UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

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• Iman Borazjani , Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2008 )
• Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Cardiovascular Flows, Bio-inspired Propulsion, High-performance Computing.

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• Harsh Deep Chopra, Professor
• (Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park 1993)
• Functional and smart materials; spintronics; ballistic transport; quantized conductance in atomic point contacts; multiferroic materials: magnetic shape memory alloys, magnetostrictive materials, complex correlated systems etc.; interfaces and interactions in multilayered systems; magnetic-based non-destructive evaluation & methods.

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• Deborah D. L. Chung, Professor
• (Ph.D., Materials Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977)
• Materials science and engineering, particularly smart materials, concrete, thermal management, battery electrode materials, carbon fibers and filaments, composites processing and interfaces, metal-matrix composites, electronic packaging materials, and activated carbon.

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• John L. Crassidis, Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Director, Center for Multisource Information Fusion
• (Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, 1993)
• Spacecraft attitude determination & control, formation flying guidance & navigation, robust nonlinear control, vehicle attitude dynamics.

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• Gary F. Dargush, Professor, Department Chairman
• (Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University at Buffalo, 1987)
• Computational mechanics, boundary element methods, finite element methods, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, geomechanics, thermomechanics, computational fluid dynamics.

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• Sonjoy Das, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, 2008)
• Multiscale mechanics, Computational stochastic mechanics, Stochastic search and
  optimization, Multiphysics system, Multifidelity system, Probabilistic risk and
  reliability assessment, Statistical energy analysis.

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• Paul E. DesJardin, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Aerospace Engineering
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1998)
• Computational fluid dynamics, multiphase reacting flows, fire and combustion, fluid-structure simulation.

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• Ehsan T. Esfahani, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, River Side, 2012)
• Artificial Intelligence in Design and Engineering, Interactive CAD interfaces, Brain Computer Interfaces, Human-Machine Interactions, Bipedal Locomotion (Human and Humanoids), Bio-robotics and Mechatronics.

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• James D. Felske, Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1974)
• Heat & mass transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, radiative transfer, spectroscopy, combustion.

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• John Y. Fu, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University at University Park, 2004)
• Material physics, phase transitions, dielectric relaxation phenomena, ferroelectric materials, electric fatigue and dielectric deterioration in organic and inorganic capacitors, the flexoelectric effect in dielectric materials

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• Susan Zonglu Hua, Professor
• (Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, 1993)
• Microfluidic device and systems, Bio-MEMS and biosensors, nanostructured functional materials.

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• Thenkurussi Kesavadas, Professor
• (Ph.D., Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1995)
• Manufacturing automation, robotics, CAD, bioengineering, virtual reality for engineering applications such as interactive automation of manufacturing and design processes for rapid product development.

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• Venkat N. Krovi, Associate Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 1998)
• Mechanical and mechatronic systems (design, modeling, control, and prototyping); rapid virtual and physical prototyping; human user customization; multi-robot cooperation.

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• Kemper E. Lewis, Professor, Executive Director, NYSCEDII, Professor for Competitive Product & Process Design
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996)
• Collaborative design and decision making, visual design steering, multiobjective optimization, strategic product design, flexible systems design, hybrid optimization.

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• Cyrus K. Madnia, Professor
• (Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1989)
• Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, combustion, nanoscale energy transfer, transport phenomena, compressible flows.

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• Manoranjan Majji, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2009)
• System identification, Computational Vision, Smart Sensing Technologies, Autonomous Systems, Guidance and Control.

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• Hui Meng, Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 1994)
• Biomedical Engineering, hemodynamics and vascular biomechanics, advanced laser flow diagnostics, computational fluid dynamics.

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• Michele Milano, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 2002)
• Stochastic optimization, modeling of complex systems, biologically inspired propulsion systems, flow-structure interaction

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• Joseph C. Mollendorf, Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, 1971)
• Design, heat transfer and fluid mechanics, mathematical modeling, manufacturing processes, biomedical engineering.

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• D. Joseph Mook, Professor
• (Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1986)
• Controls, dynamics, system identification, estimation theory, modeling, nonlinear and chaotic dynamic systems.

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• Abani Patra, Professor
• (Ph.D., Computational & Applied Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1995)
• Computational mechanics, solution adaptive finite element methods, parallel and high performance computing, applications to biomechanical systems.

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• Rahul Rai, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2006)
• Design Informatics, Design Theory, Design Optimization, Adaptive Design of Experiments (DOE) and Metamodeling, Design Synthesis Using Graph Grammar, Human-Computer Interaction in Robust Decision Making, Engineering Resilient Systems, Uncertainty Quantification.

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• Matthew J. Ringuette, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology, 2004)
• Experimental fluid mechanics, bio-inspired propulsion for autonomous vehicle design, unsteady vortex dynamics, fluid-structure interactions

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• David Salac, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2007)
• Computational fluid dynamics, material systems with moving interfaces, numerical methods, directed self-assembly, high performance computing.

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• Tarunraj Singh, Professor
• (Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 1991)
• Target tracking, human-vehicle control, optimal control, nonlinear control, dynamics & control of flexible structures.

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• Puneet Singla, Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., Department of Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006)
• Autonomous systems, intelligent and multi-scale modeling, attitude estimation, large scale optimization, astrodynamics.

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• Robert C. Wetherhold, Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Mechanical Engineering
• (Ph.D., Applied Sciences, University of Delaware, 1983)
• All aspects of composite materials, from their fabrication through their end-use; specialties in fracture behavior, in laminate design, and in smart/multifunctional composites.