Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Report

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING2009-2011 RESEARCH REPORT

2 Research Report 2009-2011 Rensselaer School of Engineering eng.rpi.edu

“Our research is addressing some of the most

pressing technological challenges we face as a

nation and as a planet – including, water,

energy, health, and sustainable development.”

— David V. Rosowsky, Ph.D., P.E.Dean of Engineering

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

04 FROm ThE DEAN

06 FROm ThE ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR RESEARCh AND gRADUATE PROgRAmS

07 RESEARCh CENTERS AND LABS

08 FACULTY PROFILES BY DEPARTmENT

09 BIOmEDICAL ENgINEERINg

19 ChEmICAL AND BIOLOgICAL ENgINEERINg

33 CIVIL AND ENVIRONmENTAL ENgINEERINg

49 ELECTRICAL, COmPUTER, AND SYSTEmS ENgINEERINg

79 INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEmS ENgINEERINg

89 mATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENgINEERINg

103 mEChANICAL, AEROSPACE, AND NUCLEAR ENgINEERINg

137 COmPLETE FACULTY LISTINg

2009-2011


SMART SYSTEMS

BIOTECHNOLOGY

ENVIRONMENT

NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED

MATERIALS

ENERGY

HUMANHEALTH AND

LIVABILITY

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

2009-2011 School of Engineering

For more than 175 years, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has produced some of the most successful engineers and scientists, explorers and scholars, innovators and entrepreneurs. Our engineering faculty and students have been at the cutting edge of discovery in their fields. And our engineering graduates have gone on to do great things, not only in their chosen fields of engineering, but in business, medicine, law, and public service.

The School of Engineering remains at the core of the Institute. Our teaching and research programs reach across the spectrum of engineering disciplines, with depth in all seven of our academic departments, and engage students and faculty from across the Institute. Rensselaer is a unique residential undergraduate college embedded in a world-class technological research university. It is through the research conducted on our campus— the scholarship and discovery that goes on in the School of Engineering every day—that we have our greatest impact.

Our research is addressing some of the most pressing technological challenges we face as a nation and as a planet – including food, water, energy, health, and sustainable development. The grand Challenges identified by the National Academy of Engineering serve both as guideposts and as beacons, creating research foci for the School of Engineering and stimulating new collaborations. Significant engineering advances are being made at Rensselaer in the areas of energy and the environment, biotechnology, advanced materials, information technologies, advanced computing, infrastructure systems and sustainability, and human health.

Research in the School of Engineering connects to every part of our university, engaging and connecting undergraduate students, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, visiting scholars, and alumni. World-class facilities and laboratories, highly focused centers and institutes, and long-standing industrial partnerships are the platforms on which our research enterprise is built. But it has always been our faculty driving our success. Faculty in the School of Engineering are deeply committed to their scholarship, to mentoring and guiding our students, and to the kind of collective exploration and discovery that can only take place at a leading technological research university, and in a true academic community.

We are committed to fostering a culture that is conducive to learning and discovery. And together, we are doing some great things. Welcome to the School of Engineering.

David V. Rosowsky, Ph.D., P.E., Dean of Engineering


SMART SYSTEMS

BIOTECHNOLOGY

ENVIRONMENT

NANOTECHNOLOGY AND ADVANCED

MATERIALS

ENERGY

HUMANHEALTH AND

LIVABILITY

COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

“Our research is aimed at addressing the most pressing challenges we face as a nation and as a planet.” — David V. Rosowsky, Ph.D., P.E., Dean of Engineering

Biomedical

Engineering

Chemical and

Biological

Engineering

Civil and

Environmental

Engineering

Electrical,

Computer, and

Systems

Engineering

Industrial and

Systems

Engineering

Materials

Science and

Engineering

Mechanical,

Aerospace and

Nuclear

Engineering


2009-2011 School of Engineering Research

Advances in engineering research are paving the road to sustainable systems— ultimately improving human health and safety for everyone.

here at Rensselaer’s School of Engineering, we are committed to solving the world’s grand challenges. From developing new ways to generate sustainable energy, to engineering better medicines, to restoring and improving urban infrastructure, our faculty expertise from many fields of engineering science are coming together in world-class interdisciplinary research centers and laboratories, working to find answers to these important problems. The result? Significant discoveries across disciplines including energy, environment, infrastructure systems, biotechnology, advanced materials and information technology. And our discovery doesn’t stop there.

Our commitment to scientific and community partnerships through a large number of highly productive and visible research centers has advanced our research mission, transcending the boundaries of our campus. We are collaborating and creating vital partnerships with universities and industries across the globe.

Our partners share our passion and commitment for engineering solutions that improve life. Through the innovative work done by our faculty, students and research staff in each of our seven academic departments and numerous research centers, we continually dem-onstrate our ability to create and maintain academic and research programs that are competitive on the international level—ensuring our students have an enjoyable and intellectually stimulating experience. We have a vibrant graduate student community that values intellectual exploration and contributes to the dynamic research culture at Rensselaer.

The School of Engineering is an academic family, referred to by Dean Rosowsky as a “com-munity of scholars,” with more than 160 full-time faculty, 3000 undergraduate students, and 700 graduate students. From 2009-2011 the School’s average research expenditures exceeded $51 million per year.

I’m delighted to welcome you to Rensselaer’s School of Engineering.

Tarek Abdoun, Ph.D.,Thomas Iovino Chaired Professor, Associate Dean for Research and graduate Programs


School oF ENGINEERINGRESEARch cENTERS AND lABS

INSTITuTE-wIDE RESEARch cENTERS

E N G I N E E R I N G R E S E A R C H C E N T E R S

Center for Earthquake

Engineering Simulation (CEES)

nees.rpi.edu

Center for Fuel Cell and

hydrogen Research (FChR)

eng.rpi.edu/FChRL

Center for Flow Physics

and Control (CeFPaC) www.rpi.edu/cefpac

Center for Infrastructure, Transportation,

and the Environment (CITE)

transp.rpi.edu/~CITE

Center for modeling, Simulation and

Imaging in medicine (CEmSIm)

Center for Sub-surface Sensing

& Imaging (CenSSIS)

ecse.rpi.edu/censsis/

The gaerttner LINAC Laboratory

www.linac.rpi.edu

Smart Lighting Engineering

Research Center (ERC)

smartlighting.rpi.edu

Center for Automation

Technologies and Systems (CATS)

cats.rpi.edu

Center for Biotechnology and

Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)

biotech.rpi.edu

Center for Future

Energy Systems (CFES)

rpi.edu/cfes

Center for Integrated

Electronics (CIE)

rpi.edu/dept/cie

Rensselaer

Nanotechnology Center

rpi.edu/dept/nsec

Scientific Computation

Research Center (SCOREC)

scorec.rpi.edu

Research is at the core of

our academic programs.

Our research platforms,

laboratories, and centers enable

world-class research, learning,

and discovery. Our research

programs reach across the

campus, linking together

departments, schools, and

interdisciplinary centers, and

creating opportunities for

integration of research

and education.


Biomedical Engineering

Corr, David 10

Dai, guohao 11

gilbert, Ryan 12

Intes, Xavier 13

Kotha, Shiva 14

Ledet, Eric 15

monastersky, glenn 16

Thompson, Deanna 17

Vashishth, Deepak 18

chemical and Biological Engineering

Belfort, georges 20

Bequette, B. Wayne 21

Collins, Cynthia 22

Coppens, marc-Olivier 23

Cramer, Steven 24

Dordick, Jonathan 25

garde, Shekhar 26

Kane, Ravi 27

Karande, Pankaj 28

Koffas, mattheos 29

Plawsky, Joel 30

Tessier, Peter 31

Underhill, Patrick 31

civil and Environmental Engineering

Abdoun, Tarek 34

Ban, Xuegang (Jeff) 35

Baveye, Philippe 36

Dobry, Ricardo 37

gadhamshetty, Ramana 38

holguin-Veras, Jose 39

Kilduff, James (Chip) 40

Letchford, Chris 41

Nyman, marianne 42

O’Rourke, michael 43

Reilly, John 44

Rosowsky, David 44

Symans, michael 45

Wang, Xiaokun (Cara) 46

Zeghal, mourad 47

Zimmie, Thomas 48

Electrical, computer, and Systems Engineering

Abouzeid, Alhussein 50

Bhat, Ishwara 51

Boyer, Kim 52

Chow, Joe 53

Chow, Tat-Sing (Paul) 54

Connor, Kenneth 55

Dutta, Partha 56

Franklin, W. Randolph 57

gerhardt, Lester 58

hella, mona 59

Ji, Qiang 60

Julius, Anak 61

Kanai, Junichi 62

Kar, Koushik 62

Karlicek, Robert 63

Le Coz,Yannick 63

Lu, James Jian-Qiang 64

mcDonald, John 65

Parsa, Leila 66

Radke, Richard 67

Sanderson, Arthur 68

Saulnier, gary 69

Sawyer, Shayla 70

Schoch, Paul 71

Schubert, E. Fred 71

Shur, michael 72

Sikdar, Biplab 73

Sun, Jian 74

Wen, John 75

Woods, John 76

Yazici, Birsen 77

Zhang, Tong 78

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Chan, Wai Kin (Victor) 80

Embrechts, mark 81

hsu, Cheng 82

malmborg, Charles 83

mendonça, David 84

Ryan, Jennifer 85

Sharkey, Thomas 86

Wallace, William (Al) 87

Willemain, Thomas 88

Materials Science and Engineering

Chrisey, Douglas 90

Duquette, David 90

gall, Daniel 91

huang, Liping 92

hull, Robert 93

Keblinski, Pawel 94

Lewis, Daniel 95

Ozisik, Rahmi 96

Ramanath, ganpati 97

Schadler, Linda 98

Shi, Yunfeng 99

Siegel, Richard 100

Tomozawa, minoru 101

Wright, Roger 101

Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering

Amitay, michael 104

Anderson, Kurt 105

Bevilacqua, Riccardo 106

Blanchet, Thierry 107

Borca-Tasciuc, D-A. 108

Borca-Tasciuc, T. 109

Caracappa, Peter 110

Danon, Yaron 111

De, Suvranu 112

haley, Thomas 113

hirsa, Amir 113

Jensen, michael 114

Ji, Wei 115

Koratkar, Nikhil 116

Lian, Jie 117

Liu, Li (Emily) 118

maniatty, Antoinette 119

mishra, Sandipan 120

morris II, Wallace 120

Oberai, Assad 121

Oehlschlaeger, matthew 122

Peles, Yoav 123

Picu, Catalin 124

Podowski, michael 125

Rusak, Zvi 126

Sahni, Onkar 127

Samuel, Johnson 128

Scarton, henry 129

Shephard, mark 130

Smith, Richard 131

Steiner, mark 131

Tichy, John 132

Walczyk, Daniel 133

Xu, Xie george 134

Zhang, Lucy 135

Zhou, Wei 136

FACULTY LISTINg BY DEPARTmENT

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BIoMEDIcAl

ENGINEERING

FAculTY

See full faculty listing on pages 137-138


Research Interestsmusculoskeletal Soft Tissue mechanics, Scaffold-free Tissue Engineering, muscle mechanics, Wound healing, microen-vironment Influences on Stem Cell Fate Decisions, White vs. Brown Adipogenesis.

Sponsored Research“Biomechanical Assessment of healing Skin Wounds,” Industrial sponsor.

“Comparison of Biomechanical Strength of Implant-Tissue Interface of Different Catheter Cuff Implants,” Industrial sponsor.

“Control of Stem Cell microenvironment for Brown and White Cell Adipogenesis,” National Institutes of health (NIh) .

“CAREER: Engineering Functional muscle-Tendon Structures using Scaffold-Free Cell-Based Directed Assembly and Theoretical modeling,” National Science Foundation – Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems.

Selected PublicationsSchiele NR, Koppes RA, Corr DT, Ellison KS, Thompson Dm, Ligon LA, Lippert TmK and Chrisey DB, “Laser Direct Writing of Combinatorial Libraries of Idealized Cellular Constructs: Bio-medical Applications,” Appl Surf Sci, 255(10):5444-47 (2009).

Corr DT, gallant-Behm CL, Shrive Ng and hart DA, “The Biomechanical Behavior of Scar Tissue and Uninjured Skin in a Porcine model,” Wound Rep Regen, 17, 250-259 (2009).

hynes A, mohanraj B, Schiele N, Corr DT, Plopper gE, Dinu CZ and Chrisey DB, “Cell-Based Detection of Bacillus cereus Anthrax Simulant Using Cell Impedance Sensing,” Sensor Lett, 8,528-533 (2010).

Eldred CC, Simeonov DR, Koppes RA, Yang C, Corr DT and Swank Dm, “The mechanical Properties of Drosophila Jump muscle Expressing Wild-Type and Embryonic myosin Iso-forms,” Biophys J, 98(7),1218-26 (2010).

Chrisey DB, mohanraj B, Schiele NR, hynes A, Yan Z, Corr DT and Dinu CZ, “Cell-Based Detection Using Electric Cell-Imped-ance Sensing,”in micro- and Nanoscale Processing of Biomate-rials, edited by R. Narayan, S. Jayasinghe, S. Jin, W. mullins, D. Shi (mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 1239, Warrendale, PA), 1239-VV01-02 (2010).

Schiele NR, Corr DT, huang Y, Raof NA, Xie Y and Chrisey DB, “Laser-Based Direct-Write Techniques for Cell Printing,” Biofabrication, 2(3), 032001 (2010).

Schiele NR, Chrisey DB and Corr DT, “gelatin-Based Laser Direct-Write Technique for the Precise Spatial Patterning of Cells,” Tissue Eng Part C methods, 17(3), 289-298 (2011).

Raof AN, Schiele NR, Xie Y, Chrisey DB and Corr DT, “The maintenance of Pluripotency Following Laser Direct-Write of mouse Embryonic Stem Cells,” Biomaterials, 10, 1016 (2011).

Rosvold Jm, Darcy SP, Peterson RC, Achari Y, Corr DT, marchuk LL, Frank CB and Shrive Ng, “Technical Issues in Using Robots to Reproduce Joint Specific gait,” J Biomech Eng, 133(5), 054501 (2011).

mcAuley E, mohanraj B, Phamduy T, Plopper gE, Corr DT and Chrisey DB, “Evaluation of Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing for the Detection of Nanomaterial Toxicity,” Int J Biomedical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2(2), 131-151 (2011).

MS Students GraduatedBhavana Mohanraj, “Evaluation of Electric Cell-substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS) for the Detection of Biological and Chemical Toxins.”

undergraduate Research Projects

• Skin and Scar Biomechanics

• Soft Tissue mechanics

• Cancer Cell Co-Culturing

• Collagen Scaffold Engineering

• Cell-Based Cancer Research

• Collagenous Tissue Engineering

• Soft Tissue mechanics and Digital Image Correlation

• Fibroblast Cell Research

• Single Fiber Tissue Engineering

• Skin Strain Analysis

• muscle Fiber Engineering

• Tendon Fiber Engineering

• material Analysis via DIC

David T. corr

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of wisconsin, 2001

Primary Research Area: Tissue Engineering


Research InterestsCardiovascular Biomechanics; Vascular Bioengineering.

Sponsored Research“Control Arterial Venous Differentiation Using 3-D Cell Print-ing Technology,” National Institutes of health.

Selected PublicationsPaluh JL, Dai g and Chrisey DB, “In Search of the holy grail: Engineering the Stem Cell Niche,” European Pharmaceutical Review, Volume 16, Issue 2 (2011).

Lee YB, Polio S, Lee W, Dai g and Yoo SS, “Bio-Printing of Collagen and VEgF-Releasing Fibrin gel Scaffolds for Neural Stem Cell Culture,” Exp Neurol, 223, 645-652 (2010).

MS Students GraduatedJohannes Kutten, “Developing Nanofiber Scaffold to Control Release Statin for Vascular Tissue Engineering Applications.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Vascular Formation in Laser Processed microchannel

• molecular Differences of Artery and Vein and Their roles in Vascular Disease Process

• Biomechanical Regulation of Arterial and Venous Identity

Guohao Dai

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., harvard Medical School - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002

Primary Research Area: cardiovascular Biomechanics


Research InterestsSpinal Cord Regeneration, Bone Regeneration, Biomaterials

Sponsored Research“Development of Biomaterials that Release Therapeutic Agents to modulate Inflammation Following Spinal Cord Injury,” National Institutes of health: NINDS.

“Acute Phase Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury Using hydrogel Blends Loaded with glutathione and Polyethylene glycol,” National Institutes of health: NIChD.

Selected PublicationsZuidema Jm, Pap mm, Jaroch DB, morrison FA and gilbert RJ, “Fabrication and Characterization of Tunable Polysaccharide hydrogel Blends for Neural Repair,” Acta Biomater., 7, 1634-1643 (2011).

Bouta Em, mcCarthy CW, Keim A., Wang hB, gilbert RJ and goldman J. “Biomaterial guides for Lymphatic Endothelial Cell Alignment and migration,” Acta Biomater., 7, 1104-1113 (2011).

Schaub N and gilbert RJ “Controlled Release of 6-aminon-icotinamide from Aligned, Electrospun Fibers Alters Astrocyte metabolism and Dorsal Root ganglia Neurite Outgrowth,” J. Neural Eng, 8, 046026 (2011).

gilbert RJ, Rivet CJ, Zuidema Jm and Popovich Pg, “Biomate-rial Design Considerations for Repairing the Injured Spinal Cord,” Crit Rev Biomed Eng, 39, 127-182 (2011).

hurtado A, Cregg Jm, Wang hB, Wendell DF, Oudega m, gilbert RJ and mcDonald JW, “Robust CNS Regeneration after Complete Spinal Cord Transection using Aligned Poly-L-Lactic Acid microfibers,” Biomaterials, 32, 6068-6079 (2011).

Wang hB, mullins mE, Cregg Jm, mcCarthy CW and gilbert RJ, “Varying the Diameter of Aligned Electrospun Fibers Alters Neurite Outgrowth and Schwann Cell migration,” Acta Bioma-ter., 6, 2970-2978 (2010).

Cregg Jm, Wiseman SL, Pietrzak Nm, Smith mR, Jaroch DB, Clupper DC and gilbert RJ, “A Rapid, Quantitative method for Assessing Axonal Extension on Biomaterial Platforms,” Tissue Eng Part C: methods, 16, 167-172 (2010).

Wang hB, mullins mE, Cregg Jm, hurtado A., Oudega m, Trombley mT and gilbert RJ, “Creation of highly Aligned Electrospun Poly-L-Lactic Acid Fibers for Nerve Regeneration Applications,” J Neural Eng, 6,16001 (2009).

Cao Z., gilbert RJ and he W, “Simple Agarose-Chitosan gel Composite System for Enhanced Neuronal growth in Three Dimensions,” Biomacromolecules, 10, 2954-2959 (2009).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedhan Bing wang, “Development of an Implantable multilay-ered 3D Scaffold Consisting of Aligned Electrospun Fibers for Neuronal Regeneration Applications.”

undergraduate Research Projects• The Role of Electrospun Fiber Density and YIgSR Fiber

Doping in Axon motility and Cell migration on Aligned Topography

• Development of Dissolvable Electrospun Fiber Conduits for Nerve Regeneration Applications

• Aligned, Electrospun Topography for Use with External Stimulus Systems

• Fibrin/Chitosan Composite hydrogels Blends: an Analysis of Degradation, mechanical Properties, and Neuronal Biocom-patibility

• Fabrication and Characterization of Tunable Polysaccharide hydrogel Blends for Neural Repair.

• The Role of Electrospun Fiber Density and YIgSR Fiber Doping in Axon motility and Cell migration on Aligned Topography

• Controlled Release of 6-Aminonicotinamide from Aligned, Electrospun Fibers Alters Astrocyte metabolism and Dorsal Root ganglia Neurite Outgrowth

Ryan Gilbert

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., case western Reserve university, 2006

Primary Research Area: Biomaterials


Research InterestsBiophotonics, Optics, BioImaging, BioInstrumentation, molecu-lar Imaging, Breast Cancer, Inverse Problems.

Selected PublicationsChen J , Venugopal V and Intes X, “A monte Carlo Based method for Fluorescence Tomographic Imaging with Lifetime multiplexing using Time gates,” Biomedical Optics Express, 2, 871-886 (2011).

Venugopal V, Chen J , Lesage F and Intes, X, “Full-Field Time-Resolved Fluorescence Tomography of Small Animals,” Optics Lett, 35, 3189-3191 (2010).

Chen J, Venugopal V, Lesage F and Intes X, “Time Resolved Diffuse Optical Tomography with Patterned Light Illumination and Detection,” Optics Lett, 35, 2121-2123 (2010).

Venugopal V, Chen J and Intes X, “Development of an Optical Imaging Platform for Functional Imaging of Small Animals Using Wide-Field Excitation,” Biomedical Optics Express, 1, 143-156 (2010).

Belanger S, Abran m, Intes X, Casanova C and Lesage F, “Real Time Diffuse Optical Tomography Based on Structured Illumi-nation,” J Biomedical Optics, 15, 016006 (2010).

Chen J and Intes X, “Time-gated Perturbation monte Carlo for Whole Body Functional Imaging in Small Animals,” Optics Express, 17, 19566–19579 (2009).

Waniewski RA, Intes X, VenugopalV et al., “Development of Procedures for Bioimaging Rodents using Fluorescence molecular Tomography, magnetic Resonance Imaging, and microscale, Computed X-Ray Tomography,” J American As-sociation for Laboratory Animal Science, 49, 730 (2010).

Chen J and Intes X, “Comparison of monte Carlo methods for Fluorescence molecular Tomography - Computational Ef-ficiency,” medical Physics 38(10), 5788-5798 (2011).

Venugopal V and Intes X, “Adaptive Full-Field Imaging for Fluorescence Optical Tomography,” IEEE Transactions in medi-cal Imaging, accepted.

Venugopal V and Intes X, “Recent Advances in Optical mam-mography,” Current medical Imaging Reviews, accepted.

Ph.D. Students GraduatedVivek Venugopal, “Wide-Field Whole-Body FRET Imaging.”

MS Students GraduatedMichael T. Finnern, “Optoacoustic Imaging.”

Vinay Nat, “Profilometry for molecular Optical Imaging.”

Krenar Tasimi, “master Thesis: multi-Spectral Lifetime Imag-ing.”

Monish Pimpalkhare, “Level-Set Segmentations for Anatom-ical-guided Optical Tomography.”

undergraduate Research Projects• monte Carlo for Optical Imaging

• Labview Control for Structured Illumination

Xavier Intes

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Bretagne occidentale (France), 1998

Primary Research Area: Biophotonics


Research InterestsBone, Regenerative medicine, Ultrasound, Tissue Engineering, Device Design.

Sponsored Research“Importance of Beta-Catenin Signaling in Osteocytes in Re-sponse to Anabolic Load,” National Institutes of health (NIh) / The National Institute of Aging (NIA).

“Collagen Crosslinking Effects on Bone Fragility,” National Institutes of health (NIh) / The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR).

“Device for Tooth Cleaning in the Disabled,” National Science Foundation (NSF).

“CAREER: hierarchies of Repair in Damaged Bone – A Role for Osteocytes,” National Science Foundation (NSF).

“Conference: 37th Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Troy, NY, April 2011,” The National Science Foundation (NSF).

Selected Publicationsmacione J, Kavukcuoglu NB, Nesbitt RSA, mann AB, guzelsu N and Kotha SP, “hierarchies of Damage Induced Loss of mechanical Properties in Calcified Bone after In Vivo Fatigue Loading of Rat Ulnae,” J mechanical Behavior of Biomedical materials, (2011). Accepted.

macione J, DePaula CA, guzelsu N and Kotha SP, “Correla-tion Between Longitudinal, Circumferential, and Radial moduli in Cortical Bone: Effect of mineral Content,” J mechanical Behavior of Biomedical materials, 3(5), 405-413 (2010).

guzelsu N, Weinstein C, Kotha SP, “A New Streaming Poten-tial Chamber for Zeta Potential measurements of Particulates,” Review of Scientific Instruments, 81(1), 015106 (2010).

Kotha SP, Li C, Schmid S and mason JJ, “Reinforcement of Bone Cement Using Zirconia Fibers with and without Acrylic Coating,” J Biomedical materials Research A., 88(4) : 898-906 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJames Macione, “medical Ultrasound Compounding with the Novel Paired Angle multiplicative Compounding or PAmC method.”

MS Students GraduatedKane Killelia, “Second harmonic Imaging of Collagen During Skin Stretching.”

Tristan Ramas, “Novel Ultrasound Drivers for Tooth Cleaning.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Ultrasound to Stimulate Cells

• Digital Image Correlation to Determine Strains

• Stretch Induced Increase in Permeability through Skin

• Design of Plasmids for gene Delivery

Shiva Kotha

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Rutgers university, 2000

Primary Research Area: Tissue Engineering


Research InterestsBiomechanics, musculoskeletal mechanics, Orthopaedic Surgery, Spine Biomechanics, Implantable Sensors, Smart Implants.

Sponsored Research“Adjacent Level Disease: The Effects of Spinal Instrumentation on Redistribution of Spinal motion,” Peer Reviewed Pre-Clini-cal Research grant. Industrial sponsor.

“Integrated Stress Response in Space,” NASA Research Op-portunities in Space Life Sciences: Fundamental Space Biology – Animal Physiology.

“Restoration of Intervertebral Disc Diffusion by Nimodipine Administration,” Orthopaedic Research and Education Foun-dation, Young Investigator grant.

“Cervical Endplate Topography,”Industrial sponsor.

“Three Dimensional morphometry of Commonly Used Animal models of the Lumbar Spine,” Industrial sponsor.

“Biomechanics of Intertrochanteric Fracture Fixation Devices,”Industrial sponsor.

Selected Publicationsgrabowsky mBm, Pallotta NA, Connelly mW, Van Etten B, macDonald RA, Alley m, glennon JC, Dubin Ah, german JW, Uhl RL and Ledet Eh, “The Role of Extensor muscle Fatigue in the Onset of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: An In Vivo model,” The Albany medical College Orthopaedic Journal, 2,40-7 (2010).

Elsabee KA, Watson JD, Boyle J, Nazarian R, Wen JT, Carl AL and Ledet Eh, “Adjacent Level Changes in the Entire Thora-columbar Spine Following Surgical Intervention as measured Using a Novel In Vivo/In Vitro Active/Passive Robotic Simula-tor,” The Spine Journal, 10(9S), 84S (2010).

Sanders gP, Linley S, mcCallum S, Brule E, Vandeventer E, Leimer E, VanEtten B, Colloggi K, Puzas JE, Sowa gA, Lotz JC, Vanderzanden J, glennon JC, DiRisio DJ, Lawrence JP and Ledet Eh, “Identifying the Early Effects of mechanical Loading on the Lumbar Spine Using A Novel In Vivo Animal model,” The Spine Journal, 10(9S), 75S (2010).

Ledet Eh, Sanders gP, Jackson JL, Wagner C and Tymeson mP, “A Comprehensive Interspecies Comparison of Commonly Used Animal models for Study of the human Lumbar Spine,” The Spine Journal, 10(9S), 59S (2010).

Ledet Eh, Carl AL, glennon JC, Jeshuran W, De Deyne P and Belden C., “Small Intestinal Submucosa for Anular Repair: Long Term Response in an In Vivo Sheep model,” Spine, 34(14),1457-63 (2009).

Sanders gP, Linley S, Ramsey D, Abbott R, Puzas JE, glennon JC, DiRisio DJ, Lawrence J, Carl AL and Ledet Eh, “Effects of Chronic Cyclic Loading on the Lumbar Spine: an In Vivo Pilot Study,” The Spine Journal, 9(10S), 26S-7S (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedMary Beth Grabowsky, “Factors that Affect Loading in the Cervical Spine In Vivo As measured with a Novel Force-Sensing Implant.”

Glenn Sanders,“The mechanism of Endplate Sclerosis as a Precursor to Degenerative Disc Disease.”

MS Students GraduatedMehrin Kiani, “Adaptation of a Six Degree of Freedom Indus-trial Robot for Use as a human Spine Simulator.”

Kyle Elsabee, “Three-Dimensional Redistribution of Thoraco-lumbar Spinal motion Following Surgical Intervention.”

christian wagner, “Solid models for Comparative Lumbar Spinal Anatomy.”

Nicholas Pallotta, “Evaluation of Polymers for Encapsulation of Implantable Sensors.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Three-Dimensional morphology of human Cervical

Vertebrae

• An mRI Compatible mechanical Loading Apparatus

• A Novel Implantable mEmS-Based Single Component L-C Force Sensor

• Real Time In Vivo Forces in the Cervical Spine: Effects of muscle Fatigue

• Computational model of Diffusion Into the Intervertebral Disc

• Repeated Cyclic Axial Loading and Its Effect on the Lumbar Spine

• The Effects of Repeated mechanical Loading on the Lumbar Spine

• Real Time In Vivo Forces in the Cervical Spine: Effects of muscle Fatigue

• Kinematic Tracking of Trunk Range of motion in Normal healthy Volunteers

• Repeated Cyclic mechanical Loading in the Lumbar Spine

Eric h. ledet

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2003

Primary Research Area: Biomechanics


Research InterestsEmbryonic Stem Cell Biology, gene Expression, Differentiation, Animal models, Cancer Cells.

Sponsored Research“Basic Stem Cell Biology,” New York State Department of health.

Glenn Monastersky

Professor of Practice; and Director of operations and Associate center Director, center for Biotechnol-ogy and Interdisciplinary Studies

Ph.D., Rutgers university, 1986

Primary Research Area: cell Biology


Research InterestsNeural Tissue Engineering, Peripheral Nerve and Spinal Cord Repair, Schwann Cells, Rationally-Designed Biomaterials, Neu-ral Stem Cells, Neural Stem Cell – Endothelial Interactions.

Sponsored Research“guided Neuronal and glial guidance via Electrically Conduc-tive Collagen-Carbon Nanotube Scaffolds,” New York Depart-ment of health (NYS Spinal Cord Research Fund).

“Assessment of Schwann Cell Cytotoxicity Within Electri-cally Conductive hydrogels,” National Science Foundation, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Initiative.

“Assessment of Nanomaterial Composite Biomaterials for Neural Engineering,” National Science Foundation – Nanoscale Science and Engineering Initiative.

“Investigation of Adult Neural Progenitor Fate in Response hemodynamically Stimulated Endothelial Produced Factors,” New York State Department of health (NY Stem Cell Initiative – NYSTEm).

Selected PublicationsDeWitt Dg, Kazuba S, Thompson Dm and Stegemann JP, “Schwann Cell Number and Process Extension are Enhanced Within 3-D Collagen-matrigel™ Composite Scaffolds,” Tissue Eng, 15(10), 2785-93 (2009).

Ellison KS, Chrisey DB and Thompson Dm, “Laser machining of Elastomeric microstencils,” J Optoelectronics and Advanced materials (JOAm), 12(3), 659-662 (2010).

Behan BL, DeWitt Dg, Bogdanowicz DR, Koppes AN, Bale SS and Thompson Dm, “Cytotoxicity of Carbon Nanotubes to Schwann Cells in 2D Cell Culture and 3D Scaffolds for Neural Tissue Engineering,” J Biomedical materials Research, 96A:46-57 (2010).

Seggio Am, Narayanaswamy A, Roysam B and Thompson Dm, “Local Orientation of Schwann Cells Directs Neurite Out-growth,” J of Neural Eng, 7(4), 046001 (2010).

Koppes AN, Seggio Am and Thompson Dm “Neurite Out-growth is Stimulated in an Additive manner by Both Electric Field Strength and Schwann Cells,” J Neural Eng, 8 046023 (2011).

Zwolinski C, Ellison KS, DePaola N and Thompson Dm, “gen-eration of Cell-Derived 3D Extracellular matrix Substrates from 2D Endothelial Cell Cultures,” Tissue Eng Pt C, 17(5), 589-595 (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedAngela M. Seggio, “Investigation of Directed Neurite Out-growth mediated by Schwann Cells and Schwann Cell-Derived Factors (Extracellular matrix and Adhesion molecules).

MS Students GraduatedDaniel G. Dewitt, ”Development of a Stably Aligned, Schwann Cell Seeded Composite Biomaterial that Supports Neurite Outgrowth for Neural Tissue Engineering Applica-tions.”

christopher Zwolowski, “The Effect of hemodynamically-Stimulated Endothelial Cell-Produced Extracellular matrix on Adult Neural Stem Cells.”

undergraduate Research Projects• NSC Cryopreservation

• Analysis of hTP Cell Array Topic: Biological Image Analysis of Neurons

• SWCNT - Scaffolds for Spinal Cord Injury

• Correlation of SC-Produced ECm to SC Orientation

• Cell migration to EF

• NSC microfluidic Device

• CO2 Control of an Incubated Cell Chamber

• Biological Image Analysis of Neurons

• Neurite Outgrowth within a 3D Nanomaterial Laden Bioma-terial

• Electrically-Stimulated Schwann Cell migration

• Characterization of Endothelial-Derived ECm

• Schwann Cell migration Within a 3D Nanomaterial Laden Biomaterial

• Electrically Stimulated Endothelial and Fibroblasts on Neurite Outgrowth

• Characterization of Neural Stem Cells from Primary and Secondary Neurospheres

• Endothelial Cell migration Within a 3D Nanomaterial Laden Biomaterial

Deanna M. Thompson

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Rutgers, The State university of New Jersey, 2001

Primary Research Area: Neural Tissue Engineering


Research InterestsBone, Osteoporosis, Proteomics, Aging, Regenerative medi-cine, Diabetes, Orthopedics, Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering

Sponsored Research“Effects of Osteocalcin and Osteopontin on Bone Fragility,” The National Institutes of health (NIh) / The National Institute of Arthritis and musculoskeletal and Skin (NIAmS).

“Collagen Crosslinking Effects on Bone Fragility,” The National Institutes of health (NIh) / The National Institute of Aging (NIA).

“Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training,” The Nation-al Institutes of health (NIh) / The National Institute of general medical Sciences (NIgmS).

“modulation of Bone’s mechanical Behavior by Bone Quality,” The National Institutes of health (NIh) / The National Institute of Arthritis and musculoskeletal and Skin (NIAmS).

“Effects of Remodeling Suppression on Collagen Crosslinking and Bone Fragility,” The National Institutes of health (NIh) / The National Institute of Arthritis and musculoskeletal and Skin (NIAmS).

Selected PublicationsSroga g, Karim L, Colon F and Vashishth D, “Biochemi-cal Characterization of major Bone-matrix Proteins Using Nanoscale-Size Bone Samples and Proteomics methodology,” molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 10(9), m110.006718, 1-12 (2011).

Karim L and Vashishth D, “Influence of microarchitecture on microdamage Accumulation and morphology In human Can-cellous Bone,” J Orthop Res., 10,1002, 21448 (2011).

Jungmann R, Tang R, Schitter gC, Vashishth D, hansma PK and Thurner P, “Prediction of Trabecular Level microdam-age and Bone Fracture Through Local Strain,” J mech Behav Biomed mater., 4(4), 523-34 (2011).

Sroga gE and Vashishth D, “UPLC methodology for Indentifi-cation and Quantification of Naturally Fluorescent Crosslinks in Proteins: A Study of Bone Collagen,” J. Chromatrgr. B Anal. Technol. Biomed., 879(5-6), 379-85 (2011).

Tang SY and Vashishth D, “The Relative Contributions of Non-Enzymatic glycation and Cortical Porosity on the Fracture Toughness of Aging Bone,” J. Biomech, 44(2), 330-6 (2011).

gourion-Arsiquaud S, Tang SY, Burr D, Vashishth D and Boskey A, “Bisphosphonate Treatment modifies Canine Bone mineral and matrix Properties and their heterogeneity,” Bone, 46(3), 666-72 (2010).

Vashishth D, “Advanced glycation End-products and Bone

Fracture. Invited Perspective,” International Bone and mineral Society. IBmS Bone, 6(8), 268-78 (2009).

Tang S and Vashishth D, “Non-Enzymatic glycation Alters microdamage Formation in human Cancellous Bone,” Bone, 46(1), 148-54 (2010).

Forwood m and Vashishth D, “Translational Aspects of Bone Quality – Vertebral Fractures, Cortical Shell, microdamage and glycation: A Tribute to Pierre Dominique Delmas,” Osteoporos Int., 20 Suppl 3, S247-53 (2009).

Tang S, Allen mR, Phipps R, Burr BD and Vashishth D, “Changes in Non-enzymatic glycation and its Association with Altered mechanical Properties Following 1-year Treatment with Risedronate or Alendronate,” Osteoporos Int., 20(6), 887-94 (2009).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedlamya Karim, “modulation of Bone microdamage and Frac-ture by Post-translation modification of Bone Proteins.”

colleen Janeiro, “Effects of Bone Quality and Damage mor-phology on Bone Resorption.”

MS Students Graduatedwhitney Nausland, “Role of Sodium in Bone Fragility.”

undergraduate Research Projects• microCT Analysis of Bone microdamage• Role of Non-collagenous matrix Proteins in Damage mor-

phology• Analysis of In vitro Bone Resorption in Bone Biopsies of

Alendronate–Treated Postmenopausal Osteoporotic Women• microCT and Fracture Analysis of Long Bones from OC-/-,

OPN-/-, OC-OPN-/- and WT mice• Fatigue Behavior of mice Bones• In Vacuo glycation of Bone matrix Proteins• Alterations in Bone matrix Quality Due to Anabolic and

Catabolic Treatments for Post-menopausal Osteoporosis• Phosphorylation and glycation of Bone Osteopontin

and Osteocalcin

Deepak Vashishth

Professor and Department headPh.D., university of london (uK),1997

Primary Research Area: Biomechanics


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Research Interestsmembrane Filtration, Transport Phenomena (Nature-inspired selective transport through the Nuclear Pore Complex; synthet-ic membranes), Surface Science and Engineering (grafting and polymerization, high throughput, combinatorial chemistry), Interfacial Phenomena and Rheology (single molecule (protein and polymer) force spectroscopy, protein-protein interactions at surfaces, surface rheology), membrane Separation Processes (cross-flow filtration, fouling, module design, affinity adsorp-tion, membrane surface modification, NmR flow imaging), Ad-sorption Processes (proteins and polysaccharides from solution onto solid substrates), Biocatalysis (bioreactor design for cells and enzymes); bioseparations and sensors (using inteins as gene-fusion proteins), and Protein misfolding and Aggregation (insulin/ABeta amyloid oligomer and fibril formation).

Sponsored Research“Combinatorial and high Throughput membrane Synthesis and Testing: Tailoring membrane Surfaces to Applications,” US Department of Energy.

“Virtual gating machines: A New Technology for Protein Puri-fication,” Ih Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and medicine (BECON) (with Rockefeller U) grant.

“Enhanced Performance membranes by high Throughput modification,” NSF EAgER grant.

“Optimizing Immobilized Enzyme Performance in Cell-Free Environments to Produce Liquid Fuels,” US Department of Energy.

Selected Publicationsheldt CL, Zhang S and Belfort g, “Asymmetric Amyloid Fibril Elongation: A New Perspective on a Symmetric World,” Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 79, 92-98 (2011).

Anand g, Zhang F, Linhardt RJ, and Belfort g, “Adsorption and Desorption of Blood Proteins on metallic Substrates,” Langmuir, 27, 1830-1836 (2011).

Pereira B, Shemella P, garde S, Nayak SK, Belfort g, and Belfort m, “Spontaneous Proton Transfer to a Conserved Intein Residue Determines On-Pathway Protein Splicing,” J mol. Biol., 406 (3) 430-442 (2011).

gu m, Kilduff JE and Belfort g, “Searching for Super Protein-Resistant Synthetic membrane Surfaces Using high Through-put: Solvent Effects,” J membrane Science, 368 (1-2) 184-191 (2011).

Shemella PT, Topilina NI, Soga I, Pereira B, Van Roey P, garde S, Belfort g, Belfort m. and Nayak SK, “Electronic Structure of Neighboring Extein Residue modulates Intein C-terminal Cleavage Activity,” Biophysical J, 100 (9) 2217-2225 (2011).

Yun S-h, Kilduff JE and Belfort g, “Fouling-Resistant Properties of Poly(ether sulfone) Ultrafiltration membrane grafted with Poly(ethylene glycol)-based Binary monomer,” J membrane Sci., in press (2011).

heldt CL, Kurouski D, Sorci m, grafeld E, Lednev IK and Belfort g, “Isolating Toxic Insulin Amyloid Oligomers that Lack B-Sheets and have Wide ph Stability,” Biophysical J, 100, (11) 2792-2800 (2011).

Sorci m, Silkworth W, gehan T and Belfort g, “Evaluating Nuclei Concentration in Amyloid Fibrillation Reactions using Back-Calculation Approach,” PloS ONE, 6 (5) e20072 (2011).

Yune P, Kilduff JE and Belfort g, “Fouling-Resistant Properties of Poly(ether sulfone) Ultrafiltration membrane grafted with Poly(ethylene glycol)-based Binary monomer,” J membrane Sci., 370 (1-2), 166-174 (2011).

Yune P, Kilduff JE and Belfort g, “Searching for Novel mem-brane Chemistries: Producing a Large Library from a Single graft monomer at high Throughput,” J membrane Sci, in press.

Ph.D. Students GraduatedBrian Pereira, “Understanding Intein-mediated Protein Splic-ing” (with m. Belfort/S. garde).

Adith Venkiteshwaran, “Crossflow membrane filtration of Biological Suspensions for Protein Recovery.”

Amit Dutta, “macromolecules at Solid-Liquid Interfaces.”

Gaurav Anand, “Protein Adsorption at Solid-Liquid Inter-faces.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Reproducibility of Standard Seeded Insulin Kinetics

• modeling Dynamics of Amyloidosis Reactions a la CC Lee

• Isolating Toxic Insulin Amyloid Reactive Species that Lack B-Sheets and have Wide ph Stability

• Surface modification of Poly(ether sulfone) membranes by Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Induced graft Polymerization

• Asymmetric Amyloid Fibril Elongation: A New Perspective on a Symmetric World

• Reproducibility of Standard Seeded ABeta Kinetics

Georges Belfort

Institute ProfessorPh.D., university of california at Irvine, 1972

Primary Research Area: Molecular Separation Processes; Adsorption Processes; Biocatalysis, and Bioseparations/Sensors.


Research InterestsSystems and Control, Diabetes Technology, Fuel Cell Systems, Smart grid Technology, Carbon Capture and Sequestration.

Sponsored Research“In home Closed Loop Reduction of Nocturnal hypoglycemia and Daytime hyperglycemia,” National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

“Collection of Continuous glucose monitoring and Insulin Infusion Pump Data for Use in the Development of a Closed Loop Algorithm,” Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

“Development of Algorithms for a hypoglycemic Prevention Alarm,” Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).

“model Predictive Control of Integrated gasification Com-bined Cycle Power Plants,” U.S. Dept. of Energy.

“Optimizing Control of an Artificial Pancreas: From In Silico to Outpatients,” Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).”

Selected PublicationsCameron F, Bequette BW, Wilson Sm, Buckingham BA, Lee h and Niemeyer g, “A Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Based on Risk management,” J Diabetes Sci. Technol., 5(2), 368-379 (2011).

Kuure-Kinsey m. and Bequette BW, “A multiple model Predic-tive Control Strategy for Disturbance Rejection,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 49(17), 7983-7989 (2010).

Dassau E, Cameron V, Lee h, Bequette BW, Zisser h, Jovanovic L, Chase hP, Wilson Dm, Buckingham BA and Doyle Fh III, “Real-Time hypoglycemia Prediction Suite Using Continuous glucose monitoring: A Safety Net for the Artificial Pancreas,” Diabetes Care, 33(6), 1249-1254 (2010).

Buckingham B, Chase hP, Dassau E, Cobry E, Clinton P, gage V, Caswell K, Wilkinson J, Cameron F, Lee h, Bequette BW, Doyle FJ III, “Prevention of Nocturnal hypoglycemia Using

Predictive Alarm Algorithms and Insulin Pump Suspension,” Diabetes Care, 33(5), 1013-1018 (2010).

Bequette BW, “Continuous glucose monitoring: Real-Time Algorithms for Calibration, Filtering and Alarms,” J Diabetes Science and Technology, 4(2), 404-418 (2010).

Patek SD, Bequette BW, Breton m, Buckingham BA, Dassau E, Doyle FJ III, Lum J, magni L and Zisser h, “In Silico Preclinical Trials: methodology and Engineering guide to Closed-Loop Control,” J Diabetes Science and Technology, 3(2), 269-282 (2009).

Lee h, Buckingham BA, Wilson Dm and Bequette BW, “A Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Using model Predictive Control and a Sliding meal Size Estimator,” J Diabetes Science and Technology, 3(5), 1082-1090 (2009).

Bequette, BW, “glucose Clamp Algorithms and Insulin Time-Action Profiles,” J Diabetes Science and Technology, 3(5), 1005-1013 (2009).

Lee h and Bequette BW, “A Closed-Loop Artificial Pancreas Based on mPC: human-Friendly Identification and Automatic meal Disturbance Rejection,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 4(4), 347-354 (2009).

Andress RJ, huang X, Bequette BW and martin LL, “A System-atic methodology for the Evaluation of Thermochemical Cycles for hydrogen Production,” Int J hydrogen Energy, 34(9), 4146-4154 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedPriyadarshi Mahapatra, “model Predictive Control of Inte-grated gasification Combined Cycle (IgCC) Power Plants.”

MS Students GraduatedDale weber, “Particle Update in growing microbial Cellulose gels.”

Anna lis laursen, “modeling Droplet Flow in an Annular Pipe.”

B. wayne Bequette

Professor Ph.D., university of Texas at Austin, 1986

Primary Research Area: Systems and control


Research InterestsSynthetic Biology, Biochemical Engineering, Protein Engineer-ing, Space Biology, microbial Communities.

Sponsored Research“CAREER Award: Engineering Interspecies Communication and Synthetic microbial Consortia,” National Science Founda-tion.

“microbots for manipulation and Sensing,” Army Research Office.

“gravitational Effects on Quorum Sensing andBiofilm Forma-tion,” NASA.

“Development of a Novel Platform for Engineering Synthetic Interkingdom Communication,” W.m. Keck Foundation.

Selected PublicationsPai A, Tanouchi Y, Collins Ch, and You, LC, “Engineering mul-ticellular Systems by Cell-Cell Communication,” Curr. Opin. Biotechnol., 20, 461-70 (2009).

cynthia collins

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., california Institute of Technology, 2006

Primary Research Area: Microbial communities

Above Professor Collins with her research team. Right, Professor Cramer with his research team. Below, researchers working with Professor Garde have discovered a new, more precise method for measuring the hydrophobicity of nanoscale inter-faces, which could have important applications for the future of drug discovery. Below, a snapshot from a molecular dynamics simulation shows a protein (center) embedded in water.


Research InterestsNature-Inspired Chemical Engineering, Energy and Resource Efficiency, Design and Synthesis of hierarchically Structured Catalysts, Nature-Inspired membranes, Nano-Confinement Effects on Enzymes, Diffusion in heterogeneous Porous materials, Statistical mechanics, multiscale Theory and Simula-tions, gas-Solid Fluidization, Fuel Cells, Collective Dynamics, Self-Assembly.

Sponsored Research“Fundamental Research on the Optimal Design of hierarchi-cally Structured Nanoporous materials,” Industrial sponsor.

“Enhancing Protein Stability and Function by Confinement in Nanoporous materials: Fundamental Understanding Using Experiments and Simulations,” National Science Foundation.

“Simulation-Aided Design and Synthesis of Bio-inspired membranes for Water Desalination and Purification,” National Science Foundation.

“Development of Porous Neutron Detector materials,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Industrial sponsor.

“Synthesis and Testing of Confinement Effects on Supported homogeneous Catalysts in Nanostructured mesoporous materials,” Industrial sponsor.

“Nature-Inspired Fuel Cell,” Fuel Cell National Science Founda-tion IgERT Award.

“Terahertz Spectroscopy of Proteins Confined in Nanopores,” Terahertz Science and Technology, National Science Founda-tion, IgERT Award.

Selected PublicationsPitchumani R, heiszwolf JJ, Schmidt-Ott A, and Coppens m-O, “Continuous Synthesis by Spray Drying of Remarkably Stable mesoporous Silica and Aluminosilica Catalysts, Using Industrial Raw materials,” microp. mesop. mater., 120(1-2), 39-46 (2009).

van Ommen JR, Nijenhuis N, and Coppens m-O, “Reshaping the Structure of Fluidized Beds,” Chem. Eng. Prog., July, 49-57 (2009).

Wang g and Coppens m-O, “Rational Design of hierarchically Structured Porous Catalysts for Autothermal Reforming of methane,” Chem. Eng. Sci., 65, 2344-2351 (2010).

Denkova Ag, mendes E, and Coppens m-O, “Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Block Copolymer micelles in Solution: Recent Insights and Open Questions,” Soft matter, 6, 2351-2357 (2010).

Kjelstrup S, Coppens m-O, Pharoah J, and Pfeifer P, “Nature-Inspired Energy and material Efficient Design of a Polymer Electrolyte membrane Fuel Cell,” Energy and Fuels, 24(9), 5097-5108 (2010).

marras F, Wang J, Coppens m-O, and Reek JNh, “Ordered mesoporous materials as Solid Supports for Rhodium-Diphos-phine Catalysts with Remarkable hydroformylation Activity,” Chem. Comm., 46, 6587-6589 (2010).

