virginia tech college of engineering 2014-2016 faculty expertise guide

The Commonwealth’sLeading College of Engineeringis at Virginia Tech

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Christopher Williams, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of engineering education, far right, is the director of the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory at Virginia Tech. The DREAMS Lab focuses on design for additive manufacturing, process and materials research, and education, including K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) outreach. Williams is a National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipient.

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College of engineering faCulty expertise listing 2014-2016

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Virginia Tech’scollege of engineering

FacultyExpErtisEGuidE(Listed alphabetically by area of expertise)

This brochure presents a listing of selected faculty of Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering and their areas of expertise. To contact a faculty member:w Use the telephone number next to his/her namew Call the main department or school number listed

beloww Or contact the News Office of the College of Engineer-

ing at 540 231 6641.

Main Telephone nuMbersAerospace and Ocean Engineering..............540-231-6611Biological Systems Engineering ...................540-231-6615Chemical Engineering ..................................540-231-6631Civil and Environmental Engineering............540-231-6635Computer Science ........................................540-231-6931Electrical and Computer Engineering ...........540-231-6646Engineering Education .................................540-231-6555Engineering Science and Mechanics ...........540-231-6651Industrial and Systems Engineering .............540-231-6656Materials Science and Engineering ..............540-231-6640Mechanical Engineering ...............................540-231-7183Mining and Minerals Engineering .................540-231-6671Myers-Lawson School of Construction .........540-231-3804School of Biomedical Engineering

and Sciences ............................................540-231-8191

Mailing addressesYou may correspond with a faculty member by using

the individual’s name, accompanied by the name of the department, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va. 24061.

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The College of Engineering honors its Land Grant heritage by providing to the Commonwealth and to the Nation world class engineering programs through its various research, education, and outreach activities. The leading College of En-gineering in the Commonwealth is the home to 13 departments

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Selected Key Accomplishments

w In its most recent survey of total engineering research expenditures at universities and colleges, the National Science Foundation ranked the Virginia Tech College of Engineering 10th. In 2005, the College ranked 13th in this survey, and as it moved to 10th, it surpassed some very good schools –– Stanford, Ohio State, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

w In U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2014” survey, released in September 2013, the College of Engineering’s undergraduate program ranked 15th among all undergraduate engineering programs that also offer the Ph.D., and sixth among public universities. The College’s Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics and the Grado Depart-ment of Industrial and Systems Engineering ranked 8th in the nation. Other notable department rankings are: the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s two programs ranked 10th for civil and 11th for environmental; the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, 14th; the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 15th; and the Department of Chemical Engineering, 20th.

w The magazine’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2014” survey, released in March 2013, ranked the College’s graduate program 24th among all of the nation’s engineering schools. Among fellow public universities, it ranked 13th in the nation. By individual program, those in the top 20 are: the Charles E. Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, seventh, civil engineering programs and 13th among environmental engineering programs; the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, seventh for industrial/manufactur-ing programs; Department of Biological Systems Engineering, ninth among biological/agricultural programs; Department of Mechanical Engineering, 17th; Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 19th; and the aerospace component of the Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, 15th.

w When The Wall Street Journal published its one-time survey of 479 of the largest public and private U.S. companies, non-profits, and government agencies, Virginia Tech’s College of

and the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest School of Biomedical Engi-neering and Science and the Myers Lawson School of Construc-tion.

The College’s well-earned reputation for innovation and leader-ship includes life sciences research, from green engineering to hu-man medicine. The opportunity and responsibility lies before the College to advance engineering curricula that will educate the engi-neer, researcher, chief executive officer, or other distinguished lead-ers for the 21st century; that is, to produce “The Engineer of 2020.”

Counting undergraduate and graduate degrees, Virginia Tech provides over half of all the new engineers educated in the Com-monwealth, and is consistently one of the top ten producers of new bachelor’s degrees in engineering in the nation.





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Engineering ranked as the number five pick for graduates best prepared and most able to succeed. The Journal’s research repre-sented a systematic effort to assess colleges by surveying employ-ers’ recruiters who decide where to seek out new hires.

w For fall 2005, 4,800 prospective students applied for admission to the College of Engineering. By fall 2013, 7,414 applied, a 54% increase. In the entering 2013-2014 freshman class, the average SAT score for the general engineering student was 1293, with the average math score at 685 and the average verbal score at 608. The average high school grade point average was 4.11 on a weighted 4.0 scale. Females comprise 22.3 percent of the entering 2013 class. Members of under-represented popula-tions make up 11.5 percent of the freshman class. When the stu-dents graduate, the 2013 average annual salary at the bachelor’s level exceeded $60,000.

w In the spring of 2013 the Virginia Tech College of Engineer-ing and College of Science jointly dedicated the inVenTs Labo-ratory’s Studio I on the second floor of Lee Hall. The inVenTs Residential Community provides a unique interdisciplinary living-learning space for students from engineering, science, and other disciplines to interact and together explore their ability to envision, create, and transform innovative ideas and – in the words of Virginia Tech’s tagline – Invent the Future. Approxi-mately 1,270 students have used the facility since its fall 2012 opening. The inVenTs community includes students from four university groups, the Curie Learning Community and the Da Vinci Biological and Life Sciences Community, both in the Col-lege of Science, and the Galileo and Hypatia learning commu-nities within the College of Engineering.

w The Signature Engineering Building, housing sensors that currently makes it the most instrumented public building for vibra-tions in the world, opens for classes in the fall of 2014. The rough-ly 153,000-gross square-foot facility will serve as a leading center of engineering education in Virginia. Inside, a 15,000-pound Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 jet engine hangs 15 feet above the floor of the atrium, installed in the summer of 2012 by a team of engi-neers. The engine acts as an art centerpiece of the structure, and as a learning tool for our students for years to come.

w The College of Engineering-led Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS) is now housed in the Hugh and Ethel Kelly Building on campus, dedicated in the fall semester of 2013. Ethel Kelly’s estate provided $5 million to help cover the cost of the most recent of three buildings built for the institute. Another $1 million from the estate is supporting the new ICTAS Hugh and Ethel Kelly Lecture Series. Hugh Kelly, who died in 1989, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees of electrical engineering in 1937 and in 1938, worked at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories, and played important roles in groundbreaking projects, including the 1962 launch of the Telstar communica-tions satellite, the first private venture in space. Ethel Kelly, who died in 2012, generously supported Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering as a way of honoring her husband’s legacy.

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Advanced Vehicle Dynamics Laboratory ............................... corina sanduBaker Environmental Hydraulics

Laboratory ......................................Mark widdowson and clint danceyCenter of Advanced Separation Technology ......................roe-hoan Yoon Center for Bridge Engineering ..........................................Thomas cousins Center for e-Design ..................................................................richard goffCenter for Embedded Systems

for Critical Applications .............................................patrick schaumontCenter for Energy and the Global Environment .................. saifur rahman Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems ...... Muhammad hajjCenter for Enhancement of Engineering Diversity ..............bevlee watfordCenter for Geospatial Information Technology .........................peter sforzaCenter for Geotechnical Practice and Research ....................... george filz Center for High End Computing Systems ............................. kirk cameronCenter for High Performance Manufacturing ........................Jamie camelioCenter for Human-Computer Interaction ..............................doug bowman Center for Injury Biomechanics .............................................. warren hardyCenter for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures ...............dan inmanCenter for Naval Systems ........................................................John greene Center for Photonics Technology ...............................................anbo wangCenter for Power and Energy ............................................ Virgilio centeno Center for Power Electronics

Systems ............................................fred c. lee / dushan boroyevichCenter for Renewable Energy

and Aerodynamic Testing .......................................... william devenport Center for Space Science and Engineering Research ..........wayne scalesCenter for Tire Research (CENTIRE) .......................................saied TaheriCenter for Turbomachinery & Propulsion Research ........ walter f. o’brienCenter for Vehicle Systems and Safety ............................Medhi ahmadian Commonwealth Center for Aerospace & Propulsion

Systems .............................................................................srinath ekkadCS@VT Discovery Analytics Center ..........................naren ramakrishnanHume Center for National Security and Technology .........charles clanceyInnovative Particulate Materials Laboratory ...................................kathy luLab for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications .....layne watson Macromolecules and Interfaces Institute .........................s. richard TurnerMultidisciplinary Analysis and Design Center

for Advanced Vehicles ...................................................rakesh kapania National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)..........................walter f. o’brien, Jr.NEXTOR Center for Excellence in Aviations

Operations Research ..........................................................antonio TraniOccupational Safety and Health Research Center .........Maury nussbaumPerformance Engineering Research Lab .........................steve southwindRenewable Materials Research Group..................................Justin baroneSoftware Technologies Laboratory ......................................... Mark howard SyNeRGY Lab.................................................................................wu fengTechnology, Open Organizing

and Learning Sciences Lab (toolsLab) ................................. aditya JohriThe Advanced Research in Information Assurance

and Security (ARIAS) Lab ................................................Jung-Min parkVibrations and Acoustics Laboratories.......................................chris fuller VIPER Services.................................................................steve southwardVirginia Active Combustion Control Group ........................uri Vandsburger Virginia Center for Autonomous Systems ........................ craig a. woolseyVirginia Tech Advanced Research Institute ......................... saifur rahmanVirginia Center for Coal and Energy Research .................. Michael karmis Virginia Tech Engineering

Communications Center ................lisa d. Mcnair and Marie c. parettiWireless @ Virginia Tech .....................................................Jeffrey h. reed

existing research centers, groups, andinitiatives That involve engineering faculty naMe of direcTor cenTer / laboraTorY or conTacT

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http://www.cvess.me.vt.edu/Labs/PERL/index.html

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3-d holographic MicroscopYsee holography, Poon

3-d inforMaTion and iMage processing see holography, Poon

3-d prinTingsee computer-aided design and Manufacturing, Williams

acousTicssee also human factors engineering, Casali see also Materials, Viehlandsee also Vibration and dynamics, Parker

acousTicsName: Michael J. roanDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5846Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: Acoustical Signal Processing, Underwater Acoustics

and Signal Processing, Detection and Estimation Theory, Information Fusion

Applications: Radar; sonar; target detection and classification; intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance

Expertise: Development; implementation and testing of infor-mation theoretic approaches to acoustical and array signal processing

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, De-fense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Army

acousTics and acTiVe / passiVe noiseand VibraTion conTrol

noise controlName: chris r. fullerDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7273Fax: 540-231-8836E-mail: [email protected]: www.VAL.me.vt.eduSpecialty: Noise Control, Structural Acoustics, Active Control,

Low Frequency Passive Noise and Vibration ControlApplications: Active control of interior noise in aerospace ap-

plications; marine hull radiated noise; launch vehicle payload noise; automobile noise; passive control of low frequency sound in construction; industrial and defense applications

Expertise: Analysis and experiments in structural acoustics; development and implementation of adaptive LMS control codes; active noise control systems; and low frequency pas-sive noise and vibration control

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, Office of Naval Research, NSF, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Boeing, Intel

acousTics and heaT Transfersee fluids and acoustics, Ng

adhesion sciencesee Mechanics of Materials, Dillard

adVanced diagnosTics Name: lin MaDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Office Phone: 540-213-2249Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/webpages/linma/index-linma.htmlSpecialty: Laser Diagnostics, Combustion/Flow Instrumenta-

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tion, Optical Sensing, Volumetric (3-D) Measurements, Signal Processing and Analysis

Applications: Aeropropulsion engines; rocket engines; internal combustion engines; power systems; environmental monitor-ing; non-intrusive measurements in hostile environments

Expertise: High-speed (50 kHz) temperature measurement in aero-propulsion engines; high-speed (multi-kHz) 3-D combus-tion measurements; measurements of soot/particulate emis-sions from engines; thermal management of hybrid (battery) powertrain systems

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force, Rolls-Royce, National Science Foundation, Honda Motors

adVanced ManufacTuringName: Zhenyu “James” kongDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9762Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Statistical Signal Processing, Sensor Based Estima-

tion and Predictive Modeling, Quality/Reliability Engineering, Data Mining, and Machining Learning

Applications: Ultra precision manufacturing such as chemical mechanical polishing; large and complex manufacturing sys-tems such as auto body assembly process; additive manufac-turing

Expertise: Modeling, synthesis and fault diagnosis for manufac-turing systems; online real time quality monitoring for ultra-precision machining and additive manufacturing

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation; Department of Transportation; Dimensional Control Systems, Inc.

aerodYnaMicssee computational fluid dynamics, Roy see fluids and acoustics, Ng

aerodYnaMics and aeroacousTicsName: william J. devenportDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4456Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty/devenport.htmlSpecialty: Experimental Studies of Aerodynamics and Turbulent

Flows with a Particular Emphasis on Revealing and Under-standing Mechanisms Responsible for Sound Generation, Related Experimental Methods, Related Theoretical Methods and Analysis Techniques, Aerodynamic and Aeroacoustic Testing, Director of the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel

Applications: Wind turbine aerodynamics and aeroacoustics; marine propulsors; airframe noise; fan noise; hull noise; air-craft engines; wind turbine noise

Expertise: Hot-wire techniques for single and multi-point three component turbulence measurement; microphone systems for far-field acoustics; pressure-based systems for aerody-namic and boundary condition measurements; particle image velocimetry; surface microphones for pressure measurement; instrumentation development; multidimensional analysis of random data; dynamic calibration techniques

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Office of Naval Research, NASA Glenn Research Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

aeroelasTiciTYsee aircraft, Kapaniasee fluid-structure interaction, Wang

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aeronauTicsName: Joseph a. schetzDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9056Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty.php?fac_id=ptigerSpecialty: Experimental and Computational Studies, High-Speed

Flows Including Aerodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Jet Propul-sion

Expertise: Aerodynamics; aerospace propulsion; aircraft design; Instrumentation

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, U.S. Air Force

aeropropulsionsee advanced diagnostics, Ma

aerospace engineeringName: Robert A. CanfieldDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-23-5981Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/canfield.htmlSpecialty: Structural Optimization, Structural Mechanics, Multi-

disciplinary Design Optimization, Aircraft Design, Aeroelastic-ity, Space Structures

Applications: Aircraft and military vehicles; high altitude long endurance (HALE) aircraft; micro-air vehicle (MAV) design; sensorcraft; slotted waveguide antenna stiffened structures (SWASS) design

Expertise: Structural analysis and optimization; aeroelasticity, in-tegrated structure and control design; multidisciplinary design optimization methods; approximation methods for engineering design; numerical optimization; structural shape sensitivity methods

Examples of Funding Sources: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory

aerospace engineeringName: Mayuresh patilDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8722Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: Structures and DynamicsApplications: Aircraft structuresExpertise: Adaptive structures; aeroelasticity; dynamics and

control; structural dynamicsExamples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific

Research, NSF

aerospace engineeringName: cornel sultanDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0047Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: Dynamics, Control, StructuresApplications: Fixed and rotary wing aircraft guidance; dynamics

and control; formation flying spacecraft; adaptive and deploy-able structures; cell mechanics

Expertise: Flight dynamics and control; coordinated vehicles; structural dynamics

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, NSF, Institute for Criti-cal Technology and Applied Science, United Technologies Research Center

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agingsee biomechanics, Madigan see ergonomics, Nussbaum

agriculTuresee biomass harvest, storage and delivery, Grisso

aircrafTstructural MechanicsName: rakesh k. kapaniaDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4881Home Phone: 540-552-0475Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: Aerospace Structures, Finite Element Method, Multi-

disciplinary Design OptimizationApplications: Analysis of aerospace structures flight loads;

analysis of structures made of compositesExpertise: Computational structural mechanics with emphasis

on finite element method; inverse problems, probabilistic analysis and design; analysis of composite plates and shells under impact, blast, and other short duration loads; aeroelas-tic tailoring; computational aeroelasticity; random vibrations; multidisciplinary design optimization

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scien-tific Research, NASA, Langley and Ames Research Centers, NASA Headquarters, NSF, Carilion Biomedical Institute, Office of Naval Research Small Business Technology Transfer, Luna Innovations, Department of Energy through U.S. Council for Automotive Research, Office of Naval Research, NextGen Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters, Air Force Research Labo-ratory, Airbus North America, Snecma, Zona Technology

air polluTionsee also environment, Little see also Transportation, Rakha

air polluTionName: linsey c. MarrDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6071Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/lmarr.html, www.airqual.cee.vt.eduSpecialty: Air Quality EngineeringApplications: Air quality management and planning; air quality

modeling; air pollution control; environmental exposure and risk assessment; nanotechnology; infectious disease trans-mission

Expertise: Air pollutant emissions; atmospheric transport, transformation and fate; measurement of gases and particles; greenhouse gases; motor vehicle emissions; nanoparticles; bioaerosols

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Environmental Protection Agency, NIH, U.S. Department of Agriculture

air TransporTaTionand airporT engineering

Name: antonio a. TraniDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4418Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/trani.htmlSpecialty: Air Transportation Systems Modeling, Airport Engi-

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neering and Planning, Computer Modeling, Systems Engi-neering Analysis

Applications: Development of large-scale aviation system plan-ning models; development of airport simulation models; air transportation demand estimation; multi-model transportation planning and analysis

Expertise: Airport capacity and delay estimation modeling; avia-tion system analysis; aircraft and airspace interaction analy-ses; high-speed rail transportation modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA Langley Research Center, NASA Glenn Research Center, Federal Aviation Administra-tion, NSF, National Institute for Aerospace, National Consor-tium for Aviation Mobility

algoriThMscomputational biology, bioinformatics, complex networks,

computational genomicsName: lenwood s. heathDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-4352Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/heath/Specialty: Computational Biology and BioinformaticsApplications: RNA-Seq analysis; multimodal models of biological

pathways and networks; computational genomics; complex networks; genetic sequence analysis; phylogeny; analysis of signal transduction pathways

Expertise: Theoretical computer science; algorithms; graph theory; symbolic computation; computational algebra; computational biology; computational geometry; probabilistic algorithms and analysis; discrete computational models

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF

anTennassee radio engineering, Ellingson

anTibioTic resisTancesee environmental engineering, Pruden

applied MaTheMaTicssee fluid Mechanics, Stremler

aQuaTic ecosYsTeMssee environment, Hessionsee environment and fluvial hydraulics, Hester

arTificial inTelligencesee computer Vision, Parikhsee game Theory, Jainsee Machine learning, D. Batrasee wireless communications and networking, MacKenzie

aTMospheric and radio scienceName: wayne a. scalesDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5622Home Phone: 540-953-2109Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Atmospheric and Radio ScienceApplications: GPS applicationsExpertise: Computation science; plasma science; global posi-

tioning systemsExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Energy,

Office of Naval Research, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA

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aTMospheric sciencesee remote sensing, Bailey

augMenTed realiTYName: Joe gabbardDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 231-3559Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Augmented Reality; Virtual Reality; Visualization; User

Experience (UX); Usability Engineering; Cognitive EngineeringApplications: Embedded AR applications for transportation;

enhanced military planning and training; handheld augmented reality for sustainable agriculture; novel user interfaces for STEM and graduate education; 3-D visualization of life sci-ence data

Expertise: Human factors of novel user interface technologies; mobile augmented reality; color perception in augmented reality; usability evaluation; user interface design; human-computer interaction; 3-D computer graphics

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, USDA, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy

auToMobilessee acoustics, Fullersee injury biomechanics, Duma see see Vehicle dynamics, Ahmadian

auToMoTiVe powerTrains /energY sYsTeMs

Name: douglas nelsonDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4324Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/_bios/_primary/nelson_bio.htmlSpecialty: Design, Modeling, Analysis, Testing and Research on

Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Systems and Components Applications: Design of hybrid and electric vehicle powertrains

to meet performance and fuel economy goals; construction, testing and validation of vehicle powertrain systems; battery energy storage systems; autonomous vehicle energy storage and propulsion

Expertise: Energy use in vehicles; fundamentals of energy management and control strategies; vehicle systems design using model based design and software/hardware in the loop methods

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, General Motors

auToMoTiVe safeTYsee injury biomechanics, Duma

auTonoMous sYsTeMssee also control Theory, Woolseysee also Mechanical engineering, Wicks

auTonoMous sYsTeMsName: kevin kochersbergerDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5589 Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/unmannedSpecialty: Design of Unmanned Systems, Design of Aircraft

Systems, Vibration and Dynamic Test and Analysis, Stereo and Monofocal Vision Systems

www.ise.vt.edu/People/Faculty/Bios/Gabbard_bio.html

www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/doug-nelson/

www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/kevin-kochersberger/


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Applications: Sensing; surveillance; unmanned aircraft; noise and vibration; vision sensing and control

Expertise: Mechanical and electrical system design and fabrica-tion analysis; flight test

Examples of Funding Sources: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Air Force Research Lab

auTonoMous sYsTeMsName: alexander leonessaDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3268Fax: 540-231-8836E-mail: [email protected]: Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Robotics, Dynamical

Systems and Control Theory, Nonlinear System Identifica-tion, Autonomous Vehicles, Control and Navigation Systems, Functional Electrical Stimulation of Human Muscles

Applications: Active control and modeling of propulsion sys-tems; autonomous vehicle control systems; attitude stability and control; robot control; human-robot interaction; functional electrical stimulation

Expertise: System design of robotic platforms; adaptive, self learning control of autonomous systems; dynamical systems and control theory

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Office of Naval Re-search, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

auTonoMous sYsTeMscontrol theory, estimation theoryName: dan stilwellDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3204Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ascl.ece.vt.eduSpecialty: Advanced Control, Navigation, and Guidance for

Autonomous Vehicle Systems; Autonomy and Decision Algo-rithms; Planning Algorithms; Collaborative Control and Estima-tion for Multi-Vehicle Systems

Applications: Maritime robotic systems, including subsea and surface applications

Expertise: Advanced field trials and experimentation for maritime robotics systems; applied guidance, navigation, and control systems; guidance and decision-making algorithms for au-tonomous vehicles

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

auTonoMous Vehiclessee automotive powertrains / energy systems, Nelson see Transportation, Rakha

baTssee bio-inspired science and Technology, Müller

big-daTasee bioinformatics and computational biology, Yu see computational science, Onufrievsee computational science, Prakashsee computer science, Fengsee data Mining, Ramakrishnansee Machine learning, D. Batra

bioengineeringsee bio-inspired science and Technology, Müller

www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/alex-leonessa/

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bioinforMaTicssee algorithms, Heathsee computational biology, Muralisee computer science, Fengsee data Mining, Ramakrishnansee human-computer interaction, North see optimization, Watsonsee problem solving environments, Shaffer

bioinforMaTics and bioiMagingName: Yue “Joe” wangDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 703-528-5500 ext. 223Fax: 703-528-5543E-mail: [email protected]: Bioinformatics, BioimagingApplications: Molecular analysis and personalized treatment of

human diseases; computational analysis of gene and protein expressions; predicting pathway gene regulatory network-ing; computed simultaneous imaging of multiple biomarkers; computer-aided diagnosis

Expertise: Machine learning; neural networks; pattern recogni-tion; computed imaging; multivariate visualization; signal de-tection and estimation; blind source separation; independent component analysis

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, NSF, Department of Energy

bioinforMaTics and coMpuTaTional biologY

Name: guoqiang YuDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 571-858-3153Fax: 571-858-3015E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/gyu.phpSpecialty: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Big Data Anal-

ysis for Biomedical ApplicationsApplications: Interaction analysis for GWAS; copy number mod-

eling for cancer; DNA next generation sequencing analysis; gene expression analysis; epigenetics; proteomics; deep phe-notyping; precision medicine

Expertise: Signal processing; machine learning; pattern recogni-tion; computational statistics; optimization techniques; high-dimensional; dynamic and complex data modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: NIH, NSF

bio-inspired science and TechnologYName: rolf MüllerDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6005Fax: 540-231-9555E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/Mueller.htmlSpecialty: Adaptive Sensing Technology Inspired by the Bioso-

nar System of BatsApplications: Advanced wave-based sensing methods in engi-

neering; autonomous sensingExpertise: Biosonar; bio-inspired beamforming and signal pro-

cessing; dynamic encoding of sensory information; extraction of design rules from nature

Examples of Funding Sources: Army Research Office, NASA, NSF, NSF of China, Shandong Taishan Fund

bio-inspired Technologiessee smart Materials and structures, Philensee Multifunctional and Materials and systems, Priya

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/ywang.php

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/gyu.php

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biologYsee synthetic biology, Ruder

bioMass harVesT, sTorage, and deliVerYName: robert “bobby” grissoDepartment: Biological Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6538Fax: 540-231-3199E-mail: [email protected]: Analysis of Systems for the Harvest, Storage, and

Delivery of Biomass Applications: Use of precision farming techniques for data collec-

tion; design of logistics systems to minimize cost of biomass delivery; use of GIS technology to optimize in-field hauling of round bales; analysis and design of receiving facility to handle herbaceous biomass delivered to a conversion plant

Expertise: Analysis of systems of equipment used to harvest, store, and transport herbaceous biomass to a utilization point; design of machines for harvesting, handling, and preprocess-ing (wafering, pelleting, cubing) of herbaceous biomass

Examples of Funding Sources: USDA, DOE, Oak Ridge Na-tional Lab

bioMaTerials and Tissue engineeringName: aaron s. goldsteinDepartment: Chemical Engineering and School of Biomedical

Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-3674Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: www.che.vt.edu/people_agoldstein.phpSpecialty: Musculoskeletal TissuesApplications: Implantable materials for tissue regenerationExpertise: Mesenchymal stem cell culture; hydrodynamic shear

stress; perfusion bioreactors; cell adhesion; bio-interfacial phenomena; polymer processing; electrospinning

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, NSF

bioMechanicssee also ergonomics, Agnew, Nussbaumsee also fluid Mechanics, Stremlersee also injury biomechanics, Dumasee also neuroengineering, VandeVordsee also nonlinear dynamics and control, Ross

bioMechanicsName: raffaella de VitaDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-5905Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~devitaSpecialty: Constitutive Modeling for Nonlinear Elastic, Viscoelas-

tic, Liquid Crystal Biological SystemsApplications: Ligament and tendon grafts; mechanical and bio-

logical heart valves; drug delivery systems; biological sensors and actuators

Expertise: Continuum mechanics with emphasis on solid me-chanics; cardiovascular mechanics; mechanics of ligaments and tendons; cellular mechanics


bioMechanicsName: daniel M. dudekDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-0687

www.bse.vt.edu/people/tenure-track/grisso-bobby.html

www.che.vt.edu/people_agoldstein.php

www.esm.vt.edu/people/active/devita/devita-bio.html

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Fax: 540-231-9187E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~dmdudekSpecialty: Biomaterials, Locomotion, and Comparative Organis-

mal BiologyApplications: Biologically inspired robotics; synthetic elastomersExpertise: Dynamics of running and climbing; mechanics of elas-

tomeric proteinsExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of

Health, DARPA

bioMechanicscrash safetyName: clay gablerDepartment: School of Biomedical Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-7190Fax: 540-231-0954E-mail: [email protected]: www.sbes.vt.edu/gablerSpecialty: Injury Biomechanics, Vehicle Crashworthiness, Crash

Modeling, Crash ReconstructionApplications: Advanced airbag systems; active safety systems;

event data recorders for cars; roadside crash safety; motor-cycle crash safety; side impact safety

Expertise: Articulated lumped mass modeling; nonlinear finite element modeling; epidemiology of highway accidents using national databases; social cost of highway accidents

Examples of Funding Sources: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Transporta-tion Research Board – National Academy of Sciences, New Jersey Department of Transportation

bioMechanicsName: Michael l. MadiganDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-1215Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: www.biomechanics.esm.vt.eduSpecialty: Biomechanics, Biomedical EngineeringApplications: Musculoskeletal injury prevention; effects of aging

on physical performance, balance, and fall preventionExpertise: Biomechanical modeling; effects of neuromuscular

fatigue and agingExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health

bioMechanicsName: Jake sochaDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-6188Fax: 540-231-0696E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~jjsochaSpecialty: Organismal (Comparative) BiomechanicsApplications: Biomimetics and bio-inspired engineeringExpertise: Animal locomotion; gliding flight in vertebrates;

internal flows in insects (including respiration, feeding, and circulation); microtomography; synchrotron x-ray imaging; insects; reptiles

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, DARPA

www.sbes.vt.edu/gabler/

www.esm.vt.edu/people/active/mimadiga/mimadiga-bio.html

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bioMedical engineeringsee also biomaterials and Tissue engineering, Goldstein see also biomechanics, Madigansee also computer-aided design and Manufacturing, Bøhn see also computer science, Fengsee also energy, Dillersee also imaging science, Wyattsee also injury biomechanics, Duma

bioMedical engineeringName: lissett ramirez bickfordDepartment: School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences,

Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7896Fax: 540-231-9738E-mail: [email protected]: Drug Delivery, Nanomedicine, Biomedical Imaging

and DiagnosticsApplications: Translational oncology; development and validation

of selective and nontoxic nanotherapies; design of medical devices for local cancer theranostics

Expertise: Nanoparticle engineering; medical devices for drug delivery

bioMedical engineeringName: Yong w. leeDepartment: School of Biomedical Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-8484 Fax: 540-231-9738E-mail: [email protected]: www.vascular.sbes.vt.edu/ Specialty: Nanomedicine, Cellular and Molecular BiologyApplications: Biomedical applications of nanotechnologyExpertise: Targeted drug delivery; novel nanomaterials; nano-

toxicology; cancer biology; vascular biologyExamples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health,

NSF

bioMedical engineeringName: chang luDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8681Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: www.microfluidics.che.vt.edu/Specialty: Microfluidics, Single Cell Analysis, Laser-Induced

Fluorescence, Gene Delivery, ElectroporationApplications: Microfluidic devices for cancer diagnosis and

staging; gene delivery for cell therapies; cellular analysis for epigenetic studies

Expertise: Microfluidics design; fluid mechanics; laser spectros-copy; biophysics of electroporation

Examples of Funding Sources: NIH, NSF, United States Depart-ment of Agriculture, Wallace Coulter Foundation

bioMedical engineeringName: Marissa nichole rylanderDepartment: Mechanical Engineering, School of Biomedical

Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-3134Fax: 540-231-0970E-mail: [email protected]: Bio-heat Transfer, Tissue Engineering, Cancer Re-

searchApplications: Development of multimodal cancer therapies using

nanomaterials in combination with laser treatment and irre-versible electroporation; creation of novel in vitro tumor mod-

www.sbes.vt.edu/bickford/about.php

www.ictas.vt.edu/research/nanoBioSingle.php?id=7

www.che.vt.edu/people_Changlu.php

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els and “holey scaffold” platform for imaging dynamic cancer processes and response to treatment; fiber optic microneedle device for combined light and nanomedicine delivery for cancer; real time monitoring, control, and modeling of dynamic biological processes (inflammation, tumor growth, and tissue regeneration), measuring and modeling bio-heat transport and tumor response to thermal therapies; and stress conditioning therapies for tissue regeneration

Expertise: Bio-heat transfer; tissue regeneration; tumor engi-neering; computational modeling; stress conditioning

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, Advance VT

bioMedical engineeringName: scott s. VerbridgeDepartment: School of Biomedical Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-6908E-mail: [email protected]: www.verbridgelab.orgSpecialty: Cancer Microenvironment, Nanotechnology, Microflu-

idics, Tissue Engineering Applications: In the Laboratory for Integrative Tumor Ecology

(LITE), 3-D, physiologically relevant engineered models of tumor tissues are developed to study the tissue level “ecologi-cal” interactions that drive tumor initiation, progression, and response to therapy

