Purdue ME welcomes 12 new faculty

Purdue ME welcomes 12 new faculty

The School of Mechanical Engineering is extensively expanding faculty to meet the needs of a growing student population and student programs and services. ME is pleased to announce the addition of 12 new faculty members for 2014-15 across 9 research areas.


 

Arezoo Ardekani
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Fluid Mechanics; Bioengineering
Research Interests:  Fluid dynamics; Biofluid dynamics; Multiphase flows; Non-newtonian fluid dynamics; Microfluidics; Complex fluids


 

Edward Berger
Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Mechanics and Vibrations
 


 

Ilias Bilionis
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Mechanics and Vibrations
Research Interests:  Uncertainty propagation; Inverse problems; Propagation of information across scales; Optimal learning; Materials by design


 

Debasish (Deba) Dutta
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Design


 

Marcial Gonzalez
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Mechanics and Vibrations; Solid Mechanics
Research Interests:  Development of predictive, mechano-chemical models and multi-scale numerical methods that provide new insight into the behavior of materials and structures


 

Neera Jain
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Combustion, Energy Utilization, and Thermodynamics; Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration; Systems, Measurement, and Control
Research Interests:  Dynamic modeling and optimal control; Thermodynamics—based optimization; Integrated energy management and storage in distributed energy systems and building systems


 

Guang Lin
Assistant Professor Of Mathematics and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Fluid Mechanics & Propulsion
Research Interests:  Predictive science; Uncertainty quantification; Scientific computing; Bayes statistics; Mathematical biology; Computational fluid dynamics; Stochastic multiscale modeling


 

Guillermo Paniagua
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Fluid Mechanics and Propulsion
Research Interests:  Compact high speed turbo machinery; High speed propulsion; Development of measurement techniques and data processing


 

Carlo Scalo
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Fluid Mechanics and Propulsion
Research Interests:  Large eddy and direct simulations; Turbulent combustion; Thermoacoustics; Non-linear acoustics; Heat and mass transfer; Physical oceanography and limnology; Numerical methods for complex geometries


 

Benxin Wu
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Manufacturing and Materials Processing; Systems, Measurement, and Control
Research Interests:  Laser-matter interactions; Laser-induced plasma and laser-plasma interaction; Laser applications in manufacturing, materials processing, and other areas


 

Song Zhang
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Systems, Measurement, and Control
Research Interests:  Multi-scale super fast 3D optical sensing; Biophotonic imaging; Optical metrology; Machine/computer vision; 3D video telepresence and processing; Virtual reality; Human computer interaction


 

Kejie Zhao
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s):  Mechanics and Vibrations
Research Interests:  Chemomechanics of energy-storage materials; In-situ experimentation; First-principles and molecular dynamics simulations on material science; Mechanics of metallic glasses