Faculty
Ishan Barman
Associate Professor
Photonics for Quantative Biology and Medicine
Research Interests:
Bioengineering, optics and spectroscopy, developing integrative photonics solutions to complex problems in biological research and medical diagnosis. Advancement of photonics methods for applications in clinical diagnosis. Comprehensive characterization of biomolecules, investigation of pharmaceutical drugs and their interaction with biological systems, and rapid measurements in microfluidic platforms.
Jeremy D. Brown
John C. Malone Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Haptic feedback, upper-limb prosthetics, surgical robotics, rehabilitation robotics, human-machine interaction.
Yun Chen
Assistant Professor
Lab of Mechanochemistry and Functional Imaging Applications
Research Interests:
Cell Mechanics, biophysical properties of cancer microenvironment, mechanosignaling pathways, drug delivery, bioenergetics in mitochondria.
Gregory S. Chirikjian
Professor
The Robot and Protein Kinematics (RPK) Laboratory
Research Interests:
Computational structural biology (in particular, computational mechanics of large proteins), conformational statistics of biological macromolecules, developed theory for ‘hyper- redundant’ (snakelike) robot motion planning, designs and builds hyper-redundant robotic manipulator arms, applied mathematics (applications of group theory in engineering), self-replicating robotic systems.
Noah Cowan
Professor
Research Interests:
Robot dynamics, animal biomechanics, and sensorimotor control; theory and application of control systems and system identification techniques for closed-loop systems (especially biological systems); biological motor control and systems neuromechanics; medical robotics.
Andrew S. Douglas
Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty
Research Interests:
Onlinear mechanics of solids, mechanical response of compliant biological tissues, finite deformation elasticity, Static and dynamic fracture of ductile materials.
Jaafar El-Awady
Associate Professor
Computational & Experimental Materials Engineering Laboratory
Research Interests:
Multiscale materials modeling, damage and fracture mechanisms of materials in mechanical design, material degradation in extreme environments, nano-materials and structures, impact dynamics and wave propagation.
Dennice Gayme
Associate Professor; Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar
Research Interests:
Dynamics and control of nonlinear, networked and spatially distributed systems such as the electric power grid, and wind farms. Modeling of turbulence and transition to turbulence in wall bounded shear flows and wind farms. Grid integration of renewable energy sources.
Kevin Hemker
Alonzo G. Decker Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests:
Atomic-scale processes that govern the mechanical behavior of advanced material systems. Making key observations and discoveries that define the way the mechanics and materials community thinks about and understands the properties of: nanocrystalline materials, MEMS and micro-lattice materials, thermal barrier coatings, armor ceramics, and high temperature structural materials.
Cila Herman
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Experimental heat transfer and fluid mechanics, optical measurement techniques, image processing. Thermoacoustic refrigeration, influence of electric fields on boiling in terrestrial conditions and microgravity, heat exchangers, heat transfer in boiling, optical tomography, holographic interferometry, cooling of electronic equipment, digital image processing, heat transfer augmentation.
Soojung Claire Hur
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor
Inertial Microfluidics for Biophysics and Biotechnology
Research Interests:
Inertial microfluidics, nonlinear fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, cellular biophysics, cell mechanics, single cell manipulations, personalized medicine, regenerative medicine.
Ryan Hurley
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Mechanics of structurally complex materials, granular and geologic materials, multiscale materials modeling, 3D materials characterization, impact and wave propagation.
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Sung Hoon Kang
Assistant Professor
The Kang Group for Bioinspired Materials and Mechanical Systems
Research Interests:
Complex behaviors of material systems and structures with novel properties based on inspiration from nature; rational design followed by rapid prototyping using a 3D printer; designing experimental model systems and/or using computational models to identify key design parameters of systems to make desired structures and properties by tailoring behaviors of systems.
Joseph Katz
William F. Ward Sr. Distinguished Professor
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM)
Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics (LEFD)
Research Interests:
Experimental fluid mechanics. Cavitation phenomena and multiphase flows: Interaction between bubbles and flow structure, mixing mechanisms and droplet formation in water-fuel stratified shear flows. Transport of microscopic particles and droplets in turbulent flows. Development of optical flow diagnostics techniques, including Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry (HPIV). Applications to turbomachine flows and oceanography. Studies of flow-induced vibrations and noise.