Expertise: Microfluidic tumor models; optical measurement of chemical microenvironment; tumor stress response experiments

Examples of Funding Sources: Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science

bioMedical engineeringName: kimberly forsten williamsDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 412-335-4056E-mail: [email protected]: Analysis of Biochemical Systems and Networks, Data

Analysis, Computer Modeling of Complex Cellular InteractionsApplications: Cell-cell interaction analysis; growth factor binding

and trafficking studies; intracellular trafficking; drug delivery; wound healing

Expertise: Design of biological cell experimental studies; compu-tational modeling of biological cells; coupling of training in both chemical engineering and biochemistry

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, NSF

bioMedical engineeringName: Jason J. XuanDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 571-858-3151 Fax: 571-858-3000E-mail: [email protected]: Bioinformatics and Biomedical ImagingApplications: Bioinformatics, including genomic data analy-

sis and regulatory network modeling for cancer research; computational techniques are key to defining novel molecular diagnostics and discovering drugs for gene-based therapy; in particular, computational modeling is applied to study drug resistance in breast cancer and chemoresistance in ovarian cancer; biomedical imaging – this includes medical image segmentation, image analysis, and image registration; ap-plications of biomedical image analysis include quantitative medicine and radiation therapy planning

Expertise: Cancer bioinformatics; computational systems biol-ogy; genomic data analysis; reconstruction of gene regula-tory networks; modeling of signaling networks and pathways; biomedical image analysis; radiation therapy planning

www.sbes.vt.edu/people/bio.php?person=Scott-Verbridge

www.che.vt.edu/people_kwilliams.php

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/xuan.php


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bioMedical iMagingsee also optical imaging, Zhu

bioMedical iMagingName: guohua caoDepartment: School of Biomedical Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-5686Fax: 540-231-0970E-mail: [email protected]: www.sbes.vt.edu/cao/index.htmlSpecialty: Biomedical Imaging, Medical PhysicsApplications: Anatomical and functional imaging of heart and

lung; cancer imaging; small-animal imaging; radiation therapyExpertise: Computed Tomography (CT); micro/nano CT; X-ray

physics; carbon nanotube x-ray sourceExamples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health

bioMedical MicrofluidicsName: rafael V. davalosDepartment: School of Biomedical Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-1979E-mail: [email protected]: Biomedical Microfluidics, BiotransportApplications: Cancer detection and treatment; single cell

analysis; image-guided surgery; cell isolation and enrichment; microfluidics

Expertise: Electric fields on cells; dielectrophoretic cell manipula-tion; irreversible electroporation; micro-electroporation

Examples of Funding Sources: Coulter Foundation, NSF, NIH

bioMedicinesee electronics, Agah

bioMeTricssee computer Vision, Abbott

bionanoMedicinesee polymers, Baird

bioreMediaTionsee environmental engineering, Pruden

brain-inspired coMpuTer archiTecTureName: Joann M. paulDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 571-858-3146 E-mail: [email protected]: “Computational Dreaming” to Achieve Constant

Performance Against Increasing Algorithmic Complexity as Applied to Database Dependent – Intelligent Personal Com-puting Applications, Highly Parallel, Independent Computa-tion Used During a Dream Phase to Develop and Select a Custom, Simple, Context-Specific Processor for Awake or Day Phase

Applications: Personal mobile computer architecture; basic sci-ence in the understanding of the brain; machine intelligence

Expertise: Brain-inspired computer architecture; high level modeling and evaluation of highly parallel, heterogeneous computer systems


bridge designName: carin l. roberts-wollmannDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2052Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]

www.sbes.vt.edu/cao/

www.sbes.vt.edu/davalos/about_davalos.html

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/paul.php

www.cee.vt.edu/people/roberts-wollmann.html


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Specialty: Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Structures, Behavior and Design with Emphasis on Bridges

Expertise: Methods for improving bridge durability and reduc-ing construction time, including precast concrete bridge deck panels; precast inverted tee-beams; ultra-high performance concrete; high performance lightweight concrete; bridge test-ing and monitoring

Examples of Funding Sources: Virginia Transportation Research Council, Federal Highway Administration, Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, National Cooperative Highway Research Program

cancersee biomedical engineering, Bickford, Rylander, Verbridge,

see Xuansee bioinformatics, Wangsee Biomedical Micro luids, Davalos

carbon seQuesTraTion, Mineraland energY resources see Mining, Karmissee natural gas / coal Mining, Ripepi

caTalYsisName: david f. coxDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6829Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: Surface Science, Catalysis, Surface Chemistry, Com-

putational ChemistryApplications: Selective oxidation; alkane dehydrogenation;

hydroprocessing; crystal chemistryExpertise: Surface analysis and characterization with photon

and electron-stimulated electron spectroscopies; low energy electron diffraction; mass spectrometry; ion scattering spec-troscopy; scanning tunneling microscopy; density functional calculations

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, NSF

caTalYsisName: s. Ted oyamaDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5309Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: Environmental Catalysis and MaterialsApplications: Reduction of greenhouse emissions (CO2); activa-

tion of methane in membrane reactors; hydrodesulfurization and hydrodenitrogenation of petroleum feedstocks; sulfur resistant hydrogenation catalysts; ozone decomposition; low college temperature VOC combustion

Expertise: Catalyst design and synthesis; catalyst characteriza-tion and testing; new materials preparation; transition metal carbides, nitrides, and oxides

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Petroleum Research Fund, U.S. Department of Energy

cell bioMechanicssee synthetic biology, Ruder

cellular engineeringsee synthetic biology, Ruder

www.che.vt.edu/people_dcox.php

www.che.vt.edu/people_soyama.php


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ceraMicsName: david e. clarkDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9469Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Ceramics, Processing and Properties, Materials

EngineeringApplications: Nuclear materials; environmental degradation of

glass and ceramics; composites; coatings; ceramic supercon-ductors; fibers; recycling

Expertise: Microwave processing; sol-gel processing; glass melt-ing and corrosion; ceramic processing and ceramic properties

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Electric Power Research Institute, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, U.S. Department of Energy, Englehard

chaossee fluid Mechanics, Stremlersee nonlinear dynamics and control, Ross

cheMical engineeringName: luke achenieDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4257Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: Computational ModelingExpertise: Molecular modeling; biofuels modeling; biological

modeling; calcium control; uncertainty analysis; math pro-gramming; finite elements; bioinformatics

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy

cheMical engineeringName: stephen M. MartinDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3775Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: Self-Assembly, Membranes, Thin Films, Surfactants,

Liquid Crystals, X-ray Scattering, Polymers, Sensors, Materi-als Science

Applications: Chemical sensing and separations based on self-assembled materials (e.g. liquid crystals); supported mem-branes for isomeric and enantiomeric separations; synthesis and characterization of functional self-assembled thin films

Expertise: Organic thin film synthesis and fabrication (self-assembled monolayers, Langmuir-Blodgett films); structural characterization of thin film materials (grazing-angle inci-dence; X-ray diffraction – GIXD; GISAXS; X-ray reflectivity; surface tension); membrane fabrication and permeability mea-surements (gas and liquid phase); synthesis and characteriza-tion of thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline materials (e.g. birefringence)

Examples of Funding Sources: American Chemical Society – Petroleum Research Fund, NSF, U.S. Department of Energy, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science

ciVil engineeringName: James k. MitchellDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7351Home Phone: 540-552-3992Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Geotechnical Engineering with Focus on Soil Proper-

www.che.vt.edu/people_lachenie.php

www.che.vt.edu/people_smartin.php

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ties and Behavior, Soil Mineralogy, Physico-chemical Phe-nomena in Soils, Soil Stabilization, Ground Improvement, In-situ Testing Methods and their Applications, Time Effects on Soil Properties, Soil Reinforcement

Applications: Ground improvement for mitigation of seismic risk; soil stabilization for roads, airfields, and embankments; swell-ing soil problems; earth reinforcement for walls and embank-ments and other earth structures; soil and site characterization using in-situ test methods; evaluation and improvement of embankment dam safety; waste containment

Expertise: Soil mechanics; environmental geotechnics; soil sta-bilization; geotechnical earthquake engineering; reinforced soil structures; mitigation of seismic risk to dams and foundations; earthwork construction

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Virginia Department of Transportation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

cliMaTe changesee energy, Rahmansee Transportation, Rakha

cloud coMpuTingsee energy systems, Tam

coal gasificaTionsee computational fluid dynamics, Battaglia

coal Miningsee Mining, Karmis, Luxbacher, Westman, Yoon

coasTal engineeringsee also geotechnical engineering, Stark

coasTal engineeringName: Jennifer l. irishDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2298Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.coastal.cee.vt.eduSpecialty: Coastal Engineering, Coastal HazardsExpertise: Storm surge dynamics; extreme-value and forecast

statistics; long and short wave dynamics in vegetation; beach, barrier-island, and nearshore morphological response; and impacts of climate change at the coast with emphasis on coastal flooding, damages, and social impacts

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of Energy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sea Grant Program

coasTal engineeringName: heng XiaoDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0926Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty/hengxiao.html Specialty: Computational Mechanics of Fluids and Particles in

Coastal EngineeringApplications: Prediction and mitigation of coastal hazards and

their impacts on coastal structures and infrastructure; sedi-ment transport and foundation failure during tsunamis and storm surges; efficiency optimization and environmental impact assessment of wave and tidal farms

Expertise: Fluid dynamics; turbulence modeling; hybrid Large Eddy Simulation/Reynolds-Averaged Navier−Stokes equa-

www.cee.vt.edu/people/irish.html

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tions (LES/RANS); sediment transport; wave−soil interactionsExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research,

Department of Energy

cogniTiVe radio see wireless networks, DaSilva

coMbusTionsee advanced diagnostics, Ma see control systems, Baumann see energy systems, Kornhauser see fire science, Lattimersee heat Transfer, Diller

coMMunicaTionssee also computer and communications engineering,

Athanassee also wireless networks, DaSilva

coMMunicaTionswireless communicationsName: Jeffrey h. reedDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2972Fax: 540-231-2968E-mail: [email protected]: Communications and Signal ProcessingApplications: Use of DSP in communications for receiver imple-

mentation; software radio; cognitive radio; smart antennas; interference rejection; communication system optimization

Expertise: Algorithm development; system analysis; DSP hard-ware design for wireless communications

Examples of Funding Sources: Samsung, LG Electronics, Ray-theon, General Dynamics, Office of Naval Research, Mer-cury Computer, NSF, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Motorola, Science Applications International Corpora-tion, Texas Instruments, Grayson Wireless, ITT, Southwestern Bell, Army Research Office, Tektronix, Aero Astro, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

coMpleX neTworkssee Transportation, Rakha

coMpleX sYsTeMs prognosissee Mechanics of advanced Materials, Duke

coMposiTesName: John M. kennedyDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0786Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: Advanced Composites, Mechanics of Advanced

Composites, Mechanical Characterization of Materials and Components

Applications: Aircraft and space structures; automotive compo-nents

Expertise: Fatigue and fracture of advanced composites; test method design for mechanical components; finite element analysis of structures

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Energy, NASA, NSF, Office of Naval Research, Veterans Administration, numerous companies

coMpuTaTional biologYsee also biomedical engineering, Xuan

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coMpuTaTional biologYName: T.M. MuraliDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-8534Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~murali/Specialty: Computationally-Driven Experimental Biology, Net-

work Biology, Data Mining, Graph AlgorithmsApplications: Gene function prediction; pathways perturbed in

diseases; infectious diseases; tissue engineering

coMpuTaTional biologY bioinforMaTicsName: liqing ZhangDepartment: computer scienceOffice Phone: 540-231-9413Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Biology,

Gene Duplication and Molecular Evolution and Population Ge-netics of Multigene Families, Data Mining in Molecular Biology

Applications: Development of software for bioinformaticsExpertise: Molecular evolution; population genetics; computa-

tional biology; evolutionary genetics

coMpuTaTional fluid dYnaMics see coastal engineering, Xiao

coMpuTaTional fluid dYnaMicsName: francine battagliaDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0077Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/fbattagliaSpecialty: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Building Energy, Mul-

tiphase Flows, Turbulent and Reacting FlowsApplications: Fluidized beds; chemical vapor deposition; bio-

mass and coal gasification; bubble columns; airlift reactors; passive heating and cooling of residential buildings; ground-coupled heat pumps

Expertise: Computational modeling and development; numeri-cal methods; numerical simulations; fluid dynamics; gas-solid flows; gas-liquid flows; energy systems

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Energy

coMpuTaTional fluid dYnaMicsName: christopher J. royDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8365Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/~cjroySpecialty: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Verification and

Validation of Computer Simulations, Numerical Error Estima-tion and Grid Adaptation, Turbulence Modeling, Large Eddy Simulation, Truck Aerodynamics, Non-equilibrium Hypersonic Flows, Micro-scale Gas Simulations

Applications: Fluid dynamics simulation of gas and liquid flows; verification (numerical accuracy) and validation (physical accuracy) of computer simulations; estimation of grid-related errors and grid adaptation; aerodynamics of cars and trucks; simulation of laminar and turbulent hypersonic flows; simula-tion of gas flow through microscale devices

Expertise: CDF; numerical error estimation and adaptivity; bluff-body aerodynamics flows; turbulence modeling and simula-

https://www.cs.vt.edu/user/murali


www.me.vt.edu/fbattaglia/

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tion; shock-wave/turbulent boundary layer interactions; CFD for MEMS

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, NSF, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Transportation

coMpuTaTional fluid MechanicsName: anne e. staplesDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-7570 Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~staplesa Specialty: Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), Biological Fluid

Dynamics, Entomological Fluid Dynamics, Computational Mul-tiscale Methods, Numerical Methods, Finite Difference Meth-ods, Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) for Geophysical Flows, Multiscale Modeling of Geophysical Flows, High Performance Computing

Applications: Design of biomimetic (insect-inspired) microfluidic devices; design of microscale fluid pumps; cardiovascular flow modeling; ocean basin flow modeling; design of optimal multi-scale algorithms to accelerate isotropic turbulence simulations

Expertise: Computational multiscale methods; multiscale turbulence simulations; modeling insect respiratory flows; geometric multiscale models of (human) cardiovascular flows; multiscale methods for geophysics flow computations


coMpuTaTional fluid dYnaMicsand heaT Transfer

Name: danesh TaftiDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9975Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.hpcfd.me.vt.eduSpecialty: Complex Turbulent Flows, Turbulent Heat Transfer,

Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS), Large-Eddy Simulations (LES), Detached Eddy Simulations (DES), Reynolds-Averaged Navier Stokes (RANS), Parallel Computations and Program-ming Paradigms, Numerical Methods and Discretizations, Algorithms for Navier-Stokes Equations, Lattice-Boltzmann Methods, Finite-Volume Methods, Particle Methods

Applications: Heat transfer augmentation in mini- and microscale heat exchangers; internal cooling of turbine blades; film cool-ing of turbine blades; particle based deposition and fouling; cardio-vascular bio fluid mechanics; two-phase flows in micro-nano channels; micro-air vehicles; flapping flight; fluidized beds; carbon capture; nuclear thermal-hydraulics

Expertise: Complex turbulent flows; turbulent heat transfer; direct numerical simulations (DNS); large-eddy simulations (LES); detached eddy simulations (DES); reynolds-averaged navier stokes (RANS); parallel computations and program-ming paradigms; numerical methods and discretizations; algorithms for navier-stokes equations; Lattice-Boltzmann methods; finite-volume methods; particle methods

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Army, AFOSR, Modine Manufacturing Company, Shell, Aerojet, Pratt and Whitney, Solar Turbines, Rolls-Royce

coMpuTaTional MaTerials scienceName: diana farkasDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4742Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]

www.esm.vt.edu/people/active/staplesa/staplesa-bio.html

www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/danesh-tafti/

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Specialty: Computational Materials ScienceApplications: Structural materials; nano-scale materials; nuclear

materialsExpertise: Metallic materials; intermetallic alloys; nanocrystalline

materials; radiation resistant materials; phase transformations; diffusion and kinetics

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Energy, Of-fice of Naval Research

coMpuTaTional Mechanics see fluid-structure interaction, K. Wang

coMpuTaTional MulTiscale MeThodssee computational fluid Mechanics, Staples

coMpuTaTional scienceName: alexey onufrievDepartment: Computer Science and PhysicsOffice Phone: 540-231-4237Fax: 540-231-8451E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~onufrievSpecialty: Computational Molecular BiophysicsApplications: Development of computational tools to study mo-

lecular motion and interactionsExpertise: Molecular biophysics; biomolecular electrostatics;

computational chemistry; molecular dynamics simulationsExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health

coMpuTaTional scienceName: b. aditya prakashDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-0906Fax: 540-231-4240 E-mail: [email protected] Specialty: Data Mining, Applied Machine Learning and Data-

basesApplications: Epidemiology and public health; social media and

the web; wired/wireless networking and cyber securityExpertise: Extracting knowledge from massive datasets (es-

pecially networks and time-series); design and analysis of models and algorithms; general database management

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Symantec Corp.

coMpuTaTional scienceName: adrian sanduDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-2193Fax: 540-231-9218E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~asanduSpecialty: Computational Science, High Performance Comput-

ingExpertise: Scientific and engineering computing; numerical

methods for ODE, PDE, DAE; solution of inverse problems; uncertainty quantification; parallel computing

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA, AFOSR, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Institutes of Health

coMpuTaTional science and engineeringsee computational fluid dynamics and heat Transfer, Tafti see computer science, Fengsee data Mining, Ramakrishnansee parallel computing, Ribbens

https://www.cs.vt.edu/user/onufriev

https://www.cs.vt.edu/node/6651

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coMpuTer-aided designand ManufacTuring

Name: Jan helge bøhnDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3276Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/bohn.htmlSpecialty: Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing, Global

Product Development, Collaborative Design and Engineering, Rapid Prototyping, Software Integration, Six Sigma in Soft-ware Engineering, and Engineering Education Abroad

Applications: Development of software for advanced CAD/CAM/PLM applications

Expertise: Computer-aided geometric modeling; solid modeling; computational geometry; multi-national engineering curriculum design

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, NSF, U.S. Department of Education, U.Va. Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, General Motors Foundation

coMpuTer-aided designand ManufacTuring

Name: christopher williamsDepartment: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Educa-

tionOffice Phone: 540-231-3422Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.dreams.me.vt.edu/Specialty: Additive Manufacturing, 3-D Printing, Computer-Aided

Engineering, Engineering Design, Engineering EducationApplications: Additive Manufacturing (3-D Printing) for applica-

tions of metallic and ceramic cellular materials such as high temperature filters, structural heat exchangers, low-density structures, tissue scaffolds; methods and processes for the design of products and systems in domains including, but not limited to: aerospace, automotive, and manufacturing systems

Expertise: Additive manufacturing of ceramics, metals, and poly-mers; computer-aided modeling; design theory and methodol-ogy; product families and product architecture; engineering design education research

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Air Force Research Lab, ExOne, ILC Dover, GM

coMpuTer and coMMunicaTionsengineering

Name: peter athanasDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-392-7250E-mail: [email protected]: Reconfigurable Computing Architectures, Adaptive

Computing Machines, Hardware-Software Co-Design, Rapid Prototyping

Applications: Application of reconfigurable and adaptive comput-ing techniques to applications in wireless communications, autonomous systems, reconfigurable computing architectures, information security, and trust in computing

Expertise: Computer architecture; VLSI design; signal process-ing; algorithm design

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Defense Advanced Re-search Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Harris Corporation

www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/jan-helge-bohn/

www.enge.vt.edu/People/faculty/Profiles/williams.html

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coMpuTer engineeringName: Michael s. hsiaoDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9254Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/mhsiaoSpecialty: Design, Test, Verification and Diagnosis of Secure

and Trustworthy Hardware and Software Systems; Formal Methods and Hybrid Methods for Test and Verification

Applications: Secure software; anti-tamper design; trustworthy hardware; embedded system design and validation; protocol verification

Expertise: Design, analysis, test, verification, and diagnosis of secure and complex digital systems, both hardware and software

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Semiconductor Research Corporation, National Institute of Justice, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

coMpuTer engineeringlow-power, wearable computers, electronic TextilesName: Tom MartinDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1739Fax: 540-231-8292E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/martin.htmlSpecialty: Mobile/Ubiquitous Computing, Low Power Computer

System Design, VLSI Systems, Wearable Computers, Elec-tronic Textiles

Applications: Extending the battery life of handheld, notebook, and wearable computers; wearable computing applications for industrial and personal use; analyzing the power consump-tion of hardware/software systems; power-based computer security attacks

Expertise: System-level approach to power management includ-ing application software, operating system software, hardware subsystems, and power sources; wearable computer design and applications


coMpuTer engineeringembedded systems, cryptographic engineeringName: patrick schaumontDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3553Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/schaumSpecialty: Embedded System Design, Cryptographic Engi-

neering, Secure and Trustworthy Implementations, Secure Hardware, Secure Software, Secure Tags and Tokens, RFID, Smart-card, Reconfigurable Hardware, Microcontroller Design, Electronic Prototyping, Implementation Attacks and Countermeasures, Integration of Embedded Hardware and Software, Hardware/Software Codesign, Simulation and Verifi-cation of Electronic Systems.

Applications: Cryptography and security for embedded applica-tions such as RFID; smart-cards; set-top boxes and sensor nodes; intellectual property protection for embedded applica-tions; hardware acceleration; hardware co-processing for real-time embedded processing

Expertise: Cryptographic implementation of symmetric-key and public-key systems; side-channel resistance measurement and analysis of embedded implementations; hardware/soft-

www.ece.vt.edu/mhsiao/

www.ece.vt.edu/tlmartin/

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ware co-design and co-simulation; system-level modeling and performance evaluation of embedded software and hardware; hardware co-processor design; FPGA prototyping; physical unclonable functions

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NIST, Intel Corporation

coMpuTer engineeringName: sandeep k. shuklaDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2133Home Phone: 540-239-2736Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.eduSpecialty: Cyber Security of Industrial Control Systems, Smart

Grid Communications and Security, Formal Methods, Formal Verification of Hardware and Software Systems, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Programming Models, Models of Computation, Low-Power System Design, Embedded Systems Design, Reliability, System Level Design, Defect- and Fault-Tolerant Computing, Nanocomputing, Safety-Critical Embedded Software and Sys-tems, Automated Software Synthesis, Software Engineering, Real-Time and Embedded Systems, Embedded and Commu-nication Systems for Power Grids

Applications: Cyber Security of SCADA; industrial control sys-tems; smart grid; electronic design automation tools develop-ment; reliability driven design for nano-computing; software synthesis tools from specification for embedded systems; computer-aided software engineering tools

Expertise: Embedded systems; software engineering; VLSI; design automation; nano-computing; nanotechnology; formal methods, software security, and smart grid security

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, AFOSR, NRL, AFRL, OSD, Semiconductor Research Consortium, Intel Corporation, Los Alamos Labs, Bluespec Inc.

coMpuTer engineeringName: chao wangDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6904E-mail: [email protected]: Formal Verification, Software Verification, Program

Analysis, Program Synthesis, SAT Solvers, SMT Solvers, Bi-nary Decision Diagrams, Concurrency, Multicore Programming

Applications: Developing software testing and verification tools; developing hardware testing and verification tools; speci-fication and verification of concurrent systems (hardware, software, and embedded systems)

Expertise: Embedded systems; software engineering; VLSI; design automation; concurrent software; formal methods; software security

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, Fujitsu Labs of America, Inc.

coMpuTer-generaTed holographY see holography, Poon

coMpuTer sciencesee also computer engineering, Wang

coMpuTer scienceName: godmar backDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-3046Fax: 540-231-9218E-mail: [email protected]

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Specialty: Operating Systems, Runtime Systems and Librar-ies, Language Virtual Machines, Hardware Virtual Machines, Cloud Computing, Web Architectures, Extension Architec-tures, High-performance Computing, Software Engineering, Software Visualization, Computer Science Education

Applications: Client-side and server-side web technology; wid-gets and mash-ups (AJAX); parallel applications and sparse computational methods; library information technology

Expertise: Systems, language design, and building in all of the above areas

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Coverity, Inc.

coMpuTer scienceName: Yang caoDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-1417Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: Numerical Analysis, Computational Biology, Scientific

ComputingApplications: Gene regulation network; cell cycle modelingExpertise: Stochastic modeling and simulation; chemical reac-

tion network; uncertainty analysis; sensitivity analysis; pa-rameter estimation; numerical solution for ordinary differential equations and differential-algebraic equations

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health

coMpuTer scienceName: wu feng Department: Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engi-

neering, and Virginia Bioinformatics InstituteOffice Phone: 540-231-1192 Fax: 540-231-9218 E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.cs.vt.edu/~feng Specialty: High-Performance Computing Systems, Accelerator-

Based Computing, Multi-Core and Many-Core Computing, Au-tonomic Computing, Green Computing, Green Data Centers and Embedded Systems, Supercomputing in Small Spaces

Applications: Life sciences and biomedical applications; data mining; genome analysis; sequence alignment; molecular dynamics; large-scale computational simulations; com-puter science education for K-8; energy-efficient applications; Green500 list

Expertise: High-performance computing and networking; paral-lel and distributed computing; cloud computing; green comput-ing; bioinformatics; computational science

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of En-ergy, National Institutes of Health, Air Force Research Labora-tory, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Advanced Micro Devices, Eli Lilly and Company, IBM

coMpuTer scienceName: edward a. foxDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-5113Home Phone: 540-552-8667Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.eduSpecialty: Digital Libraries, Hypermedia, Hypertext, Information

Storage and Retrieval, Institutional Repositories, Knowledge Management, Multimedia; Computing Education

Applications: Archaeology; crises recovery; education; informa-tion systems; internet; libraries; Second Life; WWW

Expertise: Annotation; CBIR; classification; clustering; col-





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laborative filtering; computer/server log analysis; computing curriculum; concept maps; crises response; cross-language retrieval; data management; digital libraries/curation/pres-ervation; digital video; digitization; distributed processing; genetic programming; electronic theses and dissertations; energy medicine; hashing; human-computer image retrieval; interaction; information filtering; information fusion; informa-tion integration; information modeling; information retrieval; interoperability; inverted files; library automation; machine learning; metadata; modeling/simulation of computer clusters; open Archives initiative; personalization; preservation; quality metrics; query splitting; ranking; recommender systems; reiki; relevance feedback; scenarios; schema mapping; second life; superimposed information; text classification; tragedy recov-ery; vector space model; visualization; web crawling; web services; XML; 5S theory

Examples of Funding Sources: Google, IBM, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Microsoft, National Library of Medicine, NSF, Sun Microsystems, U.S. Department of Education

coMpuTer scienceName: chang-Tien luDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 703-538-8373Fax: Applications: 703-538-8348E-mail: [email protected]: www.nvc.cs.vt.edu/~ctluSpecialty: Spatial Databases, Data Mining, Spatial Data Visual-

ization, Data Warehousing, Geographic Information Systems, Intelligent Transportation Systems

Applications: Sensor data visualization; highway traffic data analysis; spatial data archive and information retrieval; water-shed data management; web-based spatial data management system

Expertise: High performance algorithm design; spatial database architecture and performance optimization; 2-D and 3-D data visualization; web databases; spatial data analysis and pattern extraction; spatial outlier detection

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Defense, DARPA, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Transportation, Federal High-way Administration, Virginia Department of Transportation, National Institute of Health, Census Bureau, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

coMpuTer securiTYsee software engineering, Ryder see software systems, Kafura

coMpuTer siMulaTionsee Materials, Kriz

coMpuTer sYsTeMssee computer science, Feng see power electronics, Lee

coMpuTerssee also computer science, Feng, Fox see also optimization, Sherali

coMpuTersnetwork and computer security, Vlsi circuit designName: Joseph g. TrontDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5067Fax: 540-231-3362


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E-mail: [email protected]: Secure Communications, Intrusion Detection, Intru-

sion Protection, Testable Designs and Fault-Tolerant Architec-tures, Microprocessors, Multimedia

Applications: Hardware and software solutions for secure sys-tems; special purpose integrated circuit design; built-in self-testing integrated circuits; ASICs; electromagnetic compat-ibility issues in ICs; embedded microprocessor applications; use of advanced educational technology in the classroom; synchronized streaming media presentations; handheld de-vices for educational applications

Expertise: Use of CAD tools to design and develop ICs for vendor specific applications; fabrication using silicon found-ries; functional testing in-house; development of CAD tools for use in integrating testability into IC designs; development of customized microprocessor-based systems; development of multimedia tools for education; network security

Examples of Funding Sources: Naval Research Labs, NSF, General Electric, NASA, Office of Naval Research

coMpuTer Vision see also Machine learning, D. Batra

coMpuTer VisionName: lynn abbottDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4472Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/abbott.htmlSpecialty: Computer Vision, Image ProcessingApplications: Manufacturing automation, especially in the areas

of industrial inspection and robotics; biometrics, such as face recognition and fingerprint analysis; navigation for autono-mous vehicles; medical image analysis; and remote sensing, often involving satellite imagery

Expertise: Stereo range estimation and surface reconstruction; fingerprint image quality human face detection; industrial inspection, including detection of defects in wood; special-pur-pose computer architectures for image processing; detection of explosives in x-ray images

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institute of Justice, NSF, Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, BAE Inc., American Woodmark Corporation

coMpuTer VisionName: devi parikhDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6714Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Semantic Image Understanding, Visual Recognition,

Human ComputationApplications: Intelligence; surveillance; autonomous vehicles;

image search; personal photo organization; manufacturing automation

Expertise: Detecting and recognizing objects in images; recog-nizing scenes; detecting properties of objects and scenes; human-machine communication; contextual reasoning; data fusion; ensemble of classifiers; crowd sourcing

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Industry (e.g. Google, Microsoft)

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/abbott.php

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coMpuTingsee computer science, Foxsee computer and communications engineering, Athanas see networking, Chen

concreTesee bridge design, Roberts-Wollmann see construction Materials, Grasley

consTrucTionsee human factors engineering / ergonomics, Kleiner

consTrucTion engineeringand ManageMenT

project controls; infrastructure asset ManagementName: Jesús M. de la garzaDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5789Home Phone: 540-951-0387Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Project Controls and Infrastructure Asset ManagementApplications: Research thrusts comprise: information technol-

ogy in construction and highway infrastructure management; developed models of design rationale for use in the archi-tecture engineering-construction (AEC) industry; developed models for Virginia DOT regarding the impact of deferring maintenance on highways which enables the formulization, simulation, and assessment of policies for Interstate highway maintenance; developed models for wireless communications and computing technology at the jobsite

Expertise: Information technology; planning and scheduling; fo-rensic schedule analysis; project controls; technology transfer; public-private partnerships; highway maintenance manage-ment

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Virginia Department of Transportation, Construction Industry Institute

consTrucTion engineeringand ManageMenT

Name: John e. TaylorDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0972Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Civil Engineering Network Dynamics of Industrial and

Societal ImportanceApplications: Building energy efficiency; building information

modeling adoption and implementation; developing commu-nity resilience; globalization; organizational issues; sustain-ability; virtual teams

Expertise: Change management; communication network analysis; entrepreneurship; information system development; innovation; network dynamics; project management; simula-tion; social network analysis; virtual work environments

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Construction Industry Institute, Earth Institute, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

consTrucTion MaTerials see also wood products in construction, Hindman

consTrucTion MaTerialsName: Zachary grasleyDepartment: Civil EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3174

www.cee.vt.edu/people/delaGarza.html

www.cee.vt.edu/people/taylor.html

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E-mail: [email protected]: Materials Science and Mechanics of Concrete,