Rao Sm and Coppens m-O, “mitigating Deactivation Effects Through Rational Design of hierarchically Structured Catalysts - Application to hydrodemetalation,” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 49, 11087-11097 (2010).

van Ommen JR, Sasic S, van der Schaaf J, gheorghiu S, Johns-son F and Coppens m-O, “Time-Series Analysis of Pressure Fluctuations in gas-Solid Fluidized Beds - A Review,” Int J mult. Flow, 37, 403-428 (2011).

Sang L-C and Coppens m-O, “Effects of Surface Curvature and Surface Chemistry on the Structure and Function of Proteins Adsorbed in Nanopores,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 13(14) (2011).

Sang L-C, Vinu A and Coppens m-O, “Ordered mesoporous Carbon with Tunable, Unusually Large Pore Size and Well-Con-trolled Particle morphology,” J mater. Chem., 21, 7410-7417 (2011).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedl.-c. Sang, “Systematic Study of Proteins Confined in Nano-porous SBA-15 with a Controlled Pore Size.”

MS Students GraduatedBirte Tabke, “Design and Synthesis of Composite membranes Inspired by Protein Channels, Such as Aquaporins.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Synthesis of hierarchically Structured Zeolite Crystals

• Optimization of Catalyst Pore Size Distribution to mitigate Catalyst Deactivation in Fixed Bed Reactor Processes

• Simulation of Emergent Behavior in Bacterial Communities

• monte-Carlo Simulations of CO2/Ch4 Separations in Zeolites

• molecular Dynamics Simulations of CO2/Ch4 Separations in Zeolites

• grand Canonical monte Carlo Simulations of Adsorption in Zeolites

• Adsorption of Proteins on Nanoparticles

• Comparison of Catalytic Activity of Enzymes Adsorbed on Nanoparticles and in Nanopores

Marc-olivier coppens

ProfessorPh.D., university of Ghent, Belgium, 1996

Primary Research Area: Nature-Inspired chemical Engineering


Research InterestsProtein-Surface Interactions; Preparative Chromatography; Rational Design; high Throughput Screening; Displacement Chromatography; multi-Scale modeling; molecular modeling; multimodal Chromatography; Lab on Chip; Proteomics; Smart Biopolymers; Biosensors.

Sponsored Research“Effect of mobile Phase modifiers on Product Quality in multi-modal Systems,” Industrial sponsor.

“Use of high Throughput Screening for Quality by Design,” Industrial sponsor.

“The Use of mulitmodal Chromatography for the Purification of Fusion Proteins,” Industrial sponsor.

“gOALI: Industrial Implementation of Smart Biopolymers for Antibody Purification,” National Science Foundation.

“Improving the Understanding and Application of multi-modal Chromatography,” National Science Foundation.

“Predicting Protein Chromatographic Behavior in hA Sys-tems,” Industrial sponsor.

“Protein Unfolding in Chromatographic Systems,” Industrial sponsor.

“New generation of Lab on Chip Separators based on Independent Fluid and Analyte Control,” University of New mexico.

“Chemically Selective Displacers for Protein Purification,” NSF.

“Travel grant for mediterranean Chemical Engineering Conference for Collaborative Research,” National Science Foundation.

“Selective Filling of Nanostructured Packings for Chromato-graphic Chip Systems,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationsmorrison CJ, gagnon P and Cramer Sm, “Purification of monomeric mAb From Associated Aggregates Using Selective Desorption Chromatography in hydroxyapatite Systems,” Biotech. and Bioeng., 108 (4) 813-821 (2011).

Nagrath D, Xia F and Cramer Sm, “Characterization and mod-eling of Nonlinear hydrophobic Interaction Chromatographic Systems,” J Chromatogr. A, 1218 (9) 1219-1226 (2011).

Freed A and Cramer Sm, “Protein-Surface Interaction maps for Ion-Exchange Chromatography,” Langmuir, 27 (7) 3561-3568 (2011).

hou Y, Jiang CP, Shukla AA, and Cramer Sm, “Improved Process Analytical Technology for Protein A Chromatography Using Predictive Principal Component Analysis Tools,” Biotech. and Bioeng., 108 (1) 59-68 (2011).

morrison CJ, gagnon P and Cramer Sm, “Unique Selectivity Windows Using Selective Displacers/Eluents and mobile Phase modifiers on hydroxyapatite,” J Chromatogr., 1217 (42), 6484-6495 (2010).

Chung WK, holstein mA, Freed AS, Evans ST, Baer ZC and Cramer Sm, “Ion Exchange Chromatographic Behavior of a homologous Cytochrome C Variant Library Obtained by Con-trolled Succinylation,” Sep. Sci. and Tech. 45 (15), 2144-2152 (2010).

hou Y, hansen TB, Staby A, and Cramer Sm, ”Effects of Urea Induced Protein Conformational Changes on Ion Exchange Chromatographic Behavior,” J Chromatogr. 1217 (47), 7393-7400 (2010).

Chung WK, Freed AS, holstein mA, mcCallum SA, and Cramer Sm “Evaluation of Protein Adsorption and Preferred Binding Regions in multimodal Chromatography Using NmR,” PNAS, 107 (39) 16811-16816 (2010).

Chung WK, hou Y, holstein m, Freed A, makhatadze gI and Cramer Sm, “Investigation of Protein Binding Affinity in multi-modal Chromatographic Systems Using a homologous Protein Library,” J Chromatogr., 1217 (2) 191-198 (2010).

Chung WK, Evans ST, Freed AS, Keba JJ, Baer ZC, Rege K, and Cramer Sm, “Utilization of Lysozyme Charge Ladders to Examine the Effects of Protein Surface Charge Distribution on Binding Affinity in Ion Exchange Systems,” Langmuir, 26(2), 759–768 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedS. Gowami, “Chip Electrochromatographic Systems: Novel Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube and Silica monoliths Based Separations.”

w. chung, “An Investigation into the Effects of Protein Sur-face modifications on Protein Binding Affinity in Ion Exchange and multimodal Chromatography.”

S. Evans, “Displacement Chromatography for Proteomic Applications.”

c. Morrison,“Automated high Throughput Screening of Selective Displacers.”

A. Freed, “multiscale modeling of Chromatographic Systems.”

M. levy, “Selective Filling for Creating Novel Chromatograph-ic Chip Systems.”

Y. hou, “QSPR models of homologous Protein Libraries.”

Steven M. cramer

william weightman walker Professor of Polymer EngineeringPh.D., Yale university, 1986

Primary Research Area: Protein-Surface Interactions


Research InterestsEnzyme Structure and Function at Biological-material Inter-faces and in Nonaqueous Environments; high-Throughput Biocatalysis in Drug and Functional materials Discovery; Biochip Development for Identification of Drug Candidate Toxicity and Biologically-Inspired Nanocomposites for 2D and 3D Functional Architectures.

Sponsored Research“Reactive/Self-Decontaminating Coating System,” DTRA.

“Self-Decontaminating Surfaces for hVAC and Infrastructure Protection,” U.S. Army.

“Predoctoral Training grant in Biomolecular Science and Engi-neering,” National Institutes of health.

“Bioengineered heparin Consortium,” Industrial sponsor.

“An Artificial golgi: Controlled gAg Synthesis and Screen-ing,” National Institutes of health.

“Stem Cell glycomics in microarray Format,” NYSTEm (New York State Stem Cell Science Center).

“Development of a Bioengineered heparin from a Non-Animal Source,” National Institutes of health.

“Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures,” National Science Foundation.

“gravitational Effects on Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Formation,” NASA.

“Stable Carbohydrate Libraries in Infectious Disease,” National Institutes of health.

“Computational Design of Specific Binding Proteins Using Leave-One-Out,” National Institute of general medical Sciences (NIgmS).

“K-12 grant,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsParedes DI, Watters K, Pitman DJ, Bystroff C, and Dordick JS, “Comparative Void-Volume Analysis of Psychrophilic and mesophilic Enzymes: Structural Bioinformatics of Psychrophilic Enzymes Reveals Sources of Core Flexibility,” BmC Struct Biol, 11, 42 (2011).

miao J, Pangule RC, Paskaleva EE, hwang EE, Kane RS, Lin-hardt RJ and Dordick JS, “Lysostaphin-Functionalized Cellulose Fibers with Antistaphylococcal Activity for Wound healing Applications,” Biomaterials, 32, 9557-9567 (2011).

Wu h, mora-Pale m, miao J, Doherty TV, Linhardt RJ and Dordick JS, “Facile Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass at high Loadings in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids,” Biotechnol Bioeng, 108, 2865-2875 (2011).

Traylor mJ, Ryan JD, Arnon ES, Dordick JS and Clark DS, “Rapid and Quantitative measurement of metabolic Stabil-ity without Chromatography or mass Spectrometry,” J Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 14476-14479 (2011).

gagner JE, Lopez mD, Dordick JS and Siegel RW, “Effect of gold Nanoparticle morphology on Adsorbed Protein Structure and Function,” Biomaterials, 32, 7241-7252 (2011).

Doherty TV, mora-Pale m, Foley S, Linhardt RJ and Dordick JS, “Ionic Liquid Solvent Properties as Predictors of Lignocellulose Pretreatment Efficacy,” green Chemistry, 12, 1967-1975 (2010).

Borkar IV, Dinu CZ, Zhu g, Kane RS and Dordick JS, “Bionano-conjugate-Based Composites for Decontamination of Nerve Agents,” Biotechnol. Prog., 26, 1622-1628 (2010).

Bale SS, Kwon SJ, Shah DA, Kane RS and Dordick JS, “A gFP Complementation System for monitoring and Directing Nanomaterial mediated Protein Delivery to human Cellular Organelles,” Biotechnol. Bioeng., 107, 1044-1051 (2010).

Pangule RC, Brooks SJ, Dinu CZ, Zhu g, Bale SS, Salmon S, metzger DW, Kane RS and Dordick JS, “Antimicrobial Nano-composite Films Based on Nanotube-Enzyme Conjugates,” ACS Nano, 4, 3993-4000 (2010).

Fernandes Tg, Kwon S-J, Lee m-Y, Diogo mm, Clark DS, Cabral JmS and Dordick JS, “Three-Dimensional Cell Culture microarrays for high-Throughput Studies of Stem Cell Fate,” Biotechnol. Bioeng., 106, 106-118 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedPhilippa Reeder, “Rational Approaches to Protein Design and Engineering: The Consensus and Re-Wire methods.”

Sumitra Sukumaran, “high Throughput Cytochrome P450 Catalysis: Towards the Development of microarray-Based Screening Platforms for Application in Drug Discovery.”

Shyam Sundhar Bale, “Synthesis and Assembly of Nanoscale Biological-material hybrids and Their Use for Selective Cellular Delivery.”

Sumanth Jamadani, “how Interfaces Affect the Behavior of Water and Water mediated Interactions: molecular Theory and Simulations.”

Joseph Nuffer, “Adsorption to Silica Nanoparticles: The Effect of Nanoparticle Size on Protein Structure, Stability, and Orientation.”

Diana Ivonne Paredes, “Structural Study of Enzymes in Rigidifying Environments.”

Jonathan S. Dordick

howard P. Isermann ‘42 Professor, Director, center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986

Primary Research:Gaining a Qantitative understanding of Biological Principles and Applying them to Advance Bioengineering, Materials Science, and Drug Discovery.


Research InterestsProtein hydration and Biological Interactions, molecular mod-eling and Simulation, Thermodynamics of Water and Aqueous Solutions.

Sponsored Research“Enhancing Protein Stability and Function by Confinement in Nanoporous materials: Fundamental Understanding Using Experiments and Simulations,” National Science Foundation.

“Computational and Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Arginine and Related Additives on Protein Self-Association in Concentrated Antibody Solutions,” Industrial sponsor.

“Improving the Understanding of multi-modal Chromatogra-phy,” National Science Foundation.

“Biomolecular Science and Engineering Training,” member NIh-training grant.

Selected Publicationsgarde S and Patel AJ, “Unraveling the hydrophobic Effect, One molecule at a Time,” Proc Natl. Acad. Sci, 108, 16491-16492 (2011).

Patel AJ, Varilly P, Jamadagni N, Acharya h, garde S and Chan-dler D, “Extended Surfaces modulate hydrophobic Interactions of Neighboring Solutes,” Proc Natl. Acad. Sci., 108, 17678-17683 (2011).

Jamadagni SN, godawat R, and garde S, “hydrophobicity of Proteins and Interfaces: Insights from Density Fluctuations,” Annual Reviews of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, 2, 147-171 (2011).

ON ThE COVER: Kalra A, garde S and hummer g, “Lubrica-tion by molecularly Thin Water Films Confined Between Nano-structured membranes,” European Physical Journal – Special Topics, 189, 147-154 (2010).

Acharya h, Vembanur S, Jamadagni SN and garde S, “map-ping hydrophobicity at the Nanoscale: Applications to hetero-geneous Surfaces and Proteins,” Faraday Disc., 146, 353-365 (2010).

Sarupria S, ghosh T, garcia AE, and garde S, “Studying

Pressure Denaturation of a Protein by molecular Dynamics Simulations,” Proteins: Struct Funct Bioinform, 78, 1641-1651 (2010).

godawat R, Jamadagni SN, and garde S, “Unfolding of hydro-phobic Polymers in guanidinium Chloride Solutions,” J Phys. Chem. B, 114, 2246-2254 (2010).

godawat R, Jamadagni SN, and garde S, “Characterizing hydrophobicity of Interfaces Using Cavity Formation, Solute Binding, and Water Correlations,” Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, part of the special issue on liquids and structural glasses, 106 (36) 15119 - 15124 (2009).

Sarupria S, and garde S, “Quantifying Water Density Fluctua-tions and Compressibility of hydration Shells of hydrophobic Solutes and Proteins,” Phys. Rev. Lett, 103, 037803 (2009).

ON ThE COVER: Jamadagni SN, godawat R, and garde S, “how Surface Wettability Affects Binding, Folding, and Dy-namics of hydrophobic Polymers at Interfaces,” Langmuir, 25, 13092-13099 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSapna Sarupria, “Understanding Pressure Effects on Biologi-cal Self-Assembly: Role of hydration and Water-mediated Interactions.”

Rahul Godawat, “hydration and Assembly in Interfacial Envi-ronments: Thermodynamic, Structural, and Kinetic Studies.”

Sumanth Jamadagni, “how Interfaces Affect the Behavior of Water and Water-mediated Interactions: molecular Theory and Simulations.”

Natalia Shenogina, “Thermal Coupling at Aqueous and Biomolecular Interfaces.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Thermal Energy Transport at Nanostructured Interfaces

• Designing heteropolymer to Fold into Unique Structures via Water-mediated Interactions

Shekhar Garde

Elaine S. and Jack S. Parker Professor, and Department headPh.D., university of Delaware, 1997

Primary Research Area: Protein hydration and Biological Interactions


Research InterestsPolyvalency, Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Biomaterials

Sponsored Research“Engineering the Interface Between Inorganic materials and Cells,” Department of Energy.

“Self-Decontaminating Surfaces for hVAC and Infrastructure Protection,” Army Corps of Engineers.

“Development of Polyvalent Anthrax Toxin Inhibitors,” Na-tional Institutes of health.

“Bioactive materials for Stem Cell Control,” National Institutes of health.

“Reactive Self-Decontaminating Coating System,” Defense Threat Reducation Agency of the Department of Defense.

“The Design of Nanoscale Therapeutics,” NYSTAR.

“Actively Reconfigurable Nanostructured Surfaces for the Improved Separation of Biological macromolecules,” National Science Foundation.

“Engineering Embryonic Spinal Cord Cells for SCI Repair,” New York State Department of health.

Selected PublicationsShah DA, Kwon SJ, Bale SS, Banerjee A, Dordick JS, RS Kane, “Regulation of Stem Cell Signaling by Nanoparticle-mediated Intracellular Protein Delivery,” Biomaterials, 32, 12, 3210-9 (2011).

Joshi A, Kate Sandesh, mondal D, Boggara mB, Saraph A, martin JT, mcAlpine R, Day R, garcia AE, mogridge J, Kane RS, “Structure-based Design of a heptavalent Anthrax Toxin Inhibitor,” Biomacromolecules, 12, 3, 791-796 (2011).

Kane RS “Thermodynamics of multivalent Interactions: Influ-ence of the Linker,” Langmuir, 26, 11, 8636-8640 (2011).

Bale SS, Kwon SJ, Shah DA, Banerjee A, Dordick JS, Kane RS, “Nanoparticle-mediated Cytoplasmic Delivery of Proteins to Target Cellular machinery,” ACS Nano, 4, 3, 1493-1500 (2010).

Pangule RC, Brooks SJ, Dinu CZ, Bale SS, Salmon SL, Zhu g, metzger DW, Kane RS, Dordick JS, “Antistaphylococcal Nano-composite Films Based on Enzyme-Nanotube Conjugates,” ACS Nano, 4, 7, 3993-4000 (2010).

Athmakuri K, Rohovie m, Padala C, Cole R, Kane RS, “Influ-ence of Chain Length on the Diffusion and Electrophoresis of DNA Adsorbed on heterogeneous Supported Lipid Bilayers,” Langmuir, 26, 16, 13393-13398 (2010).

Jang J-h, Koerber JT, gujraty K, Bethi SR, Kane RS, Schaffer DV, “Surface Immobilization of hexa-histidine-Tagged Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors for Localized gene Delivery,” gene Therapy, 17, 1384-1389 (2010).

Banerjee A, Arha m, Choudhary S, Ashton RS, Bhatia SR, Schaffer DV, Kane RS, “The Influence of hydrogel modulus on the Proliferation and Differentiation of Encapsulated Neural Stem Cells,” Biomaterials, 30, 27, 4695-4699 (2009).

herce hD, garcia AE, Litt J, Kane RS, martin P, Enrique N, Rebolledo A, milesi V, “Arginine-Rich Peptides Destabilize the Plasma membrane, Consistent with a Pore Formation Translo-cation mechanism of Cell Penetrating Peptides,” Biophysical Journal, 97, 7, 1917-25 (2009).

Litt J, Padala C, Asuri P, Vutukuru S, Athmakuri K, Kumar S, Dordick, JS, Kane RS, “Enhancing Protein Stability by Adsorp-tion onto Raft-Like Lipid Domains,” J American Chemical Society, 131, 7107-11 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSrinavya Vutukuru, “Design, Synthesis, and Screening of Ligands for the Chromatographic Separation of Proteins.”

Shyam Sundhar Bale, Synthesis and Assembly of Nanoscale Biological-material hybrids and their use for Selective Cellular Delivery.”

David Vance, “The Design and Characterization of Polyvalent Therapeutics.”

Akhilesh Banerjee, “Engineering Bioactive materials for Cell-Directed Therapeutics.”

Ravindra c. Pangule, “Cell Lytic Enzyme-based Nanoscale Composites for Antimicrobial Applications.”

Dhiral A. Shah, “Regulation of Stem Cell Signaling by Nanoparticle-mediated Intracellular Protein Delivery.”

Krishna Athmakuri, “Transport of Biomolecules on Lipid membranes.”

Ravi S. Kane

P.K. lashmet Professor of chemical and Biological EngineeringPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998

Primary Research Area: Polyvalency


Research InterestsDrug Delivery, high Throughput Screening, Peptide Engineer-ing, Tissue Engineering.

Sponsored Research“An Investigation of Claudin-5 Binding Peptides for Enhancing Drug Delivery Across the Blood Brain Barrier,” goldhirsh Brain Tumor Research Foundation.

“Study of Tight Junction Binding Peptides for Drug Delivery Across the BBB,” Alzheimer’s Association.

“Rational and Combinatorial Screening of Biomaterials for Neural Engineering,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsKarande P and mitragotri S, “Enhancement of Transdermal Drug Delivery via Synergistic Action of Chemicals,” Biochimica Biophysica Acta. Biomembranes, 1788(11): 2362-2373 (2009).

Karande P, Arora A, Pham TK, Stevens D, Wojicki A. and mitragotri S, “Transcutaneous Immunization Using Common Chemicals,” J Controlled Release, 138(2): 134-140 (2009).

Arora A, Kisak E, Karande P, Newsam J and mitragotri S, “multicomponent Chemical Enhancer Formulations for Trans-dermal Drug Delivery: more is Not Always Better,” J Controlled Release, 144(2): 175-180 (2010).

Nauman B, Patel K and Karande P, “On the Design and Op-timization of Diffusion-Controlled, Planar Delivery Devices,” Chemical Engineering Sci, 65(2): 923-930 (2010).

Karande P and mitragotri S, “Transcutaneous Immunization: An Overview of Advantages, Disease Targets, Vaccines, and Delivery Technologies,” Annual Reviews in Chemical and Biomolecular Eng, 1(1): 175-201 (2010)

Nauman B, Patel K and Karande P, “Design of Optimized Diffusion-Controlled Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems,” Drug Dev. and Industrial Pharmacy, 65(2): 923-930 (2010).

undergraduate Research Projects• Skin Tissue Design

• Design of Peptides

• Drug Delivery to Brain

• high Throughput Assay Design

• Tumor model Development

• 3D Cancer Screening

• Peptide Drug Design

Pankaj Karande

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of california at Santa Barbara, 2006

Primary Research Area: Drug Delivery


Research Interestsmetabolic Engineering, Natural Products, Applied microbiol-ogy, Bioinfomatics, Protein Engineering, Synthetic Biology.

Sponsored Research“Biosynthesis of Taxol in microorganisms,” National Institute of health- National Institute of general medicinal Sciences.

“Engineering the Synthesis of Natural and Non-natural Antho-cyanins in Escherichia coli,” National Science Foundation.

“high-Throughput and Live monitoring of gene Expression in Stem Cells,” National Science Foundation.

“Engineering Biosynthesis of Anthocyanins in Eshcerichia coli.,” National Science Foundation (Phase I SBIR grant).

“high-Throughput, Real Time monitoring of Stem Cell Dif-ferentiation,” NYS Stem Cell Science Program.

Selected PublicationsXu P, Ranganathan S, Lim gC, maranas C, Koffas mAg, “ge-nome-Scale metabolic Network modeling Results in minimal Interventions that Cooperatively Force Carbon Flux Towards malonyl-CoA,” metabolic Engi, accepted 2011.

Lim Cg, Fowler ZL, hueller T, Schaffer S, Koffas mAg, “high Yield Resveratrol Production in Engineered Escherichia coli,” Applied and Environmental microbiology, 77(10):3451-60 (2011).

Fowler ZL, Baron Cm, Panepinto JC, Koffas mAg, “melaniza-tion of Flavonoids by Fungal and Bacterial Laccases,” Yeast, 28(3):181-8 (2011).

Santos CN, Koffas mAg, Stephanopoulos g, “Optimization of a heterologous Pathway for the Production of Flavonoids from glucose,” metabolic Eng, 13(4), 392-400 (2011).

Chemler JA, Lim Cg, Daiss JL, Koffas mAg, “A Versatile mi-crobial System for the Biosynthesis of Novel Polyphenols with Altered Estrogen Receptor Binding Activity,” Chemistry and Biology, 17(4), 392-401 (2011).

Chemler JA, Fowler ZL, mchugh KP, Koffas mAg. “Improving NADPh Availability for Natural Products in Escherichia coli by metabolic Engineering,” metabolic Eng, 12(2), 96-104 (2010).

Bedekar A, Shah K, Koffas mAg,”Natural Products for Type II Diabetes Treatment,” Advances in Applied microbiology, 71, 21-73 (2010).

Fowler ZL, gikandi WW, Koffas mAg, “Increased malonyl Coenzyme A Biosynthesis by Tuning the Escherichia coli meta-bolic Network and its Application to Flavanone Production,”

Applied and Environmental microbiology, 75(18), 5831-9 (2009).

Fowler ZL, Koffas mAg,”Biosynthesis and Biotechnological Production of Flavanones: Current State and Perspectives,” Applied microbiology and Biotechnology, 83(5), 799-808 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJoseph chemler, “metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiaw to mutasynthesize Natural Phenylpropanoids and Novel Analogs.”

Zachary Fowler, Developing Computational and molecular Tools to Engineer the microbial Biosynthesis of Natural Prod-ucts.”

chin-Giaw lim, “metabolic Engineering for high-Level Flavo-noids and Stilbenes Production in microorganisms.”

MS Students GraduatedRamanan Sekar, “Development of E. coli mutants for the Efficient Production of Recombinant Polyphenols.”

Karan Prakash Shah, “Use of Antisense RNA for Controlling gene Expression in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae.”

Namita Bhan, “Development of Knockout mutants in Yeast for Enhancing malonyl-CoA Availability.”

Sriram Ramamoorthi, “Antimicrobial and Antifungal Proper-ties of Non-natural Flavanones.”

Sankaranarayanan Venkiteswaran, “Antimicrobial and Antifungal Properties of Non-natural Catechins.”

lynn wong, “Engineering Resveratrol Biosynthesis in microorganisms.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Crystalization of a Type II P450 hydroxylase from Soy

• Crystalization of a Type II P450 hydroxylase from Licorice

• Crystalization of Taxadiene 5-ol hydroxylase

• Engineering the Efficient Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in E.coli

• Development of E.coli mutants Susceptible to Resveratrol

• Exploring the Use of Polyphenols as Intein Inhibitors

Mattheos Koffas

Associate Professor, Jr. constellation chair in Biocatalysis and Metabolic EngineeringPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000

Primary Research Area: Metabolic Engineering


Research InterestsTransport Processes, Interfacial Phenomena, microelectronic and Photonic materials, Biological Systems.

Sponsored Research“Reliability and Failure mechanisms of Low And high-k Dielec-trics,” Industrial sponsor.

“Photocatalytic Nanotubes,” Smart Lighting ERC, National Science Foundation.

“Development of Porous Neutron Detector material,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

“Constrained Vapor Bubble microgravity Experiment,” NASA.

“gravitational Effects on Quorum Sensing and Biofilm Forma-tion,” NASA.

“Composite Thermal Interface materials,” Industrial sponsor.

“Nanofluid Engineering Laboratory,” National Science Foundation.

“micro2 and micro2A Biofilm Flight Experiments,” NASA.

Selected PublicationsOjha m, Chatterjee A, Dalakos g, Wayner PC, and Plawsky JL, “Role of Solid Surface Structure on Evaporative Phase Change from a Completely Wetting Corner meniscus,” Physics of Fluids, 22, 052101 (2010).

Ojha m, Chatterjee A, mont F, Schubert EF, Wayner PC Jr. and Plawsky JL, “The Role of Solid Surface Structure on Dropwise Phase Change Processes,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 53, 910-922 (2010).

he m, Novak S, Vanamurthy L, Bakhru h, Plawsky JL, and Lu T-m, “Cu Penetration into Low-k Dielectric during Deposi-tion and Bias-Temperature Stress,” Applied Physics Lett, 97, 252901 (2010).

Plawsky JL, Kim JK, and Schubert EF, “Review: Engineered Nanoporous and Nanostructured Films,” materials Today, 12 (6), 36 (2009).

Chatterjee A, Plawsky JL, Wayner PC Jr, Chao DF, Sicker RJ, Lorik T, Chestney L, Eustace J, and Zoldak J, “Constrained Vapor Bubble Experiment for International Space Station: Earth’s gravity Results,” J Thermophysics and heat Transfer, 24, 400-408 (2010).

Plawsky JL, gill WN; Achanta RS, “modeling Time-Dependent Dielectric Breakdown with and without Barriers,” J micro/Nanolithography, mEmS, and mOEmS, 9, 041104 (2010).

Plawsky JL, Littman h, and Paccione JD, “Design, Simulation, and Performance of a Draft Tube Spout Fluid Bed Coating System for Aerogel Particles,” Powder Technology, 131-138 (2010).

Senawiratne J, Chatterjee A, Detchprohm T, Zhao W, Li Y, Zhu m, Xia Y, Li X, Plawsky JL and Wetzel C, “Junction Tempera-ture, Spectral Shift, and Efficiency in gaInN-based Blue and green Light Emitting Diodes,” Thin Solid Films, 518, 1732-1736 (2010).

Achanta RS, Plawsky JL, gill WN and Kim Y-h, “The Effect of metallic Barriers in Inhibiting Copper Ion Transport in Low-k Dielectrics: Implications for Time-to-Failure,” Thin Solid Films, 517, 5630-5633 (2009).

Plawsky JL, “Transport Phenomena Fundamentals, 2nd ed.,” CRC Press, FL (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedArya chatterjee, “The Constrained Vapor Bubble heat Pipe – On Earth and in Space.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Photocatalytic Nanotubes

• Reliability and Failure mechanisms of Low And high-k Dielectrics

• Nanofluid Engineering Laboratory - Viscosity Experiment

Joel Plawsky

Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986

Primary Research Area: Transport Processes

The RPI/NASA CVB team controlling operations of the CVB from NASA’s Glenn Research Center. Back Row (l-r) Ron Sicker, Arya Chatterjee, David Chao. Front Row (l-r) Mike Johansson, Joel Plawsky, Brian Motil.


Research InterestsBiotechnology, Protein Engineering, Antibodies, Protein Ag-gregation, Nanotechnology.

Sponsored Research“Loop Engineering of Protein Surfaces for Tunable Self-Associ-ation and Phase Behavior,” NSF CAREER Award.

“Unraveling Structures and Functions of Infectious Prions Us-ing Novel Site- and Conformation-Specific Structural meth-ods,” Pew Scholar Award in Biomedical Sciences.

“high-Throughput measurements of Antibody Self-Associa-tion,” Industrial sponsor.

“Computational and Experimental Analysis of the Impact of Arginine and Related Additives on Protein Self-Association in Concentrated Antibody Solutions,” Industrial sponsor.

“Structure of Abeta C-Terminal Domain in Toxic Oligomers,” American health Assistance Foundation grant.

Selected PublicationsLadiwala AR, mora-Pale m, Lin J, Bale SS, Fishman ZS, Dordick JS, Tessier Pm, “Polyphenolic glycosides and Aglycones Utilize Opposing Pathways to Selectively Remodel and Inactivate Toxic Oligomers of Amyloid ß” (2011).

Perchiacca Jm, Bhattacharya m, Tessier Pm, “mutational Analysis of Domain Antibodies Reveals Aggregation hotspots Within and Near the Complementarity Determining Regions,” Proteins, epub may 20 (2011).

Ladiwala AR, Dordick JS, Tessier, Pm, “Aromatic Small mol-ecules Remodel Toxic Soluble Oligomers of Amyloid ß Through Three Independent Pathways,” J Biol. Chem., 286, 3209 (2011).

Ladiwala AR, Lin JC, Bale SS, marcelino-Cruz Am, Bhat-tacharya m, Dordick JS, Tessier Pm, “Resveratrol Selectively Remodels Soluble Oligomers and Fibrils of Amyloid Aß into Off-Pathway Conformers,” J Biol. Chem., 285, 24228 (2010).

Tessier Pm, Lindquist SL, “Unraveling molecular Interactions and Structures of Self-Perpetuating Prions and Amyloids,” Nat. Struct. mol. Biol., 16, 598 (2009).

Bengali AN, Tessier Pm, “Biospecific Immobilization of Proteins for Rapid Analysis of Weak Protein Interactions Using Self-Interaction Nanoparticle Spectroscopy,” Biotechnol. Bio-eng.,104, 240 (2009).

Peter M. Tessier

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Delaware, 2003

Primary Research Area: Protein Engineering

Research InterestsComplex Fluids, Computer Simulations, microfluidics, Active materials.

Sponsored Research“multiscale modeling of Collective Behavior of Bacteria,” CAREER Award, National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationshernandez-Ortiz JP, Underhill PT, and graham mD, “Dynamics of Confined Suspensions of Swimming Particles,” J Phys.: Condens. matter, 21, 204107 (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• Propulsion of microorganisms at Low Reynolds Number

Patrick underhill

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

Primary Research Area: complex Fluids



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Research Interestsgeotechnical and geoenvironmental Centrifuge modeling, Vulnerability of Critical Infrastructures to Natural and man-made hazards, modeling Blast Loading, 3D Advanced Field Sensors (Patent), Full-scale Shake Table Testing, Soil-Structure Interaction, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Soil Remediation, Wireless Data Acquisition Systems, 3D Data Viewer and Visualization.

Sponsored Research“Development and Full-Scale Testing of Earty Detection Tools for Flood-Control Infrastructure,” Department of homeland Security.

“SATOP Program,” greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, NASA/TOP.

“Development of a multiscale monitoring and health Assess-ment Framework for Effective management of Levees and Flood-Control Infrastructure Systems,” National Institute of Standards and Technology.

“Collaborative Research: Full Size Experiments and Centri-fuge Physical models of Pile Foundations Subjected to Lateral Spreading: Comparative Study and Engineering Interpreta-tion,” National Science Foundation.

“NEESR-II: Advanced Site monitoring and Effective Charac-terization of Site Nonlinear Dynamic Properties and model Calibration,” National Science Foundation.

“NEESR-Sg: Experimental and micromechanical Study of Pile Foundations Subjected to Liquefaction-Lateral Spreading,” National Science Foundation.

“NEES Consortium Operation: 2004-2014,” NEES Consortium, Inc.

“NEES Operations FY2010 - FY2014,” Purdue University.

“Centrifuge modeling of New Orleans T- Wall Levee System,” U.S. Army.

“Centrifuge modeling of Vulnerability & mitigation for Soil-Structural Systems,” United States Army.

“modeling and health Assessment of New Orleans Recon-structed Flood Protection System,” United States Army.

“modeling of Soil-Structure Systems to Determine Vulnerabil-ity and Proposed mitigation,” United States Army.

Selected Publicationsha D, Abdoun T, O’Rourke mJ, Symans mD, O’Rourke TD, Palmer m, and Stewart hE, “Factors Influencing the Behav-ior of Buried Pipelines Subjected to ground Faulting,” Soils Dynamics and Earthquake Eng, 29, 415-427 (2009).

gonzález L, Abdoun T and Dobry R, “Effect of Soil Perme-ability on Centrifuge modeling of Pile Response to Lateral Spreading,” ASCE J geotechnical and geoenvironmental Eng, 135(1), 62-73 (2009).

he L, Elgamal A, Abdoun T, Abe A, Dobry R, hamada m, men-eses J, Sato m, Shantz T, and Tokimatsu K, “Lateral Load on Single Piles Due To Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading,” J. of Earthquake Engineering, 13(7), 916–938 (2009).

Thevanayagam S, Dobry R, Abdoun T, Elgamal, A, Zeghal, m, and El-Shamy U, “1-g Laminar Box System for Physical model-ing of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading,” ASTm geotechni-cal Testing Journal, 32(5) (2009).

Bennett V, Abdoun T, Shantz T, Jang D, and Thevanayagam S, “Design and Characterization of a Compact Array of high-Resolution mEmS Accelerometers for Instrumenting Soil and Soil-Structure Systems,” Smart Structures and Systems Journal, 5(6) (2009).

Palmer mC, O’Rourke TD, Olson NA, Abdoun T, and ha D, “Tactile Pressure Sensors for Soil-Structure Interaction As-sessment,” ASCE J geotechnical and geoenvironmental Eng, 135(11), 638-1645 (2009).

ha D, Abdoun T, O’Rourke mJ, Symans mD, O’Rourke, TD, and Stewart, hE, “Earthquake Faulting Effects on Buried Pipe-line - Case history and Centrifuge Study,” J Earthquake Eng, 4(5), 646-669 (2010).

El Shamy U, Zeghal m, Dobry R, Thevanayagam S, Elgamal A, Abdoun T, medina C, Bethapudi R, and Bennett V, “microme-chanical Aspects of Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading,” ASCE Int J geomechanics, 10(5), 190-201 (2010).

Dobry R, Thevanayagam S, P.E., medina C, Bethapudi R, Elgamal A, Bennett V, Abdoun T, Zeghal m, and El Shamy U, “mechanics of Lateral Spreading Observed in Full-Scale Shake Test,” ASCE J geotechnical and geoenvironmental Eng, (2010).

Ubilla J, Abdoun T and Dobry R, “Examining the Scaling Laws of Centrifuge modeling of Pile Response to Lateral Spread-ing,” Int J Physical modeling and geotechnics (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedVictoria Bennett, “Development of a mEmS-Based In-Place Inclinometer-Accelerometer Array for monitoring and Evalua-tion of geotechnical Systems.”

MS Students GraduatedDaisy lucas, “Full anß Small-Scale Physical modeling of Pile Foundation Response to Lateral Spreads.”Kelly owens, “Explosive Cratering Using geotechnical Centrifuge on Kaolin Clay Surface.”

Tarek Abdoun

Thomas Iovino chaired Professor; Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, School of Engineering; and Technical Director of the center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1997

Primary Research Area: Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental centrifuge Modeling


Research InterestsTransportation Network modeling and Simulation, Traffic Operations and modeling, Intelligent Transportation System

Sponsored Research“CAREER: Using mobile Traffic Sensors as Traffic Probes-Ad-dressing Transportation modeling and Privacy Protection in an Integrated Framework,” National Science Foundation.

“Collaborative Research: mobile Sensors as Traffic Probes-Addressing Transportation modeling and Privacy Protection in an Integrated Framework,” National Science Foundation.

“BECS Collaborative Research: modeling the Dynamics of Traf-fic User Equilibria Using Differential Variational Inequalities,” National Science Foundation.

“Development of a Decision-making Tool for Corridor Based Transportation management,” NYS Energy Research and Development Authority.

“Freight Transportation Data Cost Elements,” National Acad-emy of Sciences.

“Freight Trip generation and Land Use,” National Academy of Sciences.

“Feasibility Study for Freight Data Collection,” Research Foun-dation of CUNY.

“Freight Demand Estimation from Secondary Sources,” Re-search Foundation of CUNY.

”Risk-Neutral Second Best Toll Pricing,” Research Foundation of CUNY.

“Vehicle Classification Using mobile Sensors,” Research Foun-dation of CUNY.

“Development of Expert Systems for the ITS Decision Web-site,” University of California at Berkeley.

“Intersection Delay Pattern Estimation Using Privacy-Preserva-tion gPS-Equipped Cellular Phones,” University of California at Berkeley.

“Technical Evaluation of microscopic Traffic Simulation in Corridor System management Plan,” University of California at Berkeley.

Selected PublicationsBan X, Pang JS, Liu X and maR, “Continuous-time Point-Queue models in Dynamic Network Loading,” Transportation Res Part B, accepted (2011).

Ban X, Pang JS,, Liu X and ma R, “modeling and Solution of Continuous-Time Instantaneous Dynamic User Equilibria: A Differential Complementarity Systems Approach,” Transporta-tion Res Part B, accepted (2011).

Ban X, hao P and Sun ZB, “Real Time Queue Length Estima-tion for Signalized Intersections Using Sample Travel Times from mobile Sensors, Transportation Res Part C, 19(6), 1133-1156 (2011).

hoh B, Iwuchukwu T, Jacobson Q, gruteser m, Bayen A, herrera JC, herring,R., Work D, Annavaram m and Ban X, “Enhancing Privacy and Accuracy in Probe Vehicle Based Traffic monitoring via Virtual Trip Lines,” IEEE Transactions on mobile Computing, in press (2011).

Ban X, Chu L, herring R and margulici JD, “A Sequential mod-eling Framework for Optimal Sensor Placement for multiple ITS Applications,” ASCE J Transportation Eng 137(2) (2011).

Ban X, Li Y, Skabardonis A and margulici JD, “Performance Evaluation of Travel Time Estimation methods for Real Time Traffic Applications,” J Intelligent Transportation Systems, 14(2), 54-67 (2010).

herrera JC, Work DB, herring R, Ban X and Bayen A, “Evalua-tion of Traffic Data Obtained via gPS-enabled mobile Phones: the mobile Century Field Experiment,” Transportation Res Part C, 18(4), 568-583 (2010).

Ban X, Ferris m, Liu h, “Numerical Studies on Reformulation Techniques for Continuous Network Design Problems with Asymmetric User Equilibrium,” Int J of Operations Res and Information Systems, 1(1), 52-72 (2010).

Ban X, herring R, margulici JD, and Alex Bayen, “Optimal Sen-sor Placement for Freeway Travel Time Estimation,” Transpor-tation and Traffic Theory, 34 (W.h.K. Lam, S.C. Wong, h.K. Lo eds.), Springer, 697-721 (2009).

Ban X, Lu S, Ferris mC, and Liu h, “Risk-Averse Second Best Toll Pricing,” Transportation and Traffic Theory, 10, (W.h.K. Lam, S.C. Wong, h.K. Lo eds.), Springer, 197-218 (2009).

MS Students GraduatedMichael Kowalczyk, “Experimental Validation of mobile Sen-sors as Traffic Probes on Arterial Streets with Traffic Simulation of Existing Network.”

coral Torres (Co-advisor), “Assessment of Tradeoffs Among multiple Vehicle Classes for Urban Deliveries.”

undergraduate Research Projects• ITS Decisions

• mobile Sensors as Traffic Probes

Xuegang (Jeff) Ban

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of wisconsin-Madison, 2005

Primary Research Area: Transportation Network Modeling and Simulation


Research InterestsBioclogging of natural porous media and filters, and con-sequences for engineering practice, Environmental fate of nanoparticles and facilitated transport of pollutants, Emer-gence of microscopic spatial complexity in the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems, Effect of observation scale on the description and management of environmental processes, and Effect of computer round-off errors on environmental models.

Selected PublicationsWu C-Y, Jacobson AR, Laba m, and Baveye PC, “Surface Roughness and Near-Infrared Reflectance Sensing of Soils,” geoderma, 152(1-2), 171-180 (2009).

Wu C-Y, Jacobson AR, Laba m, and Baveye PC, “Alleviating moisture Content Effects on the Near-Infrared Diffuse-Reflec-tance Sensing of Soils,” Soil Science, 174(8), 456-465 (2009).

Baveye PC, “To Sequence or Not to Sequence the Whole-Soil metagenome?” Nature Reviews microbiology, 7(10), 756 (2009).

Baveye PC, “Sticker Shock and Looming Tsunami: The high Cost of Academic Serials in Perspective,” J Scholarly Publish-ing, 41(2), 191-215 (2010).

Wu C-Y, Jacobson AR, Laba m, Kim B, and Baveye PC, “Sur-rogate Calibrations and the Diffuse-Reflectance Near-Infrared Sensing of Trace metal Content in Soils, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution,” 209, 377-390 (2010).

Laba m, Blair B, Downs R, Philpot W, Smith S, Sullivan P and Baveye PC, “Use of Texture and Edge-Preserving Smoothing to map Invasive Wetland Plants in the hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve with Ikonos Satellite Imagery,” Remote Sensing of Environment, 114(4), 876-886 (2010).

Baveye PC, Laba m, Otten W, Bouckaert L, Sterpaio PD, goswami RR, grinev D, hu Y, Liu J, mooney S, Pajor R, Sleutel S, Tarquis A, Wang W, Wei Q and Sezgin m, “Observer-Depen-dent Variability of the Thresholding Step in the Quantitative Analysis of Soil Images and X-ray microtomography Data,” geoderma, 157, 51-63 (2010).

gras A, ginovart m, Portell X, and Baveye PC, “Individual-based modelling of Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Soils: Parameterization and Sensitivity Analysis of Abiotic Compo-nents,” Soil Science, 175(8), 363-374 (2010).

Siegel D and Baveye PC, “Battling the Paper glut!” Science, 329, 1466 (2010).

gras A, ginovart m, Valls J and Baveye PC, “Individual-based modelling of Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Soils: Param-eterization and Sensitivity Analysis of Bacterial Components,” Ecological modelling, 222, 1998-2010 (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSonja Schmidt, “Root-Soil Contact Determined from 3D X-ray microtomographs.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Effects of Resolution on X-Ray Tomographic Soil Analysis

Philippe Baveye

Kodak chair of Environmental EngineeringPh.D., university of california - Riverside, 1985

Primary Research Area: Soil Engineering, water Engineering

CEES offers researchers a state-of-the-art control and teleparticipation room with four plasma screens and capacity for 6+ on-site operators/visitors.


Research InterestsSoil Dynamics, geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and geotechnical Dynamic Centrifuge Testing.

Sponsored Research“NEESR-Sg: Experimental and micromechanical Study of Pile Foundations Subjected to Liquefaction-Lateral Spreading,” National Science Foundation.


“Centrifuge modeling of Vulnerability & mitigation for Soil-Structural Systems,” U.S. Army.

Selected Publicationshe L, Elgamal A, Abdoun T, Abe A, Dobry R, hamada m, meneses J, Sato m, Shantz T and Tokimatsu K, “Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Load on Pile in a medium Dense Dr Sand Layer,” J Earthquake Eng, 13(7), 916-938 (2009).

Thevanayagam T, Kanagalingam T, Reinhorn A, Tharmendhira R, Dobry R, Pitman m, Abdoun T, Elgamal A, Zeghal m, Ecemis N and El-Shamy U, “Laminar Box System for 1g Physi-cal modeling of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading,” ASTm geotechnical Testing Journal, 32(5), 438-449 (2009).

El Shamy U, Zeghal m, Dobry R, Thevanayagam S, Elgamal A, Abdoun T, medina C, Bethapudi R and Bennett V, “microme-chanical Aspects of Earthquake-induced Lateral Spreading,” ASCE Int J geomechanics, 10(5), 190-201, (2010).

Sharp mK, Dobry R and Phillips R, “CPT-based Evaluation of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading in the Centrifuge,” ASCE J geotechnical and geomechanical Eng, 136(10), 1334-1346 (2010).

Bennett V, Abdoun T, Zeghal m, Koelewija A, Barendse m and Dobry R, “Real-time monitoring System and Advanced Characterization Technique for Civil Infrastructure health monitoring,” Advances in Civil Eng, Article ID 870383, 12 pages (2011).

Dobry R, Thevanayagam S, medina C, Bethapudi R, Elgamal A, Bennett V, Abdoun T, Zeghal m, El-Shamy U and mercado V, “mechanics of Lateral Spreading Observed in a Full-Scale Shake Test,” ASCE J geotechnical and geomechanical Eng, 137(2), 115-129, (2011).

Ubilla J, Abdoun T and Dobry R, “Centrifuge Scaling Laws of Pile Response to Lateral Spreading,” Int J Physical modelling in geotechnics,” 11(1), 2-22 (2011).

undergraduate Research Projects• Liquefaction Research

Ricardo Dobry

Institute Professor and Director of the center for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (cEES)Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971

Primary Research Area: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

CEES includes a 150-g ton centrifuge facility as well as other state-of-the-art equipment such as inflight robot, 1D and 2D shakers, split container/shaker, high-speed camera, and advance sensors.


Research Interestsmicrobial Fuel Cells, Bioenergy, Shewanella, Biohydrogen, Environmental Biotechnology, Photofermentation

Selected Publicationsgadhamshetty V, Johnson CD, Khandan NN, Smith g, “Fea-sibility of Biohydrogen Production at Low Temperatures in Unbuffered Reactors,” Int J hydrogen Energy, 34(3) 1233-1243 (2009).

Ramaraja PR, gadhamshetty V, Johnson g, “Impedance Spec-troscopy as a Tool for Non-Intrusive Detection of Extracellular mediators in microbial Fuel Cells,” Biotechnology & Bioengi-neering, 104 (5), 882-891 (2009).

gadhamshetty V, Khandan NN, et al., “modeling Dark Fer-mentation for Biohydrogen Production: ADm1 vs. gompertz Equation,” Int J hydrogen Energy, 35, 479-490 (2010).

Upadhyayula VKK and gadhamshetty V, “Appreciation of the Role of Carbon Nanotube Composites in Preventing Biofouling and Promoting Biofilms on material Surfaces in Environmental Engineering,” Biotechnology Advances, 28, 802-816 (2010).

Perera KRJ, Ketheesan B, gadhamshetty V and Nirmalakhan-dan N, “Fermentative Biohydrogen Production: Evaluation of Net Energy gain,” Int J hydrogen Energy, 35, 12224-12223 (2010).

gadhamshetty V, Khandan NN, Samir K, and Johnson gR, “Bioreactor Design for Biofuel/Bioenergy Production,” ASCE, Ed., Samir Khanal, ASCE. Book chapter in Biofuel Production from Cellulosic and Lignocellulosic Wastes (2010).

gadhamshetty V, Sukumaran A, Khandan NN, “Review on Photoparameters in Photofermentative Biohydrogen Produc-tion,” Critical Reviews in Environment Science & Technology, 41(1), 1-51 (2011).

undergraduate Research Projects• Shewanella growth Curves in a microbial Fuel Cell

• Scaled mFCs Towards Wastewater Treatment

• Scalable Continuous microbial Fuel Cell Systems

Venkataramana Gadhamshetty

lecturerPh.D., New Mexico State university, 2007

Primary Research Area: Bioenergy


Research InterestsDecision Support Systems, Operations Research, Transportation.

Sponsored Research“Collaborative CDI-Type II: Cyber Enabled Discovery System for Advanced multidisciplinary Study of humanitarian Logistics for Disaster Response,” National Science Foundation.

“Integrative Freight Demand management in the New York City metropolitan Area: Implementation Phase,” United States Department of Transportation.

“Field Investigation on Post-Disaster humanitarian Logistic Practices under Cascading Disasters and a Persistent Threat: The Tohoku Earthquake Disasters,” National Science Founda-tion.

“Integrative Freight Demand management in the New York City metropolitan Area,” United States Department of Trans-portation.

“DRU: Contending with material Convergence: Optimal Con-trol, Coordination, and Delivery of Critical Supplies to the Site of Extreme Events,” National Science Foundation.

