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Mansoor AbdulhakCS
  • Software engineering
  • Requirement engineering
  • Ontologies
  • Semantic web
  • Onformation recommendation
  • E-learning
m.hak@ou.edu 
Handan Acar

SBME

  • Self-assembling nanoparticles for site-specific delivery platforms
  • The tracking of intracellular interactions using active cargo
  • Activated self-assembly strategies for disrupting malignant cells.
hacar@ou.edu325-2186
Ahmad Al-DouriSCBME
  • Process and Systems Safety
  • Process Systems Engineering
  • Risk and Reliability Analysis
  • Sustainability and the Energy Transition
  • Hydrogen Technologies Risk and Reliability
aaldouri1@ou.edu 
Janet AllenISE
  • Design of Evolving Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
  • Simulation Based Design
  • Managing Uncertainty in Design
  • Sustainability
  • Design Pedagogy
janet.allen@ou.edu325-3721
Mohammed AtiquzzamanCS
  • Internet of Things
  • Vehicular Communications
  • Computer networks
  • Internet protocols over satellite networks
  • Wireless networks and optical communications
  • Sensor Networks
  • UAV
atiq@ou.edu325-8077
Peter AttarAME
  • Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
  • Computational Methods in Aeroelasticity
  • Reduced Order Modeling
  • Nonlinear System Identification
  • Stochastic Methods in Nonlinear Aeroelasticity
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Biomechanics
peter.attar@ou.edu325-1749
Vivek BajpaiSCBME vivek.k.bajpai-1@ou.edu 
David BaldwinAME
  • Mechanical Design
  • Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics
  • Probabilistic Design Methods
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Vehicle-Structure Interaction
  • Reliability Analysis
baldwin@ou.edu325-1090
Kash BarkerISE
  • Risk and Reliability Analysis
  • Systems Engineering
  • Analytics
kashbarker@ou.edu325-3721
Ronald BarnesECE
  • Computer architecture
  • Microarchitecture
  • Compiler code generation and optimization
  • Program analysis and mapping applications to novel and accelerator architectures.
  • Run-time analysis and optimization
ron@ou.edu325-1879
Srikanth BashettyAME
  • Dynamics and Control of Systems
  • Offshore Wind Technologies
  • Aircraft Design
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Engineering Education
srikanth.bashetty@ou.edu3254306
Chris BillingsAME
  • Metal Additive Manufacturing
  • Direct Light Processing Based 3D Printing
  • High-temperature FDM Manufacturing
  • In-Situ Process Control of AM Systems
  • Hybrid Manufacturing 
christopherbillings@ou.edu 
Sarah BreenSBME
  • Biomechanics, human motion, injury, and clinical rehabilitation
  • Technology enhanced learning
sabreen@ou.edu325-1543
Ngoc BuiSCBME
  • Water-energy-environment nexus
  • Sustainable separations
  • Advanced functional materials
  • Membrane materials and processes
  • Nanomaterials and nanotechnology
  • Matters across dynamical interfaces
  • Transport phenomena
ngoctbui21@ou.edu325-4037
Elizabeth ButlerCEES
  • In-situ groundwater remediation
  • natural attenuation
  • advanced oxidation processes for water recycling and reuse
ecbutler@ou.edu325-3606
Jie CaiAME
  • Grid-Interactive Building Controls
  • Modeling and Control of Thermal/Energy Systems
  • HVAC and Smart Buildings
  • Data-Driven Modeling
  • Intelligent Control Systems
jcai@ou.edu325-5390
Jie CaoCS
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Dialogue and Discourse
  • Structured Prediction
  • Trustworthy AI for Education and Healthcare
jie.cao@ou.edu 
Amy Cerato

CEES

  • Shrinkage characteristics of fine grained soils
  • Specific surface area influence on geotechnical engineering behavior
  • Shallow foundation behavior
  • Scale effects of shallow foundation-bearing capacity
  • Scale effects in determining friction angle using the direct shear box
  • Grouted and helical anchor capacity
acerato@ou.edu325-5625
Kuang-Hua ChangAME
  • Theoretical and Methodology Development:
  • Computational mechanics and material design for impact energy mitigation
  • Multi-scale modeling and simulation for nano-mechanics and material design
  • Design for mechanical fatigue and Fracture using XFEM and bridging scale methods
  • Modeling and simulation for manufacturing process, sheet metal forming
  • Reverse engineering and fast prototyping
khchang@ou.edu325-1746
Wei ChenSBME
  • Combination of laser irradiation and immunostimulation for treatment of metastatic tumors
  • Mechanism of local treatment induced systemic antitumor immune responses
  • Nanotechnology-based immunotherapy for cancer treatment
wei-r-chen@ou.edu325-1166
Qi ChengCS
  • Theoretical computer science
  • DNA/molecular computing
  • Cryptography
  • Computational number theory
qcheng@ou.edu325-1017
Samuel ChengECE Tulsa
  • Information Theory
  • Signal and Image Processing
samuel.cheng@ou.edu(918) 660-3234
John CleggSBME
  • Hierarchical synthesis and assembly of soft biomaterials for the sustained release of immunomodulators.
  • Development and application of engineered brain-tissue barrier models.
  • Evaluation of macrophage cell-based therapeutics that are delivered in tandem with an immunomodulatory scaffold. 
