Faculty members

Research areas: Dynamic systems; stability; vehicle systems; vibration isolation and control; railway vehicle dynamics; vehicle system dynamics and design; modeling and analysis of physical systems.

Research areas: Airline operations, Transportation management, Systems simulation, Application of Operations Research on service and manufacturing applications

Research areas: Numerical simulation and modelling of Sustainable energy systems, HVAC&R, advanced thermodynamics, heat transfer enhancement, Thermal Cooling, Two-phase fluid flow.

Research areas: Operational issues dealing with the design, development, production, and distribution of goods & services, with a focus on emerging tools and techniques in product/process design & development, design and manufacturing technologies, information management, and methods for integrating design & manufacturing to improve process performance.

Research areas: Applied operations research; manufacturing systems design & analysis; production engineering; computer integrated manufacture; simulation of industrial systems; inventory control.

Research areas: Operations Research, Logistics Management, Vehicle Routing, Location Analysis, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

Research areas: Transportation and logistics; network optimization and design; facility location; hub location; scheduling; operations research; integer and combinatorial optimization; decomposition methods for large-scale optimization; robust optimization

Research areas: Haptic sensors and feedback systems for minimally invasive surgery and robotics, Design and fabrication of intelligent tactile sensors for robots and endoscopes, Design and fabrication of sensors by micromachining, Application of piezoelectric polymers in robotic and endoscopic sensors, Teletaction in minimally invasive surgery.

Research areas: Lean Manufacturing, Lean Supply Chain, and Lean Healthcare.

Research areas: Research in advanced materials: porous materials, foams, metal-ceramic composites, biomaterials and tissue engineering, metal-ceramic interactions, high temperature wetting studies and joining processes.

Research areas: Aero-thermal design of gas turbines

Status: Professor

Research areas: Liquid Coating Mechanics - Coating in Pulp and Paper - Rheology, Mechanical Properties of Polymeric Liquids; Solid Surface Wetting Phenomena and Mechanics.

Research areas: Turbulence Bluff body aerodynamics Jets Turbulent boundary layers Particle image velocimetry Computational fluid dynamics Bioassay analysis Machine learning

Research areas: Composite materials and structures; stochastic mechanics and random vibrations; stress analysis; finite element method; vibration analysis and machine dynamics; machinery monitoring and diagnostics; engineering fracture mechanics and fatigue.

Research areas: Fluid Mechanics; Microfluidics and Solid-Surface Wetting Phenomena; Thermofluids; Rheology; Aerodynamics Design; Mechanical Engineering Design.

Research areas: Control systems; mechatronics; robotics; virtual reality; distributed computing networks; real-time simulation; active flow control; internal combustion engines; automotive and aerospace control systems.

Research areas: Human factors engineering/ergonomics; safety engineering; biomedical engineering

Research areas: Healthcare optimization under uncertainty, Large-scale optimization, stochastic programming, decomposition-based integer programming algorithms (Benders decomposition, Lagrangian relaxation, Column generation), and robust optimization.

Research areas: Composite materials and structures; design of composite structures; vibration; stress analysis; dynamics; finite element method; testing and evaluation of composite materials and structures; manufacturing of composites.

Research areas: Composite Manufacturing, Automated Fiber Placement, 3D printing, Filament Winding, Sandwich Structures, Recycling, Process Modelling, Material Characterization and Testing, Composite Design and Analysis

Research areas: Computational damage modeling, damage/fracture mechanics of materials and structures, short crack growth behavior, high cycle fatigue, multiaxial fatigue, machine learning-based modeling, peridynamics-based modeling, fatigue design, durability, material deformation, stress-strain analysis

Research areas: Rocket Propulsion Concepts, Combustion, Rheology, Green Propellants, Energetic Materials, Gel fuels, Non-Newtonian Fluids, Material Charaterization Techniques, Droplet and Spray Combustion, Soft Matter, Hybrid Rocket Engines

Status: Director of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics

Research areas: Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics Fluid Mechanics Medical Devices Medical Imaging (e.g., Doppler ultrasound, MRI) Mathematical Modeling of the Cardiovascular System Advanced Data Post-Processing Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)

Research areas: Fluid dynamics, complex fluids, computational and mathematical analysis, heat and mass transfer

Research areas: Rotor dynamics; Modal testing and analysis; Finite element method; Vibration analysis and machine dynamics; Machinery monitoring and diagnostics; Product Development product development

Research areas: Stochastic and Robust Optimization, Operations Research, Industry 5.0, Supply Chain Management; Reverse Logistics; Production Planning; Maintenance Logistics; Healthcare Operations Management

Research areas: Fluid-structure interactions, Aeroelasticity, Flow-induced vibration, Wind engineering, Airborne wind energy, Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Renewable energy systems, Energy harvesting, Numerical methods

Research areas: Thermodynamics, Equations of State, Compressible Fluid Dynamics, Supersonic Flow, Combustion, Nonlinear Systems

Research areas: Design and Analysis of Flexible/Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Manufacturing System Performance Evaluation, Complexity in Manufacturing, Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Methods,Fuzzy Optimization, Lean Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management

Research areas: 3D Printing, Design for Additive Manufacturing, Mass Customization, Computer-Aided Design

Research areas: Design of drones and VTOL aircraft for safety-critical applications

Research areas: integrated aircraft systems design for sustainable aviation, aircraft systems architecting, aircraft-level technology evaluation, model-based systems engineering, novel technologies for aircraft systems, aircraft electrification

Research areas: Water droplet impingement erosion, Light metals, alloys development, metal matrix composites, computational thermodynamics, phase diagrams, nanostructured coatings, and failure analysis and stress waves.