Marin Kobilarov
Assistant Professor
The Autonomous Systems, Control, and Optimization Laboratory
Research Interests:
Developing intelligent robotic vehicles that can perceive, navigate, and accomplish challenging tasks in uncertain, dynamic, and highly constrained environments. Performing research in analytical and computational methods for mechanics, control, motion planning, and reasoning under uncertainty, and in the design and integration of novel mechanisms and embedded systems. Application areas include mobile robots, aerial vehicles, and nanosatellites.
David Kraemer
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
Fluid-structure interaction; dynamic systems; ocean wave energy conversion, engineering pedagogy.
Chen Li
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Terradynamics, locomotion, comparative biomechanics, biorobotics, robophysics
Steven Marra
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
Mechanical engineering undergraduate curriculum, first-year engineering courses, undergraduate laboratories, mechanical design, biomechanics.
Charles Meneveau
Louis M. Sardella Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM)
Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science
Research Interests:
Theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in turbulence, Large-eddy-Simulation and turbulence modeling, fractals and scaling in complex systems, Applications of LES to environmental flows, wind energy and turbomachinery flows, Development of database techniques for turbulence research.
Rajat Mittal
Professor
Flow Physics and Computation Lab
Research Interests:
Computational fluid dynamics, Low Reynolds number aerodynamics, biomedical flows, active flow control, LES/DNS, Immersed Boundary Methods, fluid dynamics of locomotion (swimming and flying), biomimetics and bioinspired engineering, turbomachinery flows.
Thao (Vicky) Nguyen
Professor; Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty Scholar
Mechanics of Soft Adaptive Materials
Research Interests:
Biomechanics: mechanical behavior, growth and remodeling of fibrous soft tissues. Constitutive Modeling: thermomechanics, viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity of shape memory polymers and polymer composites. Fracture Mechanics: fracture and failure of rate dependent materials.
Rui Ni
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Experimental fluid mechanics, Turbulence and turbulent multiphase flow, Dusty flow and particle-laden flow, Environmental fluid dynamics, Lagrangian particle tracking, Physiological flow, Animal collective behaviors, and Complex system
Andrea Prosperetti
Homewood Professor of Engineering
Research Interests:
Multiphase flow; theoretical and computational fluid mechanics and acoustics; gas and vapor bubbles
Kaliat T. Ramesh
Alonzo G. Decker Jr. Professor of Science and Engineering
Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute
Center for Materials in Extreme Dynamic Environments
Research Interests:
Nanomaterials, planetary impact, dynamic failure mechanisms, shock, impact, and wave propagation, high-strain-rate behavior of materials, injury biomechanics, constitutive and failure modeling.
Nathan Scott
Associate Teaching Professor
Research Interests:
Principles and practice of engineering design education.
William Sharpe, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests:
Experimental solid mechanics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microsample testing.
Sean Sun
Professor
Research Interests:
Mechanobiology of the cell, molecular biomechanics and biophysics, molecular motors and muscle, statistical mechanics and nonlinear phenomena.
Gretar Tryggvason
Department Head and Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor
Computational Multiphase Flow Group
Research Interests:
Computations of multiphase flows. Direct numerical simulations of complex multiphase flows including heat transfer, boiling, cavitation, solidification, surfactants, and reactions. Applications to turbulent bubbly flows, atomization, additive manufacturing, and other problems. Numerical methods for tracking sharp fluid interfaces. Averaged and reduced order models of multiphase flows. Multiscale approaches to capture small-scales in multiphase flows.
Tza-Huei (Jeff) Wang
Professor
BioMEMS & Single Molecule Dynamics Lab
Research Interests:
BioMEMS and microfluidics, single molecule manipulation and detection, nano/micro scale fabrication, conformational dynamics of biomolecules.
Louis Whitcomb
Professor
Dynamical Systems and Control Laboratory
Research Interests:
Control Systems: Adaptive and model-based control of linear and nonlinear systems, with focus on problems arising in mechanical systems, robots, and robotic vehicles. Underwater Robotics: Dynamics, control, instrumentation, and navigation of underwater vehicles and inhabited submersibles – with focus on deep submergence oceanographic vehicles. Industrial and Medical Robotics: Dynamics, control, instrumentation, and operation of precision robotics for novel medical and industrial applications.
Tamer Zaki
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Transitional and turbulent shear flows: linear and non-linear instability waves, secondary instabilities, breakdown to turbulence, direct numerical simulations, transition modelling. Two-fluid shear flows: linear and non-linear instability methods, interface tracking, the interaction of vortical disturbances with interfaces, direct numerical simulations, laminar-to-turbulence transition. Turbulence: boundary layer turbulence, separation, drag reduction, and large-scale high-performance computing.