  • Translation of these therapeutics to treat brain inflammation (multiple sclerosis, traumatic injury, secondary brain damage) and brain cancer.
clegg@ou.edu325-5318
Steven P. CrossleySCBME
  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals
  • Hydrocarbon Conversion
  • Waste Plastics Conversion
  • Nanomaterials Synthesis
stevencrossley@ou.edu325-5930
J.R. CruzECE
  • Communications Signal Processing
  • Coding for Data Transmission and Storage
jcruz@ou.edu325-3281
Chenkai DaiAME
  • Medical device in Hearing and Balancing
  • Mechanics in aging or disorder ear
  • Computational modeling of ear
  • Testing and 3D printing medical material
chenkaidai@ou.edu325-3234
Christopher DaltonAME
  • Engineering Education
  • K12 STEM outreach
cdalton@ou.edu325-5513
Chad DavisECE
  • GPS and Differential GPS Augmentation Systems
  • Fuzzy Logic, PID, and Neural Network Control Systems
  • Automation and Data Acquisition Systems
weeb@ou.edu325-8962
Doga DemirelCS
  • Design, development, and validation of surgical simulators
  • Interactive Simulations
  • Extended Reality
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics
  • Haptics
  • Artificial Intelligence
doga@ou.edu 
Maya DentonDEAN m.hak@ou.edu 
Michael DetamoreSBME
  • Regenerative and translational medicine
  • Biomaterials
  • TMJ bioengineering.
detamore@ou.edu325-0789
Hanping DingAME
  • Hydrogen Production and related technologies (materials R&D, stack/modular demonstration)
  • Fuel Cells
  • Batteries
  • Electrocatalysis/membrane reactor/gas separation/high-temperature ceramics
  • Electrochemical Processing (natural gas direct conversion, CO2 electrochemical reduction, chemical synthesis)
  • Integrated Energy System
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Solid state ionics
  • Computational Modeling
hding@ou.edu325-1744
Lei DingSBME
  • Neural Engineering
  • Functional Neuroimaging Technologies including fMRI, EEG, and MEG
  • Neuromodulation and Neurofeedback
  • Neurological and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
  • Real-time Neural Interfacing Systems
  • Brain-Computer Interface
leiding@ou.edu325-4577
Dimitrios DiochnosCS
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Machine learning
  • Evolution
  • Reasoning with knowledge bases
  • Algorithms and complexity
diochnos@ou.edu325-2319
Doyle DoddISE
  • Auditory Neuroscience
  • Attention and Perception of Stimuli
  • Sensory Prosthesis
  • Animal Psychophysics
  • Engineering Education
dodd@ou.edu325-3721
Kendra DresbackCEES
  • Hydrodynamic modeling of coastal seas and oceans
  • Coupled meteorological/hydrologic/hydraulic model systems for coastal flooding
  • High-performance computing
  • Computational fluid dynamics and environmental fluid mechanics and finite element methods
  • Algorithm development for finite element methods
  • Applications in riverine environments for hydrodynamic and hydraulic models
dresback@ou.edu325-8529
David EbertECE
  • Visual analytics
  • Human-computer teaming
  • Trustable AI
  • Fundamental data science advances with targeted impact on energy and climate resiliency and sustainability
  • Defense and security
  • Health and digital humanities.
ebert@ou.edu 325-4338
Farnaz Zamani EsfahlaniSBME
  • Network neuroscience
  • Network science
  • Computational neuroscience
fzamani@ou.edu(405) 325-1881
Andrew H. FaggCS
  • Machine learning
  • Robotics
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Brain-machine interfaces
  • Interactive art 
andrewhfagg@gmail.com325-8606
Song FangCS
  • Wireless and Mobile System Security
  • Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (IoT) Security
  • Mobile Computing
  • Application of Machine Learning in Wireless and Mobile Systems
songf@ou.edu325-3536
Cliff FitzmorrisECE
  • Mixed Signal Circuits
  • Low Noise Voiceband Telephone Circuits and Firmware
cfitzmorris@ou.edu325-4329
Royce FloydCEES
  • Material property characterization and applications of innovative concrete materials
  • Bond of prestressing strands
  • Prestress losses
  • Camber and shear behavior of prestressed concrete members
  • Internal curing using lightweight aggregates
rfloyd@ou.edu325-1010
Reza FoudaziSCBME
  • Rheology of complex fluids
  • Polymers in/for environmental challenges
  • Soft matter: liquid crystals, suspensions, emulsions, nanoemulsions, microemulsions
  • Colloid and interface science
rfoudazi@ou.edu325-0465
Alex FrickensteinSBME
  • Engineering education
  • Single particle elemental analysis
  • Molecular diagnostics
africk256@ou.edu 
Caleb FultonECE
  • Digital array system integration and digital beamforming architectures
  • Phased array polarization and mutual coupling correction
  • In-situ array performance monitoring and calibration
  • Multi-function, cognitive, and simultaneous transmit/receive radar
  • Coherent synchronization in multi-platform and spatially-separated systems
  • Low-cost integration of digital beamformers, transceivers, and solid-state T/R MMICs
fulton@ou.edu325-4278
Michele GaliziaSCBME
  • Membranes
  • Diffusion in Polymers
  • Advanced Membrane Materials
  • Polymer Thermodynamics
mgalizia@ou.edu325-5807
Rong GanAME
  • Biomechanics of soft and hard tissues
  • Implantable devices
  • Middle ear mechanics and transfer functions
  • Hemodynamics and biofluid mechanics
  • Cardiopulmonary physiology
  • Mathematical modeling of physiological systems
  • Finite element analysis and its applications
rgan@ou.edu325-1099
Jie GaoSCBME
  • Advanced materials
  • Membranes
  • Water treatment
  • Biodetection
jie.gao@ou.edu325-2753
Jivtesh GargAME
  • First-principles prediction of transport properties of materials
  • Thermoelectrics
  • Coupled conduction and radiation heat transfer across nanoscale gaps
  • Thermal properties and rheology of nanofluids
garg@ou.edu325-5232
Iman GhamarianAME
  • Additive manufacturing of metals
  • Machine learning
  • Electron microscopy 
iman@ou.edu325-1715
Andrés GonzálezISE
  • Modeling and optimizing cyber-physical-social systems.
