Regular Faculty
Ian Baker
Professor of Engineering
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Materials science; phase transformations; electron microscopy; x-ray diffraction and topography; structure/property relationships in intermetallic compounds, ice, and nanocrystalline materials
Andrea Borsic
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Electrical impedance tomography; inverse problems; measurement instrumentation design
Mark E. Borsuk
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Decision theory; integrated systems modeling and management; Bayesian statistics, uncertainty analysis; risk assessment; valuation methods; imprecise probabilities; sustainability science
John P. Collier
Myron Tribus Professor of Engineering Innovation and Senior Lecturer
Design and analysis of orthopedic prostheses; design and metallurgy of porous-metal-coated implants; study of implant/host interfaces; growth and repair of cartilage
Benoit Cushman-Roisin
Professor of Engineering
Environmental transport processes; environmental fluid mechanics; industrial ecology
George Cybenko
Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering
Information systems and theory
Solomon G. Diamond
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Biomedical imaging; functional neuroimaging; physiological modeling; heart rate variability; stroke recovery; Alzheimer's disease
Harold J. Frost
Associate Professor of Engineering
Materials science; modeling of microstructural evolution; deformation and fracture at high temperatures
Elsa Garmire
Sydney E. Junkins 1887 Professor of Engineering
Non-linear optics; integrated optics and semiconductor photonic devices; lasers; electro-optics; fiber optics
Tillman U. Gerngross
Professor of Engineering
Biopolymers; lifecycle costing of competing manufacturing technologies; fermentation technology; metabolic engineering; protein expression; glycoprotein engineering
Ursula J. Gibson
Associate Professor of Engineering
Electromagnetic properties of nanoscale materials; materials science; properties of periodic structures in reduced dimensions and small length scales; Langmuir-Blodgett and vapor deposition of optical coatings; protein crystal growth; nanoparticle and nanowire growth
Robert J. Graves
John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies
Co-Director, Master of Engineering Management Program
Adjunct Professor, Tuck School of Business
Research Professor Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
E-engineering information technologies; near real-time scheduling and dispatching; assembly system design; product design; multi-objective optimization; integrated material handling system concepting and design; intelligent control systems
Karl Griswold
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Protein engineering; directed evolution; biotherapeutics; applied biocatalysis; high throughput screening
Eric W. Hansen
Associate Professor of Engineering
Image and signal processing; optics; system theory; three-dimensional microscopy
Alexander Hartov
Associate Professor of Engineering
Biomedical engineering; electrical impedance tomography; image-guided surgery; cryosurgery; ultrasound; control theory; microwave imaging; hyperthermia
Joseph J. Helble
Dean and Professor of Engineering
Mercury; particulate matter; air pollution control; CO2 capture; combustion; nanostructured materials
Shudong Jiang
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Optical spectroscopy and imaging systems for biomedical applications
Francis E. Kennedy Jr.
Professor of Engineering
Surface mechanics and tribology (friction, wear, lubrication, surface deformation); mechanical design; mechanical behavior of materials; biomechanics
Ronald C. Lasky
Professor of Engineering and Senior Lecturer
Director, Cook Engineering Design Center
Electronic and optoelectronic packaging; optoelectronic transceiver modules; electronic manufacturing operations design of experiments; statistical analysis; materials science
Christopher G. Levey
Associate Professor of Engineering and Senior Lecturer
Director, Microengineering Laboratory
Director, Instructional Laboratories
Microfabrication technology; micro-optical systems and binary optics; micromechanical and electromechanical systems (MEMS); microrobotics
William Lotko
Professor of Engineering
Geospace environment; space plasma physics, modeling, simulation; electromagnetic fields and waves
Daniel R. Lynch
MacLean Professor of Engineering
Advanced computational methods with applications in environmental engineering, oceanography, and water resources
Lee Rybeck Lynd
Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design
Adjunct Professor of Biology
Biomass conversion and sustainable resource utilization; metabolic engineering; applied microbiology; process design and evaluation
Susan P. McGrath
Associate Professor of Engineering and Senior Lecturer
Director, Emergency Readiness and Response Research Center, ISTS
Mobile computing and intelligent software applications for biomedical, emergency management; command and control applications
Paul M. Meaney
Associate Professor of Engineering
Microwave imaging ultrasound computed tomography for biomedical applications; microwave antenna design; ultrasound-based elasticity imaging; thermal modeling and system design for focused ultrasound surgery applications
Reza Olfati-Saber
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Networked systems; sensor networks; swarms and self-organizing systems; complex networks; distributed control and robotics; data fusion; multi-agent systems; and evolution of behavior
Ulf L. Österberg
Associate Professor of Engineering
Optical fibers; nonlinear optics; optical signal processing and glass spectroscopy; optical pulse propagation in absorptive and scattering media
Keith D. Paulsen
Professor of Engineering
Biomedical engineering; numerical methods in electromagnetics; cancer therapeutics; medical imaging methodologies; bioelectromagnetics
Victor F. Petrenko
Professor of Engineering and Senior Lecturer
Ice physics and ice engineering; de-icing and anti-icing technology; ice and snow friction modification
Minh Q. Phan
Associate Professor of Engineering
System identification; iterative learning control; model predictive control; control of robotic swarms; intelligent control; adaptive control
Brian W. Pogue
Associate Professor of Engineering
Director, M.S. and Ph.D. Programs
Biomedical laser applications; laser-tissue interaction; hemoglobin imaging; photodynamic therapy; modeling of tumor biology
Laura R. Ray
Associate Professor of Engineering
Dynamics and controls; nonlinear estimation; mobile robots; active noise control; damage detection in smart structures; mechatronics
Peter J. Robbie
Associate Professor of Engineering and Senior Lecturer
Product design (design for human use, interdisciplinary studies)
Eugene Santos Jr.
Professor of Engineering
Intelligent systems; artificial intelligence; probabilistic reasoning; adversarial modeling; intent inferencing; user modeling; information retrieval; evolutionary computation
Erland M. Schulson
George Austin Colligan Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Chair, Engineering Sciences Department
Director, Ice Research Laboratory
Flow and fracture of ice; mechanical behavior of metals and alloys; physical metallurgy and materials science
Simon G. Shepherd
Assistant Professor of Engineering and Senior Lecturer
Ionospheric plasma convection; solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling; ionospheric coherent radar backscatter; radio waves; geomagnetically induced currents
Fridon Shubitidze
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Numerical methods in computational electromagnetics; electromagnetic sensing methodologies; detection and discrimination of sub-surface objects; linear and non-linear inverse-scattering; induced geo-electromagnetic fields; micro strip antennas; photonic band gaps; near field optics; DNA sequencing; electrostatic discharge
Anatoly V. Streltsov
Associate Professor of Engineering
Computational sciences; space plasma physics; electromagnetic waves in nonhomogeneous media
Charles R. Sullivan
Associate Professor of Engineering
Power electronics; micro-fabricated magnetic components; power conversion; design for the environment; renewable electric power sources
Stephen Taylor
Professor of Engineering
Distributed computing and web technologies
Markus E. Testorf
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Applied optics; inverse scattering; optical design problems
B. Stuart Trembly
Associate Professor of Engineering
Therapeutic heating of tissue; biomedical engineering; antenna theory
Douglas W. Van Citters
Assistant Professor of Engineering and Lecturer
Orthopaedic failure analysis and design; wear of polymers; polymer processing; biomaterials and surgical device design.
Petia M. Vlahovska
Assistant Professor of Engineering
Rheology of complex fluids; dynamics of surfactants at interfaces; biological fluid dynamics