Jorge L. Alvarado, P.E. – Professor (Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution)
Office: Thompson 117E, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840
Tel: (979) 458-1900
Fax: (979) 862-7969
Email: jorge.alvarado@tamu.edu
Website
Research Interests: Nanotechnology; Energy conservation; Renewable energy; Thermal system design; Electrochemistry; Heat transfer; Fuel cells; Hydrogen storage.
Perla Balbuena – Professor (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Holder of the GPSA Professorship, TEES Eminent Professor
Office: 240 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-1372
Tel: (979) 845-3375
Fax: (979) 845-6446
Email: balbuena@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Catalysis on metal nanoparticles for fuel cell electrocatalysts; Catalyzed growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes; Gas separation and storage in metal organic frameworks; Solid-electrolyte interphase layer nucleation and growth in Si and carbon anodes of Li-ion batteries; Materials for photocatalysis: Oxygen evolution in doped oxides; Materials for solar cells and hydrogen production: Hydrogen evolution on coated semiconductors covered by co-catalysts; Shale gas thermodynamics: Phase behavior of hydrocarbon + water mixtures in confined media.
Riccardo Bettati – Professor (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
Director of Texas A&M University Center for Information Assurance and Security
Office: 509C H.R. Bright Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 845-5469
Fax: (979) 847-8578
Email: bettati@cse.tamu.edu
Website
Research Interests: Distributed real-time systems; Scheduling algorithms; Communication protocols; Anonymity and privacy, computer-supported security education.
Bjorn Birgisson – Professor (Department of Civil Engineering)
TEES Distinguished Research Professor, TEES Eminent Professor
Office: DLEB 503E, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3136
Tel: (979) 845-6039
Email: bjorn.birgisson@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Transportation; Pavements; No destructing testing; Construction materials.
Ismail Capar – Associate Professor (Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution)
Office: 203G Fermier Hall, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3367
Tel: (979) 862-8312
Email: capar@tamu.edu
Website
Research Interests: Inventory and Transportation Coordination; Distribution and Logistics Management; Warehouse Design and Optimization; Supply Chain Network Optimization; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain Crisis Management; Transportation Issues During Incidents of National Significance; Joint Facility Location and Pricing Decisions; Location/Pricing Decisions for Alternative Fuel Vehicles.
Sergio Capareda – Professor (Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering)
Office: 303D Scoates Hall, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
Tel: (979) 458-3028
Email: scapareda@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Fluidized bed pyrolysis and gasification of biomass; biofuels and biopower production including biomass characterization; GHG and RVOC emissions measurements; engine dynamometer testing; process design and development.
David Claridge – Professor (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Director of Energy Systems Laboratory
Office: 327 Mechanical Engineering Office Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123
Tel: (979) 845-1280
FAX: 979-845-3081
Email: dclaridge@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Work with others at the ESL to develop additional techniques for improving operating efficiency of buildings. Recent work includes development of improved techniques for tracking and diagnosing degradation of building performance and use of fundamental energy balance for data quality screening.
Dilma Da Silva – Professor (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) and Associate Dean
Professor, Holder of the Ford Motor Company Design Professorship II and Associate Dean for Faculty Success
Office: 305B H.R. Bright Building Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 845-5820
Email: dilma@cse.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Cloud computing, operating systems, distributed computing, and high-end computing.
Ivan Damnjanovic – Associate Professor (Department of Civil Engineering)
J.L. “Corky” Frank/Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Faculty Fellow
Office: 808K Dwight Look Engineering Building College Station, TX 77843-3136
Tel: (979) 862-6616
Email: idamnjanovic@civil.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Project management development and finance; Construction management; Transportation infrastructure; Dynamics of reconstruction
Yu Ding – Professor (Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering)
Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor
Associate Director for Research Engagement of Texas A&M Institute of Data Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Courtesy Appointment)
Office: 4016 Emerging Technologies Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3131
Tel: (979) 458-2343
Fax: (979) 458-4299
Email: yuding@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Data and Quality Science; Data Science for Wind Energy ; Data Science for Material/Manufacturing.
Natarajan Gautam – Professor (Departments of Industrial & Systems Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering)
Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Affairs
William O. and Montine P. Head Fellow
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Courtesy Appointment)
Office: 4012 Emerging Technologies Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3131
Tel: (979) 458-2345
Fax: (979) 458-4299
Email: gautam@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Energy conservation and efficiency; Computer, communication and information networks; Sensor Networks: power, performance and maintenance; Stochastic systems, applied probability, queues and networks.