  • Measuring and optimizing resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks.
  • Developing decentralized and distributed control and optimization models.
andres.gonzalez@ou.edu325-3721
Nathan GoodmanECE
  • Radar Systems and Signal Processing
  • Cognitive (Adaptive-Transmit) Radar
  • Ground-Moving Target Indication (GMTI) Radar
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
  • Compressive Sensing for Radar
goodman@ou.edu325-0404
Brian P. GradySCBME
  • Polymers
  • Surfactants
  • Polymer recycling
  • Interfaces
bpgrady@ou.edu325-4369
Le GruenwaldCS
  • Database Management
  • Data Mining
  • Information Privacy and Security
ggruenwald@ou.edu325-3498
G.T. Kasun Kalhara GunasooriyaSCBME
  • Computational Catalysis and Kinetic Modeling
  • High-throughput (HT) Computations and Machine Learning
  • Material Design and Discovery
  • Sustainable Energy
kasun.gunasooriya@ou.edu325-3518
Golnaz HabibiCS
  • Robotics
  • Autonomous driving
  • Computer vision
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Machine learning
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Autonomous control and navigation systems
golnaz@ou.edu(832) 461-5599
Roger G. HarrisonSCBME
  • Targeted therapies for cancer and infectious diseases
  • Bionanotechnology
  • Recombinant protein expression and purification
rharrison@ou.edu325-4367
P. Scott HarveyCEES
  • Structural dynamics
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Seismic hazard mitigation through isolation
  • Analysis of earthquake ground motions
  • Static and dynamic stability
  • Structural control
harvey@ou.edu325-3836
Tierney HarveyEP tharvey@ou.edu325-2621
Casey HaskinsEP
  • Emotions in problem-solving for first-year students who are historically excluded from STEM
chaskins@ou.edu(405) 325-2621
Kianoosh HatamiCEES
  • Sensor-enabled geosynthetics
  • GRS bridge abutments
  • Reinforced pavements
  • Unsaturated soil-geosynthetic interfaces
  • Soil-structure interaction problems
  • Seismic analysis
kianoosh@ou.edu325-3674
Joseph HavlicekECE
  • Signal and Image Processing
  • Statistical Signal Processing
  • AM-FM Signal and Image Models
  • Uncertainty Measures
  • Hardware and Software Systems for Intelligent Transportation Systems
joebob@ou.edu325-4279
Soheil HemmatiISE
  • Decision-making in cancer screening
  • Optimization models for novel cancer treatments
  • Health policy making
  • Optimization theory: stochastic integer programs, Markov decision processes, bilevel optimization
  • Interdiction problems
soheil.hemmati@ou.edu 
Yang HongCEES
  • Radar/satellite remote sensing
  • Hydrological modeling and water resources engineering
  • Hydrometeorology
  • Climate change and Geospatial analysis and artificial intelligence
  • Natural hazard and disaster monitoring, prediction, and mitigation
  • Environmental planning and sustainable development
yanghong@ou.edu325-3644
Dean HougenCS
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Robotics
  • Machine learning
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Knowledge-based systems.
hougen@ou.edu325-3150
Liangliang HuangCBME
  • Biofunctionalization of Graphene Oxide Surface for Drug Delivery
  • Mesoporous Titanium Dioxide for Reaction and Mass Transport
hl@ou.edu325-7944
Ali ImranECE Tulsa
  • Self-organizing Cellular Networks       
  • 5G Cellular Networks
  • Big Data Analytics
ali.imran@ou.edu(918) 660-3253
P.K. ImbrieAME
  • Experimental mechanics
  • Piezospectroscopic techniques
  • Epistemologies, assessment, and modeling of student learning, student success, student team effectiveness, and global competencies.
pk.imbrie@ou.edu(405) 325-5057
Alisa JavadiECE/E-Physics
  • Quantum sensing and communication
  • Quantum light sources: Single-photon source, entangled photons.
