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Core Faculty

Dr. Norma Alcantar

Professor, Associate Dean for Research

ENC 3201 | Email | 813-974-8009 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Surface Forces and Chemical Characterization, Micellar Surfactants, Nanoparticles, Organic/Inorganic Thin Films

DR. MARIMUTHU ANDIAPPAN

Associate Professor

ENC 2212 | Email | 813-396-0671 | Faculty Bio|Lab website

Research areas

Plasmonic nanomaterials and high-dielectric metal oxide nanomaterials-based photocatalytic processes, solar energy conversion and storage, sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, and carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion

Dr. Venkat Bhethanabotla

Professor

IDRB 218 | Email | 813-974-3041 | Faculty Bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Biosensors, Plasmonics, Computational Catalysis

Dr. Michelle Cardenas

Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENC 3203 | Email | 813-974-1304

Research areas

Mathematical modeling, chemical engineering

Dr. Yogi Goswami

Distinguished University Professor

ENB 260A | Email | 813-974-0956 | Faculty Bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Energy Conversion, Solar Energy, Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, HVAC

Dr. Vinay Gupta

Chair, Professor, Graduate Advisor

ENC 3200 | Email | 813-974-0851 | Faculty Bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Interfacial Phenomena, Polymeric Materials, Organic – Inorganic Composites, Self – Assembled Systems, Molecular Recognition, Nanoscale/Smart Materials

Dr. Piyush Koria

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

ENG 248 | Email | 813-974-6243 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, Microscale Technologies, Biomaterials, Nanomedicine

Dr. John Kuhn

Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

IDRB 202D | Email | 813-974-6498 | Faculty Bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Heterogeneous Catalysis, Materials Chemistry, Electro – catalysis, Engineering Education, Renewable Energy

Dr. Anna Pyayt

Associate Professor

IDRB 202E | Email | 813-974-6250 | Faculty Bio | Website

Research areas

Nano-photonic chips for biomedicine

Dr. Rituparna Samanta

Assistant Professor

BPB 213A | Email | 813-396-0544 | Website

Research areas

Computational Biology, Polymer Physics, Engineering solube proteins and assemblies

Dr. David Simmons

Professor, Faculty Senate President

ENC 3205 | Email | 813-974-4988 | Faculty Bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Polymers, Molecular Simulations, Glass-Forming Materials, Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Films and Interfaces

Dr. Lawrence Stern

Assistant Professor

ENG 245 | Email | 813-974-5587 | Faculty Bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Immunotherapy, Protein Engineering, Cell Engineering, Biomolecular Engineering, High-Throughput Screening Techniques

Dr. Aydin Sunol, PE

Professor

ENC 3217 | Email | 813-974-3566 | Faculty bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Systems engineering, Supercritical fluid technology, Green Engineering, Product and Process Design

Dr. Ryan Toomey

Professor

ENC 3503 | Email | 813-974-9164 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Responsive Polymers, Hydrogels

Dr. Weizhong Zou

Assistant Professor

ENC 2210 | Email | 813-396-0787 | Faculty Bio | Lab Website

Research areas

Reactive processing of plastics, Polymer informatics, Directed engineering of soft materials

Emeritus Faculty

Dr. J Carlos Busot

Research areas

Reactor design and Simulation, Irreversible Thermodynamics, Engineering Education

Dr. Carlos Smith

Research areas

Automatic process control, Dynamic process modeling, Process engineering

Dr. Babu Joseph

Email | Website

Research areas

Modeling, simulation and control, multi–scale modeling of systems, clean liquid fuels from biomass, Fischer–Tropsch synthesis

Dr. William E. Lee, III, PE

Email | Website

Research area

Biomechanics, Prosthetic Design, Creative Processes, Education

Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Christopher Alexander

Assistant Professor

ENC 3208 | Email | 813-974-1137 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Corrosion diagnosis and control, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Multi-physics modeling

Dr. Michael Cai Wang

Assistant Professor

ENC 2206 | Email | 813-974-8586 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Nano-science/nano-manufacturing, Interfacial/surface phenomena.

Dr. Nathan Gallant

Professor

ENC 2407 | Email | 813-974-5840 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Materials, tissue engineering, mechanotransduction

Dr. Ionnnis Spanapoulos

Assistant Professor

IDRB 202G | Email | 813-974-6370 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Organic and inorganic synthesis, design of multi-functional materials,energy and environment-related applications

Dr. Christopher Passaglia

Professor

ENG 247 | Email | 813-974-7140 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Vision systems, neural signal processing, computational modeling, retinal physiology and disease

Dr. Robert Frisina, Jr.

Distinguished University Professor, Chair of Medical Engineering Dept.

ENC 3504 | Email | 813-974-4394 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Development of bio-therapeutic systems, devices and compounds for treating sensory deficits; emphasis on bench-to-bedside investigations of the auditory system, and translational research on deafness and other neuro-engineering applications