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Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information

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

Norma Alcantar

Professor
813.974.8009

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Biosensors, Plasmonics, Computational Catalysis

Venkat R. Bhethanabotla

Professor
813.974.3041

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Solution Thermodynamics, Phase Equilibria, Environmental Monitoring and Modeling, Semiconductors Processing

Scott Campbell

Professor
813.974.3907

 

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Correlates of Auditory Perception, Auditory Perception of the Pathological Voice, Models of Auditory Processing

David Eddins

Interdisciplinary Professor
813.974.2464

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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 Neuroengineering Applications.

Robert Frisina

Interdiscilinary Professor
Distinguished University Professor

 

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Materials, Tissue Engineering, Mechanotransduction

Nathan Gallant

Interdisciplinary Professor
813.974.5840

 

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Material Science, Biomedical Systems, Electrochemotherapy, Electrogenetherapy, Instrumentation, Engineering Education, and Drug delivery 

Richard Gilbert

Professor
813.974.2139

 

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Metabolic Engineering, Biorefining and Biofuels

Ramon Gonzalez

813.974.1223

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

D. Yogi Goswami

Distinguished University Professor
813.974.0956

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

Vinay Gupta

Professor
813.974.0851

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Polymer ultra-thin films and advanced membranes, Advanced materials and processes for semiconductor patterning, novel routes to manufacturing graphene and graphene devices

 Clifford Henderson

Professor
813.974.6354

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Drug and Gene Delivery, Electrofusion, Biomedical Instrumentation, Electrophoresis

 Mark Jaroszeski

Interdisciplinary Associate Professor
813.974.6354

 
Modeling, Simulation and Control, Multi – Scale Modeling of Systems, Clean Liquid Fuels from Biomass,
Fischer – Tropsch Synthesis

Babu Joseph

Professor
813.974.0692

 

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

Piyush Koria

Associate Professor
813.974.6243

 

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Heterogeneous Catalysis, Materials Chemistry,
Electro – Catalysis, Engineering Education, Renewable Energy
John N. Kuhn


Associate Professor
813.974.6498

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Biomechanics, Prosthetic Design, Creative Processes, Education

William E. Lee III

Professor
813.974.2136

 
 Vision Systems, Neural Signal Processing, Computational Modeling, Retinal Physiology and Disease

Christopher Passaglia

Interdisciplinary Professor
813.974.7140

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Nano-photonic chips for Biomedicine

Anna Pyayt

Associate Professor
813.974.6250

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Polymers, Molecular Simulations, Dynamics of Glassy Systems

David Simmons

Associate Professor
813.974.4988

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

Lawrence Stern

Assistant Professor
813.974.5587

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Systems Engineering, Supercritical Fluid Technology, Green Engineering, Product and Process Design

Aydin K. Sunol

Professor
813.974.3566

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Responsive Polymers, Hydrogels

Ryan Toomey

Professor
813.974.9164

 
Neural Bases of Age – Related Hearing Loss, Brain Plasticity Following Injury, Neural Coding of Complex Sounds

Joseph P. Walton

Interdisciplinary Professor
813.974.4634

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Center for Urban Transportation Research CUTR
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information
Airport Leadership, Transportation Research Dissemination, Volunteer Transportation Services, Strategic Planning, Organizational Governance

Michael Audino

727.415.9668

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Maintenance Management and Analysis, Maintenance Training and Curriculum Development
Trend Analysis, Fleet Performance Measurement and Analysis, Preventive Maintenance Planning and Development

Edward Bart

813.974.6693

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Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety, Social Marketing, Transportation Demand Management

Julie Bond

813.974.9799

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Transportation Safety, Transit Safety, Transportation Statistical Data Analysis, Transportation Trends and Conditions, Mobility Policy Research

Jodi Godfrey

813.974.9771

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Pedestrian, Bicyclist and Driver Safety Education, Safe Routes to School, Community Outreach, Policy Analysis

Jason Jackman

813.974.6065

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Naturalistic Driving Studies, Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety, Behavioral Analysis, Controlled Driving Tests, Intelligent Transportation Systems

