Faculty Directory
Kallivokas, Loukas
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Professor
loukas@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5769
ECJ 4.734
Department Areas
Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials
Research Interests
Computational mechanics; Inverse problems in engineering; Wave propagation and structural dynamics; Earthquake engineering; Numerical methods; Large-scale computational modeling
Katz, Lynn
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Professor
Bettie Margaret Smith Professorship in Engineering
lynnkatz@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4244
ECJ 8.614
Department Areas
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Research Interests
Contaminant fate and transport; Combined abiotic/biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation; Environmental surface chemistry
Khurshid, Sarfraz
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor
khurshid@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8244
ACE 5.120
Department Areas
Software Engineering; Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Software testing; Specification languages; Code conformance; Model checking; Heuristics in program analysis; Data structure repair; Program repair
Kim, Miryung
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor
miryung@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1501
ACE 5.118
Department Areas
Software Engineering; Computer Engineering;
Research Interests
Software evolution; Mining software repositories, program transformation, program differencing, empirical studies, code duplication, software development environments and tools, human aspects of software development
Kinnas, Spyros
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Professor
Hudson Matlock Professorial Endowed Excellence Fund in Civil engineering
kinnas@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7969, +1 512 232 1887
ECJ 8.604
Department Areas
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Research Interests
Ocean engineering; Hydrodynamics; Cavitation; Wave mechanics; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems; Tidal turbines;
Kinney, Kerry
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Professor
kakinney@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1740
ECJ 8.212
Department Areas
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Research Interests
Beneficial application of microorganisms to the treatment of pollutants in the environment; Algae-to-biofuel production processes; Potentially detrimental microbial communities that develop in indoor environments
Kirisits, Mary
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor
kirisits@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7120
ECJ 8.216
Department Areas
Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
Research Interests
Biological drinking water treatment processes; Microbial transformation of inorganic contaminants; Application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; Rainwater harvesting; Impacts of nanomaterials on microorganisms in engineered water treatment systems; Biofilms; Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms; Microbial community structure of pediatric otitis media
Department Areas
Nuclear
Research Interests
Radioactive waste disposal; Thermal analysis of nuclear shipping containers; Nuclear weapon dismantlement; Nuclear power
Kockelman, Kara
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Professor
William J. Murray Jr. Fellowship in Engineering
kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0210, +1 512 471 4379
ECJ 6.904
Department Areas
Transportation Engineering
Research Interests
Travel behavior modeling; Transport data analysis; Transport economics and energy policy; Roadway safety; The connection between urban form and transportation
Korgel, Brian
Chemical Engineering
Professor
Matthew Van Winkle Regents Professorship in Chemical Engineering
korgel@mail.che.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5633
CPE 4.462, CPE 2.802
Programs/Department Areas
Materials Science and Engineering; Advanced Materials; Bioengineering; Energy; Microelectronics; Surface & Interface Science; Nanotechnology;
Research Interests
Nanostructure assembly and organizational strategies; Development of new approaches for nanoscale material synthesis and applications, including photovoltaics, thin film transistors, lithium ion batteries and medicine
Programs/Department Areas
Materials Science and Engineering; Materials
Research Interests
Production and characterization of nanoparticles; Nanostructured thick films; Solid oxide fuel cells; Honeycomb ceramics
Kutanoglu, Erhan
Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor
erhank@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7194
ETC 5.114
Programs/Department Areas
Operations Research and Industrial Engineering; Operations Research
Research Interests
Applied operations research; Supply chain management; Manufacturing and transportation logistics; Game theoretic and distributed mechanisms (e-commerce and auctions)
Kwasinski, Alexis
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor
akwasins@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3442
ENS 528
Department Areas
Energy Systems
Research Interests
Power electronics; Distributed generation including integration of alternative energy sources; Electrical energy conversion and storage; Ultra-reliable and fault-tolerant power system architectures; Switching and non-linear controls
Kyriakides, Stelios
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Professor
Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering No. 10
skk@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4167
WRW 110B
Department Areas
Solids; Structures and Materials
Research Interests
Instability in Solids and Structures (Plastic Buckling of Structures; Propagating Instabilities in Shape Memory Metals; Composites; Foams); Modeling of Nonlinear Behavior and Failure of Solids (Metals; Composites; Foams)
