Faculty By Keywords

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Liu, Chang
Title: Assistant Professor
Highest Degree: PhD
E-Mail: chang_liu@uconn.edu

Dr. Chang Liu joined the University of Connecticut, Department of Mechanical Engineering in August 2023 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to that, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley from 2021 to 2023. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (2021) from Johns Hopkins University, where […]

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Chishty, Wajid
Title: Professor in residence
Highest Degree: PhD
E-Mail: wajid.chishty@uconn.edu

Dr. Chishty joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in January 2023. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic & State University (2005), an MSE in Aerospace Engineering from University of Michigan (1996) and an MBA in Finance from University of Karachi (1991). He has more than 30 years of experience in the […]

Keywords: Chemical Kinetics, combustion, commercial engines, Current, gas turbine engines

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Huber, Martin
Title: Assistant Professor-In-Residence
Highest Degree: Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2022
E-Mail: martin.huber@uconn.edu

Professor Huber joined the University of Connecticut in the Fall of 2022 as an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his B.S. (2007), M.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2022) from the University of Connecticut. His interests include computational design, mechatronics and mechanical systems, and human motion analysis.

Keywords: bio-engineering applications, computational design, Current, machine systems, mechatronics

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Duduta, Mihai
Title: Assistant Professor
Highest Degree: Ph.D.
E-Mail: mihai.duduta@uconn.edu

Mihai “Mishu” Duduta is joining Mechanical Engineering after being an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering for two years at the University of Toronto. He completed a BS in Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, then became the first employee of 24M Technologies, a start-up spun out to commercialize a battery […]

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Hu, Chao
Title: Associate Professor
Highest Degree: Ph.D.
E-Mail: chao.hu@uconn.edu

Dr. Chao Hu received his B.E. degree in Engineering Physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 2007 and his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in Maryland, in 2011. He worked first as a Senior Reliability Engineer and then as a Principal Scientist at Medtronic in Minnesota from […]

Keywords: active faculty, batteries, Current, uncertainty quantification

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Chen, Ruimin
Title: Assistant Professor in Residence
Highest Degree: Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University, 2021
E-Mail: ruimin.chen@uconn.edu

Dr. Chen joined the department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in August 2022. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University (2021), and dual M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from The Pennsylvania State University (2018). She obtained her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Southeast University, China (2016). […]

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Pavlidis, Georges
Title: Assistant Professor
Highest Degree: PhD
E-Mail: georges.pavlidis@uconn.edu

Dr. Georges Pavlidis joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2022 as an Assistant Professor. He earned his M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2013 and his M.S., Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018. His doctoral research was focused on assessing the reliability of new […]

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Kim, Kyungjin
Title: Assistant Professor
E-Mail: kyungjin.kim@uconn.edu

Prof. Kyungjin Kim joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut in Fall 2021. Before joining, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Lacour lab at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, working on the chronic soft neuroprosthetic implants. She received her PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA […]

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Naik, Rajiv
Title: Visiting Professor
Highest Degree: Ph.D.
E-Mail: rajiv.naik@uconn.edu

Dr. Naik joined the University of Connecticut in 2020. Prior to that, Dr. Naik worked at Pratt & Whitney where he led the characterization and modeling of polymer matrix and ceramic matrix composite materials. He received his B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (1979), M.S. from University of Maine, Orono, Maine […]

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Kang, SeungYeon
Title: Assistant Professor
E-Mail: seung_yeon.kang@uconn.edu

SeungYeon Kang joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2021 as an Assistant Professor. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University where she developed novel 2D/3D nanofabrication methods using femtosecond lasers. Prior to joining as a faculty, she was a postdoctoral research associate at […]

Keywords: active faculty, Additive manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, batteries, Current

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Paricio, Jorge
Title: Associate Professor in Residence
E-Mail: jparicio@uconn.edu

Department: Associate Professor-in-Residence, Co-Director Krenicki Arts and Engineering Institute; Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. program graduated from and/or previous work experience: Dr. Jorge Paricio is an Associate Professor-in-Residence in Industrial Design. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, followed by a Masters in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and a PhD from the […]

