Mohamed A. Abdou, Ph.D. (U. Wisconsin, 1973)
Fusion, nuclear, and mechanical engineering design, testing, and system analysis, thermomechanics; thermal hydraulics; fluid dynamics, heat, and mass transfer in the presence of magnetic fields (MHD flows); neutronics; radiation transport; plasma-material interactions; blankets and high heat flux components; experiments, modeling and analysis
Gregory P. Carman, Ph.D. (Virginia Tech, 1991)
Electromagnetoelasticity models including micromagnetics, elastodynamics, and Maxwell coupled solutions. Characterization of piezoelectric ceramics, magnetostrictive shape memory alloys, and multiferroic materials.
Yong Chen, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1996)
Nanoscale science and engineering; micro- and nano-fabrication; self-assembly phenomena; microscale and nanoscale electronic, mechanical, optical, biological, and sensing devices, circuits and systems
Pei-Yu Chiou, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 2005)
BioMEMS, biophotonics, electrokinetics, optical manipulation, optoelectronic devices
Vijay K. Dhir, Ph.D. (U. Kentucky, 1972)
Two-phase heat transfer, boiling and condensation, thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactors, microgravity heat transfer, soil remediation, high-power density electronic cooling
Jeffrey D. Eldredge, Ph.D. (Caltech, 2002)
Numerical simulations of fluid dynamics, bio-inspired locomotion in fluids, transition and turbulence of high-speed flows, aerodynamically generated sound, vorticity-based numerical methods, simulations of biomedical flows
Timothy S. Fisher, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1998)
Heat and mass transfer, interfacial transport, nanomaterial synthesis, nano-/micro-device fabrication, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, subcontinuum modeling and measurements of heat and charge transport, electrochemical and thermal energy storage, mechanics and transport in granular materials and porous media, plasma science and technology, aerospace thermal systems
Rajit Gadh, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon, 1991)
Smart grid, electric vehicle and grid integration, microgrid, distributed energy resource, solar- and renewable-grid integration, demand response, autonomous electric vehicle, machine learning from transportation data, radio frequency identification (RFID), Internet of things
Nasr M. Ghoniem, Ph.D. (U. Wisconsin, 1977)
Mechanics of materials in severe environments (nuclear, aerospace, transportation); radiation interaction with materials (e.g., laser, ions, plasma, electrons, and neutrons); multiscale modeling; physics and mechanics of material defects; fusion energy; materials for space propulsion
James S. Gibson, Ph.D. (U. Texas Austin, 1975)
Control and identification of dynamical systems; optimal and adaptive control of distributed systems, including flexible structures and fluid flows; adaptive filtering, identification, and noise cancellation
Vijay Gupta, Ph.D. (MIT, 1989)
Experimental mechanics, fracture of engineering solids, mechanics of thin film and interfaces, failure mechanisms and characterization of composite materials, ice mechanics
Dennis W. Hong, Ph.D. (Purdue, 2002)
Analysis and visualization of contact force solution space for multilimbed mobile robots
Tetsuya Iwasaki, Ph.D. (Purdue, 1993)
Dynamical systems, robust and optimal controls, nonlinear oscillators, resonance entrainment, modeling and analysis of neuronal control circuits for animal locomotion, central pattern generators, body-fluid interaction during undulatory and oscillatory swimming
Y. Sungtaek Ju, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1999)
Heat and mass transfer, energy, energy-water nexus, MEMS and nanotechnology
Ann R. Karagozian, Ph.D. (Caltech, 1982)
Fluid mechanics and combustion with applications to air breathing, rocket propulsion, and energy-generation systems, focusing on control of instabilities improved efficiency, and reduced emissions
H. Pirouz Kavehpour, Ph.D. (MIT, 2003)
Microscale fluid mechanics, transport phenomena in biological systems, biofluids, coating flows and physics of contact line phenomena, complex fluids, non-isothermal flows, energy systems and energy storage
Chang-Jin (CJ) Kim, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1991)
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micro/nano devices and fabrication technologies, microfluidics especially involving surface tension and droplets
J. John Kim, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1978)
Numerical simulation of turbulent and transitional flows, physics and control of turbulent flows, application of modern control theories to flow control