  • Solid-state physics for quantum information processing
  • Nanophotonics: photonic integrated circuits, Photonic crystals, and microcavities
alisa.javadi@ou.edu(405) 325-7173
John JiangECE
  • Structural analytics for ultra-fast influx in many body spin systems
  • Impact of fast-acting power-semiconductor-based energy systems on read-time power grid stability
  • Predication and mitigation of network energy surges in a shorter-than-lightning-strike time frame
jnjiang@ou.edu325-0927 
Yijie JiangAME
  • 3D Printing
  • Finite element analysis
  • Sustainable Manufacturing
  • Functional and sustainable composites
  • Interface science
yijie.jiang@ou.edu(405) 325-3718
Javier JoECE
  • Biomedical Optical Imaging and Sensing Technology
  • Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical Computer-Aided Diagnosis
  • Medical Technology
  • Translation/Commercialization
javierjo@ou.edu325-8131
Reza Saeed KandezyECE
  • Power electronics
  • Renewable energy resources
  • Inverter-based energy resources
  • Transient-state models
  • Control of power converters
  • Power quality issues in microgrids
reza.kandezy@ou.edu 
Ziho KangISE
  • Human-integrated systems engineering
  • Human factors
  • Cognitive engineering
  • Simulation
zihokang@ou.edu325-3721
Erkan KayacanAME
  • Real-time optimization-based control and estimation methods, nonlinear control, and machine learning, with special emphasis on foundational theory and experimental realization on robotic and autonomous systems.
erkan@ou.edu 
Pejman KazempoorAME
  • Sustainable Energy Technologies
  • Greenhouse Gas Management
  • Carbon Capture and Utilization
  • Energy Storage 
  • Electrochemical Energy Systems (Fuel Cells and Batteries)
  • Process Design and Modeling
pkazempoor@ou.edu325-7885
Sina KhanmohammadiCS
  • Neural Data Science
  • Neural Dynamics
  • Network Neuroscience
  • Machine Learning
  • Signal Processing
sinakhan@ou.edu325-4042
Tohren KibbeyCEES
  • Surface and interfacial interactions in complex natural and engineered environmental systems
  • Areas of particular interest include physical-chemical interactions in complex systems
  • Behaviors in unsaturated soils/multiple-phase systems
  • Numerical model development for prediction and design in complex systems
kibbey@ou.edu325-0580
Javeed KitturEP
  • Data analytics in engineering education
  • Persistence of online students
jkittur@ou.edu325-2621
Changwook KimCS
  • Discrete structures
  • Algorithms and complexity
  • Formal languages and automata
  • Parsing theory
  • Programming languages and compilers
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Graph and picture languages
  • Biomolecular computing
ckim@ou.edu325-4281
Pierre KirstetterCEES
  • Hydrometeorology
  • Applied mathematics, statistics, geospatial analysis
  • Radar and satellite remote sensing
  • Precipitation processes
  • Microphysics and estimation
  • Hydrological modeling
  • Flood monitoring, prediction
pierre.kirstetter@noaa.gov325-1774
John KlierDEAN
  • Novel Materials for high performance coatings and adhesives
  • Structured polymer colloids and emulsion polymers
  • New approaches to polymer crosslinking
  • Control of functional oligomer / polymer colloid association
  • Applications of Functional Colloids to targeted drug delivery
  • Properties of Novel Functional Monomers
  • Novel Degradable and Recyclable Polymers
klier@ou.edu325-2621
Robert KnoxCEES
  • Subsurface transport and fate processes
  • Groundwater remediation technologies
  • Impacts of petroleum hydrocarbons and oilfield brines
  • Impacts of climate change on water resources
rknox@ou.edu325-4212
Randall KolarCEES
  • Computational issues in water resources
  • Particularly hydrology and hydraulics, with focus on the development of efficient, robust algorithms with subsequent applications ranging from riverine flooding to coastal circulation to groundwater flow and transport.
kolar@ou.edu325-4267
Aikaterini KypriotiCEES
  • Efficient coastal hazard risk estimation and mitigation
  • Infrastructure reliability and sustainability assessments
  • Improvement of community level structural resiliency against natural hazards
  • Multi-hazard risk assessment
  • Development of efficient data-driven tools using computational statistics for solving engineering problems
akypriot@ou.edu(405) 325-4216
Feng C. LaiAME
  • Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
  • EHD-Enhanced Heat Transfer
  • Microfluidics
  • Electronic Cooling
  • Bio Heat Transfer
flai@ou.edu325-1748
Chao LanCS
  • Machine learning
  • Algorithmic ethics
  • Anomaly detection
clan@ou.edu325-5735
Chung-Hao LeeAME
  • Multiscale biomechanical modeling of the cardiovascular systems – heart valves
  • Characterization of structural and mechanical properties of soft biological tissues
  • Patient-specific modeling for improved diagnosis and prophylactic disease management
  • Shape memory polymer-based embolization device development for intracranial aneurysms
  • Advanced finite element and meshfree methods for image-based computational biomechanics
ch.lee@ou.edu325-4842
Yifu LiISE
  • Data-driven modeling
  • Data quality