Achilleas Kourtellis

813.974.8073

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Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Metropolitan Transportation Planning, Transportation Policy, Transportation Planning, Public Involvement in Transportation

Jeff Kramer

813.974.1397

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Traffic Safety, Traffic Engineering and Operations, Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety, Wrong-way Driving Prevention, Congestion Management, Incident Management, Traffic Signal Operations, Traffic Studies

Pei-Sung Lin

813.974.4910

 
Bus Rapid Transit, Bus Safety, Vehicle Assist and Automation Technology in Transit

Brian Pessaro

813.974.5113

 
Sustainable Transportation, Sustainable Transportation Policy, Alternative Fuels, Department of Energy Clean Cities

Austin Maria Sipiora

813.974.1885

 
Transit Operations Management, Risk and Safety Management, Americans with Disabilities Act, Continuity of Operations Planning, Data Collection and Analysis

Mitch Spicer

813.974.1446

 
Roadway Access Management, Complete Streets, Metropolitan Transportation Planning, Multimodal Planning, Sustainable Transportation and Development

Kristine Williams

813.974.9807

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Civil and Environmental Engineering
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information
Corrosion Diagnosis and Control, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy,
Multi-Physics Modeling

Christopher L. Alexander

Assistant Professor
813.974.1137

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Drinking water quality and treatment, sustainable potable water provisions, US and international water quality regulation, community support of drinking water technology and utilities

Katherine Alfredo, PE

Assistant Professor
813.974.9612

 

 
Water Resources Management in Large River Basins; Ecohydrology of Wetlands; Ecological Engineering; Hydropower and Environmental Flows

Mauricio E. Arias

Assitant Professor
813.974.5593

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Clean-up of Contaminated Water and Soil, Climate Change, Environmental Engineering, Water Pollution, Water Treatment

Jeffrey Cunningham

Associate Professor
813.974.9540

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Environmental Engineering, Biological Treatment Processes, Biological Nutrient Removal,
Anaerobic Digestion, Biological Waste to Energy Technologies, Wastewater Treatment,
Sustainable Aquaculture Technologies, Low Impact Development Technologies for Stormwater Management, Onsite Wastewater Nutrient Removal

Sarina Ergas

Professor
813.974.1119

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Geotechnical Engineering, Highway Pavement Engineering, Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering, Probabilistic Methods in Civil Engineering, Seepage and Subsurface Drainage

Manjriker Gunaratne

Professor and Chair
813.974.5818

 
 Research Areas: Connected automated traffic analysis and control, Sustainable infrastructure systems design, Sensor networks

Xiaopeng "Shaw" Li

Associate Professor, Susan A. Bracken Faculty Fellow
813.974.0778

 

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Program Director, ITS, Traffic Operations and Safety, Center for Urban Transportation Research  Pei-Sung Lin


813.974.4910

 

Pavement engineering, Asphalt mix design, Pavement management system, Transportation infrastructure management, Steel bridge deck surfacing 

Qing Lu

Associate Professor
813-974-5822

 

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 tatistical & econometric methods, Highway safety, Transportation economics, Automobile demand, Travel behavior

Fred Mannering

Professor and Associate Dean for Research
813-974-5817

 

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 Travel Behavior, Travel Demand Forecasting, Choice Modeling, Modeling Social Interactions, Emerging Transportation Technologies, Sustainable Transportation, Travel Survey Methods

Michael Maness

Assistant Professor
813-974-6144

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Director, National Center for Reinventing Aging Infrastructure for Nutrient Management
Research Areas: Sustainability, Impact of anthropogenic stressors on water resources, Water supply, Water reuse, Nutrient management, Water/sanitation/hygiene (WASH) in the developing world, Engineering
James R. Mihelcic

 

Samuel L. and Julia M. Flom Endowed Professor   
813.974.9896

 
Foundation Load Testing, Foundation Rehabilitation, Structural/Geotechnical Instrumentation, Quality Assurance of Drilled Shafts, Post Grouted Drilled Shaft Design/Construction Gray Mullins

Professor
813.974.5845

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Hydraulics & Water Supply Systems, Soil & Ecosystem Hydrology, Flow & Contaminant Transport in Porous Media, Stochastic Hydrology