Cement-Based, and Other Porous MaterialsApplications: Concrete durability, reliability, and sustainabilityExpertise: Coupled chemical, physical, and mechanical behavior

of cement-based materials; material sustainability; thermody-namics

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Qa-tar National Research Fund, Federal Highway Administration

consTrucTion safeTYsee human factors engineering / ergonomics, Kleiner see wood products in construction, Hindman

conTaMinanTssee environmental engineering, Pruden

conTrol sYsTeMsName: william T. baumannDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4446Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/baumann.htmlSpecialty: Control Systems, Systems Biology, System Identifica-

tion Applications: Modeling of biological systems at the cellular level;

vibration and acoustic control system design and implementa-tion; noise cancellation; active combustion control

Expertise: Biological modeling and simulation; control system design; real-time implementation of control systems

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research

conTrol sYsTeM securiTYName: cameron d. pattersonDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8397Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Industrial Control System Security, Trusted Comput-

ing on Embedded Platforms, Implementing Systems on Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Applications: SCADA systems; malware monitoring of embed-ded system firmware and third-party IP

Expertise: Formal verification; hardware/software partitioning; Field Programmable Gate Array technology; trusted reconfigu-rable computing; architecture extensions for secure comput-ing; root-of-trust synthesis

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Defense Advanced Re-search Projects Agency, Air Force Research Laboratory, Army Research Laboratory, Missile Defense Agency

conTrol TheorYsee also autonomous systems, Stilwell

conTrol TheorYName: craig a. woolseyDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8117Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/~cwoolseySpecialty: Nonlinear Control, Multibody Dynamics, Robotics,

Autonomous SystemsApplications: Guidance, navigation, and control of aerospace

and ocean vehicles; control of robotic systems

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/baumann.php

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/patterson.php

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Expertise: Nonlinear control of mechanical systems; vehicle dynamic modeling; data filtering/state estimation

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA

conTrol TheorY / auTonoMous sYsTeMsName: Mazen farhoodDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2983Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/~farhoodSpecialty: Robust Control of Complex and Hybrid Engineering

Systems, Distributed Control over General Graph Topologies, Model Reduction

Applications: Robotic control of high-performance mechanical and electrical systems; trajectory planning and control of agile aerial vehicles; distributed control of robotic systems

Expertise: Cooperative control of multi-vehicle systems; con-trolled maneuvers and tracking along trajectories; model reduction; semi-definite programming

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research

corrosion conTrolName: Marc a. edwardsDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7236Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: Aquatic Chemistry, Corrosion, Physical-Chemical

TreatmentApplications: Potable water treatment; wastewater treatment;

environmental chemistryExpertise: Corrosion of potable water systems; corrosion of

wastewater systems; lead and copper contamination of water supplies

Examples of Funding Sources: American Water Works Associa-tion Research Foundation, National Science Foundation

crash safeTYsee biomechanics, Gabler

cYber securiTYsee also computer engineering, Shukla

cYber securiTYName: danfeng (daphne) YaoDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-7787 Fax: 540-231-9218E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~danfeng/Specialty: Computer and Network Security, Malware Detection,

Cryptography, Biometrics, Privacy, Big Data Security, Secure Data Analytics, Software Security

Applications: Computer and network integrity analysis; operat-ing system design; computer forensics; detection of malicious software; enterprise security; securing autonomous robots and their communications; physical security and personal privacy

Expertise: Human-behavior based malware detection; device and hardware based security; data loss prevention; cloud-computing security; security analysis on network protocols and system designs; security analysis of cryptography protocols

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Army Research Office, De-partment of Homeland Security, Institute for Critical Technol-ogy and Applied Science, Office of Naval Research

www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty/farhood.html

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daM engineeringsee geotechnical engineering, Brandon, Duncan, Filz, Green

daTa Miningsee also advanced Manufacturing, Kong

daTa MiningName: naren ramakrishnanDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-8451Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~narenSpecialty: Data Analytics and Data MiningApplications: Intelligence analysis; computational sustainability;

systems biology; health informatics; text mining; literature-based discovery

Expertise: Working with massive datasets; designing and imple-menting algorithms for extracting insights from datasets; simu-lation and modeling of real world systems on the computer; database management for targeted application domains; problem solving environments for computational science

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Home-land Security, NIH, National Endowment for the Humanities, IARPA, DARPA, ONR, General Motors, HP Labs, NEC Labo-ratories America, Advance Auto Parts

daTabasessee computer science, Lu

decision Makingsee optimization, Sherali see stimulation, Pasupathy

decision Making in organiZaTionsand coMpleX sYsTeMs

Name: christian wernzDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9772Home Phone: 540-553-1657Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Decision Theory, Game Theory, Stochastic Pro-

cesses, Organizational Design, Multiscale Systems, Complex Systems, Socio-Technical Systems

Applications: Health care, particularly hospitals; technology man-agement, manufacturing, and service enterprise systems

Expertise: Modeling socio-technical systems, e.g., U.S. health care system, with interactions between decision-maker across multiple organizational and temporal scales to determine ef-ficient and effective incentives and organizational structures

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation (NSF), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Carilion Clinic, Rolls Royce

decision Making under uncerTainTYsee investment, Bish

designsee engineering education, Goff

digiTal signal processingName: a.a. (louis) beexDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4877Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]


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URL: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/beex.html; www.dsprl.ece.vt.edu/Specialty: Stochastic and Adaptive Digital Signal ProcessingApplications: Localization and characterization of sources using

sensor arrays and/or networks; design of an acoustic com-munications system for operation in a severe multipath and Doppler environment; analysis and advantageous usage of nonlinear effects in adaptive filters; robust speaker identifica-tion and verification; automatic dialect identification; robust speech coding; adaptive interference mitigation; beam forming using adaptive coupled nonlinear oscillator arrays; analysis of electro-encephalographic signals for the design of detectors for the existence of specific conditions; prototype development for signal processing solutions; design and performance en-hancement of systems operating in a varying, not completely known environment

Expertise: Spectral analysis and modeling; digital filter design; identifier structure analysis; image representation, coding, and reconstruction; sensor array signal processing; robust digital communication system design for noisy time-varying environ-ment

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Power FingerPrinting Inc., SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego, AUSGAR Technologies Inc., Office of Naval Research

digiTal signal processingName: leyla nazhandaliDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4755Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/Nazhandali/indexSpecialty: Low-Power UsesApplications: Low-power biomedical implantable devices; low-

power environmental/structural and other types of monitoring; low-power digital signal processing including image process-ing; trust worthy embedded applications such as RFIDs, smartcards, and sensor nodes

Expertise: Low-power hardware (ASIC) design; power side channel resistant design using circuit techniques; exploiting process variation in circuits to create unique chip fingerprints; energy-efficient design of highly to semi-parallel digital signal processing algorithms using sub threshold voltage operation


disTance learningsee instructional Technology, Scales

disTribuTionsee logistics, Ellis

dreaMingsee brain-inspired computer architecture, Paul

drug deliVerYsee biomechanics, De Vitasee fluid dynamics, Jungsee polymer and colloid chemistry, Davis

drug designsee computer science, Feng see optimization, Watson

durabiliTYsee Mechanics of Materials, Dillard

dYnaMicssee aerospace engineering, Sultan see fluid Mechanics, Stremler

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dYnaMical sYsTeMs Name: nicole abaidDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-5626Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Distributed Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics and Con-

trol, Robotics, SwarmingApplications: Dynamics and control of multi-vehicle robotic

teams; synchronization and consensus in dynamical systems; animal-robot interactions

Expertise: Network theory; modeling and data-driven analysis of collective behavior; animal-robot interactions; stochastic systems

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

dYnaMics and conTrolName: steve c. southwardDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7385Home Phone: 434-228-3740 (cell)Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/southward.html; www.me.vt.

edu/cvess/PERL/index.phpSpecialty: Vibration Control, Noise Control, Motion Control,

Adaptive Control, Adaptive Filtering, Inverse Control, Nonlin-ear Systems and Control, Numerical Simulation, Embedded Control System Design and Implementation, System Identifi-cation, Estimation, Sensor Design

Applications: Vehicle and seat suspensions; magneto-rheolog-ical fluid devices; N-post shaker rig testing; driving simulator testing; quarter-vehicle testing; human-in-the-loop testing; commercial and military aerospace and ground vehicles; heavy truck; automotive and race vehicles; isolation tables; motion control systems; active and semi-active suspensions; ultrasonic acoustic health monitoring

Expertise: Dynamic system modeling and system identification with experimental validation; systems engineering; real-time embedded control systems; active noise and vibration control; rapid-prototyping of control systems; hardware-in-the-loop simulation; human-in-the-loop simulation; array processing; mechatronics; intellectual property

Examples of Funding Sources: Lord Corporation, Volvo Truck International, U.S. Army TACOM, Association of American Railroads, Virginia Tobacco Indemnification Commission

dYnaMics, VibraTions, conTrolssee also nonlinear dynamics and control, Ross

dYnaMics, VibraTions, conTrolsName: scott l. hendricksDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-7154Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Flow-Induced Vibration, Stability Theory, System

Identification, Nonlinear Dynamics and ChaosApplications: Dynamics and control of rigid bodies, flexible

bodies, and bodies that interact with fluids; liquid and gas centrifuges; system identification for vibrating flexible bodies including bridges and space vehicles; linear and nonlinear stability of dynamical systems; chaotic motion of mechanical systems

Expertise: Advanced dynamics; vibrations; controls; stability theory; nonlinear motions

www.esm.vt.edu/people/active/abaid/abaid-bio.html

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Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Energy, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA

earThQuake engineeringsee also structural engineering, Eatherton, Charney see also geotechnical engineering, Filz, Green,

see also Rodriguez-Marek

earThQuake engineeringName: roberto leonDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7408Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Seismic Design; Steel Structures; Composite Steel-

Concrete Structures; Structural TestingApplications: Design and retrofit of buildings, bridges, and

building-like structuresExpertise: Development of structural members and connec-

tions; structural testing and instrumentation; post-earthquake investigations

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, FHWA

ecological engineeringName: Theresa (Tess) wynn ThompsonDepartment: Biological Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2454FAX: 540-231-3199E-mail: [email protected]: www.bse.vt.edu/people/tenure-track/thompson-theresa.

htmlSpecialty: Stream and Wetland Restoration, Streambank Ero-

sion, Watershed Management, Low Impact DevelopmentApplications: Stream and wetland restoration design; measure-

ment and modeling of stream bank erosion; stream bank stabilization; design and evaluation of best management prac-tices for the control of nonpoint source pollution from urban, agricultural, and forest lands; development of water quality monitoring networks

Expertise: Cohesive soil erosion, stream, and wetland restora-tion; urban storm water management; hydrology

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Virginia Depart-ment of Conservation and Recreation

elasTiciTYSee Mechanics of Materials, Holmes

elecTric power Name: robert broadwaterDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3771 Home Phone: 540-818-0558Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Integrated Modeling and Analysis of Electric Power

Transmission, Radial Distribution, and Networked Distribution Systems

Applications: Multi-million node, multi-phase power system models that interface to customer and system measurements; distributed power flow solutions; design over time varying load patterns for best economic decisions; analysis of the effects of electric vehicle and distributed energy resource adoption; IEEE 1547 impact analysis of distributed energy resource adoption; Monte Carlo analysis of electric power system reliability

Expertise: Object-oriented analysis; generic programming and analysis

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Examples of Funding Sources: Electrical Distribution Design, Lockheed-Martin, Electric Power Research Institute, Public Service Electric and Gas, Tennessee Valley Power Associa-tion, Tennessee Valley Authority, Appalachian Power Com-pany, Allegheny Power Systems, Arkansas Power and Light, Entergy

elecTric powersmart grids signal processingName: lamine M. MiliDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 703-538-3767Fax: 703-538-8348E-mail: [email protected]: Electric Power, Smart Grids, Communications Sys-

tems, Signal Processing, Radar Systems Applications: Applications of robust statistics to power and com-

munications systems; power system reliability analysis; power systems planning; power systems dynamics and control; risk management of blackouts; load forecasting; clutter mitigation in radar systems; speech processing; image processing

Expertise: Reliability analysis; risk assessment; robust statistics; time series analysis; bifurcation theory

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Electric Power Research Institute

elecTric Vehiclessee automotive powertrains, Nelson

elecTroMagneTicssee also energy conversion systems, Odendaal

elecTroMagneTicsName: Majid ManteghiDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-597-7710Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Antennas and MicrowaveApplications: Radio frequency circuit and systems; radiation and

propagations mechanism; antennas; microwave circuits and systems; radio frequency identification (RFID) circuits and systems

Expertise: Nonlinear and time variant antennas; small anten-nas; UWB antennas; target identification techniques; chipless RFID; wireless power transfer; phased array; implanted anten-nas and wireless power transfer systems

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Intel Corp, Center for Ad-vanced Engineering Research, FBI

elecTronic TeXTilessee computer engineering, Martin

elecTronicsName: Masoud agahDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2653Fax: 540-231-2978E-mail: [email protected]: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)Applications: Environmental monitoring; automotive industry;

biomedicine; homeland securityExpertise: Microfluidics; MEMS-based gas chromatography;

wafer-level packaging microfabrication technologies; MEMS based chemical sensing; environmental and biomedical ap-plications of MEMS; packaging for MEMS/NEMS devices

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA, National Institutes

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of Health, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Department of Energy

elecTronicsName: dong s. haDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4942Cell Phone: 540-818-9966Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.mics.ece.vt.eduSpecialty: Analog, Mixed-Signal, and RF Integrated Circuit (IC)

Design, Low-power ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Design

Applications: Energy harvesting; power management ICs; wireless sensor nodes; High temperature sensor nodes for engines and oil drilling; structural health monitoring

Expertise: Low-power analog, mixed-signal, and RF IC design; power management circuits for energy harvesting; power management ICs; RF IC design for wireless sensor nodes; low-power SHM circuit and system design; Dong Ha’s group with Multifunctional Circuits and Systems (MICS) specializes in low-power IC and systems design for virtually all applica-tions and frequently fabricates test chips

Examples of Funding Sources: ETRI (Korea), Intel, Texas Instruments, NASA, NSF, Pratt & Whitney, Semiconductor Research Corporation

eMbedded sYsTeMssee computer engineering, Shukla

energYsee also biomass harvest, storage, and delivery, Grisso see also computational fluid dynamics, Battagliasee also structures and Materials, Leskosee also Transportation, Rakha

energYheat TransferName: T.e. dillerDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7198Home Phone: 540-951-0933Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/MENewSite/Faculty/Diller/diller.htmlSpecialty: Heat Transfer, Biomedical EngineeringApplications: Developing new heat and flow measurement

techniques for high technology processes; direct applications include advanced propulsion systems, gas turbine engines, industrial processes, heat transfer, and perfusion measure-ments on the human body, thermal control systems; thin-film sensors and combustion systems

Expertise: Heat flux measurement; unsteady heat flux; heat transfer; measurement of thermal properties; gas turbine; turbulence modeling; high temperature sensors

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Whitaker Energy, National Institutes of Health Foundation, Department of Energy

energYelectric power, renewables, smart gridsName: saifur rahmanDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 571-858-3301Home Phone: 703-734-6948 E-mail: [email protected]

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URL: www.saifurrahman.orgSpecialty: Smart Grids, Renewables, Climate Change, and Criti-

cal InfrastructuresApplications: Distributed energy sources modeling and evalu-

ation; the smart grid; the microgrid; climate change issues; critical infrastructure modeling and assessment

Expertise: Analysis and design of power, telecom, and internet services for remote areas; analysis of greenhouse gas emis-sion mitigation alternatives; uncertainty and risk assessment; evaluation of alternative energy systems; microgrid develop-ment

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy; U.S. Department of Defense; NSF; U.S. Agency for International Development

energY and MaTerials see also Mechanics of Materials, Case

energY and MaTerialsName: ranga pitchumaniDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1776 Fax: 734-423-0683E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/amtlSpecialty: Energy Systems, Energy Storage Technologies,

Advanced Materials Processing, Polymer, Composite, and Ceramic Materials Processing, Nanomaterials, Nanocompos-ites, Microsystems and Microfabrication, Micro- and Na-noscale Transport Processes, Biotransport Phenomena, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Heat Transfer, Uncertainty Quantification, Op-timization, Electrodeposition, Optical Fiber Drawing, Structure Property Relationships, Sensing and Control

Applications: Research in the Advanced Materials and Technolo-gies Laboratory focuses on issues pertaining to the design and manufacturing science of advanced materials; develop-ing an understanding of the complex physical phenomena governing their fabrication through theoretical and experi-mental investigations; practical process development, design, optimization, and control

Expertise: Computational modeling; prototype processing; ma-terials characterization; property measurements; experimental facilities for variety of fabrication, testing, control, and verifica-tion

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Energy, NSF, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Office, Department of Education, Office of Naval Research, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, General Electric Com-pany, Pratt & Whitney, Terrafore, Inc.

energY conVersion sYsTeMsName: willem g. odendaalDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6560E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/odendaal.phpSpecialty: Energy Conversion SystemsApplications: Navy Electromagnetic Launcher (Railgun); radar;

lasers; masers; transformers; inductors; power converters; alternative energy; energy harvesting; secure sustainable environment; characterization; computer-aided design

Expertise: Pulse-power electronics; energy conversion; power electronics; EMI/EMC; low-frequency electromagnetics; elec-tromagnetics; thermodynamics; thermal management

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Naval Surface Warfare Center at Dahlgren, Navy Engineering Edu-cation Center, NSF

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energY harVesTingsee Multifunctional Materials and systems, Priya see nonlinear dynamics, Hajjsee Thermal Management, Ekkad

energY ManageMenTsee fluids and acoustics, Ng

energY sTorage and conVersionName: celine hinDepartment: Materials Science and Engineering and Mechanical

EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1924E-mail: [email protected]: Materials Science and EngineeringApplications: Li-ion batteries; nanostructured materials for

thermoelectric devices; materials for fusion and generation IV fission reactor systems

Expertise: Physical metallurgy; behavior of materials under extreme environments; statistical physics; atomic physics; thermoelectric properties; electrochemistry; and the develop-ment of analytical and numerical models

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Energy’s Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Science and Engineering Division, NSF’s Division of Materials Research, Department of De-fense, Army Research Office, Boeing, General Electric

energY sYsTeMssee also automotive powertrains / energy systems, Nelson

energY sYsTeMsName: alan a. kornhauserDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7064Home Phone: 540-552-9028Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/kornhauser.htmlSpecialty: Internal Combustion Engines, Industrial Energy Man-

agement, Refrigeration, Fuel CellsApplications: Internal combustion engine modeling; new engine

concept development; industrial energy surveys; advanced refrigeration systems; direct coal fuel cells

Expertise: Modeling, testing, and development for both ad-vanced energy systems and for systems using mature technology

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, Na-tional Institute of Standards and Technology, NASA, Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, Lennox, Ingersoll-Rand

energY sYsTeMscloud computing, power systems, renewable energyName: kwa-sur TamDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4448E-mail: [email protected]: Forecasting, Renewable Energy, Cloud Computing,

Spectral Analysis, Uncertainty Analysis, Economic Analysis, System Modeling and Analysis

Applications: Solar power forecasting; wind power forecasting; electric load forecasting; economics of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and distributed generation; cloud computing applica-tions; monitoring and analysis of complex systems

Expertise: Forecasting of solar and wind power; cloud comput-ing; economic analysis; uncertainty analysis; electric load forecasting; system modeling and analysis

www.mse.vt.edu/People/Faculty/CelineHin/tabid/1124/Default.aspx

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Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Microsoft Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation

engineeringsee also environment, Novak see also Transportation, Rakha

engineering designName: robert h. sturges, Jr., p.e.Department: Mechanical Engineering and Industrial and Sys-

tems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7420Home Phone: 540-951-4898Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Design Theory and Methodology, Manufacturing Pro-

cesses, Human and Machine Dexterity, RoboticsApplications: Design for assembly; product and process design;

industrial automation; hazardous environment teleoperationExpertise: Integrated design/manufacturing methods; design

and development of advanced automation equipment and robotics; CAD-driven flexible manufacturing systems for sheet metal, wiring assemblies, and composite materials; measure-ment and prediction of task/effector dexterity in human and mechanical systems for assembly analysis; nuclear service and manufacturing robotics

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA, ONR, AT&T, Boe-ing Helicopter, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Amada, U.S. Navy, Westinghouse, Long-Airdox, Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, Virginia Commonwealth Technology Research Fund

engineering educaTionsee also Machine health Monitoring, Kasarda see also Motivation, Matusovichsee also problem solving environments, Shaffer

engineering educaTionName: stephanie g. adamsDepartment: Engineering EducationOffice Phone: 540-231-6555Fax: 540-231-6903E-mail: [email protected]: Engineering Education, Teamwork, Graduate Student

and Faculty Development, International Education, Broaden-ing Participation and Quality Control/Management

Applications: Engineering education and manufacturingExamples of Funding Sources: NSF

engineering educaTion Name: richard M. goffDepartment: Engineering EducationOffice Phone: 540-231--9537Fax: 540-231-6903E-mail: [email protected]: Co-Director of the Center for e-Design, Engineering

Course Development, Engineering Design, Design Educa-tion Research, Motorcycle Fuel Economy Research, Electric Transportation, Mechanical Testing

Applications: Designing and teaching engineering design courses at all levels; teaching design in engineering practice; mechanical testing of materials and nanocomposites; motor-cycle streamlining and fuel economy

Expertise: Course development; teaching engineering and de-sign; design team management; mechanical testing to ASTM standards; engineering educational research; research in streamlining motorcycle fuel economy and electric vehicles

www.ise.vt.edu/People/Faculty/Bios/Sturges_bio.html

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Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Commonwealth Commercialization Research Fund

engineering educaTionName: david b. knightDepartment: Engineering EducationOffice Phone: 540-231-2563Fax: 540-231-6903E-mail: [email protected]: Outcomes-Based Engineering Education, Learning

Analytics, Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning, Interna-tional Higher Education, Organizational Issues in Higher Education

Applications: Assessment; educational research, design, teach-ing, and learning improvements; curriculum development

Expertise: Quantitative research methods; survey researchExamples of Funding Sources: NSF

engineering educaTionName: Vinod k. lohaniDepartments: Engineering Education and Civil and Environmen-

tal EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9545Fax: 540-231-6903E-mail: [email protected]: www.enge.vt.edu and www.lewas.centers.vt.eduSpecialty: Engineering Education, Hydrology and Water Re-

sources, Interdisciplinary Research, International Collabora-tion

Applications: Real-time water and weather monitoring system; introduction of sustainability concepts and design experiences at freshman level; reformulations of engineering curriculum using educational theories; assessment in engineering educa-tion; technology (TabletPcs/dyknow) integration in engineering instruction; undergraduate research in interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering; knowledge maps; Internationaliza-tion of engineering courses; design of study abroad experi-ences and international collaboration in engineering education

Expertise: Real-time environmental monitoring; engineering education research; hydrologic modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency, U.S. Department of Education, Virginia Water Resources Research Center

engineering educaTionTechnical communicationName: lisa dupree McnairDepartment: Engineering EducationOffice Phone: 540-231-1144Fax: 540-231-6903E-mail: [email protected]: www.enge.vt.edu/_bios/faculty/bio_McNairLisaD.htmlSpecialty: Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Design Education,

Identity Theory, Reflective PracticeApplications: Communication and collaboration; education and

assessment; electronic portfolios; promoting reflective learning development; and building professional identity

Expertise: Helping educators design, integrate, and evalu-ate communication assignments; teaching and learning in interdisciplinary contexts; facilitating ePortfolio initiatives via participatory design

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Engineering Information Foundation, Council of Writing Program Administrators

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engineering educaTionName: Marie c. parettiDepartment: Engineering EducationOffice Phone: 540-231-1812E-mail: [email protected]: www.enge.vt.edu/parettiSpecialty: Design Education, Gender, Race, Class, and Identity

in Engineering Education, Engineering Communication, Team-work and Collaboration, Interdisciplinary

Applications: Engineering courses and programsExpertise: Design education; gender, race, class, and identity in

engineering education; engineering communication; teamwork and collaboration interdisciplinary; assessment


enVironMenTsee also air pollution, Marr see see also Transportation, Rakha

enVironMenTindustrial waste Management, water and wastewater

Treatment, Toxicology Name: gregory d. boardmanDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1376Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: Industrial Waste Management, Water and Wastewater

Treatment, Water Conservation and Reuse, Environmental Toxicology

Applications: Developing operations and systems for the man-agement of waste liquids and solids; evaluating the perfor-mance of treatment systems; developing methods for the assessment of toxicity; determining the environmental impact of pollutants

Expertise: Conducting treatability studies with both physico-chemical and biological systems; evaluation of toxicity; devel-oping short-term methods for the early assessment of toxicity

Examples of Funding Sources: Hampton Roads Sanitation District, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Envi-ronmental Protection Agency, Virginia Department of Environ-mental Quality, Virginia Department of Health

enVironMenTenvironmental engineeringName: andrea M. dietrichDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5773Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: Water Quality and Water Treatment with Focus on

Health and Aesthetic IssuesApplications: Drinking water treatment; sensory analysis of drink-

ing water; consumer-related water quality issues; premise plumbing; interdisciplinary research that integrates technology, science, and society

Expertise: Water quality; sensory (taste, odor, color) analyses of water; fate, transport, and toxicity of contaminants

Examples of Funding Sources: Water Research Foundation, Drinking Water Industry, National Science Foundation, Virginia Department of Health

www.mse.vt.edu/People/Faculty/MCParetti/tabid/536/Default.aspx

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enVironMenTwater and wastewater TreatmentName: Zhen he Department: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1346Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: Environmental Engineering, Wastewater Treatment,

Water DesalinationApplications: Recovery of bioenergy and value-added products

from wastewater; anaerobic treatment of domestic wastewater and sludge; energy-efficient wastewater treatment or water desalination by using bioelectrochemical systems such as microbial fuel cells or microbial desalination cells; groundwater remediation

Expertise: Environmental biotechnology; biological wastewater treatment; bioelectrochemical systems

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Founda-tion, Qatar National Research Fund, Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund, Veolia Water, Gannett Fleming

enVironMenTName: w. cully hessionDepartment: Biological Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9480URL: www.bse.vt.edu/people/tenure-track/hession-cully.htmlSpecialty: Fluvial Geomorphology and Aquatic Ecosystem Link-

ages, Watershed HydrologyApplications: Research and consulting to quantifying physical

characteristics of streams and their relationships to aquatic ecosystem health; develop and review stream/river restoration designs; watershed management; constructed wetlands for pollution abatement

Expertise: Emphasis on cross-disciplinary stream and wetland research; relating physical processes (hydrology/hydraulics/ sediment transport) to aquatic habitat

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency-STAR, U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service and Agricultural Research Service, Virginia Depart-ment of Conservation and Recreation

enVironMenTwater and wastewater TreatmentName: william r. knockeDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6635Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Environmental Engineering – Water and Wastewater

Treatment, Sludge Dewatering and DisposalApplications: Research and consulting aimed at improving the

treatment technologies used to purify waters for drinking; pro-vide treatment of municipal and industrial wastewaters prior to their release to the environment; and development of methods for treating waste residues prior to their ultimate disposal

Expertise: Emphasis areas include coagulation and flocculation of waters; applications of alternative oxidants for trace metal removal (Fe and Mn); characterization of water distributions present in water and wastewater sludges

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency, U.S. Department of the Interior, DuPont Chemi-cal, General Chemical, NALCO Chemical Company, Union Camp

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enVironMenTName: John c. littleDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8737Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/little.htmlSpecialty: Environmental Transport ProcessesApplications: Lake and reservoir management; emissions from

building materials and consumer products; migration of chemi-cals through plastic pipes; environmental exposure and risk assessment

Expertise: Evaluating strategies to improve water quality in lakes and reservoirs using oxygenation systems; evaluating sedi-ment oxygen demand; developing a mechanistic understand-ing of sources of indoor air pollution; developing reference materials for emissions testing; quantifying exposure to chemi-cal contaminants in drinking water

Examples of Funding Sources: Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NSF

enVironMenTName: John novakDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6132Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: Bioremediation, Water and Wastewater Treatment,

Hazardous Waste Treatment, Sludge Treatment, Solid Waste Management

Applications: Advanced anaerobic digestion processes for the reduction of solids and odors; treatment of contaminated sites including waste petroleum products, creosote, chlorinated sol-vents, and industrial chemicals; studies of the benefits of land-fill bioreactors; sludge conditioning and dewatering processes and the economical application of conditioning chemicals

Expertise: Advanced sludge digestion for improved solids de-struction and reduction of odor causing compounds; treatment of hazardous wastes and remediation of contaminated sites using bioremediation and phytoremediation; improving treat-ment for the chemical industry for industrial wastewaters

Examples of Funding Sources: Los Angeles County Sanitation District, District of Columbia Water and Sewage Authority, Wa-ter Environment Research Foundation, Siemens Corporation

enVironMenTal engineeringName: Thomas J. grizzard Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering Office Phone: 703-361-5606 x112 Fax: 703-361-7793E-mail: [email protected]: Surface Water Quality Management, Lake and Reser-

voir Limnology, Watershed Management, Urban Storm Water Characterization and Control, Water Reuse, Wastewater Reclamation

Applications: Managing the urban water cycle to meet societal needs; recovery and reuse of wastewater; mitigation of urban storm water pollution; management of lakes and reservoirs for water supply

Expertise: Indirect potable reuse of reclaimed wastewater to supplement water supply; management of water quality in streams, lakes, and reservoirs subjected to various water quality impacts; development of urban storm water control technologies

Examples of Funding Sources: Environmental Protection Agen-cy, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Virginia Department

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of Environmental Quality, Upper Occoquan Service Authority, Fairfax Water

enVironMenTal engineeringName: amy prudenDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3980 Fax: 540-231-7816E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/pruden.htmlSpecialty: Characterizing the Microbial Ecology of Engineered

and Natural Water Systems in Order to Better Inform Design, Operation, and Monitoring

Applications: Monitoring of emerging and opportunistic patho-gens such as antibiotic resistance genes and Legionella pneumophila in water systems; bioremediation of environmen-tal contaminants such as oil spills, tri-nitrotoluene (TNT), and acid mine drainage

Expertise: Environmental biotechnologyExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, Environmental Protection

Agency, Water Research Foundation, Water Environment Research Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

enVironMenT and fluVial hYdraulicsName: erich T. hesterDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9758Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: filebox.vt.edu/users/ehester/website/index.htmlSpecialty: Hydrology, Hydraulics, Groundwater, Ecology, Resto-

ration of Streams, Rivers, and WetlandsApplications: Research relating physical characteristics of

streams and rivers, human activities, water quality, and aquatic ecosystem health; stream, river, and wetland res-toration design; environmental sustainability of watershed management; modeling of water flow and pollutant transport in streams, rivers, wetlands, and groundwater

Expertise: Interdisciplinary studies relating hydraulics and water quality or ecological health (ecohydraulics) in streams, rivers, and wetlands; modeling and measuring surface water-ground-water (hyporheic exchange) in streams, rivers, and wetlands; heat and pollution migration in streams, rivers, and wetlands; quantifying environmental sustainability of water management practices; improving stream, river, and wetland restoration design and watershed planning

