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.

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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
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Edward Berger
Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s): Mechanics and Vibrations
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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
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Debasish (Deba) Dutta
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Area(s): Design
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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