  • Natural language processing
liyifu@ou.edu 
Beiyu LinCS
  • Machine learning
  • Deep learning
  • Behavior modeling
  • Home/building security
  • Biomedical applications of AI
  • Smart Environments
beiyu.lin@ou.edu 
Yingtao LiuAME
  • Advanced composites and multifunctional materials
  • Intelligent sensors and structures
  • Nondestructive inspection
  • Structural health monitoring and prognostics
yingtao@ou.edu325-3663
Lance LobbanSCBME
  • Reaction Engineering
  • Biofuels
  • Catalysis
llobban@ou.edu325-4390
Anindya MaitiCS
  • Privacy and Security
  • Information Assurance
  • Network Security
  • Blockchains
  • Machine and Deep Learning
am@ou.edu325-4951
Patrick McCannECE
  • IV-VI semiconductor lasers
  • Tunable diode laser spectroscopy
  • Optoelectronic integrated circuits
pmccann@ou.edu325-4288
Jay McDanielECE
  • Radar system design for defense
  • Commercial and remote sensing applications
  • RF/Microwave passive component design
  • Highly integrated packaging technologies with robust electromagnetic compatibility
  • Electromagnetic modeling and co-simulation
  • RF front-end electronics
jmcdaniel@ou.edu325-5072
Amy McGovernCS
  • Machine learning/data mining/data science for the physical sciences
  • Real-world applications with a special interest in high-impact weather
  • STEM education
amcgovern@ou.edu325-5427
Lacey McNallyOU Surgery
  • Development of contrast agents to identify cancer, theranostic nanoparticles, and Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography (MOST)
  • Clinical settings of breast, pancreas, ovarian, and other GI/GYN cancers
lacey_mcnally@ou.edu 
Brian McSkimmingEP   
Wilson Merchán-MerchánAME
  • Flame Synthesis of Transition Metal Oxide Nanostructures for Energy
  • Storage Devices and Medical Applications
  • Flame Synthesis and Characterization of CNTs and Fullerenes
  • Morphological Studies and Measurements of Soot Particulates and other
  • Combustion Emissions from Traditional- and Bio-fuels
  • Combustion & Plasma Processes
wmerchan-merchan@ou.edu325-1754
Justin MetcalfECE
  • RF resource management
  • Spectrum sharing 
  • Biomedical radar 
  • Automotive radar
  • Cognitive radar
  • Machine learning
jmetcalf@ou.edu325-2968
Gerald MillerCEES
  • Invasive-type in situ testing in unsaturated soils
  • Use of in situ test results for foundation design
  • Development of innovative in situ testing technology
  • Slope stability
  • Field testing of prototype foundations
  • Field evaluation of soil stabilization and earthwork construction
gamiller@ou.edu325-4253
Farrokh MistreeAME
  • Strategic systems engineering
  • Integrated design of materials and products and product and process families
farrokh.mistree@ou.edu306-7309
Mike BanadECE
  • Neural-inspired computing
  • Energy-efficient machine intelligence through algorithm-hardware co-design and new design methodologies of circuit and architecture with emerging technologies to improve the performance of resilient and adaptive learning systems
bana@ou.edu 
Paul MosesECE
  • Power systems and electrical machines
  • Insulations systems in transformers
  • Nonlinear electromagnetic disturbances
  • Smart grid distribution systems
pmoses@ou.edu325-8131
Marmar MoussaCS
  • Algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Analytics
  • Computational Genomics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 
  • Single Cell Omics
  • Cancer Immunomics
marmar.moussa@ou.edu325-4379
Sanjana MudduluruCS
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical image processing 
  • Data Analytics 
  • Computer Science education
sanjana@ou.edu325-5427
K.K. MuraleetharanCEES
  • Simulation of static and dynamic behavior of two- (saturated soils) and three-phase (unsaturated soils) porous media using finite element methods
  • Centrifuge testing
  • Laboratory testing of saturated and unsaturated soils
  • Constitutive modeling
  • Soil-structure interaction
muralee@ou.edu325-4247
Robert NairnCEES
  • Watershed and ecosystem-scale examinations of pollutant transport and fate
  • Design, construction and evaluation of ecologically engineered passive treatment systems
  • Ecosystem restoration and creation for mutual benefit of society and nature, especially freshwater wetlands
nairn@ou.edu325-3354
Mark NannyCEES
  • Authentic teaching of K-12 science and math
  • Incorporating scientific research activities into K-12 science education and teacher preparation
  • Improving K-12 science and mathematics education in rural schools
nanny@ou.edu325-4234
Henry NeemanDEAN hneeman@ou.edu325-5386
Charles D. NicholsonISE
  • Operations research/management science
  • Mathematical programming
  • Metaheuristic and evolutionary search
  • Network Flows
  • Applications of data mining
cnicholson@ou.edu325-3721
Matthias U. NollertSCBME
  • Cardiovascular and orthopedic tissue engineering
  • Computational fluid mechanics of cardiovascular systems
  • Regenerative medicine with stem cells
nollert@ou.edu325-4366
Jude OkolieEP
  • Renewable natural gas production from agricultural residues
  • Application of machine learning to optimize biofuel production processes. 