Ana Goulart – Associate Professor (Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution)
Electronic Systems Engineering Technology
Office: 011 Fermier Hall, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3367
Tel: (979) 845-4948
Fax: (979) 847-9396
Email: goulart@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Internet telephony (VoIP) applications and signaling protocols; IP-based emergency communications (NG-9-1-1); Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and Location to Service Translation Protocol (LoST); Last mile communication solutions for smart grid; Communications networks testbeds and performance measurements; Engineering education, including active learning and undergraduate research.
Guofei Gu – Professor (Department of Computer Science & Engineering)
Office: 502C H.R. Bright Building Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 845-2475
Email: guofei@cse.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Network and system security; Applied cryptography.
Eman Hammad – Assistant Professor (Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution)
Office: Fermier Hall, Room 301, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 458-5377
Email: eman.hammad@tamu.edu
Research Interests: Cyber-Physical Security and Resilience of Future Networks, Hybrid Complex Systems, and Critical Infrastructure Systems; Digital Trustworthiness and Reliable Integration of Emerging Technologies (5G/6G, IIoT, AI/ML); Autonomous and Human-in-The-Loop Cyber-Physical Operations; Cybersecurity Testing and Evaluation; Cybersecurity Education.
Mark Holtzapple – Professor (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Office: 231 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-1372
Tel: (979) 845-9708
Fax: (979) 845-6446
Email: m-holtzapple@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Bio-based fuels and chemicals, food and feed processing, water desalination, air conditioning, high-efficiency engines, jet engines and vertical-lift aircraft;Developed a wide variety of technologies, including conversion of alcohol fuels from biodegradable wastes and protein sugar recovery from energy cane. In addition, he has developed the StarRotor engine, which is three times more efficient than the conventional internal combustion engine;The MixAlco Process™ – A lignocelluloses route to chemicals and fuels; SoluPro™ – Converts waste protein into adhesives and feed additives; AdVE™ – An Advanced Vapor-compression and Evaporation technology used for desalinating brackish and salt water into potable water.
Andrew L. Johnson – Adjunct Professor (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering)
Office: 4033 Emerging Technologies Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3131
Tel: (979) 458-2356/Fax: (979) 458-4299
Email: ajohnson@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Performance Assessment; Productivity and Efficiency Analysis; Healthcare; Warehousing and Material Handling; Manufacturing; Energy and Environmental Regulation; Systems Engineering.
Reza Langari – Professor (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
J.R. Thompson Department Head Chair
Office: 107 Fermier, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77840
Tel: (979) 845-6918
Email: rlangari@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Computational Intelligence; Mechatronics; Dynamic Systems and Control; Robotics and Automation; Autonomous Vehicles; Fault Diagnosis and Identification (FDI); Rehabilitation Robotics
V. Jorge Leon – Professor (Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering)
Allen-Bradley Professor
Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution
Office: 117-E Thompson Hall, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3367
Tel: (979) 845-4993
Fax: (979) 847-9005
Email: jLeon@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Production and inventory systems; Global supply chains; Quality systems; Applied operations research.
Jyh-Charn (Steve) Liu – Professor (Department of Computer Science & Engineering)
Office: 502B H.R. Bright Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 845-8739
Email: liu@cse.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Real-time distributed computing systems, network performance and security, medical informatics.
Zenon Medina-Cetina – Associate Professor (Department of Civil Engineering)
Office: 808S College of Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3136
Tel:(979) 845-6567
Email: zmedina@civil.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Stochastic Geomechanics; Stochastic Processes: Spatio-Temporal Simulation (3D-T); Risk, Reliability and Sensibility Analysis; Uncertainty Identification, Characterization and Propagation; Inverse problems: Bayesian and Extended Logic; Photomechanics: Identification of Localization Phenomena; Geostatistics: Probabilistic Site Characterization; Optimal Modeling and Simulation of Structures and Processes; Stochastic Design of Early Warning Systems; Causal Analysis through Influence Diagrams: Bayesian Networks; Scientific Computing: Parallelization of Monte-Carlo Methods; Integrated Site Characterization: Geologic, Geophysical and Geotechnical.