Mahmood Nachabe

Professor 
813.974.5837

 
Water Resources, Hydraulic & Water Quality Modeling, GIS in Hydrology, Development of Lake & Estuary Water Quality Management Models & Estuary Sediment Dynamics

Mark Ross

Professor 
813.974.5838

 

Computational Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Composite Materials, Computational Engineering

Daniel Simkins

Associate Professor  
813.974.4174

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Air Pollution, Atmospheric Chemistry, Environmental Computational Modeling, Urban Design & Human Exposure to Transportation Emissions

Amy Stuart

Associate Professor  
813.974.6632

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Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Flows; Vertical Turbulent Mixing in the Upper Ocean and Coastal Shelves; Mixing/hydraulic Efficiency of Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems; Finite Element, Finite Difference and Spectral Methods for Fluids; Parallel Computing

Andrés E. Tejada-Martínez

Associate Professor 
813.974.1738

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Sustainability, Water Quality, Ecotourism & Small Scale Mining Impacts on Sustainable Livelihoods, Climate Change, Environmental Engineering Education in Formal & Informal Settings in the U.S. and in Developing Countries

Maya A. Trotz

Professor
813.974.3172

 
Water Purification, Wastewater Resource Recovery and Life Support in Challenging, Off-Grid and Remote Environments; Autonomous, Self-powered Water Machines; Anaerobic and Phototrophic Membrane Bioreactors; Food-to-food (F2f) Biorecycling; Innovations at Water-energy-food Nexus

Daniel H. Yeh

Professor
813.974.4746

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Cementitious Systems, Construction Materials Durability

Abla Zayed

Professor
813.974.5823

 
Green Engineering, Sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment, Water-Energy Nexus, Coupled Nature-Human System Modeling, Environmental Fate & Transport Modeling, Water Supply & Treatment, Engineering Education

Qiong Zhang

Associate Professor and Vasant Surti Faculty Fellow 
813.974.6448

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Research Areas: Transportation systems modeling & analysis, Air traffic management & performance evaluation, Sustainable transportation, Energy & Environment, Autonomous systems, Logistics & freight transportation, Transportation safety

Yu Zhang

Associate Professor
813.974.5846

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Computer Science and Engineering
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information
Brain-Computer Interfaces, 
Human-Computer Interaction, 
Human-Drone Interaction, 
Quantified-Self, 
Affective Computing

Marvin Andujar

813.974-8421

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Computer Vision, Biometrics, Affective Computing, HCI, Image Processing

Shaun Canavan

813.974.3137

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Socio-Technical Systems, Cyber Security, Smart Health, Cyber-Physical Systems, Mobile Computing

Sriram Chellappan

813.974.1379

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Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks;
High-Speed Packet Switch Architectures; Energy-Efficient Networks (Green Networks)

Ken Christensen

813.974.4761

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Computational Social Science; Network Science; Data Science

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

813.976.9349

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Evolutionary Algorithms; Computing Education Research; Computer Assisted Learning; Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Alessio Gaspar

813.974.2932

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Medical Image Analysis; Image and Video Processing; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Ethics and Computing; Bioinformatics and Bioengineering

Dmitry B. Goldgof

813.974.4055

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Data Mining, Clustering, Machine Learning, Medical Image Understanding, Fuzzy Sets in Intelligent Systems

Lawrence Hall

813.974.4195

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Distributed Systems; Computational Sociology

Adriana Iamnitchi

813.974.5357

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Hardware Security, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Biomedical Implants, Reconfigurable Computing / Field Programmable Gate Arrays

Robert Karam

813-974-4148

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Computational imaging; PDE-constrained inverse problems; Computational sensing; Sampling theory and applications

John Murray-Bruce

Assistant Professor

 

 
Embedded System Design, Smart Transportation, Smart Health
Hardware Security, VLSI Chip Design Automation

Srinivas Katkoori

813.974.5737

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Ubiquitous Sensing; Computer Networks

Miguel A. Labrador

813.974.3260

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Artificial Intelligence
Logic, Reasoning
Computational Modeling
Theorem Proving