Research areas: Thermal Spraying, Coatings, Properties / Microstructure Relationship, Industrial Applications of Coatings, Particle Diagnostics, Optical, Sensors, Optical Pyrometry, Control of Thermal Spray Processes

Research areas: Measurement of surface roughness, profile and length using laser interferometry, dynamic characterization of vibrating objects, characterization of MEMS devices. In Micromachining: Pulsed Laser micromachining of photonic devices such as surface relief gratings, fiber bragg gratings and feature size reduction by direct machining

Research areas: Combustion; explosion; detonation and deflagration; shock waves physics; alternative fuel research; energetic materials; theoretical and computational fluid dynamics; applied mathematics, numerical methods

Research areas: Optical MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems), PVDF MEMS, Microphotonics, Dynamics of Microsystems, Integrated Microsensors and Microactuators, Silicon Micromachining, Fuzzy System Identification of Microsystems, Design and manufacturing.

Research areas: Computational fluid dynamics; finite element methods for fluid simulations; aerodynamic simulations; wind energy; acoustic simulations; parallel computing; turbulence modeling.

Research areas: Plastics, ceramics, metals, and composites; materials science; properties and failure of materials; casting, welding, heat-treating and non-destructive testing.

Research areas: Human response to vibration and shock; vehicle dynamics; optimization and vibration control in system design; directional control and stability of commercial vehicles; driver-vehicle interactions; power tools and hand-transmitted vibration; seating dynamics and driver vibration; semi-active and active vibration control; vehicle and ride dynamics; vehicle suspension analysis;

Research areas: Electric Vehicle Charger Location, Public Transit, Timetabling of Metro Lines, Operations Research, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization, Discrete Simulation-based Optimization, Benders Decomposition

Research areas: Smart Materials and Structures (Adaptive Structures); Adaptive Energy Absorption Systems using Smart ER/MR Fluids; Design Optimization of Lightweight Metallic or Composite Structures; Computational Mechanics (Finite Element Method)

Research areas: Composite structures: analysis, design & testing; Composite materials; Automated manufacturing of composites; Automated Fiber Placement (AFP); Aircraft structures

Research areas: Design and manufacturing; dynamics; micromachining and micromechanics; tribology; high precision mechanics; intelligent vehicle systems; micromechatronic devices; microsensors (acoustic, acceleration, pressure, humidity); microtribology; nonconventional lubrication methods; sensors and detection systems.

Research areas: Control systems; mechatronics; precision engineering; robotics; process dynamics and control; linear systems.

Research areas: Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs); Robotics; Control Systems; Mechatronics; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Reinforcement Learning; Intelligent Transportation Systems

Research areas: Multiphase Flows, CFD, Flow in Porous Media, Machine and Deep Learning, Thermal Spray

Research areas: Computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, high-performance computing, turbulence, numerical methods, applied mathematics, optimization, large eddy simulation, direct numerical simulation.

Research areas: Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Kinematics, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Affective Computing, Engineering Education

Research areas: Non traditional manufacturing processes, glass micro-machining, electrochemical discharges, micro-systems , nano-particles, gas evolving electrodes, stochastic process modelling, multi-physics modelling, nanostructured electro-catalysts, hydrogen production, fuel-cells.

Research areas: Dynamic modeling and control, Mechatronics, Visual Servo Control, Soft Computing Techniques, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Industrial Process Control and Flight control.

Research areas: Mechanical Metamaterials, Lightweight Structures, Aircraft Structure Design, Multi-scale Mechanics of Materials, Multi-material Additive Manufacturing, and Soft Robotics

Research areas: Machine Learning-Augmented Optimization, Probabilistic Machine Learning, Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Programming, Uncertainty Quantification, Supply/Value Chain Optimization, Decision Support for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, Mining and Aviation Applications, Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Research areas: Mechanical vibration, nonlinear dynamics, elastic wave propagation, mechanical metamaterials, applied mechanics, nonlinear waves, stability analysis, architectural acoustics.

Research areas: Monitoring, Fault Diagnosis and Fault Tolerant Control of Safety-critical Systems (air, land, ground, surface/underwater, and autonomous vehicles etc.); Avionics and Flight Control; Industrial Process Control; Modeling and Simulation of Physical Systems; Estimation, Identification and Information Fusion Techniques; Advanced Signal Processing Techniques for Diagnosis and Control; Mechatronics;