Dr. Mecit Cetin
Professor
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), mobile devices/sensors, connected and automated vehicles, system-state prediction, traffic flow theory and simulation, big data analytics, congestion pricing, traffic signal control and optimization.
- 757-683-6700
- mcetin@odu.edu
Dr. Mujde Erten-Unal
Professor
Biological and hazardous wastewater treatment, green infrastructure, adaptive design to sea level rise, pollution prevention, and sustainable development.
- 757-683-4412
- munal@odu.edu
Dr. Temitope Idowu
Assistant Professor
Coastal sustainability, resilience and adaptation, flood risk mapping and modeling, coastal processes, GIS and remote sensing applications to coastal and environmental challenges, coastal machine learning techniques integration and applications.
- 757-683-5518
- tidowu@odu.edu
Dr. Hyun Dong Kim
Assistant Professor
Coastal and Ocean Engineering, AI Applications in Coastal Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport, Flooding Problems, Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), Numerical and Physical Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Port, Harbour and Maritime Engineering, Coastal Erosion and Resilience, and Interdisciplinary Applications.
- 757-683-5951
- h1kim@odu.edu
- Website: www.hyundongkim.com
Dr. Sandeep Kumar
Professor | Department Chair
Decarbonization, Microalgae, Circular Economy, Renewable Carbon, Biofuels, Bioproducts, Electrochemical Hydrogenation, Microplastics, Lithium Extraction, Adsorption, Waste Management, and Nutrients Recycling.
- 757-683-3898
- skumar@odu.edu
Dr. Shahin Nayyeri Amiri
Senior Lecturer
My research interest is very diverse and generally covers several fields of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.
- 757-683-5096
- snayyeri@odu.edu
Dr. Duc Nguyen
Professor
Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Structural Dynamics, Engineering Design Sensitivity Analysis & Optimization, Parallel Computing for FEA, Efficient Sparse/Dense Linear Solvers, Non-linear Solvers, Eigen-Solvers, Branch & Bound Mixed Real-Integer Linear Programming Problems, etc...
- 757-683-3761
- dnguyen@odu.edu
Dr. Gary Schafran
Professor
Environmental engineering, aquatic chemistry, physicochemical treatment processes, natural systems water quality, lake oxygenation, and reservoir management.
- 757-683-4673
- gschafra@odu.edu
Dr. Qing Tang
Assistant Professor
Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) for transportation infrastructure maintenance, discharge rate modeling and optimization for CAV, and autonomous vehicle testing and simulation. Her research interests include CAV modeling and control, human-automation interactions, AI/machine learning in autonomous driving systems, and smart/sustainable infrastructure.
- 757-683-6149
- q1tang@odu.edu
Dr. Wanting (Lisa) Wang
Assistant Professor
Community resilience modeling under multi-hazards such as tornadoes, floods, sea level rise, and climate change. Improving the resilience-based design of structural systems, civil infrastructure, and the built environment. Data and algorithm fusion across multiple disciplines, including structural engineering, computer science, economics, social science, and operational research. Resilient, sustainable, and equitable community decision-making support.
- 757-683-3189
- w2wang@odu.edu
Dr. Xixi Wang
Professor/Chief Departmental Advisor
Effects of climate change versus human activity on water resources; evaporation from water-limited soils; hydrology-soil-vegetation interactions in changing climate; stormwater, watershed hydrology, LID, and BMP; groundwater.
- 757-683-4882
- x4wang@odu.edu
Dr. Pengfei Wang
Assistant Professor
Geotechnical Engineering, Engineering Seismology, and Applied Statistics, emphasizing regional geo-hazard modeling and analysis, multi-hazards risk assessment, geospatial analysis, and statistical learning and modeling in civil engineering applications.
- 757-683-5929
- p1wang@odu.edu
Dr. Kun Xie
Associate Professor
Transportation Safety; Transportation Reliability and Resilience; Incident/Emergency Management; Transportation Planning and Management; Connected and Autonomous Vehicles; AI in Transportation; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Driving Behavior.