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Wells Fargo & Company

enVironMenT and nanoTechnologYName: peter VikeslandDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3568Fax: 540-231-7916E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/pvikes.htmlSpecialty: Environmental Engineering, Environmental Nanotech-

nologyApplications: Research activities are aimed at development of

improved technologies to sense and remediate waterborne environmental contaminants; optimize drinking water disinfec-tion practices; and understand corrosion processes in both engineered and natural systems

Expertise: Development of engineered nanoparticles for use as environmental sensors and for contaminated site remedia-tion; characterization of surface mediated reactions in both engineered and natural systems; examination of disinfectant

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interactions with oxidizable materials in drinking waterExamples of Funding Sources: American Water Works Associa-

tion Research Foundation, NSF, Virginia Water Resources Research Center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

ergonoMicssee also human factors / ergonomics, Casali

ergonoMicsName: Michael J. agnewDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0083Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Occupational Biomechanics and Ergonomics, Human

FactorsApplications: Development of ergonomic guidelines for use in

industry; ergonomic evaluation of industrial tools and assistive devices

Expertise: Biomechanical modeling; electromyography; psycho-physics; localized muscle fatigue

ergonoMicsName: Maury a. nussbaumDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6053Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: fbox.vt.edu/users/nussbaumSpecialty: Human Factors Engineering, Biomechanics, AgingApplications: Design and evaluation of occupational tasks to

minimize injury risk and maximize performance; consumer product design

Expertise: Biomechanical modeling of spine and shoulder; fatigue assessment and measurement; physical impairments associated with aging and obesity; assessment and control of slip/trip/fall risks; design and analysis of consumer technology and products

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institute for Occupation-al Safety and Health, Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc., Toshiba Corporation, Hyundai Motor Company

esTiMaTion TheorYsee autonomous systems, Stilwell

fallssee Materials, Pickrellsee biomechanics, Madigan

fiber opTicssee photonics, Wang see Materials, Pickrell

file and sTorage sYsTeMsName: ali r. buttDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-0489E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/~butta/Specialty: File and Storage Systems, High Performance Com-

puting, Distributed Systems and Grid Computing, Peer-to-Peer Systems, Operating Systems

Applications: Large scale storage management for HPC applica-tions

Expertise: Systems and applications I/O modeling and perfor-mance tuning; I/O subsystem analysis; operating system optimizations

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Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Oak Ridge National Labo-ratory, Department of Energy Office of Science

finiTe eleMenT MeThod / coMpuTaTional Mechanics

Name: romesh c. batraDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-6051Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Finite Element Method, Meshless Methods, Function-

ally Graded Materials, Smart Structures, Microelectrome-chanical Systems, Damage in Metals and Composites under Dynamic Loading, Carbon Nanotubes

Applications: Blast mitigation; MEMS; sensors and actuators; structural analysis and design; failure analysis; vibration and noise control

Expertise: Constitutive relations for soft tissues; thermal stress-es; stress analysis under harsh thermal and electromagnetic environments; rubberlike materials; coupled thermo-electro-mechanical problems

fire science and coMbusTionName: brian lattimerDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7295Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/extreme/main/index.phpSpecialty: Fire Dynamics, Material High Temperature Response,

Firefighting, Hazard Assessment and MitigationApplications: Thermo-structural response of ships and bridges

during fires; autonomous firefighting technologies; quantifying thermal boundary conditions from fires; gasification of coal and biomass for energy production; modeling fire growth in buildings and transportation vehicles; smoke and combustion product movement through structures

Expertise: Characterization of high temperature material thermo-physical-chemical properties; structural response of materials during fires; material ignition and decomposition behavior; fire growth and smoke movement; fire suppression; technologies for fire environment visualization

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Naval Research Laboratory

floodingsee water, Dymond

fluid dYnaMicssee also Mechanics of Thin and flexible structures, Hanna see also nonlinear dynamics, Hajj

fluid dYnaMicsName: sunghwan JungDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-5146E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~sunnyjsh/sunghwan/index.htmlSpecialty: Bio-Fluid Mechanics; Nonlinear Dynamics; Bio-Loco-

motionApplications: Fluid transport systems; microfluidicsExpertise: Experiment; analytical modelingExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, ACS

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fluid dYnaMicsName: robert w. waltersDepartment: Research Office and Aerospace and Ocean Engi-

neeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4384Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Stochastic Fluid Dy-

namics, Uncertainty AnalysisApplications: Advanced design of space, air, and undersea

vehicles; engine design; re-entry problems; configuration aerodynamics

Expertise: Numerical analysis and modeling for compressible flow simulations; uncertainty analysis using chaos theory; thermo-chemical non-equilibrium fluid dynamics

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, Department of Defense

fluid dYnaMics and diagnosTicslaser flow diagnosticsName: k. Todd loweDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7650 Home Phone: 540-797-0643Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty/lowe.htmlSpecialty: Advanced Flow Measurement Techniques, Laser Flow

Diagnostics, Vortical Flow Physics, Turbulent Boundary Lay-ers, High Speed Flow, Aeroacoustics

Applications: Development of instrumentation and experiments to address pressing needs in the propulsion, energy, and aerospace engineering communities; quieter aircraft with cleaner emissions; supersonic jet noise; particle-based mea-surements at micro- and macro-scale

Expertise: Laser-based instrumentation including very high spatial resolution laser doppler velocimetry, filtered doppler velocimetry (e.g., planar doppler velocimetry/doppler global ve-locimetry); time-resolved multi-point velocimetry for hot super-sonic jets; multi-band laser-induced fluorescence; temperature-sensitive microparticle development; multi-scattering regime (e.g., Mie, Rayleigh, Raman) instruments for combustion and exhaust diagnostics; fluid dynamics expertise in three-dimen-sional boundary layer physics; supersonic turbulent shear flows; vortical flow control of boundary layer separation

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, NASA Langley Research Center, Virginia Space Grant Consortium, U.S. Air Force Arnold Engineering Development Center, propulsion and energy corporations, Department of Defense / NASA Small Business Innovation Research / Small Busi-ness Technology Transfer programs, Intellegence Advanced Research Projects Agency

fluid Mechanicssee also computational fluid dynamics, Battaglia see also high-end parallel computing, Tafti

fluid MechanicsName: eugene f. brownDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7199Home Phone: 540-552-9278Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/_bios/_primary/brown_bio.htmlSpecialty: Nanotechnology, Computational Nano-FluidicsApplications: Heat transfer in nanofluids

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Expertise: Use of continuum and molecular models to carry out numerical simulations of fluid flows and heat transfer

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Naval Surface Weapons Center, U.S. Navy

fluid MechanicsName: Mark a. stremlerDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-1227 Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~stremler Specialty: Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, Chaos and Dynamical

Systems Theory Applied to Fluid MotionApplications: Microfluidics; mixing/separation in complex flows;

fluid transport and mixing in biological systems; vortex dynam-ics

Expertise: Mathematical and numerical modeling of fluid flows; applications of dynamical systems theory

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Army Research Office, National Institutes of Health

fluid Mechanics / heaT TransferName: Mark paulDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4758Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/mpaulSpecialty: Large-Scale Parallel Computation, Nonlinear Dy-

namical Systems, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Modeling of Micro and Nanoscale Systems

Applications: Nanoscale science and technology for biological ap-plications; single molecule biophysics using nanoscale sensors; quantifying the predictability of large complex systems exhibit-ing chaotic dynamics; stochastic models of cell dynamics

Expertise: The use of analytical methods and large-scale numer-ical computation to explore nanoscale systems for biological applications and the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of very large systems driven far-from-equilibrium

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, DARPA

fluid-sTrucTure inTeracTionName: kevin g. wangDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6611Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: Computational Methods for Multiphysics Analysis,

Large-Scale High-Fidelity Simulations, Multiscale Models and Methods, Material Properties and Behaviors in Extreme Environments

Applications: Unmanned underwater vehicles; underwater explo-sion and implosion; flapping wing micro aerial vehicle; high altitude long endurance (HALE) aircraft

Expertise: Fluid-structure coupled analysis; nonlinear aero-elasticity; high-performance computing; atomic-to-continuum computing

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Army Research Laboratory

fluids and acousTicsName: wing-fai ngDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7274Home Phone: 540-951-1054Fax: 540-231-9100

www.esm.vt.edu/people/active/stremler/stremler-bio.html

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E-mail: [email protected]: Aerodynamics, Fluid Flow, Flow Control, Acoustics

and Heat TransferApplications: Develop experiments and computational programs

to understand behavior of fluid flows; improve the perfor-mance and energy efficiency of fluid machinery

Expertise: Instrumentation; high-frequency unsteady measure-ment techniques; wind tunnel testing; computational methods for fluid flow problems; teach short course in energy manage-ment for cogeneration and combined cycles

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA Langley, NASA Glenn, Rolls-Royce Corporation, General Electric Company, Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, Sandia National Laboratory, Westing-house, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, U.S., Air Force Research Lab, Westinghouse/Siemens

fluVial forMs and processessee environment, Hession

flYwheelssee Machine health Monitoring, Kasarda

fracTure Mechanicssee Mechanics of Materials, Dillard

fuel cellssee automotive powertrains, Nelson see energy systems, Kornhausersee Mechanics of Materials, Dillard see polymers, Baird

fusion energY sciencesee plasma physics, Srinivasan

gaMe TheorYsee decision Making in organizations, Wernzsee wireless communications and networks, MacKenzie see wireless networks, DaSilva

gaMe TheorYName: Manish JainDepartment: Computer ScienceE-mail: [email protected]: Game Theory, Multi-agent Systems, Large-scale

Optimization, Artificial IntelligenceApplications: Security applications (protecting physical infra-

structure as well as cyber systems) Expertise: Research, analysis, development, and deployment of

systems using mathematical models to optimally schedule de-fense resources to protect targets from intelligent adversaries

Examples of Funding Sources: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Dept. of Defense, Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation

gas TurbinesName: walter f. o’brienDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9104Home Phone: 540-552-2844Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, InstrumentationApplications: Turbomachinery and gas turbines for station-

ary and airborne applications (propulsion); ramjets, rockets, and scramjets; plasma ignition and flow control devices and related instrumentation

Expertise: Analysis, modeling, and design of turbomachinery

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and components for gas turbines and propulsion engines; compression system operability; combustion ignition; experi-mental research in turbomachinery, gas turbines, and high speed propulsion.

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, Pratt and Whitney, Elec-tric Jet, LLC, Prime Photonics

gene-based TherapYsee biomedical engineering, Xuan

gears / TransMissionssee Vibration and dynamics, Parker

genoMe analYsissee computer science, Feng

genoMicssee algorithms, Heathsee computational biology, Murali, Zhang

geographic inforMaTion sYsTeMs (gis)see also computer science, Lu see also Transportation, Hancock see also water, Dymond

geosciencessee natural gas / coal Mining, Ripepi

geospaTial analYsissee Transportation, Hancock

geoTechnical engineeringName: Thomas l. brandonDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4454Home Phone: 540-544-DIRTFax: 540-231-1620E-mail: [email protected]: Geotechnical Engineering, Civil EngineeringApplications: Construction of roads, dams, bridges, foundations,

and retaining wallsExpertise: Measurement of soil properties; in situ testing; de-

velopment of laboratory equipment; slope stability analysis; foundation and retaining wall design; settlement analyses; site investigation and assessment

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, NSF, Atlantic Construction Fabrics, Amoco, U.S. Air Force Civil Engineering Research Laboratory

geoTechnical engineeringearth structures and foundationsName: J. Michael duncanDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5103Home Phone: 540-552-5822Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Geotechnical EngineeringApplications: Design of earth dams, earth retaining structures,

and foundationsExpertise: Soil mechanics; settlement, bearing capacity, slope

stability analyses; finite element analyses of stress distribu-tion, seepage, and consolidation

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Bureau of Reclamation

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geoTechnical engineeringName: george filzDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7151Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Ground Improvement, Foundation Engineering, Soil-

Structure Interaction, Environmental GeotechnicsApplications: Foundations; retaining walls; landslides; embank-

ments; levees; landfills; and subsurface barriers to groundwa-ter flow

Expertise: Ground improvement and reinforcement; numerical analysis of soil-structure interaction; geotechnical composite systems; containment technologies for waste disposal facili-ties and sites of uncontrolled contaminant release

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Virginia Transportation Re-search Council, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Education

geoTechnical engineeringName: russell a. greenDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540- 231-9826 Home Phone: 540-382-1031Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/green.htmlSpecialty: Geotechnical Engineering, Earthquake Engineering,

Engineering SeismologyApplications: Liquefaction evaluations; paleoliquefaction investi-

gations; ground improvement; seismic site response analyses; seismic design of foundations, retaining walls, earthen dams, etc.; seismic hazard analysis

Expertise: Geotechnical earthquake engineering; engineering seismology, soil and site improvement

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

geoTechnical engineeringName: adrian rodriguez-MarekDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5788Home Phone: 540-951-0342Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/adrian.htmlSpecialty: Geotechnical Engineering, Earthquake Engineering,

Engineering SeismologyApplications: Seismic hazard analysis; site response analysis;

seismic design of geotechnical systemsExpertise: Seismic hazard analysisExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Geological Survey

geoTechnical engineeringName: nina starkDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7152Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Coastal and Marine Geotechnics, Subaqueous Sedi-

ment Dynamics, Offshore Structure – Seabed Interaction, Instrument Development

Applications: Beach erosion and coastline development; ocean renewable energies; port and coastal engineering; navigation channel maintenance; offshore cables and pipelines

Expertise: Geotechnical surveying in the coastal zone and

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marine environment; offshore-going quasi-static and dynamic penetrometers; seafloor sediment sampling; acoustic and visual seafloor imaging; scour monitoring

global warMingsee energy, Rahman

green coMpuTingsee computer science, Fengsee parallel and distributed systems and applications,

see Cameron

greenhouse eMissionssee air pollution, Marr see catalysis, Oyamasee Transportation, Rakha

groundwaTerName: Mark a. widdowsonDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7153Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/widdowson.htmlSpecialty: Groundwater, Water Resources, Contaminant Trans-

port, Modeling, Monitored Natural Attenuation, Bioremediation, Phytoremediation, Soil and Groundwater Remediation

Applications: Modeling of groundwater flow and contaminant transport problems; management and protection of water resources, including aquifers and surface water; decision-making software tools for remediation of contaminated groundwater; application of monitored natural attenuation and phytoremediation to Superfund sites; decision-making software tools for groundwater resource development and management; monitoring of groundwater pollutants; novel methods for characterization of aquifer and soil flow and trans-port properties

Expertise: Groundwater; water resources sustainability; con-taminant transport in groundwater systems; models and software development for groundwater flow and contaminant transport; wells, springs, public water supply, and domestics wells; monitoring wells; groundwater resource development and management; monitored natural attenuation; bioremedia-tion; phytoremediation; soil and groundwater remediation; hazardous waste management; aquifer characterization; field tests, pumping tests, slug tests; Superfund; groundwater contamination; remediation of chlorinated solvents (PCE, TCE, vinyl chloride), petroleum hydrocarbon compounds (BTEX), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) compounds, heavy metals, nitrate, nitrite, and radionuclides; non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPL and LNAPL); decision-making software tools for remediation of contaminated groundwater; applica-tion of monitored natural attenuation and phytoremediation to Superfund sites; decision-making software tools for ground-water resource development and management; monitoring of groundwater pollutants; novel methods for characterization of aquifer and soil flow and transport properties

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command, U.S. Geological Survey, Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, Environmental Security Technology Certification Program and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

hardware designsee computer engineering, Hsiao, Shukla

haZardous wasTesee environment, Novak

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healThcaresee decision Making in organizations, Wernz see investment, Bish

hearing proTecTionsee human factors engineering, Casali

heaT Transfersee also biomedical engineering, M. Rylandersee also computational fluid dynamics and high-end, see also parallel computing, Tafti

heaT TransferName: scott huxtableDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1943Home Phone: 540-552-6777Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/huxtable.htmlSpecialty: Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer, Nanoscale Energy

ConversionApplications: Thermal management of power electronics; ther-

moelectric cooling and power generation; waste heat recovery systems; harvesting ambient thermal energy; thermal barrier coatings; nanofluids and heat transfer fluids; micro/nano sensors and actuators; thermal effects in medical therapies; photothermally activated drug delivery

Expertise: Thermal transport through nanostructures and nano-structured composites; thermal transport through interfaces; microfabrication; MEMS, NEMS; nanotechnology; thermal property measurements as a function of temperature and pressure; optical techniques for measuring thermal con-ductance and thermal conductivity of thin films and nano-structures including carbon nanotubes and DNA; molecular thermometry


heaT TransferName: brian VickDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7596Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: Applied Mathematics, Heat Transfer, Tribology, Wave

Mechanics, Numerical AnalysisApplications: Heat transfer in heterogeneous materials; thermal

analysis of compressors and brakes; investigation into true contact area and thermal effects at sliding contacts

Expertise: Applied mathematics; modeling complex processes using cellular automata; development of computationally ef-ficient algorithms for analysis of multiphysics processes

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research

high perforMance coMpuTingsee computational fluid dynamics and high-end parallel

see computing, Taftisee computational science, Sandusee computer architecture, Pattersonsee computer science, Fengsee file and storage systems, Buttsee optimization, Watsonsee parallel and distributed systems, Cameron see parallel computing, Ribbens

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higher educaTionsee engineering education, Knight

high speed railsee air Transportation and airport engineering, Trani

holographYName: Ting-chung poonDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4876Home Phone: 540-552-5787Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Digital Holography, Hybrid (Optical/Electronic) Image

Processing, 3-D Holographic Microscopy, Computer-Generat-ed Holography

Applications: Developing optical scanning techniques to gener-ate holographic (or 3-D) information in a single 2-D active scan; 3-D fluorescence holographic microscopy; developing real-time optical image processing systems

Expertise: Electronic/digital holography; hybrid image pro-cessing; 3-D holographic microscopy; acousto-optic signal processing

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, Army Research Office

hoMeland securiTYsee electronics, Agah

huMan-coMpuTer inTeracTionsee also computer science, Feng see also Virtual Reality, Bowman

huMan-coMpuTer inTeracTionName: denis gracaninDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-2060Fax: 540-231-9218E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~gracaninSpecialty: Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization, PrivacyApplications: Navigation interaction techniques; brain-computer

interfaces; smart house; community privacy enabled systemsExpertise: Virtual reality and brain-computer interfaces based

intervention tools; domain specific information visualization; user interfaces for control and communication systems; sen-sor networks; computer supported collaborative work

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, U.S. Army

huMan-coMpuTer inTeracTionName: d. scott MccrickardDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-6698Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/~mccricks/Specialty: Human-computer Interaction, Notification Systems,

Design and Software Reuse in HCI, Interface Design, Us-ability Testing

Applications: Evaluating information design in dual-task situa-tions; ubiquitous computing design and evaluation

Expertise: Design and evaluation of notification systems; design and analysis of mechanisms for knowledge reuse; tools for supporting collaboration

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institute of Stan-

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dards and Technology, Virginia Center for Innovative Technol-ogy, Microsoft

huMan-coMpuTer inTeracTionName: chris northDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-2458Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/~north/Specialty: Interactive Visual Analytics, Intelligence Analysis, In-

formation Visualization, Evaluating Visualizations, Large High-Resolution Displays, Bioinformatics Visualization, Geospatial Information Visualization

Applications: Numeric and non-numeric data visualization and analysis for bioinformatics, geographic information systems, digital libraries, network intrusion detection, intelligence analysis, and other domains; development of user interfaces for web-based dissemination of large or complex information; designing user interfaces for large high-resolution displays for control rooms, visualization labs, or classrooms

Expertise: Design, development, and evaluation of user in-terfaces and visualizations; information visualization; multi-dimensional data visualization; multiple-view coordination; information and application integration; web-based software architectures; architecting tiled, high-resolution displays, and visualizations

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Geospatial-intelli-gence Agency, Advanced Research and Development Activity, U.S. Bureau of the Census

huMan-coMpuTer inTeracTionName: Manuel a. pérez-QuiñonesDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-2646Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~perezSpecialty: User Interface Software, Uses of Computers in Edu-

cationApplications: Web-based applications; information systems us-

ing multiple devices; advance use of information technology in the classroom

Expertise: Design and development of interactive systems; us-ability engineering; experiments to support design and evalua-tion of user interfaces

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, IBM Corporation, Microsoft

huMan facTors engineeringsee also augmented reality, Gabbardee also ergonomics, Nussbaumsee also industrial hygiene, Young-Corbett

huMan facTors engineeringName: Thomas a. dingusDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1501FAX: 540-231-1555E-mail: [email protected]: www.vtti.vt.eduSpecialty: Human Factors Engineering, Intelligent Transporta-

tion, Transportation SafetyApplications: Development of crash avoidance technology; de-

velopment of naturalistic driving behavior databaseExpertise: Systems including the safety and usability of ad-

vanced in-vehicle devices; large-scale studies of driver behav-ior and performance; truck driver fatigue; driver distraction and

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attention researchExamples of Funding Sources: National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Mo-tor Carrier Safety Administration, Virginia Transportation Re-search Council, General Motors, National Institutes of Health, Society of Automotive Engineers

huMan facTors engineering / ergonoMics / acousTics

human engineering, acoustics, noise, Vehicle design, safetyName: John g. casaliDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5073Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: www.ise.vt.edu/people/casaliURL: filebox.vt.edu/users/jcasali/John_Casali_short_vita.pdfURL (Lab): filebox.vt.edu/users/jcasali/VT_Auditory_Systems_

Lab_Overview.pdfSpecialty: Ergonomics in Workplace and Product Design, Acous-

tics and Human Hearing, Vehicle Human Factors Engineering, Noise Impact on Humans, Situation Awareness

Applications: Design of consumer and safety products, such as personal protection equipment; design of hearing protectors and communication headsets; in-vehicle displays; industrial, product, and community noise measurement and assessment; patent development and litigation

Expertise: Human factors engineering and ergonomics; acous-tics; hearing protection; noise measurement and its effects on humans; forensics

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Na-tional Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, 3M, ITT-Exelis, AEARO, Federal Highway Administration, NASA, Bose Corporation, Shure Corporation, Etymotic Research, Inc., United Parcel Service

huMan facTors engineering / ergonoMics

safety, systems ergonomics, function allocationin system design

Name: brian M. kleinerDepartment: Industrial and Systems Engineering, Myers-Lawson

School of ConstructionOffice Phone: 540-231-4926Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: www.mlsoc.vt.edu/users/bkleinerSpecialty: Safety, Systems Ergonomics or Macroergonomics

(work system and work system interface design, including CSCW), Function Allocation in Automation and System De-sign, and Design of Collaborative Work Systems

Applications: Improvement of industrial work processes (also military, healthcare, construction); specification of level of technology in automation and system design; industrial in-spection improvement; design of group interfaces

Expertise: Analysis and design of work systems and work system interfaces (macroergonomics); function allocation in system design; training/communication/information system support system design; design of collaborative environments; human reliability and decision making in quality control; engi-neering and project management; safety

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, NSF, U.S. Department of Education, NSWC Dahlgren, U.S. Army Research Lab, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, National Institute of Occupa-tional Safety and Health

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hYbrid Vehiclessee automotive powertrains / energy systems, Nelson

hYdrodYnaMicsName: wayne l. neuDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7061 Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: Analysis and Applications of Free Surface and Sub-

surface Flow of FluidsApplications: Hydrodynamic design of autonomous underwater

vehicles including control surface and propulsion system de-sign; numerical analysis of complex free surface and subsur-face flow fields

Expertise: Autonomous underwater vehicles; propulsion of ma-rine vehicles; computation of free surface flows; hydrodynamic modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Naval Oceanographic Office, DARPA

hYdrologYsee also ecological engineering, Wynnsee also engineering education, Lohanisee also environment, Hessionsee also environmental and fluvial hydraulics, Hester

hYdrologYName: Zachary M. eastonDepartment: Biological Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 757-607-6741Fax: 540-231-3199E-mail: [email protected]: Watershed Modeling, Hydrological ModelingApplications: Non-point source pollution control; hydrological

controls on biogeochemical processes; climate change as-sessment

Expertise: Development and application of process based water-shed and hydrological models to define and manage pollutant source areas

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. EPA, USDA-AFRI, USDA-NRCS

iMage processing see computer Vision, Parikh

iMaging scienceName: christopher l. wyattDepartment: Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of

Biomedical Engineering and SciencesOffice Phone: 540-231-6658Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/wyatt.htmlSpecialty: Multidimensional Signal Analysis, Computed Tomog-

raphy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Computer VisionApplications: Analysis, modeling, and prediction of biological

processes using imaging and biosensing; pattern recognition; diagnosis, treatment planning, and monitoring in biomedicine; autonomous vehicles and systems

Expertise: Multidimensional signal analysis using deformable models, pattern recognition, and other computer vision tech-niques; image reconstruction and analysis for detection and measurement in cancer imaging and neuroimaging

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, U.S. Office of Naval Research

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indoor air polluTionsee air pollution, Marrsee environment, Littlesee industrial hygiene, Young-Corbett

indusTrial and sYsTeMs engineeringsee also logistics, Taylor

indusTrial and sYsTeMs engineeringName: hazhir rahmandadDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 703-538-8434Fax: 703-538-8450E-mail: [email protected]: www.sdl.ise.vt.eduSpecialty: Dynamic Modeling of Complex Socio-Technical

Systems, Health-care Dynamics, Organizational Learning, Building Educational Microworlds

Applications: Health policy analysis; obesity, depression dynam-ics; product development dynamics; organizational learning; understanding the diffusion of green buildings; simulation based training tools

Expertise: System dynamics; agent-based modeling; parameter estimation and calibration of dynamic models; management science tools (simulation, optimization, decision analysis)

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NIH, Department of Hous-ing and Urban Development, Federal Aviation Authority, Mc-Clatchy Tribune, Avaya, UPM-Kymmene Oyj

indusTrial engineering and ManageMenTsYsTeMs engineering

Name: eileen M. Van akenDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2780Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Performance Measurement Systems, Organizational

Assessment and Improvement, Collaborative and Team-Based Work Systems, Kaizen Events, Lean Work Systems

Applications: Design and implementation of performance mea-surement (scorecard) systems; design and implementation of organizational assessment and process and improvement in manufacturing and service industries; customer satisfaction measurement; employee satisfaction measurement; design and evaluation of Kaizen events and Kaizen event programs

Expertise: Performance measurement (scorecards); organiza-tional assessments including Baldrige based assessments and focus groups; organizational analysis, modeling, and improvement; survey research, design, and analysis; strategic planning; customer and employee satisfaction measurement; lean work systems; Kaizen events

Examples of Funding Sources: Danaher, AT&T, ITT Night Vision, USDA Forest Service, NSF

indusTrial engineering, siMulaTion, sYsTeMs Modeling

Name: c. patrick koellingDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8755Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Operations Research, Industrial EngineeringApplications: Analysis and optimization; engineering economic

analysis; health care systemsExpertise: System modeling; simulation modeling and analysis;

mathematical modeling; heuristics; engineering economyExamples of Funding Sources: York Hospital, NSF, U.S. Depart-

ment of Energy, Ericsson, Rowe Furniture

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indusTrial hYgieneName: deborah elspeth Young-corbettDepartment: Civil and Environmental Engineering and Myers-

Lawson School of ConstructionOffice Phone: 540-449-2068Home Phone: 540-449-2068E-mail: [email protected]: Indoor Environmental Quality, Asbestos and Lead in

School Facilities, Construction Operations, Re-Design of Dust Controls Tools, Prevention through Design (PtD)

Expertise: Certified industrial hygienist; certified hazardous ma-terials manager; certified safety profession


indusTrial sYsTeMs and ManageMenT engineering

Name: konstantinos (kostas) TriantisDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 703-538-8446Fax: 703-538-8450E-mail: [email protected]: Design of Performance Measurement Systems,

Enterprise Transformation, Systems Theory and Engineering, Economic Evaluation of Projects, Performance Assessment of Transportation Systems, Infrastructure Management and Systems, Performance Evaluation of R&D Processes and Enterprises

Applications: Social services and social service enterprises; re-search and development enterprises; transportation systems and planning; implementation of new technologies; manufac-turing systems; infrastructure systems and management; road maintenance; congestion pricing

Expertise: Data envelopment analysis; system dynamics model-ing; systems engineering; cost estimation/affordability; fuzzy sets and inference

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, American Red Cross, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Defense (NAVSEA), U.S. Office of Test and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington Post

infecTious disease TransMissionsee air pollution, Marr

inforMaTion TechnologYsee computer science, Feng, Foxsee geographic information systems, Dymond

infrasTrucTuresee pavements, Flintsch

infrasTrucTure deVelopMenTsee public-private partnerships, Garvin

infrasTrucTure ManageMenTsee public-private partnerships, Garvin

inJurY bioMechanicsautomobile safety, Military restraints, sports biomechanicsName: stefan dumaDepartment: School of Biomedical Engineering and SciencesPhone: 540-231-8191Fax: 540-231-9738URL: www.sbes.vt.eduSpecialty: Experimental and Computational Injury BiomechanicsApplications: Injury criteria for improved automobile safety sys-

tems; design and development of advanced military restraints;

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evaluating and predicting injuries in sports biomechanicsExpertise: Analysis and design of automobile safety programs;

development of computational models of the human body for injury prediction; analysis of field data to predict national injury incidence patterns

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Army, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Toyota Motor Company, Autoliv, Ford Motor Company

insTrucTional TechnologYName: glenda r. scalesDepartment: Engineering EducationOffice Phone: 540-231-9754Fax: 540-231-3031E-mail: [email protected]: www.eng.vt.edu/overview/cgepSpecialty: Solutions, Human Computer Interaction, International

Programs, Instructional DesignExpertise: Faculty development; instructional technology; imple-

menting distance learning; and international programs

insTruMenTaTionsee gas Turbines, O’Brien

inVesTMenTName: ebru k. bishDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7099Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Design and Management of Healthcare Systems,

Healthcare Operations Management, Supply Chain Manage-ment, Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Applications: Healthcare industry; manufacturing and service industries; not-for-profit companies

Expertise: Stochastic optimization; probability theory; risk analy-sis; economic decision analysis

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, The Carilion Clinic, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Virginia Tech-Carilion Research Institute, Boeing

k-12 engineering educaTionsee Machine health Mentoring, Kasarda

landfillssee geotechnical engineering, Filz

landMine deTecTionsee Multifunctional Materials and systems, Priya

ionospheric and space phYsicsName: J. Michael ruohoniemiDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1482Fax: 540-231-5918E-mail: [email protected] Specialty: Application of Radar Techniques to Study Earth’s Up-

per Atmosphere and Space WeatherApplications: Monitoring weather and storms in earth’s upper

atmosphere; space weather hazards; and ionospheric propa-gation

Expertise: Radar; ionospheric physics; space weather; satellite communications

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA

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logisTicsName: kimberly ellisDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9073Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: www.ise.vt.edu/People/Faculty/Bios/Ellis_bio.htmlSpecialty: Logistics, Distribution, Production Planning and

Control, Manufacturing Logistics, Material Flow, Supply Chain Management, Applied Operations Research

Applications: Improving material flow within a facility to in-crease customer responsiveness; improving hub operations for a freight transportation company; allocating resources to improve distribution operations for an industrial gas producer; determining appropriate levels of inventory at different points in a supply chain to ensure responsiveness to customer de-mand; scheduling test operations in a semiconductor manu-facturing facility to minimize lead time

Expertise: Applying operations research techniques to improve production planning, logistics, distribution, material flow, and supply chain operations in an organization

