Engineering and Physical Science faculty consist of full-time professors with degrees from some of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. and abroad. Our faculty members are involved in world-class research sponsored by national agencies and industries.
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Amit Tandon
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth
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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Amit Tandon
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
Exploring the Upper Ocean: Tandon Laboratory at UMass Dartmouth
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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Banafsheh Seyedaghazadeh
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Science & Engineering 116C
Fluid-Structure Interactions Research Laboratory
Research
Research interests
- Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Flow-Induced Vibration
- Experimental Fluid Dynamics
- Vibrations
- Renewable Energy
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Changsheng Chen
Professor & Montgomery Charter Chair
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 226
Research
Research interests
- Modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation
- Oceanic frontal processes
- Biological and physical interactions
- Arctic Ocean and Climate Change
- Multi-scaling ocean model developments
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Daniel MacDonald
Professor / Co-Chairperson
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 107B
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu
Daniel MacDonald
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 233
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
508-910-6334dmacdonald@umassd.edu
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Geoffrey Cowles
Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218
Research
Research interests
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Ocean Modeling
- Shape Optimization and Design
- High Performance Computing
- Coupled Marine Bio-Physical Models
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Hangjian Ling
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 214
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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Mehdi Raessi
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226
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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Miles Sundermeyer
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 110A
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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Alireza Asadpoure
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 225
Research
Research interests
- Computational Design of Architected and Multifunctional Materials, Metamaterials
- Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
- Robust-based and Reliability-based Optimization
- Data-driven Optimal Design
- Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Mechanics
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Arghavan Louhghalam
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 210
Research
Research interests
- Quantitative Engineering Sustainability, Design, Development and Maintenance of Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
- Fracture Mechanics and Material Durability
- Risk and Reliability Assessment of High-Performance Structural Systems
- Dynamics and Random Vibrations
- Application of Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques to Civil Engineering Pro
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Caiwei Shen
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 211
Research
Research interests
- Multifunctional composites
- Energy storage materials
- Nanomaterials
- Sensors
- Electrochemistry
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Jun Li
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 219
Computational Mechanics & Materials Lab Website
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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Mazdak Tootkaboni
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 227
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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Patrick Cappillino
Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201C
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Vijaya Chalivendra
Professor / Graduate Program Director
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 209
Research
Research interests
- Composite Materials
- Experimental Mechanics
- Dynamic Characterization of Materials
- Damage Sensing
- Nano-mechanical Characterization
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Wei-Shun Chang
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dion 112
Single Particle Imaging and Spectroscopy Group
Research
Research interests
- Plasmonics and metamaterials
- Electocatalysis and photocatalysis
- Optoelectronics (2D materials, hybrid structures)
- Chiral metamaterials
- Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development
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Walaa Mogawer
Commonwealth Professor / Co-Chairperson
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 131A
Research
Research interests
- Asphalt materials and mixtures
- Pavement Design and Management
- Superpave
- Traffic and transportation Engineering
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David Manke
Associate Professor / Chairperson
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201B
Research
Research interests
- Organometallic Chemistry
- Covalen Metal-Organic Networks
- Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation
- Metal-Organic Frameworks
- Historical Werner Complexes
508-910-6554dmanke@umassd.edu
Patrick Cappillino
Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201C
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Wei-Shun Chang
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Dion 112
Single Particle Imaging and Spectroscopy Group
Research
Research interests
- Plasmonics and metamaterials
- Electocatalysis and photocatalysis
- Optoelectronics (2D materials, hybrid structures)
- Chiral metamaterials
- Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development
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Kihan Park
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 213
Research
Research interests
- Medical Robotics
- Micro-scale Sensing/Actuation
- Machine Learning
- Biosignal Processing
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Ramprasad Balasubramanian
Vice Chancellor
Office of Research & Innovation
Foster Administration 008B
Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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David Brown
Professor
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 123
Research
Research interests
- Transducer modeling
- Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics
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David Brown
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214F
Research
Research interests
- Transducer modeling
- Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics
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Dayalan Kasilingam
Professor / Chairperson
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 217C
Research
Research interests
- Adaptive signal processing
- Applied Electromagnetics
- Remote Sensing
- Wireless Communications
508-999-8534dkasilingam@umassd.edu
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Honggang Wang
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 221B
Research
Research interests
- Internet of Things and Connected Health
- Body Area Networks (BAN) and Wireless Multimedia
- Multimedia Processing and Communications, Cyber and Multimedia Security, Mobile Multimedia and Cloud, Edge Computing
- Wireless Networks and Cyber-physical System
- Big Data in mHealth, Data Engineering and Machine Learning
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John Buck
Chancellor Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B
Research
Research interests
- Signal Processing
- Underwater Acoustics
- Animal Bioacoustics
- Engineering Pedagogy
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Paul Gendron
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214D
Research
Research interests
- Adaptive filtering for angle-delay-Doppler spread channels
- Low probability of detection acoustic communications
- Magnetic anomaly detection and tracking
- Seismic event detection and classification
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Yifei Li
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214B
Professor Yifei Li RF Photonics Lab
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