jude.okolie@ou.edu325-2621
Moses OlayemiDEAN molayemi@ou.edu 
Edgar A. O'Rear IIISCBME
  • Mechanical trauma to blood
  • Encapsulated plasminogen activators
  • Biotransport
  • Admicellar polymerization
  • Surfactants
eorear@ou.edu325-4379
Hiroshi OzawaAME
  • Unsteady Aerothermodynamics
  • Temperature/Pressure Sensitive Paints 
  • Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Transition
  • Transient High-Speed Wind Tunnel Experiments
  • Optical Flow Diagnostics for Transient High-Speed Flows
  • Shock-Shock/Shock-Boundary-Layer Interactions
hiroshi.ozawaw@ou.edu325-3176
Hanjong PaikECE
  • Materials Synthesis and Processing
  • Nanotechnology
  • Advanced Materials
  • Energy Materials
  • Semiconductor Physics and Devices
  • Sensors and Actuators
  • Surface Science
paik@ou.edu(405) 325-8131
Chongle PanCS
  • Bioinformatics
  • Medical informatics
  • Explainable machine learning
  • Computer vision
  • Parallel computing
  • Data science
cpan@ou.edu325-2972
Dimitrios V. PapavassiliouSCBME
  • Computational Transport Processes
  • Turbulence
  • Micro- and nano-fluidics
  • Biological flows
  • Energy
dvpapava@ou.edu325-0574
Ji Hwan ParkCS
  • Data Visualization
  • Visual Analytics
  • VR/AR
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Machine learning
jpark@ou.edu 
Ramkumar ParthasarathyAME
  • Turbulent multiphase flows
  • Spray and gas-jet break-up
  • Hydrodynamic stability
  • Rotating flows
rparthasarathy@ou.edu325-1735
Jin-Song PeiCEES
  • Nonlinear dynamical system
  • Nonlinear hysteresis
  • Nonlinear system identification
  • Memristors
  • Memcapacitors
  • Function approximation
  • Artificial neural network
  • Constructive method
  • Piecewise smooth model
  • Hybrid dynamical system
  • FPGA-based computation
  • Embedded algorithm
  • Structural health monitoring
  • Damage detection
  • Structural dynamics
  • Earthquake engineering
jspei@ou.edu325-4272
Dominique PittengerEP dominiquep@ou.edu325-2444
Mustafa PulatISE
  • Lean applications
  • Logistics
  • Ergonomics.
bpulat@ou.edu325-4532
Yuchen QiuECE
  • Radiomics
  • Artificial intelligence in medical image analysis
  • Computer aided therapy response evaluation
qiuyuchen@ou.edu325-8131
Allison QuirogaEP   
Sridhar RadhakrishnanCS
  • Design implementation and analysis of network protocols and algorithms for broadband wireless, and mobile networks
  • IoT and SDN development
  • High performance computing
sridhar@ou.edu325-3078
Shivakumar RamanISE
  • Form and geometry verification of parts in manufacturing, shape engineering
  • Adaptive methods for sensing and metrology in manufacturing
  • Tribology in machining and scalability, surface metrology
  • Modeling of machining processes for systemic functions and integration
  • Bio-manufacturing and osseo-metrology
raman@ou.edu325-4350
Sepideh RazaviSCBME
  • Colloid and Interface Science
  • Soft Matter
  • Self-assembly and Field-assisted Assembly
srazavi@ou.edu325-5458
Talayeh RazzaghiISEMachine learning, big data analytics, predictive modeling, mathematical modeling, energy systems, healthcare and bioinformaticstalayeh.razzaghi@ou.edu 
Hazem RefaiECE Tulsa
  • Modeling and simulation in wireless telecommunication
  • VoIP
  • Network design and optimization
  • Network traffic modeling
hazem@ou.edu(918) 660-3243
Daniel E. ResascoSCBME
  • Heterogeneous Catalysis
  • Energy and Fuels
  • Biomass conversion
  • Nanotechnology
resasco@ou.edu325-4370
Byeong-Min RohISE
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • In-situ Quality Assurance
  • Complex Systems
  • Network Science
  • Ontology
  • Swarm Intelligence
roh@ou.edu(405) 325-3721
Cesar RuizISE
  • Data science for engineering applications
  • Engineering-informed machine learning for additive manufacturing
  • Applied stochastic modeling and optimization for complex engineering systems and critical infrastructure
  • Predictive maintenance for intelligent systems and infrastructure
caruiz@ou.edu325-3721
Jessica RuyleECE
  • The development and characterization of new electromagnetic devices and platforms such as antennas and packing to improve the performance of radiating systems in challenging environments.
ruyle@ou.edu325-2994
Arif SadriCEES
  • Evacuation modeling
  • Network modeling
  • Social influence modeling
  • Infrastructure resilience and sustainability
  • Complex systems
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Data-driven methods
  • Resource sharing
  • Risk communication
sadri@ou.edu325-5911
Mrinal SahaAME
  • Processing of Advanced Materials (Composites, Nanocomposites, and Sandwich structures)
  • Polymer foams and Thin Films
  • Multifunctional Materials
  • Static and Dynamics Characterization
  • Impact Dynamics and Damage Tolerance of Composites
msaha@ou.edu325-1098
Jorge Salazar-CerreñoECE
  • Conventional and hybrid array antenna architectures for active dual-polarized phased array radars.
  • High-performance dual-polarized antenna elements.
  • Broadband array antennas.
  • EM modeling and material characterization.
  • Radome design and modeling.
  • Active array antenna calibration.
  • Transmit and Receive (T/R) modules.
  • Low-cost and high-integration active array antennas.