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Air Liquide, Eastman, Averitt Express, Danaher, Ericsson

logisTicsindustrial engineering, simulationName: g. don TaylorDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9079Home Phone: 540-552-0082Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: ise.vt.eduSpecialty: Applied Mathematical Programming and Discrete

Event System Simulation to Solve Large-scale Problems in the Field of Engineering Logistics; Particular Interest in the Truck, Rail and Barge Industries

Applications: Trucking and freight shipment; material handling; warehousing

Expertise: Applied mathematical programming and discrete event system simulation


Machine healTh MoniToring andsTrucTural healTh MoniToring (a) andengineering educaTion (b)

Name: Mary kasardaDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8552Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: (a) Health Monitoring in Rotating Machinery, Health

Monitoring in Civil Structures, Magnetic Bearings, Dynamic Force Measurements on Rotating Equipment for Improved Process Control, Rotor Dynamics (b) K-12 Teacher Profes-sional Development in Engineering, Engineering Design in Undergraduate Engineering and K-12 Classrooms

Applications: (a) Instrumentation of buildings for dynamic measurements with implications for smart building technol-ogy; utilizing magnetic bearings as mid-span actuators for interrogating rotor health; application of magnetic bearings for the measurement of forces on rotating shafts for monitoring manufacturing processes (i.e., textiles, films) (b) Partnership with VT School of Education faculty for providing K-12 teacher professional development to support teachers in putting engineering in their classrooms; training mechanical engineer-

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ing students to be mentors to high school studentsExpertise: High-speed rotating machinery and magnetic bearing

experience; machinery health monitoring; instrumentation of buildings for dynamic measurements

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA, Revolve Technolo-gies Inc., Daimler Chrysler

Machine learningsee also computer Vision, Parikh

Machine learningName: dhruv batraDepartment: Electrical and computer engineering

Office Phone: 540-231-7561Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Probabilistic Graphical Models, Structured-Output

Prediction, Multiple Hypothesis Systems, Combinatorial Opti-mization

Applications: Autonomous systems; surveillance; biometricsExpertise: Large-scale methods for object recognition/detection/

segmentation; interactive co-segmentation of objects from im-age collections; human body pose estimation; activity recogni-tion; depth estimation; scene understanding

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Of-fice of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA)

MacroMolecules and inTerfacessee polymers, Baird

MagneTic bearingssee Machine health Monitoring, Kasarda

ManufacTuringsee also computer-aided design and Manufacturing,

see also Williams

ManufacTuringName: ran JinDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2262Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Manufacturing Systems, Quality Engineering, System

Informatics, Data FusionApplications: Quality control of thermal spray coating; broaching;

LED and silicon ingot manufacturing; wafer manufacturing; fiber manufacturing; and steel manufacturing; organ transplant

Expertise: Quality engineering in manufacturing scale-up; image based quality control; engineering driven data fusion for sys-tem modeling and variation reduction; computer experiments; prognostic modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Rolls and Royce, Metalsa

ManufacTuring designsee engineering design, Sturges

ManufacTuring processes / sYsTeMssee advanced Manufacturing, Kong

ManufacTuring sYsTeMssee also logistics, Ellis

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ManufacTuring sYsTeMsName: Jaime a. camelioDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8976Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: www.filebox.vt.edu/users/jcamelioSpecialty: Manufacturing Processes, Manufacturing Systems,

Statistical Quality Control, Manufacturing Information SystemsApplications: Optimal manufacturing systems design; dimen-

sional quality control; construction safety surveillance; health systems monitoring

Expertise: Design of embedded quality systems; manufacturing process monitoring and control; active monitoring in health sys-tems; design under uncertainty of production systems; variation analysis in manufacturing systems; surveillance algorithms ap-plied in safety problems; data mining in production systems

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Quality Measurement Control, Inc., Metalsa

Marine renewable energYsee coastal engineering, Xiao

MaTerialssee also construction Materials, Grasley see also Mechanics of Materials, Case see also Membranes, Marand

MaTerialsName: sean g. corcoranDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8309Fax: 540-231-3554E-mail: [email protected]: Materials Education, Learning Technologies in Engi-

neering, Corrosion, Electrochemistry, Nanoporous MetalsApplications: Development of education modules for visualizing

engineering concepts; computational methods for the class-room; electropolishing; development of new materials through electrochemical processing

Expertise: Methods in mathematica for teaching engineering; learning technologies in the classroom; electrochemical pro-cessing; corrosion

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Energy

MaTerialscomputer simulationName: ronald d. krizDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-4386Home Phone: 540-552-5323Fax: 540-231-9187E-mail: [email protected]: www.sv.vt.edu/krizbio.htmlSpecialty: Mechanics of Materials, Stress Wave Propagation,

Computer Simulation of Physical Phenomena, Scientific Visualization

Applications: Simulations of laboratory experiments on super-computers; wave propagation in anisotropic media; models of micro-scale damage processes in composite materials; vol-ume visualization for interpretation and analysis of distributed damage in composite materials; engineering design tools in virtual environments from the desktop to fully immersive virtual environments such as a CAVE™

Expertise: Simulation models of mechanical behavior of com-posite materials that scale from the nano- to micro-scale;

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development of visual analysis graphical methods that are used to interpret and analyze simulation model results of dynamic mechanical behavior in anisotropic media; develop-ment of Web-based interactive interfaces that allow research-ers, educators, and students to create, maintain, and archive numerous parametric studies based on their legacy computer simulations

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, NASA, Visual Numerics, Inc., Sun, Microsystems Inc.

MaTerialsName: guo-Quan (g.Q.) luDepartment: Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical

and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8686Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Electronic and Magnetic Material Processing and

Characterization, and Integration of Electronic ComponentsApplications: Electronic packaging and integration of power

modules; high-power laser diodes; and high-brightness light emitting diodes

Expertise: Design, processing, and analysis of nanoscale and microscale powders, pastes, and preforms; sintering of metal and/or ceramic powders; integration technologies for high power, high density, and high temperature electronics

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Energy, U.S. Army Research Labs, Ford, Mitsubishi Electric, Samsung

MaTerialsName: kathy luDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3225Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: www.mse.vt.edu/people/faculty/KathyLu.htmlSpecialty: Powder Material (ceramic and metal) Synthesis,

Characterization, Forming, Sintering, including Digital Free Forming and in Situ Sintering, Composites and Functionally/Structurally Graded Materials and Porous Materials, Powder Processing Related Simulations

Applications: Nano-patterning; high strength and lightweight materials; high temperature and harsh environment applica-tion; automotives; defense; electronic and other functional materials

Expertise: Nano and micron powder material design; synthesis; colloidal processing; forming; sintering; characterization

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Army Research Office, Department of Energy

MaTerialsName: amrinder singh nainDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8250Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: Polymeric Micro/Nanofiber Manufacturing and Char-

acterization, Nano-BiotechnologyApplications: Advanced materials; high strength textiles; surface

activated fibers for air filtration in hazardous conditions; in vitro platform to study cellular dynamics; bioreactor-based strategies for drug testing; biofilm mitigation strategies; tissue engineering

Expertise: Aligned deposition of polymeric fiber arrays (diameter: sub 50nm-microns, length: microns-cm) in single and multiple layers; mechanical characterization of deposited individual micro/nanofibers; fabrication of customized biological scaf-

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folds for studying cellular dynamics in the presence of artificial topological constraints; culturing and studying cellular behav-ior (hepatocytes, neural, muscle, etc.) for tissue engineering applications on polymeric fibrous single and multiple layer scaffolds

MaTerialsName: gary pickrellDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3504Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Photonic Materials, Fiber Optic Sensors, Novel Opti-

cal Fibers, Micro and Nano-porous Materials, Nanobiotechnol-ogy, Experimental Design, Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma

Applications: Fiber optic sensors for measurement of chemi-cal and physical properties; random hole optical fibers and devices; porous materials for filtration, aeration, catalytic and structural applications

Expertise: Ceramics and glass processing and property charac-terization; design and fabrication of novel “holey” fibers; bio-logically derived micro and nano-porous materials; business process improvement through Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma methodologies; new product development

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Energy

MaTerialsName: dwight ViehlandDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2276Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Ferroelectrics, Dielectrics, Piezoelectrics, Phase Tran-

sitions, and AcousticsApplications: Development of improved materials performance

characteristics for acoustic, electrical, dielectric, and optical applications

Expertise: Investigations of structure-property relationships in materials; characterization of electrical and electromechanical properties of materials, synthesis, and processing of inorganic oxides

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, NASA

MaTheMaTical analYsissee optimization, Sherali see simulation, Pasupathy

Mechanical engineeringName: alfred l. wicksDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231 4323 Fax: 540-231-6100E-mail: [email protected]: Sensors, Instrumentation, Signal Processing, Experi-

mental Dynamics, Autonomous Systems, Perception, Medical Devices

Applications: Robotic systems; autonomous vehicles; dynam-ics of rail guns; design and development of pediatric medical devices; design and development of mechatronic systems; analysis of data; data fusion techniques; applied perception for navigation

Examples of Funding Sources: Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Pediatric Medical Device Institute, Marine Warfighting Labora-tory, Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma

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Mechanical sYsTeMssee Vibration and dynamics, Parker

Mechanics of adVanced MaTerialssee also Mechanics of Materials, Holmes

Mechanics of adVanced MaTerialsName: John c. duke, Jr.Department: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-6063Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Monitoring Material Degradation of Metal Alloys Due

to Fatigue or Corrosion and Progressive Damage Develop-ment of Composite Materials Using Novel Sensing Tech-niques and Analysis

Applications: Research, development, and application of nonde-structive measurement tools and techniques for assessing the condition of materials and structures, including assessment of transportation infrastructure; health monitoring of bridges and aerospace structures; characterization of advanced materi-als; inspection of microelectronic devices; FRP, HPS, MEMS, nanomaterials; and development and application of optical fiber sensors

Expertise: Identification of appropriate measurement approach-es and the integration of equipment, instrumentation, and software for accomplishing difficult measurement tasks

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Commerce, Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, NASA Langley Research Center

Mechanics of MaTerialssee also composites, Kennedysee also Mechanics of Thin and flexible structures, Hanna

Mechanics of MaTerialsName: scott w. caseDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-3140Fax: 540-231-9187E-mail: [email protected]: Strength, Fatigue, Creep, and Durability of Polymers,

Metals, and CompositesApplications: Composite materials subjected to combined en-

vironmental and structural loadings; fuel cell seal and mem-brane materials

Expertise: Experimental characterization; strain rate effects; ana-lytical and computational modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Army Research Laboratory, Army Research Office, NSF, General Motors, Luna Innovations

Mechanics of MaTerialsfracture Mechanics and Time dependenceName: david a. dillardDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-4714Home Phone: 540-951-0156Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Strength, Fracture, and Durability of Polymers and

Adhesives, Photon Exchange Membrane (PEM), Fuel Cell Durability, Elastomer Behavior

Applications: More widespread utilization of adhesives and polymers is dependent on improved understanding of the longterm structural integrity of structures utilizing these materi-als; fracture, fatigue, viscoelastic behavior, and environmental

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aspects all influence the durability of polymers and adhesively bonded systems

Expertise: Viscoelasticity; experimental methods; creep and creep rupture; fracture mechanics of adhesive joints; test methods for adhesion; and environmental effects in polymers; fuel cell PEM durability

Examples of Funding Sources: DuPont, Dow, Boeing, NSF, Reynolds Metals, Hewlett-Packard, AMOCO, Motorola, Na-tionalStarch, NASA, General Motors

Mechanics of MaTerialsbehavior, fatigue, fracture, deformationName: norman e. dowlingDepartment: Engineering Science and Mechanics and Materials

Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5399Home Phone: 540-951-7354Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Mechanical Behavior of MaterialsApplications: Developing and applying methods for predict-

ing the strength and life of parts of machines, vehicles, and structures

Expertise: Fatigue of materials, including strain-based fatigue analysis and life prediction; fracture mechanics; irregular service loading

Examples of Funding Sources: NASA, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, Ford Motor Company

Mechanics of MaTerialsName: douglas p. holmesDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-7814Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Elasticity, Structural Stability, Solid Mechanics, Poly-

mers, Advanced Materials, Thin Films, Soft MatterApplications: Using elasticity, soft materials, and structural

stability to study the fundamental mechanics of soft or slender structures; generating advanced materials utilizing structural responsiveness to control properties such as adhesion, optics, and flow at surfaces or within devices

Expertise: Experimental mechanics of soft or slender structures; quantitative image analysis; rapid prototyping and character-ization of large structural deformations

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Army

Mechanics of Thin and fleXiblesTrucTures

Name: James hannaDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-9071Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Strings, Chains, Rods, Sheets, Membranes, Thin and/

or Flexible StructuresApplications: Rotating machinery; tethered and towed instru-

mentation; textile processing; adaptive and deployable struc-tures; energy harvesting; microfluidics; powder metallurgy

Expertise: Geometric nonlinearities and local differential geo-metric techniques; dynamics of thin structures; elasticity; low Reynolds number fluid dynamics; metallic powder extrusion; mechanics of materials

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Labo-ratory, Army Research Office

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MeMbranesMaterialsName: eva MarandDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8231 Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: Carbon Nanotube Membranes, Mixed Matrix Mem-

branesApplications: Gas separations; water purification; desalinationExpertise: Transport in polymeric and mixed matrix membranes

including sorption and permeation testing; characterization of membrane physical properties; fabrication of carbon nanotube membranes for large surface area applications

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, NSF, Department of Defense

MeTallurgYName: alex o. aningDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6849 Fax: 540-239-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Metallurgy, Powder Processing, and Metal Matrix

CompositesApplications: Structural materials for aerospace, defense, and

bio applications; materials for energy solutions, pharmaceuti-cals

Expertise: Processing and synthesis of metallic, amorphous, and nano materials and in situ metal matrix composites; alloy development; mechanochemical reactions

Examples of Funding Sources: Synthonic, Inc., NSF, Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA), U.S. Department of Energy, General Electric, Kyanite Mining Corporation

MeTallurgYMetallurgical engineering, Materials science, foundry,

failure analysisName: alan p. druschitzDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-315-5198 Home Phone: 205-420-2063Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Metallurgy, Melting and Casting, Failure Analysis,

Heat Treatment, Corrosion, Ballistic MaterialsApplications: Development of cast metals and components for

the automotive industry; development of cast vehicle armor (metal-ceramic composites); optimization of metal manufac-turing processes; failure analysis

Expertise: Melting and casting of ferrous and non-ferrous al-loys; failure analysis of automotive components; automotive component testing; heat treatment of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys; welding; non-destructive testing, electrochemical corro-sion testing

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Defense, Army Research Laboratory, Department of Energy, American Foundry Society, Association of Iron and Steel Technology, NACE International

MicroelecTroMechanical sYsTeMs(MeMs)see electronics, Agahsee finite element and Method, Batra see fluid Mechanics, Stremlersee Multifunctional Materials, Priya

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MicroelecTronicssee Materials, Lu

Microfluidicssee biomedical engineering, Verbridge see electronics, Agah

Microscale gas siMulaTionssee computational fluid dynamics, Roy

Mineral processingName: greg T. adelDepartment: Mining and Minerals EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6650Home Phone: 540-552-7134Fax: 540-231-4070E-mail: [email protected]: www.mining.vt.edu/facultystaff/adel.htmSpecialty: Process Modeling and Simulation, Optimization,

Process ControlApplications: Modeling and simulation of unit operations such

as crushing, grinding, flotation, gravity separation, wet clas-sification, screening, etc.; mine-to-mill optimization of crushed stone operations; video-based sensors for on-line assaying, sizing, particle characterization, etc.

Expertise: Population balance modeling; image analysis; particu-late separation; software development

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, NSF

Mineral processingcoal preparationName: gerald h. luttrellDepartment: Mining and Minerals EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6314Home Phone: 540-230-7112Fax: 540-231-4070E-mail: [email protected]: www.mining.vt.edu/facultystaff/luttrell.htmSpecialty: Coal Preparation and Primary/Secondary Materials

ProcessingApplications: Development of innovative solid-solid and solid-

liquid separation technologies for coal preparation; minerals processing; pollution prevention and environmental restora-tion; formulation and application of fundamental process engineering concepts for advanced particulate separations including equipment design, process scale-up, modeling, and circuit simulation; plant optimization and process automation and control; promotion of technology transfer via industrially-oriented short courses, workshops, and extension activities

Expertise: Removing critical technology barriers in coal, mineral and other particulate processing industries that reduce waste, provide energy savings, minimize pollution, create new mar-kets, and increase the rate of return on investment

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy

Miningsustainable developmentName: Michael karmisDepartment: Mining and Minerals Engineering, Virginia Center

for Coal and Energy ResearchOffice Phone: 540-231-5273Home Phone: 540-953-1722Fax: 540-231-4078E-mail: [email protected]: Mining EngineeringApplications: Developing new technologies for the sustainable

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development of mineral and energy resourcesExpertise: Rock mechanics; ground control; mining systems;

energy systems; health, safety, and environment; carbon man-agement technologies

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

MiningName: kray luxbacherDepartment: Mining and Minerals EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2244Home Phone: 540-641-2046Fax: 540-231-4070E-mail: [email protected]: www.mining.vt.edu/facultystaff/luxbacher.htmSpecialty: Ventilation EngineeringApplications: Utilization of schlieren and shadowgraph tech-

niques to image airflow in underground mines; applications of computational fluid dynamics to mine ventilation systems; use of novel tracer gases for measurement of ventilation in underground mines; optimization of coal bed methane degasification systems; coal bed methane reservoir modeling; quantification of greenhouse gas emissions due to mining; health aspects of mine ventilation including methods for mitigation of airborne dust; methods for inertization of sealed areas in underground mines; real time atmospheric monitoring of underground coal mines

Expertise: CBM reservoir modeling; degasification design and optimization; underground ventilation modeling and design; atmospheric monitoring; gas analyses

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. EPA

MiningName: erik c. westmanDepartment: Mining and Minerals EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7510Fax: 540-231-4070E-mail: [email protected]: Rock Mechanics/GeomechanicsApplications: Strata monitoringExpertise: Instrumentation and monitoring; tomographic imaging;

digital data acquisition and signal processingExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Energy,

National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

MiningName: roe-hoan YoonDepartment: Mining and Minerals EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7056Fax: 540-231-3948E-mail: [email protected]: Mineral Processing, Fine Particle Dewatering, Hydro-

phobic Interaction, Colloid and Surface Chemistry, Fine Coal Cleaning, Corrosion Inhibition, Flotation, Modeling Flotation, Electrochemistry

Applications: Fine coal dewatering; fine particle separation; flotation reagent; process development for mineral and coal processing

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, FLSmidth

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Mining and Minerals engineering / enVironMenTal engineering

Name: emily sarverDepartment: Mining and Minerals EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8139 Fax: 540-231-4070E-mail: [email protected]: Resource Production, the EnvironmentApplications: Process design; environmental impacts of energy

and mineral resource production; consumer and industry is-sues associated with premature corrosion

Expertise: Sustainability; mineral processing; water quality; cor-rosion

Examples of Funding Sources: Appalachian Research Initiative for Environmental Science

MiXingsee also fluid Mechanics, Stremler

Modeling and analYsissee optimization, Sherali

Molecular biologYsee environmental engineering, Pruden

Molecular leVel siMulaTionssee finite element Method / computational Mechanics,

see Batra

Molecular Modelingsee computational science, Onufriev

MoTiVaTionName: holly M. MatusovichDepartment: Engineering EducationOffice Phone: 540-231-4205Fax: 540-231-6903E-mail: [email protected]: Student Motivation for Learning Engineering, Career

Choice, Retention of Students in Engineering, Science, Math and Technology Fields, Diversity and Engineering, Engineer-ing Identity Development, Faculty Motivation to Adopt Optimal Teaching Practices

Applications: Understanding how campus and classroom climates impact motivation; increasing student motivation through pedagogical practice; designing courses to meet the motivation needs of diverse groups of learners

Expertise: Qualitative and mixed education research methodsExamples of Funding Sources: NSF

MulTifuncTional MaTerials and sYsTeMsName: shashank priyaDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0745Fax: 540-231-2903E-mail: [email protected]: www.sites.me.vt.edu/cehmsSpecialty: Smart Materials and Composites; Nanostructures;

Energy Harvesting; Bio-inspired TechnologyApplications: Electric energy generation from vibrations, wind,

sunlight, and magnetism; wireless sensors and communica-tion; unmanned vehicles; power electronics; ultrasonic motor; robots

Expertise: Piezoelectric, magnetoelectric, thin film deposition; multilayer manufacturing; 3-D printing; bio-inspired robot manufacturing; energy harvester based system design

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Energy,

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Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems

MulTiMediasee computers, Tront

MulTiscale coMpuTingsee fluid-structure interaction, Wang

nanobioTechnologYsee Materials, Pickrell

nanocoMposiTesName: gary don seidelDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9897Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/~gdseidelSpecialty: Multiscale Modeling of the Multifunctional Properties

of Polymer Nanocomposites for Aerospace Systems, Model-ing of Damage Evolution in Polymer Matrix Composites

Applications: Design of multifunctional nanocomposites for struc-tural integrity; thermal management; electrostatic discharge; and structural health monitoring in composites for aerospace vehicles

Expertise: Carbon nanotube-polymer nanocomposites; analytic and computational micromechanics; multiscale modeling; nonlinear finite element analysis; molecular mechanics; con-tinuum mechanics and mechanics of materials; viscoelasticity; interface modeling; modeling of active/smart materials and composites; coupled field modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, NSF, Sandia National Laboratory

nanoMaTerialssee Multifunctional Materials, Priya

nanoscale MaTerials characTeriZaTion Name: Mitsuhiro (Mitsu) MurayamaDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-357-0466Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: www.geochem.geos.vt.edu/environano/welcome.html Specialty: Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscopy (S/TEM),

Electron Tomography, Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy, Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy

Applications: Nanoscale materials characterization of structural and functional materials (metallic materials, ceramics, etc); chemical analysis and quantitative 3-D microstructure char-acterization of nanostructured materials; nano-minerals; soft materials; nanoscale characterization of surface reaction such as passivation, corrosion, and catalytic reaction

Expertise: Atomic resolution electron microscopy; electron en-ergy loss spectroscopy (EELS); electron tomography

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, NSF, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 3M

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nanosTrucTuressee finite element Method / computational Mechanics,

see Batrasee Multifunctional Materials, Priya

nanoTechnologYsee air pollution, Marrsee biomedical engineering, Bickford, Verbridgesee computer engineering, Shuklasee environment and Nanotechnology, Vikeslandsee fluid Mechanics, Brown, Paulsee heat Transfer, Huxtablesee Materials, Lu, Pickrellsee optoelectronics, Asryansee Theoretical and experimental solid Mechanics, Al-Haik

naTural gas / coal MiningName: nino ripepiDepartment: Mining and Minerals EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5458Fax: 540-231-4078E-mail: [email protected]: Unconventional Natural Gas Production and En-

hancement, Underground Coal Mine Degasification, Hydraulic Fracturing

Applications: Greenhouse gas mitigation; carbon sequestration; enhanced gas recovery

Expertise: Geologic characterization; reservoir modeling; field monitoring (wellbore logging and microseismic monitoring)

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Institute of Oc-cupational Safety and Health

naVal archiTecTureVessel dynamics, computational fluid dynamicsName: leigh Mccue-weilDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4351Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/people/faculty.php?fac_id=mccueSpecialty: Nonlinear Dynamics, CFDApplications: Analytical, numerical, and experimental modeling

of capsize; liquefied natural gas carrier dynamics; real-time identification of vessel instabilities; real-time indication of vessel quiescence; smoothed particle hydrodynamics; fluid structure interaction

Expertise: Linear, nonlinear, and chaotic ship dynamics; probabi-listic methods; smoothed particle hydrodynamics

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, NSF

neTworkssee computer science, Feng see wireless networks, DaSilva

neTwork and inforMaTion securiTYName: wenjing louDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 703-538-3774Fax: 703-538-8348E-mail: [email protected]: www.cnsr.ictas.vt.edu/Specialty: Communications and Network Security, Information

Security, Applied Cryptography, Wireless Networks, PrivacyApplications: Authentication, integrity, confidentiality for wireless

networks, networked information systems, and cloud comput-

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ing; key management in mobile systems; user data privacy protection in cloud computing; DDoS attacks; botnet detection

Expertise: Security and privacy protocols and architectures; physical layer security in wireless networks; network security monitoring; cryptographic protocol design and analysis

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research

neTwork dYnaMicssee construction engineering and Management, Taylor

neTwork securiTYsee also network and information security, Lou

neTwork securiTYName: Jung-Min parkDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-8392Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/park.html; www.arias.ece.vt.edu/Specialty: Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, Intrusion

Detection, IP Traceback and MAC-layer Traceback, Attack-Resilient Routing in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, Security in Software Defined Radio/Cognitive Radio Networks, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Security Protocol Design

Applications: Key management in wireless sensor networks; intrusion detection in high-bandwidth networks; IP traceback and MAC-layer traceback; attack-resilient routing in wireless ad hoc networks; privacy enhancing technologies; security issues in cognitive radio networks; security issues in software defined radio networks

Expertise: Applied cryptography; network attack countermea-sures; anomaly detection systems; cryptographic protocol design/analysis

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Samsung Electronics, SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute

neTworking and coMpuTingName: ing-ray chenDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 703-538-8376Fax: 703-538-8348E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~irchenSpecialty: Mobile Computing, Multimedia, Sensor Networks,

Network and Computer Security, Performance and Reliability Analysis, Real-Time Intelligent Systems

Applications: Mobile ad hoc instant messenger; wireless secure group communication; multimedia video servers; integrated location and service management in wireless networks; ad-mission control for revenue optimization with quality of service guarantees

Expertise: Mobile computing; multimedia; sensor networks; network and computer security; performance and reliability analysis; real-time intelligent systems

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Microsoft Research, Intel

neuroengineeringName: pamela J. VandeVordDepartment: SBESOffice Phone: 540-231-1994Fax: 540-231-2953E-mail: [email protected]: Neurotrauma, Injury Biomechanics, Tissue Engineer-

ingApplications: Traumatic brain injury; protective equipment;

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nanomedicine; rehabilitation; nerve conduits; electrodes; cell models; molecular biology

Expertise: Development; implementation and testing of novel treatments for cellular injury

Examples of Funding Sources: Veterans Administration, DOD, NIH, U.S. Army

noisesee human factors engineering, Casali

nondesTrucTiVe eValuaTion (nde)see Mechanics of advanced Materials, Duke

nonlinear dYnaMicsName: Muhammad r. hajjDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-4190Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: Fluid Mechanics, Fluid-Structure Interactions, Signal

Processing, and Nonlinear System IdentificationApplications: Wind loads on structures; ship motions; aeroelas-

ticity; damage detection; energy harvestingExpertise: Analysis of nonlinear dynamics in fluid flows; fluid

structure interactions; application of higher-order spectral analysis; wavelet analysis

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Los Alamos National Laboratories, NASA

nonlinear dYnaMics and conTrolName: shane d. rossDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-1616Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~sdrossSpecialty: Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, Chaos, Time-Series

AnalysisApplications: Detecting causality in complex systems; analysis of

complex flows; environmental flow analysis; airborne microbe spread and modeling; Lagrangian coherent structures; critical transitions; bifurcation analysis and prediction; stirring and mixing; analysis of biomechanical data; biomechanics of bipedal gait and postural control; atmospheric flow analysis; orbital mechanics and interplanetary space mission design

Expertise: Dynamical systems analysis; time-series analysis; causality detection; bifurcation analysis; stability and control in nonlinear systems; state space reconstruction; transfer opera-tors; dynamics of natural and engineered systems; computer visualization; Hamiltonian systems

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Army Research Office, Of-fice of Naval Research, USDA, NIH, NASA

nuclear powersee Two-phase flow, Liu

nuclear science and engineeringparallel computing Methods, applied Mathematics, statistics,

high performance Modeling and simulationName: alireza haghighatDepartment: Nuclear Engineering Program and Mechanical

EngineeringOffice Phone: 571-858-3333 (Arlington); 540-231-9594 (Blacks-

burg)E-mail: [email protected]

www.esm.vt.edu/people/active/mhajj/mhajj-bio.html

www.sbes.vt.edu/people/bio.php?person=Shane%20D.-Ross

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URLs: nsel.ncr.vt.edu; www.me.vt.edu; www.ne.vt.eduSpecialty: Particle Transport Theory and Simulation, Monte

Carlo Methods, Parallel Computing, Reactor Design, Phys-ics and Analysis Methods, Generation of Multigroup Cross Sections, Real-System Modeling and Simulation, Radiation Shielding and Dosimetry, Design of Nondestructive Passive Detection and Active Interrogation Systems, Nuclear Nonpro-liferation, Security and Safeguards, Perturbation and Sensitiv-ity Methods

nuclear science and engineeringName: Mark a. piersonDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9112 Cell Phone: 540-230-9256Fax: 540-231-9578E-mail: [email protected]: www.nuclear.me.vt.edu/Specialty: Nuclear Nonproliferation and Safeguards, Nuclear

Fuel Cycle, Radiation Detection, Applied Mathematics, Nuclear Power Plant Operations, Nano-Nuclear Science

Applications: Nuclear safeguards-by-design and nonprolifera-tion through alternative reactor design and alternative fuels; nuclear fuel cycle analysis and alternative fuel cycles; radia-tion measurement and detection; nano-nuclear science

Expertise: Nuclear nonproliferation theory, policy, and applica-tion; accelerator-driven subcritical systems; computational particle transport; radiation detection; nano-nuclear science involving neutral-particle radiation detection using carbon nanomaterials; nuclear power plant operations and simulators

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Energy – Office of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, National Nuclear Security Agency

oceansee geotechnical engineering, Stark

operaTions researchsee also game Theory, Jain see also industrial engineering, simulation, Koelling see also optimization, Sheralisee also simulation, Pasupathy

operaTions researchName: douglas r. bishDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0462Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: Operations Research, Network Analysis, Systems

Engineering, LogisticsApplications: Disaster and evacuation management; healthcare;

transportationExpertise: Applying operations research techniques, including

optimization and simulation, to improve system performanceExamples of Funding Sources: NSF

opTical iMagingName: Yizheng ZhuDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1973Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: 2-D and 3-D Imaging, Biomedical Imaging, Optical

EndoscopeApplications: Cell and tissue characterization; disease diagnosis;

surface profiling; particle tracking

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Expertise: Coherent imaging; phase microscopy; optical interfer-ometry; clinical system development

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

opTical MicroscopYsee optical imaging, Zhu

opTical sensingsee advanced diagnostics, Ma

opTiMiZaTionsee also Manufacturing, Sarin see also Transportation, Rakha

opTiMiZaTionoptimization and ModelingName: hanif d. sheraliDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5474Home Phone: 540-808-5471Fax: 540-231-3322E-mail: [email protected]: www.ise.vt.edu/People/EmeritusFaculty/Bios/Sherali_bio.

htmlSpecialty: OptimizationApplications: Mathematical modeling; analysis and development

of algorithmic solution procedures for various decision-making problems arising in business, transportation, engineering design, location-allocation, industrial, air traffic management, and defense contexts

Expertise: Modeling, analysis, and algorithmic development for linear, networks, nonlinear, non-convex, and discrete optimiza-tion problems having different structures and arising in various applications