John Licato

813.974.6212

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Runtime Security Mechanisms; Authentication; Policy Composition; Injection Attacks; Enforceability Theory; Type Systems; Subtyping;
Policy-Specification Languages

Jay Ligatti

813.974.0908

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Network Security; Wireless Technologies

Yao Liu

813.974.1079

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Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography; Cryptographic Engineering; Computer Arithmetic

Mehran Mozaffari Kermani

813.974.2671

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Scalable Biometrics; Mobile Biometrics; Computer Vision; Authorship Attribution; Human-centered Authentication; Soft Biometric Classification; Emotion Recognition

Tempestt Neal

813.485.4384

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Cyber Security; Cyber Physical Systems; Programming Languages; Cloud Computing; Human Aspects of Computing

Xinming (Simon) Ou

813.974.4522

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Artificial Intelligence; Neural Networks; Genetic Algorithms

Rafael Perez

813.974.3437

 

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Computer-aided Design; Geometric Modeling; Computer Graphics and Analysis; Design of Geometric Algorithms

Les A. Piegl

813.974.5234

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Data Visualization; Computer Graphics; Human Computer Interaction; Visual Literacy Education; Computing Entrepreneurship

Paul A. Rosen

813.974.2282

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Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Video Analytics and Processing, Biometrics, Pattern Recognition

Sudeep Sarkar

813.974.2308

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Intelligent Systems, Robotics, Cyber Physical Systems, Virtual Reality, Computer Vision, Medical Image Processing

Yu Sun

813.974.7508

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Database Systems, Big Data Management, Scientific Data Processing, Parallel Computing, GPU Computing

Yicheng Tu

813.974.2114

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Robotics, Computational Neuroscience

Alfredo Weitzenfeld

813.974.4905

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Applied Cryptography; Privacy Enhancing Technologies;
Light-Weight Cryptography;
Cybersecurity for Critical
Cyber Infrastructures [E.g., Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Cloud Systems]; Network Security

Attila A. Yavuz

813.974.0419

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Hardware/Software Testing and Verification; Embedded Systems; Computer Architecture; VLSI Design; Electronic Design Automation

Hao Zheng

813.974.4757

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Electrical Engineering
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information
Wireless Communications, Cognitive Radio, Digital Communications

Huseyin Arslan

Professor
813.974.3940

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Nano-Computing; Emerging Computing Frameworks; Nature and Physics-Inspired Computing; Security and Authentication of Emerging Systems.

Sanjukta Bhanja

Professor and Associate Dean for Academics and Student Affairs
813.974.4755

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Systems Theory, Guidance and Control of Aerospace Vehicles, Navigation and Estimation Theory, Advanced Navigation Algorithm Development with Fast-to-Flight Characteristics, Integrated Navigation and Guidance for Planetary Precision Landing, Small Satellites and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Robert H. Bishop

Professor and Dean
813.974.3780

 
Computer and Wireless Networking Systems, Program Analysis for Cybersecurity and Privacy-Preserving Internet Computation; Energy-Aware Mobile and Cloud Systems; Energy-Efficient Wireless Networks

Morris Chang

Professor
813.974.4894

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Wireless Networks, Vehicular Communication, Internet-of-Things (IoT), Cybersecurity, Big Data Analytics

Kwang-Cheng Chen

Professor
813.974.1023

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Radio Frequency and Microwave Measurements and Modeling, Millimeter-Wave Device Characterization and Modeling, RF and Microwave Circuit Design, RF and Microwave System Design, Wireless Circuits and Systems

Lawrence Dunleavy

Professor
813.974.2574

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Renewable Energy Source Grid Integration, Modeling and Control of Energy Systems, Large-scale Power System Planning and Operation

Lingling Fan

Professor
813.974.2031

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Photovoltaics
Electro-Optics (Opto Electronics)
Electronics; Semiconductors
Solar Cells; Electronic Materials

Chris Ferekides

Professor and Chair
813.974.4818

 
Cyber Infrastructure Design, Networking, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems (Integrated Power Grids)

