College of Engineering (COE)
Research Areas
Faculty Member:
Research Area:
Ballard, Robert
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: OSEC Bay Campus
Phone: (401)874-6480
Email: ballard@gso.uri.edu
Barnett, Stanley
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 206 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-2443
Email: barnett@egr.uri.edu
- Photobioreactors
- Separations with Applications to Biotechnology
- Enviornmental Engineering and Pollution Prevention-Membranes
- Alternate Energy and Carbon Sources
Baxter, Chris
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 207A Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-6575
Email: baxter@egr.uri.edu
- Ground Impovement
- Stability of Submarine Slopes
- Evaluation of Composite Piles in Marine environment
- In Situ testing and Site Characterization Techniques
- Dynamics Behavior of Rhode Island Silts
Baxter, Christopher
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 211 Bay Campus Sheets Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6575
Email: baxter@egr.uri.edu
- Ground Impovement
- Stability of Submarine Slopes
- Evaluation of Composite Piles in Marine Environment
- In Situ testing and Site Characterization Technique
- Dynamics Behavior of Rhode Island Silts
Besio, Walter
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: K107 Kelley Hall
Phone: (401)874-4738
Email: besio@ele.uri.edu
- Biomedical Instrumentation
- Neural Engineering
- Physiological Control
- Bioelectricity
- Rehabilitation Engineering
Bose, Arijit
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 217 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-2804
Email: bose@egr.uri.edu
- Colloidal and Interfacial Engineering
- Nanoparticle/ Nanostructured Materials Synthesis
- Cryogenic Transmission Electron Microscopy
Bothun, Geoffrey
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 203 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-9518
Email: bothun@egr.uri.edu
- Biomembrane Thermodynamics and Transport
- Hybrid Lipid Assemblies & Synthetic Peptides Therapeutic
- Biological Response to inorganic Nanomaterials
- Surface phenomena and Transport in Nanoporous Membranes
- Native & Surface Functionalized Ceramic Membranes
Boudreaux-Bartels, G. Faye
Title: Chair & ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A117 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5805
Email: boudreaux@ele.uri.edu
- Digital Signal Processing
- Time-Frequency Signal Analysis
Brown, Richard
Title: Chair & ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 110 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-2707
Email: rbrown@egr.uri.edu
- Degradation of Materials
- Corrosion Resistant Coatings
- Failure Analysis
- New Bio Composite Materials
Chelidze, David
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 128C Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2356
Email: chelidze@egr.uri.edu
- Nonlinear Dynamics
- Damage Evolution Tracking and Failure Prediction
Craver, Vinca
Title: Assistant Research ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 213 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-2784
Email: craver@egr.uri.edu
- Sustainable Water and Wastewater Purification
- Transport & Containment of Existing Pollutants
- Energetic & Environmental Sustainability of Water
Crisman, Everett
Title: Associate Research ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 122 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-9030
Email: crisman@egr.uri.edu
- Meta-Materials index of Refraction & Surface plasmon phenome
- Forensic Science
- Applications of Material Analysis used for legal evidence
- High Temperature sensors based on Semiconductors
Datseris, Philip
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 128E Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2514
Email: datseris@egr.uri.edu
- Mechanical Design and Optimization
- Robotics and Automation
- Artificial Intelligence Applied in Eng. Design
Dewhurst, Peter
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103C Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5194
Email: dewhurst@egr.uri.edu
- Theory of Metal Deformation
- Design for Efficient Manufacture
- Design and Manufacture of Minimum-Weight Structure
Faghri, Mohammad
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 131D Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-5180
Email: faghri@egr.uri.edu
- Electronic Cooling
- Filtration
- Numerical Modeling in Heat Transfer & Fluid Mechan
Fischer, Godi
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: K212 Kelley Hall
Phone: (401)874-5879
Email: fischer@ele.uri.edu
- Analog/ Digital CMOS Circuits
- Data Converters
Ghonem, Hamouda
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 101 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2909
Email: ghonem@egr.uri.edu
- Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics
- Damage, Micromechanics, Creep, Plasticity
- Metal and Composite Materials
Gindy, Mayrai
