Faculty
Faculty in the interdisciplinary Engineering and Applied Science (EAS) program represent a variety of academic fields and research interests.
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Research
Research interests
- Radial basis function methods
- Spectral and pseudospectral methods
- Tear film dynamics
- Numerical conformal mapping
- Mathematical problems in industry
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Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth
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Research
Research interests
- Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
- Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
- Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth
508-999-8357^q^kalk=rj^ppa+bar
Research
Research interests
- Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
- Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
- Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean
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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Science & Engineering 116C
Fluid-Structure Interactions Research Laboratory
508-999-8567_+^de^w^abe=rj^ppa+bar
Research
Research interests
- Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Flow-Induced Vibration
- Experimental Fluid Dynamics
- Vibrations
- Renewable Energy
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Research
Research interests
- Multifunctional composites
- Energy storage materials
- Nanomaterials
- Sensors
- Electrochemistry
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Research
Research interests
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical PDEs
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Professor
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 123
508-910-9852fdtqypBwocuuf0gfw
Research
Research interests
- Transducer modeling
- Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics
Research
Research interests
- Transducer modeling
- Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics
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Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 233
508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
Professor / Co-Chairperson
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 107B
508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
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Research
Research interests
- Bioinformatics
- Citizen Science
- Computational Biology
- Distributed Computing
- Protein Structure Determination/Prediction & Design
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Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218
508-910-6397d`ltibp=rj^ppa+bar
Research
Research interests
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Ocean Modeling
- Shape Optimization and Design
- High Performance Computing
- Coupled Marine Bio-Physical Models
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Research
Research interests
- Memory systems
- DEs
- Time series
- Mathematics education
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Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 228
Fisheries & Ecosystem Management Lab Website
508-910-6363hgbzAvnbtte/fev
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Research
Research interests
- Cybersecurity
- Database Systems
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Research
Research interests
- Few-body nuclear physics
- Nuclear detectors
- Photonuclear Physics
- Pion physics
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Professor
Computer & Information Science
Violette Research 220B
Computational Statistics and Data Science Lab Website
508-910-6411kidqj5Cxpdvvg1hgx
Research
Research interests
- Machine learning/ statistical learning/ pattern recognition
- Computational statistics
- Behavioral trajectory pattern recognition in longitudinal studies
- Wireless health
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Research
Research interests
- Experimental fluid dynamics in turbulence, boundary layers, multiphase flows
- Super-hydrophobic surfaces and the wetting dynamics
- Collective behavior such as bird flocks, fish schools, human crowds and cell colonies
- 3D Imaging technologies using digital holography and stereo-imaging
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Research
Research interests
- Electronic Commerce, Internet Security, Web Services
- Formal Methods, Model-Based Software Development
- Mobile Agent Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks
- Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), Intelligent Agents
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Computing, Ubiquitous Computing
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Associate Dean / Professor
College of Engineering
Dion 326
Dr. Iren Valova’s Research Website
508-999-8502ktgp0xcnqxcBwocuuf0gfw
Research
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Brain modeling
- Data mining
- Expert Systems
- Image processing
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Research
Research interests
- Quantum Yang-Mills gravity with space-time trans. gauge symmetry
- Big Jets model with CPT invariance
- Dynamics of cosmo-expansion with YM gravity
- Generalized gauge symmetry, quark confinement & accelerated cosmic expansion
- Limiting 4-dim symmetry and accelerated space-time transformations
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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 219
Computational Mechanics & Materials Lab Website
508-999-8692lwp0nkBwocuuf0gfw
Research
Research interests
- Composite materials
- Hierarchical materials and lightweight structures
- Random heterogeneous materials
- Inverse problems and optimization methods
- Image-based multiscale modeling
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Research
Research interests
- Atomic physics
- Molecular physics
- Optical physics
- Computational physics
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Research
Research interests
- Medical Robotics
- Micro-scale Sensing/Actuation
- Machine Learning
- Biosignal Processing
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Research
Research interests
- Biomechanics
- Mechanobiology
- Orthopedics
- Skeletal aging & osteoporosis
- Skeletal aging & osteoporosis
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Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Science & Engineering 311B
508-999-8420qevmgvmw2qe}iwDyqewwh2ihy
Research
Research interests
- Quantum Chemistry
- Computational Chemistry and Material Science
- Machine Learning in Chemistry
- Self-Assembly of Materials
- Photochemistry
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Professor / Graduate Program Director
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226
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Research
Research interests
- Interfacial flows
- Multi-phase flows with phase change
- Energy systems (renewable/conventional)
- Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