Nasir Ghani

Professor
813.974.4772

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Afterglow Chemical Processing of Materials for Electronics, Sensor, and Mems Applications; Oxide Formation on Si & Sic, Diamond Processing, Surface Conditioning, Noncontact Corona Kelvin Metrology of Electronic Materials; Dielectrics, Sic, Corona Ion-Assisted Delivery of Drugs and Dna to Skin and Tissue, Noncontact Voltage and Corona Characterization of Cells and Tissue, Contamination Monitoring and Control in IC Manufacturing, Microsystem and Mems Fabrication, Integrated Circuit Manufacturing and In-Line Testing, and Workforce Development and Training for Technology Professionals

Drew Hoff

Professor
813.974.4958

 

Biomedical Systems, Biomedical Imaging and Biomedical Image Processing, Communication Systems and Networks, Digital Image and Video Processing, VLSI implementations; System On a Chip (Bio-Sensing, DNA Microarrays, Opto-Electronics, MEMS, Digital, Analog), and 3-D SOCs

Vijay K. Jain

Dinstinguished University Professor
813.974.4741

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Network Science, Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Wireless and Mobile Communication Networking, and Cyber-Physical Systems

Zhuo Lu

Assistant Professor
813.974.8259

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Smart Grid Automation, Electric Power System Modeling and Simulation, Microgrid Technologies to Integrate Renewable Energy and Energy Storage, and Power Market

Zhixin Miao

Associate Professor
813.974.4237

 
Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Electronic Materials, Thin-film Technology, Solar Cells, LED's, Vacuum Deposition Technologies

Don Morel

Professor
813.974.2508

 
Energy, Power Electronics, Controls Option Supervisor, System Integration for Industrial Applications, Industrial Controls & Instrumentation, Robotics, Digital Signal Processing, Reconfigurable Architectures, Analog-Digital Mixed Signal Design & Synthesis, Communications and Biomedical Engineering, Electronic Circuitry Interconnects and Test Validation of VLSI Fault Tolerant Designs, Laser Restructuring for Quick Prototyping of Electronic Circuits; Laser Machining and Multimedia & Instructional Technologies Solutions for Engineering Education including Distance Learning

Wilfrido A. Moreno

Professor
813.974.4775

 
Intrusion Detection System Design for Fixed & Wireless High-Value Networks, 
High-Density, High-Capacity Living Network Architectures, Cybersecurity, BioEngineering, 
Expert Witness/Expert Consultant – Electrical Engineering & Bioengineering

Sal Morgera

Professor
813.974.1004

 
Electromagnetic Theory, Computational Electromagnetics, THZ Imaging Systems, Metamaterials and Their Applications to Small Directive Radiators and Printed Miniature Antennas

Gokhan Mumcu

Associate Professor
813.974.8178

 
Network Science, Stochastic Processes, System Modeling, Network Mining, Network Analytics, Machine Learning, Prediction Models With Applications in Communication Networks,
Cyber-Physical-Human Systems, Smart Grids, and Their Reliability, Security and Performance Evaluation

Mahshid Rahnamay Naeini

Assistant Professor
813.974.3780

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Novel Biomedical Instrumentation and Imaging Techniques With Optics, Bedside Diagnoses/Monitoring of Brain Injuries (E.g., Strokes, Traumatic Brain Injury), Intraoperative Imaging, and Critical Care Monitoring

Ashwin B. Parthasarathy

Assistant Professor
813.974.7407

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Silicon Carbide Growth, Semiconductor Technology, Neural Implants, Glucose Sensors, Blood Pressure Sensors

Stephen E. Saddow

Professor
813.974.4773

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Wireless Communications, Networking, Signal Processing, Resource and Mobility Managements of Wireless Cellular, Ad-Hoc, and Sensor Networks, Energy-efficient Protocol Design, Cross-layer Optimization, Feature Extraction, Coding, and Recognition to Machine Learning Applied to Speech, Biomedical and Other Signals and in Integrating Intelligent Techniques, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic in the Simulation, Modeling, and Design of High Performance and Robust Systems, Wearable Sensors and Health Care Technologies

Ravi Sankar

Professor
813.974.4769

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Spray-Based Deposition of Macro-Molecular Thin Films and Interfaces, Photoemission Spectroscopy on Organic Semiconductor/Bio-Materials Interfaces, Work Function Measurements, Directed Assembly of Macromolecular Materials, Biosensors, Thin Film Photovoltaics, and Electronic Structure and Growth Phenomena of Atomic Layer Deposition Thin Films

