Engineering & Physical Science
Engineering and Physical Science faculty consist of full-time professors with degrees from some of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. and abroad. Our faculty members are involved in world-class research sponsored by national agencies and industries.
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Commonwealth Professor & Montgomery Charter Chair
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 226
508-910-6388
c1chen@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Modeling and observational exploration of coastal ocean circulation
- Oceanic frontal processes
- Biological and physical interactions
- Arctic Ocean and Climate Change
- Multi-scaling ocean model developments
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Associate Professor
SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 218
508-910-6397
gcowles@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Marine Renewable Energy
- Ocean Modeling
- Shape Optimization and Design
- High Performance Computing
- Coupled Marine Bio-Physical Models
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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Violette Research 214
508-999-8540
hling1@umassd.edu
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
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
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
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Professor / Graduate Program Director
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 226
508-999-8496
mraessi@umassd.edu
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 Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Science & Engineering 116C
508-999-8567
b.aghazadeh@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Flow-Induced Vibration
- Experimental Fluid Dynamics
- Vibrations
- Renewable Energy
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Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology West, New Bedford 110A
508-999-8892
msundermeyer@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Small-scale vertical and horizontal mixing processes
- Dye release and Lagrangian drifter studies
- Numerical modeling of two- and three-dimensional turbulent flows
- Numerical modeling of physical and biological interactions
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Commonwealth Professor
SMAST / Estuarine & Ocean Sciences
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
508-999-8357
atandon@umassd.edu
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
Mechanical Engineering
School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 234
508-999-8357
atandon@umassd.edu
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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Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201C
508-910-6639
pcappillino@umassd.edu
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Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 209
508-910-6572
vchalivendra@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Composite Materials
- Experimental Mechanics
- Dynamic Characterization of Materials
- Damage Sensing
- Nano-mechanical Characterization
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Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 211B
508-999-8247
wchang2@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Plasmonics and metamaterials
- Electocatalysis and photocatalysis
- Optoelectronics (2D materials, hybrid structures)
- Chiral metamaterials
- Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development
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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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Research
Research interests
- Multifunctional composites
- Energy storage materials
- Nanomaterials
- Sensors
- Electrochemistry
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Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Textiles 227
508-999-8465
mtootkaboni@umassd.edu
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
Associate Professor / Graduate Program Director
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201C
508-910-6639
pcappillino@umassd.edu
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 211B
508-999-8247
wchang2@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Plasmonics and metamaterials
- Electocatalysis and photocatalysis
- Optoelectronics (2D materials, hybrid structures)
- Chiral metamaterials
- Single molecule/particle spectroscopy development
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Professor / Chairperson
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Violette Research 201B
508-910-6554
dmanke@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Organometallic Chemistry
- Covalen Metal-Organic Networks
- Catalysis and Small Molecule Activation
- Metal-Organic Frameworks
- Historical Werner Complexes
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Provost / Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Academic Affairs / Provost
Foster Administration 315
508-999-8069
r.bala@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Motion Detection and Tracking
- Pattern Recognition
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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Textiles 213
508-999-8549
kihan.park@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Medical Robotics
- Micro-scale Sensing/Actuation
- Machine Learning
- Biosignal Processing
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Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214F
508-999-8479
dbrown@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Transducer modeling
- Training of undergraduate and graduate students in engineering acoustics
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Chancellor Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dion 324B
508-999-9237
jbuck@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Signal Processing
- Underwater Acoustics
- Animal Bioacoustics
- Engineering Pedagogy
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Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214D
508-999-8510
pgendron@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Adaptive filtering for angle-delay-Doppler spread channels
- Low probability of detection acoustic communications
- Magnetic anomaly detection and tracking
- Seismic event detection and classification
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Professor / Chairperson
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 217C
508-999-8534
dkasilingam@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Adaptive signal processing
- Applied Electromagnetics
- Remote Sensing
- Wireless Communications
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Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 214B
508-999-8841
yifei.li@umassd.edu
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Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Science & Engineering 221B
508-999-8469
hwang1@umassd.edu
Research
Research interests
- Internet of Things and Connected Health
- Body Area Networks (BAN) and Wireless Multimedia
- Multimedia Processing and Communications, Cyber and Multimedia Security, Mobile Multimedia and Cloud, Edge Computing
- Wireless Networks and Cyber-physical System
- Big Data in mHealth, Data Engineering and Machine Learning