Faculty Directory

Michael Sacks
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
msacks@ices.utexas.edu
512-232-7773
Office Location: ACE 5.428, BME 5.202J
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Cardiovascular biomechanics; computational simulation of the behavior of the cardiovascular system; advanced constitutive models, biomechanical interactions of cell, tissue and organ in native and engineered heart valves and myocardium

Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert
Department Chair and Professor
Biomedical Engineering
sakiyama@utexas.edu
(512) 471-3604
Office Location: BME 3.110B
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Research Interests
Biomaterials; drug delivery; tissue engineering; nerve regeneration, and stem cell biology for applications to treat spinal cord and peripheral nerve injury

Salvatore Salamone
Associate Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
salamone@utexas.edu
512-232-3427, 512-232-4464
Office Location: ECJ 4.710
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Structural health monitoring; non-destructive evaluation; ultrasonic sensing methods for smart structures; wave propagation in solids; digital signal processing and pattern recognition

Navid Saleh
Associate Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
navid.saleh@utexas.edu
512-471-9175
Office Location: ECJ 8.608
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Environmental nanotechnology; physicochemical processes; fate and transport of nanomaterials in the environment; groundwater remediation

Sujay Sanghavi
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
sanghavi@mail.utexas.edu
512-475-9798
Office Location: EER 6.824
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Security
Wireless and Network Science
Research Interests
Algorithms for wireless, sensor and peer-to-peer networks and the Internet; machine learning and data mining; social networks; optimization

Gabriel Sanoja Lopez
Assistant Professor (Arriving Spring 2021)
Chemical Engineering
gesanoja@che.utexas.edu
(512) 471-5238
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Areas of Impact
Research Interests
Engineering mechanical properties and lifetime of soft polymeric materials

Samantha Santacruz
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
srsantacruz@utexas.edu
512-471-7440
Office Location: 5.202E
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Research Interests
Neural engineering; brain-machine interfaces; neurotherapeutic devices; neuromodulation

Surya Santoso
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
ssantoso@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3371
Office Location: EER 7.876
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Electromagnetic transient and electric power quality in power systems; development of intelligent systems for enabling self-healing and self-restoring power systems; wind power interconnection and integration

Carolyn Seepersad
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
ccseepersad@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-1985
Office Location: ETC 4.138
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Simulation-based design of complex engineering systems; design for additive manufacturing; mechanical design innovation; environmentally conscious design

Polina Sela
Assistant Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
linasela@utexas.edu
512-232-6879
Office Location: ECJ 8.208
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Water resources systems management; cyber-physical urban systems

Luis Sentis
Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
lsentis@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-5987
Office Location: ETC 4.165
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Research Interests
Human-centered robotics; mathematics of movement and manipulation; building legged humanoid robots; software architectures for sensing and acting; biomechatronics

Kamy Sepehrnoori
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
kamys@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-0231, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 2.502
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Reservoir simulation development and application; simulation of enhance oil recovery processes; computational methods; parallel computations; applied mathematics; naturally fractured reservoir modeling; co-optimization of CO2 sequestration and enhanced oil recovery; inverse modeling

Sanjay Shakkottai
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
shakkott@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-5376
Office Location: EER 6.802
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Security
Transportation and Infrastructure
Wireless and Network Science
Research Interests
Scheduling and QoS in wireless networks; ad-hoc and sensor networks; congestion control in the internet; resource allocation for heterogeneous networks

Shyam Shankar
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
shyam.shankar@utexas.edu
(512) 232-8115
Office Location: EER 4.878
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Wireless and Network Science
Research Interests
Quantum information science with superconducting quantum circuits; quantum backaction of qubit measurement; guantum feedback with reservoir engineering and realization of remote entanglement and quantum-limited amplification

Mukul Sharma
Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
msharma@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3257, 512-471-3161
Office Location: CPE 5.118A
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Formation damage; petrophysics; fluid flow in porous media

Areas of Impact
Research Interests
Software testing and regression testing

Li Shi
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
lishi@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-3109
Office Location: ETC 7.140
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Energy and environment; thermal management; electronics, photonics and sensors; biomedical technologies

Jayant Sirohi
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
jayant.sirohi@mail.utexas.edu
Office Location: ASE 5.216
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Space and Aeronautics
Research Interests
High power density solid state actuators; multifunctional structures; multi-mission capable micro and unmanned aerial vehicles; rotorcraft design

Mark J.T. Smith
Dean, Graduate School and Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
mjts@utexas.edu
(512) 232-3601
Office Location: EER 6.870
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Research Interests
Speech and image processing; object detection and recognition

David Soloveichik
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
david.soloveichik@utexas.edu
Office Location: EER 7.814
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Areas of Impact
Artificial Intelligence and Information Engineering
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Research Interests
Molecular programming, including the engineering of complex molecular systems for synthetic biology, nanotechnology and bioengineering.

Wen Song
Assistant Professor
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
wensong@utexas.edu
512-471-5789
Office Location: CPE 5.118B
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Research Interests
Enhanced oil recovery; petrophysics and pore scale processes; reservoir engineering; unconventional resources; geologic carbon storage; natural gas engineering; reservoir simulation

Gerald Speitel
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
speitel@utexas.edu
512-471-7995
Office Location: ECJ 10.326
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Areas of Impact
Energy and Environment
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Treatment processes for hazardous organic chemicals, including biodegradation and adsorption; drinking water treatment; computer models of treatment processes

S.V. Sreenivasan
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
sv.sreeni@mail.utexas.edu
512-471-6546
Office Location: ETC 5.134C
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Areas of Impact
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Nano-resolution lithography; flexure-based micro- and nano-precision machines; precision optical systems; real-time nano-resolution optical sensor architectures

Jeanne Stachowiak
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
jcstach@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: BME 5.202G
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Research Interests
Biophysical mechanisms

Kenneth Stokoe
Professor
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
k.stokoe@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-3689
Office Location: ECJ 9.227
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Areas of Impact
Transportation and Infrastructure
Research Interests
Geotechnical earthquake engineering and soil dynamics; non-destructive testing of pavements, soils and structures; offshore geotechnical engineering

Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Energy and Environment
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Multiscale simulation of electrochemical systems; model-based battery management systems and real-time state-of-charge/real-time state-of-health estimation of Lithium-ion batteries

Laura Suggs
Professor
Biomedical Engineering
laura.suggs@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-1671
Office Location: BME 4.202D
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Research Interests
Cardiovascular tissue engineering; Adult progenitor cells and vasculogenesis; Biologically active materials

James Sulzer
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
james.sulzer@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: ETC 4.146D
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Areas of Impact
Autonomy and Robotics
Bioengineering and Health
Research Interests
Determining efficient ways to restore healthy gait in people after stroke; the development of novel, neurally-based rehabilitation strategies

Nan Sun
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
nansun@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-2051
Office Location: EER 4.820
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Areas of Impact
Bioengineering and Health
Computational Engineering/Science
Manufacturing and Materials
Research Interests
Analog, mixed-signal and RF integrated circuit design; micro- and nano-scale solid-state platforms (silicon ICs and beyond) as an electrical, electrochemical and optical analytical tool for biotechnology and medicine; low-cost medical imaging systems; miniature spin resonance systems

Earl Swartzlander
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
eswartzla@aol.com
512-471-5923
Office Location: EER 5.874
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Areas of Impact
Computational Engineering/Science
Research Interests
VLSI circuit technology; special purpose processors; computer arithmetic; digital signal processing; quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) nanotechnology