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 201 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-5587
Email: gindy@egr.uri.edu
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Non-Destructive testing, Sensors & Networks
- Structural Safety and Reliability
- Bridge Dynamics and Vibration
Gray, Donald
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 202 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-2651
Email: gray@egr.uri.edu
- Closed Loop Recycling Systems
- Metal Vapor Degreasing Systems
- Alternative Cleaning Solvents
- Vacuum Technology
Greenfield, Michael
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 113 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-9289
Email: greenfi@egr.uri.edu
- Molecular Simulation Techniques
- Polymers & Complicated Fluids
Gregory, Otto
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 211 Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2085
Email: gregory@egr.uri.edu
- Physical Vapor Deposition/ CVD/
- Reactive Sputtering Techniques
- Nitride-Based Ceramics and Group III-IV Semiconductors
- Thin Film Sensors; Temperature, Strain and Heat Flux
- Ferroelectric Polymers, Thermochromic Polymers
Grilli, Stephan
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 215 Bay Campus Sheets Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6636
Email: grilli@egr.uri.edu
- Coastal Engineering
- Wave Modeling and Experiments
- Wave -Structure-Bottom interaction
- Wave Breaking, Freak Waves
- Wave-Induced Sediment Transport, Tsunami Impact, Geohazards
Grilli, Annette
Title: Assistant Research ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 215 Sheets
Phone: (401)874-6139
Email: agrilli@egr.uri.edu
Hu, James
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 220 Bay Campus Sheets Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6688
Email: hu@egr.uri.edu
- Underwater Tracking / Survey
- Multivariate Uncertainty Analysis
- Time-Frequency Domain Signal Analysis
- Random Ocean Waves, Vibrations
- Structural Health Monitoring
Huang, He (Helen)
Title: Assisstant ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: K211 Kelley Hall
Phone: (401)874-2385
Email: huang@ele.uri.edu
- Neural-Machine Interface
- Modeling and Analysis of Neuromuscular Control
Hunter, Christopher
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 310 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-2818
Email: hunter@egr.uri.edu
- Traffic and Transit System Operations
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Intermodal and or Multi-Modal transportation System Planning
- Traffic Safety
Jackson, Leland
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A121 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5818
Email: jackson@ele.uri.edu
- Digital Signal Processing
- Digital Filter Design
Jouaneh, Musa
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 128D Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2349
Email: jouaneh@egr.uri.edu
- Control Systems
- Robotics
- Precision Systems
- Piezoelectric Positioning
Karamanlidis, Dimitrios
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 302 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-2783
Email: karamand@egr.uri.edu
- Computational Mechanics
- Computer-Aided Analysis of Engineering Structure
- Computer Aided Steel-Detailing
Kay, Steven
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A123 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5804
Email: kay@ele.uri.edu
- Statistical Signal Processing
- Spectrum Estimation
- Sonar
- Radar
Kim, Thomas
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 104 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-5991
Email: tomkim3@egr.uri.edu
- Erosion Mechanics
- Abrasive Waterjet Machining
- Elastohydrodynamics
- Mechanical Seals
Knickle, Harold
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 122 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-2678
Email: knickle@egr.uri.edu
- Fuel Cells and Batteries
- Energy Conservation and Devices
- Data Acquisition and Control
- Multiphase Flow, Including Gas-Liquid and Solid Phases
Kumaresan, Ramdas
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A216 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-4798
Email: kumaresan@ele.uri.edu
- Communications
- Digital Signal Processing
- Auditory Signals
Lee, K. Wayne
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 212 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-2695
Email: lee@egr.uri.edu
- Engineering Materials Design
- Transportation Infrastructure Managment
- Sustainable Transportation Systems
Lo, Jien-Chung
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A221 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-2996
Email: jcl@ele.uri.edu
- Digital Circuit Design and VLSI Testing
- Distributed Computing
Lucia, Angelo
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 224 Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2814
Email: lucia@egr.uri.edu
- Modeling, Simulation, Optimization, Design and Analysis
- Computational Thermodynamics