  • Antenna measurements and radar calibration.
salazar@ou.edu325-4289
Diogo Merguizo SanchezAME
  • Orbital mechanics and astrodynamics
  • Celestial mechanics
  • Planetary mission design
  • Spacecraft attitude and control
  • Space vehicle guidance
  • Dynamical systems theory
  • Numerical Methods
dmsanchez@ou.edu325-1094
Michael SantosEPHYS
  • Molecular beam epitaxy
  • High-mobility and spin-dependent electron transport
  • Mid-infrared interband-cascade devices
  • Nanostructures for photovoltaic applications
  • Quantum materials
msantos@ou.edu325-6109
Rebecca ScottSBME
  • Tissue engineering
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Biomaterials
  • Biomedical design
  • Engineering education
rebecca.scott@ou.edu325-3861
Hamidreza ShabgardAME
  • Multiphase flow and heat transfer
  • Particulate flow
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Thermal energy storage
  • Heat pipes
shabgard@ou.edu325-5753
Sarah SharifiECE
  • Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) Engineering
  • Quantum Devices and Systems for Next-generation Communication, Computation, and Sensing.
  • Nanophotonic and Nanomaterial Structures
s.sh@ou.edu 
Randa ShehabISE
  • Engineering Education
  • Cognitive Ergonomics
  • Human-System Integration
rlshehab@ou.edu325-4277
Zhisheng ShiECE
  • Thin film semiconductor growth
  • Semiconductor mid-wave infrared (MWIR) lasers.
  • Semiconductor MWIR detectors.
  • Solar cells.
  • Nanophotonics

shi@ou.edu325-4292
Zahed SiddiqueAME
  • Development of tools and framework to enhance engineering design education
  • Internet based product design to increase collaboration among designers, and to manage product and process information
  • Engineering design methodology, design for product variety, graph grammars in engineering design, combinatorics, product platform design, product portfolio management and rapid design
  • Virtual prototyping, future CAD systems, use of computers in engineering design
  • CAD support for product family design and design for the environment
zsiddique@ou.edu325-2692
Hjalti SigmarssonECE
  • Reconfigurable RF and microwave hardware for agile communications, measurement, and radar systems
  • Spectral management schemes for cognitive radio architectures
  • Advanced packaging utilizing heterogeneous integration techniques
  • Device development for engineered organic and inorganic nanomaterials
h.sigmarsson@ou.edu325-2971
Vassilios SikavitsasSBME
  • Adult stem cells differentiation
  • Surface functionalization of biomaterials
  • Orthopedic tissue engineering (bone, cartilage, tendons, ligaments)
  • Tissue engineering bioreactors
  • Bone mechanotransduction
  • Whole organ decellularization
  • ELISA immunoassays
  • Non-destructive evaluation of cell-scaffold constructs
  • 3D in vitro cancer models
vis@ou.edu325-1511
Li SongAME
  • Building energy system optimization and control
  • Centralized HVAC system fault detection
  • Energy efficiency technology developments
  • Building energy system simulation and modeling
  • Measurement and Verification
lsong@ou.edu325-1714
Keith StrevettCEES
  • Surface and ground water quality, development of indicators of water quality deterioration
  • Biological treatment system design
  • Ecological engineering
  • Water reuse, fluvial geomorphology
  • Sediment transport
  • River design
  • Geomatic engineering
strevett@ou.edu325-4237
Alberto StrioloSCBME
  • Rerum Cognoscere Causas
  •  In-silico design of chemical additives
  • Reducing the environmental impact of the energy sector
  • Environmental contamination due to microplastics and antibiotics
  • Pedagogical research
astriolo@ou.edu 
Wei SunAME
  • Control systems
  • Differential games
  • Multiplayer pursuit-evasion games
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Trajectory optimization
  • Stochastic dynamical systems
wsun@ou.edu325-3713
Farid Talebnia RowshanSCBME
  • Fermentation technology, and scale up
  • Downstream processing and Bioseparation in biopharma
  • Biofuels, bio-based value-added products, and biorefinery
  • Design of experiment (DOE), data analysis, and statistical modeling
  • Bioprocess development and optimization
  • Cells/enzymes immobilization and encapsulation
  • Bio-mediated synthesis of nanoparticles
f.talebnia@ou.edu325-5811
Choon Yik TangECE
  • Control
  • Wireless Communications
  • Networking
cytang@ou.edu325-4852
Qinggong TangSBME
  • Developing novel optical imaging techniques for early cancer detection
  • Cancer therapy monitoring
  • Functional brain imaging
  • Surgical guidance and translational research
qtang@ou.edu325-0789
Jakob TownsendSBME
  • Biomaterials for the regeneration of bone or cartilage tissue to address unmet needs in the clinic. 