“RAPID: Field Investigation on the Comparative Performance of Alternative humanitarian Logistic Structures,” National Sci-ence Foundation.

“A Smarter I-278 Corridor: moving People, Freight, and the Regional Economy, Phase I,” University Transportation Research Center.

“Feasibility Study for Freight Data Collection,” New York met-ropolitan Transportation Council.

“NCFRP 25: Freight Trip generation and Land Use,” National Cooperative Freight Research Program.

“New York City Park & Ride Study,” New York State Depart-ment of Transportation.

“NCFRP 26: Freight Cost Data Elements,” National Coopera-tive Freight Research Program.

Selected Publicationsholguín-Veras J, Ozbay K, Kornhauser A, Brom m, Iyer S, Yushimito WF, Ukkusuri S, Allen B and Silas mA, “Overall Impacts of Off-hour Delivery Programs in the New York City metropolitan Area,” Accepted for publication in Transporta-tion Res Record.

holguín-Veras J, Jaller m, Destro L, Ban X, Lawson C and Levinson hS, “Freight generation, Freight Trip generation, and the Perils of Using Constant Trip Rates,” Accepted for publica-tion in Transportation Res Record.

holguín-Veras J, “Urban Delivery Industry Response To Cordon Pricing, Time-Distance Pricing and Carrier-Receiver Policies,” Transportation Res Part A: Policy and Practice. Published online at http://dx.doi.org:10.1016/j.tra.2011.06.008 (2011).

holguín-Veras J and Wang Q, “Behavioral Investigation on the Factors that Determine Adoption of an Electronic Toll Collection System: Freight Carriers” Transportation Res Part C: Emerging Technologies, 19 593–605 (2011).

holguín-Veras J, Wang Q, Xu N and Ozbay K,“The Impacts of Time of Day Pricing on Car User Behavior: Findings from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Initiative,” Transportation, 38(3), 427 (2011).

holguín-Veras J and Preziosi m, “Behavioral Investigation on the Factors that Determine Adoption of an Electronic Toll Col-lection System: Passenger Car Users,” Transportation Res Part C: Emerging Technologies. Published online at http://dx.doi.org:10.1016/j.trc.2010.07.005 (2010).

holguín-Veras J, Thorson E and Zorrilla JC, “Commercial Vehicle Empty Trip models with Variable Zero Order Empty Trip Probabilities,” Network and Spatial Economics, 10(2), 241 (2010).

holguín-Veras J, Xu N, de Jong g and maurer h, “An Experi-mental Economics Investigation of Shipper-Carrier Interac-tions in the Choice of mode and Shipment Size in Freight Transport,” Network and Spatial Economics, Published online at DOI http://10.1007/s11067-009-9107-x (2010).

Silas m and holguín-Veras J, “Behavioral microsimulation Formulation for Analysis and Design of Off-hour Delivery Poli-cies in Urban Areas,” Transportation Res Record, 2097, 43-50 (2009).

Bastida C and holguín-Veras J, “Freight generation models: Comparative Analysis of Regression models and multiple Clas-sification Analysis,” Transportation Res Record, 2097, 51-61 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedMichael Silas, “An investigation on Off-hour Delivery Policy Design Using Optimal Incentives and a Behavioral micro-Simu-lation Approach.”

MS Students Graduatedcoral Torres, “Assessment of Tradeoff among multiple Ve-hicle Classes for Urban Deliveries.”

Brandon Allen, “Route Choice and Time of Travel Change: An Analysis of Stated Responses to Pricing.”

lisa Destro, “Estimating material Convergence: Flow of Donations for hurricane Katrina.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Integrative Freight Demand management on the

NY City metropolitan Area• hurricane Katrina Project• Park and Ride• humanitarian Logistics in the Response to the

Earthquake in haiti

José holguín-Veras

william h. hart Professor, and Director of the center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (cITE)

Ph.D., university of Texas at Austin, 1996

Primary Research Area: Freight Transportation Systems; Transportation Planning and Economics; humanitarian logistics


Research InterestsWater purification using adsorption and membrane technolo-gies, Development of novel sorbents and membrane materials, Characterization of natural organic matter and assessment and mitigation of its impacts in treatment processes.

Sponsored Research“Evaluating Carbon Nanotubes as Adsorbents for Removing Synthetic Organic Compounds,” AWWA Research Foundation.

“Quantitative Structure Property Relationships to Predict Re-moval of EDC’s/PPCPs n Water Treatment Processes,” AWWA Research Foundation.

“Peroxy-Acid Pretreatment-microbial Degradation: A hybrid Approach to Remediation to Contaminated Sediments and Soils-A Phase II Study,” National Science Foundation.

“Pilot Testing: Pretreatment Options to Allow Re-Use of Frac Flowback and Produced Brine for gas Shale Resource Develop-ment,” Texas A&m University.

Selected PublicationsZhou mY, Liu hW, Venkiteshwaran A, Kilduff JE, Langer R, Anderson Dg, Belfort g, “high Throughput Discovery of New Fouling-Resistant Surfaces,” J materials Chemistry, 21, 693-704 (2011).

Yune PS, Kilduff JE, Belfort g, “Using Co-Solvents and high Throughput to maximize Protein Resistance for Poly(ethylene glycol)-grafted Poly(ether sulfone) UF membranes,” J mem-brane Science, 370, 166-174 (2011).

gu m, Kilduff JE, Belfort g, “Searching for Super Protein-Re-sistant Synthetic membrane Surfaces Using high Throughput: Solvent Effects,” J membrane Science, 368, 184–191 (2011).

Zhou mY, Liu hW, Kilduff JE, Langer R, Anderson Dg, Belfort g, “high Throughput Synthesis and Screening of New Protein Resistant Surfaces for membrane Filtration,” AIChE Journal, 56, 1932-1945 (2010).

Yuan Y, Kilduff JE, “Effect of Colloids on Salt Transport in Crossflow Nanofiltration,” Journal of membrane Science, 346, 240-249 (2010).

Yuan Y, Kilduff JE, “hydrodynamic modeling of NOm Trans-port in UF: Effects of Charge Density and Ionic Strength on Effective Size and Sieving,” Environmental Science and Tech-nology, 43, 5449-5454 (2009).

Zhou m, Liu h, Kilduff JE, Langer R, Anderson Daniel g, Bel-fort g, “high Throughput membrane Surface modification to Control NOm Fouling,” Environmental Science and Technol-ogy, 43, 3865–3871 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSarah LaRoe, “Identification and Characterization of Xenbiot-ic-Degrading microorganisms for Application to the Field of Bioremediation.”

mingyan Zhou, “graft Polymerization as a Route to Control Nanofiltration membrane Surface Properties to manage Risk of EPA Candidate Contaminants and Reduce NOm Fouling.”

MS Students GraduatedAlbert Brooks, “A Comparison of Competitive Adsorption of NOm and SOCs on Single Walled Nanotubes and Activated Carbon.”

Sarah Burch, “Adsorption of 2,4-Dichlorophenol by Single Walled Nanotubes (SWNTs) and Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC): Assessment Using a membrane Supported Fixed Bed Reactor.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Design of Slow Sand Filters for Developing Countries

• Stability of Carbon Nanotubes and Subsequent Effects on Sorption Properties

• Design and Construction of Reverse Osmosis Systems

• graft Polymerization as a Route to Improve Nanofiltration membrane Performance

• Using Aquatic Plants to Treat Wastewater

• Removal of Nanoparticles from Potable Water Using mem-brane Processes

James (chip) Kilduff

Associate ProfessorPh.D., university of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1995

Primary Research Area: water Purification

Professor Kilduff and his students were part of an international, interdisciplinary research team charged with collecting water samples and ice core samples to study the microbial communities found in the Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains and the McMurdo Dry Valleys.


Research InterestsWind Engineering, Climatology of Severe Winds, Wind Farm Siting, Bluff Body Aerodynamics.

Sponsored Research“Contribution of Surf Zone Wind Stress to Storm Surge Inun-dation,” Australian Research Council.

“Determining the Remaining Fatigue Life of In-Situ mast-Arm Traffic Signal Supports,” NYS Department of Transportation.

Selected PublicationsZuo D and Letchford CW, “Wind-Induced Vibration of a Traffic-Signal Support Structure with Cantilevered Tapered Circular mast,” Eng Structures, 32(10), 3171-3179 (2010).

Ngo T and Letchford CW, “Experimental Study of Topographic Effects on gust Wind Speed,” JWEIA, 97, 426-438 (2009).

Ngo T and Letchford CW, “A Comparison of Topographic Ef-fects on gust Wind Speed,” JWEIA, 96, 2273-2293 (2009).

mason mS, James DL and Letchford CW, “Wind Loading on a Cube Subjected to an Impinging Pulsed Wall Jet Simulation of a Stationary Thunderstorm Downburst,” Wind & Structures, 12(1) 77- 88 (2009).

Letchford CW and mason m, “Drag of Square Section Tubes,” 13th Int Conference on Wind Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2011).

Cochard S, Letchford CW and Earl TA, “PIV measurement of the Velocity Over Triangular Shaped Cliffs,” 13th Int Confer-ence on Wind Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2011).

Letchford CW and Zachry BC, “On Wind, Waves and Surface Drag,” K83-K114, Keynote Address, 5th European and African Conference on Wind Eng, Florence, Italy (2009).

Vega R and Letchford CW, “Extreme Wind Climatology in mixed Climates,” 11th America’s Conference on Wind Eng, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009).

Vega R and Letchford CW, “Wind Load Factors and the Wind Directionality Analysis in mixed Climates,” 11th America’s Conference on Wind Eng, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009).

Vega R and Letchford CW, “Probabilistic Analysis of the ASCE7 Wind Directionality Factor,” 11th America’s Conference on Wind Eng, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedBrian Zachry, “Wind-Wave Interaction in the Near Shore Environment.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Wind Induced Vibration of ChS members

• Aero-Elastic Response of Slender Cantilevers

• hBmI Quarry Wind Turbine Feasibility Study

• Bio-Solids from Composting municipal Waste

• Spillway gate Options Analysis

chris letchford

Professor and Department headPh.D., oxford university (uK), 1987

Primary Research Area: wind Engineering; Bluff Body Aerodynamics; climatology of Severe winds


Research InterestsTo advance the study of environmental hydrophobic organic compounds (hOCs) including their fate, transport and reme-diation. Research projects described below aim to address this goal through development of better fate and transport models and the introduction of faster and more cost efficient remedia-tion of contaminated environments.

Sponsored Research“Peroxy-Acid Pretreatment-microbial Degradation: A hybrid Approach to Remediation to Contaminated Sediments and Soils-A Phase II Study,” National Science Foundation.

“Remediation of hydrophobic Organic Compounds Including Pharmaceuticals, PCPs and EDCs,” Krofta gift Fund.

Selected PublicationsAlderman NS and Nyman mC, “Peroxy-Acid Process: mecha-nistic Studies,” J Environmental Science and health, Part A: Toxic/hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering, 44, 1077-1087 (2009).

Chen S and Nyman mC, “Sediment-Associated Reactions of Benzidine: A Sorption and Desoprtion Study,” J Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 28, 1834-1841 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedN. Scott Alderman, “The Peroxy-Acid Treatment Process: An Investigation of Process mechanics.”

Francis Donaldson, “Sorption of Aromatic Amines in Engi-neered and Natural Systems: Development of a Time-Depen-dent multiparameter model.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Photodegradation of hCO’s

• Soil Remediation

• PCP’s Pharmaceuticals in Water and Activation Energy

• ENVE Studies and Independent Study

Marianne Nyman

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Purdue university, 1997

Primary Research Area: Environmental hydrophobic organic compounds (hocs)


Research InterestsLifeline Earthquake Engineering: specifically seismic behavior of buried pipe, wave propagation, permanent ground defor-mation effects on buried pipe, and centrifuge testing of buried pipe. Snow Loading on Roofs: ground snow loads, drift loads on stepped roofs, drift loads on gable roofs, and eave icing.

Sponsored Research“Roof Failures int he Northeast - Implications for Building Codes,” National Science Foundation and American Society of Civil Engineers.

“Determining Remaining Fatigue Life of In-Situ mast-Arm Traffic Signal Supports,” NYS Dept. of Transportation.

“Snow Related Roof Failure in Northeast, Winter of 2010-11,” American Society of Civil Engineers.

Selected PublicationsO’Rourke m, “Snow Loads: guide to the Snow Load Provisions of ASCE 7-10,” ASCE Press., 164 pages (2010).

O’Rourke m, ganguly m and Thompson L, “Eave Ice Dams,” ASCE J Architectural Eng, 16(1), 11-16 (2010).

O’Rourke m, ha D, Abdoun T, Symans m, Palmer m and Stewart h, “Earthquake Faulting Effects on Buried Pipelines – Case history and Centrifuge Study,” J Earthquake Engr., 14(5), 646-669 (2010).

ha D, Abdoun T, Symans m, O’Rourke m, Palmer m and Stew-art h, “Factors Influencing the Behavior of Buried Pipelines Subject to Earthquake Faulting,” Soil Dynamics and Earth-quake Eng, 29, 415-0427 (2009).

O’Rourke m, “Snow & Rain Provisions in ASCE 7-10; What’s New and Different,” Structure magazine, NCSEA, CASE & SEI, 36-40 (2011).

Xie X, Symans m, Abdoun T, O’Rourke m, Palmer m and Stew-art h, “Numerical modeling of Buried hDPE Pipelines Subject to Strike-Slip Faulting,” J Earthquake Eng, in press.

undergraduate Research Projects• Snow Loads on Arches

Michael o’Rourke

ProfessorPh.D., Northwestern university, 1972

Primary Research Area: Structural Engineering

The Research and Policy Studies section of NYSDOT recently announced that Rensselaer will conduct project C-10-07 Determining Remaining Fatigue Life of In-Situ Mast-Arm Traffic Signal Supports. Harry White is the NYSDOT project manager while Rensselaer investigators are Professors Michael O’Rourke (PI) and Chris Letchford (Co-PI).

The issue is wind induced vibration of the long cantilever signal support arms, such as shown in the photograph. Instrumentation will be installed on a mast-arm structure in Saratoga County, which will allow simultaneous readings of wind (speed and direction) and mast-arm vibration. The wind and structural vibration data will be used to benchmark a Finite Element (FE) dynamic model of the mast arm structure. The verified FE model will then be used to estimate future vibration levels which in turn will be compared to fatigue limits.


Research InterestsPassenger Transportation Systems, Transportation Operations, Transportation in the Developing World.

Sponsored Research“Development of Transit Capacity Assessment Procedures for Developing Cities,” Industrial sponsor.

“Using Data from Automatic Vehicle Location Systems in Im-proving Bus Operating Performance,” Transportation Research Board of the National Academies.

“New York City Park and Ride Study,” NYS Department of Transportation.

John Reilly

Professor of PracticePh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1983

Primary Research Area: Passenger Transportation Systems; Transportation operations

Research InterestsStructural Reliability, Probability-based Design, Probabilistic Load modeling, Performance-based Design, Wind Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Natural hazards.

Sponsored Research“NEESsoft: Seismic Risk Reduction of Soft-Story Woodframe Buildings,” National Science Foundation.

“NEESWood: Development of a Seismic Design Philosophy for mid-rise Woodframe Construction,” National Science Founda-tion.

Selected PublicationsZhong J, gardoni P and Rosowsky D, “Bayesian Updating of Seismic Demand models and Fragility Estimates for Reinforced Concrete Bridges with Two-column Bents,” J Earthquake Eng, 13, 716-735 (2009).

Choe DE, gardoni P, Rosowsky D and haukaas T, “Seismic Fragility Estimates for Reinforced Concrete Bridges Subject to Corrosion,” Structural Safety, 31, 275-283 (2009).

Pang WC, Rosowsky DV, Ellingwood BR and Yue W, “Seismic Fragility Analysis and Retrofit of Conventional Residential Wood Frame Structures in the Central United States,” ASCE J Structural Eng, (2009).

Pang WC and Rosowsky DV, “Direct Displacement Procedure for Performance-based Seismic Design of mid--rise Wood-frame Structures,” EERI Earthquake Spectra (2009).

Zhong J, gardoni P and Rosowsky D, “Stiffness Degradation

and Time to Cracking of Cover Concrete in Reinforced Con-crete Structures Subject to Corrosion,” ASCE J Eng. mechan-ics, 136(2), 209-219 (2009).

Choe DE, gardoni P and Rosowsky D, “Fragility Increment Functions for Deteriorating Reinforced Concrete Bridge Col-umns,” ASCE J Eng mechanics, 136(8), 969-978 (2009).

Wang Y, Rosowsky DV and Pang W, “Toward a Performance-Based Procedure for Direct Displacement Design of Engineered Woodframe Structures,” ASCE J Structural Eng, 136(8), 978-988 (2010).

Pang W, Rosowsky DV, Pei S and van de Lindt JW, “Simplified Direct Displacement Design of Six-Story Woodframe Building and Pretest Seismic Performance Assessment,” ASCE J Struc-tural Eng, 136(7), 813-825 (2010).

gomez C, Sanchez-Silva m, Duenas-Osorio L and Rosowsky D, “hierarchical Infrastructure Network Representation methods for Risk-Based Decision making,” Structure and Infrastructure Eng, 1-15 (2011).

Rosowsky DV, “Recovery: Rebuilding a Resilient housing Stock,” Int J Disaster Resiliance in the Built Environment, 2(2), 139-147 (2011).

Sanchez-Silva m, Klutke g-A, and Rosowsky DV, “Life-Cycle Performance of Structures Subject to multiple Deterioration mechanisms,” Structural Safety, 33(3), 206-217 (2011).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedwang Yue, “Studies on hazard Characterization for Perfor-mance-Based Structural Design.”

David Rosowsky

Professor and Dean of the School of EngieneringPh.D., Johns hopkins university, 1990

Primary Research Area: Structural Reliability; Risk Assessment; wind and Earthquake Engineering


Research InterestsStructural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Seismic Protec-tion of Structures, Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation Systems, Static and Dynamic Response of Nonlinear Structural Systems, Seismic Response of Buried Pipelines.

Sponsored Research“NEESR-Sg: NEESWood: Development of a Performance- Based Seismic Design Philosophy for mid-Rise Woodframe Construction,” National Science Foundation.

“NEESR-Sg: Development of Next generation Adaptive Seis-mic Protection Systems,” National Science Foundation.

“NEESR-CR: NEES-Soft: Seismic Risk Reduction for Soft Story Woodframe Buildings,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationsvan de Lindt JW, Liu h, Shinde J, and Symans mD, “Seismic Performance and modeling of a half-Scale Base-Isolated Wood Frame Building,” J. Earthquake Eng, 15(3), 469-490 (2011).

Xie X, Symans m, Abdoun T, O’Rourke m, Palmer m, and Stewart h, “Numerical modeling of Buried hDPE Pipelines Subjected to Strike-Slip Faulting,” J. Earthquake Eng, 15(8), 1273-1296 (2011).

ha D, Abdoun Th, O’Rourke mJ, Symans mD, O’Rourke TD, Palmer m, and Stewart hE, “Earthquake Faulting Effect on Buried Pipelines – Case history and Centrifuge Study,” J. Earthquake Eng, 14(5), 646 – 669 (2010).

Abdoun Th, ha D, O’Rourke mJ, Symans mD, O’Rourke TD, Palmer mC, and Stewart hE, “Factors Influencing the Behavior of Buried Pipelines Subjected to Earthquake Faulting,” Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Eng, 29(3), 415-427 (2009).

Xie X, Symans mD, O’Rourke mJ, Abdoun Th, O’Rourke TD, Palmer mC, and Stewart hE (accepted), “Numerical modeling of Buried hDPE Pipelines Subjected to Normal Faulting: A Case Study,” Earthquake Spectra (accepted).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJayesh K. Shinde, “Integration of Seismic Protection Systems in Performance-Based Seismic Design of Wood Framed Structures”

undergraduate Research Projects• modification of Bridge Structures for Implementation

of Negative Stiffness Devices

• Analytical Evaluation of Displacement Transmission Losses between Wood Shear Walls and a Toggle-Braced Damping System

• Evaluation of Displacement Transmission Losses between Wood Shear Walls and Seismic Damping System using Experimental Data from NEESWood Benchmark Structure Shake Table Tests

Michael Symans

Associate ProfessorPh.D., university at Buffalo, 1995

Primary Research Area: Structural Earthquake Engineering

Shake Table Testing of Seismic Energy Dissipation System for Damage Control in Woodframed Buildings


Research Interestsgeographic information systems (gIS), Spatial statistics and econometrics, Time series data analysis, Transportation data acquisition and analysis, Transportation systems performance, Travel behavior analysis, Travel demand forecasting, Transpor-tation safety, and Integrated land use, Transport and environ-ment planning.

Sponsored Research“Conduct Urban Agglomeration with the Baton of Transporta-tion,” University Transportation Research Center minigrants Program.

“models for Dynamic Discrete Response Data with Spatial Autocorrelation: Specification and Estimation,” National Sci-ence Foundation’s geography and Regional Science Program and methodology, measurement, and Statistics program (NSF –gRS/mmS).

“Factors Related to Serious Injury and Fatal motorcycle Crashes with Traffic Barriers,” National Cooperative highway Research Program (NChRP).

Selected PublicationsWang Y, Kockelman K and Wang X, “Anticipating Land Use Change Using geographically Weighted Regression models for Discrete Response,” Forthcoming in Transportation Res Record (2011).

Wang X and Sanders L, “Energy Consumption and Carbon Footprint of high Speed Rail Projects: Using CAhSR and FhSR as Examples,” Forthcoming in J Rail and Rapid Transit (2011).

Wang X and Kockelman K, “Application of the Dynamic Spatial Ordered Probit model: Patterns of Ozone Concentra-tion in Austin, Texas,” Transportation Res Record, No. 2136, 45-56 (2010).

Wang X and Kockelman K, “Forecasting Network Data: Spatial Interpolation of Traffic Counts Using Texas Data,” Transporta-tion Res Record, No. 2105, 100-108 (2009).

Wang X and Kockelman K, “Application of the Dynamic Spatial Ordered Probit model: Patterns of Land Development Change in Austin, Texas,” Papers in Regional Science, 88(2), 345-365 (2009).

Wang X and Kockelman K, “Bayesian Inference for Ordered Response Data with a Dynamic Spatial-Ordered Probit model,” J Regional Science, 49(5), 877-913 (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• high Speed Rail for America’s Regional Transportation: A

Study of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor

• Effect of Demographic Characteristics on Bus Ridership in Urban versus Suburban Settings

• Does Public Transit Really Reduce Our Carbon Footprint? A Life Cycle Analysis of Different Transportation modes

• Energy Consumption and Carbon Footprint of high Speed Rail Projects: Using CAhSR and FhSR as Examples

• Assessing Feasibility of Electric Buses in Small/medium-Sized Communities

Xiaokun (cara) wang

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Texas at Austin, 2007

Primary Research Area: Transportation


Research InterestsInformation Technology Applications in geomechanics and geotechnical Engineering; micro-mechanics and Computa-tional geomechanics; monitoring and Nondestructive Evalua-tion; health Assessment, System Identification and Risk Analy-ses; Soil Dynamics and geotechnical Earthquake Engineering.

Sponsored Research“Development and Full-Scale Testing of Early Detection Tools for Flood-Control Infrastructure,” US Dept. of homeland Security.

“Development of a mutiscale monitoring and health Assess-ment Framework for Effective management of Levees and Flood-Control Infrastructure Systems,” National Institute of Standards and Technology.

“CAREER: Identification, modeling and Computational Simu-lations of Soil and Soil-Structure Using Earthquake Records and Experimental Data,” National Science Foundation.

“NEESR-II: Advanced Site monitoring and Effective Char-acterization of Site Nonlinear Dynamic Properties and model Calibration,” National Science Foundation.

“NEESR-Sg: Experimental and micromechanical Study of Pile Foundations Subjected to Liquefaction-Lateral Spreading,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsOskay C and Zeghal m, “geotechnical System Identification: A Survey,” Int J Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Eng, 31(4), 568-58 (2011).

El Shamy U, Zeghal m, Dobry R, Thevanayagam S, Elgamal A, Abdoun T, medina C, Bethapudi R and Bennett V, “microme-chanical Aspects of Liquefaction-Induced Lateral Spreading,” ASCE Int J geomechanics, 10(5), 190-201 (2010).

Bennett V, Abdoun T, Zeghal m, Koelewijn A, Barendse m and Dobry R, “Real-Time monitoring System and Advanced Char-acterization Technique for Civil Infrastructure health monitor-ing,” Advances in Civil Eng, 2011 (2011).

Dobry R, Thevanayagam S, PE, medina C, Bethapudi R, Elga-mal A, Bennett V, Abdoun T, Zeghal m, El Shamy U and mer-cado V, “mechanics of Lateral Spreading Observed in Full-Scale Shake Test,” ASCE J geotechnical and geoenvironmental Eng, 137(2), 115-129 (2011).

Thevanayagam S, Kanagalingam T, Reinhorn A, Dobry R, Pitman m, Abdoun T, Elgamal A, Zeghal m, Ecemis N and El-Shamy U, “Laminar Box System for 1-g Physical modeling of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading,” ASTm geotechnical Testing Journal, 32(5), 438-449 (2009).

Zeghal m and Abdel-ghaffar A, “Evaluation of the Nonlinear Seismic Response of an Earth Dam: Nonparametric System Identification,” J Earthquake Eng, 13(3), 384-405 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedTewodros Mulat Dessalegn, “micromechanical Analysis Interaction of Liquefiable Soil with a Pile Foundation.”

Mourad Zeghal

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Princeton university, 1990

Primary Research Area: Geotechnical Engineering


Research InterestsDam Safety, Physical modeling of Blasting and Explosions, Levees and Embarkments-Design, Erosion, Landfill Siting and Design, groundwater hydrology, groundwater contamina-tion, Centrifuge modeling of geo-environmental Problems, Physical-chemical Phenomena in Soils, Subsurface Drainage, geosynthetics, Experimental Soil Dynamics, Solid and hazard-ous Waste Disposal, Sediment Transport in Rivers, Problems on the geotechnical Environmental Interface.

Sponsored Research“CDI-Type I: Fundamental Terrain Representations and Opera-tions,” National Science Founcation.


“Centrifuge modeling of New Orleans T- Wall Levee System,” U.S. Army.

Selected Publicationsgross JA, Zimmie TF et al, “Simulating Levee Erosion with Physical modeling Validation,” ICSE-5th Intl Conf. on Scour and Erosion, San Francisco, (2010).

Kamalzare m, Chen Z, Stuetzle CS, Butler Bm, Franklin WR and Zimmie TF, “Computer Simulation of Overtopping of Le-vees,” 14th Pan-American Conference on Soil mechanics and geotechnical Engineering, Toronto, Canada (2011).

Chen Z, Stuetzle CS, Cutler Bm, gross JA, Franklin WR and Zimmie TF, “Analyses, Simulations and Physical modeling Validation of Levee and Embankment Erosion,” geo-Frontiers 2011: Advances in geotechnical Eng., Dallas, TX (2011).

gross JA, Stuetzle CS, Chen Z, Cutler Bm, Franklin WR and Zimmie TF, “Simulating Levee Erosion with Physical modelling Validation,” ICSE-5 5th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, San Francisco, CA, (2010).

Chen Z, Stuetzle CS, Cutler Bm, gross JA, Franklin WR and Zimmie TF, “Quantitative Analysis of Simulated Erosion for Different Soils,” 18th ACm SIgSPATIAL Int. Conference on Advances in geographic Information Systems, San Jose, CA, (2010).

Stuetzle CS, Chen Z, Cutler Bm, Franklin WR, gross JA, Perez K and Zimmie TF, “Computer Simulations and Physical model-ling of Erosion,” 7th Int. Conference on Physical modelling in geotechnics, Zurich, Switzerland, (2010).

Stuetzle CS, Chen Z, Perez K, gross JA, Cutler Bm, Franklin WR and Zimmie TF, “Segmented height Field and Smoothed Particle hydrodynamics in Erosion Simulation,” 19th Fall Work-shop on Computational geometry, Tufts University, medford, mA, (2009).

MS Students GraduatedJared Gross, “Physical modeling of Rill Erosion on Sand and Sand Clay Levees to Overtopping.”

undergraduate Research Projects• modeling of Erosion

• modeling of Explosives

• Physical modeling of Soil Erosion

Thomas Zimmie

ProfessorPh.D., university of connecticut, 1972

Primary Research Area: Soil Dynamics


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Research InterestsComputer Communication Networks.

Sponsored Research“EAgER: WI-FI-US: Virtual Institute for Wireless Research Between Finland and USA,” National Science Foundation

“Collaboartive Research: Energy Efficient Cognitive Network-ing,” National Science Foundation.

“CAREER: multiple-Layer modeling and Design of Wireless Ad hoc Networks,” National Science Foundation.

“NeTS-NBD: Towards a Disconnection-Tolerant, Opportunistic Internet,” National Science Foundation.

“US-Finland Workshop on Wireless Networks,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsAcer Ug, Drineas P and Abouzeid AA, “Connectivity in Time-graphs,” to appear, Pervasive and mobile Computing (Elsevier).

Abouzeid AA and Bisnik N, “geographic ProtocolInformation and Capacity Deficit in mobile Wireless Ad hoc Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 57(8), 5133-50 (2011).

Ye Z and Abouzeid AA, “Optimal Stochastic Location Updates in mobile Ad hoc Networks,” IEEE Transactions on mobile Computing, 10(5), 638-52 (2011).

Wang D and Abouzeid AA, “Throughput and Delay Analy-sis for hybrid Radio-Frequency and Free-Space-Optical (RF/FSO) Networks,” Wireless Networks (ACm), 17(4), 877-892, (2011).

Ye Z, Duan C, Orlik PV, Zhang J, Abouzeid AA, “A Synchroni-zation Design for UWB-Based Wireless multimedia Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 56(2), 211-25 (2010).

Acer Ug, Kalyanaraman S and Abouzeid AA, “Weak State Routing for Large-Scale Dynamic Networks,” IEEE/ACm Trans. on Networking, 18(5), 1450-63 (2010).

Ye Z and Abouzeid AA, “A Unified model for Joint Through-put-Overhead Analysis of Random Access mobile Ad hoc Net-works,” Computer Networks (Elsevier), 54(4), 573-88 (2010).

Ye Z, Abouzeid AA and Ai J, “Optimal Stochastic Policies for Distributed Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE/ACm Trans. on Networking, 17(5), 1494-1507 (2009).

Zhou N and Abouzeid AA, “Information Theoretic Analysis of Proactive Routing Overhead in mobile Ad hoc Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 55(10), 4608-25 (2009).

Ai J and Abouzeid AA, “Opportunistic Spectrum Access Based on a Constrained multi-Armed Bandit Formulation,” Journal of Communications and Networks, special issue on Cognitive Radio: A Path in the Evolution of Public Wireless Networks, 11(2), 134-147 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedDi wang, “Information-Theoretic Bounds and Their Implica-tions for the Analysis and Design of Large-Scale Wireless Networks.”

Zhenzhen Ye, “Information Transport in Wireless Ad hoc Networks: Capacity, Control and Optimization.”

utku Gunay-Acer, “Weak State and Its Evaluation for Rout-ing in Large Scale Dynamic Networks.”

Alhussein A. Abouzeid

Associate ProfessorPh.D., university of washington at Seattle, 2001

Primary Research Area: computer communication Networks

The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) operates heterogeneous systems consisting of massively parallel supercomputers and clusters. Shown here, some of the 16 IBM Blue Gene/L racks, each with 1024 compute nodes and 32 I/O nodes.


Research InterestsSemiconductor materials and Devices, Solar Cells, Infrared Detectors, Neutron Detectors.

Sponsored Research“Deposition of CdTe on Si by mOVPE Using Epitaxial Necking Technique,”Industrial sponsor.

“Novel Solid-State Self-Powered Neutron Detector,” US Department of homeland Security.

“Development of a Self-Biased high-Efficiency Solid-State Neutron Detector for mPACT Applications,” Nuclear Education University Program.

“Semiconductor Photo-Luminescent Films by Atomic Layer Deposition,” Industrial sponsor.

“Dislocation Reduction in Infrared Detector materials grown on Si Substrates using Nanocrystalline Buffer Layers,” Industrial sponsor.

“Atomic Layer Epitaxy of II-VI Semiconductor Films,” Industrial sponsor/DARPA.

“metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxial Reactor for the Deposi-tion of Infrared detector materials,” US Army Research Office.

“In-Vacuo Passivation of high Aspect Ratio hgCdTe Surfaces,” U.S. Army/Industrial sponsor.

“Passivation of hgCdTe Surfaces,” Industrial sponsor.

“Biaxial Semiconductor Films on Amorphous Substrates for Solar Energy Conversion,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsLicausi N, Rao S and Bhat I, “Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of CdS and Atomic Layer Deposition of CdTe films for hgCdTe Surface Passivation,” J Electronic materials, 40, 1668 (2011).

Rao SR, Shintri SS, markunas JK, Jacobs RN and Bhat IB, “high-Quality (211)B CdTe on (211) Si Substrates Using metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxy,” J Electronic materials, 40, 1790 (2011).

Shintri S, Rao S, Sarney WL, garg S, Palosz W, Trivedi S, Wijewarnasuriya P and Bhat I, “Effect of As Passivation on the Vapor Phase Epitaxial growth of ge on (211)Si as a Buf-fer Layer for CdTe Epitaxy,” J Electronic materials, 40, 1637 (2011).

Rao SR, Shintri SS, Jacobs RN, markunas JK, Bhat IB, “Cyclic Annealing During metalorganic Vapor-Phase Epitaxial growth of (211)B CdTe on (211) Si Substrates,” J Electronic materials, 39, 996 (2010).

Lu T-m, Li h, gaire C, Licausi N, Chan T-L, Bhat I, Zhang SB and Wang g-C, “Quasi-Single Crystal Semiconductors on glass Substrates through Biaxially Oriented Buffer Layers,” mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 1268, EE03-06 (2010).

Shintri S, Rao S, Li h, Bhat I, Jha S, Liu C, Kuech T, Palosz W, Trivedi S, Semendy F, Wijewarnasuriya P and Chen Y, “Disloca-tion Reduction in CdTe Epilayers grown on Silicon Substrates Using Buffered manostructures,” Proc of the SPIE, 7768, A-1 (2010).

LiCausi N, Clinton J, Danon Y, Lu JJ-Q and Bhat IB, “Deposition and Etching of Conformal Boron Films for Neutron Detector Applications,” mRS Fall Proceedings, (2010).

Bhat I, “Epitaxial growth of SiC by Chemical Vapor Deposi-tion,” in Springer handbook in Crystal growth, Dhanaraj, Byrappa, Prasad and Dudley: Editors, 931–966 (2010).

Losee PA, Wang Y, Li C, Sharma SK, Bhat IB, Chow TP and gutmann RJ, “Comparative Evaluation of Anode Layers on the Electrical Characteristics of high Voltage 4h-SiC PiN Diodes,” materials Science Forum, Vols. 600-603 1003-1006 (2009).

Yuan W, Tang F, Li h-F, Parker T, LiCausi N, Lu T-m, Bhat I, Wang g-C and Lee S, “Biaxial CdTe/CaF2 Films growth on Amorphous Surface,” Thin Solid Films, 517, 6623 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedNicholas licausi, “Design and Fabrication of A Novel Self-Powered Solid-State Neutron Detector.”

Sunil Rao, “metalorganic Vapor Phase Epitaxial growth of (211)B Cadmium Telluride.”

MS Students GraduatedJonathan Marini, “Characterization of a Novel Self-Powered Solid-State Neutron Detector.”

Shashidhar Shintri, “growth and Characterization of Epitax-ial ge on As Passivated (211)Si by Chemical Vapor Deposition for hgCdTe Based Infrared Detector Applications.”

Karthik Balasundaram, “ Design of mOCVD Reactor Using Fluent.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Characterization of Semiconductors Using Fourier Transform

Infrared Spectroscopy

Ishwara Bhat

ProfessorPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985

Primary Research Area: Semiconductor Materials and Devices


Research InterestsComputer vision and medical image analysis including: per-ceptual organization, graph theoretical methods, large model base organization, robust methods.

Sponsored Research“VIRAT: Automatic Activity Recognition and Retrieval from Video,” DARPA.

Selected PublicationsWu D and Boyer KL, “markov Random Field Based Phase De-modulation of Interferometric Images,” Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 115(6), 759-770 (2011).

Wu D, Nichols J, King-Smith E and Boyer K, “Texture Based Prelens Tear Film Segmentation in Interferometry Images,” machine Vision and Applications, 21(3), 253-259 (2010).

Boyer K, Shah m, and Syeda-mahmood T, “guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section on Award Winning Papers from the IEEE CS Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and machine Intelligence, 31(12), 2113-2114 (2009).

Kong J, Sertel O, Shimada h, Boyer KL, Saltz Jh and gurcan mN, “Computer-Aided Evaluation of Neuroblastoma on Whole-Slide histology Images: Classifying grade of Neuroblas-tic Differentiation,” Pattern Recognition, 42,(6), 1080-1092 (2009).

Unsalan C and Boyer KL, “multispectral Satellite Image Understanding: From Land Classification to Building and Road Detection,” Springer-Verlag,(2011).

Wu D and Boyer KL, “Sign Ambiguity Resolution for Phase Demodulation in Interferometry with Application to Prelens Tear Film Analysis,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA, (2010).

Wu D, Bi J, Shinagawa Y, Boyer K, Krishnan A, and Salganicoff m, “Stratified Learning of Local Anatomical Context for Lung Nodules in CT Images,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Francisco, CA, (2010).

Wu D and Boyer KL, “Resilient Subclass Discriminant Analysis,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, Kyoto, JAPAN, 389-396 (2009).

Kong J, Boyer KL, Saltz Jh, and huang K, “A New model-Based Estimation of Ellipses for Object Representation,” International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in medicine and Biology Society, minneapolis, mN, (2009).

Wu D and Boyer KL, “A min-max Framework of Cascaded Classifiers with multiple Instance Learning for Computer Aided Diagnosis,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, miami, FL, (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedDijia wu, “Interferometric Video Analysis for Prelens Tear Film Surface Reconstruction of the human Eye.”

MS Students GraduatedZachary Schilling, “Tracking and Analysis of Live Cell mitosis.”

Kim l. Boyer

Professor and Department head; Jefferson Science Fellow, uS Dept. of StatePh.D., Purdue university, 1986

Primary Research Area: computer Vision and Medical image Analysis


Research Interestsmodeling and Control of Power Systems, Synchrophasor Data Applications, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), Re-newable Integration, Electricity markets, Robust and multivari-able Control Systems.

Sponsored Research“Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmis-sion Networks,” ERC sponsored by National Science Founda-tion and US Department of Energy.

“Power System Research Consortium (2006-2012): Synchro-phasor Research Projects,” Industrial sponsors.

“Incorporation of Intelligent Agents in an Electric Power mar-ket Simulator,” Industrial sponsor.

“Development of a KEPCO FACTS Controller Training Simula-tor for Operators and Planning Engineers” Industrial sponsors.

“Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power grid Operation with high Renewable Penetration,” Stanford University global Climate and Energy Program (gCEP).

“New York Phasor Network,”sponsored by NYS Energy Re-search and Development Authority and NY Power Authority.

Selected PublicationsEdris A-A, Chow Jh, Watanabe E, et al, “Compensateur Syn-chrone Statique Serie/Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC),” Electra, 242, (2009).

Fang X, Chow Jh, Edris A-A, Jiang X, Fardanesh B, and Uzu-novic E, “Sensitivity Formulation in a multi-Functional FACTS Controller Training Simulator,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 24(2), 713-720 (2009).

Lu N, Chow Jh, and Desrochers AA, “generator Bidding Strategies in a Competitive Electricity market with Derating and Bid-Segment Considerations,” Int J Power and Energy Systems, 29(3), 173-180 (2009).

Chakrabortty A, Chow Jh, and Salazar A, “Interarea model Estimation for Radial Power System Transfer Paths with Intermediate Voltage Control using Synchronized Phasor measurements,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 24(3), 1318-1326 (2009).

Chang Bh, Lee B, and Chow Jh, “A Novel Operation Strategy for Shunt Type FACTS Controllers in KEPCO System,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 24(3), 1639-1640 (2009).

Zhou Z, Chan WK (Victor), and Chow Jh, “Agent-Based Simulation of Electricity markets: A Survey of Tools,” Artificial Intelligence Review, 28(4), 305-342 (2009).

Jiang X, Chow Jh, Edris A-A, Fardanesh B, and Uzunovic E, “Transfer Path Stability Enhancement by Voltage-Sourced Converter-Based FACTS Controllers,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 25(2), 1019-1025 (2010).

Armenia A and Chow Jh, “A Flexible Phasor Data Concentra-tor Design Leveraging Existing Software Technologies,” IEEE Transactions on Smart grid, 1(1), 73-8 (2010).

Vanfretti L, Chow Jh, Sarawgi S, and Fardanesh B, “A Phasor-Data Based Estimator Incorporating Phase Bias Correction,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 26(1), 111-119 (2011).

Chakrabortty A, Chow Jh, and Salazar A, “A measurement-based Framework for Dynamic Equivalencing of Large Power Systems using WAmS,” IEEE Transactions on Smart grid, 2(1), 68-81 (2011).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedluigi Vanfretti, “Phasor measurement-Based State Estimation of Electric Power Systems and Linearized Analysis of Power System Network Oscillations.”

MS Students GraduatedPrasanna Muralimanchar, “Advanced Power Plant modeling with Applications to the Advanced Boiling Water Reactor and the heat Exchanger.”

Andrew Armenia, “A New Design for a Flexible Integrated Phasor System.”

Scott Ghiocel, “Reactive Power management for Voltage Stability Enhancement and Coordinated FACTS Controller/Switched Shunt Dispatch.”

Damion crichlow, “Offer-Based mechanism for Participation of Dynamic Reactive Power Suppliers in a Real-Time Deregu-lated Electric market.”

Joe h. chow

ProfessorPh.D., university of Illinois at urbana-champaign, 1977

Primary Research Area: Electric Power Systems


Research InterestsNew device concepts for high-voltage power switching devices, power ICs, wide bandgap semiconductor (particularly, SiC and gaN) power devices.

Sponsored Research“gaN Power Devices and ICs on Si Substrates,” Industrial sponsor.

“gaN mOSFETs,” Industrial sponsor.

“Novel gaN Power Devices,” Industrial sponsor.

“Si Light-Triggered Thyristors,” US Dept. of Energy/Industrial sponsor.

“Optoelectronic gaN Power ICs,” Smart-Lighting ERC, Na-tional Science Foundation.

“AlgaAs/gaAs hEmTs,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsChow TP, Naik h, and Li Z, “Comparative Study of 4h-SiC and 2h-gaN mOS Capacitors and FETs,” Physica Status Solidi, 206(10), 2478-2486 (2009).

huang W, Chow TP, Niiyama Y, Nomura T, and Yoshida S, “Experimental Demonstration of Novel high-Voltage Epilayer RESURF gaN mOSFET,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, 30(10), 1018-1020 (2009).

Li Z, Tang K, Chow TP, Sugimoto m, Uesugi T, and Kachi T, “Design and Simulations of Novel Enhancement-mode high-Voltage gaN Vertical hybrid mOS-hEmTs,” Physica Status Solidi (c), 7(7-8), 1944-1948 (2010).

Chow TP, “SiC and gaN mOS Interfaces – Similarities and Differences,” materials Science Forum, vol. 645-648, 473-478 (2010).

Kambayashi h, Satoh Y, Ootomo S, Kokawa T, Nomura T, Kato S, and Chow TP, “Over 100A Operation Normally-Off AlgaN/gaN mOS-hFET on Silicon Substrate with high Breakdown Voltage,” Solid-State Electronics, 54(6), 660-664 (2010).

Li Z, Tang K, huang W, Chow TP, Sugimoto m, Uesugi T and Kachi T, “Design and Simulations of Novel Enhancement-mode high-Voltage gaN Vertical hybrid mOS-hEmTs,” Phys. Status Solidi C, 7(7-8), 1944-1948 (2010).

Li Z and Chow TP, “Channel Scaling of hybrid gaN mOS-hEmTs,” Solid-State Electronics, 56(1), 111-115 (2011).

MS Students GraduatedZ. li, “Design, Simulations and Optimization of high Voltage Vertical hybrid mOS-hEmT in gaN.”

h. Naik, “4h-SiC Lateral mOSFETs on (0001), (000-1) and (11-20) oriented SiC Substrates.”

T. Marron, “Investigation of Atomic Layer Deposited SiO2 and Al2O3 as Potential gate Dielectrics for III-Nitride mOS Devices.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Simulation of Silicon Carbide mOSFETs,

• Characterization of Silicon Carbide mOSFETs

Tat-Sing Paul chow


Primary Research Area: high-Voltage Power


Research InterestsThe application of particle beam based diagnostics to plasmas of interest to the thermonuclear fusion community, high frequency wave phenomena, photonics, engineering educa-tion, diversity in the engineering workforce, and technology enhanced learning.

Sponsored Research“Smart Lighting ERC,” National Science Foundation.

“RF Tomography Facility,” US Air Force.

“magnetic Signatures,” US Navy.

“hIBP Development,” US DOE/UW.

“mobile Studio Phase II CCLI grant,” National Science Foun-dation.

Selected PublicationsNewman D, Deyoe m, murphy K, Connor K, “External Validity: Documenting Replicability and Transferability in Technology Programs,” American Evaluation Association (ASA) Confer-ence, San Antonio, TX (2010).

Connor K, Scott C, Chouikha m, Wilson A, Anderson A, Astatke Y, Berry F, Newman D, O’Rourke J, Little T, millard D, “multi-Institutional Development of mobile Studio Based Edu-cation and Outreach,” ASEE Annual Conference (2011).

Connor K, Berry F, Chouikha m, Newman D, Deyoe m, Anaya g, Brubaker W, “Using the mobile Studio to Facilitate Non-Traditional Approaches to Education and Outreach,” ASEE Annual Conference (2011).

Connor K, Anaya g, Fortier J, Shin C, Acholo C, “Video Tutorials for the mobile Studio,”ASEE St. Lawrence Section meeting, (2011).

Liao J, Zeng J, Deng S, Joyner, V, Boryssenko A, Connor K, huang Z, “Packaging of Optoelectronic and RF Components with Shared Elements for Dual-mode Wireless Communica-tions,” Electronics Letters, Vol 45, 411 (2009).

MS Students GraduatedJohn Durst, “A heavy Ion Beam Probe for the helically Sym-metric Experiment.”

Jennifer M. Turner, “Three Axisymmetric Inductors Config-ured from Circular Current Loops for Wireless Power Transfer.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Infrared Amplitude modulated Audio Transmitter

• Educational Circuits – Optical Receiver

• LEDs in Everyday Life

• Educational Circuits – The Clapper

• LEDs in Everyday Life

• Lighting for medical Imaging

• Educational Circuits – Optical Transmitters

• Bringing Lighting Technology to the high School math Classroom

• The Optical Theremin

• how Fast are Fast Plants, Introducing Lighting Technology to the Instruction of math and Biology in K-12

Kenneth A. connor

ProfessorPh.D., Polytechnic Institute of New York university, 1975

Primary Research Area: Particle Beam Based Diagnostics; Engineering Education


Research InterestsSemiconductor materials and Devices, Solid State Lighting, Photovoltaics, Nanomaterials manufacturing

Sponsored Research“Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center,” National Sci-ence Foundation.

“high Power Terahertz Sources using Bulk Ternary Semicon-ductor Substrates,” National Science Foundation.

“Design and Iteratively Optimize Up/Down Converting Layers on PV Products,” US Department of Energy.

“NSF-IgERT Program on Terahertz Science and Technology,” National Science Foundation.

“Demonstration of TPV Components for gas Furnace Com-bined heat and Power,” New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).

Selected PublicationsDutta PS, “Bulk Crystal growth of III-V Compound Semi-conductors” (in Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology, Editors: P. Bhattacharya, R. Fornari, h. Kamimura), 3, 36-80, Elsevier (2011).

Chivukula V, Ciplys D, Shur m and Dutta P, “ZnO Nanoparticle Surface Acoustic Wave UV sensor,” Appl. Phys. Letts, 96, 233512-233514 (2010).

Qin L, Shing C, Sawyer S and Dutta PS, “Enhanced UV Sensitivity of ZnO Nanoparticle Photoconductors by Surface Passivation,” Optical materials, 33, 359-362 (2010).

gennett A, Lewis D and Dutta PS, “Low Temperature growth of ga1-xInxP Bulk Crystals from InSb-rich melt,” J. Crystal growth, 312, 1080-1084 (2010).

Dutta PS, “Low Temperature growth of Ternary III-V Semi-conductor Crystals from Antimonide based Quaternary melts (in Crystal growth Technology,)” Editors: P. Capper and P. Rudolph): Wiley VCh, Weinheim Chapter 9 (2010).

Dutta PS, “Bridging the Nano-gap: From Scientific Discovery to Real World Products, Business and Safety Issues in the Com-mercialization of Nanotechnology,” mRS Sym. Proc., 1209, 1209-P03-04 (2010).

Zhu Y, Dutta D and Narendran N, “Post-Synthesis Annealing Effects on the Srga2Se4:Eu2+ Phosphors with Peak Emission Wavelength in the green gap,” SPIE Conference Proc, 7784, 77840P1-6 (2010).