- Numerical Methods
- Computational Chemistry
Maier-Speredelozzi, Valerie
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103G Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5187
Email: vms@egr.uri.edu
- Design of Manufacturing Systems
- Performance Metrics for Manufacturing Systems
- Material Handling and Plant Operations
Mardix, Shmuel
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A217 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5851
Email: mardix@ele.uri.edu
- Electronic Materials
- X-Ray Analysis
Meyer, Donna
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 131B Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-9292
Email: dmmeyer@egr.uri.edu
- Tribology (Lubrication, Friction and Wear)
- Fluid Mechanics
- Microfluidic Technology
Miller, James
Title: Chair & ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 111 Bay Campus Sheets Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6540
Email: miller@egr.uri.edu
- Acoustical Oceanography
- Sonar Systems Engineering
- Acoustic Signal Processing
- Underwater Acoustics
- Marine Bio-Acoustics
Moran, Kathryn
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 215 Bay Campus South Lab
Phone: (401)874-6421
Email: moran@egr.uri.edu
Nassersharif, Bahram
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 214 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-9335
Email: bn@egr.uri.edu
- Engineering Design
- Nuclear Systems
- Safety Engineering
- Simulation and Modeling
Ohley, William
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A206 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5813
Email: ohley@ele.uri.edu
- Computer-Based Instrumentation
- Image Processing
Palm, William
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 210 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2531
Email: palm@egr.uri.edu
- Control Systems
- Robotics
- Dynamic Systems
Park, Eugene
Title: Associate Resident ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 114 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-4303
Email: park@egr.uri.edu
- Pollution Prevention
- Membrane Separations
- Value-Added Product Development from Waste Materials
- Alternate Cleaning Process Development
- New Environmental Regulations Initiatives
Park, Keunhan
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 131C Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-5184
Email: kpark@egr.uri.edu
- Nanoscale Metrologies using Atomic Force Microscop
- Nanoscale IR Spectroscopy
- Localized Thermal Analysis
- Micro/ Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer
Potty, Gopu
Title: Assistant Research ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 115 Bay Campus Middleton Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6591
Email: potty@egr.uri.edu
- Underwater Acoustics
- Acoustical Oceanography
- Acoustic Signal
- Processing and Marine Bio-Acoustics
Rivero-Hudec, Mercedes
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 204 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-2271
Email: rivero@egr.uri.edu
Roman, Christopher
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 111 Bay Campus Horn Bldg.
Phone: (401)874-6115
Email: cnr@gso.uri.edu
- Acoustic mapping
- Photographic seafloor mapping
- Underwater vehicle mechanical and control system design
- Navigation data processing
- Acoustic instrumentation
Rose, Vincent
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Chemical
Office: 118 Crawford Hall
Phone: (401)874-5924
Email: rose@egr.uri.edu
- Pollution Control
- Energy Managment
- Water Management
Rousseau, Carl-Ernst
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 222B Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2542
Email: rousseau@egr.uri.edu
- Solid Mechanics
- Experimental Mechanics
Sadd, Martin
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 208 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-5548
Email: sadd@egr.uri.edu
- Mathematical Modeling
- Continuum Mechanics
- Wave Propagation
- Computational Methods
- Mecromechanics
Sendag, Resit
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A219 Kelley Hall
Phone: (401)874-9423
Email: sendag@ele.uri.edu
- High Performance Computer Architecture
Sharpe, Henry
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 110 Sheets Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6139
Email: sharpe@egr.uri.edu
Shukla, Arun
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 204 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-2283
Email: shukla@egr.uri.edu
- Smart Materials
- Composite Materials
- Fracture Mechanics
- Impact Mechanics
- Wave Propagation
Sodhi, Manbir
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103A Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5189
Email: sodhi@egr.uri.edu
- De-Manufacturing and Bulk Recycling Modeling
- Lights-Out Manufacturing
- Computer Vision Applications for Manufacturing
Spaulding, Malcolm
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 223 Bay Campus Sheets Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6666
