Faculty Directory


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Derek Haas

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-7916
Office Location: ETC 7.136

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Security

Research Interests

Technology development, data analysis and policy support related to environmental monitoring for nuclear proliferation and arms control

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Michael R. Haberman

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-8317
Office Location: ETC 4.165, ARL NX315

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Elastic and acoustic wave propagation in complex media, acoustic metamaterials, new acoustic transduction materials, ultrasonic nondestructive testing, and vibro-acoustic transducers

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Matthew Hall

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-1292
Office Location: ETC 7.148

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Internal combustion engines; hazardous waste incineration; combustion and flow in porous media

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Neal Hall

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-2349
Office Location: EER 4.802

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Manufacturing and Materials

Space and Aeronautics

Research Interests

Silicon micromachining (MEMS); acoustics and dynamics; optics and photonics; technology transfer

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Mark Hamilton

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3055
Office Location: ETC 4.146C

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Security

Research Interests

Nonlinear propagation of ultrasound in tissue; biophysical responses to underwater sound; acoustic cavitation in shock wave lithotripsy; micro- and electro-mechanical systems-based parametric acoustic arrays

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Alex J. Hanson

Assistant Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 232-8110
Office Location: EER 7.886

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Research Interests

Component- and system-level power electronics; high-frequency magnetics and circuits

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John Hasenbein

Professor

Mechanical Engineering


512-471-3079
Office Location: ETC 5.128B

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Areas of Impact

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Stochastic models; multiclass queueing networks; semiconductor wafer fabrication

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Matthew Hebdon

Associate Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-571-1619
Office Location: ECJ 4.718

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Bridge engineering; large-scale testing of structures; in-situ monitoring and testing; use of drones for structural inspection, structurally redundant systems, fatigue and fracture evaluation of steel structures; the corrosion behavior of steels; historical fabrication methods and materials; evaluation and repair of deteriorated infrastructure

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Zoya Heidari

Associate Professor

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering


512-471-7218
Office Location: PGE 5.108

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Areas of Impact

Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Petrophysics; borehole geophysics; formation evaluation; rock physics; inverse problems; integrated reservoir characterization of carbonates and unconventional resources; completion petrophysics

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Todd Helwig

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-232-2239, 512-475-8195

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Areas of Impact

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Design and behavior of steel structures

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Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-1050
Office Location: CPE 3.470, EME 1.320E

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Areas of Impact

Bioengineering and Health

Energy and Environment

Research Interests

Air quality, focusing on atmospheric nanoparticles and aerosols

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Ben Hodges

Professor

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering


512-471-4730, 512-471-1807
Office Location: ECJ 9.102G

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Energy and Environment

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Hydrodynamics; transport and water quality issues in lakes, rivers and estuaries

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Alex (Qin) Huang

Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering


(512) 232-6647
Office Location: EER 7.878

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Space and Aeronautics

Transportation and Infrastructure

Research Interests

Power Semiconductor Devices; Advanced Power Electronics; Renewable Energy Integration and Smart Grid; Power Management Integrated Circuits

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Rui Huang

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-471-7558
Office Location: ASE 5.210

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Mechanics of integrated materials and structures at micro-and nano-scales; reliability of advanced interconnects and packaging for microelectronics; mechanical instability of thin films and nanostructures; multiscale modeling and simulations

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Thomas Hughes

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics


512-232-7775
Office Location: POB 5.430A

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Areas of Impact

Computational Engineering/Science

Research Interests

Computational mechanics; isogeometic analysis; stabilized and variational multiscale methods; phase-field modeling; cardiovascular bioengineering; complex fluids and turbulence

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Todd Humphreys

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering


512-471-4489
Office Location: ASE 3.234

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Areas of Impact

Autonomy and Robotics

Security

Transportation and Infrastructure

Wireless and Network Science

Research Interests

Estimation and filtering; satellite navigation technology and security; software-defined radio

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Tanya Hutter

Assistant Professor

Mechanical Engineering


Office Location: ETC 9.158

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Areas of Impact

Energy and Environment

Manufacturing and Materials

Research Interests

Molecular sensing technologies; nanomaterials, microfabrication, and nanophotonics with applications in environmental sensing, homeland security and medical diagnostics

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Gyeong Hwang

Professor

Chemical Engineering


512-471-4847
Office Location: CPE 4.404

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Areas of Impact

Research Interests

Computational chemistry and materials science; doping and defect engineering in electronic materials; surface chemistry and catalysis; modeling of energy and catalytic materials for fuel cells; supercapacitors; Li ion batteries; thermoelectrics; photovoltaics