Sengupta S, Wilke I and Dutta PS, “Ultrafast Carrier mobilities in high Resistivity Iron Doped ga0.69In0.31As PhotoConduct-ing Antennas,” Appl. Phys. Lett, 95, 211102-211104 (2009).

Dutta PS, “Bulk Crystal growth of III-V Ternary Semiconduc-tors by Bridgman and gradient Freezing Techniques (in Crystal growth and Characterization,” Editors: g. Dhanaraj, K. Byra-ppa, V. Prasad and m. Dudley), Chapter 10, Springer-Verlag, New York (2009).

Yuksel m, Akella J, Kalyanaraman S and Dutta PS, “Free Space Optical mobile ad hoc Networks: Auto Configurable Building Blocks,” Wireless Networks 15, 295-312 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedDouglas Notaro, “Chemical Vapor Deposition of SiC Thin Films using mono-molecular Precursors for Solar Thermo-Photovoltaic Applications.”

Roya Mirhosseini, “Design of Droop-free and Dual Blue Excitable Phosphor LEDs.”

MS Students GraduatedTuhin Guha, “high Efficiency Photovoltaic Systems Analysis.”

Sruthi Muralidharan, “mobile Ubiquitous Free Space Optical Communication Systems using White Light Emitting Diodes.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Electronic Driver Design for Visible Light Communication

Using high Flux LEDs

• Software Driven multi-Channel Visible Light Communication Schemes

• Simulation of Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency with monochromatic Radiation

• multi-hop Visible Light Communication Strategies

• Circuit Design for Reconfigurable Free Space Optical Communication Links

• Remotely Operated Smart Cages

• Portable Cage for Wildlife Capture

Partha S. Dutta

Professor, and Deputy Director of the Smart lighting Engineering Research centerPh.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1996

Primary Research Area: Semiconductor Materials and Devices


Research InterestsComputational Cartography, Computational geometry, Computer graphics, Parallel Computation.

Sponsored Research“Fundamental Terrain Representations and Operations,” National Science Foundation.

“Towards a mathematics of Terrain,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsmagalhÃ£es SV-g, Andrade mVA and Franklin WR, “multiple Observer Siting in huge Terrains Stored in External memory,” Int J Computer Information Systems and Industrial manage-ment (IJCISIm), 3 (2011).

Lau T-Y and Franklin WR, “Completing Fragmentary River Networks via Induced Terrain,” Cartography and geographic Information Science, (2011).

Franklin, W. Randolph, “The RPI geoStar Project,” In 25th International Cartographic Conference, Paris (2011).

Chen Z, Stuetzle CS, Cutler Am, gross JA, Franklin WR and Zimmie TF, “Analyses, Simulations and Physical modeling Validation of Levee and Embankment Erosion,” In geo-Fron-tiers 2011: Advances in geotechnical Engineering, Dallas TX (2011).

Franklin WR, Xie Z, Lau E and Li Y,“Algorithms for Terrain and Bathymetric Sensor Data,” In ICA Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Algorithms for Topographic and Thematic mapping, Orlando, Florida. The International Cartographic As-sociation (ICA) Commission on mapping from Satellite Imagery (2010).

Li Y and Franklin WR “4D-ODETLAP: A Novel high-Dimension-al Compression method on Time-Varying geospatial Data,” In geospatial Data and geovisualization: Environment, Security, and Society, a special joint symposium of ISPRS Technical Com-mission IV & AutoCarto, Orlando, Florida (2010).

gross JA, Stuetzle CS, Chen Z, Cutler B, Franklin WR and Zimmie TF, “Simulating Levee Erosion with Physical modeling Validation,”. In ICSE-5 5th Int Conference on Scour and Ero-sion, San Francisco (2010).

Xie Z, Franklin WR and Tracy D, “Slope Preserving Lossy Terrain Compression,” In 18th ACm SIgSPATIAL International Confer-ence on Advances in geographic Information Systems (ACm SIgSPATIAL gIS), San Jose, CA, (2010).

Li Y, Lau T-Y, Stuetzle C, Fox P and Franklin WR, “3D Oceano-graphic Data Compression Using 3D-ODETLAP,” In 18th ACm SIgSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in geographic Information Systems (ACm SIgSPATIAL gIS), San Jose, CA, (2010).

Stuetzle CS, Chen Z, Cutler B, Franklin WR, gross J, Perez K and Zimmie TF, “Computer Simulations and Physical model-ling of Erosion,” In 7th International Conference on Physical modelling in geotechnics (ICPmg), Zurich (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedYou li, “CUDA-Accelerated hD-ODETLAP: A high Dimen-sional geospatial Data Compression Framework.”

MS Students GraduatedNathan leStage, “genetic Algorithm Tuning: Overcoming Diversity Loss in Tournament Selection.”

luke Perkins, “An Integrated Approach to Choke Point Detection and Region Decomposition.”

Jeffrey Sult, “Computational Analysis of First-Person Shooter Levels.”

Michael J Snyder, “Using The hTmL5 Canvas Element For A Web-Based multi-User Painting Application.”

w. Randolph Franklin

ProfessorPh.D., harvard university, 1978

Primary Research Area: computational Geometry


Research InterestsDigital Signal Processing emphasizing Image Processing and Speech Processing; Brain Computer Interfacing (BCI); Adap-tive Systems and Pattern Recognition; Computer Integrated manufacturing and 3-D Inspection; globalization of Engineer-ing Education; Design in Engineering Education.

Sponsored Research“Brain Computer Interfacing,” NIh & US Army in Association with NYS Wadsworth Center.

Selected PublicationsSteiner m, Kanai J, Alben R, gerhardt L and hsu C, “A holistic Approach for Student Assessment in multidisciplinary Engi-neering Capstone Design,” Int J Engineering Education (IJEE), 27(6), (2011).

gerhardt L, “The Importance of Becoming a global Citizen”-Invited Chapter; ‘Ready for Take Off’ by Dean millar; Pearson ISBN-13:978-0-13-608127-2, 194-210 (2010).

gerhardt L, “A Lifetime of Touches of an Elusive ‘Virtual El-ephant’: global Engineering Education” Chapter; “global En-gineering Education: The making of International Educators” by gary Downey and Kacey Beddoes; morgan and Claypool ISBN 9781608455430, 199-220 (2011).

gerhardt L, Steiner m, Kanai J and hus C, “Analysis of Engi-neering Capstone Design Student Reflective memos,” ASEE Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada (2011).

Schalk g, Leuthardt EC, Ojemann Jg, gerhardt LA, Wolpaw JR, “Detection of Event-Related Brain Activity,” Real-Time NeuroImage, 43(2), 245-249 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedYu wang, “3-D Neuron Reconstruction Framework Based on Deformable models and Software System With Parallel gPU Implementation.” Committee member.

lu Zhao, “Adaptive Finite Element methods for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography.” Committee member.

undergraduate Research Projects• Brain Computer Interfacing Software Development

• Brain Compute Systems Development and Integration

• Brain Signal Actuation of a Robotic hand

lester A. Gerhardt

ProfessorPh.D., university of Buffalo (SuNY), 1969 Danmarks Tekniske universitet (DTu); Ph.D., honoris causa. 2001

Primary Research Area: Digital Signal Processing


Research InterestsRadio Frequency and microwave Integrated Circuits Design, Optical Communication ICs, Applications of microwaves in medicine, Sub Thz Communication and Imaging.

Sponsored Research“CmOS Thz Detection,” Industrial sponsor.

“Characterization of CmOS Basic Building Blocks for Sub-Thz Wideband Transmitters,” Industrial sponsor.

“NSF ERC - Smart Lighting,” National Science Foundation.

“micro-Scale Power generators Employing Capacitive Con-verters with Switchable Dielectric medium,” National Science Foundation, Integrated hybrid Complex Systems Program.

“gaN Power mOS Device Technologies on Si Substrate,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsKempitiya A, Borca-Tasciuc D, hella m, “Analysis and Opti-mization of Asynchronously Controlled Electrostatic Energy harvesters,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, in Press.

Pye AD and hella mm, “Analysis and Optimization of Series Power Combiners for high Efficiency, Wide Dynamic Range Power Amplifiers,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and System –I : Regular Papers, No. 1, 37-50 (2011).

Peng h, Pala V, Wright P, Chow TP, and hella m, ”high Ef-ficiency, high Switching Speed, AlgaAs/gaAs P-hEmT DC-DC Converter for Integrated Power Amplifier modules,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 66(3) (2011).

Catli B and hella mm, “Triple Push Operation for Combined Oscillation/Division Functionality in millimeter-Wave Frequency Synthesizers,” IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, Special Issue on CICC, 45(8), 1575-1589 (2010).

Nakhkoob B, Bilgi m, Yuksel m, and hella mm, “multi-Trans-ceiver Optical Wireless Spherical Structures for mANETs,” IEEE J Selected Areas of Communication, 27(9), 1612-1622 (2009).

Catli B and hella mm, “A 1.94 to 2.55ghz, 3.6 to 4.77ghz Tunable CmOS VCO Based On Double-Tuned, Double-Driven Coupled Resonators,” IEEE Trans. on Solid-Sate Circuits, 44(9), 2463-2477 (2009).

Kempitiya A, Borca-Tasciuc D, mohamed h, and hella mm, “Localized microwave heating for Ultra-Fast, Parallel DNA Amplification Platforms,” Applied Physics Lett, 94(6), 064106 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedBurak catli, “multi-Band/ Wide-Band Frequency generators for Spectrum-Agile Radio and Future millimeter-Wave Applications.”

han Peng, “high Frequency, high Efficiency, Fully Integrated DC-DC Converter System.”

MS Students GraduatedTristan lawry, “Design and Optimization of Wideband Low Nose Amplifiers for Software Defined Radio Applications.”

Asantha Kempitiya, “modeling of mEmS Interdigitated Capacitors with Switchable Dielectric Constant for Kinetic to Electric Energy harvesting Applications.”

Mona Mostafa hella

Associate ProfessorPh.D., ohio State university, 2001

Primary Research Area: Microwaves

Integrated Signal Sources for RF and Millimeter-Wave Applications


Research InterestsComputer Vision, machine Learning, Information Fusion, Intelligent Transportation, human Computer Interaction, and medical Imaging.

Sponsored Research“Probabilistic graphical models for human Activity modeling and Recognition,” DARPA PerSEAS Program.

“Real Time Facial Analysis for human Fatigue and Stress De-tection and modeling,” Army Research Office.

“Probabilistic graphical models for Brain State modeling and Recognition,” Army Research Office.

“human Body Detection, Tracking, and Activity Recognition,” DARPA VIRAT program.

“Combining Knowledge with Data for generalizable and Robust Visual Learning,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationsde Campos C and Ji Q, “Efficient Structure Learning of Bayes-ian Networks using Constraints,” J machine Learning Res, 12(mar), 663−689 (2011).

Zhang L and Ji Q, “Image Segmentation with a Unified graphical model,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and machine Intelligence, 32(8), 1406-1425 (2010).

Tong Y, Chen J and Ji Q, “A Unified Probabilistic Framework for Spontaneous Facial Action modeling and Understanding,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and machine Intelligence, 32(2), 258-274 (2010)

hansen DW and Ji Q, “In the Eye of the Beholder: A Survey of models for Eyes and gaze,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and machine Intelligence, 32(3), (2010).

Zhang Y and Ji Q, “Efficient Sensor Selection for Active Infor-mation Fusion,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, man, Cybernet-ics, Part B, 40(3), 719 - 728 (2010).

Wang Z, Schalk g and Ji Q, “Decoding of Finger Flexion from Electrocorticographic Signals Using Switching Non-Parametric Dynamic Systems,” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), (2011).

Chen J and Ji Q, “Probabilistic gaze Estimation Without Active Personal Calibration,” IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 609-616 (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJixu chen, “Automatic human Behavior Tracking and Analy-sis.”

lei Zhang, “A Unified Probabilistic Framework and Its Ap-plication for Image Segmentation.”

MS Students Graduatedwilliam Miao, “Calibration-Free gaze Tracking.”

Qiang Ji

ProfessorPh.D., university of washington, 1998

Primary Research Area: computer Vision and Machine learning


Research InterestsSystems and Control, hybrid Systems, Systems Biology.

Sponsored Research“Collaborative Research: The Dynamics of the Innate Immune Systems: A Study of the Toll-like Receptors (TLR) Network,” National Science Foundation.

“microbiorobots for manipulation and Sensing,” Army Re-search Office, subcontract through Drexel University.

“CAREER: Robust Trajectory Based Analysis for Stochastic hybrid Systems Abstraction and Verification,” National Science Foundation.

“Collaborative Research: motion Control of Bacteria Powered microrobots,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsSakar mS, Steager EB, Kim Dh, Julius AA, Kim mJ, Kumar V and Pappas gJ, “modeling, Control and Experimental Charac-terization of microbiorobots,” Int J Robotics Res, 30, 647-658 (2011).

Zavlanos mm, Julius AA, Boyd SP, Pappas gJ, “Inferring Stable genetic Networks from Steady-State Data,” Automatica, 47(6), 1113-1122 (2011).

Julius AA, Afshari S, “Using Computer games for hybrid Systems Controller Synthesis,” in the Proc. 49th IEEE Conf. Decision and Control, 5887-5892 (2010).

Julius AA, Zavlanos m, Boyd SP, Pappas gJ, “genetic Network Identification Using Convex Programming,” IET Systems Biol-ogy, 5(3), 155-166 (2009).

Julius AA, Pappas gJ, “Approximate Abstraction of Stochastic hybrid Systems,” IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, 54(6), 1193-1203 (2009).

Julius AA, Pappas gj, “Trajectory Based Verification Using Local Finite-Time Invariance, in hybrid Systems: Computation and Control,” Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5469, 223-236, Springer Verlag (2009).

Julius AA, D’Innocenzo A, DiBenedetto mD, Pappas gJ, “Approximate Equivalence and Synchronization of metric Transition Systems,” Systems and Control Letters, 58, 94-101 (2009).

MS Students GraduatedNicholas cooper, “Bacterial Persistence: mathematical mod-eling and Optimal Treatment Strategy.”

Sina Afshari, “Coverage Assessment Criteria for Approximate Bisimulation Theory and Introduction of Computer games in hybrid Systems Safety/Reachability Design.”

undergraduate Research Projects• modeling and Computer Simulation of Bacteria Actuation

• Computer Vision Based Tracking of mobile Robots

• Designing Educational module for LEgO Robotics Outreach Program

• human-Computer Interface with microsoft Kinect

Anak Agung Julius

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Twente (The Netherlands), 2005

Primary Research Area: Systems and control


Research InterestsDesign Education, Engineering Design, Software Engineering.

Selected PublicationsSteiner m, Kanai J, Alben R, gerhardt L and hsu C, “A holistic Approach for Student Assessment in multidisciplinary Engi-neering Capstone Design,” Int J Eng Education (IJEE), Special Issue on Capstone Design (2011).

Steiner m, Kanai J, Alben R, and hsu C, “Analysis of Engineer-ing Capstone Design Student Reflective memos: What Stu-dents Say and What They Don’t Say,” Proc 118th ASEE Annual Conference, [CD ROm], Vancouver, B.C. Canada, (2011).

Kanai J and Chiappone S, “Safety Policies and Procedures for Engineering Design Courses,” Proc 118th ASEE Annual Con-ference, [CD ROm], Vancouver, B.C. Canada, (2011).

Kanai J, Chiappone S, Fahey W, and Sommer T, “Integrating Safety into Capstone Design Courses at Rensselaer,” Proc National Capstone Design Conference [CD-ROm], Boulder, CO, (2010).

Kanai J, morris J, and Anderson m, Project-Based Engineering Design Courses and Computer Literacy, Proc ASEE North East Section Conference 2010, [CD-ROm], Boston, mA, (2010).

undergraduate Research Projects• Simulation Bug management

• Automatic Font Identification

Junichi Kanai

Professor of Practice and Associate Director, o.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design laboratoryPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990

Primary Research Area: Engineering Design and Engineering Education

Research InterestsPerformance Analysis and Optimization of Communication Networks, Scheduling and Energy management in Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, Internet Congestion Control and Routing, Video Distribution Over the Internet.

Sponsored Research“Flexible Delivery of Streaming Video using Network-Aware mD-FEC Coding,” National Science Foundation.

“Financial Dynamics of Spectrum Trading,” National Science Foundation.

“CAREER: Local Information Based Distributed Optimization of Resources in Large-Scale Adhoc and Sensor Networks,” National Science Foundation.

“Implementation of Robust TCP for Airborne Networks,” US Air Force.

Selected PublicationsWang X, Kar K and Low S, ``End-to-End Fair Rate Optimization in Wired- cum-Wireless Networks,’’ Ad hoc Networks, 7(3), 473-485 (2009).

Jaggi N, Kar K and Krishnamurthy A,``Rechargeable Sensor Activation under Temporal Correlations,” Wireless Networks, 15(5), 619-635 (2009).

Iyengar R, Kar K and Banerjee S, ``Low-Coordination Wakeup Algorithms for multiple Connected-Covered Topologies in Sen-sor Nets”, Int J Sensor Networks, 5(1), 33-47 (2009).

Jaggi N and Kar K, multi-Sensor Activation for Temporally Cor-related Event monitoring with Renewable Energy Sources, Int J Sensor Networks, 10(1/2), 42-58 (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedXiang luo, “Dynamic Channel Assignment and Power Alloca-tion Strategies in multi-channel Wireles Networks.”

Vicky Sharma, “A multipath Transport Protocol for Lossy and Disruption-prone Networks.”

MS Students GraduatedKawsar Kamal, “Social-Expert: An Expertise Rating Algo-rithm.”

herbert holzbauer, “An Implementation of Loss Tolerant Transmission Control Protocol.”

chan Kay chow, “Performance Study of Routing Algorithms for Renewable Energy Ad hoc Wireless Networks.”

Koushik Kar

Associate ProfessorPh.D., university of Maryland at college Park, 2002

Primary Research Area: computer and communication Networks; Network control and optimization; wireless and Sensor Networks


Research InterestsOptoelectronics Devices, Solid State LIghting Systems, Epitaxial growth of Compound Semiconductors, Thermal management and Power Packaging, Optical materials.

Sponsored Research“Light Extraction for DUV LEDs,” Defense Advanced Research Projects Agendy and Crystal IS.

“Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center (Director),” National Science Foundation.

undergraduate Research Projects• high Performance Adaptive Color Tunable Lighting Fixture

Robert F. Karlicek, Jr.

Professor, and Director of the Smart lighting Engineering Research centerPh.D., university of Pittsburgh, 1979

Primary Research Area: optoelectronic Systems

Research InterestsRandom-Walk and Stochastic Numerical methods, Parallel Algorithms, massively Coupled Electrical and Thermal Systems, IC Interconnects, Semiconductor Quantum Equilibrium.

Sponsored Research“SRC mARCO Interconnect Focus Center (IFC): “Stochastic Sum-over-Path Algorithms for Analyses of massively Coupled IC-Interconnect Structures,” Industrial sponsor, DARPA, NYS-TAR (NY State).

Selected PublicationsWojcik EA, Ni D, Lam Tm and LeCoz YL, “A Sum-over-Paths Algorithm for Third-Order Impulse-Response moment Extrac-tion within RC IC Interconnects,” submitted to Solid St. Electron.

Ni D, Lam Tm and LeCoz YL, “Estimating an RLC granularity metric for a CNT-Bundle Interconnect Stack,” to be submitted.

Ph.D. Students GraduatedT. lam, “A Stochastic, Arbitrary-Order Impulse-Response moment-Extraction Algorithm for Uncoupled RC Interconnect Networks.”

D. Ni, “Arbitrary-Order Impulse-Response (IR) moment Extraction in RLC Interconnect Networks: A Novel Stochastic Algorithm.”

Yannick l. le coz

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Primary Research Area: Random-walk and Stochastic Numerical Methods


Research Interestsmicro-nano-electronics technology from theory and design to materials, devices, processing, and system integration; par-ticularly in 3D hyper-integration technology, micro-nano-bio interfaces for future chips, LEDs, sensors, and micro-electrical-mechanical systems (mEmS) in combination (3D integration) with CmOS based technologies for IT systems, smart lighting systems, energy systems and bio-medical devices.

Sponsored Research“modeling and Evaluation of 3D System Performance with Through-Strata-Vias (TSVs),” Industrial sponsor.

“Chip-to-Wafer Three-Dimensional (3D) Integration,” Indus-trial sponsor.

“Development of A Self Biased high Efficiency Solid-State Neutron Detector for mPACT Applications,”US DoE Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP)

“Electrical Performance modeling of Through-Strata-Vias (TSVs) for 3D Integration/Packaging,” Industrial sponsor.

“Design of Energy-Efficient Programmable Signal Process-ing Accelerators in 3D Integrated heterogeneous multi-Core Processor for mobile multimedia Communication,” National Science Foundation.

“Collaborative: 3D Integrated Imaging Receivers for 10-gb/s Free Space Optical mImO,” National Science Foundation.

“3D memory System Design for Closing the Processor-memory Performance gap,” Industrial sponsor.

“A Novel Solid-State Self Powered Neutron Detector,” US Dept of homeland Security.

“Wafer-Level Vertically-Integrated Technology Platforms for heterogeneous hyper-Integration,” NYSTAR Focus Center.

“Wafer to Wafer Alignment and Planarization Constraints for Wafer-Level 3D ICs,” DARPA.

Selected PublicationsRamm P, Lu JJ-Q and Taklo mmV, “handbook of Wafer Bond-ing,” Wiley-VCh Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3527326464, (2011).

Xu Z and Lu J-Q, “high-Speed Design and Broadband model-ing of Through-Strata-Vias (TSVs) in 3D Integration,” IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and manufacturing Technology, 1(2), 154-162 (2011).

Lee Sh, Chen K-N and Lu J-Q, “Wafer-to-Wafer Alignment for 3D Integration,” IEEE/ASmE J microelectromechanical Systems, 20(4), 885-898 (2011).

Chen KN, Young Am, Lee Sh and Lu J-Q, “Electrical Perfor-mances and Structural Designs of Copper Bonding in Wafer-Level Three-Dimensional Integration,” J Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 11(6), 5143-5147(5), (2011).

Chen Q, Zhang D, Xu Z, Beece Z, Patti R, Tan Z, Wang Z, Liu L and Lu J-Q, “A Novel Chip-to-Wafer (C2W) Three-dimensional (3D) Integration Approach Using a Template for Precise Align-ment,” microelectronic Engineering (2011), doi: 10.1016/j.mee.2011.04.047.

Sun h, Liu J, Anigundi R, Zheng N, Lu J-Q, Rose K and Zhang T, “Design of 3D DRAm and Its Application in 3D Integrated multi-Core Computing Systems,” IEEE Design & Test of Com-puters, 26(5), 36-46 (2009).

Xu Z, Webb BC, Knickerbocker JU and Lu J-Q, “Electromag-netic-SPICE modeling and Analysis of 3D-TSV Power Net-work,” IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Confer-ence (ECTC), Lake Buena Vista, FL, (2011).

LiCausi N, Clinton J, Danon Y, Lu J-Q and Bhat I, “Deposition and Etching of Conformal Boron Films for Neutron Detec-tor Applications,” mRS Symposium CC: Boron and Boron Compounds - From Fundamentals to Applications, Boston, mA, (2010).

Beece A, Rose K, Zhang T and Lu J-Q, “Impact of Parameter Accuracy on 3D Design,” IEEE International 3D System Integra-tion Conference (3D IC), San Francisco, CA, (2009).

Lu J-Q, “3D hyper-Integration and Packaging Technologies for micro-Nano-Systems,” Proc of the IEEE, 97(1), 18-30 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedZheng Xu, “Electrical Performance modeling of Through-Strata-Vias (TSVs) for 3D Integration/Packaging.”

Qianwen chen, “Chip-to-Wafer Three-Dimensional (3D) Integration Technology.”

Nicholas licausi, “Design and Fabrication of a Novel Self-Powered Solid-State Neutron Detector.”

MS Students GraduatedZhou Fang, “magnetic Core Inductor Design and Fabrication for 3D Power Delivery.”

Dingyou Zhang, “growth and Characterization of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Interconnect Applications.”

Mark Anderson, “Design and Analysis of magnetic-Core Inter-Wafer Inductor Supporting Three-Dimensional Power Delivery.”

Adam Beece, “Computer Simulation for Cache and 3D Data Storage System Evaluation.”

Zheng Xu, “Performance of Through-Strata-Vias (TSVs) in Three-Dimensional (3D) Integration”

James Jian-Qiang lu

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Dr.rer.nat., Technical university of Munich, Germany, 1995

Primary Research Area: Micro-Nano-Electronics Technology


Research Interestshigh-Frequency Integrated Circuits, 3D memory Design, Fast FPgA’s, Interleaved ADC/DAC, Computing at Ultra high Clock Rates, high Speed Serial Communications, heterogeneous Integration, Ebeam Lithography

Sponsored Research“high Speed Data Encryption,” National Reconnaissance Of-fice of the US Department of Defense.

“Signal Intelligence,” Naval Research Lab.

“high Clock Rate Computing,” National Science Foundation.

“Terahertz IgERT Fellowships,” National Science Foundation

Selected PublicationsKim J-W, Chu m, Jacob P, Zia A, Kraft RP, and mcDonald JF, “Reconfigurable 40 ghz BiCmOS Uniform Delay Crossbar Switch for Broadband and Wide Tuning Range Narrowband Applications,” IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, 5(3), 159-169 (2011).

Neogi T, Deng S, Novak J, guo J-R, Clarke R, LeRoy mR, huang Z and mcDonald JF, “modeling and Analysis of an 80-gbit/s Sige hBT Electro-optic modulator,” IEEE Photonics Journal, 3(1), 42-56 (2011).

Zia A, Jacob P, Kim J-W, Chu m, Kraft RP, and mcDonald JF, “A 3-D Cache With Ultra-Wide Data Bus for 3-D Processor-mem-ory Integration,” IEEE Trans. on VLSI, 10(6), 967-977 (2010).

Chu m, Jacob P, Kim J-W, LeRoy m, Kraft R, and mcDonald JF, “A 40 gS/s Time Interleaved ADC using Sige hBT Technol-ogy,” IEEE J. Sol. State Cir., 368-379 (2010).

Zhou K and mcDonald JF, “Impact of Deep-Trench-Isolation-Sharing Techniques on Ultrahigh-Speed Sige hBT Digital Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, 56(10), 778-784 (2009).

mc Donald JF, Jacob P, Zia A, Erdogan O, Belemjian Pm, Kim J-W, Chu m, Kraft RP, and Bernstein K, “mitigating memory Wall Effects in high-Clock-Rate and multi-Core CmOS 3-D Processor memory Stacks,” Proc of the IEEE (Special Issue on 3D Integration), 97(1), 108-122 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedPhil Jacob, “Serial Code Acceleration.”

Aamir Zia, “high Performance memory Systems Using 3D Technology.”

Michael chu, “A 60gS/s Analog to Digital Converter in Sige hBT Technology.”

Paul Belemjian, “Fast Adder Design using Sige hBT Technol-ogy.”

chao You, “high Speed Low Power FPgA using Sige hBT Technology.”

Kuan Zhou, “Fast FPgA Technology,”

MS Students GraduatedSherry liu, “A 4 ghz BiCmOS SRAm.”

John F. McDonald

ProfessorPh.D., Yale university, 1969

Primary Research Area: high-Frequency Integrated circuits


Research InterestsPower Electronics, motor Drives, Electric machines, Renewable Energy Systems, Energy harvesting

Sponsored Research“Young Investigator Award: Fault Tolerant Electromechanical Energy Converters fro Naval Applications,” Office of Naval Research.

“Optoelectronics Integration,” Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, National Science Foundation.

“Ultra-Reliable Deepwater Electrical Popwer Distribution Sys-tem and Power Components,” Industrial sponsor.

“machine Design and Prototyping for Aircraft actuation Sys-tem, Phase II,” Industrial sponsor.

“Integrated Design methodologies for high Performance Electric Drives,” National Science Foundation.

“Design of Optimal Stator Structures for Various Kinds of AC machines,” Office of Naval Research.

Selected PublicationsDwari S and Parsa L, “Fault-Tolerant Control of Five-phase Permanent magnet motors with Trapezoidal Back-EmF,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58, 476-485 (2011).

gandhi A, Corrigan T and Parsa L, “Recent Advances in modeling and Online Detection of Stator Inter-Turn Faults in Electrical motors,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58, 1564-1575 (2011).

Sadeghi S and Parsa L, “multiobjective Design Optimization of Five Phase halbach Array Permanent magnet machine,” IEEE Transactions on magnetics, 47, 1658-1666 (2011).

Dwari S and Parsa L, “An Efficient high Step-up Interleaved DC-DC Converter with a Common Active-Clamp,” IEEE Trans-actions on Power Electronics, 26, 66-78 (2011).

Dwari S and Parsa L, “An Efficient AC-DC Step-up Converter for Low Voltage Energy harvesting,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 25, 2188-2199 (2010).

Dayal R, Dwari S and Parsa L, “maximum Energy harvesting from Vibration-Based Electromagnetic microgenerator using Active Damping,” Electronics Lett, 46, 371-373 (2010).

Dayal R, Dwari S, and Parsa L, “Design and Implementation of a Direct AC-DC Boost Converter for Low Voltage Energy harvesting,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 58, 2387-2396 (2011).

Dayal R, Dwari S and Parsa L, “A New Design for Vibration-based Electromagnetic Energy harvesting Systems Using Inductorless Single Stage AC-DC Converter,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 47, 820-830 (2011).

leila Parsa

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Texas A&M university, 2005

Primary Research Area: Power Electronics


Research InterestsComputer Vision, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Visu-al Effects, Range Image Processing, medical Image Processing.

Sponsored Research“Reduced-Order Constrained Optimization for Rapid ImRT and VmAT Treatment Planning,” National Institutes of health (National Cancer Institute).

“Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats (ALERT),” Department of homeland Security Center of Excel-lence on Explosives Detection, mitigation and Response.

“Engineering Research Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS),” National Science Foundation.

“hypothesis Testing by Principled Probabilistic Fusion of EO and LiDAR: Enabling the Next generation of mASINT,” DARPA.

Selected PublicationsSmith ER, Radke RJ and Stewart CV, “Physical Scale Keypoints: matching and Registration for Combined Intensity/Range Im-ages,” Int J Computer Vision, in press, to appear 2012.

Wu Z and Radke RJ, “Real-Time Airport Security Checkpoint Surveillance Using a Camera Network,” Workshop on Camera Networks and Wide Area Scene Analysis, in conjunction with CVPR 2011, (2011).

Stabenau h, Rivera L, Yorke E, Yang J, Lu R, Radke R, and Jackson A, “Reduced Order Constrained Optimization (ROCO): Clinical Application to Lung ImRT,” medical Physics, 38(5), 2731-2741 (2011).

mukherjee A, Jenkins B, Fang C, Radke RJ, Banker g, and Roysam B, “Automated Kymograph Analysis for Profiling Axo-nal Transport of Secretory granules,” medical Image Analysis, 15(3), 354--367 (2011).

Chen S, Lovelock Dm, and Radke RJ, “Segmenting the Pros-tate and Rectum in CT Imagery using Anatomical Constraints,” medical Image Analysis, 15(1), 1-11 (2011).

Chen S, Charpiat g, and Radke RJ, “Converting Level Set gradients to Shape gradients,” Proc of the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , (2010).

Jeong Y, Radke RJ, and Lovelock Dm, “Bilinear models for Inter- and Intra-Patient Variation of the Prostate,” Physics in medicine and Biology, 55(13), 3725-3739 (2010).

Doria D and Radke RJ, “Consistency and Confidence: A Dual metric for Verifying 3D Object Detections in multiple LiDAR Scans,” Int Workshop on 3-D Digital Imaging and modeling, (2009).

Becker J, Stewart CV and Radke RJ, “LiDAR Inpainting from a Single Image,” Int Workshop on 3-D Digital Imaging and modeling, (2009).

Cheriyadat Am and Radke RJ, “Non-Negative matrix Factoriza-tion of Partial Track Data for motion Segmentation,” Proceed-ings of the IEEE Int Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSiqi chen, “Image Segmentation: Image models, Regulariza-tions, and Energy Optimization.”

MS Students GraduatedJacob Becker, “Camera Alignment and Image guided hole Filling Using LiDAR Data.”

Andrew calcutt, “On the Design and Implementation of a multi-Camera multi-Person human Tracking System.”

Eric Ameres, “Visual Feature matching as a measure of mo-tion Video Consistency and Quality.”

undergraduate Research Projects• EmPAC Studio 2 multicamera array design and construction

• EmPAC Studio 2 carry-on baggage checkpoint construction/analysis

Richard Radke

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Princeton university, 2001

Primary Research Area: Image Processing


Research InterestsRobotics and Intelligent Systems, Sensor Networks, Pattern Recognition.

Sponsored Research“RAPID: Adaptive, mobile Robotic Sampler Platform for In-Water Capture and Return of Oil Spill Chemical, microbial and Particulate matter,”National Science Foundation.

“Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center,” National Sci-ence Foundation.

Selected PublicationsZhang J and Sanderson AC, “Adaptive Differential Evolution: A Robust Approach to multimodal Optimization,” Springer Series on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, (2009).

Kolar h, Cronin J, hartwick P, Sanderson A, Bonner J, hotaling L, Ambrosio R, Liu Z, Passow m, Reath m,“Complex Environ-mental Real-Time monitoring of the hudson River and Estuary System,” IBm J Res and Development, 53(3), 4.1-4.10 (2009).

Zhang J, and Sanderson AC, “JADE: Adaptive Differential Evolution with Optional External Archive,” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(5), 945-958 (2009).

Xue F, Sanderson A, and graves R, “multi-Objective Evolu-tionary Decision Support for Design-Supplier-manufacturing Planning,” IEEE Trans. on Syst. man and Cybernetics,Part A., 39(2), 309-320 (2009).

Zhang J, and Sanderson AC, “JADE: Adaptive Differential Evolution with Optional External Archive,” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13(5), 945-958 (2009).

Andrew AS, gui J, Sanderson AC, mason RA, morlock EV, Schned AR, Kelsey KT, marsit CJ, moore Jh, Karagas mR, “Bladder Cancer SNP Predictors of Susceptibility and Survival,” human genetics, 125(5-6), 527-539 (2009).

Yang Z, Zhang J, Yao X, and Sanderson AC, “An Adaptive Coevolutionary Differential Evolution Algorithm for Large-scale Optimization,” IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondheim, Norway, (2009).

hombal V, Sanderson AC, and Blidberg DR, “Adaptive multiscale Sampling in Robotic Sensor Networks,” Proceed-ings 2009 IEEE/RSJ Int Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, mO, (2009).

hombal V, Sanderson AC, and Blidberg DR, “Adaptive multiscale Sampling for Environmental Robotics,” Proc IEEE Conference on multisensor Fusion and Integration, Salt Lake City, Utah, (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJingqiao Zhang, “Distributed Differential Evolution Algo-rithms for multiobjective Optimization.”

Vadiraj hombal, “Adaptive Sampling in Robotic Sensor Net-works For Environmental Applications.”

MS Students GraduatedFangxu Dong, “Experimental Study of Adaptive Sampling in Distributed Sensor Networks.”

Arthur c. Sanderson

Professor, and Jefferson Science Fellow, uS Dept. of StatePh.D., carnegie Mellon university, 1972

Primary Research Area: Robotics and Intelligent Systems


Research Interestsmodulation and Coding, Radio Communications, Ultrasonic Communications, Electronic Instrumentation, Electrical Impedance Tomography.

Sponsored Research“NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems,” National Science Foundation.

“Breast Cancer Diagnosis by Electrical Impedance Imaging,” National Institutes of health.

“AAC high Power Ultrasonic Communication System,” Indus-trial sponsor.

“Optimization of a high-Temperature Ultrasonic Through-Wall Communication (UTWC) System,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsBoverman g, Kao T-J, Isaacson D and Saulnier gJ, “An Implementation of Calderon’s method for 3-D Limited-View EIT,” IEEE Transactions on medical Imaging, 28(7), 1073-1082 (2009).

Boverman g, Isaacson D, Saulnier gJ and Newell JC, “methods for Compensating for Variable Electrode Contact in EIT”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Eng, 56(12), 2762-2772 (2009).

Kulkarni R, Kao T-J, Boverman g, Isaacson D, Saulnier gJ and Newell JC, “A Two-Layered Forward model of Tissue for Elec-trical Impedance Tomography,” Physiological measurement, 30(6), S19-34 (2009).

Wilt KR, Scarton hA, Roa-Prada S, Saulnier gJ, Ashdown JD, Lawry TJ, Das PK and gavens AJ, “Finite Element modeling and Simulation of a Two-Transducer Through-Wall Ultrasonic Communication System,” Proc ASmE International mechanical Eng Congress and Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 11pp (2009).

Lawry TJ, Wilt KR, Roa-Prada S, Ashdown JD, Saulnier gJ, Scarton hA, Das PK and Pinezich JD, “Electrical Optimization

of Power Delivery Through Thick Steel Barriers Using Piezoelec-tric Transducers,” Proc SPIE Energy harvesting and Storage: materials, Devices, and Applications, 7683(1), Orlando, Fl, 768314.1 – 768314.14 (2010).

Kulkarni R, Kao T-J, Boverman g, Saulnier gJ, Isaacson D, Szabo TL and Newell JC, “A hand-held Probe for Combined Ultrasound and Electrical Impedance Tomography,” Proc 11th Conf. on Biomedical Applications of EIT. gainesville, Fl, (2010).

murphy EK, Isaacson D, Saulnier gJ and Newell JC, “Analysis of Forward Solvers to the Electrical Impedance Tomography in a mammography geometry using Characteristic Resistances,” Proc 11th Conf. on Bio¬medical Applications of EIT. gaines-ville, FL, (2010).

Ardrey DB, murphy EK, Isaacson D, Saulnier gJ and Newell JC, “An Iterative FEm Reconstructor for the mammography geometry,” Proc 11th Conf. on Biomedical Applications of EIT, gainesville, Fl, (2010).

Wilt KR, Lawry TJ, Scarton hA, Roa-Prada S, Saulnier gJ, Ashdown JD, Das PK and Pinezich JD, “mechanical Design Implications on Power Transfer Through Thick metallic Barriers Using Piezoelectric Transducers,” Proc ASmE Int mechanical Eng Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, B. C., (2010).

Lawry TJ, Wilt KR, Roa-Prada S, Ashdown JD, Saulnier gJ, Scarton hA, Das PK and gavens AJ, “A high-Temperature System for Power Delivery and Data Communication Through Thick metallic Barriers,” in Proc SPIE Conf. Energy harvesting and Storage: materials, Devices, and Applications II, Vol. 8035, 1-12, Orlando, FL, (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedRujuta Kulkarni, “Analytical Forward models for Breast Can-cer Detection Using Elec¬trical Impedance Tomography.”

chandana P. Tamma, “Electrical Impedance Tomography Sys-tem Design and Implementation for Breast Cancer Detection.”

Tristan lawry, “A high-Performance System for Wireless Transmission of Power and Data Through Solid metal Enclo-sures.”

David A. Ardrey, “Iterative methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography in the mammography geometry.”

MS Students GraduatedEmily Santurri, “Reducing Transients from Coupling Capaci-tors by means of Windowing Functions.”

Shun Yao, “multi-Frequency high Impedance Current Source With 16-Bit Resolution for EIT.”

Gary J. Saulnier


Primary Research Area: Modulation and coding

Professor Saulnier’s student Tristan Lawry presents his work during the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Rensselaer Student Prize. Tristan was a finalist for his project “A High-Performance System for Wireless Transmission of Power and Data Through Solid Metallic Enclosures”.


Research InterestsUltraviolet Optoelectronics, metal-oxide Nanomaterials, Nano-enhancement Structures, Biosensors, Biohazard Detection Systems, hybrid materials, Intrinsic Fluorescence

Sponsored Research“Nanoparticle Based Analytical Biosensor,” NSTEC/US Depart-ment of Energy.

“graduate Teaching Fellows in Community-Situated Research: The Triple helix of University, K-12,and Community Knowledge Production,” National Science Foundation.

“Advanced Ultraviolet microbe Biosensors,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsQin L, Shing C, and Sawyer X, “Low-Pass and Band-Pass Alternative Ultraviolet Photoconductor Based on Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles on intrinsic gallium Nitride-based Substrate,” IEEE Photonic Device Lett, in press, (2011).

Sawyer S, Qin L, and Shin C, “Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Ultraviolet Photodetection,” Int J high Speed Electronics and Systems, 20, 183-194 (2011).

Qin L, Shing C, and Sawyer S, Dutta P. “Enhanced Ultraviolet Sensitivity of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Photoconductors by Surface Passivation,” Optical materials, 33, 359-362 (2010).

Qin L, Shing C, and Sawyer S, “metal-Semiconductor-metal Ultraviolet Photodetectors Based on Zinc-Oxide Colloidal Nanoparticles,” IEEE Electron Device Lett, 32. 51-53 (2010).

Qin L, Shing C, and Sawyer S, “Comparison of UV Optical Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles Dispersed in Traditional Or-ganic and Novel Bio-molecular Solvents,” Physics Status Solidi (c), 7, 2463-2466 (2010).

Julius A and Sawyer A, “Control Systems Challenges in Energy Efficient Portable UV Based Water Sterilizer,” American Con-trol Conference, 3617-3622 (2010).

Qin L, Shing C, and Sawyer S, “Ultraviolet Photodetection Based on ZnO Colloidal Nanoparticles made by Top-Down Wet-Chemistry Synthesis Process,” Symposium on Photonics and Optoelectronics, 1-4 (2010).

Shing C and Sawyer S, “Bio-Sensing Sensitivity of a Nanopar-ticle Based Ultraviolet Photodetector,” Int J high Speed Electronics and Systems, Lester Eastman Conference,in press, (2010).

undergraduate Research Projects• Sensor Platform Development

• Aptamer Surface Deposition

• Time Domain Fluorescence of microbes and metal En-hanced Fluorescence

• ZnO Nanoparticle Distribution and Characterization for UV Photodetectors

• Pulsed UV LED Fluorescence of microbes

• Spectral Analysis of microbial Intrinsic Fluorescence

• Reduction of Ambient Noise in UV LED Based System

• UV LED Based microbial Detection System Setup Optimiza-tion

• UV LED Based Fluorimeter Setup

Shayla Sawyer


Primary Research Area: optoelectronics


Research InterestsEngineering Education, STEm in K-12 grades, Diagnostics for high Temperature Plasma.

Sponsored Research“An Integrated Approach to Teaching mathematics Using LEgO Robotics in middle School and mathematics Education College Courses,” FIPSE, US Dept. of Education.

“Teacher/Leader Quality Partnerships Program, Professional Development,” NYS Department of Education.

Ph.D. Students GraduatedXi chen, “Study of the Electrostatic Fluctuation Induced Par-ticle Flux in the mST-RFP during PPCD with hIBP Diagnostic.”

Diane Renee Demers, “Radial Particle Flux from Potential and Density Fluctuations in TEXT-U.”

Jianxin lei, “measurements of Core Potential and Density Fluctuations on the mST Reversed Field Pinch Using a heavy Ion Beam probe.”

Jiahe Si, “An Experimental Study of the Non-Ideal Effects of the Radial Ohm’s Law in the Flowing magnetized Plasma Experiment and the Application of heavy Ion Beam Probe Technique on a helicon Plasma.”

Paul Schoch

Associate Professor and Director, center for Initiatives in Pre-college EducationPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1983

Primary Research Area: Engineering Education

Research InterestsSemiconductors.

Sponsored Research“Solid-State Lighting Sciences - Energy Frontiers Research Center,” Sandia National Laboratories.

Selected PublicationsZhu Di, Noemaun Ahmed N, Schubert martin F, Cho Jaehee, Schubert E Fred, Crawford mary h and Koleske Daniel D, Enhanced Electron Capture and Symmetrized Carrier Distribu-tion in galnN Light-Emitting Diodes having Tailored Barrier Doping,” Applied Physics Lett, 96, 121110 (2010).

PhD Students GraduatedSameer chhajed, “Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Optical Coatings made of Low- and Tunable-Refractive-Index materials.”

MS Students GraduatedDavid Meyaard, “gaN/galnN Based Light Emitting Diodes Embedded with Wire-grid Polarizers.”


• Photoluminescence Investigations to Assess Radiative Efficiency in Semiconductor Light-Emitting Active Regions

E. Fred Schubert

Professor and wellfleet Senior constellation Professor, Future chips Ph.D., university of Stuttgart, 1986

Primary Research Area: Semiconductors


Research InterestsElectronic materials, Devices, and Systems.

Selected PublicationsPinos A, marcinkevicius S, Lioula V, Yang J, gaska R, and Shur mS, “Localization Potential in AlgaN Epitaxial Films Studied by Scanning Near Field Optical Spectroscopy,” J Applied Physics, 109, 113516 (2011).

Rumyantsev S, Liu g, Shur m, and Balandin AA, “The Observa-tion of the memory Steps in graphene at Elevated Tempera-tures,” Appl. Phys. Lett, 98, 222107 (2011).

Pinos A, marcinkevicius S, and Shur mS, “high Current-Induced Degradation of AlgaN Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes,” J Appl. Phys. 109, 103108 (2011).

Shur m, “Plasma Wave Terahertz Electronics,” Electronics Lett, S18-S21 (2010).

Sattu A, Yang J, gaska R, Khan B, Shur m and Simin g, “Small- and Large-Signal Performance of III-Nitride RF Switches with hybrid Fast/Slow gate Design,” IEEE microwave and Wireless Components Lett, 21(6), (2011).

Popov VV, Fateev DV, Polischuk OV, Shur mS, “Enhanced Electromagnetic Coupling Between Terahertz Radiation and Plasmons in a grating-gate Transistor Structure on membrane Substrate,” Optics Express, 18(16), 16771-6 (2010).

Pinos A, marcinkevicius S, Yang J, gaska R, and Shur m, “Op-tical Studies of Degradation of AlgaN Quantum Well Based Deep Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes,” J Appl. Phys. 108, 093113 (2010).

Sattu A, Yang J, Shur m, gaska R and Simin g, “AlgaN/gaN microwave Switch with hybrid Slow and Fast gate Design,” IEEE Electron Device Lett, 31(12), 1389 (2010).

Chivukula V, Ciplys D, Sereika A, Shur m, Yang J and gaska R, AlgaN based highly Sensitive Radio-Frequency UV Sensor, Appl. Phys. Lett, 96, 163504 (2010).

Michael Shur

Patricia w. and c. Sheldon Roberts Professor of Solid State Electronics, and Acting Director of the center for Integrated Electronics

Ph.D., A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, 1992

Primary Research Area: Electronic Materials


Research InterestsComputer Networks.

Sponsored Research“New York State Phasor measurement Network,” NYS Energy Research and Development Authority.

“CURENT: Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsRamachandran K and Sikdar B, “Dynamics of malware Spread in Decentralized Peer to Peer Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 8(4), 617-623 (2011).

Sikdar B, “Characterization and Abatement of the Reassocia-tion Overhead in Vehicle to Roadside Networks,” IEEE Transac-tions on Communications, 58(11), 3296-3304 (2011).

Seyedi A and Sikdar B, “Energy Efficient Transmission Strate-gies for Body Sensor Networks with Energy harvesting,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 58(7), 2116-2126 (2010).

Ramachandran K and Sikdar B, “A Population Based Approach to model the Lifetime and Energy Distribution in Battery Con-strained Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE J Selected Areas in Communications, 28(4), 576-586 (2010).

Long X and Sikdar B, “A mechanism for Detecting Session hijacks in Wireless Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 9(4), 1380-1389 (2010).

Ramachandran K and Sikdar B, “A Queueing model for Evaluating the Transfer Latency of Peer to Peer Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 32(3), 367-378 (2010).

Sikdar B, “Queueing Analysis of Polled Service Classes in the IEEE 802.16 mAC Protocol,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 8(12), 5767-5772 (2009).

Deshpande S, Thottan m, ho T and Sikdar B, “An Online mechanism for BgP Instability Detection and Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 58(11), 1470-1484 (2009).

Ye F, Yang h, Yang h and Sikdar B, “A Distributed Coordina-tion Scheme to Improve the Performance of IEEE 802.11 in multi-hop Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, 57(10), 2903-2908 (2009).

Stephenson B and Sikdar B, “A Quasi-species model for the Propagation and Containment of Polymorphic Worms,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 58(9), 1289-1296 (2009).

MS Students GraduatedArgentina lee, “Effect of Active Queue management on TCP Performance.”

Biplab Sikdar

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001

Primary Research Area: computer Networks


Research InterestsPower Electronics, Renewable Energy, Smart grids, EmI.

Sponsored Research“multi-Terminal hVDC System Control and hardware-in-the-Loop Test-Bed,” National Science Foundation CURENT ERC.

“Resilient mult-Terminal hVDC Networks with high-Voltage high-Frequency Electronics,” U.S. Department of Energy and Industrial sponsors.

“high Density, high Efficiency Electrical Power generation System for UAS Applications,” US Navy/Industrial sponsor.

“Integrated multiple Energy Storage System Technology,” NYSERDA /Industrial sponsor.

“Integrated Power Chip Converter for Solid-State Lighting,” USDOE ARPA-E.

“Voltage Stability and Control in Smart grid,” National Science Foundation.

“gaN-Based high-Frequency Power Conversion,” Industrial sponsor.