Rudy Schlaf

Professor
813.974.8463

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Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Thermal Energy Storage, Electrical Energy Storage, Smart Materials/Devices

Elias Stefanakos

Professor
813.974.4413

 
Renewable Energy, Bio/Organic Solar Cells, Emerging Materials

Arash Takshi

813.974.1121

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Advanced Materials for Applications in Alternative Energy Sources, Sustainable Environments, and
Bio-Applications for
Nano-Electro Mechanical System (NEMS) Devices, Nanowires and Nanoparticles, Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Growth Nucleation, Film Characterization, Device Fabrication of III-V and II-IV Materials
Sylvia Thomas  

Associate Professor
813.974.4011
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Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID), Internet-of-Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Signal Processing

Ismail Uysal

Associate Professor
813.974.8823

 
Nano/Microfabrication, Nanomaterials, RF MEMS Devices, on-chip Power Generation, Microfluidics, MEMS Transducers, RF Integrated Circuit, Wide Bandgap Materials, Polymer Nanocomposite and Responsive Polymers

Jing Wang

Professor
813.974.6011

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Machine Learning and Statistical Signal Processing With Applications in Cybersecurity, Big Data Analytics, IoT Networks, Social and Environmental Systems,
Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Grid, Smart City, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Autonomous Driving, and Wireless Communications

Yasin Yilmaz

Assistant Professor
813.974.4788

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Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information
Multi-Objective Optimization, Operations Research, Integer Programming

Hadi Charkhgard

Assistant Professor
813.974.2090

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Health Care Systems Engineering, Applied Probability and Statistics

Devashish Das

Assistant Professor
813.974.8294

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System Performance Optimization, Carbon Emissions Control for Electric Power Networks, Smartgrid and Microgrid Modeling and Design, Influenza Pandemic Outbreak Mitigation, Breast Cancer Detection and Intervention Strategies

Tapas K. Das

Professor and Chair
813.974.5585

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Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Image Processing, Computational Geometry

Susana Lai-Yuen

Associate Professor
813.974.5547

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Bayesian Data Analytics, Data Mining, System Informatics

Mingyang Li

Assistant Professor
813.974.5579

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Lean Six Sigma, Collaborative Networks, Supply Chain

Kingsley A. Reeves, Jr.

Associate Professor
813.974.3352

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Design of Resilient
Cyber-Physical Systems, Decision Support for Influenza Pandemics

Alex Savachkin

Associate Professor
813.974.5577

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Research Interests: Cybersecurity Analytics, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Adversarial Machine Learning, Combinatorial Optimization, Stochastic Dynamic Programming

Ankit Shah

Assistant Professor
813.974.5584

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Applied O.R., Computer Numeric Methods, Scheduling

Michael Weng

Associate Professor
813.974.5575

 
Health and Engineering Systems Modeling, Analytics Applications, Engineering Education

Ali Yalcin

Associate Professor
813.974.5590

 
Healthcare Systems Engineering, Economic and Cost Systems, Manufacturing and R&D strategy

José Zayas-Castro

Professor and Executive Associate Dean
813.974.5589

 
Transportation Systems Analysis, Service Operations, Risk Management

Changhyun Kwon

Associate Professor
813.974.5588

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813.974.5588 

Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information
ehabilitation Engineering, Prosthetics

Redwan Alqasemi

Research Professor
Leasd Researcher, CARRT
813.974.2115

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Manufacturing; Smart and Sustainable Systems; Data-Driven Modeling

Nancy Diaz-Elsayed

Assistant Professor

 

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Applied Biomechanics, Rehabilitation Engineering, Prosthetics

Stephanie Carey

Assistant Research Professor
813.974.5765

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Rehabilitation Robotics; Prosthetics and Orthotics, Dynamic Systems and Controls

Rajiv Dubey

Professor and Chair
813.974.5619

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Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Nathan Gallant

Associate Professor
813.974.5840

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Acoustics, Microfluidics, Fluid Mechanics, Sensors, Transducers