Adrienne Lavine, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1984)
Heat transfer: thermomechanical behavior of shape memory alloys, thermal aspects of manufacturing processes, natural and mixed convection
Xiaochun Li, Ph.D. (Stanford, 2001)
Embedded sensors in layered manufacturing
Kuo-Nan Liou, Ph.D. (New York U., 1970)
Radiative transfer and satellite remote sensing with application to clouds and aerosols in the earth’s atmosphere
Ajit K. Mal, Ph.D. (Calcutta U., India, 1964)
Mechanics of solids, composite materials, wave propagation, nondestructive evaluation, structural health monitoring
Robert T. M’Closkey, Ph.D. (Caltech, 1995)
Nonlinear control theory and design with application to mechanical and aerospace systems, real-time implementation
Ali Mosleh, Ph.D., NAE (UCLA, 1981)
Reliability engineering, physics of failure modeling and system life prediction, resilient systems design, prognostics and health monitoring, hybrid systems simulation, theories and techniques for risk and safety analysis
Jayathi Y. Murthy, Ph.D. (U. Minnesota, 1984)
Nanoscale heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer for industrial applications, submicron thermal transport, multiscale multiphysics simulations and uncertainty quantifications
Laurent G. Pilon, Ph.D. (Purdue, 2002)
Interfacial and transport phenomena, radiation transfer, materials synthesis, multiphase flow, heterogeneous media
Jacob Rosen, Ph.D. (Tel Aviv U., Israel, 1997)
Natural integration of a human arm/powered exoskeleton system
Jason L. Speyer, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1968)
Stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics
Tsu-Chin Tsao, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1988)
Mechatronics and control with applications in mechanical systems, manufacturing, vehicles, medical robots, and energy
Xiaolin Zhong, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1991)
Computational fluid dynamics, advanced high-order CFD methods, hypersonic flow, numerical simulation of transient hypersonic flow with nonequilibrium real-gas effects, instability and laminar-turbulent transition of hypersonic boundary layers
Oddvar O. Bendiksen, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1980)
Classical and computational aeroelasticity, structural dynamics and unsteady aerodynamics
Ivan Catton, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1966)
Heat transfer and fluid mechanics, transport phenomena in porous media, nucleonics heat transfer and thermal hydraulics, natural and forced convection, thermal/hydrodynamic stability, turbulence
Peretz P. Friedmann, Sc.D. (MIT, 1972)
Aeroelasticity of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, structural dynamics of rotating systems, rotor dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, active control of structural dynamics, structural optimization with aeroelastic constraints
Chih-Ming Ho, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1974)
Molecular fluidic phenomena, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), bionano technologies, biomolecular sensor arrays, control of cellular complex systems, rapid search of combinatorial medicine
Robert E. Kelly, Sc.D. (MIT, 1964)
Thermal convection, thermocapillary convection, stability of shear flows, stratified and rotating flows, interfacial phenomena, microgravity fluid dynamics
Anthony F. Mills, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1965)
Convective heat and mass transfer, condensation heat transfer, turbulent flows, ablation and transpiration cooling, perforated plate heat exchangers
D. Lewis Mingori, Ph.D. (Stanford, 1966)
Dynamics and control, stability theory, nonlinear methods, applications to space and ground vehicles
Peter A. Monkewitz, Ph.D. (ETH Z�rich, Switzerland, 1977)
Fluid mechanics, internal acoustics and noise produced by turbulent jets
Philip F. O’Brien, M.S. (UCLA, 1949)
Industrial engineering, environmental design, thermal and luminous engineering systems
Lucien A. Schmit, Jr., M.S. (MIT, 1950)
Structural mechanics, optimization, automated design methods for structural systems and components, application of finite element analysis techniques and mathematical programming algorithms in structural design, analysis and synthesis methods for fiber composite structural components
Owen I. Smith, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1977)
Combustion and combustion-generated air pollutants, hydrodynamics and chemical kinetics of combustion systems, semiconductor chemical vapor deposition
Richard Stern, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1964)
Experimentation in noise control, physical acoustics, engineering acoustics, medical acoustics
