First name,Last name,Preferred title,Overview,Position,Department,Individual
Waruna,Kulatilaka,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on Combustion and Energy Conversion, Optical Diagnostics and Imaging, Laser Spectroscopy, Ultrafast Lasers, Chemical Kinetics, Fluid Flow and Plasma Diagnostics, Supersonic and Hypersonic Propulsion, Gas Turbine Combustion and IC Engines.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0436eca8
Bing,Guo,Associate Professor,"* Solar photovoltaic (PV) soiling
* Electrodynamic dust shield (EDS, or Dust Shield) technology
* Liquid fuel combustion using an aerosol shock tube (in collaboration with Dr. Eric Petersen)
* Photography and image analysis based quantification of soiling
* Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for aerosol transport and deposition
* Air quality and particulate air pollution
* Impact of dust on jet engines",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering (Qatar)||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n08c7f257
Alaa Mohamed,Elwany,Associate Professor,"Dr. Elwany's broad research interests are in the modeling, analysis, and control of advanced manufacturing processes and systems, with particular emphasis on metal additive manufacturing, uncertainty quantification (UQ), reliability engineering, and maintenance management and prognostics. His research has been supported by leading organizations including NASA, Airfoce Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Scientific Research (NWO), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Industrial and Systems Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n0dee7450
Timothy,Devarenne,Associate Professor,"We study the biochemical and molecular mechanisms underlying the control of programmed cell death (PCD) in plants and how PCD is manipulated during plant-pathogen interactions. Specifically we study the interaction between tomato and Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (Pst) the causative agent of bacterial spot disease. Resistance to this disease is conferred by the host Pto serine/threonine protein kinase which recognizes Pst strains expressing the type III effector protein AvrPto.
PCD is induced during both resistant and susceptible plant-pathogen interactions. In the case of a resistant interaction, PCD induced by the plant, known as the hypersensitive response (HR), and acts to limit the spread of the pathogen. In susceptible plant-pathogen interactions plant PCD is induced by the pathogen after infection leading to death of the host. Studies have indicated that the genes controlling host PCD during the HR are the same genes that are manipulated by the pathogen during susceptible interactions. The difference lies in the timing of controlling the activity of these genes; HR PCD occurs within 12 hours of pathogen recognition while pathogen-induced PCD occurs several days after infection.
Many of these genes that control plant PCD are serine/threonine (S/T) protein kinase. We are interested in studying a specific class of S/T protein kinases that control PCD in plants called AGC kinases and how they are regulated in both resistant and susceptible plant-pathogen interactions. Additionally, when plants are not attacked by pathogens, PCD is a process that requires constant control so that cell death does not occur. We are looking at the signaling mechanisms and pathways employed to keep PCD under check in non-pathogen challenged plants.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Biochemistry and Biophysics,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n11411275
Jonathan,Felts,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on Scalable Nanomanufacturing, Nanometer Scale Thermal and Mass Transport, Near Field Optics, Organic Optoelectronics, MEMS/NEMS Design and Fabrication. Our lab develops new tools and techniques to pattern unconventional materials at the nanoscale, with particular interests in polymers, organic small molecules, metallic and semiconducting nanoparticles, and 1- and 2-D materials.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n1f9d4ddc
Siddharth,Misra,Associate Professor,,Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Petroleum Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n248dea2a
Zenon,Medina-Cetina,Associate Professor,,Associate Professor||Faculty affiliate||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Civil Engineering||Ocean Engineering||Energy Institute||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n42be1339
Zheng,O'Neill,Associate Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n446d726c
James,Boyd,Associate Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Aerospace Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n465253b5
Le,Xie,Professor,"My research interest includes modeling and control of large-scale complex systems, smart grid applications in support of renewable energy integration, and electricity markets.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Assistant Director,Energy Institute||Energy Institute||Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n4663e6b4
Won-Jong,Kim,Associate Professor,My research focuses on precision mechatronics; nanoscale engineering and technology; network-based control and cyber-physical systems; novel actuators and sensors; and real-time control systems design.,Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n5208b958
Richard,Malak,Associate Professor,"Our research objective is to discover new principles, methods, and tools for the design of engineered systems. Trends are toward systems with increased functionality, more components, and a tighter integration of physical and computer-based elements. Designers are under great pressure to design systems in minimal time despite rapidly rising design complexity. Advances in systems design can have a broad impact on society by helping designers find better solutions to their problems. This will lead to systems having enhanced performance, higher efficiency, lower environmental impact, etc. In essence, we aim to bring about better-engineered systems through improved systems design methodology.