“Stability and Control of Cluster Converters Connected to Weak grid,” Industrial sponsor.

“Scalable and Flat Controls for Reliable Power grid Opera-tion with high Renewable Penetration,” Stanford University – gCEP.

“modeling and Analysis of mEA Electrical Systems,” Industrial sponsor.

“EmI modeling and Filter Design Optimization for Integrated motor Drive,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsSun J, “Impedance-based Stability Criterion for grid-Connect-ed Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 27(11), (2011).

Bing Z and Sun J, “Frequency-domain modeling of multipulse Converters by Double-Fourier Series method,” IEEE Transac-tions on Power Electronics, 27(11), (2011).

Cespedes m, Xing L and Sun J, “Constant-Power Load System Stabilization by Passive Damping,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 26(7), 1832-1836 (2011).

Bing Z, Du X and Sun J, “Control of Three-phase PWm Recti-fiers using a Single DC Current Sensor,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 26(6), 1800-1808 (2011).

Xing L, Feng F, and Sun J, “Optimal Damping of EmI Filter Input Impedance,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 47(3), 1432-1440 (2011).

Sun J, Bing Z, and Karimi K, “Input Impedance modeling of multipulse Rectifiers by harmonic Linearization,” IEEE Transac-tions on Power Electronics, 24(12), 2812-2820 (2009).

Redl R and Sun J, “Ripple-based Control of Switching Regula-tors – an Overview,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 24(12), 2669-2680 (2009).

Qi T and Sun J, “Dual-Boost Single-Phase PFC Input Current Control Based on Output Current Sensing,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 24(11), 2523-2530 (2009).

Sun J, “Small-Signal methods for AC Distributed Power Systems – A Review,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 24(11), 2545-2554 (2009).

Bing Z, Karimi K, and Sun J, “Input Impedance modeling and Analysis of Line-Commutated Rectifiers,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 24(10), 2338-2346 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedZhonghui Bing, “Three-Phase AC-DC Converters for more-Electric Aircraft.”

Xing lei, “EmI Filter Design and Optimization for Three-Phase motor Drive Systems.”

MS Students GraduatedMauricio cespedes, “Development of Simulation models for more Electric Aircraft Power Systems.”

Peng wu, “Design Optimization of an Asymmetric half-Bridge Converter.”

hanchao liu, “modeling and Analysis of Offshore Wind Power System with hVDC Transmission.”

undergraduate Research Projects• multipulse Rectifiers

Jian Sun

ProfessorPh.D., university of Paderborn, 1995

Primary Research Area: Power Electronics Power Electronics; Renewable Energy; Power Systems


Research Interestsmotion Control, Robotics, Optomechatronics, Thermal management, Flow Control.

Sponsored Research“Center for Automation Technologies and Systems,” New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR).

“System-Level Approach for multi-Phase, Nanotechnology-Enhanced Cooling of high-Power microelectronic Systems,” Office for Naval Research multidisciplinary University Research Initiative.

“Active Flow Control for Aircraft Steering,” Industrial sponsor.

“Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center,” National Sci-ence Foundation.

“high-Speed Estimation and Control Using Slow-Rate Integra-tive Image Sensors for Adaptive Optics,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsBai h, Arcak m and Wen JT, “Cooperative Control: A System-atic Passivity-Based Approach,” Springer-Verlag (2011).

Zhang T, Wen JT, Julius A, Peles Y and Jensen mK, “Stability Analysis and maldistribution Control of Two-Phase Flow in Parallel Evaporating Channels,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 54(25-26), 5298-5305 (2011).

Zhang T, Wen JT, Peles Y, Catano JE, Zhou R, Jensen mK, “Two-Phase Refrigerant Flow Instability Analysis and Active Control in Transient Electronics Cooling Systems,” Int J of multiphase Flow, 37(1), 84-97 (2011).

Phelan PE, gupta Y, Tyagi h, Prasher RS, Catano J, michna g, Zhou R, Wen JT, Jensen m and Peles Y, “Energy Efficiency of Refrigeration Systems for high-heat-Flux microelectronics,” ASmE J Thermal Science & Eng Applications, 2(3), (2010).

Zhou R, Zhang T, Catano J, Wen JT, michna gJ, Peles Y, Jensen mK, “The Steady-State modeling and Optimization of a Refrigeration System for high heat Flux Removal,” Applied Thermal Eng, 30(16), 2347-2356 (2010).

Scott C, Potsaid B, Wen JT, “Wide Field Scanning Telescope using mEmS Deformable mirrors,” Int J on Optomechatronics, 4(3), 285-305 (2010).

Bai h, Wen JT, “Cooperative Load Transport: A Formation Control Perspective,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 26(4), 742-749 (2010).

Zhang TJ, Peles Y, Wen JT, Tong T, Chang JY, Prasher R, Jensen m, “Analysis and Active Control of Pressure-Drop Flow Insta-bilities in Boiling microchannel Systems,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 53(11-12), 2347-2360 (2010).

Rivera LI, Potsaid B, Wen JT, “Image Tracking of multiple C. elegans Worms Using Adaptive Scanning Optical microscope (ASOm),” Int J Optomechatronics, 4(1), 1-21 (2010).

Chakraborty N, Akella S, Wen JT, ”Coverage of a Planar Point Set with multiple Robots subject to geometric Constraints,’’ IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Eng, 7(1), 111-122 (2010).

Tong T, Zhang TJ, Chang JY, Peles Y, Prasher R, Jensen m, Wen JT, Phelan P. “Ledinegg Instability in microchannels,’’ Int J heat and mass Transfer, 52(25-26), 5661-5674 (2009).

Potsaid B, Finger F, Wen JT, “Automation of Challenging Spatial-Temporal Biomedical Observations with the Adaptive Scanning Optical microscope (ASOm),” IEEE Transaction on Automation Science and Eng, 6(3), 525-535 (2009).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedhe Bai, “Passivity-Based motion Coordination of multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Experiments.”

Rongliang Zhou, “model Based Thermal management Through heat Injection and Removal.”

Xiaoqing Ge, “Reduced Order modeling and Active Flow Control of an Inlet Duct.”

Juan catano, “Dynamic modeling and Advanced Control of Vapor Compression Cycles for Electronics Cooling.”

MS Students GraduatedJiaxiang Zhang, “Stained Slides Scanning Based on LED Illumination.”

Melissa hershey, “Development of a Vision-Based Robot Localization System.”

Mike Kleinigger, “A Novel Six Degree-Of-Freedom Sensor with Applications in Disturbance Compensation.”

Evan Frank, “Adaptive Illumination Control for Live Cell Fluorescence microscopy.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Robot Raconteur Interface for Robotic grippers

and ForceTorque Sensors

• Kinect as Robot User Interface

• Dual Robotic Arm Testbed Instrumentation

John T. wen

Professor and Director, center for Automation Technologies and SystemsPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1985

Primary Research Area: Robotics


Research InterestsImage and Video Processing and Coding, including Network Video Transmission.

Sponsored Research“Flexible Delivery of Streaming Video using Network-aware mD-FEC Coding,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsShan Y, Bajic IV, Woods JW, and Kalayanaraman S, “Scalable Video Streaming with Fine-grain Adaptive Forward Error Cor-rection,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technol-ogy, 19(9), (2009).

Ramasubramonian A and Woods JW, “Video multicast using Network Coding,” Proc SPIE Visual Communications and Im-age Processing (VCIP), (2009), San Jose, CA.

Ramasubramonian A and Woods JW, “multiple Description Coding and Practical Network Coding for Video multicast,” IEEE Signal Processing Lett, 17(3), 265-268 (2010).

Ramasubramonian A and Woods JW, “mD/PNC with Feedback for heterogeneous Video multicast in Lossy Networks,” Proc SPIE Visual Image Processing and Communications (VIPC), (2011), San Francisco, CA.

MS Students Graduatedharish Raviprakash, “Nonlocal Wiener Filtering of Images.”

Ph.D. Students GraduatedAdarsh Ramasubramonian, “multiple Description Coding and Practical Network Coding for Scalable Video multicast.”

John w. woods

ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970

Primary Research Area: Image and Video Processing


Research InterestsStatistical signal processing, inverse problems in imaging, im-age reconstruction, biomedical optics, breast cancer, radar and X-ray imaging.

Sponsored Research“Development of a multi-scale monitoring and heath Assess-ment Framework for Effective management of Levees and Flood-Control Infrastructure Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology,” Technology Innovation Program.

“RF Tomography for Active Distributed and Layered Sensing,” U.S. Department of Defense, Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

“multi-Platform Synthetic Aperture Imaging in Complex Environments via microlocal Techniques,” National Science Foundation (NSF).

“Radar Imaging of moving Targets,” Air Force Office of Scien-tific Research (AFOSR).

“Radar Detection and Imaging in Complex Environments by multiple Sparse or Synthetic Apertures,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).

“Integrated Sensing and Processing for SAR Automatic Target Recognition,” Air Force Research Laboratory.

“mRI-NIR Concurrent Imaging for Breast Cancer Diagnosis,” US Army medical Research material Command, Breast Cancer Research.

“Advanced Location of Explosive Related Threats (ALERT),” Department of homeland Security.

Selected PublicationsYarman CE, Yazıcı B, “Inversion of Circular Averages Transform using the Funk Transform,” Inverse Problems, 27, 065001 (16 pages), (2011).

Krishnan V and Yazıcı B, “Synthetic Aperture Imaging Exploit-ing multiple-Scattering,” Inverse Problems, 055004 (25 pages), (2011).

Zhou L, Yazıcı B, “Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomogra-phy in the Presence of measurement Noise,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(4), 1094-1111 (2011).

Zhou L, Yazıcı B, Ale ABF, Ntziachristos V, “Performance Evalu-ation of Adaptive meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography using Experimental Data,” OSA Optics Lett, 35(22), 3727-3729 (2010).

Yarman CE, Wang L, Yazıcı B, “Doppler Synthetic Aperture hitchhiker Imaging,” Inverse Problems, 26, 065006(26 pages), (2010).

Wang L, Son IY, Yazıcı B, “Passive Imaging using Distributed Apertures in multiple Scattering Environments,” Inverse Prob-lems, Vol. 26, 065002(37 pages), (2010).

Kwon K and Yazıcı B, “Born Expansion and Frechet Derivatives in Non-linear Diffuse Optical Tomography,” Computers and mathematics with Applications, Vol. 59, 3377-3397 (2010).

guven m, Reilly-Raska L, Zhou L, Yazıcı B, “Discretization Error Analysis and Adaptive meshing Algorithms for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography:Part I,” IEEE Transactions on medi-cal Imaging, 29(2), 217-229 (2010).

Krishnan V, Swoboda J, Yarman CE, Yazıcı B, “multi-Static Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Formation,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 19(5), 1290-1306 (2010).

Alacam B and Yazıcı B, “Direct Reconstruction of Pharma-cokinetic-Rate Images of Optical Fluorophores from NIR measurements,” IEEE Transactions on medical Imaging, 28(9), 1337-1353 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedMeltem Izzetoglu, “Kalman and Wiener Filtering for Self-similar Processes.”

lu Zhou, “Adaptive Finite Element methods for Fluorescence Diffuse Optical Tomography.”

MS Students GraduatedAnkur Singhal, “Exploring Radar-Lidar Systems and Synergies.”

Birsen Yazici

ProfessorPh.D., Purdue university, 1994

Primary Research Area: Imaging


Research InterestsIntegrated Circuits and Systems, Data Storage, Signal Process-ing, Computing.

Sponsored Research“Cross-Layer and Unified Signal Processing System Design for Ultra-high-Capacity Next-generation magnetic Storage,” National Science Foundation.

“Can We make Solid-State Drives Self-healing?” Industrial Sponsor.

“Cross-Layer Exploration of Non-Volatile Solid-State memories to Achieve Effective I/O Stack for high-Performance Comput-ing Systems,” National Science Foundation.

“Design of Energy-Efficient Programmable Signal Process-ing Accelerators in 3D Integrated heterogeneous multi-Core Processor for mobile multimedia Communication,” National Science Foundation.

“Collaborative Research: CPA-DA: Noise-Aware VLSI Signal Processing: A New Paradigm for Signal Processing Integrated Circuit Design in Nanoscale Era,” National Science Foundation.

“3D memory System Design for Closing the Processor-memory Performance gap,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsWu Q and Zhang T, “Design Techniques to Facilitate Processor Power Delivery in 3D Processor-DRAm Integrated Systems, “ IEEE Transactions on Very Large Sale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 19(9), 1655-1666 (2011).

Xu W and Zhang T, “A Time-Aware Fault Tolerance Scheme to Improve Reliability of multi-Level Phase-Change memory in the Presence of Significant Resistance Drift, “ IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 19(8), 1357-1367 (2011).

Xie N, Dong g, and Zhang T, “Using Lossless Data Compres-sion in Data Storage Systems: Not For Saving Space,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 60(3), 335-345 (2011).

Xu W, Sun h, Wang X, Chen Y, and Zhang T, “Design of Last-Level On-Chip Cache Using Spin-Torque Transfer RAm (STT RAm),” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 19(3), 483-493 (2011).

Dong g, Xie N, and Zhang T, “On the Use of Soft-Decision Error Correction Codes in NAND Flash memory,” IEEE Transac-tions on Circuits and Systems I, 58(2), 429-439 (2011).

Dong T, Li S, and Zhang T, “Using Data Post-compensation and Pre-distortion to Tolerate Cell-to-Cell Interference in mLC NAND Flash memory,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Sys-tems I, 57(10), 2718-2728 (2010).

Li S and Zhang T, “Improving multi-Level NAND Flash memory Storage Reliability Using Concatenated BCh-TCm Coding,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Sys-tems, 18(10), 1412-1420 (2010).

Liu L, Ye F, ma X, Zhang T, and Ren J, “A 1.1 gb/s 115 pJ/bit Configurable mImO Detector using 0.13um CmOS Technol-ogy,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, 57(9), 701-705 (2010).

Li Y, Liu Y, and Zhang T, “Exploiting Three-Dimensional (3D) memory Stacking to Improve Image Data Access Efficiency for motion Estimation Accelerators,” Elsevier J Signal Processing: Image Communication (Special issue on Breakthrough Archi-tectures for Image and Video Systems), 25(5), (2010).

Liu Y, Zhang T, and Parhi KK, “Computation Error Analysis in Digital Signal Processing Systems with Overscaled Supply Volt-age,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 18(4), 517-526 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedShu li, “VLSI Circuit and Architecture Design of high-Capacity Digital memory System.”

wei Xu, “Circuit and System Design for magnetoresistive Digital memory and Cache.”

Ningde Xie, “Integrated Circuit and System Design for Per-pendicular magnetic Recording Read Channel.”

Tong Zhang

Associate ProfessorPh.D., university of Minnesota, 2002

Primary Research Area: circuits and Systems


INDuSTRIAl AND SYSTEMS

ENGINEERING

FAculTY


Research InterestsDiscrete-Event Simulation and Optimization, Agent-based Simulation, and Scheduling. Applications in Energy markets, Social Networks, Emergency Responses, and Semiconductor manufacturing.

Sponsored Research“CAREER: Robust modeling and Analysis of Discrete-Event Dynamic Systems,” National Science Foundation.

“hSD-DRU: From Warnings To Dynamic hurricane Evacuation modeling: An Integrated Social Science-Engineering Perspec-tive,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsChan WKV, Yi J, and Ding S, “Optimal Scheduling of multi-Cluster Tools with Constant Robot moving Times, Part I,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Eng, (in press).

Chan WKV, Yi J, Ding S, and Song D, “Optimal Scheduling of multi-Cluster Tools with Constant Robot moving Times, Part II,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Eng (in press).

Chan WKV, “generalized Lindley-Type Recursive Representa-tions for multiple-Server Tandem Queues with Blocking,” ACm Transactions on modeling and Computer Simulation, 20(4), 1-19 (2010).

Chan WKV and malmborg C, “monte Carlo Simulation Based Procedures for Solving Block Layout Problems,” European J Industrial Engineering, 5(1), (2011).

Chan WKV and hsu C, “how hyper-Network Analysis help Understand human Networks?” Service Science, 2(4), 270-280 (2010).

Chan WKV and malmborg C, “A monte Carlo Simulation Based heuristic Procedure for Solving Dynamic Line Layout Problems for Facilities Using Conventional material handling Devices,” Int J Production Research, 48(1), 2937-2956 (2010).

Chan WKV and malmborg C, “monte Carlo Simulation methods for Dynamic Line Layout Problems with Nonlinear movement Costs,” European J Industrial Engineering, 4(1), 40-58 (2010).

Zhou Z and Chan WKV, “Reducing Electricity Price Forecasting Error Using Seasonality and higher Order Crossing Informa-tion,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 24(3), 1126-1135 (2009).

Chan WKV and hsu C, “Service Scaling on hyper-Networks,” Service Science, 1(1), 17-31 (2009) (http://sersci.com/Servic-eScience).

Chi L, Chan WKV, Seow g, Tam K, “Transplanting Social Capi-tal to the Online World: Insights from Two Experimental Stud-ies,” J Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 19(3), 214-236 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedZhi Zhou, “Bidding Behavior Agent-based Simulation of the New York Electricity markets.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Development of Simulation models to Demonstrate Con-

cepts of Probability and Statistics for K-12 Students

• Development of Simulation models to Demonstrate Con-cepts of Probability and Statistics for K-12 Students

• Review of State-of-the-Art Evacuation Simulation models and Software

wai Kin (Victor) chan

Associate Professoruniversity of california at Berkeley, 2005

Primary Research Area: Simulation


Research InterestsData mining, Text mining, Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence, Computer-Aided Drug Design, Brain Implant Devices, machine Learning, Explosive Detection, Isotope De-tection, genetic Algorithms for Optimization.

Sponsored Research“RECCR Extension: Planning grant for the Rensselaer Ex-ploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research,” National Institutes of health.

“RPI Subcontract for multi-spectral 3-D histology & Predictive Statistical Technologies for identifying the Critical Combination of Factors Impacting Long-Term Performance of Implanted Neuroprosthetics,” DARPA.

Selected Publicationshan L, Embrechts m, Szymanski B, Ross A and Sternickel K, “Sigma Tuning of gaussian Kernels: Detection of Ischemia from magnetocardiograms,” In B. Igelnik (Ed.), Computational modeling and Simulation of Intellect: Current State and Future Perspectives. IgI global (2010).

Linton JD, hirnel m, and Embrechts mJ, “mapping the Structure of Research: Business management as an Exemplar,” Serials Review, 34(4), 218-227 (2009).

Embrechts mJ, hargis B, and Linton JD, “An Augmented Effi-cient Backpropagation Training Strategy for Deep Autoassocia-tive Neural Networks,” 18th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN, Bruges, Belgium, 141-146 (2010).

Embrechts mJ, hargis B, and Linton JD, “Augmented Efficient BackProp for Backpropagation Learning in Deep Autoassocia-tive Neural Networks,”Proc IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN as part of WCCI Barcelona, Spain, 1012-1020 (2010).

Cortez P and Embrechts mJ, “Opening Black Box Data mining Tools Using Sensitivity Analysis,” IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence CIDm (2011).

Santos Jm and Embrechts mJ, “The Use of a Cluster Validation measure in Supervised Classification Problems,” Proceed-ings of the 19th Int Conference of Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS, Springer, Vol. 5768, 175-185 (2009).

Alexandre LA and Embrechts mJ, “Reservoir Size, Spectral Radius and Connectivity in Static Classification Problems,” Proceedings of the 19th Int Conference of Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS (Springer), Vol. 5768, 1015-1024 (2009).

Alexandre LA, Embrechts mJ, and Linton J, “Benchmarking Reservoir Computing on Time-Independent Classification Tasks,” Proc International Joint Conference on Neural Net-works, IJCNN, Atlanta, gA, 89-93 (2009).

Embrechts mJ, Alexandre LA, and Linton JD, “Reservoir Computing for Static Pattern Recognition,” 17th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN, Burges, Belgium, 245-250 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedPaula Ferreira Gorjao, “Artificial Intelligence Sensors to As-sess Environmental Corrosivity.” (Promoter and co-advisor)

hui wang, “Using Kernal Partial Least Squares (K-PLS) Regres-sion for Time Series Prediction.

Mark J. Embrechts

Associate ProfessorVirginia Polytechnic Institute, 1981

Primary Research Area: Data Mining

Assessing reliability of brain implant devices: visualizing and characterizing nature of microglia cells to assess reliability of brain implant devices


Selected Publicationshsu CK, Service Science: Design for Scaling and Transforma-tion, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore, 2009.

hsu CK, “Service Science and Network Science,” editorial column, Service Science, INFORmS Service Science Division, 1(2), pp. i – iii (Sept.2009).

hsu CK and Spohrer C, “Improving Service Quality and Pro-ductivity: Exploring the Digital Connections Scaling model,” International Journal of Service Technology and management, 11(3), 272-292 (2009).

Chan VWK and hsu CK, “Service Scaling on hyper-Networks,” Service Science, INFORmS Service Science Division, 1(1), 17 – 31 (march 2009).

Levermore D, Babin g and hsu CK, “A New Design for Open and Scalable Collaboration of Independent Databases in Digi-tally Connected Enterprises,” Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 11(7), 367 - 395 (July 2010).

Chan VWK and hsu CK, “how hyper-Network Analysis helps Understand human Networks?” Service Science, INFORmS Service Science Division, 2(4), 270 – 280 (2010).

hsu CK, “Service Value Networks: Scaling human Centered Value Cocreation,” Proceedings INFORm, Austin, TX (Nov. 2010).

hsu CK, “Service Value Networks: Scaling human Value Cocreation,”, Proceedings INFORmS Service Science Division Conference, Austin, TX, (October 2010).

hsu CK,“hyper-Networking of Customers, Providers, and Re-sources Drives New Service Business Designs: e-Commerce and Beyond,” Service Science, INFORmS Service Science Division, (2011) at http://sersci.com/ServiceScience/.

Steiner m, hsu CK, Kanai J, Alben R and gerhardt L, “Analysis of Reflective memos: What the Students Don’t Say,” Proceed-ings of ASEE Conference, Vancouver, Canada (2011).

hsu CK, Information Systems: The Connection of People and Resources for innovation, World Scientific Publishers, Singa-pore (in press).

Chan VWK and hsu CK, “Service Value Networks: humans hyper-Network to Cocreate Value,” IEEE Transactions on Sys-tems, man, and Cybernetics, Part A, (in press).

Steiner m, hsu CK, Kanai J, Alben R and gerhardt L, “holis-tic Assessment of Student Performance in multidisciplinary Engineering Capstone Design Projects,” International Journal of Engineering Education, 27(6), 1259-1272 (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJeffrey Morris, “Rebirth Analysis for Sustainable Design: A Theory, method, and Tool.”.

cheng K. hsu

Professor Ph.D., ohio State university, 1983

Primary Research Area: computer Networks


Research InterestsFacility Design, materials handling and Storage Systems

Selected PublicationsFukunari m, malmborg CJ, “A Network Queuing Approach to Cycle Time Estimation in Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems,” European J Operations Res, 193(1), 152-167 (2009).

Zhang L, Krishnamurthy A, malmborg CJ, heragu SS, “Variance-Based Approximations of Transaction Waiting Times in Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems,” Euro-pean J Industrial Eng, 3(2), 146-169 (2009).

Chan WK, malmborg CJ, “A Simulation Based heuristic Pro-cedure for Solving Dynamic Line Layout Problems for Facilities Using Conventional materials handling Devices,” Int J Produc-tion Res, 48(1), 2937-2956 (2010).

Chan WK, malmborg CJ, “Simulation methods for Dynamic Line Layout Problems with Nonlinear movement Costs,” Euro-pean J Industrial Eng, 4(1), 40-58 (2010).

Roy D, Krishnamurthy A, heragu S and malmborg CJ, “matrix geometric method for Semi-Open Queuing Network model-ing of an Automated material handling System,” Proc Indus-trial Eng Res Conference, Cancun, mexico (2010).

Ekren B, heragu SS, Krishnamurthy A, malmborg CJ, “Simulation-Based Experimental Design to Identify Factors Affecting Performance of Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems,” Computers and Industrial Eng, 58(1), 175-185 (2010).

Riddell S, Derby S, malmborg CJ, Puffer R, “Engineering mod-els for Fuel Cell manufacturing Production management,” Int J Eng management and Economics, 1(1), 31-45 (2010).

heragu SS, Xiao C, Krishnamurthy A, malmborg CJ, “Ana-lytical model for Automated Warehouse materials handling Systems,” Int J Production Res, 49(1), 1-29 (2011).

Zhang L, Krishnamurthy A, malmborg CJ, heragu SS, “A Performance modeling of Autonomous Vehicle Storage and Retrieval Systems with generally Distributed Service Times,” European J Industrial Eng, 5(4), (2011).

Chan WK, malmborg CJ, “monte Carlo Simulation Based Procedures for Solving Block Layout Problems,” European J Industrial Eng, 5(1), 2-21 (2011).

charles J. Malmborg

Professor and Department headPh.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1982

Primary Research Area: Materials handling; Storage Systems; and Facility layout


Research Interestsgroup Decision making, Cognitive Engineering, Emergency management e Systems.

Sponsored Research“Self-Sufficient Urban Buildings,” National Science Foundation.

“Agents of Change: Improvisation in Emergency Response: Linking Cognition, Behavior and Social Interaction,” National Science Foundation.

“CAREER: Improvisation in Response to Extreme Events,” Na-tional Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsChakrabarty m, and mendonça D, “Information Visualization in Scientific Research: Evidence from Top Journals in Comput-ing and Related Sciences,” J Information Technology Theory and Application, 11(2), (2010).

mendonça D, Webb g, Butts C, “L’Improvisation dans les Interventions d’Urgence : les Relations Entre Cognition, Com-portement et Interactions Sociales” (in French; English title “Improvisation in Emergency Response: Linking Cognition, Behavior, and Social Interaction,” translators Cassia Blondelot and marc Lenormand), Tracés: Revue de Sciences humaines, 18, 69–86 (2010).

mendonça D, Chang P, hu Y, gu Q, “Simulation, Shared Spaces and Information management to Support Discovery and Learning: An Application in Emergency management,” Computer Applications in Eng Education. DOI: 10.1002/cae.20389, (in press).

LaContora J. and mendonça D, “Performance Support Systems in Learning Environments: An Application to Engine Diagnostics,” Int J Innovation and Learning 8(1) 42-57 (2010).

mendonca D and hu Y, “Cognitive Underpinnings of Resilience: A Case Study of group Decision in Emergency Re-sponse,” Resilience Engineering Perspectives, vol. 2, C Nemeth (Ed.), Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, England (2009).

Cirik A. and mendonça D, “Responding to Disaster in Complex Socio-technical Systems: Two Case Studies.” IEEE International Conference on Systems, man and Cybernetics, San Antonio, TX (2009).

mendonça D. and hu Y, “Divergent and Convergent Thinking in Emergency Response Organizations.” human Factors and Ergonomics Society Conference, San Antonio, TX (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• Technical and Organizational Characteristics of ground Zero

Debris Removal Operations

David Mendonça

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2001

Primary Research Area: cognitive Engineering

Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs), like this one in Virginia during the response to Hurricane Isabelle, are hubs of communication and decision mak-ing. EOCs are tasked with coordinating the response to a large-scale event, often across disciplines such as fire, police and public health. A focus of Pro-fessor Mendonça’s field and laboratory work has been in developing models that explain the dynamics of decision making in EOCs, and in building tools to support EOC-based training in making highly non-routine decisions.

Photo courtesy of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).


Research InterestsProduction and Inventory Control, Supply Chain management, Condition-based maintenance, Stochastic models.

Sponsored Research“Bayesian Inventory and Replacement models Using Real-Time Condition monitoring Information,” National Science Foundation.

“Production Scheduling and Optimization in the microelectronics Industry,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsLi R and Ryan JK, “Inventory Flexibility through Adjustment Contracts,” To appear in Int J Production Res (published online Aug. 4, 2011).

Jin Y and Ryan JK, “Price and Service Competition in an Out-sourced Supply Chain,” To appear in Production and Operations management. Article first published online: June 9, 2011, DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01247.x.

Li R and Ryan JK, “A Bayesian Inventory model Using Real-Time Condition monitoring Information,” Production and Operations management, 20, 754-771 (2011).

Bauman Jm, Lawley m, mishra A, Ryan JK,Tew J and Wu P, “Evaluating the Performance of Cross-Docks: A Data Envelop-ment Analysis Based Approach,” Int J Operations and Quantita-tive management, 16, 23-42 (2010).

Ryan JK, Li R and Zeng Z, “A Bayesian Inventory model Using Real-Time Condition monitoring Information,” Proc IIE Annual Conference (IERC), Reno, NV, (2011).

Ryan JK, Yund W and Jin Y, “Design and Analysis of Two Stage Procurement Processes,” Proc IIE Annual Conference (IERC), Reno, NV, (2011).

Ryan JK, Yund W and Jin Y, “Qualification and Allocation Policies for Quality Sensitive manufacturers,” Proc IIE Annual Conference (IERC), Cancun, mexico, (2010).

hargaden V and Ryan JK, “Workforce Planning in Engineering Professional Service Firms,” Proc IIE Annual Conference (IERC), Cancun, mexico, (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedVincent hargaden, “Workforce Planning in Professional Service Firms.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Production Scheduling and Optimization in the

microelectronics Industry

Jennifer K. Ryan

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Northwestern university, 1997

Primary Research Area: Supply chain Management

Using remote condi-tion monitoring systems (RCMS) to collect degradation information, then combining it with analytical decision models, improves mainte-nance planning and inventory management.


Research InterestsNetwork Design, Network Optimization, Resource Allocation, Scheduling, Operations Research with homeland Security Applications.

Selected Publicationsmalaviya A, Rainwater C, and Sharkey TC, “multi-Period Net-work Interdiction models with Applications to City-Level Drug Enforcement,” IIE Transactions (in press).

Cavdaroglu B, hammel E, mitchell JE, Sharkey TC and Wallace WA, “Integrating Restoration and Scheduling Decisions for Disrupted Interdependent Infrastructure Systems,” Annals of Operations Res. (in press)

Sharkey TC, geunes J, Romeijn hE, and Shen Z-J, “Exact Algorithms for Integrated Production Planning and Facility Lo-cation Problems,” Naval Res Logistics, 58(5), 419-436 (2011).

van den heuvel W, Kundakcioglu OE, geunes J, Romeijn hE, Sharkey TC, and Wagelmans APm, “Integrated market Selection and Production Planning: Complexity and Solution Approaches,” forthcoming in mathematical Programming.

Sharkey TC, “Network Flow Problems with Pricing Decisions,” Optimization Letters, 5(1), 71-83 (2011).

Sharkey TC, Romeijn hE, and geunes J, “A Class of Nonlinear Nonseparable Continuous Knapsack and multiple-Choice Knapsack Problems,” mathematical Programming, 126(1), 69-96 (2011).

Sharkey TC, Infinite Linear Programs. Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and management Science (2010).

Dinitz mh, gold Jm, Sharkey TC, and Traldi L, “graphical Representations of Clutters,” Ars Combinatoria, 94, 303-320 (2010).

Sharkey TC and Romeijn hE, “greedy Approaches for a Class of Nonlinear generalized Assignment Problems,” Discrete Ap-plied mathematics, 158(5), 559-572 (2010).

Romeijn hE, Sharkey TC, Shen Z-J, and Zhang J. “Integrating Facility Location and Production Planning Decisions,” Net-works, 55(2), 78-89 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedAjay K. Malaviya, “multi-Period Network Interdiction Prob-lems with Applications to City-Level Drug Enforcement.”

undergraduate Research Projects• The Role of Trust and Existing Social Networks in humani-

tarian Relief Efforts

• Robust Optimization and Stochastic Programming Ap-proaches for Scheduling mitigation Efforts Against hur-ricanes in Networked Systems

• Tax-Aware Portfolio Optimization models

• An Integer Programming model for mitigation Efforts in Electric Power Systems

Thomas c. Sharkey

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Florida, 2008

Primary Research Area: Network optimization

Professors Sharkey and Wallaces’s research is helping policymakers grapple with complex issues of immediate relevance to our society including terrorism, disaster relief, and the physical and social logistics of humanitarian aid.


Research InterestsSocial Networks, Trust and Culture, Ethics and Values, Emergency management, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Critical Infrastructures.

Sponsored Research“Collaborative Research: “Shared governance of Risks,” National Science Foundation.

“Ado Traveler Info Systems (ATIS) Implementation and Integra-tion,” Federal highway Administration.

“Collaborative Research: Educational Simulation for Comput-ing and Information Ethics,” National Science Foundation.

“Social/Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center,” U.S. Army Research Laboratories/Industrial sponsor.

“ShRP2 Project: Establishing monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability,” North Carolina State University.

“Department of homeland Security’s Center for Excellence in Command, Control and Interoperability,” Rutgers University.

“Department of homeland Security’s Center for the Study of Natural Disasters, Coastal Infrastructures and Emergency management (DIEm),” University of North Carolina.

“Develop guidelines for Traffic Signal Energy Back-Up Systems,” New York State Department of Transportation via Research Foundation of the City University of New York.

Selected PublicationsWallace WA, hui C, magdon-Ismail m and goldberg m, “Aborting a message Flowing Through Social Communi-ties,” Proc 3rd IEEE Int Conference on Social Computing, mIT, Boston, mA (2011).

Wallace WA and Fleischmann K, “Value Conflicts in Computa-tional modeling,” Computer 43(7), 57-63 (2010).

Wallace WA and Wojtowicz J, “Traffic management for Planned Special Events Using Traffic microsimulation modeling and Tabletop Exercises,” J Transportation Safety & Security, 2:2, 102-121 (2010).

Wallace WA, hui C, goldberg m and magdon-Ismail m, “Simulating the Diffusion of Information: An Agent-based modeling Approach,” Special Issue on Agent-Directed Simula-tion, Int J Agent Technologies and Systems, 2(3), 31-46 (2010).

Wallace WA and Fleischmann KR, “Ensuring Transparency in Computational modeling,” Communications of the ACm, 52(3), 131-134 (2009).

Wallace WA, Fleischmann K and Zhou Y,“Automatic Text Analysis of Values in the Enron Email Data Set: Clustering a Social Network Using Value Patterns of Actors,” Proc hawaii Int Conference on Systems Sciences, 1-10 (2009).

Wallace WA, Liao W and Li Q“Approximate Nonmyopic Sensor Selection Via Submodularity and Partitioning,” IEEE Trans-actions on Systems, man and Cybernetics SmC:Part A, 39 (4),782-794 (2009).

Wallace WA, hui C, magdon-Ismail m and goldberg m, “The Impact of Changes in Network Structure on Diffusion of Warnings,” Proc. Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks, SIAm Int Conference on Data mining (2009).

Wallace WA, gong J, Lee E and mitchell J, “Logic-Based multi--Objective Optimization for Restoration Planning,” Optimiza-tion and Logistics Challenges in the Enterprise, Springer, New York, edited by W. Chaovalitwongse, K.C. Furman, and P.m. Pardalos, Springer Book Series on Optimization and Its Ap-plications (SO1A), Vol. 30, Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY, (2009).

Wallace WA, Lee E and mitchell J, “Network Flow Approaches for Analyzing and managing Disruptions to Interdependent Infrastructure Systems,” in Wiley handbook of Science and Technology for homeland Security, Vol. 2, (J. g. Voeller, Ed.) John Wiley & Sons, Inc, hoboken, NJ. , 1419-1428 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedRuth Murrugarra, “Dynamic Estimation and Prediction of Travel Times Using multi-Sensor Data Fusion and Optimal Selection and Location of Sensors.”

Jing Gong, “Research on the Restoration of Service Prob-lems.”

cindy hui, “Diffusion of Actionable Information in Dynamic Social Networks.”

Yingjie Zhou, “mining Organizational Email Social Networks with an Application to Enron Email Dataset.”

MS Students GraduatedSehrish Khan, “Enhancing Community Resilience by model-ing Social and Civil Infrastructures Using Agent-Based Simula-tion.”

Priyankaa Vijayakumar, “modeling and Simulation of Interaction Among Organizations During the Response to a Disaster.”

Bryan Bertoli, “guidelines for the Practical Application of microscopic Traffic Simulations to Planned Special Events.”

Nick Renna, “Traffic management Planning of Special Events Using micro Simulation with Tabletop Exercises.”

william A. wallace

Yamada corporation ProfessorPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1961

Primary Research Area: critical Infrastructure Systems; Social Networks


Research InterestsStatistical data analysis, time series forecasting

Selected PublicationsPark J, Kim YB and Willemain TR, “Analysis of an Unobserv-able Queue Using Arrival and Departure Times,” Computers and Industrial Eng, 61, 842-847 (2011).

Petrie A and Willemain TR, “The Snake for Visualizing and Counting Clusters in multivariate Data,” Statistical Analysis and Data mining, 3(4), 236-252 (2010).

MS Students GraduatedKenneth hutchison, “New methods of Forecasting the Cox Process.”

Thomas Reed willemain

ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology , 1972

Primary Research Area: Statistical Data Analysis


MATERIAlS ScIENcE

ENGINEERING

FAculTY


Sponsored Research“Novel Ceramic-glass Composites for Improved Electrical Ener-gy Storage,” National Science Foundation, Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation.

“Large Scale microtubule-Based Nanomanufacturing of Single Kinesin Patterns with Ultrahigh Resolution,” National Science Foundation EAgER.

“Control of Stem Cell microenvironments for White and Brown Adipogenesis,” National Institutes of health.

Selected PublicationsYan ZJ, Bao RQ, Busta Cm, and Chrisey DB, “Fabrication and Formation mechanism of hollow mgO Particles by Pulsed Excimer Laser Ablation of mg in Liquid,” Nanotechnology, 22, 265, 610 (2011).

Bao RQ, Yan ZJ, and Chrisey DB, “Charge Carrier Lifetime in Boron Carbide Thin Films,” Applied Physics Lett, 98 92,106 (2011).

Bao RQ and Chrisey DB, “Short Range Order Structure of Amorphous B4C Boron Carbide Thin Films,” J material Science 46, 3952 (2011).

Schiele NR, Chrisey DB, and Corr DT, “gelatin-based Laser Direct-Write Technique for the Precise Spatial Patterning of Cells,” Tissue Eng Part C-methods, 17 289 (2011).

Raof NA, Schiele NR, Xie YB, Chrisey DB, and Corr DT, “The maintenance of Pluripotency Following Laser Direct-Write of mouse Embryonic Stem Cells,” Biomaterials, 32 1802 (2011).

Narayan RJ, Doraiswamy A, Chrisey DB, and Chichkov BN, “medical Prototyping Using Two Photon Polymerization,” materials Today, 13, 42 (2010).

Schiele NR, Corr DT, huang Y, Raof NA, Xie YB, and Chrisey DB, “Laser-based Direct-Write Techniques for Cell Printing,” Biofabrication 2, 32,001 (2010).

Dinu CZ, Chakrabarty T, Lunsford E, mauer C, Plewa J, Dordick JS, and Chrisey DB, “Optical manipulation of microtubules for Directed Biomolecule Assembly,” Soft matter, 5, 3818 (2009).

gillich DJ, Teki R, Fullem TZ, Kovanen A, Blain E, Chrisey DB, Lu Tm, and Danon Y, “Enhanced Pyroelectric Crystal D-D Nuclear Fusion Using Tungsten Nanorods,” Nano Today, 4, 227 (2009).

Dinu CZ, Bale SS, Chrisey DB, and Dordick JS, “manipulat-ing of Individual Carbon Nanotubes by Reconstructing the Intracellular Transport of a Living Cell,” Advanced materials, 21, 1182 (2009).

Douglas B. chrisey

ProfessorPh.D., university of Virginia, 1987

Primary Research Area: Energy Storage; Radioisotope Energy harvesting; ceramic Electronics; Tissue Engineering; Biosensing; Bionanofabrication; wound Repair

Research InterestsCorrosion, Electrochemistry, Processing of Electronic materials utilizing Electrochemical Techniques.

Sponsored Research“Environmental Effects on Ferroelectric Sensors,” Sandia National Laboratories and The National Institute for Nano-engineering (NINE).

“metallurgical Processing of Solder Bumps for Semiconductor Applications,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsDuquette DJ, Latanision Rm, Dibella CA and Kirstein BE, “Cor-rosion Issues Related to Disposal of Nuclear Waste in the Yucca mountain Repository – Peer Reviewers Perspective,” Corrosion 65, 199-207 (2009).

Duquette DJ, Latanision R, Chuah g, macDonald D and Shoesmith D, “mechanisms of Copper Corrosion in Aqueous Environments,” Nuclear Waste Scientific Workshop,” Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste Report 2009, 4, 1-111 (2010).

Duquette DJ, Latanision Rm, Dibella CA and Kirstein BE, “Cor-rosion Issues Related to Disposal of Nuclear Waste in the Yucca mountain Repository,” in Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste management XXXII, edited by Neil C. hyatt, David A. Pickett, Raul B. Rebak (mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1124, Warrendale, PA, (2009), Q-08-01.

Duquette DJ, Swedberg E and Schafrik R, “Preventing Corro-sion from Wearing our Future Away,” Advanced materials and Processes, 26-31 (march 2011).

David J. Duquette

John Tod horton Professor of EngineeringPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968

Primary Research Area: Processing of Electronic Materials


Research Interestsmaterials, Nanostructures, Thin Films, microelectronics, Electronic materials, materials Characterization, Electronic Structure, Optical Properties, glancing Angle Deposition.

Sponsored Research “CAREER: Nanostructure growth from the Vapor Phase,” National Science Foundation.

“Self-Lubricating Nanoporous hard Coatings,” National Sci-ence Foundation,.

“Interlinked Nanorod Coatings,” National Science Foundation.

“Post-CmOS Nanoelectronics: Electron transport in quantum dot molecules,” Industrial sponsor.

“mRI: Acquisition of a multipurpose X-Ray Diffractometer System For Advanced materials Research and Education,” National Science Foundation.

“NUE: Integration of Nanotechnology Engineering Education into: Introduction to materials Science for Engineers (ENgR-1600),” National Science Foundation.

“Electron-Phonon Scattering in metallic Interconnects,” NYSTAR.

“Co Layers for X-ray Source Anode Targets,” Industrial spon-sor.

“growth and Characterization of Advanced Nanocomposite Coatings for Solid Lubrication,” Department of Defense, Benet Laboratories.

“Adaptive high-Temperature Lubrication through Nanopore Channels,” National Science Foundation.

“SBIR Phase II: Quantitative Analysis for Trace Levels of Toxic Elements in Consumer Products Using high Definition X-ray Fluorescence,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsCazottes S, Zhang ZL, Daniel R, Chawla JS, gall D, Dehm g, “Structural Characterization of a Cu/mgO(001) Interface Using CS-Corrected hRTEm,” Thin Solid Films, 519, 1662 (2010).

mulligan CP, Blanchet TA, and gall D, “Control of Lubricant Transport by a CrN Diffusion Barrier Layer During high-Tem-perature Sliding of a CrN-Ag Composite Coating,” Surf. Coat. Technol., 205, 1350 (2010).

Chawla JS, Zahid F, guo h, and gall D, “Effect of O2 Adsorp-tion on Electron Scattering at Cu(001) Surfaces,” Appl. Phys. Lett, 97, 132106 (2010).

Zhang XY and gall D, “CrN Electronic Structure and Vibra-tional modes: An Optical Analysis,” Phys. Rev. B ,82, 045116 (2010).

mulligan CP, Blanchet TA, and gall D, “CrN-Ag Nanocompos-ite Coatings: high Temperature Tribological Response,” Wear, 269, 125 (2010).

mukherjee S and gall D, “Power Law Scaling During Physical Vapor Deposition Under Extreme Shadowing,” J. Appl. Phys., 107, 084301 (2010).

Zahid F, Ke Y, gall D, and guo h, “Resistivity of Thin Cu Films Coated with Ta, Ti, Ru, Al, and Pd Barrier Layers from First Principles,” Phys. Rev. B, 81, 045406 (2010).

gasda mD, Eisman gA, and gall D, “Nanorod PEm Fuel Cell Cathodes with Controlled Porosity,” J Electrochem. Soc., 157, B437 (2010); also featured in: Virt. J. Nanoscale Sci. Tech., 21, 7 (2010).

Zhang XY and gall D, “Surface mound Formation during Epitaxial growth of CrN(001),” Thin Solid Films, 518, 3813 (2010).

Kesapragada SV, Yim T-J, Dordick JS, Kane RS, and gall D, “Selective Assembly of multi-Component Nanosprings and Nanorods,” J Nanosci. Nanotechnol., 10, 2252 (2010).

mulligan CP, Blanchet TA, and gall D, “CrN-Ag Nanocompos-ite Coatings: Tribology at Room Temperature and During a Temperature Ramp,” Surf. Coat. Technol., 204, 1388 (2010).

gasda mD, Eisman gA, and gall D, “Sputter-Deposited Pt/CrN Nanoparticle PEm Fuel Cell Cathodes: Limited Proton Conduc-tivity through Electrode Dewetting,” J Electrochem. Soc., 157, B71 (2010).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedchristopher P. Mulligan,“CrN-Ag Self-Lubricating Nanopo-rous hard Coatings.”

Michael D. Gasda,“Effect of Porosity on the Oxygen Reduc-tion Reaction in PEm Fuel Cell Cathode Electrodes.”

Srijit Mukherjee:“Effect of Surface Diffusion on morphology and Scaling Properties during glancing Angle Deposition.”

Xunyuan Zhang,“Surface morphology and Electrical and Optical Properties of CrN.”

Jasmeet S. chawla,“Electron Scattering at Surfaces of Epi-taxial metal Layers.”

MS Students GraduatedTrevor Keller, “The Effects of magnesiom(II) on Zinc Oxide Nanorod growth from Aqueous Solution.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Design of Resistivity measurement

• Design of In-situ Electronic Transport System

• ZnmgO Layers for Solar Cell Applications

Daniel Gall

ProfessorPh.D., university of Illinois, 2000

Primary Research Area: Nanostructures


Research InterestsOxide glasses, Nanocrystals, Phonon and Quantum Confine-ment, Light Scattering, Computational materials Science.

Sponsored Research“The Structural Basis for glasses more Tolerant to Thermal, mechanical and Radiation Impacts,” National Science Founda-tion.

“Phonon Confinement Effect in TiO2 Nanoparticles as Ther-mosensor materials,” Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

“Diffusion Controlled Chemical Reactions in Nanoporous Carbons,” Natural Science Foundation of China.

“Collaborative Research: Confinement and Surface Effects on heterogeneous Reactions with Diffusion in Nano-porous materials,” National Science Foundation.

“Quantitative Understanding of Atomic Wear Using Acceler-ated molecular Simulations,” National Science Foundation .

“gOALI/Collaborative: mixed Former Effect on Structure and Properties of Oxide glasses,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsWang J and huang L, “Thermometry Based on Phonon Con-finement Effect in Nanoparticles,” Applied Physics Lett, 98, 113102 (2011).

Sui L, huang L, Podsiadlo P, Kotov m, Kieffer J, “Brillouin Light Scattering Investigation of the mechanical Properties of Layer-by-Layer Assembled Cellulose Nanocrystal Films,” macromol-ecules, 43, 9541 (2010).

Liu Y-C, huang L, gubbins KE and Nardelli mB, “Dissociation of Water Over Ti-Decorated C60,” J Chemical Physics, 133, 084510 (2010).

huang L, Liu Y-C, gubbins KE and Nardelli mB, “Ti-Decorated C60 as Catalyst for hydrogen generation and Storage,“ Ap-plied Physics Lett, 96, 063111 (2010). Reprinted in the Virtual J Nanoscale Science & Technology (march 1, 2010).

Shi Y, huang L, Brenner DW, “Computational Study of Nano-meter-Scale Self-Propulsion Enabled by Asymmetric Chemical Catalysis,“ J Chemical Physics, 131, 014705 (2009).

huang L, Rocca D, Baroni S, gubbins KE, and Nardelli mB, “molecular Design of Photoactive Acenes for Organic Photo-voltaics,” J Chemical Physics, 130, 194701 (2009).

huang L, Yuan F and Zhao Q, “Designing glasses with Tunable Structure and Properties by Computer Simulation,” mRS Fall meeting Symposium LL Proc: multiphysics modeling in materi-als Design, Editors: m. Asta, A. Umantsev, J. Neugebauer, 1229E, 1229-LL08-08 (2009).

huang L and Kieffer J, “Towards Simulation-Based Predictive Design of glasses,” Ceramic Transactions, Wiley: Westerville, Ohio (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• TiO2-SiO2 glasses for Energy Related Applications

• Nanoparticles for Thermal Sensors

liping huang

Assistant Professor university of Illinois at urbana-champaign, 2004

Primary Research Area: Glass Science


Research InterestsElectronic materials, Thin Films, Electron and Ion microscopy, Nanofabrication, Nanomaterials, Nanoelectronic Devices.

Sponsored Research“New Epitaxial Structures in the Limited Adatom mobility Regime,” National Science Foundation.

“Quantum Dot Contacts and Interconnects,” NYSTAR / IFC Focus Center.

“Interfacing CmOS and Self-Assembled Nanostructures,” National Science Foundation (sub-contract from Notre Dame).

“New Approaches to Characterization, Doping, and Thermal management in Nanoelectronics,” NYSTAR (sub contract through SUNY Albany INDEX Center).

“mRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Nanoscale In-Situ Studies in Auger Electron and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectros-copy,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsPortavoce A, Kammler m, hull R, Reuter mC, Copel m, Ross Fm “growth of Nanostructures by Locally modified Surface Reactivity,” materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 12, 25-30 (2009).

Yin WJ, he L, Dolph mC, Lu JW, hull R and Wolf SA, “magne-tism in gex mn1-x Thin Films and Quantum Dots Synthesized by Ion Implantation,” AIP Conf. Proc., 1149, 911-914 (2009).

Nelson F, Diebold AC and hull R, “Simulation Study of Trans-mission Electron microscopy Imaging of graphene Stacking,” AIP Conf. Proc., 1173, 271-4 (2009).

murphy J, hull R, Pyle D, Wang h, gray J and Floro J, “Control of Semiconductor Quantum Dot Nanostructures: Variants of Sixge1-x/Si Quantum Dot molecules,” J Vac. Sci. Technol, 29, 011209, 1-5 (2010).

graham JF, Kell CD, Floro JA, and hull R, “Coupled Effects of Ion Beam Chemistry and morphology on Directed Self-Assem-bly of Epitaxial Semiconductor Nanostructures,” Nanotechnol-ogy, 22, 075301, 1-6 (2010).

Yin WJ, he L, Dolph mC, Lu JW, hull R and Wolf SA, “modula-tion of the magnetism in Ion Implanted mnxge1-x Thin Films by Rapid Thermal Anneal,” J Appl. Phys., 108, 093919, 1-6 (2010).

Nelson F, Diebold AC and hull R, “Simulation Study of Aber-ration-Corrected high Resolution Transmission Electron micros-copy Imaging of Few-Layer grapheme Stacking,” microscopy and microanalysis, 16, 194-99 (2010).

hull R, Floro JA, gherasimova m, graham JF, gray JL, Por-tavoce A, Ross Fm and Thorp J, “Bridging the Length Scales Between Lithographic Patterning and Self Assembly mecha-nisms in Fabrication of Semiconductor Nanostructure Arrays,” (invited), J Physics Conference Series, 209, 012003:1-10 (2010).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedli he, “Correlation of Nanoscale Structure With Electronic and magnetic Properties in Semiconductor materials.” (U. Virginia)

Jeremy Graham, “mass-Selecting Focused Ion Beam Templat-ing of heteroepitaxial Semiconductor Nanostructures” (U. Virginia)

MS Students GraduatedJessica Murphy, “An Investigation of Quantum Dot molecule Structure Derivatives.”

Delia Bearup, “Recovery of Crystalline and Optoelectronic Properties in Si(100) after Focused Ion Beam Implantation of ga+ and Annealing.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Damage Recovery in Focused Ion Beam Implanted Semicon-

ductors

• Nanoscale Thermal measurements Using Diffuse Scattering in Electron microscopy

Robert hull

henry Burlage Professor of Engineering, and Department headPh.D., oxford university, 1983

Primary Research Area: Thin Films


Research InterestsComputational materials Science, Interfacial heat Transfer, Structure Property Relationship, Colloids and Nanocomposites, molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Sponsored Research“Nanoscale heat Transfer and Phase Transformation Sur-rounding Intensely heated Nanoparticles,” National Science Foundation.

“NUE:Integration of Nanotechnology Engineering Education into ‘Introduction to materials Science for Engineers (ENgR-1600),’ National Science Foundation.

“heat generation and Dissipation in Nanoelectronics Compo-nents and Assemblies: metrology, modeling and mechanisms, Sponsor,” National Institute of Standards & Technology.

“mURI: Passive and Active Control of heat Transfer at Inter-faces,” U.S. Air Force.

“NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, ‘Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures,’” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsShen m, Evans WJ, Cahill D and Keblinski P, “Bonding and Pressure Tunable Interfacial Thermal Conductivity,” Phys. Rev. B, 84, 195432 (2011).

Sasikumar K and Keblinski P, “Effect of Chain Conformation in the Phonon Transport across a Si-polyethylene Single-molecule Covalent Junction,” J Appl. Phys., 109, article # 114307 (2011).

hsieh W-P, Losego mD, Braun PV, Shenogin S, Keblinski P, and Cahill Dg, “Testing the minimum Thermal Conductivity model for Amorphous Polymers with high Pressure,” Phys. Rev. B, 83, article # 174205 (2011).

hu L, Desai T and Keblinski P, “Thermal Transport in gra-phene-based Nanocomposite,” J Appl. Phys., 110, article # 033517 (2011).

hu L, Desai T and Keblinski P, “Determination of Interfacial Thermal Resistance at Nanoscale,” Phys. Rev. B, 83, article #195423 (2011).

Desai T, Lawson J, and Keblinski P, “modeling Initial Stage of Ablation material Pyrolysis: graphitic Precursor Formation and Interfacial Effects,” Polymer, 52, 577-585 (2011).

hu L, Zhang L, Wang J-S, Li B, and Keblinski P, “Phonon Inter-ference and Self-assembled monolayer Interfaces,” Phys. Rev. B, 81, 235427 (2010).

Buongiorno J et al., “Benchmark Study on the Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids,” J Applied Physics, 106, 094312 (2009).

Shenogina N, godawat R., Keblinski P and garde S, “how Wetting and Adhesion Affect Thermal Conductance of a Range of hydrophobic to hydrophilic Aqueous Interfaces?” Physical Review Lett, 102, 156101 (2009).

Prasher RS, hu XJ, Chalopin Y, mingo N, Lofgreen K, Volz S, Cleri F and Keblinski P, “Turning Carbon Nanotubes from Exceptional heat Conductors into Insulators,” Physical Review Lett, 102, 105901 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedNatalia Shenogina, “Thermal Coupling at Aqueous and Biomolecular Interfaces.”

lin hu, “Nanoscale Interfacial materials for Thermal Transport Applications.”

Pawel Keblinski

ProfessorPh.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1999

Primary Research Area: heat Transfer

Carbon nanotubes in fluids and polymers are used to enhance thermal transport. Keblinski’s group study the role of interfaces in nanoscale materials on thermal transport characteristics.


Research Interestsmetallurgy, materials for Fuel Cells and Energy Conversion, Solder Alloys, Computational materials Science.

Sponsored Research“Improved Solder Performance by Nucleation and Solidifica-tion Engineering,” Industrial sponsor.

“Annealing and Deformation of Directionally Solidified Alloys and the Earth’s Core,” National Science Foundation.

“mRI: Acquisition of a multipurpose X-Ray Diffractometer for Advanced materials Research and Education,” National Sci-ence Foundation.

“CAREER: grain growth and Topological Evolution of Poly-crystals,” great Lakes Fuel Cell Education Partnership, National Science Foundation.

“Reversible Fuel Cell Testing to Determine Reliability and Fail-ure modes,” Industrial sponsor.

“X-Ray Optical Systems, Investigation of SOFC Barrier Coat-ings,” Industrial sponsor.

“EBSD measurement of Directionally Solidified Zn Ingots,” Bard College.

“NUE: Integration of Nanotechnology Engineering Education into “Introduction to materials Science for Engineers (ENgR-1600),” Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education Director-ate, National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsBergman m, Lewis D, myint I, Slivka L, Karato S, “grain growth and Loss of Texture during Annealing of Alloys, and the Translation of Earth’s Inner Core,” geophysical Res Lett, 37, L22313 (2010).

gathright W, Jensen m, and Lewis D, “Phase Field model of Chemical Reactions with an Example of a Solid Electrolyte gas Sensor,” Electrochemistry Communications, 13(5), 520-523 (2010).

gennett A, Lewis D, and Dutta P, “Low Temperature growth of gaxIn1−x Bulk Crystals from InSn-rich melt,” J Crystal growth, 312(8), 1080-1084 (2010).

Calebrese C, Schadler L, and Lewis D, “modelling of Single Bubble growth in Carbon Nanofiber Filled mesophase Pitch During Carbonization,” modelling and Simulation in materials Science and Eng, 18(4), 045001 (2010).

Calebrese C, Eisman g, Lewis D, and Schadler L, “Swelling and Related mechanical and Physical Properties of Carbon Nanofiber Filled mesophase Pitch for Use as a Bipolar Plate material,” Carbon, 48(13), 3939-3946 (2010).

Casteel m, Willson P, goren T, O’Brien P, and Lewis D, “Novel method for measuring Chromia Evaporation from SOFC Interconnect materials,” Proc 216th meeting of the Electro-chemical Society, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells 11 (SOFC-XI), Vienna, Austria, and ECS Transactions, 25(2), 1411-1416 (2009).

glicksman m, Rios P, and Lewis D, “Linear measures for Poly-hedral Networks,” Int J materials Res, 100(4), 536-542 (2009).

glicksman m, Rios P, and Lewis D, “mean-width and Caliper Characteristics of Network Polyhedra,” Philosophical maga-zine, 89(4), 389-403 (2009).

gathright W, Jensen m and Lewis D, “A Phase Field model of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy,” J materials Science, doi: 10.1007/S10853-011-5930-9 (2011).

Calebrese C, Schadler L and Lewis D, “modelling of Single Bubble growth in Carbon Nanofiber Filled mesophase Pitch During Carbonization,” modelling and Simulation in materials Science and Eng, 18(4), 045001 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSteven Buelte, “Effects of Phosphoric Acid Concentration on Platinum Catalyst and Phosphoric Acid hydrogen Pump Performance.”

MS Students Graduatedcarmen osorio, “high Temperature Compression Properties of a Polymer-Derived Ceramic for SOFC Sealing Applications.”

Patrick willson, “Development of a Novel method for measuring Chromium Vaporization from SOFC Interconnect materials.”

Brittany hamilton, “Diffusion Bonding of Ti-6Al-4V with Ti-6Al-4V Foam to Improve the Implant-Body Interface.”

heather McGee, “The Influence of Zirconium Content on the Eutectic Temperatures of hafnium Bearing Alloys.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Electrical Properties of YSZ Ceramics

• Analysis of Fuel Cell Electrodes

• Design and Construction of a Directional Solidification Furnace

Daniel lewis

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., lehigh university, 2001

Primary Research Area: Metallurgy; Fuel cells and Energy conversion


Research InterestsBiological and Synthetic macromolecules, Polymer Nano-composites, Nanomanufacturing, Supercritical Fluid Assisted Processing, Foams, Computational Simulations of Proteins and Polymers.

Sponsored Research“Northeast Advanced Technological Educational Center,” National Science Foundation.

“Thermo-mechanical Properties of Silica/Epoxy Nanocompos-ites,” Industrial sponsor.

“Processing-Property Relationship in Ultra high molecular Weight Polyethylenes,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsChen Lm, Schadler LS, Ozisik R, “An Experimental and Theo-retical Investigation of the Compressive Properties of multi-walled Carbon Nanotube/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nanocom-posite Foams,” Polymer, 52(13), 2899-2909 (2011).

Yavari F, Fard hR, Pashayi K, et al., “Enhanced Thermal Con-ductivity in a Nanostructured Phase Change Composite Due to Low Concentration graphene Additives,” J Physical Chemistry C, 115 (17), 8753-8758 (2011).

Parker K, Schneider RT, Siegel RW, et al.,“molecular Probe Technique for Determining Local Thermal Transitions: The glass Transition at Silica/PmmA Nanocomposite Interfaces, Polymer, 51(21), 4891-4898 (2010).

Subramanian g, Ozisik R, “Simultaneous Estimation of the Phase Content and Lamellar Thickness in Isotactic Polypropyl-ene by the Simulated Annealing of Wide-Angle X-Ray Scat-tering Data,” J Applied Polymer Science, 117(4), 2386-2394 (2010).

Chen Lm, Ozisik R, Schadler LS, “The Influence of Carbon Nanotube Aspect Ratio on the Foam morphology of mWNT/PmmA Nanocomposite Foams,” Polymer, 51(11), 2368-2375 (2010).

Rende D, Baysal N, Ozisik R, “Carbon Dioxide Sequestration by Carbon Nanotubes: Application of graph Theoretical Ap-proach,” Computational materials Science, 48(2), 402-408 (2010).

goren K, Chen Lm, Schadler LS, et al. “Influence of Nanoparti-cle Surface Chemistry and Size on Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Processed Nanocomposite Foam morphology,” J Supercritical Fluids, 51(3), 420-427 (2010).

Liu T, Siegel RW, Ozisik R, “The Effect of Confinement in Nanoporous Polymers on the glass Transition Temperature,” Polymer, 51(2), 540-546 (2010).

Shenogin S, Raravikar N, Ozisik R, et al.,“Using Vibrational mode Analysis for Predicting the Coefficient of Thermal Expan-sion of Amorphous Polymers,” J Polymer Science Part B - Polymer Physics, 47(21), 2114-2121 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedB. Kerem Goren, “Nanoparticle Dispersion and Foam mor-phology Control of Polymer Nanocomposites via Interface Engineering and Supercritical CO2 Assisted Processing.”

limeng chen, “Influence of Aspect Ratio and Surface Chemistry of multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes on Structures and Properties of multi-walled Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Composite Foams.”

MS Students GraduatedKatelyn A. Parker, “Determination of the glass Transition Temperatures of Poly(methyl methacrylate)/Silica Nanocompos-ites at the Interface.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Computational Study of Carbon monoxide Sequestration

via Carbon Nanotubes

• Compression Behavior of Silica/Poly(methyl methacrylate) Nanocomposite Foams

• magnetization of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles

Rahmi ozisik

Associate ProfessorPh.D., The university of Akron, 1999

Primary Research Area: Polymers

Supercritical fluid assisted foaming of polymers. Using nanoparticles leads to heterogeneous pore nucleation and decreases the average pore size leading to increased mechanical properties.


Research InterestsBulk and Thin Film Nanomaterials and Interfaces; molecularly-Directed Scalable Synthesis and Assembly of Nanostructures; Atomistic Structure-Chemistry-Processing-Property Relation-ships; multiple microscopy and Spectroscopy Techniques, Energy and Device Applications.

Sponsored Research“Understanding mechanical and Thermal Properties and Their Coupling at Nanomolecularly modified metal-Ceramic Inter-faces,” National Science Foundation.

“mOSFETs with Atomically Engineered metal/high-k Inter-faces,” National Science Foundation.

“Realization of Low Thermal Contact Parasitics to Enable Ther-moelectric Devices for Die-Level Localized hotspot Tempera-ture Suppression,” Industrial sponsor.

“Development of materials and Processes and Nanothermal-valve Design for Reconfigurable Thermal Networks,” DARPA/Industrial sponsor.

“Thermal Interface materials from metal Nanowire Networks for Device Packaging,” Industrial sponsor.

“Scalable high Figure of merit Bulk Chalcogenides from Nano-plates,” Department of Energy through S3TEC EFRC at mIT.

“Nanomaterials and Interfaces for Energy Storage,” Industrial sponsor.

“Interfacial heat Transport in Nanoelectronics,” NIST/Nano-electronics Research Initiative.

“Acquisition of a multipurpose X-ray Diffractometer System for Advanced materials Research and Education,” National Science Foundation.

“Acquisition of Instrumentation for Nanoscale In-Situ Studies in Auger Electron and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy,” National Science Foundation.

“Development of Terahertz multi-Dimensional Spectrometer for materials Research,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationsmehta RJ, Zhang Y, Karthik C, Singh B, Castillo E, Siegel RW, Borca-Tasciuc T and Ramanath g, “A New Class of Doped Nanobulk hIgh Figure of merit Thermoelectrics by Scalable Bottom-up Assembly,” Nature materials, (2011) in press.

Jood P, mehta RJ, Zhang Y, Karthik C, Siegel RW, Borca-Tasciuc T, Dou S and Ramanath g, “Al-doped Zinc Oxide Nanocom-posites with Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties,” Nano Lett, 11(10), 4337-4342 (2011).

Karthik C, mehta RJ, jiang W, Borca-Tasciuc T and Ramanath g, “Threshold Conductivity Switching in Sulfurized Antimony Selenide Nanowires,” Appl Phys Lett, 99, 103101 (2011).

Vijayashankar D, Zhu h, garg S, Teki R, Ramprasad R, Lane mW and Ramanath g, “Atomisticmechanisms of moisture-Induced Fracture at Copper-Silica Interfaces,” Appl Phys Lett, 99, 133103 (2011).

garg S, Teki R, Lane mW and Ramanath g, “Factorial Tough-ening at microcorrugated metal-Ceramic Interfaces,” Appl Phys Lett, 133101 (2011).

Purkayastha A, Jain A, hapenciuc C, Buckley R, Singh B, Karthik C , Borca-Tasciuc T, Ramanath g, “Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Thin Film Assemblies of Bismuth Telluride Nanopolyhedra,” Chemistry of materials, 23(12), 3029-31 (2011).

mehta RJ, Karthik C, Jiang W, Singh B, Ravishankar N, Shi Y, Borca-Tasciuc T, Ramanath g, “high Electrical Conductivity Antimony Selenide Nanocrystals and Assemblies,” Nano Lett, 10, 4417-22 (2010).

mehta RJ, Karthik C, Singh B, Borca-Tasciuc T, Ramanath g, “Seebeck Tuning in Chalcogenide Nanoplate Assemblies by Nanoscale heterostructuring,” ACS Nano, 4(9), 5055-60 (2010).

Wang T, mehta R, Karthik C, ganesan Pg, Singh B, Jiang W, Ravishankar N, Borca-Tasciuc T, Ramanath g, “microsphere Bouquets of Bismuth Telluride Nanoplates: Room-Temperature Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties,” J Physical Chemistry C, 114, 1796–9 (2010).

Jain A, Singh B, garg S, Ravishankar N, Lane m, Ramanath g, “Atomistic Fracture Energy Partitioning at a metal-Ceramic Interface Using a Nanomolecular monolayer,” Physical Review B, 83, 035412 (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSaurabh Garg, “Chemistry-Property Relationships at molecu-larly modified Copper-Silica Interfaces.”

Gorun Butail, “Aligned Titania Nanotube Array Thin Films: growth Kinetics, Branched Structures, and Photovoltaic Char-acterization.”

Ashutosh Jain, “Delamination Nanomechanics at Organosi-lane-Tailored Copper-Silica Interfaces.”

Binay Singh, “Development of Barrierless Dielectrics and their Integration with Copper for Nanodevice Wiring.”

MS Students Graduatedwei Jiang, “Electrical and Thermal Transport Investigations Along Individual Sb2Se3 Nanorods.”

Vijayashankar Dandapani, “Atomistic mechanisms of moisture-Induced Fracture at Noble metal-Silica Interfaces.”

Ganpati Ramanath

ProfessorPh.D., university of Illinois at urbana, 1997

Primary Research Area: Nanomaterials


Research InterestsPolymer Composites, Nanocomposites, mechanical Properties, Electrical Properties, Optical Properties.

Sponsored Research“Large-Scale SWNT Purification and Solubilization,” Industrial sponsor/subcontract on DOE STTR.

“Computer Aided Design of materials: Nanocomposites,” Of-fice of Naval Research.

“Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center materials Thrust,” National Science Foundation.

“NUE: Integration of Nanotechnology Engineering Ecuation into an Introductory materials Course,” National Science Foundation.

“Nanocomposites for high Voltage Cable Applications,” Industrial sponsor.

“Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for the Directed Assembly of Nanostructures,” National Science Foundation Education and Outreach Coordinator.

“Self healing Nanocomposites,” Electric Power Research Institute.

”moisture mIgration and Impact in Nanocomposite Dielec-trics for Utility Cable Applications,” Electric Power Research Institute.

Selected PublicationsSrivastava I, mehta RJ, Yu Z-Z, Schadler L, and Koratkar N, “Raman Study of Interfacial Load Transfer in graphene Nano-composites,” Applied Physics Lett, 98(6), 063102 (2011).

Wang X, Nelson JK, Schadler LS, hilborg h, “mechanisms Leading to Nonlinear Electrical Response of a Nano p-SiC/Sili-cone Rubber Composite,” IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 17(6), 1687-1696 (2010).

Chen L, Ozisik R, Schadler LS, “The Influence of Carbon Nano-tube Aspect Ratio on the Foam morphology of mWNT/PmmA Nanocomposite Foams,” Polymer, 51, 2368-2375 (2010).

Duncan RK, Chen Xg, Bult JB, Brinson LC, Schadler LS, “mea-surement of the Critical Aspect Ratio and Interfacial Shear Strength in mWNT/Polymer Composites,” Composites Science and Technology, 70(4), 599-605 (2010).

Akcora P, Kumar SK, Lewis S, Schadler LS, Li Y, Benicewicz BC, Sandy A, Narayanan S, Thiyagarajan P, Colby Rh, Douglas JF, “gel-like mechanical Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocompos-ites,” macromolecules, 43, 1011–1015 (2010).

Dukes D, Li Y, Lewis S, Benicewicz B, Schadler LS, Tambasco m, Kumar S, “Conformational Transitions of Spherical Polymer Brushes: Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory,” macromol-ecules, 43, 1564–1570 (2010).

goren K, Chen L, Schadler LS, Ozisik R, “Influence of the Nanoparticle-Polymer Interface on Supercritical Carbon Diox-ide Assisted Processing,” J Supercritical Fluids, 51, 429-427 (2010).

Burris DL, Zhao S, Duncan R, Lowitz J, Perry SS, Schadler LS, Sawyer Wg, “A Route to Wear Resistant PTFE via Trace Loadings of Functionalized Nanofillers,” Wear, 267, 653-660 (2009).

Bult J, Sawyer Wg, Ajayan Pm and Schadler LS, “Passivation Oxide Controlled Selective Carbon Nanotube growth on metal Substrates,”Nanotechnology, 20(8), 085302 (2009).

Akcora P, Liu h, Kumar SK, Li Y, Benicewicz BC, Schadler LS, Acehan D, Panagiotopoulos AZ, Douglas JF, “Anisotropic Self-Assembly of Spherical Polymer-grafted Nanoparticles,” Nature materials, 8(4), 354-U121 (2009).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedchris calebrese, “Experimental Study and modeling of Swell-ing and Bubble growth in Carbon Nanofiber Filled mesophase Pitch During Carbonization.”

Xiaoping wang, “high Field Non-linear Resistive SiC, ZnO-based Silicone Rubber Composites for Cable Field grading Application: mechanisms, Properties and Filler Treatment.”

Doug Dukes, “Behavior of grafted Polymers on Nanofillers and Their Influence on Polymer Nanocomposite Properties.”

Iti Srivastava, “mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites.”

limeng chen, “Polymer Nanocomposie Foams Filled with Carbon Nanomaterials: Structure and Properties.”

Kerem Goren, “Foam Property Enhancement of Poly(methyl methacrylate)-Silica Nanocomposite Through modified Nano-filler Interfaces.”

MS Students GraduatedTolga Goren, “micromechanical Behavior of Carbon Nano-tube-Covered SiC Fibers in Polymer matrix Composites.”

Alisha Travelpeace, “Dielectric Integrity of high Temperature Nanocomposites.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Dielectric Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites

• mechanical Properties of Nanoparticle/Epoxy Composites

• high Index of Refraction Polymer Nanocomposites

• Thermomechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites

linda S. Schadler

Russell Sage Professor and Associate Dean for Academic AffairsPh.D., university of Pennsylvania, 1990

Primary Research Area: Polymer composites


Research InterestsActive Self-Assembly, graphene, metallic glasses, molecular motors, Nanoporous Carbon, Wear.

Sponsored Research“Active Self-assembly Driven by Chemistry: Enhanced Kinetics, Reduced Errors, Novel Patterns and Adaptive Nanostructures,” National Science Foundation.

“Nanofluidic Power generation Using One-Dimensional (Car-bon Nanotube) and Two-Dimensional (graphene) Nanomateri-als,” Advanced Energy Consortium.

“Quantitative Understanding of Atomic Wear Using Acceler-ated molecular Simulation,“ National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsChen YP and Shi YF, “Characterizing the Autonomous mo-tions of Linear Catalytic Nanomotors using molecular Dynam-ics Simulations,” J Physical Chemistry C, 115, 19588-19597 (2011).

Shi YF, Louca D, Wang gY and Liaw PK, “Compression-Com-pression Fatigue Study on model metallic glass Nanowires by molecular Dynamics Simulations,” J Applied Physics, 110, 023523 (2011).

Tungare m, Shi YF, Tripathi N, Suvarna P and Shahedipour-Sandvik F, “A Tersoff-Based Interatomic Potential for Wurtzite AlN,” Physica Status Solidi A, 208, 1569 (2011).

Shi YF, “Size-independent Shear Band Formation in Amor-phous Nanowires made from Simulated Casting,” Applied Physics Lett, 96, 121909 (1-3) (2010).

Shi YF, huang LP and Brenner DW, “Computational Study of Nanometer-Scale Self-Propulsion Enabled by Asymmetric Chemical Catalysis,” J Chemical Physics, 131, 014705 (1-12) (2009).

Dhiman P, Yavari F, mi X, gullapalli h, Shi YF, Ajayan P and Koratkar N, “harvesting Energy from Water Flow over gra-phene,” Nano Lett, 11, 3123-3127 (2011).

hu Y, Brenner DW, Shi YF, “Detonation Initiation from Spontaneous hotspots Formed During Cook-Off Observed in molecular Dynamics Simulations,” J Physical Chemistry C, 115, 2416–2422 (2011).

Palmer JC, Llobet A, Yeon Sh, Fischer JE, Shi YF, gogotsi Y and gubbins KE, “modeling the Structural Evolution of Carbide-Derived Carbons using Quenched molecular Dynamics,” Carbon, 48, 1116-1123 (2010).

Anumol EA, Viswanath B, ganesan Pg, Shi YF, Ramanath g and Ravishankar N, “Surface Diffusion Driven Nanoshell Formation by Controlled Sintering of mesoporous Nanoparticle Aggregates,” Nanoscale, 2, 1423-1425 (2010).

mehta RJ, Karthik C, Jiang W, Singh B, Shi YF, Siegel RW, Borca-Tasciuc T and Ramanath g, “high Electric Conductivity Antimony Selenide Nanocrystals and Assemblies,” Nano Lett, 10, 4417-4422 (2010).

undergraduate Research Projects• molecular Simulations of Nanoporous Carbon

• mechanical Behavior of ZrCuAl Amorphous Nanowires via molecular Dynamics Simulations

• Visualization of molecular Simulation Results Using SimRePlay

Yunfeng Shi

Assistant Professor Ph.D., university of Michigan, 2006

Primary Research Area: computational Materials Science

Simulated Nanorockets Propelled by Catalytic Chemical Reactions

Rocket engines have been around for centuries and have carried human to moon. The same propulsion principle is in fact applicable at the nanoscale. Nanostructures can propel themselves by burning the surround fuels, as shown by molecular simulations.


Research Interestsmaterials Science, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials, hierarchical hybrid Composites.

Sponsored Research“Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Directed As-sembly of Nanostructures,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsDulgar-Tulloch AJ, Bizios R, and Siegel RW, “human mesen-chymal Stem Cell Adhesion and Proliferation in Response to Ceramic Chemistry and Nanoscale Topography,” J Biomed. mater. Res. A, 90, 586-594 (2009).

Shang W, Nuffer Jh, muñiz-Papandrea VA, Colón W, Siegel RW, and Dordick JS, “Cytochrome c on Silica Nanoparticles: Influence of Nanoparticle Size on Protein Structure, Stability, and Activity,” Small, 5, 470-476 (2009).

murday JS, Siegel RW, Stein J, and Wright JF, “Translational Nanomedicine: Status Assessment and Opportunities,” Nano-medicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and medicine 5, 251-273 (2009).

Nuffer Jh, and Siegel RW, “Nanostructure–Biomolecule Inter-actions: Implications for Tissue Regeneration and Nanomedi-cine,” Tissue Eng Part A, 16, 423-430 (2010).

Liu T, Siegel RW, and Ozisik R, “The Effect of Confinement in Nanoporous Polymers on the glass Transition Temperature,” Polymer, 51, 540-546 (2010).

Parker K, Schneider RT, Siegel RW, Ozisik R, Cabanelas JC, Serrano B, Antonelli C, and Baselga J, “molecular Probe Tech-nique for Determining Local Thermal Transitions: The glass Transition at Silica/PmmA Nanocomposite Interfaces,” Polymer, 51, 4891-4898 (2010).

mehta RJ, Karthik C, Jiang W, Singh B, Shi Y, Siegel RW, Borca-Tasciuc T, and Ramanath g, “high Electrical Conductivity Antimony Selenide Nanocrystals and Assemblies,” Nano Lett, 10, 4417-4422 (2010).

Dulgar-Tulloch AJ, Bizios R, and Siegel RW, “Differentiation of human mesenchymal Stem Cells on Nano- and micro-grainsize Titania Topography,” materials Science and Eng C: materials for Biological Applications, 31, 357-362 (2011).

Tao P, Viswanath A, Li Y, Rungta A, Benicewicz BC, Siegel RW, and Schadler LS, “Refractive Index Engineering of Polymer Nanocomposites Prepared by End-grafted Polymer Chains onto Inorganic Nanoparticles,” materials Research Society Symp. Proc. 1359, mrss11-1359-nn08-04 doi:10557/opl.2011.766 (2011).

gagner JE, Lopez m, Dordick JS, and Siegel RW, “Effect of gold Nanoparticle morphology on Adsorbed Protein Structure and Function,” Biomaterials,32, 7241-7252 (2011).

Tao P, Viswanath A, Schadler LS, Benicewicz BC, and Siegel RW, “Preparation and Optical Properties of Indium Tin Oxide/Epoxy Nanocomposites with Polyglycidyl methacrylate grafted Nanoparticles,” ACS Applied materials and Interfaces 3, 3638-3695 (2011).

Jood P, mehta RJ, Zhang Y, Peleckis g, Wang X, Siegel RW, Borca-Tasciuc T, Dou SX and Ramanath g, “Al-doped Zinc Oxide Nanocomposites with Enhanced Thermoelectric Proper-ties,” Nano Letters 11, 4337-4342 (2011).

Tao P, Li Y, Runtga A, Viswanath A, gao J, Benicewicz BC, Siegel RW and Schadler LS, “TiO2 Nanocomposites with high Refractive Index and Transparency,” J materials Chemistry 21, 18623-18629 (2011).

mehta RJ, Zhang Y, Karthik C, Singh B, Siegel RW, Borca-Tasciuc T and Ramanath g, “A New Class of Nanobulk high Figure-of-merit n- and p- Type Thermoelectrics Assembled from Sulfur-doped Pnictogen Chalcogenide Nanoplate Crys-tals,” Nature materials, in press (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJoseph h. Nuffer, “Protein Adsorption to Silica Nanoparticles: the Effect of Nanoparticle Size on Protein Structure, Stability, and Orientation.”

Richard w. Siegel

Robert w. hunt Professor, and Director of the Rensselaer Nanotechnology centerPh.D., university of Illinois at urbana, 1965


Professor Siegel is the Director of the National Science Foundation - Na-noscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures, whose overall mission is to integrate research, education, and technology dissemination to serve as a national and international resource for fundamental knowledge and applications in directed assembly of nanostruc-tures. Pictured here, participants from Albany at the 2009 NanoDay in New York City, sponsored by Columbia University (NSEC).


Research Interestsglass Science, Water Diffusion in glass, Electrical Properties of glasses and glass-Ceramics, mechanical Fatigue of glasses.

Sponsored Research“glasses with Fictive Temperature-Independent Properties,” National Science Foundation-DmR.

“Novel Ceramic glass Composites for Improved Electrical Energy Storage,” National Science Foundation-EFRI.

“Phosphate glasses for Steel Coating,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsTomozawa m, “Water Diffusion in Silica glass and Wet Oxida-tion of SI: An Interpretation for the high Speed of Wet Oxida-tion,” J Electrochem. Soc., 158, g115-g118 (2011).

Li C-Y, Price J, Tomozawa m and Watson ED, “hydrogen Formation Observed During high Pressure Treatement of Silica glass,” J Non-Cryst. Solids, 357, 2081-2085 (2011).

Lezzi PJ, Tomozawa m, “Effect of Alumina on Enthalpy of mix-

ing of mixed Alkali Silicate glasses,” J Non-Cryst. Solids, 357 2086-2092 (2011).

Tomozawa m, Li C-Y, gross Tm, “Fictive Temperature of Frac-ture Surface of a Silica glass” J Non-Cryst. Solids, 356, 1194 – 1197 (2010).

Lezzi PJ, Tomozawa m, “Enthalpy of mixing of mixed Alkali glasses,” J Non-Cryst. Solids, 356, 1439-1446 (2010).

gross Tm, Tomozawa m, Koike A, “A glass with high Crack Initiation Load: Role of Fictive Temperature- Independent mech anical Properties,” J Non-Cryst. Solids, 355, 563-568 (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• Enthalpy of mixing of mixed Alkali glasses

• mechanical Strength Degradation of Optical Fiber Silica glasses

• Fictive Temperature measurement of glass Fibers

• Process Improvement of Ion-Exchange of glasses

Minoru Tomozawa

ProfessorPh.D., university of Pennsylvania, 1968

Primary Research Area: Glass Science

Research InterestsThermal and mechanical Processing of metals.

Sponsored Research“Research in Collaboration with gE Energy,” gift Award.

“IN718 Compression Test Studies for grain Size modeling,” Industrial sponsor.

“Lenox Technology Program,” gift Award.

“modeling Decarburization in Steel,” gift Award.

“Research at Rensselaer, Sponsored by Kiswire, Ltd.,” gift Award.

Selected PublicationsWright R, “Wire Technology – Process Engineering and metal-lurgy,” Butterworth-heinemann (Elsevier), Oxford, UK, ISBN 978-0-12-382092-1 (2011).

Wright R and Cunningham D, “Die Design, Die Pressure & Die Wear,” Wire & Cable Technology Int, 39(3), 72-75 (2011).

Wright R, “machinability of metals,” mcgraw-hill Encyclope-dia of Science & Technology, 11th Edition (2010).

Wright R, hale P and Vosburgh J, “Rapid Flow Stress Charac-terization of Steel,”, J Eng materials and Performance, 18(7), 985 (2009).

Wright R, “Dieless Drawing of Steel,” hUTNIK WIADOmOSCI hUTNICZE, 76(1), 125-128 (2009).

Wright R and Keane J, “Drawing Steel with New Long-Life Dies,” Wire & Cable Technology Int, 37(5), (2009).

MS Students GraduatedSteven w. Mayott, “Analysis of the Effects of Reduced Oxygen Atmospheres on the Decarburization Depths of 300m Alloy Steel.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Fracture in Tool Steels

• Decarburization and Oxygen Concentration

• Characterizing Fine Steel Wire

Roger N. wright

ProfessorSc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969

Primary Research Area: Thermal and Mechanical Processing of Metals


Solder Technology.

Top left image: Microstructure of an alloy of gold, tin and lead. In these materials an excess of gold can lead to the formation of brittle phases (shown here in grey, center of the image) that can cause cracking in solder joints. As part of a larger study, gold containing alloys were fabricated to under-stand how much gold can be added so as not to impact the mechanical reliability and performance of solder joints.

Top right image: New lead free solder joints con-taining silver, tin and copper were solidified under controlled conditions. The resulting microstructure clearly shows the interaction between intermetal-lic compounds and their preference for alignment within the tin-rich matrix. Studies such as these give researchers insight into the solidification behavior of lead-free alloys and help to develop new alloys with better mechanical and electromi-gration performance.

Bottom image: The shapes of intermetallic phases are critical to the understanding of solder joint mechanical properties. Examination of the intermetallic phases in three-dimensions can help researchers understand the formation conditions and predict mechanical behavior. During one such investigation Lewis and students uncovered a stunning example of dendritic growth in an intermetallic phase.


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Research InterestsFlow Control, Aerodynamics, Air Vehicles, Wind Energy

Sponsored Research“Next generation Emerging Technologies for End-Use Ef-ficiency,” NYSERDA.

“Wind Turbine Blades Active Vibration and Flow Control,” NYSERDA.

“Development of a Robust Synthetic Jet Actuator,” Industrial sponsor.

“Active Flow Control: Experimental and Numerical Investiga-tions,” Industrial sponsor.

“Control of Transonic Flow in a Serpentine Inlet,” Industrial sponsor.

“Flow Control Enabled Vertical Stabilizer,” NASA Langley/Industrial sponsor.

“Distributed Conformal Actuation with Electro Active Poly-mers,” Industrial sponsor.

“Exploratory Investigation of Active Vibration and Flow Con-trol in Wind Turbine Blades,” National Science Foundation.

“Flow Control of Single-Phase and Flow Boiling at the micro Scale,” Office of Naval Research.

“Fundamental Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Active Control of 3-D Flows,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

“Vectored Thrust through Stator-Induced Cyclically-Varying Preswirl,” Office of Naval Research-University Laboratory Initia-tive.

Selected PublicationsFarnsworth J, Amitay m, Beal D and huyer S, “Stator-Induced Circumferentially-Varying Flow,” Experiments in Fluids, DOI: 10.1007/s00348-011-1060-z (march 2011).

honkanen m, Elcock D, Kuo C-J, Peles Y, and Amitay m, “Lagrangian Tracking of Bubbles Interacting with Pin-Fins in a microchannel,” DOI 10.1007/s00348-010-1007-9 (November 2010).

Sahni O, Wood J, Jansen KE and Amitay m, “3-D Interactions between a Finite-Span Synthetic Jet and a Cross Flow at a Low Reynolds Number and Angle of Attack,” J Fluid mechanics, 671, 254-287 (2011).

Elcock D, honkanen m, Kuo C, Amitay m, Peles Y, ”Bubble Dynamics and Interactions with a Pair of micro Pillars in Tan-dem,” Int J multiphase Flows (December, 2010).

maldonado V, Farnsworth J, gressick W and Amitay m, “Ac-tive Control of Flow Separation and Structural Vibrations of Wind Turbine Blades,” Wind Energy, 13(2-3), 221-237 (2010).

montoya LD, Jackson JL, Amitay m, “Control of Aerosol Dispersion in a Room Using Synthetic Jet Actuators,” Building and Environment, 45(1), 165-175 (2010).

maldonado V, Boucher m, Ostman R and Amitay m, “Active Vibration Control of a Wind Turbine Blade Using Synthetic Jets,” Int J Flow Control, 1(4), (2009).

Vaccaro JC, Vasile JD, Olles J, Sahni O, Jansen K, and Amitay m, “Active Control of Inlet Ducts,” Int J Flow Control, 1(2), 133-154 (2009).

Otani K, moore J, gressick W, and Amitay m, “Active Yaw Control of a Ducted Fan-Based mAV,” Int J Flow Control, 1(1), 29-42 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJohn Vaccaro, “Flow Control in a Compact Inlet.”

John Farnsworth, “Fundamental Investigation of Circumfer-entially Varying Stator Cascades.”

Junkyu Jung, “Physics of Active Flow Control around a Pillar at the micro Scale.”

MS Students GraduatedSteven london, “An Experimental Investigation of the SOmS green hybrid Spin-On micro-filter System.”

Jay Shih-chieh, “Flow Control Actuator in microchannel.”

Tyler Van Buren, “Control of Laminar Boundary Layers using Electro Active Polymers.”

Janine Freeman, “Testing of a Combined Savonius-Darrieus Wind Turbine.”

wasif Khan, “Flow Structures and Interactions of a Fail-Safe Actuator.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Building Integrated Wind

• Flow Control in Inlet Ducts

• Vibration Control of Wind Turbine Blades

• 3-D Interaction of Synthetic Jets with Cross-Flows

• Flow Control using EAPs

• Pre-Swirl Technique for UUVs

• Urban Wind Turbine

• Flight Control with Flow Control

• Underwater Vehicles

• Flow control of mAVs

Michael Amitay

Professor and Director, center for Flow Physics and controlTechnion, Israel 1994

Primary Research Area: Aerodynamic Flow control for Air Vehicles; wind Turbines; and Building Integrated wind


Research InterestsDynamics, Computational Dynamics, multibody Systems, Ad-vanced Computation, molecular Dynamics, Adaptive Systems

Sponsored Research“Education of Scientists with Skill Applicable for Work in Advanced Vehicle Systems,” Industrial sponsor.

“Framework for the Adaptive multiscale modelling of Biopoly-mers,” National Science Foundation.

“Efficient Simulation and Analysis of Complex Rigid Body Dynamic Systems Subject to Unilateral Constraints,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsBhalerao KD, Crean C and Anderson KS, “hybrid Comple-mentarity Formulations for Robotics Applications,” Zeitschrift für Angewandte mathematik und mechanik, doi: 10.1002/zamm.201000093, 91(5), 386-399 (2011).

Bhalerao KD and Anderson KS, “modeling Intermittent Contact for Flexible multibody Systems,” Nonlinear Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s11071-009-9580-2, 60(1-2), 63-79 (2010).

Bhalerao KD, Poursina m and Anderson KS, “An Efficient Direct Differentiation Approach for Sensitivity Analysis of Flexible multibody Systems,” multibody System Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s11044-009-9176-0, 23(3), 121-140 (2010).

Berard S, Trinkle JC, Anderson KS, “Sources of Error in a Simulation of Rigid Parts on a Vibrating Rigid Plate,” ASmE J Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 5(4), doi:10.1115/1.4001820 (2010).

Bhalerao KD, Anderson KS, Trinkle JC, “A hybrid Time-Step-ping Scheme for Intermittent in multi-Rigid-Body Dynamics,” ASmE J Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 4(4), 041010 (2009).

Ballard Cg, Anderson KS, and myrabo LN “Flight Dynam-ics Simulation of Lightcraft Propelled by Laser Ablation,” ASmE J Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 4(4), doi:10.1115/1.3187214 (2009).

Critchley Jh, Binani A, and Anderson KS, “Design and Implementation of an Efficient multibody Divide and Conquer Algorithm,” ASmE J Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics, 4(2), (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedMohammad Poursina, “Robust Framework for the Adaptive multiscale modeling of Biopolymers.”

Kishor Bhalerao, “On methods for Efficient and Accurate Design and Simulation of multibody Systems.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Large Scale mars Lander Simulation

• Comparison of Dynamics Formulation Performance in Robotics Applications

Kurt S. Anderson

Professor, Associate Dean of undergraduate StudiesPh.D., Stanford university, 1990

Primary Research Area: computational Dynamics; Multibody Dynamics; Advanced computing; Nonlinear Systems Dynamics; Molecular Dynamics

Professor Anderson conducts research in the Com-putational Dynamics Laboratory, where researchers work on the development of advanced algorithms for modeling, simulating, and analyzing the behavior of complex dynamic systems. Examples of such systems include, but are not limited to, spacecraft, bio-molecular systems, molecular dynamics of advanced materials, robotic systems, automotive applications, the human body, and manufacturing operations.


Research Interestsmulti-Spacecraft Systems, guidance, Navigation, and Control of Spacecraft, Small Satellites, Space Robotics.

Selected PublicationsBevilacqua R, Romano m, Curti F, Caprari A, Pellegrini V, “guidance Navigation and Control for Autonomous multiple Spacecraft Assembly: Analysis and Experimentation,” Int J Aerospace Eng, Article ID 308245, doi:10.1155/2011/308245 (2011).

Bevilacqua R, Lehmann T, Romano m, “Development and Experimentation of LQR/APF guidance and Control for Autonomous Proximity maneuvers of multiple Spacecraft,” Elsevier Acta Astronautica, 68, 260-1275, doi: 10.1016/, acta-astro.2010.08.012 (2011).

Curti F, Romano m, Bevilacqua R, “Lyapunov-Based Thrusters’ Selection for Spacecraft Control: Analysis and Experimenta-tion,” J guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 33(4), 1143-1160 (2010).

Bevilacqua R, hall J, Romano m, “multiple Spacecraft Assem-bly maneuvers by Differential Drag and Low Thrust Engines,” Celestial mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 106, 69-88, doi 10.1007/s10569-009-9240-3 (2010).

Bevilacqua R, hall J, horning J, Romano m, “Ad-hoc Wire-less Networking and Shared Computation Based Upon Linux for Autonomous multi-Robot Systems,” AIAA J Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, 6(5), 328-353, 1542-9423 (2009).

Bevilacqua R, Romano m, Curti F, “Decoupled-Natural-Dynam-ics model for the Relative motion of Two Spacecraft Without and With J2 Perturbation,” Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory, 10(1), 11-20 (2010).

Bevilacqua R, Yakimenko O, Romano m, “On-Line generation of Quasi-Optimal Docking Trajectories,” Elsevier Acta Astro-nautica, 64, 345-358 (2009).

Riccardo Bevilacqua

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Rome, Italy, 2007

Primary Research Area: Multi-Spacecraft Systems

Professor Bevilacqua with students in the Advanced Autonomous Multiple Spacecraft Laboratory


Research InterestsWear; Solid Lubrication; Composites; Coatings; Nanostruc-tures; Polymers; hip/Knee Joint Replacements.

Sponsored Research“Adaptive high-Temperature Lubrication through Nanopore Channels.” National Science Foundation.

“Self-Lubricating Nanoporous hard Coatings.” National Sci-ence Foundation.

“multifunctional Nanocomposites for Space Tribology.” Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

“Friction & Wear under Very high Electromagnetic Stress.” Office of Naval Research.

Selected Publicationsmulligan CP, Blanchet TA and gall D, “Control of Lubricant Transport by a CrN Diffusion Barrier Layer during high-Temper-ature Sliding of a CrN-Ag Composite Coating,” Surface and Coatings Technology, 205, 1350-1355 (2010).

hermann T, Blanchet TA and Panayotou NF, “Evolution of Wear, Roughness, and Friction of Alloy 600 Superalloy Surfac-es in Water-Submersed Sliding,” Wear, 268, 126-132 (2010).

mulligan CP, Blanchet TA and gall D, “CrN-Ag Nanocomposite Coatings: high Temperature Tribological Response,” Wear, 269 125-131 (2010).

Blanchet TA, Kandanur SS and Schadler LS, “Coupled Effect of Filler Content and Countersurface Roughness on PTFE Nano-composite Wear Resistance,” Tribology Lett, 40, 11-21 (2010).

mulligan CP, Blanchet TA and gall D, “CrN-Ag Nanocompos-ite Coatings: Tribology at Room Temperature and During a Temperature Ramp,” Surface and Coatings Technology, 204, 1388-1394 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedD.D. heckelman, “Depth Dependent Oxidation and Wear Resistance of gamma Irradiated UhmWPE as a Function of Aging Conditions.”

S.S. Kandanur, “The Role of Filler Size & Content and Coun-tersurface Roughness in the Wear Resistance of Alumina-PTFE Nano-Composites.”

c. Mulligan, “CrN-Ag Self-Lubricating Nanoporous hard Coatings.”

MS Students GraduatedD. Sheen, “Effect of Electron Irradiation on Wear Resistance of Filled PTFE Composites.”

M. Schrameyer, “Enhanced Wear Resistance of Nano-Carbon and graphene Based PTFE Composites.”

G.J. Sroka, “Wear Resistant material Pairs for Sliding Electrical Contacts.”

Thierry A. Blanchet

Professor and Acting Department headPh.D., Dartmouth college, 1992



Sponsored Research“Compact, highly Effective Thermal management System Employing Nanoengineered Wicking Technology,” Industrial sponsor.

”Nanoengineered Surfaces for Controlling the Attachment of Pathogenic and Biofilm Forming Bacteria to Food Contact Surfaces,” US Department of Agriculture.

“IRES: U.S./Spain-Interdisciplinary Research on Fabrication and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Bismuth Telluride materials for Thermoelectric Applications,” National Science Foundation.

“NUE-Introducing Nanotechnology into the Thermal and Fluids Curricula: A multi Department, modular Laboratory,” National Science Foundation.

“CAREER: Towards Engineering Transport Properties of Nanoparticles for magnetically mediated hyperthermia Ap-plication,” National Science Foundation

“ micro-Scale Power generators Employing Capacitive Con-verters with Switchable Dielectric medium,” National Science Foundation.

“Building Bridges from high School to grad School: Inspiring Students Through Discovery-based Activities in Energy and the Environment,” National Science Foundation.

“Limits to Lubrication Theory in microsystems,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsChoi J, Sung B, Yoo J, Kim C and Borca-Tasciuc D-A, “En-hanced miniature Loop heat Pipe Cooling System for hIgh Power Density Electronics,” accepted, J Thermal Science and Eng Applications.

Kempitiya A, Borca-Tasciuc D-A and hella mm, “Analysis and Optimization of Asynchronously Controlled Electrostatis Energy harvesters,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 59, 456 (2012).

Wang S, Borca-Tasciuc D-A and Kaminski D, “Spectral Cou-pling of Fluorescent Solar Concentrators to Plasmonic Solar Cells,” J Applied Physics, 109, 074910 (2011).

Cannarella J, Selvaggi J, Salon S, Tichy J and Borca-Tasciuc D-A, “On the Coupling Factor between the magnetic and mechanical Domains in Electromagnetic Power harvesting Applications,” IEEE Transactions on magnetics, 47(8), 2076 (2011).

Yuan Y and Borca-Tasciuc D-A, “Comparison between Experi-mental and Predicted Specific Absorption Rate of Functional-ized Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Suspensions,” J magnetism and magnetic materials, 323(20), 2463 (2011).

huang S, Borca-Tasciuc D-A, and Tichy J, “A Simple Expres-sion for Fluid Inertia Force Acting on micro-Plates Undergoing Squeeze Film Damping,” Proc Royal Academy A (published online before print on September 29, 2010), Vol. 467, 522 (2011).

gupta A, Kane R, and Borca-Tasciuc D-A, “Local Temperature measurement in the Vicinity of Remotely heated Nanopar-ticles,” J Applied Physics, 108, 064901 (2010).

