-scale thermal transport in novel energy systems, in particular low-dimensional materials and nanostructures, and energy nanotechnology, interfacial heat transfer for advanced thermal management, and multi-scale and multiphysics modeling of complex energy transport process
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Previous position: Postdoctoral Associate – School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D. – Dublin City University
Research interests: understanding performance behavior of highly-configurable systems (including deep neural networks, big data analytics, robotics systems) as well as solving computer system challenges (e.g., performance regressions, memory leak, energy consumption, parallelization) for distributed machine learning systems
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Previous position: Ph.D. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Ph.D. – University of Wisconsin – Madison
Research interests: wireless systems and architectures, millimeter-wave communications and networks, internet of things connectivity and sensing systems
Associate Professor
Integrated Information Technology Department
Previous position: Associate Professor, Computer Science & Information Systems Department, Southern Utah University
Ph.D. – New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research interests: human-computer interaction, behavioral information security, healthcare IT, e-Commerce, and mobile training
Associate Professor (tenured)
Integrated Information Technology Department
Previous position: Former Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Ph.D. – Yale University
Research interests: health information technology, including medical, health and cancer informatics; artificial intelligence, including personalization, information retrieval, knowledge management, recommender systems and text and image mining; patent informatics and intelligent software for practitioners in intellectual property law; computer graphics and interactive techniques for multimedia; visualization and visual analytics; intelligent user interfaces
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Previous position: Lead Research Engineer, Additive Core Discipline, GE Global Research
Ph.D. – Imperial College London
Research interests: integrated computational materials engineering, discrete element modeling, process development and optimization for additive, nucleation, X-Ray imaging and diffraction of solidification phenomena and data sciences
Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Previous position: Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science Department, Temple University
Ph.D. – Penn State University
Research interests: Research interests: Nanopore based point-of-care biosensors for personalized medicine, Biomarkers and biosensing platforms for clinical diagnosis and therapeutic strategies development, nanotechnology based tools for fundamental biomedical studies, and nanomaterials based implantable bioelectronics