- 757-683-4304
- kxie@odu.edu
Dr. Jaewan Yoon
Associate Professor
Stochasticity in Water Resources Water Quality Management and Modeling Diffusive/Dispersive Substance Fate and Transport Macro- and Meso-scale Spatiotemporal Simulation Statistical Characterization and Optimization
- 757-683-4724
- jwoon@odu.edu
Dr. Sylvain Marsillac
Microelectronic and optoelectronic devices, spin polarized electron sources, solar cells, thin film growth and materials characterization
- 757-683-6368
- smarsill@odu.edu
Dr. Masha Sosokina
Professor
High-performance simulations and workflows, energy-efficient computational systems, machine learning models for application performance and energy saving, cyber-physical systems, and cyberinfrastracture training
- 757-683-3720
- msosonki@odu.edu
Dr. Qianqian Su
Assistant Professor
Plasma based acceleration, accelerator physics, high performance computing, optimization, plasma physics, machine learning, ultrafast laser, optics and linear collider designs
- 757-683-3741
- qsu@odu.edu
Dr. Qianlong (Ronnie) Wang
Assistant Professor
Robust and trustworthy AI, security and privacy in distributed and decentralized learning frameworks, blockchain, vulnerability analysis, explainable AI, causal learning, and applications in cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things, e.g., smart transportation and smart health
- 757-683-5425
- q1wang@odu.edu
Dr. Ambrosio Valencia-Romero, Assistant Professor
Dr. Valencia-Romero's research advances strategic engineering design that addresses sociotechnical challenges by integrating systems science, risk analysis, implementation theory, and dynamic networks to engineer meaningful and collectively robust solutions that align upstream and downstream stakeholder interests, foster effective large-scale collaboration, and facilitate the architecting of systems-of-systems.
Email: a1valenc@odu.edu
Website: https://fs.wp.odu.edu/a1valenc/
Dr. Pilar Pazos, Professor
Process improvement, performance management, team-based work systems, socio-technical systems, big data analytics, health-care analytics, engineering education, and research methodology.
Phone: 757-683-5540
Email: mpazosla@odu.edu
Dr. Andy Collins, Associate Professor
Operations research with a focus on data analytics applications to Game Theory (specifically hedonic games); Modeling and Simulation expert specializing in Agent-based Modeling, especially the application of machine learning to understand agent behavior.
Phone: 757-683-5595
Email: ajcollin@odu.edu
Website:https://drandrewjcollins.com
Dr. Orlando Ayala, Professor
Renewable energy, multiphase flows, computational fluid mechanics, heat transfer, engineering education
Phone: 757-683-4467
Email: oayala@odu.edu
Agyare Asante, Lecturer
Groundwater contamination, Stormwater & Watershed hydrology, LID, and Critical minerals extraction technologies.
Phone Number: 757-683-3780
Email: aasante@odu.edu
Dr. Carol Considine, Professor
Construction management, green infrastructure, flooding and built environments, coastal adaptation, resilience
Phone Number: 757-683-3783
Email: cconsidi@odu.edu
Dr. Anthony Dean, Professor and Assistant Dean
Manufacturing and operations management, complex systems analysis, theoretical cost modeling, systems
Phone Number: 757-683-7121
Email: adean@odu.edu
Dr. Adel El-Shahat, Assistant Professor
EM field modeling, high-frequency systems, spectrum characterization, EM sensing, counter-sensing, EM protection
Phone Number: 757-683-4557
Email: asayedah@odu.edu
Nestor Escobales, Master Lecturer
Structural analysis and design, collapse investigations, structural inspections, pre-engineered metal buildings
Phone Number: 757-683-3786
Email: nescobal@odu.edu
Dr. Maria Murdock, Lecturer
Geotechnical engineering, environmental engineering, economic analysis
Phone Number: 757-683-3550
Email: mespilon@odu.edu
Dr. Dalya Ismael, Assistant Professor
Construction management, renewable energy, climate change mitigation, sustainable development, behavioral science
Phone Number: 757-683-4153
Email: dismael@odu.edu
Dr. Vukica Jovanovic, Department Chair
Smart manufacturing, digital twin, IIoT, cybersecurity, mechatronics, industrial robotics, digital manufacturing, digital thread, engineering education, career and technical education, STEM pathways, women in STEM
Phone Number: 757-683-3769
Email: v2jovano@odu.edu
Dr. Murat Kuzlu, Associate Professor
IIoT, cybersecurity, renewable energy, cyber-physical systems, smart grid, smart cities, transactive energy, energy management, smart grid communications, wireless communication, artificial intelligence
Phone Number: 757-683-4476
Email: mkuzlu@odu.edu
Website: https://sites.wp.odu.edu/mkuzlu/
Thong Le, Senior Lecturer
Embedded systems, digital electronics, microcontroller applications, fabrication of micro- and nano-scale devices.