Our lab focuses on quantitative methods for systems design, with an emphasis on rigorous foundations and unlocking value through the formalization of reusable design knowledge.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n52a7e5e8
Aziz,Rahman,Associate Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Petroleum Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n52fdba5b
Joseph,Kwon,Associate Professor and holder of the Kenneth R. Hall Career Development Professorship,,Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Artie Mcferrin Department of Chemical En,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n680c5a23
Erick,Moreno-Centeno,Associate Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Industrial and Systems Engineering||Institute for Engineering Education and Innovation,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n6bb2865c
Mohammad,Naraghi,Associate Professor,"The research interests of Dr. Naraghi include light weight and multifunctional materials, with an emphasis on carbonized micro and nanoscale reinforcements for energy-related applications, including wind energy sector and flywheels. He is an expert in the application of microelectromechanical system devices to characterize nanoscale materials.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Aerospace Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n7b5a0e03
Diego,Donzis,Professor,,Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Aerospace Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n83e20468
David,Staack,Associate Professor,"Our research is focused on the experimental study of microscale and low temperature plasmas and devices which use plasmas and energetic electrons. The results and discoveries of this research have far reaching consequences in fields ranging from medicine and health, to integrated circuit manufacturing, to fossil fuel reforming, to spacecraft propulsion and the energy sector.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n86abc433
Nguyen,Hung,Professor,"-- Advanced material and manufacturing.
-- Micromanufacturing: traditional and non-traditional techniques.
-- Additive manufacturing of metals: microstructure of material, post processing and reliability.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/n88e2a0bb
Choongho,Yu,Associate Professor,,Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Mechanical Engineering||Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/naeabbad3
Benjamin,Wilhite,Associate Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb5dacbea
Mustafa,Akbulut,Associate Professor,"The Akbulut Lab is involved in research in various areas of nanotechnology, surface and interface science, with a special focus on the areas of drug delivery, biomedical interfaces, tribology, surface and intermolecular forces, colloidal stabilization, and crystallization.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb5e5f93d
Qingsheng,Wang,Associate Professor,"Our research is highly multidisciplinary in the process safety area with the intent to resolve the most critical safety problem in the industries, which is to prevent and mitigate hazardous phenomena including fire, explosion, and toxic release. The research is ranging from a molecular level, macroscale, plant level to an enterprise level. Topics include QSPR modeling, flame retardant, fire suppression, CFD modeling, pipeline corrosion, risk analysis, and leak detection. The research aims to bring perspectives of chemical engineering, chemistry, and fire protection engineering to energy industries and hence yield systematic solutions to process safety issues.",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nb67cfe14
Xiaofeng,Qian,Associate Professor,"My research focuses on: Materials Theory, Discovery, and Design for Energy Applications and Device Design Aided by HighThroughput Computing; Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Coupled Multi-Physical Properties and Novel Device Concepts; Electronic, Thermal, Ionic, and Excitonic Transport in Nanostructured Materials; First-Principles Methodology Development towards Efficient and Accurate Prediction of Ground-state and Excited-state Properties of Materials; and Multiscale Materials Modeling of Complex Physical and Chemical Processes.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Assistant Professor,Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering||Materials Science and Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nd67bf9a1
Konstantinos,Kakosimos,Associate Professor,"Dr. Konstantinos E. Kakosimos is an associate professor of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He received his Chemical Engineering Diploma in 2002 and his Ph.D. in 2009 both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has more than 55 peer-reviewed publications and four books/chapters in English and Greek languages. His main research activities are focused on the development and application of the tools needed to improve and sustain the quality of the environment. In 2014, he established the Sustainable Energy and Clean Air Research lab (SECAReLab) with unique facilities for the development and testing of solar-driven chemical processes and the associated equipment and materials. In brief, he conducts research on the experimental and numerical modeling of transport and reacting phenomena with applications in Environmental fluid mechanics and monitoring for air quality, Risk analysis and effects estimation of fires, explosions, and toxic gases dispersion, and Solar photo- and thermochemical processes, reactors, and materials. So far, he has received more than $5.5M of cumulative awards from external and internal sources.