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Imani, Farhad
Title: Assistant Professor
E-Mail: farhad.imani@uconn.edu

Dr. Imani joined the University of Connecticut in 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Dual-title Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Pennsylvania State University in 2020. His research interests focus on data analytics, machine learning, statistical learning, and decision theory for process monitoring and […]

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Sheikhi, Reza
Title: Associate Professor In Residence and Associate Department Head
Highest Degree: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 2005
E-Mail: reza.sheikhi@uconn.edu

Dr. Reza Sheikhi joined the Mechanical Engineering Department in 2018. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pittsburgh, State University of New York at Buffalo and Sharif University of Technology, Iran, respectively. Dr. Sheikhi has several years of industrial experience and has previously been an Assistant Professor of Mechanical […]

Keywords: active faculty, computational fluid mechanics, computational mechanics, Current, Energy Systems, fluid mechanics, Multi-physics computational modeling, transport phenomena, turbulent combustion, turbulent combustion modeling

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Poludnenko, Alexei
Title: Associate Professor
Highest Degree: PhD, University of Rochester, 2004
E-Mail: alexei.poludnenko@uconn.edu

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Carbone, Francesco
Title: Assistant Professor
Highest Degree: Ph.D. University of Naples Federico II (Italy), 2008
E-Mail: carbone@uconn.edu

Keywords: active faculty, combustion, Current

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Bilal, Osama
Title: Assistant Professor
E-Mail: osama.bilal@uconn.edu

Osama is interested in designing intelligent, autonomous and multifunctional structures and materials through understanding of correlations between geometry, symmetry, periodicity and mechanical properties. His research interests spans dynamics of structures and materials, acoustic metamaterials, soft robotics, additive manufacturing, origami, topology optimization, haptics and fluid-structure interaction. The research combines theory, numerical simulations and experiments spanning micro […]

Keywords: active faculty, Current

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Xu, Hongyi
Title: Assistant Professor
E-Mail: hongyi.3.xu@uconn.edu

Dr. Hongyi Xu joined the University of Connecticut in February 2019 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on advancing computational design and uncertainty quantification methods for microstructural materials and complex structural systems. Additionally, he investigates Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM), deep learning-assisted design, and material/structure design for energy storage […]

Keywords: active faculty, Additive manufacturing, batteries, Current, design, multi-disciplinary optimization, uncertainty quantification

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Tarakanova, Anna
Title: Assistant Professor
Highest Degree: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017.
E-Mail: anna.tarakanova@uconn.edu

Anna Tarakanova joined the University of Connecticut in 2018 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research focuses on advancing molecular and multiscale modeling methods to study the structure, function and mechanics of biological and bioinspired materials driving the development of new functional materials for medical and engineering applications. Additionally, she investigates […]

Keywords: Current, Molecular modeling, multiscale modeling, Nano-bio mechanical systems

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Matheou, George
Title: Assistant Professor
Highest Degree: PhD, California Institute of Technology, 2008.
E-Mail: georgios.matheou@uconn.edu

Dr. Matheou joined the department of Mechanical Engineering in August 2017 from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He combines theory, modeling, state of the art computational algorithms, in situ measurements and remote sensing data to understand and predict complex multi-physics fluid flows, which include the interaction of several physical processes: stable and unstable density stratification, rotation, […]

Keywords: aerospace applications, complex fluid dyanmics, computational fluid dynamics, Current, Multi-physics computational modeling

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Crow, David (Ed)
Title: Professor in Residence
Highest Degree: Ph.D., University of Missouri-Rolla, 1972
E-Mail: edward.crow@pratt-whitney.com

Dr. David (Ed) Crow joined the department in 2002 after a distinguished career in industry. Dr. Crow joined Pratt & Whitney in 1966, rising to the position of Senior Vice President of Pratt & Whitney’s Engineering organization in May 1997, where he was responsible for the design, development, validation and certification of all Pratt & […]

Keywords: commercial engines, Current, gas turbine engines, gas turbine technology, military engines

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