Phone Number: 757-683-4606
Email: tcle@odu.edu
Jonathan Lester, Master Lecturer
Water resources, hydrology
Phone Number: 757-683-6359
Email: jmlester@odu.edu
Nathan Luetke, Master Lecturer
Thermodynamics, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, computer-aided drafting
Phone Number: 757-683-6421
Email: nluetke@odu.edu
Charles Lowe, Lecturer
Aerospace engineering, automation, manufacturing engineering, digital signal processing, mechanical systems
Phone Number: 757-683-6178
Email: clowe@odu.edu
Dr. Abdullah Mamum, Assistant Professor
Intelligent Predictive Maintenance, Smart Manufacturing, Cyber-Physical Systems, Additive Manufacturing, Sustainable Manufacturing
Phone Number: 757-683-3782
Email: a1mamun@odu.edu
Shelly Mann, Lecturer
Hypersonic air-breathing propulsion, atmospheric flight and entry systems, flow physics and aerothermodynamics, space flight mechanics
Dr. Otilia Popescu, Professor
IIoT, cybersecurity, wireless systems, interference mitigation and spectrum sharing, transmission optimization, software-defined radios, embedded systems for communications, engineering education
Phone Number: 757-683-6718
Email: opopescu@odu.edu
Dr. Michael Seek, Associate Professor
Finite element modeling and laboratory testing of cold-formed structures and systems
Phone Number: 757-683-3619
Email: mseek@odu.edu
Dr. Katie Smith, Assistant Professor
Systems modeling and network analysis particularly involving supply chain and cyberphysical system applications, data analytics and machine learning especially applied to competency evaluation systems and content curation, removal of barriers from implementing Industry 4.0 technologies in industry and government, scientific and information visualization, and serious games for STEM education.
Phone Number: 757-683-4454
Email: k3smith@odu.edu
Website: https://fs.wp.odu.edu/k3smith/
Dr. Mileta Tomovic, Professor
Design, manufacturing systems and processes, product lifecycle management, system dynamics, controls
Email: mtomovic@odu.edu
Dr. Nikolas Xiros, Professor
Electromechanical systems, marine engineering and technology incl. but not limited to multi-physics process modeling and simulation, system identification, dynamics and control, reliability, signal and data analysis with emphasis on marine propulsion, energy harvesting and conversion as well as applied hydrodynamics, mechatronics and autonomous systems
Email: nxiros@odu.edu
Dr. Marwan Al-Haik
Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Composite Materials, Hybrid materials, nanomaterials, multiscale modeling, additive manufacturing, radiation shielding, nanotechnology
757-683-3731
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/marwan-al-haik
Dr. Thomas Alberts
Professor
Automatic Controls, UAS and Autonomy, Dynamic Systems, Robotics, Maglev
757-683-3736
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/thomas-alberts
Dr. Sebastian Bawab, Professor
Kinematics and Dynamics, Design, CAD, Product Development, Stress Analysis, Bioengineering, and Simulations
757-683-5637
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/sebastian-bawab
Dr. Oktay Baysal,Professor & Eminent Scholar
Computational fluid dynamics, design optimization and sensitivity analysis, micro-fluidic transport, unsteady aerodynamics and high-speed flows, computational aeroacoustics
757-683-3790
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/oktay-baysal
Dr. Logan Beaver, Assistant Professor
Robotics; Control Systems; Optimal Control; Compliant and Cooperative Manipulation; Optimization-Based Control; Mobile Robots; Multi-Robot Systems; Game Theory and Mechanism Design; Swarm Robotics
757-683-3789
Website: https://intsyslab.org/
Dr. Colin Britcher, Professor
Wind tunnel design and test techniques; experimental aerodynamics; magnetic suspension and levitation; low Reynolds number aerodynamics, dynamic stability of bluff bodies
757-683-4916
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/colin-britcher
Dr. Abdelmageed Elmustafa, Professor
RF Accelerators Breakdown; Nanoscale Mechanical Behavior of Materials; Nanoindentation (Metals, Polymers, Alloys, Interconnects); Dislocation and Strain Gradient Plasticity; Thin Films (Mechanical Properties and Characterization); Modeling and Simulation (Nanoindentation Creep and Contact Mechanics); Nanopositioners (Precision Machining and Precision Motion); Friction Stir Welding; Corrosion and Corrosion Prevention
757-683-5576
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/abdelmageed-elmustafa
Dr. Dipankar Ghosh, Associate Professor
Advanced manufacturing of hierarchical materials; Anisotropic porous solids; Colloidal processing; Energized fields in materials processing; Processing-microstructure-property relationships; Bioceramics and composites; Sustainable materials and structures; Brittle fracture; Dynamic behavior of brittle materials; Data science