Rasim Guldiken

Associate Professor
813.974.5628

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Vibrations, Friction, Fasteners

Daniel Hess

Professor
813.974.5643

 

Engineering Education Online Education, Flipped Classrooms, Higher Education Access, Learning Sciences

Autar Kaw

Professor
813.974.5626

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Nanomaterials, Microelectronics, Thin Film Technology

Ashok Kumar

Professor
813-974-3942

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Compliant Mechanisms and Biomechanics

Craig Lusk

Associat Professor
813.974.1394

 
Fluid Mechanics, Animal Biomechanics, Oil Spills

David Murphy

Assistant Professor
813.974.5625

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Computational Fluid Dynamics and Cardiovascular Biomechanics

Wenbin Mao

Assistant Professor
813.974.6636

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Haptics, Robotics, Rehabilitation, Gait Correction, Biomechanics

Kyle Reed

Associate Professor
813.974.2385

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Thin Films Adhesion and Mechanical Properties, Materials, Characterization,
X-Ray Diffraction, Alternative Health, Water Fasting

Alex Volinsky

Associate Professor
813.974.5658

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Nano-Science and
Nano-Manufacturing, Interfacial/Surface Phenomena

Michael Cai Wang

Assistant Professor
813.974.8586

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Energy Systems Design, Bionomic Engineering

Stuart Wilkinson

Associate Professor
813.974.5645

 

Guidance and Control of Ground and Aerial Autonomous Vehicles, Distributed Estimation and Control of Networked Multiagent Systems (Swarms), Resilient and Secure Robotics, Human-In-The-Loop Systems, and Cyber-Physical Systems, Large-Scale, Modular, Complex Systems Analysis and Control

Tansel Yucelen

Associate Professor
813.974.5656

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Energy Management Technologies and Smart Health Improvement Systems

Sarah (Ying) Zhong

Assistant Professor
813.974.7909

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Medical Engineering
Areas of Expertise Faculty More Information
Neuroengineering, Sensory Systems, Biomedical Engineering, Aging Neuroscience, Drug Development

Robert D. Frisina


Dinstinguished University Professor and Chair 
 813.974.4394

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Investigate the molecular mechanism of age-related hearing loss and especially characterize the role of autophagy, a highly conserved cellular process, in the auditory system with aging.

Bo Ding

Research Assistant Professor  
813.974.4124

 
Nucleic acid electrotransfer, Non-viral gene therapies, Pattern recognition receptors

Loree Heller


Associate Professor
813.974.4637

 

 
Major focus is to develop effective drug and gene delivery. The emphasis is on translational studies that include the development and testing of new protocols or devices that can be utilized for potential therapies for cancer, wound healing, metabolic disorders and vascular diseases (peripheral and coronary ischemia) as well as vaccine and immunotherapy protocols.

Richard Heller

Professor
813.974.1221

 
Drug and Gene Delivery, Electrofusion, Biomedical Instrumentation, Electrophoresis

Mark Jaroszeski

Associate Professor
813.974.4662

 
Diffuse optical tomography (DOT), photoacoustic tomography (PAT), fluorescence molecular tomography (FMT), and bioluminescence tomography (BLT)

Huabei Jiang

Professor
813.974.5253

 
Vision Systems, Neural Signal Processing, Computational Modeling, Retinal Physiology and Disease

Christopher Passaglia

Professor
813.974.7140

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Cancer immunotherapy

Guilan Shi

Research Assistant Professor

 
Research in the Spirou laboratory is focused on formation of neural circuits in early development and on construction of connectomes, or neural wiring diagrams, at nanoscale resolution. The generation of large image volumes for this work necessitated development of tools to understand these complex data sets. Leveraging long-standing interest in 3D reconstruction of brain structure, he and collaborators joined the revolution in immersive virtual reality to develop software for viewing, annotating and analyzing images. Their software, called syGlass, is marketed by their company, IstoVisio, Inc., which began operation in summer, 2017.

George Spirou

Professor
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Optical-based imaging technologies for in vivo visualization of tissue at both the macroscopic and microscopic scales

Hao Yang

Research Faculty
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