townsend@ou.edu325-1881
Theodore TrafalisISE
  • Operations research/management science
  • Mathematical programming
  • Interior point methods
  • Multi-objective optimization
  • Control theory
  • Computational and algebraic geometry
  • Artificial neural networks
  • Kernel methods
  • Evolutionary programming
    Global optimization
ttrafalis@ou.edu325-3721
Deborah TryttenCS
  • Qualitative research in engineering education focusing on structural barriers to members of excluded identity groups (women, racial/ethnic minorities, first generation college students, students with disabilities, members of sexual and/or gender identity minorities, etc.), and research in teaching introductory programming classes
dtrytten@ou.edu325-4299
Prakash VedulaAME
  • Turbulence
  • Mixing
  • Multi-phase Flows
  • Numerical Methods
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS)
  • Large Eddy Simulation (LES)
  • Stochastic Modeling & Optimization
  • Optimal Prediction
  • Parallel Computing
  • Chaos
pvedula@ou.edu325-4361
Thirumalai “Venky” VenkatesanECE venky@ou.edu325-6440
Shreya VemugantiCEES
  • Nano-synthesized cementitious materials
  • Smart and sustainable material innovation using 3D printing technology
  • Ductile fiber-reinforced polymer composites
svemugan@ou.edu 
Richard VerasCS
  • Research in all facets of High-Performance Computing (HPC) including code synthesis for performance, parallel algorithm design
  • Crafting  libraries for computational linear algebra, signal processing, and graph analytics
  • Studying the relationship between data and computer architecture, parallel hardware, accelerators, reconfigurable logic and distributed systems
richard.m.veras@ou.edu 
Jason VogelCEES
  • Stormwater and stream management
  • Low impact development (LID) stormwater management systems
  • Hydrology
jason.vogel@ou.edu325-4216
Jeffery VolzCEES
  • The combination of structural engineering and material science aimed at improving building and bridge structural systems, particularly in regard to sustainability,  innovative materials
volz@ou.edu325-1489
Susan WaldenDEAN susan.walden@ou.edu325-7407 
Bin WangSCBME
  • Catalysis
  • Materials
  • Computational Simulation
  • Energy
wang_cbme@ou.edu325-5716
Lin WangSBME
  • Advanced Materials in Antiviral Applications
  • Cancer Nanomedicine and Immunotherapy
  • Nanomaterial-Biological System Interactions
linwang@ou.edu 
Chris WeaverCS
  • Information visualization
  • Visual analytics
  • Human-computer interaction
  • Databases
  • Data mining
cweaver@ou.edu325-3380
Binbin WengECE
  • Numerical simulation methods for nanophotonics
  • Complex nanophotonic device design
  • Active photonic crystal chemical sensors
  • Nanowire enhanced wireless pressure sensors
  • Mid-infrared thermal imaging beyond the limit
binbinweng@ou.edu325-7066
Stefan WilhelmSBME
  • Biosensors
  • Cancer nanomedicine
  • Immunoengineering and immunomodulation
  • Nanotechnology-biology (“nano-bio”) interactions
  • Three-dimensional optical imaging
stefan.wilhelm@ou.edu325-0789 
Kim WolfinbargerEP kimw@ou.edu325-8734
Bin XuAME
  • Dynamics and Control
  • Propulsion and Energy System
  • Propulsion Electrification
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Data-Driven Modeling and Control
  • Data Analytics and Visualization
binxu@ou.edu325-1728
Shuozhi XuAME   
Rui YangECE
  • Solid state devices
  • Interband cascade structures for lasers and detectors
rui.q.yang@ou.edu325-7361
Tiantian YangCEES
  • Hydrology
  • Water security
  • Water resources management
  • Reservoir operation
  • Hydropower scheduling
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Data-mining
  • Coupled human-natural systems
  • Optimization theory
  • Hydrologic model calibration
  • Climate change
  • Impacts of climate change on water-energy system
  • Water-energy-food nexus
  • Remote sensing precipitation
tiantian.yang@ou.edu(949) 378-0928
Mark YearyECE
  • Digital signal processing, as applied to radar signal processing, radar target detection, radar weather observations, adaptive filter design, and customized embedded DSP systems
  • New educational models and effective pedagogy for interdisciplinary learning
yeary@ou.edu325-4748
Sangpil YoonECE
  • Low noise audio circuitry
  • Circuit board design
sangpilyoon@ou.edu 
Tian-You YuECE
  • Remote sensing
  • Radar signal processing
tyu@ou.edu325-3344
Han YuanSBME
  • Neuroimaging
  • Neuromodulation and biomedical image and signal processing
hanyuan@ou.edu325-4665 
Musharraf ZamanCEES
  • Soil dynamics
  • Rock mechanics
  • Soil structure interaction
  • Flow through porous media
  • Constitutive laws of engineering materials (testing and modeling)
  • Mine system design and ground control
  • Bridge approach settlements
  • Expert systems
  • Application of numerical techniques to complex geotechnical engineering problems
  • Earthquake engineering
  • Geotechnical aspects of hazardous waste disposal
zaman@ou.edu325-2626
Dong ZhangAME
  • Energy storage systems: renewable energy, electrochemical modeling, battery management systems
  • Dynamic systems and control: optimal control, system identification, state estimation, PDE control
  • Electrified transportation: electric vehicles energy management, vehicle cybersecurity, traffic systems
  • Data-driven decision making: machine learning, control, and optimization
dzhang@ou.edu325-5343
Yan ZhangECE
  • Intelligent radio and radar sensing
  • RF-Microwave systems and instrumentation
  • Random signal and Low-Probability-of-Intercept (LPI) radar
  • Real-time system implementation on FPGA and DSP
rockee@ou.edu325-6036
Shangqing ZhaoCS
  • Novel mobile system design
  • Network science
  • Mobile and network security
  • Machine learning for network and security applications
shangqing@ou.edu 
Rui ZhuISE
  • Big data analytics for spatiotemporal complex systems
  • Sensor-based modeling of cardiovascular systems
  • Optimization of advanced sensing systems and data fusion
  • Eye tracking and data-driven modeling in virtual reality
  • Computer simulation and optimization of complex systems
rui.zhu@ou.edu