Faculty
Faculty in the interdisciplinary Engineering and Applied Science (EAS) program represent a variety of academic fields and research interests.
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Research
Research interests
- Radial basis function methods
- Spectral and pseudospectral methods
- Tear film dynamics
- Numerical conformal mapping
- Mathematical problems in industry
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Commonwealth Professor
Mechanical Engineering
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
508-999-8357
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Research
Research interests
- Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
- Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
- Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean
Commonwealth Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
508-999-8357
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Research
Research interests
- Fluid dynamics and heat transfer of the ocean, and the engineering tools needed to study them
- Oceanic sub-mesoscale frontal gradients and mesoscale eddies, and their role in setting up the circulation and the air-sea interaction
- Theory, simulations, and observational analysis of sub-mesoscale features in the ocean
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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Science & Engineering 116C
508-999-8567
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Research
Research interests
- Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Flow-Induced Vibration
- Experimental Fluid Dynamics
- Vibrations
- Renewable Energy
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Research
Research interests
- Multifunctional composites
- Energy storage materials
- Nanomaterials
- Sensors
- Electrochemistry
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Research
Research interests
- Numerical analysis
- Numerical PDEs
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Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214F
508-999-8479
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Research
Research interests
- Transducer modeling
- Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics
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Associate Teaching Professor
Physics
Science & Engineering 203D
508-910-6604
david.kagan@umassd.edu
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Professor / Co-Chairperson
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 107B
508-910-6334
dmacdonald@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 233
508-910-6334
dmacdonald@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Turbulence and Mixing
- River Plume Dynamics
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Environmental Data Collection with Autonomous Vehicles
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Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 307A
508-999-8265
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Research
Research interests
- Bioinformatics
- Citizen Science
- Computational Biology
- Distributed Computing
- Protein Structure Determination/Prediction & Design
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Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218
508-910-6397
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Research
Research interests
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Ocean Modeling
- Shape Optimization and Design
- High Performance Computing
- Coupled Marine Bio-Physical Models
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Research
Research interests
- Memory systems
- DEs
- Time series
- Mathematics education
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Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 228
508-910-6363
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Research
Research interests
- Cybersecurity
- Database Systems
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Associate Professor
Physics
Science & Engineering 306A
508-999-8483
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Research
Research interests
- Few-body nuclear physics
- Nuclear detectors
- Photonuclear Physics
- Pion physics
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Professor
Computer & Information Science
Violette Research 220B
508-910-6411
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Research
Research interests
- Machine learning/ statistical learning/ pattern recognition
- Computational statistics
- Behavioral trajectory pattern recognition in longitudinal studies
- Wireless health
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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 214
508-999-8540
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Research
Research interests
- Experimental fluid dynamics in turbulence, boundary layers, multiphase flows
- Super-hydrophobic surfaces and the wetting dynamics
- Collective behavior such as bird flocks, fish schools, human crowds and cell colonies
- 3D Imaging technologies using digital holography and stereo-imaging
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Professor / Chairperson
Computer & Information Science
Dion 302G
508-910-6427
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Research
Research interests
- Electronic Commerce, Internet Security, Web Services
- Formal Methods, Model-Based Software Development
- Mobile Agent Systems, Wireless Sensor Networks
- Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), Intelligent Agents
- Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Computing, Ubiquitous Computing
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Research
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Brain modeling
- Data mining
- Expert Systems
- Image processing
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Research
Research interests
- Quantum Yang-Mills gravity with space-time trans. gauge symmetry
- Big Jets model with CPT invariance
- Dynamics of cosmo-expansion with YM gravity
- Generalized gauge symmetry, quark confinement & accelerated cosmic expansion
- Limiting 4-dim symmetry and accelerated space-time transformations
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Research
Research interests
- Atomic physics
- Molecular physics
- Optical physics
- Computational physics
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Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 308A
508-999-8299
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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 213
508-999-8549
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Research
Research interests
- Medical Robotics
- Micro-scale Sensing/Actuation
- Machine Learning
- Biosignal Processing
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Research
Research interests
- Biomechanics
- Mechanobiology
- Orthopedics
- Skeletal health
- Bone cell biology
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Associate Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Science & Engineering 311B
508-999-8420
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Research
Research interests
- Quantum Chemistry
- Computational Chemistry and Material Science
- Machine Learning in Chemistry
