Faculty & Staff

Faculty Directory

Core Faculty

Norma Alcantar

DR. NORMA ALCANTAR

Professor and Associate Dean for Research

Contact

norma@usf.edu | 813-974-8009 | ENC 3201 | Faculty Webpage

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

Venkat Bhethanabotla

DR. VENKAT R. BHETHANABOTLA

Professor

Contact

IDRB 218 | bhethana@usf.edu | 813-974-3041 | Faculty WebpageLaboratory Website

Biosensors • Plasmonics • Computational Catalysis

Dr. Michelle Cardenas

DR. MICHELLE CARDENAS

Assistant Professor of Instruction

Contact

ENC 3203 | cardenas322@usf.edu | 813-974-1304 | Faculty Webpage 

 

Ramon Gonzalez

DR. RAMON GONZALEZ

Professor and Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar

Contact

ENC 3202 | ramongonzale@usf.edu| 813-974-1223 | Faculty PageLaboratory Website

Metabolic Engineering • Biorefining and Biofuels

Yogi Goswami

DR. YOGI GOSWAMI

Distinguished University Professor

Contact

ENB 260A | goswami@usf.edu | 813-974-0956 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website

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

Vinay Gupta

DR. VINAY GUPTA

Chair, Professor, Graduate Advisor

Contact

ENC 3200  |  vkgupta@usf.edu |  813-974-0851  |  Faculty WebpageLaboratory Website

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

Piyush Koria

DR. PIYUSH KORIA

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor

Contact

ENG 248 | pkoria@usf.edu| 813-974-6243 | Faculty Webpage

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

John Kuhn

DR. JOHN N. KUHN

Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

Contact

IDRB 202D | jnkuhn@usf.edu| 813-974-6498 | Faculty WebpageLaboratory Website

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

Anna Pyayt

DR. ANNA PYAYT

Associate Professor

Contact

IDRB 202E  |  pyayt@usf.edu |  813-974-6250  | Faculty WebpageWebsite

Nano-photonic chips for biomedicine

Dr. Rituparna Samanta

DR. RITUPARNA SAMANTA

Assistant Professor

Contact

BPB 213A | Email | 813-396-0544 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website

Computational Biology • Polymer Physics • Engineering solube proteins and assemblies

David Simmons

DR. DAVID S. SIMMONS

Associate Professor

Contact

ENC 3205 | Email | 813-974-4988 | Faculty WebpageLaboratory Website

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

Lawrence Stern

DR. LAWRENCE A. STERN

Assistant Professor

Contact

ENC 2212 | sternl@usf.edu| 813-974-5587 | Faculty WebpageLaboratory Website

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

Aydin Sunol

DR. AYDIN K. SUNOL, PE

Professor

Contact

ENC 3217 | asunol@usf.edu| 813-974-3566 | Faculty WebpageLaboratory Website

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

Ryan Toomey

DR. RYAN TOOMEY

Professor

Contact

ENC 3503 | toomey@usf.edu| 813-974-9164 | Faculty Webpage

Responsive Polymers • Hydrogels

Dr. Weizhong Zou

DR. WEIZHONG ZOU

Assistant Professor

Contact

ENC 2210 | wzou@usf.edu| 813-396-0787 | Faculty Webpage

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


Emeritus Faculty

 

Carlos Busot

Dr. J. Carlos Busot - Emeritus Professor

Research areas

Reactor design and Simulation, Irreversible Thermodynamics, Engineering Education

Carlos Smith

Dr. Carlos Smith - Emeritus Professor

Email 

Research areas

Automatic process control, Dynamic process modeling, Process engineering

Dr. Babu Joseph

Dr. Babu Joseph - Emeritus Professor

Email |Website

Research areas

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

Dr. William Lee

Dr. William E. Lee III, PE - Emeritus Professor

Email |Website

Research areas

Biomechanics • Prosthetic Design • Creative Processes • Education

 


Affiliated Faculty 

alexander

Dr. Christopher L. Alexander

Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor

Office: ENC 3208 | Email | 813-974-1137 | Website

Research areas

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

michael wang

Dr. Michael Cai Wang

Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor 

Office: ENC 2206 | Email | 813-974-8586 | Website

Research areas

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

Nathan gallant

Dr. Nathan D. Gallant

Interdisciplinary Professor

Office: ENC 2407 | Email   813-974-5840 | Website

Research areas

Materials, tissue engineering, mechanotransduction

jaroszeski

Dr. Mark Jaroszeski

Interdisciplinary Associate Professor

Office: ENG 243 | Email | 813-974-4662

Research areas

Drug and gene delivery, electrofusion, biomedical instrumentation, electrophoresis

passaglia

Dr. Christopher Passaglia

Interdisciplinary Professor

Office: ENG 247 | Email | 813-974-7140 | Website

Research areas

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

frisina

Dr. Robert Frisina, Jr

Interdisciplinary Distinguished University Professor, Chair of Medical Engineering Dept.

Office: ENC 3504 | Email | 813-974-4394 | Website

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