| Abuodeh, Akram Y |
Texas Transportation Institute |
Performance of structures with focus on roadside safety and vehicular systems |
| Akkutlu, Ibrahim Y |
Petroleum Engineering |
Phase behavior of multi-component fluids in nanoporous materials, Shale gas and oil resource assessment and characterization, CO2-enhanced shale gas and oil recovery, Transport and reactions in porous media |
| Arroyave, Raymundo |
Materials Science and Engineering |
Materials for nuclear fuels and system design; Multifunctional materials for energy applications; Thermoelectrics-based technologies and materials; Technologies for energy storage: Hydrogen |
| Balbuena, Perla B |
Chemical Engineering |
Characterization of Materials for Catalysis in Current Power Sources (eg. fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries) |
| Bishop, Michael |
Geoscience |
GIScience, remote sensing, geomorphometry, numerical modeling, cryosphere, mountain geomorphology |
| Cagin, Tahir |
Materials Science and Engineering |
Designing Computationally Engineered Functional Materials |
| Chang, Ping |
Oceanography |
Development of Global and Regional Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Models for the Study of Climate Variability and Predictability |
| Chen, Hamn C |
Civil Engineering |
Development and Applications of Chimera Finite-Analytic Navier-Stokes (FANS) and CHimera finite-Analytic Method for Potential-flow Solver (CHAMPS) for Time-Domain Simulation of Three-Dimensional Flow Around Complex Configurations |
| Childs, Dara W |
Mechanical Engineering |
Turbomachinery for energy use and its reliability |
| Chiu, Weihsueh |
Veterinary Integrative Biosciences |
Development of quantitative, data-driven approaches for understanding and predicting the human health effects of environmental chemicals |
| Cizmas, Paul G |
Aerospace Engineering |
1) Understand Fundamental Physical, Multi-Disciplinary Interactions Governing Aircraft Aeroelastic Applications; 2) Develop High-Fidelity Computational Methodologies for the Unique Physics; 3) Explore Vehicle Concepts to Achieve Key Performance Requirements |
| Diego, Donzis |
Aerospace Engineering |
High-performance computing at extreme scales, and the physics of turbulence and turbulent mixing in incompressible and compressible flows |
| Finkelstein, Alexander |
Physics |
Disordered Conductors, Metal-Insulator Transition; Low-Dimensional and Strongly Correlated Electron Systems; Fundamentals of the Fermi-Liquid Theory; Superconductivity in Amorphous Systems; Electron Systems near Quantum Critical Points; Fundamentals of Spintronic Devices |
| Girimaji, Sharath S |
Aerospace Engineering |
Meso-scale Simulations of Turbulent Flows with Reactions and Plasma Effects |
| Gratz, Paul V |
Electrical Engineering |
Security, power, reliability and performance in multicore and distributed computer architectures. Processor memory systems. On-chip interconnection networks. |
Guiseppi-Elie, Anthony |
Biomedical Engineering |
Peptide-based molecular recognition for diagnostic biosensors; peptide-carbon nanomaterial interactions for nanotoxicology; peptide conjugations |
| Hall, Michael B |
Chemistry |
Bioinorganic Chemistry; Chemical Catalysis; Energy Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry; Theory & Computation |
| Han, Je C |
Mechanical Engineering |
Turbine blade cooling with numerical methods, including internal impingement cooling, external film cooling, and conjugate heat transfer calculations |
| Hassan, Yassin A |
Nuclear Engineering |
Computational & Experimental Thermal Hydraulics; Reactor Safety; Fluid Mechanics; Two-Phase Flow; Turbulence & Laser Velocimetry; Imaging Techniques |
| Hays, Dirk B |
Soil & Crop Sciences |
Nutritional, food product, and a/biotic stress plant breeding in wheat, sorghum, cowpea, cassava and high biomass energy crop using high throughput remote sensing, biochemical, physiological, and genetic based methods. |
| Hwang, Wonmuk |
Biomedical Engineering |
Motor proteins that carry out intracellular transport and cell division; mechanics of biofilament assemblies; molecular basis for the adaptive immune system; and automated bioimage analysis and model building. |
| Jimenez, Daniel A |
Computer Science |
Microarchitecture and the interaction between the compiler and the microarchitecture |
| Katzgraber, Helmut G |
Physics |
Magnetism and Superconductivity; Quantum Systems and Statistical Physics; Computational Statistical Physics; Quantum Computing; Data-Intensive Computation; High-Performance Computing |
| Kum, Hye Chung C |
Industrial Engineering |