Russell A. Westmann, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1962)
Mechanics of solid bodies, fracture mechanics, adhesive mechanics, composite materials, theoretical soil mechanics, mixed boundary value problems
Daniel C.H. Yang, Ph.D. (Rutgers, 1982)
Robotics and mechanisms; CAD/CAM systems, computer-controlled machines
Robert N. Candler, Ph.D. (Stanford, 2006)
MEMS and nanoscale devices, fundamental limitations of sensors, packaging, biological and chemical sensing
Elisa Franco, Ph.D. (U. Trieste, Italy, 2007; Caltech, 2011)
Convergence of structural biology, dynamics, and controls using specialized biomolecular frameworks
Jaime Marian, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 2002)
Computational materials modeling and simulation in solid mechanics, irradiation damage, plasticity, phase transformations, thermodynamics and kinetics of alloy systems, algorithm and method development for bridging time and length scales and parallel computing applications
Veronica J. Santos, Ph.D. (Cornell, 2007)
Grasp and manipulation, hand biomechanics, haptics, human-machine systems, machine learning, machine perception, neural control of movement, prosthetics, robotics, stochastic modeling, tactile sensor
Kunihiko (Sam) Taira, Ph.D. (Caltech, 2008)
Development of computation fluid dynamics that incorporate unsteady aerodynamics, flow control, and network theory
Richard E. Wirz, Ph.D. (Caltech, 2005)
Electric propulsion (ion, Hall, electrosprays, cathodes); microelectric propulsion; partially ionized plasma discharges; miniature plasma devices; spacecraft/space mission design; wind energy; solar thermal energy; thermal energy storage
Artur Davoyan, Ph.D. (Australian National U., 2011)
Devising and development of new approaches for space propulsion and power using unique nanomaterials
Jonathan B. Hopkins, Ph.D. (MIT, 2010)
Design and manufacturing of microstructural architectures, flexure systems, and compliant mechanisms; screw theory kinematics; precision machine design; novel micro- and nano-fabrication processes; MEMS
Yongjie Hu, Ph.D. (Harvard, 2011)
Heat transfer and electron transport in nanostructures; interfaces and packaging; thermal, electronic, optoelectronic, and thermoelectric devices and systems; energy conversion, storage, and thermal management; ultrafast optical spectroscopy and high-frequency electronics; nanomaterials design, processing, and manufacturing
M. Khalid Jawed, Ph.D. (MIT, 2016)
Data-driven approach to modeling the mechanics of structures and fluid-structure interaction using robotics, automation, computation, and machine learning
Lihua Jin, Ph.D. (Harvard, 2014)
Mechanics of soft materials; continuum mechanics and applications in technologies: additive manufacturing, soft robotics and stretchable electronics, nanomechanics, and multiscale modeling
Raymond M. Spearrin, Ph.D. (Stanford, 2015)
Sepctroscopy and gas dynamics, advanced optical sensors including laser absorption and fluorescence with experimental application to propulsion, energy systems and other reacting flow fields
Ravnesh C. Amar, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1974)
Heat transfer and thermal science
Amiya K. Chatterjee, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1976)
Elastic wave propagation and penetration dynamics
Robert J. Kinsey, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1991)
Modeling, simulation, and analysis of spacecraft dynamics and pointing control systems; nonlinear dynamics of spinning bodies; concurrent engineering methods for space mission conceptual design
Damian M. Toohey, M.S. (MIT, 2004)
Guidance, navigation, and control for autonomous aircraft, launch vehicles, and missile systems, adaptive control techniques, automatic control reallocation for aircraft and re-entry vehicles
Dan M. Goebel, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1981)
Hollow cathode, magnetic-multiple ion sources for neutral beam injection
Leslie M. Lackman, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1967)
Structural analysis and design, composite structures, engineering management
Christopher S. Lynch, Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara, 1992)
Field coupled materials, constitutive behavior, thermoelectromechanical properties, sensor and actuator applications, fracture mechanics and failure analysis
Wilbur J. Marner, Ph.D. (U. South Carolina, 1969)
Thermal sciences, system design
Neil G. Siegel, Ph.D. (USC, 2011)
Organizing complex projects around critical skills and mitigation of risks arising from system dynamic behavior
Abdon E. Sepulveda, Ph.D. (UCLA, 1990)
Optimal placement of actuators and sensors in control augmented structural optimization