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, Naval Surface Warfare Center, NASA, ARPA/FBI, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Vir-ginia Department of Transportation, U.S. Geological Survey, Association of American Railroads, U.S. Department of the Interior

opTiMiZaTionhigh performance computingName: layne T. watsonDepartment: Computer Science; Mathematics; Aerospace and

Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7540Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~ltw/Specialty: Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Scientific Comput-

ingApplications: Aircraft, automobile, and ship design; design and

optimization of mechanical systems and manufacturing pro-cesses; modeling of biological systems and drug design

Expertise: Nonlinear programming; homotopy methods for non-linear systems of equations; mathematical software; compu-tational solid and fluid mechanics; image processing; parallel computing; bioinformatics; multidisciplinary design optimiza-tion; machine learning

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, NSF, National Institutes of Health, Michelin Americas, Department of Energy

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opToelecTronicsName: levon V. asryanDepartment: Materials Science and EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7033Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Physics, ElectronicsApplications: Semiconductor (diode) lasers; telecommunications;

optical fiber communication; optical data storage and record-ing; optical signal processing; optical pumping of solid-state lasers; free space and satellite communications; chemical sensing and spectroscopy; material processing and manufac-turing technologies; medical

Expertise: Physics of semiconductor materials and devices, nano- and microelectronics, optoelectronics and photonics; low dimensional heterostructures, nanostructures, quantum dots, and quantum wells; theory of semiconductor quantum dot lasers and quantum well lasers

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, U.S. Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research

organiZaTionssee industrial engineering and Management systems

see engineering, Van Aken

oZonesee air pollution, Marr seecatalysis, Oyama

parallel and disTribuTed sYsTeMsand applicaTions

Name: kirk w. cameronDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-4238Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: scape.cs.vt.eduSpecialty: High-Performance and Grid Computing, Parallel and

Distributed Applications, Computer Architecture, Power-Aware Systems, Performance Evaluation and Prediction, Green Computing

Applications: Large-scale simulations of weather; hydrodynam-ics; complex fluid flow; weapon and aircraft designs

Expertise: System and application performance modeling and analysis; application performance tuning; high-performance and power-aware system design; tera- and peta-scale com-puting

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Energy, Intel Corporation, Ixia Corporation, National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

parallel coMpuTingName: cal ribbensDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-6262Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/~ribbensSpecialty: Parallel Algorithms and Software, Scientific Com-

puting, Computational Science and Engineering, High-End Computing Systems, Numerical Methods for Linear Algebra and Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Software

Applications: Large-scale simulations of physical and engi-neered systems; improving performance and usability of supercomputing systems; programming multi-core processors

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Expertise: Algorithm and code development for modern high-end computing systems; software tools and frameworks for high-end systems; including load-balancing; performance analysis and improvement; code composition; and problem solving environments; parallel programming for distributed memory and shared-memory architectures

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Energy

paThogenssee environmental engineering, Pruden

paTTern recogniTionsee computer Vision, Parikh see Machine learning, D. Batra

paVeMenTsinfrastructure Management systems, sustainable

infrastructureName: gerardo w. flintschDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9748 (CEE); 232-1569 (VTTI)Fax: 540-231-7532 (CEE); 231-1555 (VTTI)E-mail: [email protected]: Infrastructure Management, Pavement Engineering,

Sustainable InfrastructureApplications: Planning and programming of infrastructure

construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance works; design of highway and airport pavements; condition assessment, risk analysis, and life-cycle analysis of constructed facilities; development of more sustainable construction materials, construction and maintenance processes; and preservation and renewal programs

Expertise: Infrastructure condition assessment and performance prediction; pavement evaluation, design, and management; application of soft computing, geographic information systems

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, The National Academies, Federal Highway Administration, Virginia Department of Transportation, Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology, Strategic Highway Research Program 2.

perforMancesee industrial engineering and Management systems

see engineering, Van Aken

personaliZed Medicinesee bioinformatics, Wang

phoToTonicssee also Materials, Pickrell

phoTonicsName: anbo wangDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4363E-mail: [email protected]: www.photonics.ece.vt.eduSpecialty: Fiber Optics, SensorsApplications: Point and distributed sensors for physical, chemi-

cal or biological measurement; sensors for extreme physical and chemical conditions

Expertise: Development of novel fiber optic sensors and instru-mentation systems and self-calibrated sensor signal process-ing

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Electric Power Research Institute, General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Siemens, Chevron

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phoToTonic MaTerialssee optoelectronics, Asryan see Materials, Pickrell

plasMa phYsicsName: bhuvana srinivasanDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 505-667-3399E-mail: [email protected]: Computational Plasma Physics, Space Plasma Pro-

pulsion, Inertial/Magnetic Confinement Fusion, Space Plasma Physics, High Energy Density Physics, Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Problems

Applications: Fusion energy; advanced space propulsion for in-space unmanned and manned missions; interactions of solar mass ejections with satellites; studying the earth’s magneto-sphere

Expertise: Computational and theoretical development to sup-port experiments in plasma physics relevant to propulsion, fusion, and space plasma physics

Examples of Funding Sources: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences U.S. Department of Energy, National Science Foun-dation

plasMa propulsion see plasma physics, Srinivasan

polYMer and colloid cheMisTrYName: richey M. davisDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4578 Home Phone: 540-953-2155Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: www.che.vt.edu/people_rdavis.phpSpecialty: Polymer and Colloid Chemistry; Block Copolymers;

Ion-Containing Polymers; Water-Soluble Polymers; Self-Assembled Thin Films; Synthesis and Characterization of Polymeric, Metal Oxide, and Metallic Nanoparticles; Suspen-sion Rheology

Applications: Improve drug delivery using polymer nanoparticles with controlled size and composition to control biodistribu-tion; develop nanoparticles with magnetic resonance imag-ing agents to track drug delivery and biodistribution; develop novel methods for producing nanoparticles with improved control of size distribution, surface chemistry, and chemical composition for use in pharmaceuticals, coatings, adhesives, and electronics

Expertise: Self-assembly of polymers at interfaces and the engi-neering of nanostructured particles for biomedical applications such as drug delivery and imaging; physical and colloid chem-istry of polymer solutions and suspensions and adsorption and self-assembly at interfaces; adsorption of polymers onto suspended colloidal particles; processing of fluids such as pharmaceutical products, ceramic suspensions for structural and electronic applications, adhesives, paper coatings, paints, and processed foods; rheology control agents and microen-capsulation systems

polYMerssee also biomaterials and Tissue engineering, Goldstein see also Mechanics of Materials, Case, Dillard, Holmes see also supercritical fluids, Kiran

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polYMersprocessing of polymers and Their composites; rheology;

non-newtonian fluid Mechanics; properties Name: donald g. bairdDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5998Home Phone: 540-951-0923Fax: 540-231-2732URL: www.che.vt.edu/Faculty/Baird/home.htmlE-mail: [email protected]: Polymer Processing and RheologyApplications: Control the properties of polymeric materials and

composites through the appropriate application of thermal and deformation history as well as mass transfer. Novel processes are developed which lead to structures with excellent me-chanical properties. Examples include compression moldable composites for the generation of bipolar plates in fuel cells; use of supercritical carbon dioxide to replace toxic organic solvents; micro-composite materials; exfoliated nano-clays using supercritical carbon dioxide; simulation of processing of fiber-reinforced thermoplastics

Expertise: Polymer rheology and flow; mechanical properties of polymers and their relation to processing; processing opera-tions including injection molding, thermoforming, film blowing, extrusion, and compression molding

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Energy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, American Chemistry Council, Bayer, General Motors, NanoSonic

power elecTronicssee also Materials, Lu

power elecTronicsName: Jason laiDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4741Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Power Converter Design, Simulation, Implementation,

Advanced Power Converter Circuit Topologies such as Soft Switching and Multi-Level Converters

Applications: Distributed and renewable energies; automotive power converters and motor drives; photovoltaic and wind power generation; utility grid

Expertise: Conceptual design; computer simulations; digital signal processor control; analog signal conditioning circuits for power converters

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, Voll-rath, Ford, Texas Instruments, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Korean Electrotechnology Research Institute

power elecTronicspower conversion and applicationsName: fred c. leeDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7716Home Phone: 540-951-8911Fax: 540-231-6390E-mail: [email protected]: Power ElectronicsApplications: Develop efficient power conversion components

and equipment with reduced size and weight to efficiently con-trol and condition electric power for applications ranging from electric car, transportation, power supplies for computer and communication systems, renewable energy, and smart grids

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Expertise: High frequency power conversion; distributed power systems; space power systems; high power motor drives and industrial control; power components characterization; power quality; power hybrids; computer-aided design tools

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA, U.S. Army Re-search Lab, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, Intel, Delta Electronics, Inc., General Electric, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductors, Hitachi, Matsushita, and 80 other industry members in the Center for Power Electronics Systems’ Partnership Consortium

power elecTronicsName: khai ngo Department: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2360Fax: 540-231-6390E-mail: [email protected]: www.cpes.vt.edu/public/aboutus/bios/bio_ngo.php; www.

ece.vt.edu/faculty/ngo.phpSpecialty: High Density Integration, Modeling and Control,

Power Conversion, Topologies and Architectures, Power Elec-tronics Components, Packaging

Applications: Power management for computers; telecommuni-cations; renewable energy systems; vehicular power con-verter systems

Examples of Funding Sources: Boeing, Department of Energy, Nissan, Texas Instruments, NSF, Rolls Royce, Toyota, Mitsubi-shi, Halliburton

power sYsTeMs analYsisName: cansin Yaman evrenosogluDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1672Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Power System Analysis, Design, Operation and

ProtectionApplications: Applications of statistics; signal processing and

optimization methods in power system analysis and operation; integration of large-scale renewables to smart grid; smart fault location in power transmission and distribution systems

Expertise: Power system dynamic/static state estimation and forecasting; wholesale competitive electric energy market analysis; fault location; power system dynamic analysis; time-series analysis; forecasting

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Defense, Depart-ment of Energy, NSF

power sYsTeMs proTecTion and conTrolName: James s. ThorpDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2946Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Power System Protection and Control Using Wide-

Area MeasurementsApplications: Application of phasor measurements to adaptive

protection; control of oscillations; state estimation; wide-area monitoring

Expertise: Protection systems; algorithms for power system control

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Department of Energy, California Energy Commission

precision farMingsee biomass harvest, storage, and delivery, Grisso

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presTressed concreTeSee bridge design, Roberts-Wollmann

probleM solVing enVironMenTsName: cliff shafferDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-4354E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~shafferSpecialty: Problem Solving Environments, Visualization and

Simulation for Education, Hierarchical Data Structures, Algo-rithm Visualization

Applications: Bioinformatics; geographic information systems; computer graphics; computational biology; training and educa-tion

Expertise: Computer-supported cooperative work; visualization for simulation and modeling; algorithm design and analysis; data structures; digital education

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institutes of Health, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education

process sYsTeM engineeringName: Y.a. liuDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7800Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: www.design.che.vt.eduSpecialty: Process System Engineering, Computer-Aided

Process and Product Design, Refinery, Polymer and Bio-diesel Process Modeling, Pinch Technology, and Process Integration; Molecular Simulation; Environmental Engineering; Carbon Dioxide Capture Processes

Applications: Energy and water savings; solvent selections in drug manufacturing; industrial water reuse and wastewater minimization

Examples of Funding Sources: Alliant Techsystems, Aspen Technology, Inc., China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research and Innovation Center, Mil-liken Chemical, Novozymes Biological

producTion planningsee Manufacturing, Camelio, Sarin see logistics, Ellis

prognosissee Mechanics of advanced Materials, Duke

propagaTionsee radio engineering, Ellingson

proTeoMicssee bioinformatics and computational biology, Yu

public-priVaTe parTnershipsName: Michael J. garvinDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7255Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Capital Planning, Risk Assessment and Allocation,

Procurement Methods, ContractsApplications: Large-scale infrastructure or building projects;

program development and management Expertise: Economic and financial modeling; procurement de-

sign and implementation; contract design


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Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Virginia Department of Transportation

radarsee acoustics, Roansee energy conversion systems, Odendaal see see ionospheric and space physics, Ruohoniemi

radiaTionsee nuclear engineering, Pierson

radio engineeringName: steven w. ellingsonDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2978Fax: 540-231-2968E-mail: [email protected]: www.ece.vt.edu/swe/Specialty: Design of Radio Frequency Systems including Arrays,

Multiband and Software-Defined Transceivers, and Instrumen-tation

Applications: Vehicular radio communications systems; software defined radio; phased arrays; emitter location; interference mitigation; radio astronomy; microwave remote sensing

Expertise: Design of antennas and radio electronics; DSP system design; analysis of radio frequency signals; RF system design and analysis

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, U.S. Department of Justice (National Institute of Justice), NASA, Aerospace Vehicles Systems Institute

radio sciencesee atmospheric and radio science, Scales see electromagnetics, Manteghi

rapid proToTYpingsee computer-aided design and Manufacturing, Bøhn,

see Williams

reacTing flowssee also computational fluid dynamics, Battaglia

reinforced concreTesee bridge design, Roberts-Wollmann

reliabiliTY and QualiTY conTrolName: Joel a. nachlasDepartment: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5357E-mail: [email protected]: Reliability Modeling and Analysis, Life Testing, Mainte-

nance Planning, Statistical Analysis, Process ControlApplications: Manufacturing, transportation, and communica-

tions equipmentExamples of Funding Sources: IBM, Intelsat, NSF, Meridium,

Inc.

reMoTe sensingsee also advanced diagnostics, Ma

reMoTe sensingName: scott baileyDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0459Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: www.space.vt.eduSpecialty: Ultraviolet, X-ray Remote Sensing, The Earth’s Upper

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Atmosphere, Noctilucent Clouds, Polar Mesospheric Clouds, Space Science

Applications: Remote sensing; atmospheric physics; chemistry; dynamics

Expertise: Remote sensing; the Earth’s upper atmosphere; noc-tilucent clouds; polar mesospheric clouds; space science

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, U.S. Office of Naval Re-search

renewable energYsee power electronics, Lee

roboTicssee also autonomous systems, Leonessasee also control Theory, Stilwell, Woolseysee also control Theory / autonomous systems, Farhood see also dynamical systems, Abaidsee also engineering design, Sturgessee also Mechanical engineering, Wicks

roboTicsName: bahareh behkamDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7491Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: Micro-Robotics, Biological Microfluidics, Bacteria-

Based Theranostics, Cell Adhesion and MigrationApplications: Harvesting motility, sensing, and control mecha-

nisms of microorganisms towards development of hybrid (biotic/abiotic) micro-robots; micro-robotic applications in mini-mally invasive diagnosis and localized treatment of diseases, environmental monitoring, and homeland security; biophysics of cell motility and chemotaxis; physical chemistry of cell-sur-face interaction, mechanism of biofilm formation with the goal of developing biofilm mitigation technologies

Expertise: Design, modeling, microfabrication and micro-assem-bly of biologically integrated micro/nano-systems, biomimetic micro-robotics, miniature medical devices, biosensors, bioMEMS, microfluidics, and micro-hydrodynamics; biophys-ics of cell motility and adhesion; drug delivery for cancer

Examples of Funding Sources: Jeffress Memorial Trust, NSF

roTor dYnaMicssee also Machine health Monitoring, Kasarda

scienTific coMpuTingsee data Mining, Ramakrishnan

securiTYsee control system security, Patterson

sediMenT TransporT see coastal engineering, Xiao

seMiconducTorsee also optoelectronics, Asryan

seMiconducTor MaTerials and deVicesName: Mantu k. hudaitDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6663Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Strain and Bandgap Engineering Compound Semi-

conductors and Germanium Materials and Device Struc-tures using Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Perovskites and Oxide

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Materials Integration on Epitaxial Ge, Heterostructure Tunnel and Quantum Well Transistors, Multijunction III-V Photovolta-ics and Thermophotovoltaics, Heterogeneous Integration of Materials and Devices on Silicon

Applications: Low power and high-speed computing; sustain-able energy; multifunctional devices for health care; sensing; detection

Expertise: Design; growth and device fabrication of low power and high-speed transistors using molecular beam epitaxy for alternative CMOS on Si; heterogeneous integration of semiconductor materials and devices on silicon; tunnel and quantum well transistors; multijunction solar cells; germanium epitaxy and mismatch epitaxy

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Intel Corporation, Virginia Space Grant Consortium

seMiconducTor TechnologYName: Marius orlowskiDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3297Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: CMOS TechnologyApplications: MOSFET and floating gate transistors; non-volatile

memory; DRAM; SRAM; resistive RAM memory; nanowire; and nanoribbon processing and characterization; Si and Ge processing technology; dopant diffusion in silicon and germa-nium

Expertise: Process development and integration; thin film depo-sition; device and process modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: Air Force, Virginia Microelectron-ics Consortium, Sematech

sensorssee energy, Dillersee Theoretical and experimental solid Mechanics, Al-Haik

ship designsee also optimization, Watsonsee also semiconductor Materials and devices, Hudait

ship designnaval architecture, Marine safety, ship dynamicsName: alan J. brownDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4950Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: Ship Design Optimization, Ship Grounding and Colli-

sion, Ship DamageApplications: Naval ship design; oil tanker risk analysis and

designExpertise: Multi-attribute optimization and value theory; extreme

ship motions; ship dynamics in grounding and collision; ship structural damage; ship salvage; ship design

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Ship Structure Committee, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Newport News Shipyard

signal processingsee acoustics, Roansee advanced diagnostics, Masee computer and communications engineering, Athanas see digital signal processing, Beexsee dynamics and control, Southwardsee electric power, Mili

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siMulaTionsee software engineering, Balci

siMulaTion, opTiMiZaTionName: raghu pasupathy Department: Industrial and Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231 4695 Fax: 540-231 3322E-mail: [email protected]: www.filebox.vt.edu/users/pasupath/pasupath.htmSpecialty: Monte Carlo Simulation, Simulation Optimization,

Stochastic Root FindingApplications: Simulation-based control and optimization ques-

tions arising in a wide variety of contexts such as vehicular-traffic networks, telecommunication systems, epidemic model-ing, and defense

Expertise: General Monte Carlo methodology for input modeling and output analysis; simulation-based algorithms for solving stochastic optimization and root-finding problems, large-devia-tions techniques

Examples of Funding Sources: Office of Naval Research, NSF, International Business Machines

siX sigMasee computer-aided design and Manufacturing, Bøhn,

see Williams

sMarT gridssee electric power, Mili seeenergy, Rahmansee power electronics, Lee

sMarT MaTerialssee Transportation, Rakhasee Vehicle dynamics, Ahmadian

sMarT MaTerials and sTrucTuresName: Michael philenDepartment: Aerospace and Ocean EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2548Fax: 540-231-9632E-mail: [email protected]: www.aoe.vt.edu/~mphilenSpecialty: Smart Structures, Structural Dynamics, Vibrations,

Bio-Inspired Technologies, Vibration ControlApplications: Biomimetic systems; adaptive structuresExpertise: Smart materials; structural dynamics; vibration; ex-

perimentation

sMarT sTrucTuressee finite element Method, Batra

sofTware engineeringName: osman balciDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-4841Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: Software Engineering, Modeling and Simulation, Digi-

tal Game-Based LearningApplications: Solving complex problems by way of developing

iOS mobile software applications (apps) and cloud-based, internet-based, web-based software systems; digital game-based learning; solving complex problems by way of modeling and simulation in many application areas such as air traffic control, biological systems, computer systems, manufactur-ing systems, military systems, network-centric systems, and

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transportation systemsExpertise: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) mobile software en-

gineering; network-centric software engineering; architecting network-centric software-based system of systems; software/system independent verification and validation; digital edu-cational game development methodology; digital educational game quality assessment; Modeling and Simulation (M&S) methodologies; conceptual modeling; M&S development environments; visual object-oriented M&S; web-based M&S; verification, validation, testing, quality assurance, and certifi-cation of M&S applications

Examples of Funding Sources: Defense Modeling and Simula-tion Office, NASA Langley Research Center, National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division, Office of Naval Research

sofTware engineeringName: barbara g. ryderDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-8452Fax: 540-231-4240E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/~ryderSpecialty: Program Analysis, Testing, Application-level Security,

Programming Languages and Compilers, Software Mainte-nance, Debugging, Object-Oriented Languages and Systems

Applications: Tool support for software development in Java and JavaScript; emphasis on testing, security and software development environments, and program understanding for maintaining evolving large systems. Specific tools from the group include: (i) (analyses enabling performance diagnosis for framework-based software systems, especially Web appli-cations (ii) tool support for understanding program behaviors due to dynamic constructs in JavaScript (iii) techniques for in-formation flow on webpage codes (iv) tool support for software developers to estimate the impact of changes to a codebase during team development, e.g., to allow early check-in of changes (v) testing and validating exception handling in large object-oriented codes

Expertise: Static and dynamic program analyses; pointer/refer-ence and side-effect analyses, especially for object-oriented systems and scripting languages; blended static/dynamic analysis techniques

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, IBM Research, HP Labs

sofTware sYsTeMsName: dennis kafuraDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-5568Fax: 540-231-6075E-mail: [email protected]: www.cs.vt.edu/~kafura/Specialty: Computer Security and Privacy, Access Control and

Information Flow Control, Concurrent and Distributed Sys-tems, Object-Oriented Software, Software Engineering

Applications: Secure collaboration among communities of indi-viduals; interfaces for community privacy; e-mail systems for controlled dissemination of information; active-object models of computation; synchronization mechanisms in object-orient-ed systems

Expertise: User interfaces for e-mail and other collaboration tools that relate to privacy and security; authentication and authorization in distributed computing environments; privilege management models; access control enforcement mecha-nisms; object-oriented languages and systems

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Fermi National Labs, Com-




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sofTware sYsTeMs Name: eli TilevichDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-3475Fax: 540-231-9218E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/~tilevich/Specialty: Systems and Languages End of Software Engi-

neering, Middleware, Automated Program Transformation, Domain-Specific Languages

Applications: Novel programming solutions for distributed and high-end systems; automated program maintenance and evo-lution; program refactoring and enhancement; aspect-oriented programming

Expertise: Software engineering; object-oriented languages, systems, and applications; distributed systems; middleware

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, IBM Shared University Research

soilsee also civil engineering, Mitchell

solar and renewablessee energy, Rahman

solar energYsee energy, Rahmansee energy and Materials, Pitchumani

solid Mechanicssee construction Materials, Grasleysee Mechanics of Materials, Dowling, Case, Holmes

spacesee atmospheric and radio science, Scales see plasma physics, Srinivasansee remote sensing, Bailey

space scienceelectromagnetics, space physics, environmental radar

remote sensingName: Joseph b.h. bakerDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3355Fax: 540-552-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Atmospheric and Space ScienceApplications: HF propagation; environmental radar; space

weatherExpertise: Space plasma physics; radiowave propagation; iono-

sphere physics; magnetosphereExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA

space plasMa phYsicssee plasma physics, Srinivasan

space sTrucTures analYsissee aircraft, Kapania

space weaThersee ionospheric and space physics, Ruohoniemi

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spacecrafT hardwareand insTruMenTaTion

Name: gregory d. earle Department: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 5340-231-2294Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: Circuits and ElectromagneticsApplications: DoD communications and space situational aware-

nessExpertise: Spacecraft hardware and instrumentationExamples of Funding Sources: NASA, USAF, NSF

sporTs bioMechanicssee biomechanics, Madigan see injury biomechanics, Duma

sTaTisTical signal processingsee advanced Manufacturing, Kong

sTeelsee structural engineering and design, Easterling see Thin-walled structures, Moen

sTreaMssee ecological engineering, Wynnsee environment and fluvial hydraulics, Hession

sTrucTural dYnaMics and conTrolsee smart Materials and structures, Philen

sTrucTural engineeringstructural dynamics, earthquake engineeringName: finley a. charneyDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1444Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Structural Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Wind

EngineeringApplications: Buildings; bridges; arenas; towers; damsExpertise: Structural analysis; structural dynamics; finite element

analysis; structural engineering software development; engi-neering education

Examples of Funding Sources: National Institute of Building Science, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Simpson Strong Tie Inc.

sTrucTural engineeringName: Matthew r. eathertonDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4559 Fax: 540-231-7532.E-mail: [email protected]: www.eatherton.cee.vt.eduSpecialty: Steel Structures, High Performance Seismic Force

Resisting Systems, Earthquake Resistance of Structures, Structural Dynamics, Sustainability of Structural Systems, Large-Scale Structural Testing

Applications: Buildings and bridges; research on structural systems

Expertise: Steel structures; high performance seismic force re-sisting systems; earthquake resistance of structures; structural dynamics; sustainability of structural systems; large-scale structural testing

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, American Institute of Steel

www.ece.vt.edu/faculty/earle.php

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Construction, American Iron and Steel Institute, individual companies

sTrucTural engineering designName: w. samuel easterlingDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5143Home: 540-864-5135Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/easterling.htmlApplications: Investigate structural adequacy of building com-

ponents and assemblages; investigations typically involve laboratory tests to failure and subsequent analysis; results are often used to clarify or modify design specifications

Expertise: Steel-concrete composite structures; steel structures; cold-formed steel structures; experimental research

Examples of Funding Sources: NUCOR Research and De-velopment, Steel Deck Institute, American Institute of Steel Construction, NSF, American Iron and Steel Institute, Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, Consolidated Systems, Inc.

sTrucTural Mechanicssee also aircraft, Kapaniasee also composites, Kennedysee also Thin-walled structures, Moen

sTrucTural MechanicsName: richard bensonDepartment: Engineering Science and Mechanics and Mechani-

cal EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6641Fax: 540-231-3031E-mail: [email protected]: www.eng.vt.edu/overview/benson_bio.phpSpecialty: Mechanics of Highly Flexible StructuresApplications: Modeling of magnetic disks and tapes; paper

sheets; soft contact lenses; photographic films; and other eas-ily deformed structures

Expertise: Structural mechanics; design and applied math-ematics; structural stability; plates and shells; elasticity and continuum mechanics

Examples of Funding Sources: Eastman Kodak, Hewlett Pack-ard, Bausch and Lomb, Xerox Corporation

sTrucTural safeTY and reliabiliTYName: kamal b. rojianiDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7150Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: Structural Safety and Reliability, Risk Analysis, Com-

puter Applications in Structural Analysis and DesignApplications: Reliability analysis of steel, concrete, and timber

structures; Monte Carlo simulation; analysis and modeling of structural systems; finite element analysis of structures; devel-opment of web-based object-oriented applications

Expertise: Code calibration; reliability analysis of structures; structural engineering software development

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Cooperative High-way Research Program

sTrucTural sTabiliTYsee Thin-walled structures, Moen

www.cee.vt.edu/people/easterling.html

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sTrucTures and MaTerialsName: John J. “Jack” leskoDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-5259Fax: 540-231-9187E-mail: [email protected]: Mechanics of Polymer and Composites; Strength,

Life, and Durability; Hygrothermal Mechanical Damage, Deg-radation, and Corrosion of Materials; Fire Response of Materi-als; Composites Structural Design; Processing and Design of Low Cost Composites; Adhesion Mechanics and Bond Design

Applications: Design, testing, installation, and monitoring of composite highway structures including bridge deck, gird-ers, and bonded repairs; naval composite structural design; army lightweight multifunctional composite armor; design and material selection for pultruded composite shapes; design and evaluation of structural adhesive bonds; reliability based design guide development and evaluation of composite ma-terials and structures; design, development, and evaluation of fuel cell materials and components; design and modeling of fire resistant composites

Expertise: Composite mechanics and design; energy systemsExamples of Funding Sources: Strongwell Corporation, Dow

Chemicals, UTC Fuel Cells, NSF, Federal Highway Adminis-tration, Office of Naval Research

supercriTical fluidsName: erdogan kiranDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-1375Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: Use of High Pressure Techniques to Generate

Fundamental Data Pertaining to Supercritical Fluid Systems, Polymer Solutions and Mixtures

Applications: Use of supercritical fluids in polymer synthesis; polymer modification and polymer processing; production of nano and/or microstructured materials (particles, fibers, foams)

Expertise: Capabilities to conduct high pressure research at pressures up to 1000 bar; capabilities to work with super-critical fluid mixtures; capabilities to explore thermodynamic and transport properties of mixtures and to investigate time dependent property changes during physical and chemical transformations; capabilities to explore kinetics of fluid-fluid and fluid-solid phase separations; polymer dissolution and crystallization processes

supplY chain ManageMenTsee logistics, Ellis

surface cheMisTrY and engineeringName: william duckerDepartment: Chemical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7869Fax: 540-231-5022E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.che.vt.edu/Ducker-2013/Faculty-Home.phpSpecialty: Surface Chemistry, Adsorption, Surface Forces,

Surfactants, Polymers, Lubrication, Peptides, Colloidal Stabil-ity, Rheology

Applications: Use of polymers and surfactants to control the stability of colloidal particles and the friction between surfaces; inhibiting bacterial colony formation; controlling wall loses in the flow of liquids and gases; separation and purification of materials based on surface properties or charging; atomic force microscopy imaging of surfaces

www.eng.vt.edu/personnel/john-j-lesko

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Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

surface sciencesee catalysis, Cox

susTainable waTer Name: sunil sinhaDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9420Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.waterid.orgSpecialty: Sustainable Water Infrastructure ManagementApplications: Drinking water; wastewater; and storm water pipe-

line systemsExpertise: Sensor technologies; data analytic; numerical model-

ing; predictive modeling; artificial intelligenceExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, EPA, Water Environment

Research Center

sYsTeM healTh MoniToring (shM)see Mechanics of advanced Materials, Duke

sYsTeMs biologYsee computational biology, Murali see control systems, Baumann

sYsTeMs and signal processingsee bioinformatics, Wang

sYnTheTic biologYName: warren c. ruderDepartment: Biological Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0035Fax: 540-231-3199E-mail: [email protected]: Engineered Gene Circuits, bioMEMS, Cell Biome-

chanicsApplications: Control of gene expression and bioproduct synthe-

sis; tissue engineering; pharmacological interventionsExpertise: Reprogramming cell behavior with synthetic biological

circuits; engineering cell microenvironments using micro-fabrication techniques; integrating engineered systems with microscopy

Examples of Funding Sources: Air Force Office of Scientific Research

TheoreTical and eXperiMenTal solid Mechanicssee also Mechanics of Materials, Case

TheoreTical and eXperiMenTal solid Mechanics

Name: Marwan al-haikDepartment: Engineering Science and MechanicsOffice Phone: 540-231-5442 Fax: 540-231-4574E-mail: [email protected]: www.esm.vt.edu/~alhaikSpecialty: Solid Mechanics, Engineering Materials, Nanotechnol-

ogyApplications: Structural; defense; sensors; radiation detection;

bio application; energy absorption; thermal and electrical transport; space; military

Expertise: Mechanics; solid mechanics; nanotechnology; engineering materials; composite materials; polymer bases

www.cee.vt.edu/people/sinha.html

www.bse.vt.edu/people/tenure-track/ruder-warren.html

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composites; fiber reinforced composites; carbon nanotubes; graphene; inorganic nanotubes; metals; alloys; synthesis; nanoparticles; mechanical testing; nanomechanics; radiation sensors; impact and high rate deformation; radiation damage; XRD; microscopy; nanoindentation; surface engineering; time dependent behavior; smart materials; thin films; thermal coat-ings; neural networks; system identification

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Army Research Office, Air Force Research Lab, Toyota North America, Sandia National Labs, Defense Threat Reduction Agency

TherMal ManageMenTgas Turbine, propulsion, Turbomachinery, energyName: srinath V. ekkadDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7192 Fax: 540-231-9991E-mail: [email protected]: Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics,