Post-Acute care effectiveness analysis of cardiac as well as other surgeries and medical conditions |
| Lagoudas, Dimitris C |
Aerospace Engineering |
Multifunctional materials for energy applications |
| Lucchese, Robert R |
Chemistry |
Molecular Photoionization and Intermolecular Interactions |
| Luco Echeverria, Fernando A |
Economics |
Fernando Luco’s research focuses Empirical Industrial Organization and Applied Microeconomics. In his latest work he has studied how information disclosure affects competition, how mergers may affect strategic sophistication, and how coexisting sources of switching costs affect pricing decisions and consumer choices. |
| Mukherjee, Partha |
Mechanical Engineering |
Electrochemical energy storage and conversion (batteries, fuel cells); Processing/ transport / property interactions; Mesoscale physics and stochastics in energy materials and manufacturing |
| Muliana, Hanifah |
Mechanical Engineering |
Theoretical and computational mechanics focusing on nonlinear and time-dependent responses of materials and structures at various length-scales (from micron to meter scales). |
| Needleman, Alan |
Materials Science and Engineering |
Ductile fracture computational methodology, cohesive surface methods for fracture analysis |
| Palazzolo, Alan B |
Mechanical Engineering |
Rotordynamics, Magnetic Bearings, Active Vibration and Noise Control, Fluid Film Bearings, Vibrations, Finite and Boundary Elements, Seal and Impeller Leakage Flow, Piping Systems, Machine Design, Flywheels, Machinery Couplings, Expert Systems, Microgravity Vibration Isolation, Electromechanical Systems, CFD flow in pumps and compressors, Heart pumps (VAD), drillstring vibration, and RO desalination. |
| Perez, Lisa M |
Chemistry |
Molecular simulation |
| Qian, Xiaofeng |
Materials Science and Engineering |
Materials Theory, Discovery, and Design for Energy Applications and Device Design Aided by High-Throughput Computing; Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Coupled Multi-Physical Properties and Novel Device Concepts; Electronic, Thermal, and Ionic Transport in Energy Materials and Electronic and Optical Devices; First-Principles Methodology Development towards Efficient and Accurate Prediction of Ground-state and Excited-state Properties of Materials; Multiscale Materials Modeling of Complex Physical and Chemical Processes |
| Saravanan, Ramalingam |
Atmospheric Sciences |
Modeling tropical weather and climate using global and regional models |
| Seminario, Jorge |
Chemical Engineering |
Methods and procedures for the estimation of energies and other expectation values of nanomaterials for applications in catalysts, electrochemistry, biology using first principles or first principles based theories. |
| Silvestri Dobrovolny, Chiara |
Texas Transportation Institute |
Modeling structures for occupant protection and highway safety |
| Singleton, Daniel A |
Chemistry |
Study of organic, organometallic, and bioorganic reaction mechanisms, and the key tool that we use in these studies is the determination o kinetic isotope effects (KIEs) |
| Strigari, Louis E |
Physics |
Understanding astrophysical aspects of dark matter, and connecting these observations to particle dark matter theories |
| Talreja, Ramesh |
Aerospace Engineering |
Development of design methods for composite structures accounting for manufacturing defects |
| Tamamis, Phanourios |
Chemical Engineering |
Designing novel biomaterials with advanced applications. Elucidating the structures of key biomolecular complexes associated with amyloid diseases including diabetes, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s and designing novel compounds that can potentially serve as therapeutics for amyloid diseases. Understanding at an atomic level the structure of ligand : protein interactions in key biological systems such as bacteria proteins, and the discovery of novel compounds with important biomedical applications. |
| Whitcomb, John |
Aerospace Engineering |
Prediction of damage initiation and growth in cryogenic composites and foams, Multiscale computational mechanics from nano to macro, Multifunctional materials, Numerical simulation of electric double layer supercapacitor, Mechanics of textile composites, Mechanics of polymer film scratching, Novel finite element analysis strategies |
| Zhang, Junjie |
Biochemistry & Biophysics |
Cryo-EM of Cellular Machineries |
| Zhu, Ding |
Petroleum Engineering |
General production engineering; Well stimulation; Complex well performance; Intelligent completion technology |