Email: spaulding@egr.uri.edu
- Expert in Marine Enviornmental Modeling
- Hydrodynamics, Pollutant Transport and Fate
- Oil Spill Transport and Fate
- Development of Integrated Modeling and Monitoring Systems
Stepanishen, Peter
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 222 Bay Campus Sheets Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6577
Email: stepanishen@egr.uri.edu
- Acoustics
- Vibrations
- Signal Processing
Sun, Ying
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: K206 Kelley Hall
Phone: (401)874-2515
Email: sun@ele.uri.edu
- Biomedical Instrumentation
- Modeling Physiological Systems
- Assistive Technology
Sun, Yan (Lindsay)
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A101 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5803
Email: yansun@ele.uri.edu
- Wireless Network Security
- Wireless Communication and Networking
Sunak, Harish
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A223 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5859
Email: sunak@ele.uri.edu
- Fiber Optical Communications
- Optical Amplifiers
Swaszek, Peter
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A119 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5802
Email: swaszek@ele.uri.edu
- Digital Communication Systems
- Electronic Navigation Systems
- Image Processing
Taggart, David
Title: Chair & ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 212 Wales Hall
Phone: (401)874-5934
Email: taggart@egr.uri.edu
- Mechanics of Composite Materials
- Abrasive Waterjet Machining
- Design of Minimum Weight Structures
Thiem, Leon
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 207 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-2693
Email: thiem@egr.uri.edu
- Industrial Waste Treatment
- Drinking Water Treatment
- Groundwater Contamination Modeling/ Remediation
- Adsorption Processes
Thomas, Natacha
Title: Assistant ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 311 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-9353
Email: thomas@egr.uri.edu
- Traffic Engineering
- Traffic Flow Characteristics
- Geometric Design of Highways
- Airport Design
- Traffic Safety
Tsiatas, George
Title: Chair & ProfessorDepartment: Civil & Environmental
Office: 203A Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-5117
Email: tsiatas@egr.uri.edu
- Bridge Engineering
- Health Monitoring of Structures
- Renewal Engineering
- Management of Large Structural Systems
Tyce, Robert
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 114 Bay Campus Middleton Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6879
Email: tyce@egr.uri.edu
- Rapid Environmental Assessment
- Marine Technology Instrumentation and Systems
- Seafloor Mapping and Image Processing
- Sona, Radar and Lidar Remote Sensing
- Remotely Operated & Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Uht, Augustus
Title: Professor in ResidenceDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A208 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5431
Email: uht@ele.uri.edu
- Computer Architecture
- Adaptive Computing
Vaccaro, Richard
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A215 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5816
Email: vaccaro@ele.uri.edu
- Digital Control Systems
- Sensor Array Signal Processing
Vetter, Frederick
Title: Associate ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: A209 Kelley Annex
Phone: (401)874-5141
Email: vetter@ele.uri.edu
- Cardiac Physiology and Computational Modeling
- Microprocessors
- Feedback Control Systems
Veyera, George
Title: Interim Associate DeanDepartment: Deans Office
Office: 102 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-5985
Email: veyera@egr.uri.edu
- Liquefaction of Saturated Soils
- Dynamic Behavior of Soils
- Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
- Marine Geomechanics
- Geosynthetics
Vincent, Harold (Bud)
Title: Research ProfessorDepartment: Ocean
Office: 114 Bay Campus Middleton Bldg
Phone: (401)874-6814
Email: bud@egr.uri.edu
Wang, Jyh-Hone (Jay)
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 103E Gilbreth Hall
Phone: (401)874-5195
Email: jhwang@egr.uri.edu
- Design for Quality
- Quality Assurance
- Design of Experiements
- Human Factors
Wright, Raymond
Title: DeanDepartment: Deans Office
Office: 102 Bliss Hall
Phone: (401)874-2186
Email: wright@egr.uri.edu
- Water Quality Monitoring & Surface Water Systems
- Waste Load Allocations and TMDLs
- Nonpoint Source Pollutants
- Wet Weather Pollutant Sources
Yang, Qing (Ken)
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Electrical, Computer & Biomedical
Office: K220 Kelley Hall
Phone: (401)874-5880
Email: qyang@ele.uri.edu
- Computer Networks
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
Zhang, Zongqin
Title: ProfessorDepartment: Mechanical, Industrial & Systems
Office: 133E Kirk Building
Phone: (401)874-2517
Email: zhang@egr.uri.edu
- Aerosol Transport in Respiratory Flows
- Heat and Mass Transfer
- Melting and Solidification
- Optimum Desing of HVAC Systems