Aerodynamics, Experimental Methods, Analytical Modeling, Design of Thermal Systems

Applications: Gas turbine systems; propulsion; energy systems; electronic cooling and thermal management; energy harvest-ing

Expertise: Heat transfer testing using infrared thermography; liq-uid crystal thermography; high temperature testing; accurate 2-D measurements

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Energy, Air Force, Rolls-Royce, Siemens, General Electric, NSF

Thin-walled sTrucTuresName: cristopher d. MoenDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-6072Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.moen.cee.vt.edu/Specialty: Buckling of Thin-Walled Structures, Cold-Formed

Steel Behaviors and Design, Computational MechanicsApplications: Design of cold-formed steel building systems;

analysis and optimization of aerospace vehicles; behavior of cellular structures; computational modeling of buildings and bridges; buckling of human bones

Expertise: Structural stability; structural mechanics; computa-tional modeling to collapse; experimental facility for testing thin-walled structural components

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institute of Standards and Technology, American Iron and Steel Institute, Virginia Tech Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sci-ence, Metal Building Manufacturers Association

Tiressee Vehicle dynamics, Taheri

Tissue engineeringsee also biomedical engineering, Rylander see also bioinformatics, Wangsee also Materials, Nainsee also neuroengineering, VandeVord

Tissue engineeringbiomaterials, controlled drug deliveryName: abby r. whittingtonDepartment: Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical

EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0665

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Fax: 540-231-8919E-mail: [email protected]: Tissue Engineering Interfaces by Polymeric Scaffolds

with Gradient Properties (chemistry, drug release, or mechani-cal)

Applications: Design of new anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); regeneration of bony defects caused by trauma or disease; delivery of proteins for tissue regeneration

Expertise: Materials characterization; in vitro evaluation of bio-materials; design of in vivo models for tissue regeneration


ToXicologYsee environment, Boardman

TransporTaTionsee also air Transportation, Tranisee also automotive powertrains / energy systems, Nelson see also combustion and fire science, Lattimersee also computer science, Lusee also geospatial decision Making, Hancocksee also Vehicle dynamics, Ahmadian

TransporTaTiongeospatial analysisgeospatial information systems (gis)Name: kathleen l. hancockDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 571-858-3070E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/hancock.htmlSpecialty: Freight Transportation Operations and Planning,

Transportation Safety, Transportation Planning, Geospatially Enabling Decision Making and Problem Solving, Geographic Information Systems in Transportation

Applications: Transportation systems; infrastructure manage-ment; asset management; information technology

Expertise: Transportation engineering and planning; freight planning and operations; transportation safety; application of geospatial information to decision making and problem solving

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Federal Highway Adminis-tration, Transportation Research Board, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, Virginia Department of Transportation, Massachu-setts State Police, City of Alexandria, Arlington County

TransporTaTionName: pamela Murray-TuiteDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 703-538-3764Fax: 703-538-8450E-mail: [email protected]: Transportation SystemsApplications: Evacuation modeling and analysis; transportation

modeling; demand estimation; risk and resilience assessment and modeling; disruptive event modeling and analysis; esti-mating reliability under extreme conditions and with security policies; travel time estimation

Expertise: Evacuation modeling and analysis; behavior model-ing; path prediction; transportation engineering; transportation networks analysis; resilience; risk; reliability; transportation planning

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Virginia Center for Trans-portation Innovation and Research Council, University Trans-portation Centers, Advance VT

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TransporTaTionName: hesham a. rakhaDepartment: Civil and Environmental Engineering and Virginia

Tech Transportation InstituteOffice Phone: 540-231-1505Fax: 540-231-1555E-mail Address: [email protected]: www.filebox.vt.edu/users/hrakhaSpecialty: Traveler and Driver Behavior Modeling, Automated

Vehicles, Transportation Network Control, Intelligent Transpor-tation Systems, Traffic Flow Theory, Transportation System Modeling, Vehicle Energy Consumption Modeling, Transporta-tion Environmental Modeling, Transportation Safety Model-ing, Traffic Signal Control, Alternative Isolated Intersection Controls, Roundabouts, Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication, Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication, In-Vehicle Technolo-gies

Applications: Intelligent transportation systems; in-vehicle systems; traffic signal control; advanced traveler information systems; eco-drive systems; eco-routing systems

Expertise: Traveler and driver behavior modeling; traffic flow theory; transportation network control; congestion mitigation; transportation system modeling; vehicle energy consumption modeling; transportation environmental modeling; transporta-tion safety modeling; traffic signal control; alternative isolated intersection control; roundabouts; intelligent transportation systems; vehicle-to-vehicle communication; vehicle-to-infra-structure communication; optimization; artificial intelligence; agent-based modeling

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Science Applications International Corporation, Parsons Brinkerhoff, NAVTEQ Inc., Virginia Department of Transportation, National Park Service, Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, Virginia Department for Environmental Quality, Federal High-way Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-tration, ENERCON, Harmonia, Inc.

TransporTaTionpavements and MaterialsName: linbing wangDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5262Fax: 540-231-1555E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/index.php?cat=peopleSpecialty: Transportation Engineering with Focus on Pavements

and MaterialsApplications: Green and smart transportation infrastructure;

smart materials and sensor network; asphalt mix design optimization; development of pavement management system; materials characterization and modeling; pavement rehabilita-tion; pavement testing; impact and penetration and high strain rate behavior

Expertise: Smart and sustainable technologies; energy harvest; health monitoring; innovative infrastructure assessment and performance predictions; high performance materials; multi-ple-scale characterization, modeling, and simulation; pave-ment testing and mechanistic pavement design; infrastructure preservation and management; application of remote sensing and imaging techniques

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Transporta-tion, Department of Defense, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Virginia Department of Transportation

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Turbulencesee computational fluid dynamics and high-end

see parallel computing, Tafti

Turbulence and TurbulenT flowssee aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, Devenport

Turbulence Modeling and siMulaTionsee computational fluid dynamics, Roy

Two-phase flowName: Yang liuDepartment: Mechanical Engineering Office Phone: 540-231-8068E-mail: [email protected]: Two-phase Flow, Boiling Heat Transfer, Reactor Ther-

mal Hydraulics, Reactor Safety AnalysisApplications: Nuclear power; nuclear propulsion system; gas

and oil transportation; chemical processingExpertise: Two-phase flow instrumentation; flow regime identifi-

cation; two-fluid model and interfacial area transport; multi-phase flow CFD

Examples of Funding Sources: Department of Energy, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory

uncerTainTY QuanTificaTionsee computational fluid dynamics, Roy

underwaTer acousTicssee acoustics, Roan, Fuller

underwaTer Vehicle designsee hydrodynamics, Neu

unManned sYsTeMssee automotive powertrains / energy systems, Nelson see autonomous systems, Kochersberger, Leonessa see control Theory, Woolseysee fluid-structure interaction, Wang

uraniuMsee Mining, Karmis

user-cenTered designsee augmented reality, Gabbard

user eXperience (uX)see augmented reality, Gabbard

Vehicle designsee automotive powertrains / energy systems, Nelson

Vehicle dYnaMicsName: Mehdi ahmadianDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-4920Fax: 540-231-9100E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/ahmadian.htmlSpecialty: Vibration Control, Vehicle Dynamics, Vehicle Stabil-

ity, Rollover Dynamics Analysis, Suspensions and Smart Materials, Rail Transportation Systems, Magneto-Rheological Damper

Applications: Vehicle suspensions; magneto-rheological dampers; highway trucks; locomotive bogies (trucks); interior noise and vibration control; seat suspensions design; cab suspensions design; active vibration isolation analysis; semiactive dampers

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Expertise: Vehicle stability analysis; rollover dynamics analysis; ground vehicle suspension testing and modeling; vehicle noise and vibration reduction; rail vehicle dynamics and stability analysis; application of active and semi-active primary and secondary suspensions in ground vehicles; application of smart materials in reducing noise and vibration in vehicles; magneto-rheological damper applications

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Federal Highway Administration, GE Transportation Systems, Lord Corporation, Lear Corporation, National Sci-ence Foundation, Center for Innovative Technologies, Volvo Heavy Truck, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Visteon, United Defense, ROHO Groups

Vehicle dYnaMicsName: John b. ferrisDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 434-766-6708Fax: 434-791-3279E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/MENewSite/Faculty/ferris/ferrisSpecialty: Vehicle Dynamics, Vehicle Terrain Interaction, Virtual

ProvingApplications: Highway and off-road terrain; tire modeling; vehicle

loads; vehicle development and testingExpertise: Nonlinear tire modeling; terrain scanning and char-

acterization as realizations of a stochastic process; multibody dynamic simulations of vehicles traversing uneven terrain; prediction of vehicle performance; durability testing; ride qual-ity analysis

Examples of Funding Sources: Army National Automotive Center, Federal Highway Administration, State Departments of Transportation

Vehicle dYnaMicsName: corina sanduDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-7467 Fax: 540-231-9100 E-mail: [email protected]: www.me.vt.edu/MENewSite/Faculty/sandu/sanduSpecialty: Multibody Dynamic Systems, Vehicle Dynamics, Ter-

ramechanicsApplications: Incorporation of uncertain parameters in multibody

dynamics models; real-time parameter estimation for pre-venting rollover and improving vehicle stability; performance optimization for mechanical systems; on-road and off-road vehicle performance and mobility studies; vehicle modeling and control; vehicle-terrain interaction for military and com-mercial applications; tire and track modeling; earth robotic and planetary exploration vehicles mobility and performance analysis studies; railway systems modeling

Expertise: Multibody dynamic systems (modeling, simulation, uncertainty quantification, parameter estimation, optimization); vehicle dynamics (ride, handling, stability); terramechanics (experimental wheels and tire testing, tire and track modeling, vehicle-terrain interaction, soil and terrain modeling)

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, NASA, AAR, ARC, Cen-TiRe, MAUTC, Advance VT, VT ASPIRES, Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company, Caterpillar Inc.

Vehicle dYnaMicsTire dynamics, intelligent Transportation, automotive

engineeringName: saied TaheriDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-0032

www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/john-ferris/

www.me.vt.edu/people/faculty/corina-sandu/

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E-mail: [email protected]: TransportationApplications: Cars; trucks; trainsExpertise: Vehicle dynamics; tire mechanics; control systems;

signal processing; intelligent transportationExamples of Funding Sources: NSF, Department of Transporta-

tion, Department of Defense

VerificaTion and ValidaTion of coMpuTer siMulaTionssee computational fluid dynamics, Roy

VibraTionsee also dynamics, Hendrickssee also dynamics and control, Southward

VibraTionName: pablo a. TarazagaDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2906Fax: 540-231-2903E-mail: [email protected]: www.cimss.vt.edu/, vastlab.weebly.comSpecialty: Vibrations, Vibration Suppression, Intelligent Material

Applications, Adaptive Structures, Structure Acoustic Inter-action, Modal Analysis, Model Updating, Structural Health Monitoring and Energy Harvesting, Smart Infrastructure

Applications: Model validation and modal testing of large structures; efficient test strategies for model validation in an industrial setting; modeling and control of gossamer space structures; vibro-acoustics of optical membranes for satellite applications; structural health monitoring; energy harvesting of tires; infrastructure instrumentation

Expertise: Vibration analysis and testing; applied active and passive control techniques; application of smart structures for solving engineering problems; biological sensors; bio-inspired design

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NASA, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Devel-opment Centers, AAR

VibraTion and dYnaMicssee also autonomous systems, Kochersberger

VibraTion and dYnaMicsName: robert parkerDepartment: Mechanical EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3392Fax: 540-231-9364E-mail: [email protected]: Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods

to Understand and Reduce Vibrations in Engineering SystemsApplications: Automobiles; helicopters; wind turbines; aircraft

engines; noise reduction; gear vibration; transmission systemsExpertise: Vibration and dynamics of mechanical systems with

special interest in spinning systems; reduction of vibration-induced noise and mechanical failures from dynamic loads

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Army, NASA, General Mo-tors, Ford, NSF, National Rotorcraft Technology Center, GE Aircraft Engines

VirTual realiTYsee also augmented reality, Gabbard

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VirTual realiTYName: doug a. bowmanDepartment: Computer ScienceOffice Phone: 540-231-2058Fax: 540-231-9218E-mail: [email protected]: people.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/Specialty: 3-D User Interface Design, Virtual Environments, Aug-

mented Reality, Human-computer Interaction, 3-D Computer Graphics

Applications: 3-D gaming interfaces; 3-D architectural design and visualization; virtual and augmented reality for education and training; 3-D visualization of scientific and engineering data; virtual reality phobia therapy; 3-D modeling interfaces

Expertise: Design and evaluation of user interfaces for immer-sive virtual environments; 3-D interaction techniques; compari-son of 3-D display devices; comparison of 3-D input devices; software systems for virtual environments; human factors in virtual environments; interfaces for travel, wayfinding, object selection, object manipulation, system control, symbolic input in immersive virtual environments; presence and immersion in virtual environments

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research, DARPA

ViscoelasTiciTYsee Mechanics of Materials, Dillard

VisualiZaTionsee computer science, Lusee human computer interaction, North see Materials, Krizsee problem solving environments, Shaffer

Vlsisee computer engineering, Hsiao see computers, Tront

wasTe disposalsee environment, Knocke

waTersee also computer science, Lusee also corrosion control, Edwards see also groundwater, Widdowson see also hydrology, Eastonsee also sustainable water, Sinha

waTer urban stormwater Management, geographic information

systemsName: randy dymondDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-9023Fax: 540-231-7532E-mail: [email protected]: www.cee.vt.edu/people/dymond.htmlSpecialty: Hydrology, GIS, Best Management Practices, Land

DevelopmentApplications: Stormwater best management practices; MS4 per-

mit regulations; hydrologic assessment of land use change; floodplain modeling and delineation

Expertise: Urban hydrology; stormwater control; GIS; land de-velopment design; water resources management; low impact development; real-time water monitoring

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Virginia Department of


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Conservation and Recreation, Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency, Virginia Water Resources Research

waTerName: glenn e. MoglenDepartment: Civil and Environmental EngineeringOffice Phone: 703-538-3786Fax: 703-538-8450E-mail: [email protected]: www.filebox.vt.edu/users/moglen/index.htmlSpecialty: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Watershed

Hydrology, Urban Hydrology, Climate ChangeApplications: Use of GIS to automate hydrologic analyses of wa-

tersheds for purposes of quantifying both water quality (floods or droughts) and water quality (nutrient loading, eutrophica-tion); application of optimization techniques to land develop-ment decision-making (e.g. “Smart Growth”)

Expertise: Surface water hydrology; hydrologic modeling; urban hydrology; flooding; statistical hydrology; GIS for landscape analysis; land use change; remote estimation of impervious surfaces

Examples of Funding Sources: Maryland State Highway Ad-ministration, Maryland Sea Grant/National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Maryland Department of the Environment

waTer and wasTewaTer TreaTMenTsee environment, Boardman, Novak

waTer QualiTYsee also corrosion control, Edwardssee also environment, Dietrichsee also environmental engineering, Grizzard, Pruden see also hydrology, Easton

waTer QualiTYName: brian l. benhamDepartment: Biological Systems EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-5705Fax: 540-231-3199E-mail: [email protected]: Watershed Management, Water Quality Modeling,

Private Water Supply SystemsApplications: Perform watershed assessments for the purpose of

reducing primarily nonpoint source pollution, educate private water supply users about their water quality, and make recom-mendations to address water quality issues

Expertise: Development and execution of watershed-scale water quality models; private water supply systems

Examples of Funding Sources: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, Virginia Departments of Environmental Quality and Conservation and Recreation

waTershed ManageMenTsee ecological engineering, Wynn see engineering education, Lohani see environment, Hessionsee hydrology, Easton

weTlandssee environment and fluvial hydraulics, Hester

wind loadssee nonlinear dynamics, Hajj

wind powersee energy systems, Tam

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wind Turbinessee aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, Devenport

wireless coMMunicaTion see communications, Reed

wireless coMMunicaTions and neTworking

Name: allen b. MackenzieDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-3565Fax: 540-231-3362E-mail: [email protected]: mackenab.ece.vt.eduSpecialty: Wireless Networks, Cognitive Radio, Cognitive Net-

works, Cross-Layer Optimization, Game TheoryApplications: Interoperability in public safety communications;

application of artificial intelligence to control communica-tion and network parameters; power and topology control in wireless networks; dynamic spectrum sharing; analysis of networks using game theory

Expertise: End-to-end evaluation of wireless networks; applica-tions of decision theory, game theory, and artificial intelligence to analyze, optimize, and design cognitive wireless systems; analytical, simulation, and experimental methods to under-stand network and communication system performance

Examples of Funding Sources: NSF, National Institute of Justice, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

wireless neTworkingName: Thomas houDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 540-231-2950Fax: 540-231-8292E-mail: [email protected]: Modeling, Analysis, and Optimization of Wireless

Networks; Cross-Layer Optimization and Design for Multi-hop Wireless Networks; Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks; Multi-Hop MIMO Networks; Cooperative Communications; Interfer-ence Management in Ad Hoc Networks; Applied Optimization and Algorithm Design for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Applications: Wireless communication networks; military networksExpertise: Network modeling; cross-layer optimization; algorithm

designExample of Funding Sources: NSF, Office of Naval Research

wireless neTworkssee also computer science, Fengsee also networks, DaSilvasee also network and information security, Lou

wireless neTworksName: luiz dasilvaDepartment: Electrical and Computer EngineeringOffice Phone: 571-858-3145E-mail: [email protected]: Wireless Network Architectures, Radio Resource

Management, Cognitive Radios and Networks, Game TheoryApplications: LTE and LTE-Advanced; cellular networks; dy-

namic spectrum access; heterogeneous networks; virtualiza-tion in wireless networks

Expertise: Cooperation and competition in resource manage-ment for wireless networks; application of game theory to model networking problems; implementation- and prototype-based wireless research

Examples of Funding Sources: National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, European Commission, Science

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Foundation Ireland, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Intel, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

work place designsee ergonomics, Nussbaum

wood producTs in consTrucTionName: daniel hindmanDepartment: Myers-Lawson School of ConstructionOffice Phone: 540-231-9442Fax: 540-231-8868E-mail: [email protected]: Wood Structural Design, Wood Connections, Green

Building, Construction Safety, Mechanical Testing, AnalysisApplications: New building structures; truss construction; flooring

installationExpertise: Design of wooden structures; design of safety meth-

ods for placing trusses; wood-flooring inspectionExamples of Funding Sources: National Institute of Occupational

Safety and Health, USDA

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indeX bY subJecT3-D Holographic Microscopy (see Holography) .......................................... 53-D Information and Image Processing (see Holography) ......................... 53-D Printing (see Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing) ................. 5Acoustics (see Human Factors Engineering, Materials, Vibration

and Dynamics) ....................................................................................... 5Acoustics .................................................................................................... 5Acoustics and Active/Passive Noise and Vibration Control ........................ 5Acoustics and Heat Transfer (see Fluids and Acoustics) ........................... 5Adhesion Science (see Mechanics of Materials) ........................................ 5Advanced Diagnostics ................................................................................ 5Advanced Manufacturing ............................................................................ 6Aerodynamics (see Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluids

and Acoustics) ........................................................................................ 6Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics .............................................................. 6Aeroelasticity (see Aircraft, Fluid-Structure Interaction) ............................. 6Aeronautics................................................................................................. 7Aeropropulsion (see Advanced Diagnostics) .............................................. 7Aerospace Engineering .............................................................................. 7Aging (see Biomechanics, Ergonomics) ..................................................... 8Agriculture (see Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery) ........................ 8Aircraft ........................................................................................................ 8Air Pollution (see also Environment, Transportation) ................................. 8Air Transportation and Airport Engineering................................................. 8Algorithms................................................................................................... 9Antennas (see Radio Engineering)............................................................. 9Antibiotic Resistance (see Environmental Engineering) ............................. 9Applied Mathematics (see Fluid Mechanics) .............................................. 9Aquatic Ecosystems (see Environment, Environment and Fluvial

Hydraulics) ............................................................................................. 9Artificial Intelligence (see Computer Vision, Game Theory,

Machine Learning, Wireless Communications and Networking) ............ 9Atmospheric and Radio Science ................................................................ 9Atmospheric Science (see Remote Sensing) ........................................... 10Augmented Reality ................................................................................... 10Automobiles (see Acoustics, Injury Biomechanics,

Vehicle Dynamics) ................................................................................ 10Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems .............................................. 10Automotive Safety (see Injury Biomechanics) .......................................... 10Autonomous Systems (see also Control Theory, Mechanical

Engineering) ......................................................................................... 10Autonomous Systems..........................................................................10, 11Autonomous Vehicles (see Automotive Powertrains/Energy

Systems, Transportation) ......................................................................11Bats (see Bio-inspired Science and Technology) ......................................11Big-Data (see Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Computational

Science, Computer Science, Data Mining, Machine Learning) .............11Bioengineering (see Bio-inspired Science and Technology) .....................11Bioinformatics (see Algorithms, Computational Biology, Computer

Science, Data Mining, Human-Computer Interaction, Optimization, Problem Solving Environments) ........................................................... 12

Bioinformatics and Bioimaging ................................................................. 12Bioinformatics and Computational Biology ............................................... 12Bio-inspired Science and Technology ....................................................... 12Bio-inspired Technologies (see Smart Materials and Structures,

Multifunctional and Materials and Systems) ......................................... 12Biology (see Synthetic Biology) ................................................................ 13Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery .................................................. 13Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering ....................................................... 13Biomechanics (see also Ergonomics, Fluid Mechanics, Injury

Biomechanics, Neuroengineering, Nonlinear Dynamicsand Control) ......................................................................................... 13

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Biomedical Engineering (see also Biomaterials and TissueEngineering, Biomechanics, Computer-Aided Design andManufacturing, Computer Science, Energy, Imaging Science,Injury Biomechanics) ............................................................................ 15

Biomedical Engineering ...................................................................... 15, 16Biomedical Imaging (see also Optical Imaging) ....................................... 17Biomedical Imaging .................................................................................. 17Biomedical Microfluidics ........................................................................... 17Biomedicine (see Electronics) .................................................................. 17Biometrics (see Computer Vision) ............................................................ 17Bionanomedicine (see Polymers) ............................................................. 17Bioremediation (see Environmental Engineering) .................................... 17Brain-inspired Computer Architecture....................................................... 17Bridge Design ........................................................................................... 17Cancer (see Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging,

Biomedical Microfluids) ........................................................................ 18Carbon Sequestration, Mineral and Energy Resources (see Mining,

Natural Gas/Coal Mining) ..................................................................... 18Catalysis ................................................................................................... 18Cell Biomechanics (see Synthetic Biology) .............................................. 18Cellular Engineering (see Synthetic Biology) ........................................... 18Ceramics .................................................................................................. 19Chaos (see Fluid Mechanics, Nonlinear Dynamics and Control) ............. 19Chemical Engineering .............................................................................. 19Civil Engineering....................................................................................... 19Climate Change (see Energy, Transportation) ......................................... 20Cloud Computing (see Energy Systems) ................................................. 20Coal Gasification (see Computational Fluid Dynamics) ........................... 20Coal Mining (see Mining) .......................................................................... 20Coastal Engineering (see also Geotechnical Engineering) ...................... 20Coastal Engineering ................................................................................. 20Cognitive Radio (see Wireless Networks) ................................................ 21Combustion (see Advanced Diagnostics, Control Systems,

Energy Systems, Fire Science, Heat Transfer) .................................... 21Communications (see also Computer and Communications

Engineering, Athanas Wireless Networks, Inc. .................................... 21Communications ....................................................................................... 21Complex Networks (see Transportation) .................................................. 21Complex System Prognosis (see Mechanics of Advanced Materials)...... 21Composites............................................................................................... 21Computational Biology (see also Biomedical Engineering) ...................... 21Computational Biology.............................................................................. 22Computational Biology Bioinformatics ...................................................... 22Computational Fluid Dynamics (see Coastal Engineering) ...................... 22Computational Fluid Dynamics ........................................................... 22, 23Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer ................................... 23Computational Materials Science ............................................................. 23Computational Mechanics (see Fluid-Structure Interaction)..................... 24Computational Multiscale Methods (see Computational Fluid

Mechanics) ........................................................................................... 24Computational Science............................................................................. 24Computational Science and Engineering (see Computational Fluid

Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Computer Science, Data Mining,Parallel Computing) .............................................................................. 24

Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing ............................................ 25Computer and Communications Engineering ........................................... 25Computer Engineering........................................................................ 26, 27Computer-Generated Holography (see Holography)................................ 27Computer Science (see also Computer Engineering) .............................. 27Computer Science ........................................................................ 27, 28, 29Computer Security (see Software Engineering, Software Systems) ........ 29Computer Simulation (see Materials) ....................................................... 29Computer Systems (see Computer Science, Power Electronics) ............ 29Computers (see also Computer Science, Optimization)........................... 29


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Computers ................................................................................................ 29 Computer Vision (see also Machine Learning) ......................................... 30Computer Vision ....................................................................................... 30Computing (see Computer Science, Computer and Communications

Engineering, Networking ...................................................................... 31Concrete (see Bridge Design, Construction Materials) ............................ 31Construction (see Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics) ................ 31Construction Engineering and Management ............................................ 31Construction Materials (see also Wood Products in Construction) .......... 31Construction Materials .............................................................................. 31Construction Safety (see Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics,

Wood Products in Construction)........................................................... 32Contaminants (see Environmental Engineering) ...................................... 32Control Systems ....................................................................................... 32Control System Security ........................................................................... 32Control Theory (see also Autonomous Systems) ..................................... 32Control Theory .......................................................................................... 32Control Theory / Autonomous Systems .................................................... 33Corrosion Control ..................................................................................... 33Crash Safety (see Biomechanics) ............................................................ 33Cyber Security (see also Computer Engineering) .................................... 33Cyber Security .......................................................................................... 33Dam Engineering (see Geotechnical Engineering) .................................. 34Data Mining (see also Advanced Manufacturing) ..................................... 34Data Mining .............................................................................................. 34Databases (see Computer Science)......................................................... 34Decision Making (see Optimization, Stimulation) ..................................... 34Decision Making in Organizations and Complex Systems ....................... 34Decision Making Under Uncertainty (see Investment) ............................. 34Design (see Engineering Education) ........................................................ 34Digital Signal Processing .................................................................... 34, 35Distance Learning (see Instructional Technology) .................................... 35Distribution (see Logistics) ....................................................................... 35Dreaming (see Brain-Inspired Computer Architecture)............................. 35Drug Delivery (see Biomechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Polymer and

Colloid Chemistry) ................................................................................ 35Drug Design.............................................................................................. 35Durability (see Mechanics of Materials).................................................... 35Dynamics (see Aerospace Engineering, Fluid Mechanics) ...................... 35Dynamical Systems .................................................................................. 36Dynamics and Control .............................................................................. 36Dynamics, Vibrations, Controls (see also Nonlinear Dynamics

and Control) ......................................................................................... 36Dynamics, Vibrations, Controls ................................................................ 36Earthquake Engineering (See also Structural Engineering,

Geotechnical Engineering) ................................................................... 37Earthquake Engineering ........................................................................... 37Ecological Engineering ............................................................................. 37Elasticity (see Mechanics of Materials) .................................................... 37Electric Power..................................................................................... 37, 38Electric Vehicles (see Automotive Powertrains) ....................................... 38Electromagnetics (see also Energy Conversion Systems) ....................... 38Electromagnetics ...................................................................................... 38Electronic Textiles (see Computer Engineering) ...................................... 38Electronics .......................................................................................... 38, 39Embedded Systems (see Computer Engineering) ................................... 39Energy (see also Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery,

Computational Fluid Dynamics, Structures and Materials,Transportation) ..................................................................................... 39

Energy ...................................................................................................... 39Energy and Materials (see also Mechanics of Materials) ......................... 40Energy and Materials................................................................................ 40Energy Conversion Systems .................................................................... 40


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Energy Harvesting (see Multifunctional Materials and Systems,Nonlinear Dynamics, Thermal Management) ....................................... 41

Energy Management (see Fluids and Acoustics) ..................................... 41Energy Storage and Conversion .............................................................. 41Energy Systems (see also Automotive Powertrains / Energy

Systems ............................................................................................... 41Energy Systems ....................................................................................... 41Engineering (see also Environment, Transportation) ............................... 42Engineering Design .................................................................................. 42Engineering Education (see also Machine Health Monitoring,

Motivation, and Problem Solving Environments) ................................. 42Engineering Education ................................................................. 42, 43, 44Environment (see also Air Pollution, Transportation)................................ 44Environment ................................................................................. 44, 45, 46Environmental Engineering ................................................................ 46, 47Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics ......................................................... 47Environment and Nanotechnology ........................................................... 47Ergonomics (see also Human Factors / Ergonomics) .............................. 48Ergonomics............................................................................................... 48Estimation Theory (see Autonomous Systems) ........................................ 48Falls (see Materials, Biomechanics) ......................................................... 48Fiber Optics (see Photonics, Materials).................................................... 48File and Storage Systems ........................................................................ 48Finite Element Method / Computational Mechanics ................................. 49Fire Science and Combustion .................................................................. 49Flooding (see Water) ................................................................................ 49Fluid Dynamics (see also Mechanics of Thin and Flexible Structures,

Nonlinear Dynamics) ............................................................................ 49Fluid Dynamics ................................................................................... 49, 50Fluid Dynamics and Diagnostics .............................................................. 50Fluid Mechanics (see also Computational Fluid Dynamics, High-End

Parallel Computing) .............................................................................. 50Fluid Mechanics.................................................................................. 50, 51Fluid Mechanics / Heat Transfer ............................................................... 51Fluid-Structure Interaction ........................................................................ 51Fluids and Acoustics ................................................................................. 51Fluvial Forms and Processes (see Environment) ..................................... 52Flywheels (see Machine Health Monitoring)............................................. 52Fracture Mechanics (see Mechanics of Materials) ................................... 52Fuel Cells (see Automotive Powertrains, Energy Systems, Mechanics

of Materials, Polymers) ........................................................................ 52Fusion Energy Science (see Plasma Physics) ......................................... 52Game Theory (see Decision Making in Organizations, Wireless

Communications and Networks, Wireless Networks) .......................... 52Game Theory ............................................................................................ 52Gas Turbines ............................................................................................ 52Gene-Based Therapy (see Biomedical Engineering) ............................... 53Gears / Transmissions (see Vibration and Dynamics) .............................. 53Genome Analysis (see Computer Science) .............................................. 53Genomics (see Algorithms, Computational Biology) ................................ 53Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (see also Computer Science,

Transportation, Water).......................................................................... 53Geosciences (see Natural Gas / Coal Mining) ......................................... 53Geospacial Analysis (see Transportation) ................................................ 53Geotechnical Engineering .................................................................. 53, 54Global Warming (see Energy) .................................................................. 55Green Computing (see Computer Science, Parallel and Distributed

Systems and Applications) ................................................................... 55Greenhouse Emissions (see Air Pollution, Catalysis, Transportation)...... 55Groundwater ............................................................................................. 55Hardware Design (see Computer Engineering)........................................ 55Hazardous Waste (see Environment) ....................................................... 55Healthcare (see Decision Making in Organizations, Investment) ............. 56Hearing Protection (see Human Factors Engineering) ............................. 56


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Heat Transfer (see Biomedical Engineering, Computational FluidDynamics and High-End, Parallel Computing) ..................................... 56