Kempitiya A, Borca-Tasciuc D-A, mohamed hS and hella mm, “Localized microwave heating in microwells for Parallel DNA Amplification Applications,” Applied Physics Lett, 94, 064106 (2009). Selected for February 15, 2009, issue of Virtual Jour-nal of Biological Physics Research.

Ph.D. Students GraduatedAmit Gupta, “Nanoscale and Bulk Temperature measurement in the Vicinity of RF heated Nanoparticles.”

MS Students GraduatedShujuan huang, ”On the Experimental method for Specific Absorption Rate measurement of RF heated magnetic Nanoparticles.”

Michael J. Fornasiero, “The Effect of Nanoparticle Coating and Chaining on Thermal Conductivity of Nanofluids.”

Morgan P. Baker, Liquid Dynamics in Dielectrophoretic Actuation.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Temperature Control System for RF heating of Ferrofluid

• Fabrication of Alumina Templates

• Electrodeposition of Bismuth Telluride

• Investigation of Nanocrystalline Bismuth Telluride

• Thermal Conductivity measurement

• Conductivity measurement

• Thermal Research methods I and II

• microfluidics

• Liquid Dynamics

• Fabrication of Anodic Alumina Templates

• Dev. of the Experimental Setup for Liquid Squeeze Film Damping measurement in microsystems

• Thermal Conductivity measurement of Nanofluids

• Dielectrophoretic Actuation of Liquids in microchannels

• Development of measurement Technique for AC Suscepti-bility of Nanofluids

Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc

Associate ProfessorPh.D., university of california, los Angeles, 2005

Primary Research Area: heat Transfer and Microsystems


Research Interestsheat Conduction & Thermoelectric Energy Conversion in Nanomaterials, Nanoscale Thermoelectric metrology, Thermal Energy Storage, Thermal management, microsystems.

Sponsored Research“Reconfigurable Thermal Networks,” DARPA Phase I & Phase II program with Industrial sponsor.

“high Figure-of-merit N-Type Nanostructured Bulk Thermoelec-trics,” Department of Energy through mIT-EFRC S3TEC Center.

“NUE-Introducing Nanotechnology into the Thermal and Fluids Curricula: A multi Department, modular Laboratory,” National Science Foundation.

“Nanostructured Thermal Interface materials,” Industrial spon-sor.

Terahertz IgERT Fellowship Support.

“Thermal Characterization of Ecovative materials,” Industrial sponsor.

“New Approaches to Characterization, Doping, and Thermal management in Nanoelectronics,” NRI/NIST through SUNY Albany.

“heat generation and Dissipation in Junctions and Interfaces of Emerging Nanoscale Interconnects,” mARCO/IFC.

“Thermal management Solutions Using Nanostructures,” NYSTAR/IFC.

“Thermal Transport in Nanostructured materials,” Industrial sponsor.

“NIRT: Study of Electro- and magneto-mechanical Nano-Assem-blies,” National Science Foundation.

“CAREER: Towards Engineering Thermal Transport and Energy Conversion in Nanomaterials Based Devices,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsYavari F, Fard hR, Pashayi K, Rafiee mA, Zamiri A, Ozisik R, Borca-Tasciuc T and Koratkar N, “Enhanced Thermal Conductiv-ity in a Nanostructured Phase Change Composite Due to Low Concentration graphene Additives,” J Physical Chemistry C, 115, 8753 (2011).

Vafaei S, Wen D and Borca-Tasciuc T, “Nanofluids Surface Wettability Through Asymptotic Contact Angle,” Langmuir, 27, 2211 (2011).

Zhang Y, Castillo EE, mehta RJ, Ramanath g and Borca-Tasciuc T, “A Non-Contact Scanning Thermal microprobe for measuring Thermal Conductivity of Nanomaterials,”Review of Scientific Instruments, 82, 024902 (2011).

Yavari F, Kritzinger C, gaire C, Song L, gulapalli h, Borca-Tasciuc T, Ajayan Pm and Koratkar N, “Tunable Band gap in graphene by the Controlled Adsorption of Water molecules,” Small, 6, 2535-2538 (2010).

mehta RJ, Karthik C, Jiang W, Singh B, Shi Y, Borca-Tasciuc T and Ramanath g, ”high Electrical Conductivity Antimony Selenide Nanocrystals and Assemblies,” Nanoletters, 10, 4417–4422 (2010).

mehta RJ, Karthik C, Singh B, Teki R, Borca-Tasciuc T and Ramanath g, “Seebeck Tuning in Chalcogenide Nanoplate Assemblies by Nanoscale heterostructuring,” ACS Nano, 4, 5055–5060 (2010).

mazumder m, Borca-Tasciuc T, Teehan S, Efstathiadis h, Stinzianni E and Solovyov V, “Temperature Dependent Thermal Conductivity of Si/SiC Amorphous multilayer Films,” Applied Physics Lett, 96, 093103 (2010).

Castillo EE, hapenciuc CL, Borca-Tasciuc T, “Thermoelectric Characterization by Transient harman method under Non-Ideal Contact and Boundary Conditions,” Review of Scientific Instru-ments, 81, 044902 (2010).

Zhang Y, hapenciuc CL, Castillo EE, Borca-Tasciuc T, mehta RJ, Karthik C, Ramanath g, “A microprobe Technique for Simul-taneously measuring Thermal Conductivity and Seebeck Coef-ficient of Thin Films,” Applied Physics Lett, 96, 062107 (2010).

Vafaei S, Purkayastha A, Jain A, Ramanath g, and Borca-Tasciuc T, “Effect of Nanoparticles on the Liquid-gas Surface Tension of Bi2Te3 Nanofluids,” Nanotechnology, 20, 1855702 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedMonalisa Mazumder, “Thermal Transport from Nanoscale heat-Sources and in Nano-structured materials.”

MS Students Graduatedhafez Raeisi Fard, “Thermal Transport in Phase Change Nanocomposites.”

wei Jiang, “Thermoelectric Transport Investigations in Indi-vidual Sb2Se3 Nanowires.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Thermoelectric Characterization and Outreach

• Investigations of Boiling heat Transfer in Nanofluids

• Thermal Transport in magnetic Nanofluids

• Temperature Dependent Thermoelectric Characterization

• high Temperature System for Thermoelectric Properties Characterization

• modeling of Solid-State Thermoelectric Systems for Cooling and Power generation

• Thermal Transport in magnetic Nanofluids

• Thermal Transport in Ferrofluids

• “Thermal Transport Nanofluids.”

Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc

Associate ProfessorPh.D., university of california at los Angeles 2000

Primary Research Area: Nanoscale heat Transport and Thermoelectrics


Research InterestsComputational Radiation Dosimetry, Radiation Detection and Instrumentation, medical health Physics, Environmental health Physics.

Sponsored Research“RPI-NRC graduate Fellowships,” US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“VirtualDose Software for Diagnostic CT Doses to Adults and Children,” Industrial sponsor.

“hands-On Nuclear Engineering Education – A New Integrated Course,” US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“New Teaching and R&D Laboratory Experiments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,” US Department of Energy.

“4D Visible human modeling for Radiation Dosimetry,” Na-tional Library of medicine.

Selected PublicationsCaracappa PF, Xu Xg and gu J, “modeling of Tube Current modulation methods In Computed Tomography Dose Calcula-tions for Adult and Pregnant Patients,” Proc International Conference on mathematics and Computational methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Eng, (2011).

han B, Zhang J, Na Yh, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “model-ing and monte Carlo Organ Dose Calculations for Workers Walking On ground Contaminated With Cs-137 And Co-60 gamma Sources,” Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 143(3), 299-304 (2010).

Na Yh, Zhang B, Zhang J, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “Deform-able Adult human Phantoms for Radiation Protection Dosim-etry: Anthropometric Data Representing Size Distributions of Adult Worker Populations and Software Algorithms,” Phys. med. Biol., 55, 3789-3811 (2010).

Liu h, gu J, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “Comparison of Two Types of Adult Phantoms in Terms of Organ Doses from Diagnostic CT Procedures,” Phys. med. Biol., 55, 1441-1451 (2010).

Zhang JY, Na Yh, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “A Pair of mesh-Based, Size-Adjustable Adult male and Female Computational Phantoms Using ICRP-89 Parameters and Their Calculations for Organ Doses from monoenergetic Photon Beams,” Phys. med. Biol., 54, 5885-5908 (2009).

gu J, Bednarz B, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “The Develop-ment, Validation and Application of a multi-Detector CT (mDCT) Scanner model for Assessing Organ Doses to the Pregnant Patient and her Fetus using monte Carlo methods,” Phys. med. Biol., 54, 2699-2717 (2009).

Ding AP, gu JW, Liu hK, Caracappa P and Xu Xg, “A Software Package for Reporting multidector CT (mDCT) Doses,” Proc Int Conference on Advances in mathematics, Computational methods, and Reactor Physics, (2009).

gu JW, Caracappa P and Xu Xg, “multidetector CT (mDCT) modeling for Organ Dose Assessments of Various Patient Phantoms,” Proc Int Conference on Advances in mathematics, Computational methods, and Reactor Physics,.(2009).

Caracappa PF, Chao TC and Xu Xg, “A Study Of Predicted Bone marrow Distribution On Calculated marrow Dose From External Radiation Exposures Using Two Sets Of Image Data For The Same Individual,” health Phys., 96(6), 661-674 (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• Tissue Composition Sensitivity Analysis in Radiation

Dosimetry

• Technical Specification Requirements for Reactor License Renewal

• Characterization of OSL Radiation Dosimetry System

Peter F. caracappa

clinical Assistant Professor/lecturerPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006

Primary Research Area: computational Radiation Dosimetry

Left, graduate students setting up experiments at the The Gaerttner Linear Accelerator (LINAC). Right, graduate students align-ing a neutron scattering detector array.


Sponsored Research“Experiments Using a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer for Used Fuel Assay,” Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“Development of A Self Biased high Efficiency Solid-State Neutron Detector for mPACT Applications,” Dept. of Energy-NEUP.

“KAPL-RPI Nuclear Data Research,” Dept. of EnergyE-NR/KAPL.

“Nuclear Data for Criticality Safety,” Dept. of Energy-NCSP.

“Improvements of Nuclear Data and its Uncertainties by Theo-retical modeling,” Dept. of Energy-NEUP.

“Experiments with a Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer and Fission Neutrons,” Dept. of Energy-SSAA.

“Isotope Production Target Setup and Testing,” Argonne National Laboratory.

“Capture measurements of Isotopically Enriched metallic Samples of gd and Dy,” Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

“New R&D and Teaching Laboratory Experiments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,” Dept. of Energy-NEUP.

“Upgrading the Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility to a mod-ern Nuclear Reactor Laboratory,” Dept. of Energy-NEUP.

“hands-On Nuclear Engineering Education – A New Integrated Course,” Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“New Teaching and R&D Laboratory Experiments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,” Dept. of Energy-NEUP.

“LINAC Beam Services for NASA/goddard,” NASA-goddard Space Flight Center.

“A Novel Solid-State Self-Powered Neutron Detector,” Na-tional Science Foundation/Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

“A Novel Portable Battery Operated Neutron Source,” Domes-tic Nuclear Detection Office.

“measurements of Energy Dependent (n,p) and (n,alpha) Cross Sections of Nanogram Quantities of Short-lived Iso-topes,” Dept. of Energy-SSAA.

Selected PublicationsDagan R, Becker B and Danon Y, “A Complementary Doppler Broadening Formalism and its Impact on Nuclear Reactor Simulation,” Kerntechnik 3, 185-189 (2011).

Talou P, Becker B, Kawano T, Chadwick mB and Danon Y, “Ad-vanced monte Carlo modeling of Prompt Fission Neutrons for Thermal and Fast Neutron-Induced Fission Reactions on

239Pu,”

Phys. Rev. C, 83, 064612 (2011).

gillich DJ, Kovanen A, Danon Y, “Deuterated Target Compari-son for Pyroelectric Crystal D–D Nuclear Fusion Experiments”, J Nuclear materials, 405, 181–185 (2010).

Saglime FJ, Danon Y, Block RC, Rapp mJ, Bahran Rm, Lein-weber g, Barry DP and Drindak NJ, “A System for Differential Neutron Scattering Experiments in the Energy Range from 0.5 to 20 meV,” Nuclear Instruments and methods in Physics Res Section A, 620(2-3), 401-409 (2010).

Leinweber g, Barry DP, Burke JA, Drindak NJ, Block RC, Danon Y, moretti BE, “Resonance Parameters and Their Uncertainties Derived from Epithermal Neutron Capture and Transmission measurements of Elemental molybdenum,” Nuclear Science And Eng, 164, 287-303 (2010).

Romano C, Danon Y, Block RC, Thompson J, Blain E, Bond E, “Fission Fragment mass and Energy Distributions as a Function of Neutron Energy measured In a Lead Slowing Down Spec-trometer,” Phys. Rev. C, 81, 014607 (2010).

Fullem TZ, Danon Y, “Electrostatics of Pyroelectric Ac-celerators,” J Appl. Phys., 106, 074101 (2009); doi:10.1063/1.3225916.

Fullem TZ, Fazel KC, geuther JA, Danon Y, “Therapeutic Dose from a Pyroelectric Electron Accelerator,” Radiation Res, 172(5), 643–647 (2009).

gillich DJ, Ranganath T, Fullem TZ, Kovanen A, Blain E, Chrisey DB, Lu T-m and Danon Y, “Enhanced Pyroelectric Crystal D–D Nuclear Fusion using Tungsten Nanorods,” Nano Today, doi:10.1016/j. nantod.2009.04.004 (2009).

gillich DJ, Kovanen A, herman B, Fullem TZ and Danon Y, “Py-roelectric Crystal Neutron Production in a Portable Prototype Vacuum System,” Nuclear Instruments and methods in Physics Res Section A, 602(2), 21, 306-310 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedDonald Gillich, “Particle Acceleration with Pyroelectric Crystals.”

Frank Saglime, “high Energy Neutron Differential Scattering measurements for Beryllium and molybdenum.”

catherine Romano, “Variations in Fission Fragment mass Dis-tributions as a Function of Incident Neutron Energy measured in a Lead Slowing-Down Spectrometer.”

MS Students GraduatedAndrew Kovanen, “generation of Radiation from Pyroelec-tric Crystals.”

Matthew Evans, “Basic Properties of Pyroelectric Crystals.”

Adam Daskalakis, “Optimization of Pyroelectric Neutron generators.”

Yaron Danon

Professor and Director, Gaerttner lINAc laboratory (lINAc)Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1993

Primary Research Area: Nuclear Data; Nuclear Physics; Radiation Applications; Radiation Detection; Novel Radiation Sources; Nondestructive Testing


Research InterestsComputational mechanics, multiscale modeling, modeling of Energetic materials, modeling of Advanced Composites, Radiation Damage modeling, Biomechanics of Soft Tissues, medical Simulations, haptics and Virtual Environments.

Sponsored Research“Physically Realistic Virtual Surgery,” National Institute of Biomedical Imaging.

“Development of a Self-Consistent multiscale method (Smm) for Coupled Nonlinear micro-macro Analysis of heteroge-neous Explosives,” Office of Naval Research.

“Computational multi-Physics,” Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

“Nonlinear multiscale modeling of 3D Woven Fiber Compos-ites under Ballistic Loading,” Army Research Office.

“Developing a Virtual Basic Laparoscopic Skill Trainer (VBLAST),” National Institute of Biomedical Imaging.

“Developing Physics-Based Virtual Simulation Technology for Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES),” National Institute of Biomedical Imaging.

Selected PublicationsZamiri A and De S, “Deformation Distribution maps of mo-lecular Crystals,” Physical Review Lett (submitted).

De S, Eom J, Rahul, Shi C and Xu g, “A Review of Research in Respiration modeling for Radiological Physics and Biomedical Engineering Applications,” Physics in medicine and Biology (submitted).

Deo D and De S, “A Physics-driven Neural Networks-based Simulation System (PhyNNeSS) for multimodal Interactive Vir-tual Environments Involving Nonlinear Deformable Objects,” Presence (submitted).

Rahul and De S, “An Efficient Coarse-grained Parallel Algo-rithm for matrix-Free global-Local multiscale Computations on massively Parallel Systems,” Int J Numerical methods in Engineering (accepted).

Zamiri A and De S, “On the micromechanics of Deformation in molecular Crystals,” Physical Rev. B (submitted).

maciel A and De S, “SofmIS: A Software Framework for multi-modal Interactive Simulations,” Presence (submitted).

Schmitt C, Rusak Z and De S, “Numerical Solution of the Advection and Burgers Equations Using the Point Collocation-based method of Finite Spheres (PCmFS),” J Computational Physics (submitted).

maciel A, halic T, Nedel NP and De S, “Using PhysX for Virtual Surgery with Force Feedback,” Int J medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery (accepted).

De S and Johnson C, “Special issue Preface: Computational Bioengineering,” Eng with Computers, 25(1), 1-2 (2009).

Banihani S and De S, “A Comparison of Some model Order Reduction methods for Fast Simulation of Soft Tissue Re-sponse Using the Point Collocation-based method of Finite Spheres (PCmFS),” Eng with Computers, 25(1), 37-47 (2009).

PhD Students Graduatedlu Zhonghua, “Physical mOdeling and Real-Time Interactive Simulation of Soft-Tissue in Virtual Surgery.”

Dhannanjay Deo, “A Physics Driven Neural Networks-based Simulation System (PhyNeSS).”

MS Students GraduatedVenkata Sreekanth Arikatla, “Some Experiences in Developing a Virtual Basic Laparoscopic Skill Trainer (VBLaST™).”

Rahul, “An Efficient Coarse-grained Parallel Algorithm for global-Local multiscale Computations on massively Parallel Systems.”

Suvranu De

Professor and Director of the center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in MedicinePh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001

Primary Research Area: Multiscale Modeling

Researchers remotely and successfully operated different high-tech surgical robots from a variety of locations around the world. Rensselaer Professor Suvranu De is part of this team, which is sowing the seeds of one day allowing a doctor in New York, for example, to perform complicated surgery on a patient in Seattle, Vienna, Perth, or anywhere else.


Research InterestsFluid mechanics, Interfacial hydrodynamics, Surfactant hydro-dynamics, Liquid Optics.

Sponsored Research“Collaborative Research: Effects of Interfacial Viscosities on Flow of Lung Surfactants,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationsmalouin BA, Vogel mJ, Olles JD, Cheng L, and hirsa Ah, “Elec-tromagnetic Liquid Pistons for Capillarity-based Pumping,” Lab on a Chip, 11(3), 393-396 (2011). Note, this paper is featured on the cover of the issue (February 2011).

heldt CL, Sorci m, Posada D, hirsa A, and Belfort g, “Detection and Reduction of microaggregates in Insulin Preparations,” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 108, 237-241 (2011).

malouin BA, Vogel mJ, and hirsa Ah, “Electromagnetic Con-trol of Coupled Droplets,” Applied Physics Lett, 96, 214104 (2010).

malouin BA, Koratkar NA, hirsa Ah, and Wang Z, “Directed Rebounding of Droplets by microscale Surface Roughness gradients,” Applied Physics Lett, 96, 234103 (2010).

PhD Students GraduatedBernard A. Malouin, “Electromagnetic Forcing of Capillary Surfaces and Application to Liquid Lens Systems.”

Amir hirsa

ProfessorPh.D., university of Michigan, 1990

Primary Research Area: Fluid Mechanics

Research InterestsNuclear Criticality Safety; Simulations; Quality Assurance; Blended/hybrid Learning

Sponsored Research“hands-On Nuclear Engineering Education – A New Integrated Course,” U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Selected Publicationshaley, Thomas C, “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Neutron Chain Reactions – But Were Afraid To Ask,”director, co-producer, and co-writer. Film appropriate for engineering and technology undergraduates and advanced high school chemistry students: 50 minutes (2010).

Caracappa PF, Trumbull T, haley T, huguet m-P, Ji W, Danon Y, Sones B and gillich D, “making the most of hands-on Learn-ing – an Integrated Course at Rensselaer,” Transactions of the American Nuclear Society, 103, 124-125 (2010).

haley T, Danon Y, Trumbull T, Caracappa P, Ji W, huguet m-P, Blaine E, Sones B and gillich D, “Nuclear Blenders: Blended Learning from Rensselaer’s Reactor Critical Facility,” Technical meeting on Low-Power Critical Facilities and Small Reactors: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2010).

huguet m-P, haley T and Danon Y, “hands-On Nuclear Engi-neering Education - A Blended Approach,” American Society of Eng Education (ASEE) Annual Conference: Louisville, KY (2010).

huguet m-P, Wright F, and haley TC. “Exemplary Courses, Ex-emplary Designs – A Tale of Three Faculty,” Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT) Interactive Technologies Confer-ence: Arlington, Virginia (2009).

huguet m-P, Wright F, and haley TC, “Beyond The Template, an Award-Winning Design Approach for Blended and Online Courses,” 9th Int Educational Technology Conference (IETC): hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey (2009).

Thomas c. haley

clinical Associate ProfessorPh.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000

Primary Research Area: Nuclear criticality Safety


Research InterestsConvective heat Transfer, Boiling and Two-Phase Flows, Con-densation heat Transfer, heat Transfer in microdomains, Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, Thermal management of Batteries, Building Integrated Photovoltaic Systems, Sustainability

Sponsored Research“IgERT An Entrepreneurial Ph.D. Education in Fuel Cell manu-facturing, materials Development, and modeling,” National Science Foundation.

“mURI: System-Level Approach for multi- Phase Nanotech-nology-Enhanced Cooling of high-Power microelectronic Systems,” Office of Naval Research.

“Integrated multi-Scale Design and Laboratory Curriculum for Nuclear Thermal-hydraulics Engineering,” Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“Intelligent Facades for high Performance green Buildings,” U.S. Department of Energy.

“Thermal management of Lithium Ion Batteries,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsBrowne EA, michna gJ, Jensen mK and Peles Y, “microjet Ar-ray Single-Phase and Flow Boiling heat Transfer with R134a,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 53, 5027–5034 (2010).

Zhou RL, Zhang TJ, Catano J, Wen JT, michna gJ, Peles Y and Jensen mK, “The Steady-State modeling and Optimization of a Two-Loop Refrigeration System for high heat Flux Electronics Cooling,” Applied Thermal Eng, 30, 2347-2356 (2010).

Zhang TJ, Wen JT, Peles Y, Catano J, Zhou RL and Jensen mK, “Two-Phase Refrigerant Flow Instability Analysis and Active Control in Transient Electronics Cooling Systems,” Int J multi-phase Flow, 37, 84-97 (2011).

Zhang TJ, Wen JT, Julius A, Peles Y and Jensen mK, “Stability Analysis and maldistribution Control of Two-Phase Flow in Parallel Evaporating Channels,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 54, 5298-5305 (2011).

Basu S, Ndaos S, michna gJ, Peles Y and Jensen mK, “Flow Boiling of R134a in Circular microtubes. Part I: Study of heat Transfer Characteristics,” ASmE J heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051502 (2011).

Basu S, Ndaos S, michna gJ, Peles Y and Jensen mK,“Flow Boiling of R134a in Circular microtubes. Part II: Study of Criti-cal heat Flux Condition,” ASmE J heat and Transfer, 133(5), 051503 (2011).

michna gJ, Browne EA, Jensen mK and Peles Y, “The Effect of Area Ratio on microjet Array heat Transfer,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 54 (9-10), 782-1790 (2011).

gathright W, Jensen mK, and Lewis D, “Phase-Field model of Chemical Reactions with an Example of a Solid Electrolyte gas Sensor,” Electrochemistry Communications, 13, 520–523 (2011).

Christman K and Jensen mK, “Effect of Cross Flow Roughness on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” J Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 8, 024501-1 (2011).

Derby m, Lee hJ, Peles Y and Jensen mK, “Condensation heat Transfer in Square, Triangular, and Semi-Circular mini-Chan-nels,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 55, 187-197 (2012).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedS. Ndao, “Single-Phase and Flow Boiling heat Transfer of Jet Impingement on Smooth and Enhanced micro Structured Surfaces.”

MS Students GraduatedK. christman, “modeling of Crossflow Roughness on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells.”

R. craft, “Condensation in microchannels: Development and Testing of a New Experimental Approach Using Thermoelectric Coolers.”

M. Munoz, “Designing heated Tooling using FEA.”

M. Derby, “Condensation heat Transfer in Square, Triangular and Semi-Circular mini-Channels.”

S. Basu, “heat Transfer Characteristics fro Flow Boiling of R134a in horizontal Circular microtubes.”

M. Neeley, “modeling Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Performance Af-fected by microscale Electrode Surface Variations.”

M. Kimball, “Numerical Simulation of a Single Confided mi-croscale Impinging Jet with Conjugate heat Transfer Effects.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Analysis of Brayton-SOFC hybrid Cycles

• milk Pasteurization Device for Rural Farmers in Peru

• Numerical Simulation of Cross Flow Over Pin Fins

• Simulation of Transient Vapor Compression System

• Solar Powered Computer Lab for haiti

• heat Transfer in microsystems

• hydroponics System for haiti

• Passive Desalination

• Inexpensive Solar Simulator

Michael K. Jensen

ProfessorPh.D., Iowa State university 1980

Primary Research Area: heat Transfer


Research InterestsAdvanced modeling and Simulation, multiscale multiphysics Computation, Next generation Nuclear Reactor Design and Analysis, Light Water Reactor Sustainability, Very high Tem-perature gas-cooled Reactors.

Sponsored Research“Upgrading the Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility to a mod-ern Nuclear Reactor Laboratory,” U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office.

“New R&D and Teaching Laboratory Experiments at Rensse-laer Polytechnic Institute,” U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office.

“RPI-NRC graduate Fellowship Program,” U.S. Nuclear Regula-tory Commission.

“hands-On Nuclear Engineering Education – A New Integrated Course,” U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“Junior Faculty Development: Loading the Fuel of the 21st Century Academic Reactor Core,” U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Selected PublicationsJi W and martin WR, “The Application of the Chord method to Obtain Analytical Expressions for Dancoff Factors in Sto-chastic media,” Nuclear Science and Eng, 169, 19-39 (2011).

Li Y.and Ji W, “modeling of Interactions between Fluid-Dynamics and Pebble Flow in Advanced high Temperature Reactors,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 104, 404-406 (2011).

Liang C and Ji W, “Chord Length Sampling in Stochastic media Packed with Poly-Sized Spheres,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc. 104, 331-333 (2011).

Li Y and Ji W, “A Collective Dynamics-based method for Initial Pebble Packing in Pebble Flow Simulation,” Proc Int Confer-ence on mathematics and Computational methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Eng (m&C 2011), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011).

Ding A, Liu T, Liang C, Ji W, and Xu Xg, “Evaluation of Speedup of monte Carlo Calculations of Simple Reactor Phys-ics Problems Coded for the gPU/CUDA Environment,” Proc Int Conference on mathematics and Computational methods Ap-plied to Nuclear Science and Eng (m&C 2011), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2011).

Li Y and Ji W, “Pebble Flow Simulation Based on a multi-Phys-ics model,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 103, 323-325 (2010).

Liang C and Ji W, “Investigation of Chord Length Sampling method in Finite 1-D Binary Stochastic media,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 103, 338-341 (2010).

Caracappa PF, Trumbull T, haley T, huguet m-P, Ji W, Danon Y, Sones B, gillich D, “making the most of hands-On Learning: An Integrated Course at Rensselaer,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 103, 124-125 (2010).

haley T, Danon Y, Trumbull T, Caracappa P, Ji W, huguet m-P, Blaine E, Sones B, gillich D, “Nuclear Blenders: Blended Learning from Rensselaer’s Reactor Critical Facility,” Technical meeting on Low-Power Critical Facilities and Small Reactors, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (2010).

Ji W, “Impact of the Stochastic Distribution of Fuel Particles on VhTR Neutronic Analysis,” Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc., 100, 312-314 (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• Full Core modeling and Neutronic Analysis of Pebble-bed

Design for Very high Temperature gas-Cooled Reactors

• Neutron Flux Attenuation through Reactor Pressure Vessel and mD Simulation of Radiation Damage

• Radiation Effects on materials in Nuclear Reactor Systems, Detectors, CCD Imagers, and Biological Systems

• monte Carlo Algorithm Development for Radiation Trans-port Computation in Random media

• mCNP modeling of TRISO Fuel Particles in Very high Tem-perature gas-cooled Reactors

wei Ji

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Michigan, 2008

Primary Research Area: Next Generation Nuclear Reactor Design

As members of the campus group Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), students are applying what they have learned in the classroom and laboratory to real-world problems with important repercussions for developing nations. Here, Professor Jensen with students in Haiti on a Solar Power project to improve a Haitian School.


Research InterestsDynamics, Computational Dynamics, multibody Systems, Ad-vanced Computation, molecular Dynamics, Adaptive Systems

Sponsored Research“Nanofluidic Power generation using One-Dimensional (Car-bon Nanotube) and Two-Dimensional (graphene) Nanomateri-als,” Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC).

“Brittle Epoxies Rendered Ductile- Crazing inThermosetting Epoxy Nanocomposites,” National Science Foundation.

“Next generation Li-Ion Batteries Featuring Nano-Engineered Anode Architectures,” National Science Foundation.

“hierarchical Nano-Composites: Dramatic Enhancements in Fatigue Resistance and Toughening,” Office of Naval Research.

“Next generation high C-Rate Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Bat-teries,” NYS Energy Research and Development Authority.

“Fundamental Study of Nucleate Boiling on Nanostructured Interfaces,” National Science Foundation.

“Next generation Carbon-Nanotube/Carbon-Fiber Composites for mechanical Properties Enhancement and Structural moni-toring,” Penn State Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence (VLRCOE).

“Fundamental Study of Photo-Thermo-mechanical Actuation in Carbon Nanotubes and their Composites,” National Science Foundation.

“NSF-DFg Research Conference on Nanoscience and Nano-technology,” National Science Foundation.

“NIRT: Fundamental Study of Electro- and magneto-mechani-cal Nano-Assemblies,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationshazra KS, Rafiee J, Rafiee mA, mathur A, Roy SS, mcLauhglin J, Koratkar N and misra DS, “Thinning of multilayer graphene to monolayer graphene in a Plasma Environment,” Nanotech-nology, 22, 025704 (2011). This research study was featured by Nature India (doi:10.1038/nindia.2010.187).

Krishnan R, Lu T-m and Koratkar N, “Functionally Strain graded Nanoscoops for high Power Li-ion Battery Anodes,” Nano Lett, 11, 377-384 (2011).

Walker LS, marotto VR, Rafiee mA, Koratkar N, Corral EL, “Toughening in graphene Ceramic Composites”, ACS Nano 5, 3182–3190 (2011).

Rafiee mA, Lu W, Thomas AV, Zandiatashbar A, Rafiee J, Ko-ratkar N, “graphene Nano-Ribbon Composites,” ACS Nano, 4, 7415–7420 (2010).

Yavari F, Kritzinger C, gaire C, Song L, gulapalli h, Borca-Tasciuc T, Ajayan Pm and Koratkar N, “Tunable Band gap in graphene by the Controlled Adsorption of Water molecules,” Small, 6, 2535-2538 (2010).

Rafiee J, Rafiee mA, Yu Z-Z & Koratkar N, “Super-hydrophobic to Superhydrophilic Wetting Control in graphene Films,” Advanced materials, 22, 2151-2154 (2010).

Rafiee mA, Rafiee J, Srivastava I, Wang Z, Song h, Yu Z-Z and Koratkar N, “Fracture and Fatigue in graphene Nanocompos-ites,” Small, 6, 179–183 (2010).

Rafiee mA, Rafiee J, Wang Z, Song h, Yu Z-Z and Koratkar N, “Enhanced mechanical Properties of Nanocomposites at Low graphene Content,” ACS Nano, 3, 3884-3890 (2009).

Zhang W, Srivastava I, Zhu Y-F, Picu CR, and Koratkar N, “heterogeneity in Epoxy Nanocomposites Initiates Crazing: Significant Improvements in Fatigue Resistance and Toughen-ing,” Small, 5, 1403-1407 (2009).

Teki R, Datta mK, Krishnan R, Parker TC, Lu T-m, Kumta PN and Koratkar N, “Nanostructured Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Batteries,” Small, 5, 2236-2242 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedMohammad Ali Rafiee, “graphene-based Composite materials.”

Rahul Krishnan, “Silicon-based Nanoarchitectures for high Power Li-Ion Battery Anodes.”

Iti Srivastava, “mechanical Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites.”

Ranganath Teki, “Nanorod Structures for Energy Conversion Applications.”

MS Students GraduatedVelibor Peric, “Investigation of the Effects of multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on the Damage Resistivity of Kevlar Rein-forced Composite Plates.”

Prashant Dhiman, “Flow Induced Power generation from graphene.”

Nikhil Koratkar

ProfessorPh.D., university of Maryland at college Park, 2000

Primary Research Area: computational Dynamics


Nikhil Koratkar

ProfessorPh.D., university of Maryland at college Park, 2000

Primary Research Area: computational Dynamics

Research InterestsNanostructured materials for Alternative Energy Applications, Design materials under Extreme Conditions, Radiation Effects and Ion Beam materials modification, Development of Novel Nuclear Fuels and Waste Forms for Advanced Nuclear Energy System and Waste management, Surface Functionalization of Nanostructured materials for multi-Functionality, Environ-mental Remediation by Novel Chemical Processes for Effective Waste management including CO2 Capture and Sequestration.

Sponsored Research“Particle-induced Amorphization of Complex Ceramics – Response of materials to Extreme Conditions,” Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US Department of Energy.

“materials Science for Actinides,” Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC).

“multifunctional Core-Shell and Nano-channel Design for Nano-sized Thermo-sensor,” Dept. of Defense, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

“Faculty Development Program: Training Leadership for Sus-tainable Nuclear Energy,” Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

“Collaborative Research: Atomistic mechanisms of Stabiliz-ing Oxide Nanoparticles in ODS-based Structural materials,” National Science Foundation.

“New Research and Development and Teaching Laboratory Ex-periments,” Office of Nuclear Engineering University Program (NEUP), Department of Energy.

Selected PublicationsWang g, Sun X, Liu C and Lian J, “Tailoring Oxidation Degrees of graphene Oxide by Simple Chemical Reactions,” Applied Physics Lett, 99, 053114 (2011).

Lu F, Zhang J, huang m, Namavar F, Ewing RC and Lian J, “Phase Transformation of Nano-sized ZrO2 upon Thermal An-nealing and Intensive Radiation,” J Physical Chemistry C, 115, 7193-7201 (2011).

gou h, Zhang J, Li Z, Wang g, gao F, Ewing RC and Lian J, “Energetic Stability, Structural Transition and Electronic Proper-ties of ZnSnO3,” Applied Physics Lett, 98 (2011) 091914 (2011).

Zhang Jm, Lian J, Zhang FX, Wang JW, Fuentes AF and Ewing RC, “Intrinsic Structural Disorder and Radiation Response of Nanocrystalline gd2(Ti0.65Zr0.35)2O7 Pyrochlore,” J Physics Chemistry C, 114, 11810-11815 (2010).

Cao h, Yu Q, Pandey D, Zemlianov D, Colby R, Childres I, Drachev V, Stach E, Lian J, Li h, Pei SS and Chen YP, “Large Scale graphene Films Synthesized on metals and Transferred to Insulators for Electronic Applications,” J Applied Physics, 107 044310 (2010).

Lian J, Pointeau V, Zhang Jm, Zhang FX, Lang mK, Lu FY and Ewing RC, “Radiation Response of Synthetic Coffinite by Ener-getic Ion Beam,” J Nuclear materials, 393, 481–486 (2009).

Lian J, Zhang J, Namavar F, Ewing RC, Lu F, haider h and garvin K, “Ion Beam-Induced Amorphous-to-Tetragonal Phase Transformation and grain growth of Nanocrystalline Zirconia,” Nanotechnology, 20, 245303 (2009).

Lian J, Wang Lm, Sun K, and Ewing RC, “In situ TEm of Radia-tion Effects in Complex Ceramics,” microscopy Research and Technique, 72 165-181 (2009).

Zhang J, Lian J, Fuentes AF, Zhang F, Lang m, Lu F, and Ewing RC, “Enhanced Radiation Resistance of Nanocrystalline Pyro-chlore -gd2(Ti0.65Zr0.35)2O7,“ Appl. Phys. Lett, 94, 243110 (2009).

Zhao J, Shi D and Lian J, “Small Angle Light Scattering Study of Improved Dispersion of Carbon Nanofibers in Water by Plasma Treatment,” Carbon, 47, 2329-2336 (2009).

MS Students Graduatedhui Niu, “First Principles Investigation of Structural, Elastic, Electronic and Thermal Properties of Rare-earth Titanate and hafnate Oxides.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Apparatus Setup for microwave Sintering

• Solar grade Poly-Si Production and Rare Earth Extraction

Jie lian

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Michigan, 2003

Primary Research Area: Nanostructured Materials


Research InterestsStructure and dynamics of nano-materials and bio-molecules, molecular dynamics simulation of nuclear fuels and cladding materials, nuclear data, nuclear threat detection, and nuclear emergency analysis.

Sponsored Research“Deployment of a Suite of high Performance Computational Tools for multiscale multiphysics Simulation of generation-IV Reactors,” U. S. Department of Energy.

“Junior Faculty Development: Loading the Fuel of the 21st Century Academic Reactor Core,” Nuclear Regulatory Com-mission.

“Career Campaign Award, RAmP-UP Program,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

“RPI Nuclear Fellowship Program,” Nuclear Regulatory Com-mission.

“New R&D and Teaching Laboratory Experiments at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,” U. S. Department of Energy – Idaho Operations Office.

“Career Campaign Travel Award, RAmP-UP Program,” Rens-selaer Polytechnic Institute.

Selected PublicationsLi X, Wu B, Liu Y, Pynn R, Shew C-Y, Smith gS, herwig KW, Robertson JL, Chen W-R and Liu L, “Contrast Variation in Spin-Echo Small Angle Neutron Scattering,” J Physics: Condensed matter, accepted.

Li X, Shew C-Y, he L, meilleur F, myles DAA, Liu E, Smith gS, herwig KW, Pynn R and Chen W-R, “Scattering Functions of Platonic Solids,” J Applied Crystallography, accepted.

hong K, Liu Y, Porcar L, Liu D, gao CY, Smith gS, herwig KW, Cai S, Li X, Wu B, Chen W-R, and Liu L, “Structural Response of Polyelectrolyte Dendrimer Toward the molecular Proton-ation: the Inconsistence Revealed by SANS and NmR,” J Phys-ics: Condensed matter, in press.

Li X, Zamponi m, hong K, Porcar L, Shew C-Y, Jenkins T, Liu L, Smith gS, herwig KW, Liu Y and Chen W-R, “ph Responsive-ness of Polyelectrolyte Dendrimers: A Dynamical Perspective,” Soft matter, in press.

Li X, hong K, Liu Y, Shew C-Y, Liu L, herwig KW, Smith gS, Zhao J, Zhang g, Pispas S and Chen W-R, “Water Distribu-tions in PS-b-P(S-g-PEO) Block grafted Copolymers Aggregates in Aqueous Solutions Revealed by Contrast Variation SANS Study,” J Chem. Phys., 133, 144912 (2010).

Li X, Shew C-Y, Liu Y, Pynn R, Liu L, herwig KW, Smith gS, Robertson JL and Chen W-R, “Theoretical Studies on the Structure of Interacting Colloidal Suspensions by Spin-Echo Small Angle Neutron Scattering,” J Chem. Phys., 132, 174509 (2010).

Liu Y, Porcar L, hong K, Shew C-Y, Li X, Liu L , Butler PD, her-wig KW, Smith gS and Chen W-R, “Effect of Counterion Va-lence on the ph Responsiveness of Polyamidoamine Dendrimer Structure,” J Chem. Phys., 132, 124901 (2010).

Liu Y, Chen C-Y, Chen h-L, hong K, Shew C-Y, Li X, Liu L, KW herwig, Smith gS, Porcar L and Chen W-R, “Electrostatic Swelling and Conformational Variation Observed in high-generation Polyelectrolyte Dendrimers,” J Phys. Chem. Lett., 1, 2020 (2010).

Chen S-h, Zhang Y, Lagi m, Chu X, Liu L, Faraone A, Fratini E, and Baglioni P, “The Dynamic Response Function chi(T(Q,t) of Confined Supercooled Water and its Relation to the Dynamic Crossover Phenomena,” Z. Phys. Chem., 224, 999 (2010).

Chen S-h, Zhang Y, Lagi m, Chu X, Liu L, Faraone A, Fratini E, and Baglioni P, “The Dynamic Response Function chi(T)(Q,t) of Confined Supercooled Water and its Relation to the Dynamic Crossover Phenomenon,” Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 224, 109-131 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedXin li, “The Application of Spin-Echo Small-Angle Neutron Scattering in Colloidal System.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Blended Learning and Integration of Technology in Nuclear

Engineering Education

• Installation, Testing, and Improving Light & X-ray Scattering Instruments

• mCNP Simulation in Nuclear Detection

• Scattering Techniques for Proteins

• Light and X-ray Scattering

li (Emily) lIu

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005

Primary Research Area: Neutron Scattering; X-Ray Scattering; Dynamic light Scattering; Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials; condensed Matter; Soft Matter; and Molecular Dynamics Simulation


Research Interestsmechanics of materials, Computational mechanics, Continuum mechanics, Crystal Plasticity

Sponsored Research“gOALI/Collaborative Research: Understanding Cracking and Defect Formation during AlN Crystal growth,” National Sci-ence Foundation.

“3D Prostate Cancer Imaging Based on Crawling Wave Excita-tion,” National Institutes of health.

“NSF-Europe materials Collaboration: Strength and Formability of Fine grain Size Al-mg Alloys,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationshochhalter D, Littlewood DJ, Veilleux mg, Bozek JE, maniatty Am, Rollett AD, and Ingraffea AR, “A geometric Approach to modeling microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Formation: III. Development of a Semi-Empirical model for Nucleation,” modell. Simul. mater. Sci. Eng., 19, 035008 (2011).

Zhang h, Cargill gS III, and maniatty Am, “Thermal Strains in Passivated Aluminum and Copper Conductor Lines,” J mat. Res., 26, 633-639 (2011).

maniatty Am, Cargill gS III, moyer LE, and Yang C-J, “Inves-tigation of Thermal Stress Variability Due to microstructure in Thin Aluminum Films,” J Appl. mech, 78, 011012-1-9 (2011).

Irisawa T, Cargill gS III, hwang KJ, and maniatty Am, “Viscous Elongation of glass Rods: Experiments, Simulation, and Analy-sis,” J Appl. Phys., 108, 113515-1-9 (2010).

hochhalter JD, Littlewood DJ, Christ RJ Jr., Veilleux mg, Bozek JE, Ingraffea AR, and maniatty Am, “A geometric Approach to modeling microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Formation: II. Simulation and Prediction of Crack Nucleation in AA 7075-T651,” modell. Simul. mater. Sci. Eng., 18, 045004 (2010).

matous K and maniatty Am,“multiscale modeling of Elasto-Viscoplastic Polycrystals Subjected to Finite Deformations,” Interaction and multiscale mechanics, 2, 375-396 (2009).

Park E and maniatty Am,“Finite Element Formulation for Shear modulus Reconstruction in Transient Elastography,” Inverse Probl. Sci. Eng., 17, 605-626 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedYouzhang Ge, “Numerical Study of Electromigration in Passivated Interconnects.”

MS Students GraduatedKristen lee, “modeling Shear Waves through a heteroge-neous Viscoelastic medium Resulting from Acoustic Radiation Force Excitation.”

Devin Pyle, “A Comparison of Two methods for FEm Simulations of Discrete Polycrystals.”

undergraduate Research Projects• heat Transfer modeling of AlN Crystal growth Furnace

• model of Acoustic Radiation Force and Dynamic Response in Soft Tissue

Antoinette M. Maniatty

ProfessorPh.D., cornell university, 1991

Primary Research Area: Mechanics of Materials

Professor Maniatty’s general area of research is in the broad field of computational solid mechanics. Specific problems being currently investigated include modeling crystalline materials and inverse/optimization problems. In the area of modeling crystalline materials, work is being done to use micromechanics as a basis for modeling large strain metal forming problems. Work is also being done to model stresses and defect formation in thin metal films on semiconductor wafers and in semiconductor crystals during the growth process.


Research InterestsControl of Dynamic Systems, Control of Nano/micro-scale manufacturing, Intelligent Building Systems (Smart Lighting and hVAC), Learning and Adaptive Systems, Adaptive Optics.

Sponsored Research“Speed Estimation and Control using Slow-Rate Integrative Image Sensors for Adaptive Optics,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationsmishra S, Topcu U and Tomizuka m, “Optimization-based Constrained Iterative Learning Control,” IEEE/ASmE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, 19(6), 1613-1621 (2011).

Pikul J, graf P, mishra S, Barton K, Alleyne A, Rogers J, King W and Ferreira P, “high Precision Electrohydrodynamic Printing of Polymer onto microcantilever Sensors,” IEEE Sensors, 99, 1, 0doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2011.2127472 (2011).

Poellmann mJ, Barton K, mishra S and Johnson AW, “Pat-terned hydrogel Substrates for Cell Culture with Electrohy-drodynamic Jet Printing,” macromolecular Bioscience, DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201100004, online (2011).

Barton K, mishra S, Alleyne A, Ferreira P and Rogers J, “high Resolution Sensing and Control of Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing,” Control Engineering Practice, 19(11), 1266-1273 (2011).

mishra S, Barton K, Alleyne A, Ferreira P and Rogers J, “high Speed Drop-on-Demand Printing with a Pulsed Electro-hydro-dynamic Jet,” J micromechanics and microengineering, 20(9), 095026 (2010).

Barton K, mishra S, Shorter KA, Alleyne A, Ferreira P and Rog-ers J, “A Desktop Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing System,” mechatronics, 20(5), 611-616 (2010).

mishra S, Topcu U and Tomizuka m, “Optimization-based Constrained Iterative Learning Control,” IEEE/ASmE Trans. on Control Systems Technology (2010).

mishra S and Tomizuka m, “Projection-based Iterative Learn-ing Control for Wafer Scanner Systems,” IEEE/ASmE Trans. on mechatronics, 14(3), 388-393 (2009).

undergraduate Research Projects• mechatronic Design of an Agricultural Pest Control System

• System Integration and Vision System Development for Nanomanufacturing (E-jet printing)

• mATLAB Toolbox for an XBOX Kinect System for human Intent Detection

Sandipan Mishra

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of california, Berkeley, 2008

Primary Research Area: control of Dynamic Systems

Research InterestsAerodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics), Aircraft Design, Flight, Wind Energy.

Sponsored Research“Computational modeling of Active Flow Control Tech-niques,” Industrial sponsor.

“Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Investigations of the Limits of Natural Laminar Flow on the Nose of an Airfoil,” National Science Foundation.

“CFD investigations of Active Flow Control modeling Synthetic-Jet Actuators,” National Science Foundation.

“Universal Stall Angle and maximum Lift Prediction for Air-foils,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsRusak Z and morris WJ II, “Stall Onset on Airfoils at moder-ately high Reynolds Number Flows,” J Fluids Eng, 133 (11), 111104 (2011).

wallace J. Morris II

lecturerPh.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2009

Primary Research Area: Fluid Dynamics


Research InterestsComputational mechanics, Biomechanical Imaging, Inverse Problems, Biomechanics, Tissue mechanics, multiscale Com-putation, Turbulence, Fluid Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, multiphase Flows

Sponsored Research“CAREER Award: New Directions in the Variational multiscale Formulation of Large Eddy Simulation,” National Science Foundation.

“Analysis and Solution of an Inverse Elasticity Problem Arising from Elasticity Imaging,” US-Israel Binational Science Founda-tion.

“Fundamental Study of Photo-Thermo-mechanical Actuation in Carbon Nanotubes and their Composites,” National Science Foundation.

“The modeling of Two-Phase Flow Around Ship hulls,” Office of Naval Research.

“Petascale Adaptive Computational Fluid Dynamics,” National Science Foundation.

“3D Prostate Cancer Imaging Based on ‘Crawlingwave’ Excita-tion,” National Institutes for health.

“Feasibility of In-Vivo Determination of Absolute Elastic Tissue Properties in 3D,” National Institutes for health.

“Improving Breast Ultrasound Diagnosis with Quantitative mechanical Imaging,” National Institutes for health.

“A multiscale multiphysics Computational Framework for the Simulation of Blast Induced Pervasive Failure,” Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

Selected PublicationsShore SW, Barbone P, Oberai A and morgan EF, “Transversely Isotropic Elasticity Imaging of Cancellous Bone,” J Biomechani-cal Eng, 133(6), 061002 (2011).

Bolotnov IA, Jansen KE, Drew DA, Oberai AA, Lahey RT Jr and Podowski mZ, “Detached Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Two-Phase Bubbly Channel Flow,” Int J multiphase Flow, 37(6), 647-659 (2011).

goenezen S, Barbone PE and Oberai AA, “Solution of the Nonlinear Elasticity Imaging Inverse Problem: the Incompress-ible Case,” Computer methods in Applied mechanics and Eng, 200(13-16), 1406-1420 (2011).