- Self-Assembly of Materials
- Photochemistry
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Professor / Graduate Program Director
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226
508-999-8496
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Research
Research interests
- Interfacial flows
- Multi-phase flows with phase change
- Energy systems (renewable/conventional)
- Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer
- Scientific and High-Performance Computing
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Assistant Director of the Marine & UnderSea Technology Research Program (MUST)
Computer & Information Science
Dion 303A
508-910-6893
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Research
Research interests
- Predictive modeling
- Adversarial machine learning
- Continual and incremental machine learning
- Robust and multi-view representation learning
- Health informatics
Research
Research interests
- Predictive modeling
- Adversarial machine learning
- Continual and incremental machine learning
- Robust and multi-view representation learning
- Health informatics
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Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 227
508-999-8465
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Research
Research interests
- Data-centric, uncertainty-informed, and AI-enabled analysis and design
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Topology optimization for design of structures and architected materials
- Multi-fidelity information fusion and information theoretic design of experiments
- Stochastic computational mechanics
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Associate Professor
Bioengineering
Textiles 215
508-999-9284
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Research
Research interests
- Nano Materials
- Vapor deposition of nano materials
- Biosensors
- Drug Delivery
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Provost / Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 315
508-999-8069
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Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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Research
Research interests
- Fundamental Physics of Turbulent Flows
- Scientific Computing
- Star Formation and the Physics of the Interstellar Medium
- Type Ia Supernovae
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Associate Teaching Professor
Physics
Science & Engineering 203E
508-999-8360
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Research
Research interests
- Quantum Optics
- Quantum Computation
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Computational Physics
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Professor / Chairperson
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 208
508-999-8619
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Research
Research interests
- Bioengineering
- Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Heat and mass transfer
- MEMS
- Thermal Sciences
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Research
Research interests
- Gravitational wave data science
- Discontinuous Galerkin methods
- Large-scale Scientific Computation
- Computational general relativity and fluid dynamics
- Numerical analysis
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Research
Research interests
- My research interests are numerical analysis and scientific computing. Specifically, I am interested in high-order numerical methods for simulation of hyperbolic PDEs with shocks.
- WENO, spectral, and pseudo spectral methods, as well as strong stability preserving time discretizations.
- Reduced basis methods for solving PDEs with many parameters.
- Weighted essentially non-oscillatory methods
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Research
Research interests
- Computational algebra
- Edge detection
- Topological Data Analysis (TDA)
- Inverse problems
- Mathematics education
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Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Violette Research 108C
508-999-8470
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Research
Research interests
- Adsorbents and Ion-Exchangers
- Nutrient Removal and Recovery
- Reuse of Solid Wastes
- Wastewater Treatment
- Water Treatment
Director
Center for Indic Studies
Violette Research 108C
508-999-8470
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Research
Research interests
- Adsorbents and Ion-Exchangers
- Nutrient Removal and Recovery
- Reuse of Solid Wastes
- Wastewater Treatment
- Water Treatment
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Professor / Chairperson
Bioengineering
Textiles 218
508-910-6537
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Research
Research interests
- Molecular Biology
- Developmental Biology
- Tissue Engineering
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Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 209
508-910-6572
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Research
Research interests
- Composite Materials
- Experimental Mechanics
- Dynamic Characterization of Materials
- Damage Sensing
- Nano-mechanical Characterization
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Research
Research interests
- Computer Aided Tolerance Analysis and Optimization (NSF & UMASSD Chancellor's Fund)
- Diagnostics in Manufacturing (ATP/NIST)
- MEMS and NANOManufacturing
- Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Manufacturing Systems (ATP/NIST)
- Quality Engineering and Applied Statistics
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Commonwealth Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Fall River 131A
508-910-9824
wmogawer@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Asphalt materials and mixtures
- Pavement Design and Management
- Superpave
- Traffic and transportation Engineering
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Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science
Dion 317B
508-999-8475
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Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Pattern Recognition
- Biomedical Imaging
- Intelligent Robotics
- Brain-Computer Interface
- Statistical Signal Processing
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Chief Research Officer
Office of Research & Innovation
Foster Administration 008B
508-999-8827
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Research
Research interests
- Numerical Analysis, scientific computing, computational partial differential equations
- Dimension reduction, model order reduction, reduced order modeling
- Uncertainty quantification, fractional-order partial differential equations
- Data mining, machine learning, image processing, neural networks
- high performance computing
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Research
Research interests
- Numerical analysis, scientific computing, high performance computing
- Machine learning, image processing, neural networks
- Kinetic problems, multi-scale computational methods
- Numerical methods for problems with singularities
- Uncertainty quantification, fractional-order partial differential equations