Moreover, he researches new educational methods and techniques, for which he received the 2015 IChemE Hutchison medal. He is also the recipient of the 2016 Research Laboratory Safety, 2017 Research Excellence for Early Carrier Faculty, and 2019 Faculty Excellence Awards at Texas A&M. In addition to teaching and research, Dr. Kakosimos serves the local and international community variously, such as secretary of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry - Arabian Gulf Branch (2014-15), Chair of the Principle Investigators Council at Texas A&M Qatar (2017-2018), Chair of the Qatar National Air Quality Standards subcommittee of the Ministry of Municipalities and Environment (2018), and task force member at the Ministry of Public Health (2018-today).",Associate Professor||Faculty Affiliate,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering (Qatar),https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ndbab886c
Robert,Balog,Professor,"Dr. Balog is the Director of the Renewable Energy and Advanced Power Electronics Research laboratory and co-Director of the National Science Foundation Industry/University Collaborative Research Center of Next Generation Photovoltaics. The mission of his research group is to investigate the fundamental engineering and scientific basis of electrical energy conversion. While the core discipline is electrical engineering and the subject domain is power electronics, research into renewable energy systems require a much broader and holistic base of knowledge. As such, in addition to power electronic topologies and controls, we are focused on balance-of-systems issues. Ultimately, our goal is to move photovoltaic energy (aka solar energy) out of the alternative energy category and into the mainstream portfolio of energy resources in a way that is technologically and economically sustainable. Our vision is to be an internationally recognized center of excellence for research.",Faculty Affiliate||Professor||Professor||Associate Professor||Associate Professor||Professor,Texas A&M University at Qatar||Electrical and Computer Engineering (Qatar)||Energy Institute||Multidisciplinary Engineering||Electrical and Computer Engineering||Electrical and Computer Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne3785e94
Lei,Fang,Associate Professor,"The multi-disciplinary research programs in the Fang Group will focus on the bottom-up synthesis and processing of novel organic polymer materials -- namely, ladder and coplanar polymers, as well as microporous polymer networks -- for the applications on electronics and energy conversion/storage. Our thrust will be to gain profound understanding on the structure-property relationship of these materials at both the molecular and the macroscopic levels by employing the toolboxes of synthetic chemistry and device engineering. With this knowledge, we aim to establish a series of synthetically feasible, high performing, processable organic carbon-based material systems for field effect transistors, light emitting diodes, solar cells, supercapacitors, and batteries, and to be at the forefront in the enhancement of their efficiencies.",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Materials Science and Engineering||Chemistry,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne3bd8752
Ivan,Damnjanovic,Associate Professor,,Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Civil Engineering||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/ne791bf5c
Sreeram,Vaddiraju,Associate Professor,"Development of novel vapor phase techniques for the synthesis of organic and inorganic nanostructures and the development and implementation of novel in-situ and ex-situ schemes for the large-scale integration of these nanostructures into energy conversion devices (e.g., solar cells, thermoelectric devices).",Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,Energy Institute||Chemical Engineering,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nfbff4e43
Reza,Sadr,Associate Professor,"Dr. Sadr research interests include experimental techniques in thermo/fluid science with a focus on Advanced Energy Efficient Systems. He has active projects in nano/micro-fluids, droplets and sprays, alternative and bio fuels, atmospheric turbulence, and super critical fluid flows.
Dr. Sadr's Ph.D. research was on the experimental investigation of turbulent particulated coaxial jets using Molecular Tagging Velocimetry (MTV). These flow fields are of interest due to their application in coal combustion process and greenhouse gas production. He later extended his MTV expertise to study flow field inside IC engines. Dr. Sadr continued his work at the Georgia Institute of Technology on experimental methods in micro-, nano-flows and electroosmotic fluid mechanics. Micro- nano-fluidic systems, such as Lab-On-a-Chip and ?TAS, are the emerging technologies that require new understanding of the fundamental sciences in this field. His work on nano particle movement in fluids is focused on the novel techniques in particulated flow at micro and nano scale where Brownian motion is a major factor. Dr. Sadr is pioneer in development and application of nanoPIV for near wall fluid flow measurement.
Upon joining Texas A&M, Dr. Sadr focused his attention on the Advanced Energy Efficient Systems on several fronts at the Qatar campus. He continued his work on micro/nano fluidics for bio applications and Brownian motion. Furthermore, he initiated an active research on thermo-hydraulics of super critical CO2 flows and potentials of CO2-hydrocarbon based refrigerants, with a recent support funded by Shell. He has also successfully worked with Rolls-Royce, German Aerospace Institute (DLR), and Shell Inc. for spray and combustion characterization of Gas-to-Liquid (GTL) Fuel. He is continuing his work in studying Atmospheric Surface Layer (ASL) in Qatar to characterize pollution dispersion and potential wind energy applications in this region. Dr. Sadr is a member of ASME and APS.",Associated professor||Faculty Affiliate||Associate Professor,The Texas A&M University System||Mechanical Engineering (Qatar)||Energy Institute,https://scholars.library.tamu.edu/vivo/display/nffb2ee21