Uday Vaidya
Composites manufacturing, design and product development, concept to part, recycling and sustainable technologies, , hybrids, engineered plastics and high performance materials
Tony Zhongshun Shi
Machine learning and data science for complex systems in science and engineering modeling; control and optimization of time, event and decision-driven complex systems; statistical methods, mathematical optimization, and scientific computation; manufacturing, operations engineering, system dynamics and cyber-physical systems
Mark Dadmun
Organic photovoltaics and conjugated polymers, nanocomposites and block copolymers, lignin and renewable polymers
Eric Lass
Phase transformations and microstructural evolution in metals and alloys, thermodynamic and kinetics, high-temperature materials, additive manufacturing
Gila Stein
Self-assembly in polymeric systems, physics of confined polymers, thermodynamics of polymer blends, architectural design of polymers, lithographic materials, coatings, thin film membranes, x-ray scattering methods
Dayakar Penumadu
Carbon fiber reinforced polymeric composites and sandwich structures, environmental degradation, and multi-scale mechanics, multi-axial stress-strain-time behavior of multi-phase and granular materials, non-invasive characterization and residual stress using neutron and x-ray tomography and diffraction, direct numerical simulations and porous media