Heat Transfer ............................................................................................ 56High Performance Computing (see Computational Fluid Dynamics

and High-End Parallel Computing, Computational Science,Computer Architecture, Computer Science, File and StorageSystems, Optimization, Parallel and Distributed Systems,Parallel Computing) .............................................................................. 56

Higher Education (see Engineering Education)........................................ 57High Speed Rail (see Air Transportation and Airport Engineering)........... 57Holography ............................................................................................... 57Homeland Security (see Electronics) ....................................................... 57Human-Computer Interaction (see also Computer Science,

Virtual Environments) ........................................................................... 57Human-Computer Interaction ............................................................. 57, 58Human Factors Engineering (see also Augmented Reality,

Ergonomics, Industrial Hygiene) .......................................................... 58Human Factors Engineering ..................................................................... 58Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics / Acoustics............................. 59Human Factors Engineering / Ergonomics ............................................... 59Hybrid Vehicles (see Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems)............ 60Hydrodynamics ......................................................................................... 60Hydrology (see also Ecological Engineering, Engineering Education,

Environment, Environmental and Fluvial Hydraulics) ........................... 60Hydrology ................................................................................................. 60Image Processing (see Computer Vision) ................................................ 60Imaging Science ....................................................................................... 60Indoor Air Pollution (see Air Pollution, Environment, Industrial

Hygiene). .............................................................................................. 61Industrial and Systems Engineering (see also Logistics) ......................... 61Industrial and Systems Engineering ......................................................... 61Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Engineering ............... 61Industrial Engineering, Simulation, Systems Modeling............................. 61Industrial Hygiene ..................................................................................... 62Industrial Systems and Management Engineering ................................... 62Infectious Disease Transmission (see Air Pollution) ................................. 62Information Technology (see Computer Science, Geographic

Information Systems ............................................................................ 62Infrastructure (see Pavements) ................................................................ 62Infrastructure Development (see Public-Private Partnerships)................. 62Infrastructure Management (see Public-Private Partnerships) ................. 62Injury Biomechanics ................................................................................. 62Instructional Technology ........................................................................... 63Instrumentation (see Gas Turbines) ......................................................... 63Investment ................................................................................................ 63K-12 Engineering Education (see Machine Health Mentoring)................. 63Landfills (see Geotechnical Engineering) ................................................. 63Landmine Detection (see Multifunctional Materials and Systems) ........... 63Ionospheric and Space Physics ............................................................... 63Logistics.................................................................................................... 64Machine Health Monitoring and Structural Health Monitoring (A)

and Engineering Education (B) ............................................................ 64Machine Learning (see also Computer Vision) ......................................... 65Machine Learning ..................................................................................... 65Macromolecules and Interfaces (see Polymers) ...................................... 65Magnetic Bearings (see Machine Health Monitoring) ............................... 65Manufacturing (see also Computer-Aided Design and

Manufacturing) .................................................................................... 65Manufacturing ........................................................................................... 65Manufacturing Design (see also Engineering Design) ............................. 65Manufacturing Processes / Systems (see Advanced Manufacturing) ...... 65Manufacturing Systems (see also Logistics) ............................................ 65Manufacturing Systems ............................................................................ 66Marine Renewable Energy (see Coastal Engineering)............................. 66


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Materials (see Construction Materials, Mechanics of Materials, Membranes) ......................................................................................... 66

Materials ....................................................................................... 66, 67, 68Mathematical Analysis (see Optimization, Stimulation) ............................ 68Mechanical Engineering ........................................................................... 68Mechanical Systems (see Vibrations and Dynamics) ............................... 69Mechanics of Advanced Materials (see also Mechanics

of Materials) ......................................................................................... 69Mechanics of Advanced Materials ............................................................ 69Mechanics of Materials (see also Composites, Mechanics

of Thin and Flexible Structures) ........................................................... 69Mechanics of Materials ....................................................................... 69, 70Mechanics of Thin and Flexible Structures ............................................... 70Membranes............................................................................................... 71Metallurgy ................................................................................................. 71Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) (see Electronics, Finite

Element and Method, Fluid Mechanics, Multifunctional Materials) ...... 71Microelectronics (see Materials) ............................................................... 72Microfluidics (see Biomedical Engineering, Electronics) .......................... 72Microscale Gas Simulations (see Computational Fluid Dynamics) ......... 72Mineral Processing ................................................................................... 72Mining ................................................................................................. 72, 73Mining and Minerals Engineering / Environmental Engineering ............... 74Mixing (see also Fluid Mechanics) ........................................................... 74Modeling and Analysis (see Optimization)................................................ 74Molecular Biology (see Environmental Engineering) ................................ 74Molecular Level Simulations (see Finite Element Method /

Computational Mechanics) ................................................................... 74Molecular Modeling (see Computational Science) ................................... 74Motivation ................................................................................................. 74Multifunctional Materials and Systems ..................................................... 74Multimedia (see Computers) .................................................................... 75Multiscale Computing (see Fluid-Structure Interaction)............................ 75Nanobiotechnology (see Materials) .......................................................... 75Nanocomposites ....................................................................................... 75Nanomaterials (see Multifunctional Materials).......................................... 75Nanoscale Materials Characterization ...................................................... 75Nanoscience (see Nuclear Engineering) .................................................. 75Nanostructures (see Finite Element Method /

Computational Mechanics, Multifunctional Materials) .......................... 76Nanotechnology (see Air Pollution, Biomedical Engineering, Computer

Engineering, Environment, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer,Materials, Optoelectronics, Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics) .......................................................................................... 76

Natural Gas / Coal Mining ........................................................................ 76Naval Architecture .................................................................................... 76Networks (see Computer Science, Wireless Networks) ........................... 76Network and Information Security ............................................................ 76Network Dynamics (see Construction Engineering and Management) .... 77Network Security (see also Network and Information Security) ............... 77Network Security ...................................................................................... 77Networking and Computing ...................................................................... 77Neuroengineering ..................................................................................... 77Noise (see Human Factors Engineering) ................................................. 78Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) (see Mechanics of

Advanced Materials) ............................................................................ 78Nonlinear Dynamics ................................................................................. 78Nonlinear Dynamics and Control .............................................................. 78Nuclear Power (see Two-Phase Flow) ..................................................... 78Nuclear Science and Engineering ...................................................... 78, 79Ocean (see Geotechnical Engineering).................................................... 79Operations Research (see also Game Theory, Industrial Engineering

Simulation, Optimization, Simulation) .................................................. 79Operations Research................................................................................ 79


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Optical Imaging......................................................................................... 79Optical Microscopy (see Optical Imaging) ................................................ 80Optical Sensing (see Advanced Diagnostics) ........................................... 80Optimization (see also Manufacturing, Transportation) ............................ 80Optimization.............................................................................................. 80Optoelectronics......................................................................................... 81Organizations (see Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

Engineering) ......................................................................................... 81Ozone (see Air Pollution, Catalysis) ......................................................... 81Parallel and Distributed Systems and Applications .................................. 81Parallel Computing ................................................................................... 81Pathogens (see Environmental Engineering) ........................................... 82Pattern Recognition (see Computer Vision, Machine Learning) ............... 82Pavements................................................................................................ 82Performance (see Industrial Engineering and Management Systems

Engineering) ......................................................................................... 82Personalized Medicine (see Biomedical Engineering) ............................. 82Photonics (see also Materials) ................................................................. 82Photonics .................................................................................................. 82Photonic Materials (see Optoelectronics, Materials) ................................ 83Plasma Physics ........................................................................................ 83Plasma Propulsion (see Plasma Physics) ................................................ 83Polymer and Colloid Chemistry ................................................................ 83Polymers (see also Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Mechanics

of Materials, Supercritical Fluids) ......................................................... 83Polymers................................................................................................... 84Power Electronics (see also Materials) .................................................... 84Power Electronics ............................................................................... 84, 85Power Systems Analysis .......................................................................... 85Power Systems Protection and Control .................................................... 85Precision Farming (see Biomass Harvest, Storage, and Delivery)........... 85Prestressed Concrete (see Bridge Design) .............................................. 86Problem Solving Environments ................................................................ 86Process System Engineering ................................................................... 86Production Planning (see Manufacturing, Logistics) ................................ 86Prognosis (see Mechanics of Advanced Materials) .................................. 86Propagation (see Radio Engineering) ...................................................... 86Proteomics (see Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) ................... 86Public-Private Partnerships ...................................................................... 86Radar (see Acoustics, Energy Conversion Systems, Ionospheric

and Space Physics) ............................................................................. 87Radiation (see Nuclear Engineering)........................................................ 87Radio Engineering .................................................................................... 87Radio Science (see Atmospheric and Radio Science,

Electromagnetics) ................................................................................ 87Rapid Prototyping (see Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing)...... 87Reacting Flows (see also Computational Fluid Dynamics) ...................... 87Reinforced Concrete (see Bridge Design) ................................................ 87Reliability and Quality Control .................................................................. 87Remote Sensing (see also Advanced Diagnostics) .................................. 87Remote Sensing ....................................................................................... 87Renewable Energy (see Power Electronics) ............................................ 88Robotics (see Autonomous Systems, Control Theory, Control Theory

/ Autonomous Systems, Dynamical Systems, Engineering Design, Mechanical Engineering) ...................................................................... 88

Robotics.................................................................................................... 88Rotor Dynamics (see also Machine Health Monitoring) ........................... 88Scientific Computing (see Data Mining) ................................................... 88Security (see Control System Security) .................................................... 88Sediment Transport (see Coastal Engineering)........................................ 88Semiconductor (see also Optoelectronics) ............................................... 88Semiconductor Materials and Devices ..................................................... 88Semiconductor Technology ...................................................................... 89Sensors (see Energy, Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics) ... 89


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Ship Design (see also Optimization, Semiconductor Materialsand Devices) ........................................................................................ 89

Ship Design .............................................................................................. 89Signal Processing (see Acoustics, Advanced Diagnostics, Computer

and Communications Engineering, Digital Signal Processing,Dynamics and Control, Electric Power) ................................................ 89

Simulation (see Software Engineering) .................................................... 90Simulation, Optimization ........................................................................... 90Six Sigma (see Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing) .................. 90Smart Grids (see Electric Power, Energy, Power Electronics) ................. 90Smart Materials (see Transportation, Vehicle Dynamics) ......................... 90Smart Materials and Structures ................................................................ 90Smart Structures (see Finite Element Method) ........................................ 90Software Engineering ......................................................................... 90, 91Software Systems............................................................................... 91, 92Soil (see also Civil Engineering) ............................................................... 92Solar and Renewables (see Energy) ........................................................ 92Solar Energy (see Energy, Energy and Materials) ................................... 92Solid Mechanics (see Construction Materials, Mechanics

of Materials) ......................................................................................... 92Space (see Atmospheric and Radio Science, Plasma Physics,

Remote Sensing) ................................................................................. 92Space Science.......................................................................................... 92Space Plasma Physics (see Plasma Physics) ......................................... 92Space Structures Analysis (see Aircraft) .................................................. 92Space Weather (see Ionospheric and Space Physics) ............................ 92Spacecraft Hardware and Instrumentation ............................................... 93Sports Biomechanics (see Biomechanics, Injury Biomechanics) ............. 93Statistical Signal Processing (see Advanced Manufacturing)................... 93Steel (see Structural Engineering and Design, Thin-Walled

Structures) ............................................................................................ 93Streams (see Ecological Engineering, Environment and Fluvial

Hydraulics) ........................................................................................... 93Structural Dynamics and Control (see Smart Materials

and Structures) ..................................................................................... 93Structural Engineering .............................................................................. 93Structural Engineering Design .................................................................. 94Structural Mechanics (see also Aircraft, Composites, Mechanics

of Materials, Thin-Walled Structures) ................................................... 94Structural Mechanics ................................................................................ 94Structural Safety and Reliability................................................................ 94Structural Stability (see Thin-Walled Structures) ...................................... 94Structures and Materials........................................................................... 95Supercritical Fluids ................................................................................... 95Supply Chain Management (see Logistics) .............................................. 95Surface Chemistry and Engineering ......................................................... 95Surface Science (see Catalyst) ................................................................ 96Sustainable Water .................................................................................... 96System Health Monitoring (SHM) (see Mechanics of Advanced

Materials) ............................................................................................. 96Systems Biology (see Computational Biology, Control Systems) ............. 96Systems and Signal Processing (see Biomedical Imaging) ..................... 96Synthetic Biology ...................................................................................... 96Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics (see also Mechanics

of Materials) ......................................................................................... 96Theoretical and Experimental Solid Mechanics........................................ 96Thermal Management .............................................................................. 97Thin-Walled Structures ............................................................................. 97Tires (see Vehicle Dynamics) ................................................................... 97Tissue Engineering (see also Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering,

Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Imaging, Materials, Neuroengineering) ............................................................................... 97

Tissue Engineering ................................................................................... 97Toxicology (see Environment) .................................................................. 98


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Transportation (see Air Transportation, Automotive Powertrains /Energy Systems, Combustion and Fire Science, Computer Science, Geospatial Decision Making, Vehicle Dynamics) ................................. 98

Transportation .................................................................................... 98, 99Turbulence (see Computational Fluid Dynamics and

High-End Parallel Computing) ............................................................ 100Turbulence and Turbulent Flows (see Aerodynamics and

Aeroacoustics) ................................................................................... 100Turbulence Modeling and Simulation (see Computational Fluid

Dynamics) .......................................................................................... 100Two-Phase Flow ..................................................................................... 100Uncertainty Quantification (see Computational Fluid Dynamics) ........... 100Underwater Acoustics (see Acoustics) ................................................... 100Underwater Vehicle Design (see Hydrodynamics) ................................. 100Unmanned Systems (see Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems,

Autonomous Systems, Control Theory, Fluid-StructureInteraction) ......................................................................................... 100

Uranium (see Mining) ............................................................................. 100User-Centered Design (see Augmented Reality) ................................... 100User Experience (UX) (see Augmented Reality) .................................... 100Vehicle Design (see Automotive Powertrains / Energy Systems)........... 100Vehicle Dynamics ........................................................................... 100, 101Verification and Validation of Computer Simulations (see

Computational Fluid Dynamics) ......................................................... 102Vibration (see also Dynamics, Dynamics and Control) .......................... 102Vibration ................................................................................................. 102Vibration and Dynamics (see also Autonomous Systems) ..................... 102Vibration and Dynamics .......................................................................... 102Virtual Reality (see also Augmented Reality) ......................................... 102Virtual Reality ......................................................................................... 103Viscoelasticity (see Mechanics of Materials) .......................................... 103Visualization (see Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction,

Materials, Problem Solving Environments) ........................................ 103VLSI (see Computer Engineering, Computers) ...................................... 103Waste Disposal (see Environment) ........................................................ 103Water (see also Computer Science, Corrosion Control, Groundwater,

Hydrology, Sustainable Water) ........................................................... 103Water .............................................................................................. 103, 104Water and Wastewater Management (see Environment) ....................... 104Water Quality (see also Corrosion Control, Environment,

Environmental Engineering, Hydrology) ............................................. 104Water Quality .......................................................................................... 104Watershed Management (see Ecological Engineering, Engineering

Education, Environment, Hydrology) .................................................. 104Wetlands (see Environment and Fluvial Hydraulics) .............................. 104Wind Loads (see Nonlinear Dynamics) .................................................. 104Wind Power (see Energy Systems) ........................................................ 104Wind Turbines (see Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics) ......................... 105Wireless Communication (see Communications) ................................... 105Wireless Communications and Networking ............................................ 105Wireless Networking ............................................................................... 105Wireless Networks (see also Computer Science, Networks,

Network and Information Security) ..................................................... 105Wireless Networks .................................................................................. 105Work Place Design (see Ergonomics) .................................................... 106Wood Products in Construction .............................................................. 106


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Abaid, Nicole ............................................................................ 36, 88Abbott, Lynn ............................................................................. 17, 30Achenie, Luke ................................................................................. 19Adams, Stephanie G. ..................................................................... 42Adel, Greg T. ................................................................................... 72Agah, Masoud ........................................................ 17, 38, 57, 71, 72Agnew, Michael J...................................................................... 13, 48Ahmadian, Mehdi........................................................ 10, 90, 98, 100Al-Haik, Marwan ................................................................. 76, 89, 96Aning, Alex O. ................................................................................. 71Asryan, Levon V. .......................................................... 76, 81, 83, 88Athanas, Peter ............................................................... 21, 25, 31,89Back, Godmar................................................................................. 27Bailey, Scott ........................................................................ 10, 87, 92Baird, Donald G. ........................................................... 17, 52, 65, 84Baker, Joseph B.H. ......................................................................... 92Balci, Osman .................................................................................. 90Batra, Dhruv ............................................................. 9, 11, 30, 65, 82Batra, Romesh C. ................................................... 49, 71, 74, 76, 90Battaglia, Francine................................................... 20, 22 39, 50, 87Baumann, William T. ........................................................... 21, 32, 96Beex. A.A. (Louis) .................................................................... 34, 89Behkam, Bahareh ........................................................................... 88Benham, Brian L. .......................................................................... 104Benson, Richard ............................................................................. 94Bickford, Lissett Ramirez .................................................... 15, 18, 76Bish, Douglas R. ............................................................................. 79Bish, Ebru K........................................................................ 34, 56, 63Boardman, Gregory D. ..................................................... 44, 98, 104Bøhn, Jan Helge ........................................................... 15, 25, 87, 90Bowman, Doug A. ................................................................... 57, 103Brandon, Thomas L. ................................................................. 34, 53Broadwater, Robert......................................................................... 37Brown, Alan J.................................................................................. 89Brown, Eugene F. ..................................................................... 50, 76Butt, Ali R. ................................................................................. 48, 56Camelio, James A..................................................................... 66, 86Cameron, Kirk W. ............................................................... 55, 56, 81Canfield, Robert A. ........................................................................... 7Cao, Guohua .................................................................................. 17Cao, Yang ....................................................................................... 28Casali, John G. ......................................................... 5, 48, 56, 59, 78Case, Scott W. .................................................. 40, 66, 69, 83, 92, 96Charney, Finley A. .................................................................... 37, 93Chen, Ing-Ray .......................................................................... 31, 77Clark, David E................................................................................. 19Corcoran, Sean G........................................................................... 66Cox, David F. ............................................................................ 18, 96DaSilva, Luiz............................................................... 21, 52, 76, 105Davalos, Rafael V. .................................................................... 17, 18Davis, Richey M........................................................................ 35, 83de la Garza, Jesus M...................................................................... 31De Vita, Raffaella ...................................................................... 13, 35Devenport, William J......................................................... 6, 100, 105Dietrich, Andrea M. ................................................................. 44, 104Dillard, David A. ................................................ 5, 35, 52, 69, 83, 103Diller, T.E. ..................................................................... 15, 21, 39, 89Dingus, Thomas A. ......................................................................... 58Dowling, Norman E. .................................................................. 70, 92Druschitz, Alan P. ............................................................................ 71Ducker, William ............................................................................... 95Dudek, Daniel M. ........................................................................... 13Duke, John C. Jr. .................................................... 21, 69, 78, 86, 96Duma, Stefan.......................................................... 10, 13, 15, 62, 93Duncan, J. Michael ................................................................... 34, 53Dymond, Randy .......................................................... 49, 53, 62, 103Earle, Gregory D............................................................................. 93Easterling, W. Samuel .............................................................. 93, 94

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Easton, Zachary M. ........................................................ 60, 103, 104Eatherton, Matthew R. .............................................................. 37, 93Edwards, Marc A. ........................................................... 33, 103, 104Ekkad, Srinath V. ...................................................................... 41, 97Ellingson, Steven W.............................................................. 9, 86, 87Ellis, Kimberly ......................................................... 35, 64, 65, 86, 95Evrenosoglu, Cansin Yaman .......................................................... 85Farhood, Mazen ....................................................................... 33, 88Farkas, Diana ................................................................................. 23Feng, Wu ........ 11, 12, 15, 24, 28, 29, 35, 53, 55, 56, 57, 62, 76, 105Ferris, John B. .............................................................................. 101Filz, George .................................................................. 34, 37, 54, 63Flintsch, Gerardo W. ................................................................. 62, 82Fox, Edward A. ............................................................. 28, 29, 31, 62Fuller, Chris R. .................................................................... 5, 10, 100Gabbard, Joe ............................................................ 10, 58, 100, 102Gabler, Clay .............................................................................. 14, 33Garvin, Michael J. ..................................................................... 62, 86Goff, Richard M. ...................................................................... 34, 42Goldstein, Aaron S.............................................................. 13, 15, 83Gracanin, Denis .............................................................................. 57Grasley, Zachary ................................................................ 31, 66, 92Green, Russell A................................................................. 34, 37, 54Grisso, Robert “Bobby” ................................................... 8, 13, 39, 85Grizzard, Thomas J. ............................................................... 46, 104Ha, Dong S. .................................................................................... 39Haghighat, Alireza .......................................................................... 78Hajj, Muhammad R. .................................................... 41, 49, 78, 104Hancock, Kathleen L. ............................................................... 53, 98Hanna, James .................................................................... 49, 69, 70He, Zhen ......................................................................................... 45Heath, Lenwood S. ............................................................... 9, 12, 53Hendricks, Scott L. ................................................................. 36, 102Hession, W. Cully ............................................. 9, 45, 52, 60, 93, 104 Hester, Erich T. ............................................................. 9, 47, 60, 104Hin, Celine ...................................................................................... 41Hindman, Daniel ..................................................................... 31, 106Holmes, Douglas .................................................... 37, 69, 70, 83, 92Hou, Thomas ................................................................................ 105Hsiao, Michael S............................................................... 26, 55, 103Hudait, Mantu K. ....................................................................... 88, 89Huxtable, Scott ......................................................................... 56, 76Irish, Jennifer L. .............................................................................. 20Jain, Manish ......................................................................... 9, 52, 79Jin, Ran .......................................................................................... 65Jung, Sunghwan ....................................................................... 35, 49Kafura, Dennis .......................................................................... 29, 91Kapania, Rakesh K. .......................................................... 6, 8, 92, 94Karmis, Michael .......................................................... 18, 20, 72, 100Kasarda, Mary .................................................. 42, 52, 63, 64, 65, 88Kennedy, John M. ..................................................................... 21, 94Kiran, Erdogan.......................................................................... 83, 95Kleiner Brian M. .................................................................. 31, 32, 58Knight, David B. ........................................................................ 43, 57Knocke, William R. ................................................................. 45, 103Kochersberger, Kevin ..................................................... 10, 100, 102Koelling, C. Patrick ................................................................... 61, 79Kong, Zhenyu “James” ................................................... 6, 34, 65, 93Kornhauser, Alan A. ............................................................ 21, 41, 52Kriz, Ronald D. ................................................................. 29, 66, 103Lai, Jason ....................................................................................... 84Lattimer, Brian .................................................................... 21, 49, 98Lee, Fred C................................................................... 29, 84, 88, 90Lee, Yong W. .................................................................................. 15Leon, Roberto ................................................................................. 37Leonessa, Alexander ........................................................ 11, 88, 100Lesko, John J. “Jack”................................................................ 39, 95Little, John C......................................................................... 8, 46, 61Liu, Y.A. .......................................................................................... 86Liu, Yang ................................................................................. 78, 100Lohani, Vinod K. ............................................................... 43, 60, 104


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Lou, Wenjing ..................................................................... 76, 77, 105Lowe, K. Todd ................................................................................. 50Lu, Chang ....................................................................................... 15Lu, Chang-Tien ............................................................. 29, 34, 53, 98Lu, Guo-Quan (G.Q.) .......................................................... 67, 72, 84Lu, Kathy .................................................................................. 67, 76Luttrell, Gerald H. ........................................................................... 72Luxbacher, Kray........................................................................ 20, 73Ma, Lin .................................................................. 5, 7, 21, 80, 87, 89MacKenzie, Allen B............................................................. 9, 52, 105Madigan, Michael L. ................................................. 8, 14, 15, 48, 93Manteghi, Majid ........................................................................ 38, 87Marand, Eva ............................................................................. 66, 71Marr, Linsey C. ............................................. 8, 44, 55, 61, 62, 76, 81Martin, Stephen M. ................................................................... 19, 38Martin, Tom ..................................................................................... 26Matusovich, Holly M. ................................................................ 42, 74McCrickard, D. Scott ....................................................................... 57McCue-Weil, Leigh ......................................................................... 76McNair, Lisa DuPree....................................................................... 43Mili, Lamine M. ................................................................... 38, 89, 90Mitchell, James K. .................................................................... 19, 92Moen, Cristopher D. ........................................................... 93, 94, 97Moglen, Glenn E. .......................................................................... 104Müeller, Rolf...............................................................................11, 12Murali, T.M. ................................................................... 12, 22, 53, 96Murayama, Mitsuhiro (Mitsu) .......................................................... 75Murray-Tuite, Pamela ..................................................................... 98Nachlas, Joel A. .............................................................................. 87Nain, Amrinder Singh................................................................ 67, 97Nazhandali, Leyla ........................................................................... 35Nelson, Douglas ................................. 10, 11, 38, 41, 52, 60, 98, 100Neu, Wayne L. ........................................................................ 60, 100Ng, Wing-fai ...................................................................... 5, 6, 41, 51Ngo, Khai ........................................................................................ 85North, Chris ...................................................................... 12, 58, 103Novak, John................................................................ 42, 46, 55, 104Nussbaum, Maury A. .............................................. 8, 13, 48, 58, 106O’Brien, Walter F. ..................................................................... 52, 63Odendaal, Willem G. .......................................................... 38, 40, 87Onufriev, Alexey ...................................................................11, 24, 74Orlowski, Marius ............................................................................. 89Oyama, S. Ted .................................................................... 18, 55, 81Paretti, Marie C............................................................................... 44Parikh, Devi .............................................................. 9, 30, 60, 65, 82Park, Jung-Min ............................................................................... 77Parker, Robert .............................................................. 5, 53, 69, 102Pasupathy, Rahgu ........................................................ 34, 68, 79, 90Patil, Mayuresh ................................................................................. 7Patterson, Cameron D. ....................................................... 32, 56, 88Paul, JoAnn M. ......................................................................... 17, 35Paul, Mark ................................................................................ 51, 76Pérez-Quiñones, Manuel A............................................................. 58Philen, Michael ................................................................... 12, 90, 93Pickrell, Gary .................................................... 48, 68, 75, 76, 82, 83Pierson, Mark A. ................................................................. 75, 79, 87Pitchumani, Ranga ................................................................... 40, 92Poon, Ting-Chung................................................................. 5, 27, 57Prakash, B. Aditya .....................................................................11, 24Priya, Shashank ......................................... 12, 41, 63, 71, 74, 75, 76Pruden, Amy ............................................... 9, 17, 32, 47, 74, 82, 104Rahman, Saifur....................................................... 20, 39, 55, 90, 92Rahmandad, Hazhir........................................................................ 61Rakha, Hesham A................. 8, 11, 20, 21, 39, 42, 44, 55, 80, 90, 99Ramakrishnan, Naren............................................. 11, 12, 24, 34, 88Reed, Jeffrey H. ...................................................................... 21, 105Ribbens, Cal ....................................................................... 24, 56, 81Ripepi, Nino ........................................................................ 18, 53, 76Roan, Michael............................................................... 5, 87, 89, 100Roberts-Wollmann, Carin L. ......................................... 17, 31, 86, 87Rodriguez-Marak, Adrian .......................................................... 37, 54


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Rojiani, Kamal B. ............................................................................ 94Ross, Shane D. ............................................................ 13, 19, 36, 78Roy, Christopher J. ............................................... 6, 22, 72, 100, 102Ruder, Warren C. ................................................................ 13, 18, 96Ruohoniemi, J. Michael ...................................................... 63, 87, 92Ryder, Barbara G...................................................................... 29, 91Rylander, Marissa Nichole ............................................ 15, 18, 56, 97Sandu, Adrian ........................................................................... 24, 56Sandu, Corina............................................................................... 101Sarver, Emily .................................................................................. 74Scales, Glenda R...................................................................... 35, 63Scales, Wayne A. ................................................................. 9, 87, 92Schaumont, Patrick ........................................................................ 26Schetz, Joseph A. ............................................................................. 7Seidel, Gary Don ............................................................................ 75Shaffer, Clif ................................................................. 12, 42, 86, 103Sherali, Hanif D. ............................................... 29, 34, 68, 74, 79, 80Shukla, Sandeep K. ................................................ 27, 33, 39, 55, 76Sinha, Sunil ............................................................................ 96, 103Socha, Jake .................................................................................... 14 Southward, Steve C.......................................................... 36, 89, 102Srinivasan, Bhuvana........................................................... 52, 83, 92Staples, Anne E. ....................................................................... 23, 24Stark, Nina ........................................................................... 20, 54 79Stilwell, Dan .................................................................. 11, 32, 48, 88Stremler, Mark A. .......................................... 9, 13, 19, 35, 51, 71, 74Sturges, Robert H., Jr. ........................................................ 42, 65, 88Sultan, Cornel ............................................................................. 7, 35Tafti, Danesh......................................................... 23, 24, 50, 56, 100Taheri, Saied........................................................................... 97, 101Tam, Kwa-Sur ................................................................................. 41Tarazaga, Pablo A. ....................................................................... 102Taylor, G. Don ........................................................................... 61, 64Taylor, John E. .......................................................................... 31, 77Thompson, Theresa (Tess) Wynn .............................. 37, 60, 93, 104Thorp, James S. ............................................................................. 85Tilevich, Eli ..................................................................................... 92Trani, Antonio A. ................................................................... 8, 57, 98Triantis, Konstantinos (Kostas) ....................................................... 62Tront, Joseph D. ............................................................... 29, 75, 103Van Aken, Eileen ................................................................ 61, 81, 82VandeVord, Pamela J. ........................................................ 13, 77, 97Verbridge, Scott S......................................................... 16, 18, 72, 76Vick, Brian ...................................................................................... 56Viehland, Dwight ......................................................................... 5, 68Vikesland, Peter ....................................................................... 47, 76Walters, Robert W. ......................................................................... 50Wang, Anbo .............................................................................. 48, 82Wang, Chao .................................................................................... 27Wang, Kevin G. .......................................................... 24, 51, 75, 100Wang, Linbing ................................................................................. 99Wang, Yue “Joe” ................................................. 6, 12, 18, 82, 96, 97Watson, Layne T. .................................................... 12, 35, 56, 80, 89Wernz, Christian ................................................................. 34, 52, 56Westman, Erik C. ...................................................................... 20, 73Whittington, Abby R. ....................................................................... 97Wicks, Alfred L. .................................................................... 10, 68, 88Widdowson, Mark A. ............................................................... 55, 103Williams, Kimberly Forsten ............................................................. 16Williams, Christopher................................................ 5, 25, 65, 87, 90Woolsley, Craig A. ...................................................... 10, 32, 88, 100Wyatt, Christopher L. ................................................................ 15, 60Xiao, Henry ................................................................... 20, 22, 66, 88Xuan, Jason J. .............................................................. 16, 18, 21, 53Yao, Danfeng (Daphne) .................................................................. 33Yoon, Roe-Hoan ....................................................................... 20, 73Young-Corbett, Deborah Elspeth ........................................ 58, 61, 62Yu, Guoqiang .......................................................................11, 12, 86 Zhang, Liqing ............................................................................ 22, 53Zhu, Yizheng....................................................................... 17, 79, 80


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