Research without boundaries

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

NSF CAREER Award Recipients

A third of all faculty at the McKelvey School of Engineering have received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This prestigious award supports faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

Learn more about the faculty and research supported by CAREER awards at McKelvey Engineering.

2023

Abhinav Jha
“Developing a List-mode Imaging Paradigm"

	Ning Zhang “System Software Availability Foundations for Real-time Cyberphysical Systems"
	Michael Vahey “Assembly and Function of Viral Immune Complexes"

2022

	Rohan Mishra “Rational Design of Ferroelectric Semiconductors”
	Alvitta Ottley “Context-Aware Visual Analytics Systems: Evolving the One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Design and Evaluation”

2021

	Jai Rudra “Effects of Nanomaterial Chirality on Immune Cells and Innate Immunity”
	Fangqiong Ling “Wastewater Counts: Real-time de facto Population Estimation for Quantitative Wastewater-based Epidemiology”
	Kimberly Parker “Abiotic degradation of emerging RNA interference pesticides”
	Peng Bai “Analytical Investigation of the Spatiotemporal Heterogeneities in Particulate Porous Electrodes toward Precision Electrochemical Kinetics”
	Patricia Weisensee “Understanding thermal phase change processes in metallic additive manufacturing”
	Ulugbek Kamilov “Reconciling Model-Based and Learning-Based Imaging: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications”

2020

Brendan Juba
“Relational Generalization in Integrated Learning and Reasoning”

I-Ting Angela Lee
“A Task-Parallel Platform for Interactive Applications”

2019

Mark Meacham
“Dynamic characterization of acoustofluidic devices using living probes”

Roman Garnett
“Boosting scientific discovery through intelligent experimental design”

2018

Song Hu
“Transforming Multi-parametric Photoacoustic Microscopy”

Elijah Thimsen
“Controlling Low Temperature Plasma Activation”

Yevgeniy Vorobeychik
“Adversarial Artificial Intelligence for Social Good”

2017

Matthew Lew
"Nanoscale sensing and imaging using computational single-molecule nanoscopy"

ShiNung Ching
"System Theoretic Methods for Understanding the Dynamics of Cognition"

2016

William Yeoh
"Decentralized Constraint-Based Optimization for Multi-Agent Planning and Coordination"

2015

Rajan Chakrabarty
"From Cradle to Grave: Radiative Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols"

Barani Raman
"Neural Dynamics, Olfactory Coding and Behavior"

Amit Pathak
"History-dependent cell motility in heterogeneous micro environments"

2014

Fuzhong Zhang
"Synthetic regulatory systems for dynamic metabolic pathways"

2013

Srikanth Singamaneni
“Plasmonic Nanoclusters with Built-in Artificial Antibodies for Label-free Biosensing”

Jung-Tsung Shen
"Extraordinary Enhancement of Optical Nonlinearity in Subwavelength Metal-Nonlinear Dielectric Gratings"

2012

Kunal Agrawal
"Provably Good Concurrency Platforms for Streaming Applications

2011

Caitlin Kelleher
"Looking Glass: Leveraging Mentor Interactions to Create Personalized Programming Help for Independent Learners"

Young-Shin Jun
"Understanding CO2-Fluid-Mineral Interfacial Reactions for Sustainable Geologic CO2 Sequestration: An Integrated Research & Education Plan"

2010

Bruno Sinopoli
"Efficient, Secure and Robust Control of Cyber Physical Systems"

Yinjie Tang
"Development of 13C-assisted Metabolic Flux Analysis Tools for Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria"

Lan Yang
"Real-Time Detection, Monitoring and Characterization of Single Nanoparticle/Bioaerosol Using On-Chip Resonators"

2009

Tao Ju
"Reconstructing Geometrically and Topologically Correct Models"

Vijay Ramani
"Multi-functional materials for electrochemical energy conversion"

2008

Jr-Shin Li
"Ensemble Control with Applications to Spectroscopy, Imaging and Computation"

Neal Patwari
"RF-Sensing Networks for Radio Tomographic Environmental Imaging"

2006

Daniel Giammar
"Interfacial Reactions Affecting Heavy Metal Fate and Transport: An Integrated Research and Education Plan"

2005

Kathy Flores
"Development of a Structurally Based Plastic Flow Model to Enhance the Utilization of Bulk Metallic Glasses"

Christopher Gill
"Time and Event Based System Software Construction"

Chenyang Lu
"Adaptive Quality of Service Control in Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems"

2003

Jeremy Buhler
"New Technologies for Biosequence Comparison"

1996

Phil Bayly
"Prediction and Control of Nonlinear Oscillations: Applications to Mechanical and Cardiac Dynamics"

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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