757-683-3738
Research Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/dipankar-ghosh
Dr. Julie Z Hao, Professor
Research Keywords: Cardiovascular (CV) mechanics and physiology; arterial pulse signals: measurement using tactile sensors/accelerometers, signal-processing algorithms, and associated technical issues; time-frequency analysis of nonstationary signals; vibrations and wave propagation; biomedical applications of tactile sensors and accelerometers
757-683-6734
Research Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/julie-z-hao
Dr. Gene Hou, Professor
Computational mechanics, multibody dynamics and design under uncertainty, emphasizing multidisciplinary applications
757-683-3728
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/gene-hou
Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa, Associate Professor
Robotics, control systems, glowworm swarm optimization
757-683-4621
Website: https://ww2.odu.edu/~kkaipa/index.html
Dr. Miltiadis Kotinis, Associate Professor
Ship Hydrodynamics: Numerical methods for computation of ship resistance, turbulence modeling, marine propeller cavitation. Computational Intelligence: Application of particle swarm optimization algorithms to multiobjective engineering optimization problems, hybrid evolutionary algorithms
757-683-5939
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/miltos-kotinis
Dr. Oleksandr Kravchenko, Associate Professor
Composite laminates, thermosetting laminate, epoxy fiberglass composites, composites 3D printing, mechanical testing
757-683-5045
Website: https://sites.wp.odu.edu/cmsl/
Dr. Drew Landman, Professor
Research Keywords: Aerospace and mechanical test instrumentation design and calibration methodology using design of experiments (DOE) and response surface methods (RSM); Wind tunnel vehicle aerodynamic test design including aircraft, UAVs, cars, parachutes, and heavy trucks
757-683-6008
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/drew-landman
Dr. Jae Lee. Assistant Professor
Research Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, digital twin, computational physiology, medical devices, regulatory science
757-683-3304
Research Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/jae-h-lee
Dr. Venkat Maruthamuthu, Associate Professor
Cellular Biomechanics; Engineered Cell Micro-environments; Multi-cellular Interactions
757-683-4978
Website: https://ww2.odu.edu/~vmarutha/
Dr. Brett Newman, Professor
Atmospheric and space flight dynamics and control; dynamics and control theory, application, design, and development; six degree of freedom full envelope modeling & simulation; nonlinear optimal multi-loop robust control; sensor and actuator modeling and integration; human/manual operator modeling
757-683-5860
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/brett-newman
Dr. Stacie Ringleb, Professor & Assoc Dean For Faculty Affairs & Student Engagement
Biomechanics, rehabilitation, kinematics
757-683-5934
Website: https://ww2.odu.edu/~sringleb/
Dr. Mohamadmahdi Samandari, Assistant Professor
Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine; Drug Delivery; Microfluidics; Biofabrication; Biomaterials
757-683-4612
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/samandarilab
Dr. Ashish Tamhane, Lecturer
CFD, Multi-Objective Optimization using Computational Intelligence, Automotive, HVAC
757-683-5637
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/ashish-tamhane
Dr. Arthur Taylor, Professor
CFD, sensitivity analysis
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/arthur-taylor
757-683-3739
Dr. Cong Wei, Assistant Professor
Control Systems, multi-agent control, nonlinear control, and marine robotics
757-683-4918
Website: https://sites.wp.odu.edu/congwei/
Dr. Willy Wriggers, Professor & Eminent Scholar
Electron microscopy, electron tomography, molecular modeling, deep learning, image and audio processing
757-683-6759
Website: http://biomachina.org/
Dr. Tian-Bing Xu, Associate Professor
Renewable energies, energy conversion materials and structures (e.g., piezoelectric, pyroelectric, thermoelectronic), devices for energy harvesting, storage, actuation, sensing, and medical applications, and integrating functional materials into energy and dynamic systems, robotics, and controls for NASA, military, and industry applications
757-683-5637
Website: https://fs.wp.odu.edu/txxu/
Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang, Associate Professor
Fuel Cell (SOFC, PEMFC), Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting, High Temperature Electrolysis, Nuclear fuel rod cladding materials
757-683-4913
Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/xiaoyu-zhang