Faculty Areas of Expertise

Sara Amar, Ph.D.

• Multi-Criteria Decision Making
• Industrial and Supply chain management
• Operation Research
• Sustainable Development 
• Location Problem, Facility Layout Planning
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Applied Economics, fiscal and financial Policies (Collaboration)

Mohammed Abouheaf, Ph.D.

• Intelligent and Adaptive Control Systems
• Optimal and Nonlinear Control Systems
• Game Theoretic Approaches for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Mean-Field Approaches for Swarms
• Non-Convex Optimization
• Data-Driven Reinforcement Learning Approaches

Sonia Chacko, Ph.D.

• Applied AR/VR Research for Robotics
• Human- Robot Interactions (HRI)
• Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR)
• Construction Robotics
• Mechatronics and Automation
• K-12 STEM Education

Fei Gao, Ph.D.

• STEM learning
• Motivation and self-regulated learning
• Gamification and simulation
• Virtual learning environments

Shantanu Gupta, Ph.D.

• Aviation applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Aviation Data Analytics: Acquisition, consolidation, and analysis of distributed transportation data
• Aviation Management; Sustainability; Education

Yong Huang, AIA, LEED AP

• Museum, Gallery, and other Cultural Facilities
• Mixed-Use Urban Design Projects
• Skyscraper and Commercial Complex
• Sport and Performance Venues
• Interior Design and Renovation
• Urban Infrastructure and Landscape Design

Zahabul Islam, Ph.D.

• Additive Manufacturing: Process parameter optimization, printing, and characterization to enhance the performance of high-quality materials.
• Bio-inspired Design and MEMS/NEMS: Fabrication and characterization of devices, sensors, and actuators.
• Radiation Damage: Exploration of material behavior and resilience under irradiation in extreme environments.

Christopher Kluse, Ph.D.

• Failure Mode Effects and Analysis
• Lean Manufacturing
• Six Sigma Methods for Improvement
• Competency Based Education for Quality Systems
• Applied Tools of Quality, and Quality Auditing

Mohmood Mousvi, Ph.D.

• Combusion
• Multiphase Flow
• Flow Control

Md Mahmudur Rahman, Ph.D.

• Colloidal Self-Assembly
• Hydrogel Fabrication
• Fluid Dynamics
• Thermo-Fluid Analysis
• Drop Coalescence and Active Colloids (notable contributions to understanding)

Arsenio Rodrigues, Ph.D., AIA, LEED AP, EDAC, NCARB, CoA

• Sacred Place-making
• Sustainable Design
• Design Methods

MD Sarder, Ph.D.

• Logistics, Transportation, and Supply Chain Modeling & Analysis
• Lean, Six-sigma, Facility Design, Process Improvement
• STEM Education, Pedagogies, Integrated Hands-on Learning

Jacob 'Joshua' Shila, Ph.D.

• Sustainable Aviation Fuels
• Techno-Economic Analysis and Optimization of sustainable technologies and processes
• Advanced Air Mobility – sustainability, infrastructure preparation and workforce development
• Aviation Sustainability Education

Imran Tusar, Ph.D

• Modeling of Manufacturing and Supply Chain Systems 
• Mathematical Programming, Operations Research, Statistical Process Control  
• Facility Design, System Simulation, Process Improvement, Lean Manufacturing