Faculty Expertise

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.

Dr. Mujde Erten-Unal

Professor

Biological and hazardous wastewater treatment, green infrastructure, adaptive design to sea level rise, pollution prevention, and sustainable development.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Shahin Nayyeri Amiri

Senior Lecturer

My research interest is very diverse and generally covers several fields of Civil and Mechanical Engineering.

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...

Dr. Gary Schafran

Professor

Environmental engineering, aquatic chemistry, physicochemical treatment processes, natural systems water quality, lake oxygenation, and reservoir management.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Dr. Sylvain Marsillac

Microelectronic and optoelectronic devices, spin polarized electron sources, solar cells, thin film growth and materials characterization

 

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

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

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

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

smann@odu.edu

 

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

malhaik@odu.edu

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

talberts@odu.edu

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

sbawab@odu.edu

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

obaysal@odu.edu

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

lbeaver@odu.edu

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

cbritche@odu.edu

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

aelmusta@odu.edu

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

dghosh@odu.edu

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

zlhao@odu.edu

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

ghou@odu.edu

Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/gene-hou

 

Dr. Krishnanand Kaipa, Associate Professor

Robotics, control systems, glowworm swarm optimization

757-683-4621

kkaipa@odu.edu

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

mkotinis@odu.edu

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

okravche@odu.edu

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

dlandman@odu.edu

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

jhlee@odu.edu

Research Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/jae-h-lee

 

Dr. Venkat Maruthamuthu, Associate Professor

Cellular Biomechanics; Engineered Cell Micro-environments; Multi-cellular Interactions

vmarutha@odu.edu

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

bnewman@odu.edu

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

sringleb@odu.edu

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

msamanda@odu.edu

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/samandarilab

 

Dr. Ashish Tamhane, Lecturer

CFD, Multi-Objective Optimization using Computational Intelligence, Automotive, HVAC

757-683-5637

atamhane@odu.edu

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

ataylor@odu.edu

 

Dr. Cong Wei, Assistant Professor

Control Systems, multi-agent control, nonlinear control, and marine robotics
757-683-4918

c1wei@odu.edu

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

wwrigger@odu.edu

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

txxu@odu.edu

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

x1zhang@odu.edu

Website: https://www.odu.edu/directory/xiaoyu-zhang