Wang Z and Oberai AA, “A mixed LES model Based on the Residual-Based Variational multiscale Formulation,” Physics of Fluids, 22, (2010).

ma J, Oberai AA, Drew DA, Lahey RT Jr and moraga FJ, “A Quantitative Subgrid Air Entrainment model for Bubbly Flows,” Computers and Fluids, 39(1), 77-86 (2010).

Barbone PE, Rivas CE, harari I, Albocher U, Oberai AA and Zhang Y, “Adjoint-Weighted Variational Formulation for the Direct Solution of Inverse Problems of general Elasticity with Full Interior Data,” Int. J Numerical methods in Eng, 81(13), 1713-1736 (2009).

Oberai AA, Feijoo gR and Barbone PE, “Lanczos-iterated Time Reversal,” J Acoustical Society of America -Express Lett, 2(125), 70-76 (2009).

Oberai AA, gokhale Nh, goenezen S, Barbone PE, hall TJ, Sommer Am and Jiang J, “Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity Im-aging of Tissue in-vivo: Demonstration of Feasibility,” Physics in medicine and Biology, 54, 1191-1207 (2009).

Proper A, Zhang W, Bartolucci S, Oberai AA and Koratkar N, “In-Situ Detection of Impact Damage in Composites Using Carbon Nanotube Sensor Netwroks,” Nanoscience and Nano-technology Lett, 1(1), 3-7 (2009).

Richards mS, Barbone PE and Oberai AA, “Quantifative Three-Dimensional Elasticity Imaging from Quasi-Static Deformation: A Phantom Study,” Physics in medicine and Biology, 54, 757-779 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSevan Goenezen, “Inverse Problems in Finite Elasticity: An Application to Imaging the Nonlinear Elastic Properties of Soft Tissues.”

Zhen wang, “A mixed LES model Based on the Residual Based Variational multiscale Formulation.”

Assad A. oberai

ProfessorPh.D., Stanford university, 1998

Primary Research Area: computational Mechanics

High resolution (200 microns), in-vivo shear modulus image of a malignant (left) and a benign tumor (right). The benign tumor has a sharp boundary, while the malignant tumor is diffuse and has multiple foci. These are hallmarks of malignancy that can now be observed clearly in biomechanical

Images generated by Prof. Oberai and his collaborators.


Research InterestsEnergy, Propulsion, Combustion, Alternative Fuels, Energetic Nanomaterials

Sponsored Research“Ignition Delay Time measurements for Bio-Derived Fuels,” Industrial sponsor.

“An Experimental Investigation of the Ignition and Oxida-tion of Biodiesel-Relevant Alkyl Esters at Engine Conditions,” National Science Foundation.

“mid-Infrared Laser Absorption Diagnostics for Characteriza-tion, monitoring, and Control of Combustion and Fuel Cell Power generation and Propulsion Devices,” Office of Naval Research.

“Experimental Investigation of the Oxidation, Ignition, and Soot Formation Characteristics of Jet Fuels,” U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

“The Ignition of the Butanol Isomers,” American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund.

Selected PublicationsVanderover J, Wang W and Oehlschlaeger mA, “A Car-bon monoxide and Thermometry Sensor Based on mid-IR Quantum-Cascade Laser Wavelength-modulation Absorption Spectroscopy,” Applied Physics B, 103, 959-966 (2011).

Berkowitz Am and Oehlschlaeger mA, “The Photo-Induced Ignition of Quiescent Ethylene/Air mixtures Containing Sus-pended Carbon Nanotubes,” Proc Combustion Institute, 33, 3359-3366 (2011).

Wang h, Warner SJ, Oehlschlaeger mA, Bounaceur R, glaude PA and Battin-Leclerc F, “An Experimental and Kinetic model-ing Study of the Autoignition of a-methylnaphthalene/Air and a-methylnaphthalene/n-Decane/Air mixtures at Elevated Pres-sures,” Combustion and Flame, 157, 1976-1988 (2010).

Vanderover J and Oehlschlaeger mA, “A mid-Infrared Scanned-Wavelength Laser Absorption Sensor for Carbon monoxide and Temperature measurements from 900 to 4000 K,” Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 99, 353-362 (2010).

Oehlschlaeger mA, Steinberg J, Westbrook CK and Pitz WJ, “The Autoignition of Iso-Cetane: Shock Tube Experiments and Kinetic modeling,” Combustion and Flame, 156, 2165-2172 (2009).

Shen h-PS, Steinberg J, Vanderover J and Oehlschlaeger mA, “A Shock Tube Study of the Ignition of n-heptane, n-Decane, n-Dodecane, and n-Tetradecane at Elevated Pressures,” Energy and Fuels, 23, 2482-2489 (2009).

Oehlschlaeger mA, Shen h-PS, Frassoldati A, Pierucci S and Ranzi E, “An Experimental and Kinetic modeling Study of the Pyrolysis and Oxidation of Decalin,” Energy and Fuels, 23, 1464-1472 (2009).

Shen h-P and Oehlschlaeger mA, “The Ignition of C8h10 Aromatics at Elevated Pressures,” Combustion and Flame, 156, 1053-1062 (2009).

Shen h-PS, Vanderover J and Oehlschlaeger mA, “A Shock Tube Study of the Auto-Ignition of Toluene/Air mixtures at high Pressures,” Proc Combustion Institute, 32, 165-172 (2009).

Vanderover J and Oehlschlaeger mA, “Ignition Time mea-surements for methylcyclohexane- and Ethylcyclohexane-Air mixtures at Elevated Pressures,” Int J Chemical Kinetics, 41, 82-91 (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJeremy Vanderover, “A mid-Infrared Laser Absorption Sensor for Carbon monoxide and Temperature measurements.”

MS Students GraduatedDaniel Finigan, “Enhancement of Deflagration-to-Detonation Transition Via Distributed Photo Ignition.”

weijing wang, “The high-Temperature Autoignition of 2,5-Dimethylfuran, a Potential Biofuel.”

haowei wang, “Shock Tube Studies of a-methylnaphthalene Ignition at Elevated Pressures.”

Andrew Berkowitz, “The Photo-Induced Ignition of Qui-escent Ethylene/Air mixtures Containing Suspended Carbon Nanotubes.”

Steven warner, “Transient Dynamics of a Space Elevator.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Photo-Sensitive Energetic Nanomaterials

• Oxidation and Ignition Studies of Biofuels

Matthew A. oehlschlaeger

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Stanford university, 2005

Primary Research Area: combustion


Research Interestsheat Transfer in microElectromechanical Systems (mEmS), Convective heat Transfer, Two-Phase Flow, Boiling.

Sponsored Research“System-Level Approach for multi-Phase, Nanotechnology-Enhanced Cooling of high-Power microelectronic Systems,” Office of Naval Research.

“Flow Control of Single-Phase and Flow Boiling at the micro Scale,” Office of Naval Research.

“Fundamental Study of Nucleate Boiling on Nanostructured Interfaces,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsElcock D, honkanen m, Kuo C-J, Amitay m, Peles Y, “Bubble Flowing Past a micro Pillar,” Int J multiphase Flow, 37(5), 440-452 (2011).

michna gJ, Browne EA, Peles Y and Jensen mK, “The Effect of Area Ratio on microjet Array heat Transfer,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 54(9-10), 1782-1790 (2011).

Browne EA, michna gJ, Jensen mK and Peles Y, “microjet Ar-ray Single-Phase and Flow Boiling heat Transfer with R134a,” Int J of heat and mass Transfer, 53(23-24), 5027-5034 (2010).

Browne EA, michna gJ, Jensen mK and Peles Y, “Experimental Investigation of Single-Phase microjet Array heat Transfer,” J heat Transfer, 132(4), 041013 (2010).

Krishnamurthy S and Peles Y, “Flow Boiling heat Transfer on micro Pin Fins Entrenched in a microchannel,” Journal heat Transfer, 132(4), 041007 (2010).

Krishnamurthy S. and Peles Y, “Flow Boiling on micro Pin Fins Entrenched Inside a microchannel — Flow Patterns and Bubble Dynamics,” J heat Transfer, 132(4), 041002 (2010).

Kuo C-J and Peles Y, “Flow Boiling of Coolant (hFE-7000) In-side Structured and Plain Wall microchannels,” J heat Transfer, 131(12), 121011 (2009).

michna gJ, Browne EA, Peles Y and Jensen mK, “Experimen-tal Investigation of Single-Phase microscale Jet Impingement Cooling,” J heat Transfer, 131(11), 111402 (2009).

Ndao S, Peles Y and Jensen m, “multi-Objective Thermal Design Optimization and Comparative Analysis of Electronics Cooling Technologies,” Int J heat and mass Transfer, 52(19-20), 4317-4326 (2009).

Krishnamurthy S and Peles Y, “Surface Tension Effects on Adia-batic gas-Liquid Flow Across micro Pillars,” Int J of multiphase Flow, 35(1), 55-65 (2009).

PhD Students Graduatedchih-Jung Kuo, “Flow Boiling in Enhanced microchannels.”

Eric Browne, “Experimental Investigation of Single-Phase and Flow Boiling, Submerged, and Confined microjet Array heat Transfer.”

Yoav Peles

Professor, Associate head of Graduate StudiesPh.D., Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 2000

Primary Research Area: heat Transfer in MicroElectroMechanical Systems

CAD graphic showing top view of a micro device. Flow is from left to right.


Sponsored Research“Next generation Li-ion Rechargeable Batteries Featuring Nano-Engineered Anode Architectures,” National Science Foundation.

“Exploration of Stress Induced Dislocation Formation in Future Si Devices,” Industrial sponsor.

“multiscale modeling of the mechanics of Advanced Energetic materials Relevant for Detonation Prediction,” Army Research Office.

“Next generation hierarchical Nanocomposites for Rotorcraft – Dramatic Enhancement in Toughness and Fatigue Resis-tance,” Office of Naval Research.

“Elastomeric Nanocomposites Superstructures,” Industrial sponsor.

“Brittle Epoxies Rendered Ductile: Crazing in Thermosetting Epoxy Nanocomposites,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsLi Z and Picu RC, “Dislocation Nucleation from Interacting Surface Corners in Si,” J Appl. Phys., 108, 033522 (2010).

Picu RC and Li R, “On the Superposition of Flow Stress Con-tributions at Finite Temperatures and in the Athermal Limit,” Acta mater., 58, 5443-5446 (2010).

Picu RC and Li R, “On the Relationship Between the Cottrell-Stokes Law and the haasen Plot,” mat. Sci. Eng., 527A, 5303-5306 (2010).

Picu RC, Vincze g and gracio JJ, “Deformation and micro-structure-Independent Cottrell-Stokes Ratio in Commercial Al Alloys,” Int J Plast., 27, 1045-1054 (2011).

Li R, Picu RC, Weiss J, “Dynamics Below the Depinning Transition of Interacting Dislocations moving Over Fields of Obstacles,” Phys. Rev. E, 82, 022107 (2010).

mathew N, Picu RC and Bloomfield m, “Concurrent Coupling of Atomistic and Continuum models at Finite Temperature, Comp. meth. Appl. mech. Eng, 200, 765-773 (2011).

Picu RC, Ozturk F, Esener E, Li R, “Aluminum Alloys with Iden-tical Plastic Flow and Different Strain Rate Sensitivity,” metall. mater. Trans, 41A, 3358-3364 (2010).

Picu RC and Soare mA, “Asymmetric Dislocation Junctions Exhibit Broad Range of Strengths,” Scripta mat., 62, 508-511 (2010).

hatami-marbini h and Picu RC, “heterogeneous Long-Range Correlated Deformation of Semiflexible Random Fiber Net-works,” Phys. Rev. E, 80, 046703 (2009).

Zhang W, Srivastava I, Zhu Y-F, Picu RC and Koratkar NA, “heterogeneity in Epoxy Nanocomposites Initiates Crazing: Dramatic Improvements in Fatigue Resistance and Toughen-ing,” Small, 5, 1403-1407 (2009).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedh. hatami-Marbini, “Non-Affine Deformation of Fiber Networks.”

R. li, “The Effect of Solute and Dislocation Interactions on the Strain Rate Sensitivity and Flow Stress of metallic Alloys.”

MS Students GraduatedN. Mathew, “Finite Temperature Atomistic-Continuum Concurrent model.”

undergraduate Research Projects• modeling of Avalanches in the Dynamics of Discrete

Systems

• Development of Computational Tools for modeling of Energetic materials

catalin Picu

ProfessorPh.D., Dartmouth college, 1995

Primary Research Area: Mechanics of Solids


Research InterestsFundamentals of multiphase Flow and heat Transfer, Compu-tational Fluid Dynamics, multiscale multiphysics modeling and Simulations, Dynamics and Stability of multiphase Systems, Su-percritical Fluids, Application of multiphase Science in Energy Systems, Advanced Nuclear Reactor Designs, Nuclear Reactor Thermal-hydraulics and Safety.

Sponsored Research“Development and Validation of multidimensional modes of Supercritical CO2 Energy Conversion Systems for Nuclear Power Reactors,”U.S. Department of Energy.

“Development of NPhASE-CmFD-based Single-phase Flow model of Full PWR Fuel Assembly,” Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL), U.S. Department of Energy, and Industrial sponsor.

“Deployment of a Suite of high Performance Computational Tools for multiscale multiphysics Simulation of generation-IV Reactors,” University Consortium: RPI (lead), Columbia Univer-sity and State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, U.S. Department of Energy.

Selected PublicationsBolotnov IA, Jansen KE, Drew DA. Oberai AA, Lahey RT Jr. and Podowski mZ, “Detached Direct Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Two-Phase Bubble Channel Flow,” Int J multiphase Flow, 37, 647-659 (2010).

Tselishcheva EA, Antal SP and Podowski mZ, “mechanistic multidimensional Analysis of horizontal Two-phase Flows,” Nuclear Eng and Design, 240, 405-415 (2010).

Schlichting WR, Lahey RT Jr. and Podowski mZ, “An Analysis of Interacting Instability modes in a Phase Change System,” Nuclear Eng and Design, 240, 3178-3201 (2010).

Tiwari P and Antal SP and Podowski mZ, “modeling Shear-induced Diffusion Force in Particulate Flow,” Computers & Fluids, 38, 727–737 (2009).

Podowski mZ, “On the Consistency of mechanistic multidi-mensional modeling of gas/Liquid Two-Phase Flows”, Nuclear Eng and Design, 239, 933–940 (2009).

Podowski mZ and Podowski Rm, “mechanistic multidimen-sional modeling of Forced-Convection Boiling heat Transfer,” Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations, 2009, Article ID 387020 (2009).

Podowski mZ, “hydrodynamic Effects of S-CO2 Property Variations in Nuclear Energy Systems,” Proc. Supercritical CO2 Power Cycle Symposium, Boulder, CO, (2011).

Podowski mZ, “Recent Developments in mechanistic model-ing of Two-Phase Flow and heat Transfer in Nuclear Reactor Systems,” Proc. Int. Workshop on New horizons in Nuclear Reactor Thermal hydraulics and Safety, mumbai, India, (2010).

Podowski mZ, “Recent Developments in the modeling of Boiling heat Transfer mechanisms,” Proc 13th Int. Topical meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-hydraulics (NURETh-13), Kanazawa, Japan, (2009).

Podowski mZ, “On the mechanistic modeling of Boiling heat Transfer,” Proc. 6th Int. Symposium on multiphase Flow, heat mass Transfer, and Energy Conversion, Xi’an China, (2009).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedTara Gallaway, “modeling of Flow and heat Transfer for Fluids at Supercritical Conditions.”

william Schlichting, “An Analysis of the Effect of gravity on Interacting DWO/PDO Instability modes.”

MS Students GraduatedElena Tselishcheva, “mechanistic multidimensional Analysis of Adiabatic gas/liquid Two-Phase Flows.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Design of a Direct Cycle Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Nuclear Power Plant

• Design of a Conceptual Sodium Fast Reactor

Michael Z.Podowski

ProfessorPh.D., warsaw university of Technology, 1972 D.Sc., warsaw university of Technology, 1975

Primary Research Area: Multiphase Flow and heat Transfer


Research InterestsTheoretical and Computational Aerodynamics, Fluid mechan-ics, Combustion, Subsonic and Transonic Flows, the Sonic Boom, Supersonic Aerodynamics, high Angle of Attack Aero-dynamics and Supermanuverability, Vortex Dynamics, Vortex stability and its Control, the Vortex Breakdown Phenomenon, Rotorcraft Aerodynamics, Swirl-Stabilized Combustion,Viscous Flows, and Bifurcation and Stability Theory..

Selected PublicationsUmeh C, Rusak Z and gutmark E, “Experimental Study of Reaction and Vortex Breakdown in a Swirl-Stabilized Combus-tor,” Proc ASmE Turbo Expo, 2, 935-950 (2009).

mishra A, Tadmor g and Rusak Z, “Bifurcation Analysis of the Axisymmetric Vortex Breakdown in a Pipe,” AIAA-2009-3709, 39th Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, San Antonio, TX (2009).

Langener T, myrabo L and Rusak Z, “CFD Studies of Inlet Aerodynamics and Ram Drag of Laser-Propelled Light-Craft Vehicles,” ISBEP-6-0114, Proc 6th Int Symposium on Beamed Energy Propulsion, Scottsdale, AZ (2009).

Langener T, myrabo L and Rusak Z, “inlet Aerodynamics and Ram-Drag of Laser-Propelled Lightcraft Vehicles,” AIAA-2009-4806, 45th AIAA/ASmE/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit (2009).

Vukasinovic B, Rusak Z and glezer A, “Dissipative Small-Scale Actuation of a Turbulent Shear Layer,” J Fluid mechanics, 656, 51-81 (2010).

Umeh C, Rusak Z and gutmark E, “Experimental and Compu-tational Study of Non-Reacting Vortex Breakdown in a Swirl-Stabilized Combustor,” AIAA Journal, 48(11), 2576-2585, DOI: 10.2514/1.52433 (2010).

Langener T, myrabo L, and Rusak Z, “Inlet Aerodynamics and Ram Drag of Laser-Propelled Lightcraft Vehicles,” Beamed Energy Propulsion, 1230, 41-60 (2010).

Rusak Z and Rawcliffe g, “The Dynamics of Near-Critical Vor-tex Flows of moist Air,” AIAA-2010-4298, 40th Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, Chicago, IL (2010).

Rusak Z, “Swirl-Stabilized Combustion,” Proc 19th Polish Na-tional Fluid Dynamics Conference, Poznan, Poland, (2010).

Wang S and Rusak Z, “Energy Transfer mechanism of the Instability of an Axisymmetric Swirling Flow in a Finite-Length Pipe,” J Fluid mechanics, 679, 505-543 doi:10.1017/jfm.2011.143 (2011).

Rusak Z and morris WJ II, “Stall Onset on Airfoils at moderate-ly high to high Reynolds Number Flows,” ASmE J Fluids Eng, 133(11), 111104-1 - 111104-12 (2011).

Ph.D. Students Graduatedwallace J. Morris II, “A Universal Prediction of Stall Onset for Airfoils at moderately high Reynolds Number Flows.”

chukwueloka (Eloka) o. umeh, “Theoretical and Experi-mental Studies of Vortex Breakdown in a Lean, Premixed Swirl-Stabilized Combustor.”

MS Students GraduatedGerald Rawcliff, “The Dynamics of Near-Critical Vortex Flows of moist Air with Non-Equilibrium and homogeneous Condensation.”

lei Xu, “mean velocity of a developing turbulent wall bound-ary layer at a zero pressure gradient.”

Nicholas Bourquard, “Incompressible and Conpressible Swirl-ing Flows in Diverging/Contracting Long Pipes.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Swirling Flows in Pipes

• Flow Control of Shear Layers

• Combusion with Swirl and Vortex Breakdown

Zvi Rusak

ProfessorPh.D., Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 1989

Primary Research Area: Theoretical and computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics


Research InterestsFluid mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence Simulations, Turbulence and Flow Control, Computational mechanics, Uncertainty Quantification, high-Performance and Parallel Computing.

Sponsored Research“Wind Turbine Blades Active Vibration and Flow Control,” NYS Energy Research and Development Authority.

“generation and Adaptive modification of Anisotropic meshes,” NASA SBIR phase-II/Industrial sponsor.

“Collaborative Research: Frameworks, Algorithms, and Scalable Technologies for mathematics (FASTmath) SciDAC Institute,” US Department of Energy (Co-PI).

Selected PublicationsSahni O, Wood J, Jansen KE and Amitay m, “3-D Interactions between a Finite-Span Synthetic Jet and a Cross Flow,” J Fluid mechanics, 671, 254-287 (2011).

Zhou m, Sahni O, Xie T, Shephard mS and Jansen KE, “Un-structured mesh Partition Improvement for Implicit Finite Element at Extreme Scale,” J Supercomputing, doi:10.1007/s11227-010-0521-0, available on-line; to be published.

Liu N, Fu J, Carothers CD, Sahni O, Jansen KE and Shephard mS, “massively Parallel I/O for Partitioned Solver Systems,” Parallel Processing Lett, 20(4), 377-395 (2010).

Zhou m, Sahni O, Shephard mS, Devine KD and Jansen KE, “Controlling Unstructured mesh Partitions for massively Paral-lel Simulations,” SIAm J. Sci. Comp., 32(6), 3201-3227 (2010).

Sahni O, Luo XJ, Jansen KE and Shephard mS, “Curved Boundary Layer meshing for Adaptive Viscous Flow Simula-tions,” Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 46(1-2), 132-139 (2010).

Zhou m, Sahni O, Kim hJ, Figueroa CA, Taylor CA, Shephard mS and Jansen KE, “Cardiovascular Flow Simulations at Ex-treme Scale,” Computational mechanics, 46(1), 71-82 (2010).

galimov AY, Sahni O, Lahey RT Jr, Shephard mS, Drew DA and Jansen KE, “Parallel Adaptive Simulation of a Plunging Liquid Jet,” Acta mathematica Scientia, 30B(2), 522-538 (2010).

Vaccaro JC, Sahni O, Olles J, Jansen KE and Amitay m, “Experi-mental and Numerical Investigation of Active Control of Inlet Ducts,” Int J Flow Control, 1(2), 133-154 (2009).

Sahni O, Carothers CD, Shephard mS and Jansen KE, “Strong Scaling Analysis of a Parallel, Unstructured, Implicit Solver and the Influence of the Operating System Interference,” Scientific Programming, 17(3), 261-274 (2009).

Sahni O, Jansen KE, Taylor CA and Shephard mS, “Automated Adaptive Cardiovascular Flow Simulations,” Eng with Comput-ers, 25(1), 25-36 (2009).

onkar Sahni


Primary Research Area: Fluid Mechanics

Images from Synthetic Jets research.


Research Interestsmicro-scale manufacturing, nanocomposites, sustainable manufacturing, bio-medical manufacturing.

Sponsored Research“Physics-Based Study of graphene Colloidal Systems as metal Working Fluids for micro-machining Applications,” National Science Foundation.

Selected Publicationsghai I, Wentz JE, Kapoor Sg, DeVor RE and Samuel J, “Droplet Behavior on a Rotating Surface for Atomization-based Cutting Fluid Application in micro-machining,” ASmE J manufacturing Science and Eng, 132(1), 011017 (2009).

Samuel J, Kapoor Sg, DeVor RE and hsia KJ, “Effect of micro-structural Parameters on the machinability of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Composites,” ASmE J manufacturing Science and Eng, 132(5), 051012 (2010).

Calzada K, Samuel J, Kapoor Sg, DeVor RE, Srivastava A and Iverson J, “Failure mechanisms Encountered during micro-milling of Aligned Carbon Fiber Reinforced Composites,” Transactions of NAmRI/SmE, 38, 221-228 (2010).

Samuel J, Rafiee K, Dhiman P, Yu Z and Koratkar N, “graphene Colloidal Suspensions as high Performance Synthetic metal Working Fluids,” J Physical Chemistry C, 115(8), 3410–3415 (2011).

Calzada K, Kapoor Sg, DeVor RE, Samuel J and Srivastava A., “modeling and Interpretation of Fiber Orientation-based Failure mechanisms in machining of Carbon Fiber-reinforced Composites,” accepted for publication in SmE J manufactur-ing Processes (2011).

Sood S, Samuel J, DeVor RE and Kapoor Sg, “micro-scale machining of Bulk metallic glass,” Proc. 5th Int Conference on micro-machiining, madison, WI, (2010).

mastud S, Singh RK, Samuel J and Joshi SS, “Comparative Analysis of the Process mechanics in micro-Electrical Discharge machining (EDm) and Reverse micro-EDm,” Proc ASmE Int manufacturing Science and Eng Conference, Oregon, (2011).

Samuel J, Kapoor Sg, DeVor RE and hsia KJ, “machinability of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymer Composites,” chapter in Advances in Carbon Nanotubes Based Nanocomposites, Anamaya Publishers, India, and Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd., Singapore, (2011).

mastud S, Singh RK, Samuel J, and Joshi SS, “Comparative Analysis of the Process mechanics in micro-Electrical Discharge machining (EDm) and Reverse micro-EDm,” Proc. ASmE Int manufacturing Science and Eng Conf., Oregon, (2011).

Samuel J, Kapoor Sg, DeVor RE and hsia KJ, “machinability of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymer Composites,” in “Advances in Carbon Nanotubes based Nanocomposites,” Anamaya Pub., India and Pan Stanford Pub. Pte. Ltd., Singa-pore, (2011).

undergraduate Research Projects• Bone machining: State of Research

• Design of a high Speed Imaging System for micro-Droplet Impingement Studies

• micropoxy Composites

Johnson Samuel

Assistant ProfessorPh.D., university of Illinois, urbana champaign, 2009

Primary Research Area: Micro/Meso-Scale Manufacturing and Material Design

One of Professor Samuel’s research projects: Reducing the Extent of Post- operative Complications in Total Joint Replacement Surgeries.


Research InterestsVibrations, Acoustics, Applied mechanics, Noise and Vibration measurement and Control, Sensor Development, Ultrasonic Communication, Ultrasound and Dynamic Testing, Biomechanics

Sponsored Research“Through-hull Sensor Power and Data,” Advanced Acoustics Concepts (AAC).

“gE generator Fan Testing,” Industrial sponsor.

“Novel Power generation of and Communication with Remote Sensors,” AAC.

“generator Cooling Fans including Radial Flow Fans,” Indus-trial sponsor.

“Through hull Power and Data,” AAC.

“Wind Turbine generator Fan Testing,” Industrial sponsor.

“Robust Sensor Systems for Extreme Conditions,” Industrial sponsor.

Selected PublicationsWilt KR, Scarton hA, Roa-Prada S, Saulnier gJ, Ashdown JD, Lawry TJ, Das PK and gavens AJ, “Finite Element modeling and Simulation of a Two-Transducer Through-Wall Ultrasonic Communication System,” Int mechanical Eng Congress and Exposition (ImECE2009-12157), Lake Buena Vista, FL, ISBN: 978-0-7918-3863-1 (2009).

Lawry TJ, Wilt KR, Roa-Prada S, Ashdown JD, Saulnier gJ, Scarton hA, Das PK and Pinezich JD, “Electrical Optimization of Power Delivery Through Thick Steel Barriers Using Piezoelec-tric Transducers,” Proc. SPIE Energy harvesting and Storage: materials, Devices, and Applications, 7683(1), Orlando, FL, 768314.1 – 768314.14 (2010).

guthrie AE, Scarton hA, “Performance of a Coulomb Friction Damper for Drill Rods,” INCE NOISE-CON 2010, Baltimore mD, (2010).

hunter AIC, Scarton hA, Wilt KR, Salamah SA and Story D, “generator Fan Test Facility to Quantify Axial Flow Fan Aerody-namic Performance,” Proc ASmE Power Conference, Power 2010-27112, Chicago IL, (2010).

Scarton hA, Kahn I, Rafiee mA, Rafiee J, Wilt KR and Koratkar N, “Evidence of Coulomb Friction Damping in graphene Nanocomposites,” ImECE2010-39378, Proc ASmE Interna-tional mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, B. C., ImECE 2010-3867, (2010).

Wilt KR, Lawry TJ, Scarton hA, Roa-Prada S, Saulnier gJ, Ashdown JD, Das PK and Pinezich JD, “mechanical Design Implications on Power Transfer Through Thick metallic Barriers Using Piezoelectric Transducers,” Proc. ASmE Int mechanical Eng Congress and Exposition, Vancouver, B. C., (2010).

Lawry TJ, Wilt KR, Roa-Prada S, Ashdown JD, Saulnier gJ, Scarton hA, Das PK and gavens AJ, “A high-Temperature System for Power Delivery and Data Communication Through Thick metallic Barriers,” in Proc SPIE Conf. Energy harvesting and Storage: materials, Devices, and Applications II, 8035, 1-12, Orlando, FL, (2011).

Wilt KR, Story D, Scarton hA, hunter AIC, Salamah SA and Ramtahal S, “Effects of Rotating Stall on an Axial Fan Design,” Proc ASmE Turbo Expo, gT2011-45214, Vancouver CA, (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedSebastian Roa-Prada, “modeling, Design and Temperature Characterization of an Ultrasonic Through-Wall Communication System.”

henry Scarton

Associate Professor and Director, laboratory for Noise and Vibration control ResearchPh.D., carnegie Mellon university, 1970

Primary Research Area: Acoustics

Scarton, who joined the Rensselaer faculty in 1971, is best known for his work in acoustics, vibrations, noise control, and sensors. He holds 17 patents, most of which are in the area of noise control and vibrations. One of Scarton’s most recent patents is a synthetic ivory — trademarked as RPIvory — for use in piano keys. In addition to developing a new hardness scale, Scarton Dynamic Hardness (SDH), and dynamic hard-ness testing device, Scarton pioneered new analysis methods for acoustic fluid-structural interaction that resulted in several acoustic and physics discoveries.


Research Interestsmassively Parallel Computations, Adaptive multiscale Simula-tion, Adaptive Finite Element methods, Scientific Computa-tion.

Sponsored Research“Collaborative Research: Frameworks, Algorithms, and Scalable Technologies for mathematics (FASTmath) SciDAC Institute,”U.S. Department of Energy.

“Parallel mesh Adaptation Tools,” Sandia National Laborato-ries.

“Adaptive multimodel Simulation for Engineering Innovation,” National Science Foundation.

“In Situ Visualization for massively Parallel Simulations,” Industrial sponsor.

“Center for Extended magnetohydrodynamic modeling (CEmm),” Department of Engineering.

“generation and Adaptive modification of Anisotropic Un-structured and Semi-Structured meshes,” NASA.

“Interoperable Components to Support Unstructured mesh Simulations on massively Parallel Computers,” U.S. Depart-ment of Energy.

“Reactive Ion Etching Simulations Toward Virtual Nano-Fabri-cation,” Industrial sponsor.

“multiscale modeling of the mechanics of Advanced Energetic materials Relevant to Detonation Prediction,” Army Research Office.

“NY State high Performance Computation Consortium (hPC2),” NYS Office of Science, Technology & Academic Research.

“mSm: multiscale mechanics of Bioengineered Tissue”, Na-tional Institutes for health.

“Petascale Computational Fluid Dynamics,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsZhou m, Sahni O, Shephard mS, Devine KD and Jansen KE, “Controlling Unstructured mesh Partitions for massively Paral-lel Simulations,” SIAm J Sci. Comp., 32(6), 3201-3227 (2010).

Liu N, Fu J, Carothers CD, Sahni O, Jansen KE and Shephard mS, “massively Parallel I/O for Partitioned Solver Systems,” Parallel Processing Lett, 20(4), 377-395 (2010).

Zhou m, Sahni O, Shephard mS, Carothers CD and Jansen KE, “Adjacency Based Reordering Algorithm for Acceleration of Finite Element Computations,” Scientific Programming, 18(2), 107-123 (2010).

Zhou m, Sahni O, Kim hJ, Figueroa CA, Taylor CA, Shephard mS and Jansen KE, “Cardiovascular Flow Simulation at Ex-treme Scale,” Computational mechanics, 46, 71-82 (2010).

Luo XJ, Shephard mS, Yin L, O’Bara Rm, Nastasi R and Beall mW, “Construction of Near Optimal meshes for 3-D Curved Domains with Singularities and Thin Sections for the P-Version method,” Eng with Computers, 26(3), 215-229 (2010).

Sahni O, Luo XJ, Jansen KE and Shephard mS, “Curved Boundary Layer meshing for Adaptive Viscous Flow Simula-tions,” Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 46, 132-139 (2010).

FrantzDale B, Plimpton SJ and Shephard mS, “Software Com-ponents for Parallel multiscale Simulation: An Example with LAmmPS,” Eng with Computers, 26(2), 205-211 (2010).

Delalondre F, Smith C and Shephard mS, “Collaborative Soft-ware Infrastructure for Adaptive multiple model Simulation,” Comp. meth. Appl. mech. Eng, 199, 1352-1370 (2010).

galimov AY, Sahni O, Lahey RT Jr, Shephard mS, Drew DA and Jansen KE, “Parallel Adaptive Simulation of a Plunging Liquid Jet,” Acta mathematica Scientia, 30B, 522-538 (2010).

Ollivier-gooch C, Diachin LF, Shephard mS, Tautges T, Kraft-check J, Leung V, Luo X-J and miller m, “An Interoperable, Data-Structure-Neutral Component for mesh Query and manipulation,” Transactions on mathematical Software, 37(3) 29, 1-29, 28 (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedMin Zhou, “Petascale Adaptive Computational Fluid Dynamics.”

MS Students GraduatedMisbah Mubarak, “A Parallel ghosting Algorithm for the Flexible Distributed mesh Database.”

undergraduate Research Projects• A Fields Library for massively Parallel Computation”

• Parallel Adaptive Simulation Loops Without Files

• massively Parallel in situ Visualization

Mark S. Shephard

Samuel A. and Elisabeth c. Johnson, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Director, Scientific computation Research center

Ph.D., cornell university, 1979

Primary Research Area: Scientific computation


Research InterestsThermal and Fluids Systems, Energy Conversion, materials Processing.

Sponsored Research“Intergovernmental Personnel Act,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsKirkpatrick AT, Danielson S, Warrington RO, Smith RN, Thole KA, Kulacki FA, Wepfer WJ and Perry T,“Vision 2030: Creating the Future of mechanical Engineering Education,” ASEE An-nual Conference, Vancouver BC (2011).

Richard N. Smith

Professor, on leave to serve as Program officer in the Education Directorate of the National Science Foundation.

Ph.D., university of california at Berkeley, 1974

Primary Research Area: Thermal and Fluids Systems

Selected PublicationsSteiner mW, Kanai J, Alben R, gerhardt L and hsu C, “Analysis of Engineering Capstone Design Student Reflective memos: What Students Say and What They Don’t Say,” ASEE Annual Conference, Vancouver (2011).

Steiner m, Kanai J, Alben R, gerhardt L and hsu C, “A holistic Approach for Student Assessment in multidisciplinary Engi-neering Capstone Design,” Int J Eng Education, (2011).

morris JP, and Steiner mW, “Quantifying Sustainability through Reverse Engineering: A multidisciplinary Senior Capstone Experience,” Int J Eng Education, 26(2), (2010).

undergraduate Research Projects• Solar Pyrolysis Biomass

• Core materials for Wind Turbine Blades

• Offshore Wind Turbine Blade Inspection

• Wind Turbine Blade De-Icing

• Wind Turbine Shaft and Bearing Configurations

• Robotic System for glass Plate handling

• Steam Turbine generator Test Facility

• Design for Sustainability metrics

• hockey Dasher Board Design

• ICU Virtual Windows

• Simulation Bug management

Mark Steiner

Professor of Practice and Director, o.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design laboratory Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987

Primary Research Area: Advanced Design Methodology; Design Education.

Students in the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory integrate multidisciplinary design solutions that deliver results for industry sponsors.


Research InterestsFriction, Wear, Non-Newtonian Fluid mechanics, granular Flows, magnetic Fluids, Flow and Lubrication in microsystems, Cardiovascular Flows

Sponsored Research“Kinetic to Electric Energy Conversion in magnetic Fluids,” National Science Foundation.

“Limits to Lubrication Theory in microsystems,” National Sci-ence Foundation.

“Evaluation of Elevation Bearings in Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Facilities,” Federal Aviation Administration.

“Analytical Ferrography,” mIT Lincoln Lab.

Selected Publicationshuang S, Borca-Tasciuc D-A and Tichy J, “Liquid Squeeze Film Damping in mEmS,” Proc of Royal Society A, 467(2126), 522-536 (2011).

marrero V, Borca-Tasciuc D-A and Tichy J “Limits to Lubrication Theory in microsystems,” ASmE J Tribology, 132, 031701 (2010).

Boucherit h, Lahmar m, Bou-Saïd B and Tichy J, “Comparison of Non-Newtonian Constitutive Laws in hydrodynamic Lubrica-tion,” Tribology Lett, 40, 49-57 (2010).

Xin J, Cai W and Tichy J, “A model for material Removal in Chemical mechanical Polishing,” Wear, 268, 837-844 (2010).

Cannarella J, Selvaggi J, Salon S, Tichy J and Borca-Tasciuc D-A, “Coupling Factor Between the magnetic and mechanical Energy Domains in Electromagnetic Power harvesting Ap-plications,” IEEE Transactions on magnetics, 47(8), 2076-2080 (2011).

huang S, Borca-Tasciuc D-A and Tichy J, “Liquid Squeeze Film Damping in microsystem Applications,” Proc ASmE 2010 3rd Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Summer meeting and 8th International Nanochannels, microchannels and minichan-nels, FEDSm2010-ICNmm2010, montreal, Canada (2010).

Kargulewicz m, marrero V, Iordanoff I and Tichy J, “model-ing of magnetorheological Fluids by the Discrete Elements method,” ASmE J Tribology, in press (2011).

Tichy J, “Discrete and Continuum modeling of a Shear Cell Flow,” Proc Int Joint Tribology Conference, IJTC2010-41271, San Francisco, CA (2010).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedVictor Marrero, “Non-Newtonian Studies of the Cardiovascular System.”


• gear Failure Prediction using Oil Debris Analysis

• granular Flow Studies in a Shear Cell Device

John Tichy

ProfessorPh.D., university of Michigan, 1970

Primary Research Area: Tribology; Rheology


Research InterestsFuel Cell manufacturing, Advanced Composites manufactur-ing, Biocomposite materials and manufacturing, Additive manufacturing, Biomedical Device Design.

Sponsored Research“Using mycelium as a matrix for Binding Natural Fibers and Core Filler materials in Sustainable Composites;” National Sci-ence Foundation SF SBIR Phase I with Industrial sponsor.

“Adaptive Process Controls and Ultrasonics for high Tempera-ture PEm mEA manufacture,” U.S. Department of Energy.

“An Entrepreneurial Ph.D. Education in Fuel Cell manufactur-ing, materials Development, and modeling,” National Science Foundation IgERT.

“Curing of Advanced Composite Laminate Parts by Thermal Pressing: A Proof-of-Concept Demonstration,” NYS Energy Research and Development Authority/Industrial sponsor.

“Sustainable Design & Entrepreneurship,” RPI VP of Entrepre-neurship Office.

“Fused Deposition modeling with Chocolate: A Proof of Con-cept Demonstration,” Industrial sponsor.

Research PublicationsWalczyk DF, Kuppers J and hoffman C, “Curing and Consoli-dation of Advanced Thermoset Composite Laminate Parts by Pressing Between a heated mold and Customized Rubber-Faced mold,” J manuf. Sci. Eng, 133(1), 011002 (2011).

Walczyk DF and Sangra JS, “A Feasibility Study of Ribbon Architecture for PEm Fuel Cells,” ASmE J Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 7(5), 051001-1–8 (2010).

harris TAL, Walczyk DF and Weber m, “manufacturing of high-Temperature Polymer Electrolyte membranes – Part I: System Design and modeling,” ASmE J Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 7(1), 011007-1–9 (2010).

harris TAL, Walczyk DF and Weber m, “manufacturing of high-Temperature Polymer Electrolyte membranes – Part II: Implementation and System model Validation,” ASmE J Fuel Cell Science and Technology, 7(1), 011008-1–8 (2010).

harris TAL, Walczyk DF, “Study on the Rheological Behavior of high Temperature Polymer Electrolyte member Solutions” J Applied Polymer Science, 111(3), 1286-92 (2009).

Walczyk DF and Ziomek W,“An Inexpensive Weight Bearing Indicator with Load Range Capability for Rehabilitation of Pa-tients with Lower Extremity Injuries,” ASmE J medical Devices, 3(3), 031001-1–10 (2009).

Walczyk DF and Yoo S, “Design and Fabrication of a Lami-nated Thermoforming Tool with Enhanced Functionality,” J manufacturing Processes, 11, 8-18 (2009).

Walczyk DF and munro CB, “Design of an Active Reconfigu-

rable Fixturing Device using a Bed of Pins Lowered on a mov-ing Platen,” ASmE J manufacturing Science and Eng, 129(2), 021009-1 -12 (2009).

MS Students GraduatedJake Pyzza, “Implementation of Ultrasonic Welders in Auto-mated high Temperature PEm Fuel Cell membrane Electrode Assembly manufacturing.”

David lesperence, “Performance Testing of high-Tempera-ture membrane Electrode Assemblies for PEm Fuel Cells.”

Dylan Share, “Sealing of high Temperature PBI membrane Electrode Assemblies Used in Fuel Cells.”

Aidan Zimmerman, “Chocolate Freeform Fabrication Using a Fused Deposition modeling Approach.”

undergraduate Research Projects• Biocomposites and Synthetic Composites manufacturing

• Biocomposites manufacturing

• PEm Fuel Cell mEA manufacturing

• PEm Fuel Cell Electrode manufacturing

• PEm Fuel Cell Electrode manufacturing

• Chocolate Rapid Prototyping

• homocomposites manufacturing

Daniel walczyk

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996

Primary Research Area: Advanced composites Manufacturing

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mechanical Engineers Win First Place at ASME Student Manufacturing Design Competition (l-r) Jaron Kuppers, Dan Walczyk, and Casey Hoffman


Research InterestsRadiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Instrumentation and measure-ment, monte Carlo Simulation, Computational Phantoms, Radiation Protection, Imaging and Radiotherapy.

Sponsored Research“Bioassay Phantoms Using medical Images and Computer Aided manufacturing,” U.S. Department of Energy.

“4D Visible human modeling for Radiation Dosimetry,” Na-tional Institutes of health.

“Phantoms in Support of Standardized Radioactivity measure-ments at NIST,” U.S. Department of Commerce.

“VirtualDose Software for Diagnostic CT Doses to Adults and Children,” National Institutes of health.

Selected PublicationsBednarz B and Xu Xg, “monte Carlo modeling of a 6 and 18 mV Varian Clinac medical Accelerator for In-Field and Out-of-Field Dose Calculations: Development and Validation,” Phys. med. Biol., 54, N43–N57 (2009).

gu J, Bednarz B, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “The Develop-ment, Validation and Application of a multi-Detector CT (mDCT) Scanner model for Assessing Organ Doses to the Pregnant Patient and her Fetus using monte Carlo methods,” Phys. med. Biol., 54, 2699-2717 (2009).

Bednarz B, han B and Xu Xg, “Comparison of Photoneutron Yields in mCNPX Using Different Photonuclear Cross Section Data for Typical Radiation Therapy Energies,” Nuclear Technol-ogy, 168, 270-273, (2009).

Ding AP, Zhang D and Xu Xg, “A Training Software Using Virtual-Reality Technology And Pre-Calculated Effective Dose Data,” health Phys., 96(5), 594-601 (2009).

Zhang J, Na Yh, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “RPI-Am and RPI-AF, a Pair of mesh-Based, Size-Adjustable Adult male and Female Computational Phantoms using ICRP-89 Parameters and their Calculations for Organ Doses from monoenergetic Photon Beams,” Phys. med. Biol., 54, 5885-5908 (2009).

mille m, Xu Xg and Rivard m, “Comparison of Organ Doses for Patients Undergoing Balloon Brachytherapy of the Breast with hDR 192Ir or Electronic Sources Using monte Carlo Simu-lations in a heterogeneous human Phantom,” med Physics, 37(2), 662-671 (2010).

Na Yh, Zhang B, Zhang J, Caracappa PF and Xu Xg, “De-formable Adult human Phantoms for Radiation Protection Dosimetry: Anatomical Data for Covering 5th- 95th Percentiles of the Population and Software Algorithms,” Phys. med. Biol., 55, 3789-3811 (2010).

Eom J, Shi C, Xu Xg and De S, “Predictive modeling of Lung motion over the Entire Respiratory Cycle Using measured Pressure-Volume Data, 4DCT Images, and Finite Element Analysis,” med. Phys., 37, 4389-4401 (2010).

Ding A, gu J, Xu Xg and Trofimov AV, “monte Carlo Calcula-tion of Imaging Doses from Diagnostic multi-Detector CT and Kilovoltage Cone Beam CT as Part of Prostate Cancer Treat-ment Plans,” med Phys., 37(12), 6199-6204 (2010).

han B, Xu Xg and Chen TYg, “Proton Radiography and Fluoroscopy of Lung Tumors: A monte Carlo Study Using Patient-Specific 4DCT Phantoms,” medical Phys., 38(4), 1903-1911 (2011).

Ph.D. Students GraduatedJuying Zhang, “A Pair of mesh-Based Phantoms Represent-ing ICRP-89 50th-Percentle Adult males and Females for Ra-diation Protection Dosimetry Using monte Carlo Simulations.”

Yong hum Na, “Deformable Adult human Phantoms for Radiation Protection Dosimetry: methods for Adjusting Body and Organ Sizes to match Population-Based Percentile Data.”

Jianwei Gu, “Development of CT Scanner models for Patient Organ Dose Calculations Using monte Carlo methods.”

Bin han, “modeling and Optimization of Proton Imaging Sys-tem for Image-guided Proton Radiotherapy of Lung Tumors.”

Xie George Xu

ProfessorPh.D., Texas A&M university, 1994

Primary Research Area: Radiation Dosimetry

Researchers used dosimetry and visualization tools to study the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant. As part of their work they created a virtual environment by combining a CAD model of the nuclear plant and a walking human phantom.


Research InterestsComputational mechanics, Computations and modeling of Fluid-Structure Interactions.

Sponsored Research“Coupled Viscous Vortex Particle method and Unstruc-tured CFD Solver for Rotorcraft Aerodynamic Interaction modeling,”NAVY/STTR Phase II.

“glottal Jet Aerodynamics,” National Institutes of health.

“Distributed Conformal Actuation with Electroactive Poly-mers,” Air Force Office of Scientific Research/STTR Phase II.

“man-made hazard mitigation of Reservoir Dams,” National Science Foundation.

“Rensselaer Junior Faculty Development Program: Training Leaderships for Sustainable Nuclear Energy,” Nuclear Regula-tory Commission/Faculty Development Program.

“Coupled Viscous Vortex Particle method and Unstructured CFD Solver for Rotorcraft Aerodynamic Interaction modeling,” Industrial sponsor.

“A multiscale multiphysics Computational Framework for the Simulation of Blast Induced Pervasive,” Defense Threat Reduc-tion Agency (DTRA).

“Ramp-Up! Career Campaign Award,” National Science Foundation.

Selected PublicationsWang X and Zhang LT, “Parallelization of Semi-Implicit For-mulation of Immersed Finite Element method,” submitted to Computational mechanics (2011).

Yong X and Zhang LT, “Examining Different NEmD methods in Simulating Nanoscale Fluid at high Shear Rates,” Proceedings of the Institution of mechanical Engineers, Part N, J Nanoengi-neering and Nanosystems, 224 (1-2),19-29 (2010).

Yong X and Zhang LT, “Investigating Liquid-Solid Interfacial Phenomena in a Couette Flow at Nanoscale,” Physical Review E, 82, 056313 (2010).

Wang X and Zhang LT, “Numerical method for Fluid-Structure Interactions with Sharp Interfaces: Formulation and Con-vergence Tests,” Computational mechanics, 45(4), 321-334 (2010).

Yong X and Zhang LT, “molecular Dynamics Simulations of Wetting on Nanopatterned Surfaces,” Langmuir, 25(9), 5045-5053 (2009).

Wang SX, Zhang LT and Liu WK, “Finite Element Formulations for Immersed methods: Explicit and Implicit Approaches,” J Computational Physics, 228(7), 2535-2551 (2009).

gay m and Zhang LT, “Numerical Studies of healthy, Stenosed, and Stented Coronary Arteries,” Int J Numerical methods in Fluids, 61, 453-472 (2009).

gay m and Zhang LT, “Numerical Studies on Fluid-Structure Interactions of Stent Deployment and Stented Arteries,” Eng with Computers, 25(1), 61 (2009).

lucy T. Zhang

Associate ProfessorPh.D., Northwestern university, 2003

Primary Research Area: computational Mechanics

Lobby at the The Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI)


Research InterestsNuclear Waste management, Nuclear Fuel Cycle Analysis Risk and Safety Assessment, CO2 geological Sequestration.

Selected PublicationsZhou W, Apted mJ, and Kessler Jh, “The Thermal hydrologi-cal Impact on Increased Spent-Fuel Storage Capacity in Yucca mountain Repository,” Nuclear Technologies, 170, 336 – 352 (2010).

Zhou W. and Arthur R, “Near-Field Processes, Evolution and Performance Assessment in geological Repository Systems,” in geological Repository Systems for Safe Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuels and Radioactive Waste, edited by J. Ahn and m. J. Apted, Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy, Woodhead Publishing Limited (2010).

wei Zhou

clinical Associate ProfessorPh.D., university of california at Berkeley, 1992

Primary Research Area: Nuclear waste Management


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