{"id":130,"date":"2022-12-30T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T19:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research-multi-dev.utk.edu\/energy-dev\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:53:57","slug":"faculty-directory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/faculty-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull directory-ui has-orange-carbon-top is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b577ee37 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\"><div class=\"facetwp-facet facetwp-facet-faculty_search 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Reza-Abedi.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Reza-Abedi.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Reza-Abedi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsi.edu\/people\/faculty\/reza-abedi\/\"> Reza Abedi <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Homogenization, upscaling, random media, statistical volume element, brittle fracture, dynamic fracture, discontinuous Galerkin, elastodynamics, electromagnetics<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r2\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Steven-Abel.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Steven-Abel.jpg 500w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Steven-Abel-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Steven-Abel-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbe.utk.edu\/people\/steven-m-abel\/\"> Steve Abel <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Computation, simulation, theory, cell biology, immunology, intracellular transport, synthetic biology, systems biology, biomembrane, cytoskeleton, nanoparticle, biophysics, machine learning<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r3\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Rigoberto-Advincula.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Rigoberto-Advincula.jpg 500w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Rigoberto-Advincula-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Rigoberto-Advincula-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbe.utk.edu\/people\/rigoberto-advincula\/\"> Rigoberto Advincula <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Computation, simulation, theory, cell biology, immunology, intracellular transport, synthetic biology, systems biology, biomembrane, cytoskeleton, nanoparticle, biophysics, machine learning<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r4\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/AhmadiMahshid.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/AhmadiMahshid.jpg 500w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/AhmadiMahshid-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/AhmadiMahshid-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/faculty\/mahshid-ahmadi\/\"> Mashid Ahmadi <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Automated synthesis, materials discovery, causal methods, bayesian optimization<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r5\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Belinda-Akpa.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Belinda-Akpa.jpg 500w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Belinda-Akpa-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Belinda-Akpa-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cbe.utk.edu\/people\/belinda-akpa\/\"> Belinda Akpa <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Systems biology, mathematical modeling, generative molecular design, computational biomedicine, agent-based modeling, drug discovery, quantitative systems pharmacology<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r6\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"379\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Akrout-Mohamed.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mohamed Akrout\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Akrout-Mohamed.jpg 379w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Akrout-Mohamed-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Akrout-Mohamed-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.utk.edu\/people\/mohamed-akrout\/\"> Mohamed Akrout <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Communications and signal processing, control and robotics, intelligent systems<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r7\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/suzie-allard-hs-308x400-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"Suzie Allard\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/suzie-allard-hs-308x400-1.jpg 308w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/suzie-allard-hs-308x400-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/suzie-allard-hs-308x400-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sis.utk.edu\/about\/directory\/suzie-allard\"> Suzie Allard <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Dean and Chancellor's Professor, Information Sciences<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Knowledge creation, data management, disinformation message effects, team science<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r8\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/anderson_joel-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/anderson_joel-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/anderson_joel-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/anderson_joel-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nursing.utk.edu\/blog\/people\/joel-g-anderson\/\"> Joel Anderson <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Professor, Nursing<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Caregiving, aging, gerontology, digital health resources<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r9\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Misty-Anderson-600x600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"Misty Anderson\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Misty-Anderson-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Misty-Anderson-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Misty-Anderson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Misty-Anderson-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/10\/Misty-Anderson.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/english.utk.edu\/people\/misty-anderson\/\"> Misty Anderson <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Professor, English<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Restoration and 18th-century British literature and culture, theatre<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r10\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Anzt-Hartwig.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hartwig Anzt\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Anzt-Hartwig.jpg 500w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Anzt-Hartwig-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Anzt-Hartwig-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.utk.edu\/people\/hartwig-anzt\/\"> Hartwig Antz <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Research Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">High performance computing, sustainable software development, scalable AI performance optimization of machine learning<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r11\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Pereceval-Assogba.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Pereceval-Assogba.jpg 500w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Pereceval-Assogba-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/07\/Pereceval-Assogba-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/utia.tennessee.edu\/person\/?id=21174\"> Perceval Assogba <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef iamm-faculty-card-title\">Assistant Professor, Natural Resources<\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-99fc1c iamm-faculty-card-excerpt\">Linear regression, non-linear regression, time series, machine learning<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-result r12\"><div class=\"fwpl-row el-cvn4tk\"><div class=\"fwpl-col fwpl-col el-g12v9i iamm-faculty-card\"><div class=\"fwpl-item el-6f7uv iamm-faculty-card-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/Mehmet-Aydeniz.jpg\" class=\"attachment-gb-block-post-grid-square size-gb-block-post-grid-square wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mehmet Aydeniz\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/Mehmet-Aydeniz.jpg 300w, https:\/\/research.utk.edu\/aitn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/08\/Mehmet-Aydeniz-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-uc5jvl\"><p class=\"iamm-faculty-card-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/tpte\/people\/mehmet-aydeniz-phd\/\"> Mehmet Aydeniz <\/a><\/div><div class=\"fwpl-item el-fumnef 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