- Scientific and High-Performance Computing
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Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 303A
Machine Intelligence and Data analytics (MIND) Lab
508-910-6893ntibpAvnbtte/fev
Research
Research interests
- Predictive modeling
- Adversarial machine learning
- Continual and incremental machine learning
- Robust and multi-view representation learning
- Health informatics
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Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 110A
508-999-8892ouwpfgtog{gtBwocuuf0gfw
Research
Research interests
- Small-scale vertical and horizontal mixing processes
- Dye release and Lagrangian drifter studies
- Numerical modeling of two- and three-dimensional turbulent flows
- Numerical modeling of physical and biological interactions
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Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 227
508-999-8465lsnnsj`anmh?tl`rrc-dct
Research
Research interests
- Stochastic computational mechanics and uncertainty quantification
- Construction of consistent data-driven stochastic models
- Stochastic multi-scale modeling of heterogeneous materials
- Design topology optimization under uncertainty
- Stochastic non-linear analysis of thin-walled structures
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Research
Research interests
- Nano Materials
- Vapor deposition of nano materials
- Biosensors
- Drug Delivery
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Interim Provost/Vice Chancellor
Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 008B
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Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 220A
508-999-8416p`cckcp>sk_qqb,cbs
Research
Research interests
- Offshore Geotechnical Engineering
- Offshore Foundations and Anchors
- Foundations for Offshore Wind Turbines
- Calcareous Sediments
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Professor
Physics
Science & Engineering 208A
Fisher Computational Astrophysics Group
508-999-8455qnadqs-ehrgdq?tl`rrc-dct
Research
Research interests
- Fundamental Physics of Turbulent Flows
- Scientific Computing
- Star Formation and the Physics of the Interstellar Medium
- Type Ia Supernovae
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Research
Research interests
- Quantum Optics
- Quantum Computation
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Computational Physics
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Research
Research interests
- Bioengineering
- Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Heat and mass transfer
- MEMS
- Thermal Sciences
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Research
Research interests
- Gravitational wave data science
- Discontinuous Galerkin methods
- Large-scale Scientific Computation
- Computational general relativity and fluid dynamics
- Numerical analysis
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Research
Research interests
- My research interests are numerical analysis and scientific computing. Specifically, I am interested in high-order numerical methods for simulation of hyperbolic PDEs with shocks.
- WENO, spectral, and pseudo spectral methods, as well as strong stability preserving time discretizations.
- Reduced basis methods for solving PDEs with many parameters.
- Weighted essentially non-oscillatory methods
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Research
Research interests
- Computational algebra
- Edge detection
- Topological Data Analysis (TDA)
- Inverse problems
- Mathematics education
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Research
Research interests
- Adsorbents and Ion-Exchangers
- Nutrient Removal and Recovery
- Reuse of Solid Wastes
- Wastewater Treatment
- Water Treatment
Research
Research interests
- Adsorbents and Ion-Exchangers
- Nutrient Removal and Recovery
- Reuse of Solid Wastes
- Wastewater Treatment
- Water Treatment
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Research
Research interests
- Molecular Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Tissue Engineering
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Research
Research interests
- Composite Materials
- Experimental Mechanics
- Dynamic Characterization of Materials
- Damage Sensing
- Nano-mechanical Characterization
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Research
Research interests
- Computer Aided Tolerance Analysis and Optimization (NSF & UMASSD Chancellor's Fund)
- Diagnostics in Manufacturing (ATP/NIST)
- MEMS and NANOManufacturing
- Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems (ATP/NIST)
- Quality Engineering and Applied Statistics
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Commonwealth Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 131A
508-910-9824wmogawer@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Asphalt materials and mixtures
- Pavement Design and Management
- Superpave
- Traffic and transportation Engineering
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Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 302C
Dr. Shelley Zhang’s Research Website
508-999-8294shelley.zhang@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Agent control and reasoning under uncertainty
- Artificial intelligence
- Distributed systems
- e-commerce
- Intelligent agent architecture designing
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Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 317B
Dr. Yuchou Chang’s Research Website
508-999-8475xbg`mf0?tl`rrc-dct
Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Pattern Recognition
- Biomedical Imaging
- Intelligent Robotics
- Brain-Computer Interface
- Statistical Signal Processing
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Research
Research interests
- Numerical Analysis, scientific computing, computational partial differential equations
- Dimension reduction, model order reduction, reduced order modeling
- Uncertainty quantification, fractional-order partial differential equations
- Data mining, machine learning, image processing, neural networks
- high performance computing
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Research
Research interests
- Composite Materials
- Digital Printing
- Medical/Tech Textiles
- Nano Materials
- Textile Manufacturing
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Research
Research interests
- Software engineering with specific interests in software architecture, software frameworks, and software design patterns and secure software engineering
- Geospatial data science
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Research
Research interests
- Numerical analysis, scientific computing, high performance computing
- Machine learning, image processing, neural networks
- Kinetic problems, multi-scale computational methods
- Numerical methods for problems with singularities
- Uncertainty quantification, fractional-order partial differential equations