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Faculty & Research
Our faculty perform cutting-edge research in a wide variety of areas and are recognized worldwide for their discoveries. McKelvey Engineering faculty also collaborate with faculty in other departments and other schools within the university on numerous interdisciplinary research projects.
Research by the numbers
1/3
of Engineering faculty have received the NSF CAREER Award
$37.7 million
total research expenditures (FY22)
60%
of undergraduate students conduct research or independent study
2023
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Michael Vahey |
2022
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Rohan Mishra |
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Alvitta Ottley “Context-Aware Visual Analytics Systems: Evolving the One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Design and Evaluation” |
2021
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Jai Rudra |
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Fangqiong Ling “Wastewater Counts: Real-time de facto Population Estimation for Quantitative Wastewater-based Epidemiology” |
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Kimberly Parker “Abiotic degradation of emerging RNA interference pesticides” |
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Peng Bai “Analytical Investigation of the Spatiotemporal Heterogeneities in Particulate Porous Electrodes toward Precision Electrochemical Kinetics” |
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Patricia Weisensee “Understanding thermal phase change processes in metallic additive manufacturing” |
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Ulugbek Kamilov “Reconciling Model-Based and Learning-Based Imaging: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications” |
2020
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Brendan Juba “Relational Generalization in Integrated Learning and Reasoning” |
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I-Ting Angela Lee “A Task-Parallel Platform for Interactive Applications” |
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Xuan 'Silvia' Zhang “Neural Network-Inspired Information Processing Beyond the Binary Digital Abstraction” |
2019
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Mark Meacham “Dynamic characterization of acoustofluidic devices using living probes” |
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Roman Garnett “Boosting scientific discovery through intelligent experimental design” |
2018
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Song Hu |
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Elijah Thimsen “Controlling Low Temperature Plasma Activation” |
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Yevgeniy Vorobeychik “Adversarial Artificial Intelligence for Social Good” |
2017
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Matthew Lew "Nanoscale sensing and imaging using computational single-molecule nanoscopy" |
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ShiNung Ching "System Theoretic Methods for Understanding the Dynamics of Cognition" |
2016
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Brent Williams "Laboratory Studies on the Chemical Characterization of Atmospheric Emission Sources and their Oxidative Evolution using Novel Instrumentation" |
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William Yeoh "Decentralized Constraint-Based Optimization for Multi-Agent Planning and Coordination" |
2015
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Rajan Chakrabarty "From Cradle to Grave: Radiative Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols" |
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Barani Raman "Neural Dynamics, Olfactory Coding and Behavior" |
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Amit Pathak "History-dependent cell motility in heterogeneous micro environments" |
2014
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Fuzhong Zhang "Synthetic regulatory systems for dynamic metabolic pathways" |
2013
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Srikanth Singamaneni “Plasmonic Nanoclusters with Built-in Artificial Antibodies for Label-free Biosensing” |
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Jung-Tsung Shen "Extraordinary Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity in Subwavelength Metal-Nonlinear Dielectric Gratings" |
2012
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Kunal Agrawal "Provably Good Concurrency Platforms for Streaming Applications |
2011
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Caitlin Kelleher "Looking Glass: Leveraging Mentor Interactions to Create Personalized Programming Help for Independent Learners" |
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Young-Shin Jun "Understanding CO2-Fluid-Mineral Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Geologic CO2 Sequestration: An Integrated Research & Education Plan" |
2010
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Bruno Sinopoli "Efficient, Secure and Robust Control of Cyber Physical Systems" |
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Yinjie Tang "Development of 13C-assisted Metabolic Flux Analysis Tools for Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria" |
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Lan Yang "Real-Time Detection, Monitoring and Characterization of Single Nanoparticle/Bioaerosol Using On-Chip Resonators" |
2009
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Tao Ju "Reconstructing Geometrically and Topologically Correct Models" |
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Vijay Ramani "Multi-functional materials for electrochemical energy conversion" |
2008
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Jr-Shin Li "Ensemble Control with Applications to Spectroscopy, Imaging and Computation" |
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Neal Patwari "RF-Sensing Networks for Radio Tomographic Environmental Imaging" |
2006
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Daniel Giammar "Interfacial Reactions Affecting Heavy Metal Fate and Transport: An Integrated Research and Education Plan" |
2005
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Kathy Flores "Development of a Structurally Based Plastic Flow Model to Enhance the Utilization of Bulk Metallic Glasses" |
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Christopher Gill "Time and Event Based System Software Construction" |
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Chenyang Lu "Adaptive Quality of Service Control in Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems" |
2003
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Jeremy Buhler "New Technologies for Biosequence Comparison" |
1996
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Phil Bayly "Prediction and Control of Nonlinear Oscillations: Applications to Mechanical and Cardiac Dynamics" |
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McKelvey Engineering is the world leader in aerosols engineering research and education. Our research is focused on understanding the impacts of aerosols on the environment, climate and human health.
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Imaging science brings together world-renowned researchers in medicine, computing and engineering.
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Faculty across multiple departments are creating AI-driven cyber-physical systems that are secure, safe, reliable and resilient.
Strategic research areas
McKelvey Engineering is leading in these areas of research:
- Aerosols
- AI and Machine Learning
- Aquatics
- Biomechanics
- Cyber-physical Systems
- Imaging Sciences
Inside the research