Erick Moreno-Centeno – Associate Professor (Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering)
Office: 4034 Emerging Technologies Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3131
Tel:(979) 458-2335
Fax:(979) 458-4299
Email: emc@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Design and analysis of optimization models and algorithms; Computational optimization, combinatorial optimization, network flows, and integer programming; Applications: Energy (transmission switching), decision theory, vehicle routing, data mining.
Robin Murphy – Professor (Department of Computer Science & Engineering)
Raytheon Professor
Office: 333 H.R. Bright Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 845-8737/Fax: (979) 845-1420
Email: murphy@cse.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Artificial intelligence as applied to emergency informatics, especially tactical land, sea, and air vehicles; Human-robot interaction; Heterogeneous teams; Victim management; Perceptual directed behavior-based control.
Bimal Nepal – Professor (Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution)
Office: 205C Fermier, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
Tel: (979) 845-2230
Fax: (979) 845-4980
Email: nepal@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: New Product development;Supply Chain Configurations; Supply Chain Configurations; Strategic Sourcing; Risk Analysis; Multiple Criteria Decision Modeling; Optimization; Quality and Applied Statistics; Reliability Analysis; Fuzzy Theory.
Alexander Parlos – Retired Professor (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Office: 116 Mechanical Engineering Office Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123
Tel:(979) 862-2060
Fax:(979) 845-3081
Email: a-parlos@tamu.edu
Research Interests: Non-instrusive and non-invasive methods for condition monitoring, assessment and end-life prediction; Energy conversion efficiency assessment; Distributed sensor and actuator networks for condition and performance monitoring
Miladin Radovic – Professor (Department of Materials Science & Engineering)
Director, Materials Characterization Facility
Office: 213 Reed McDonald, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123
Tel: (979) 845-5114
Fax: (979) 845-3081
Email: mradovic@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: High temperature materials for energy applications; Processing of advanced ceramic materials; Processing and characterization of materials for fuel cells; Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy.
Daniel Ragsdale – Professor of Practice (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
Office: 200 Discovery Drive Suite 105, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 845-7398
Email: rags@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Cybersecurity, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, computer ethics, privacy.
Bryan P. Rasmussen – Professor (Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Leland T. Jordan Career Development Professor
Office: 304 Mechanical Engineering Office Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3123
Tel: (979) 862-2776
Fax: (979) 845-3081
Email: brasmussen@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Dynamic modeling and control of thermo-fluid energy systems. Building HVAC control. Industrial energy efficiency.
Jorge Seminario – Professor (Department of Chemical Engineering)
Holder of the Lanatter & Herbert Fox Professorship
Office: 239 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-1372
Tel: (979) 845-3301
Fax: (979) 845-6446
Email: seminario@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Nanotechnology; Analysis, design and simulation of systems and materials of nanometer dimensions, especially those for the development of nanosensors and molecular electronics.
Radu Stoleru – Professor (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
Office: 311C H.R. Bright Building, College Station, TX 77843-3112
Tel: (979) 862-8349
Fax: (979) 847-8578
Email: stoleru@cse.tamu.edu
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Research Interests: Deeply embedded wireless sensor systems, distributed systems, embedded computing, computer networking.
Pavel V. Tsvetkov – Associate Professor (Department of Nuclear Engineering)
Faculty Graduate Adviser
Office: AI Engineering Building 205B, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3133
Tel: (979) 845-7078
Fax: (979) 845-6443
Email: tsvetkov@tamu.edu
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Research Interests: System analysis and optimization methods, complex engineered systems; Symbiotic nuclear energy systems, waste minimalization, sustainability; HTGRs and co-generation systems; Direct nuclear energy conversion systems.
Dr. Tsvetkov participated in a panel of American Chemical Society on “ACS Science & the Congress Project – Energy Policy in the Next Congress: Predictions and Guesses”. A video can be accessed here.
Wei Zhan – Associate Professor (Department of Engineering Technology & Industrial Distribution)
Electronic Systems Engineering Technology
Office: 305 Fermier Hall, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3367
Tel: (979) 862-4342
Email: wei.zhan@tamu.edu
Website
Research Interests: Dynamical control systems design / modeling /analysis /simulation; Nonlinear control; Adaptive control; Robust design; System engineering; Optimization; System identification; Model-based industrial control problems; Robot dynamics and control; Vehicle systems, testing and validation; Quality control; Process control; Wireless communication.