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DEAN'S OFFICE
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Culbreth, William 702-895-3699 Associate Dean TBE-A114 email
Sandgren, Eric 702-895-3699 Dean TBE-A118 email
Abella, Robert 702-895-3699 Research Professor TBE-A111 email manufacturing systems, operations research, transportation Systems, applied statistics, engineering management
Berghel, Hal 702-736-9241 Associate Dean TBE-A214 email identify theft prevention, credit card theft prevention, credential validation, internet forensics, secure communications and networking technologies
Frazer, Stephen 702-895-1563 Systems Administrator TBE-B378C email Systems and Network Administration, Network Security, Visualization, 3D Animation
Grandberry, Debra 702-895-3699 Executive Assistant TBE-A117 email
Johnson, Caleen 702-895-2913 Director of Development TBE-A113 email
McGaugh, Eugene 702-895-1341 Assistant Dean TBE-A207 email speaker recognition and the detection of Laryngeal pathologies
Toney, Rolanda 702-895-3699 Administrative Assistant III TBE-A111 email
Wallace, Christine 702-895-3965 Communications/ Special Events Coordinator, Schola TBE-A115 email
Gayita, Rhayla 702-895-3699 Student Worker TBE-A111 email


ACADEMIC ADVISING CENTER
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Sorensen, Jeanette 702-895-2522 Director TBE-A207 email
Blas, Marissa 702-895-2522 Academic Advisor TBE-A207 email
Diestra, Karina 702-895-2522 Peer Advisor TBE-A207 email
DiPaolo, Barbara 702-895-2522 Administrative Assistant III TBE-A207 email
Orellana, Janelyn 702-895-2522 Peer Advisor TBE-A207 email
Jensen, Johanna 702-895-2522 Student Worker TBE-A207 email


AEROSPACE STUDIES/AFROTC
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Hogan, Robert 702-895-5314 AFROTC Commander / Department Chair CEB 166 email Det. 004 Commander
Kuffman, Todd 702-895-5325 AFROTC / Associate Professor CEB 168 email Commandment of Cadets
Parnell, Jason Cornelius 702-895-5814 AFROTC / NCO CEB 172 email Director of Personnel
Prichard, Jason 702-895-5748 AFROTC / NCO CEB 170 email Information Management
Rossi, Jason 702-895-5772 AFROTC / Associate Professor CEB 174 email Unit Admissions Officer
TBD, Open 702-895-5313 Administrative Assistant III CEB 164 email


CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Ghafoori, Nader 702-895-3701 Chair, Professor TBEA-218 email structural engineering, strength durability and behavior of concrete structures, constitutive modeling of concrete systems, pavements, structurable foundation, seismic rehabilitation of concrete structures
Nambisan, Shashi 702-895-1325 Adjunct Instructor TBE-B366 email Transportation infrastructure planning and management Transportation/traffic safety, geographic information systems, air/airline systems; airport planning, design and operaions, air quality
Ahmad, Sajjad 702-895-5456 Assistant Professor TBE-B372B email water resources planning and management, water policy; climate variability; water quality modeling and management in natural systems; hydrodynamic modeling; hydroinformatics; and system dynamics
Batista, Jacimaria 702-895-1585 Associate Professor TBE-B110 email biological treatment and physio-chemical removal and fate and transporte of percholorate, water treatment of residual brines by biological and physio-chemical methods, biological wastewater treatment, algal toxins removal from waters
Becker, Jon Teaching Laboratory Manager email
James, David 702-895-1067 Associate Professor TBE-B364 email measurement of PM-10 emission factors from paved roads and vacant lands, estimation of engine start and soak frequencies using instrumentated recorders, effectiveness of water in suppression of dust, field evaluation of effectiveness of dust suppressants, time series analysis of water quality and dust loading data
Jensen, PE, Jeff Adjunct Instructor email GIS application in Civil Engineering CAD Tools in Civil Engineering Design
Karakouzian, Moses 702-895-0959 Professor TBE-B132 email geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering, rock mechanics, construction materials, highway and pavement materials
Kaseko, Mohamed 702-895-1360 Associate Professor TBE-B368 email transportation systems analysis, artificial intelligence applications, traffic operations analysis and design, transportation planning
Ladkany, Samaan 702-895-3438 Professor TBE-B114 email finite element analysis, plates and shells, cryogenic, photoelasticity
Lanier, Levia 702-895-3701 Administrative Assistant III TBE-A211 email
Luke, Barbara 702-895-1568 Associate Professor TBE-B128 email Geotechnical engineering, geophysical engineering, earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, seismic site characterization
Nambisan, Shashi 702-895-1325 Professor TBE-B366 email transportation infrastructure planning and management, transportation and traffic safety, geographic information systems, air and airline systems, airport planning, design and operations, air quality
Neumann, Edward 702-895-1072 Professor TBE-B138 email human factors in transportation, public transportation, biomechanics, and the analysis of human motion, ergonomics, prosthetics
Piechota, Thomas 702-895-4412 Associate Professor TBE-B372C email surface water hydrology, stormwater quality in urban environments, hydroclimatology, water resources planning, water resources engineering, geographic information systems
Sack, Ronald 702-895-3699 Professor email
Said, Aly 702-895-2722 Assistant Professor TBE-B 372-D email structural performance of new materials, behavior of beam-column joints under cyclic loading, FRP applications in infrastructure
Sampson, Allen 702-895-4300 Technician TBE-B175 email
Teng, Hualiang(Harry) 702-895-4940 Assistant Professor CEB 180 email transportation planning and demand analysis, intelligent transportation systems, air quality analysis, freight transportation systems
Vodrazka, Sr., Walter 702-895-1567 Professor Emeritus TBE-B120 email traffic engineering, geometric design, emergency response analysis, low cost automatic vehicle classification, GIS and railway geometric design
Wells, Herbert 702-895-3820 Professor Emeritus TBE-B120 email


CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Shields, David 702-895-1461 Director / Associate Professor TBE-B378D email project and construction mangement, heavy construction methods and equipment, temporary construction structures, construction forensics, construction safety
Cady, Robert 702-401-6331 Graduate Teaching Assistant TBE-B378D email facilities management, system dynamics
Cavataio, Ron 702-677-5456 Graduate Teaching TBE-B378D email
Opfer, Neil 702-895-4047 Associate Professor TBE-B374 email construction management, estimating and cost analysis, construction methods and materials, mechanical and plumbing systems, construction law and forensics
Lucas, James Adjunct Professor email construction management, construction methods and materials, cost estimating, heavy/highway construction, earthmoving operations
Thomas, Charles Adjunct Professor email construction management, construction inspection, design-build


ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Boehm, Robert 702-895-1331 Director TBE-B-124 email Renewable energy, heat transfer, and Thermal system design
Das, Biswajit 702-895-2530 Professor TBE-B336 email nanotechnology, spintronics, opto-electronics, fuel cells
Selvaraj, Henry 702-895-4184 Chair / Associate Professor TBE-B322 email logic synthesis, multiple valued functions and applications, artificial intelligence
Alldredge, Lavinia 702-895-4183 Administrative Assistant III TBE-B325 email
Baghzouz, Yahia 702-895-0887 Professor TBE-B320 email electrical power conversion, renewable source grid interconnection, power efficiency, and fuel cell integration
Banerjee, Arghya 702-895-3775 Post Doc TBE-B346 email
Forcade, Kevin 702-895-2529 Lab Director TBE-B307 email
Ginnobi, Paolo 702-895-5087 Assistant Research Professor TBE-B311 email
Goldfarb, Stan 702-895-1048 Consultant TBE-B325 email
Jiang, Yingtao 702-895-2533 Assistant Professor TBE-B314 email algorithms, VLSI architectures, circuit level techniques, DSP design, computer architecture
Kant, Richard Consultant TBE-B313 email
Latifi, Shahram 702-895-4016 Professor TBE-B316 email computer networks, parallel processing, fault-tolerant computing, data compression
McGaugh, Eugene 702-895-1341 Assistant Professor TBE-A213 email speaker recognition and laryngeal pathology detection
Muthukumar, Venkatesan 702-895-3566 Assistant Professor TBE-B330 email embedded system design, system on chip, logic synthesis, high-level synthesis
Nayyar, Ved 702-895-1431 Associate Research TBE-B313 email
Pena, Olga 702-895-4183 Administrative Assistant II TBE-B325 email
Regentova, Emma 702-895-3187 Assistant Professor TBE-B326 email Computer networks and image processing, Computer architecture
Saberinia, Ebrahim 702-895-3169 Assistant Professor TBE-B318 email wireless networks, 3G and 4G cellular systems, Agile radio, statistical signal processing
Schill, Robert 702-895-1526 Associate Professor TBE-B334 email electromagnetics, plasma physics, pulsed power, microwaves and optics
Singh, Sajendra 702-895-3417 Associate Professor TBE-B332 email systems and contro theory, robotics, applications to aerospace stability and control
Stubberud, Peter 702-895-0869 Associate Professor TBE-B328 email digital signal processing, multidimensional digital signal processing, adaptive signal processing
Venkat, Rama 702-895-1094 Professor TBE-B324 email electronic devices, sensors and materials, nanotechnology, engineering entrepreneurship
Wang, Shupeng 702-895-1388 Visiting Scholar TBE-B311 email
Weil, Paul 702-895-5929 Part Time Instructor TBE-B313 email
Yang, Mei 702-895-2364 Assistant Professor TBE-B308 email computer archiectures, embedded systems, high performance switches and routers
Blackstone, Brandon 702-895-4066 Lab Manager TBE-B307 email
Bouzidi, Fatima 702-895-1381 Teaching Assistant TBE-B309 email
Chandrasekaran, Praveen 702-895-1382 Teaching Assistant TBE-B310 email
Gardner, Shaoru 702-895-1430 Research Assistant TBE-B312 email
Krishna, Rani 702-895-3775 Research Assistant TBE-B346 email
Naik, Mugdha 702-895-1382 Teaching Assistant TBE-B310 email
Nambisan, Pradeep 702-895-1382 Teaching Assistant TBE-B310 email
Neelakrishnan, Shankar 702-895-1388 Teaching Assistant TBE-B311 email
Palaniappan, Venkatachalam 702-895-1382 Teaching Assistant TBE-B310 email
Patil, Shruti 702-895-1428 Teaching Assistant TBE-B348 email
Purohit, Parul 702-895-1388 Teaching Assistant TBE-B311 email
Raina, Ashwini 702-895-1428 Teaching Assistant TBE-B348 email
Raman, Avinash 702-895-1428 Teaching Assistant TBE-B326 email
Singaraju, Pavan 702-895-3417 Research Assistant TBE-B313 email
Ubilluz, Miguel 702-895-4183 Student Worker TBE-B325 email
Vaidyanathan, Archana 702-895-1382 Teaching Assistant TBE-B310 email
Varadarajan, Radhika 702-895-1382 Teaching Assistant TBE-B310 email
Veni, Gopalkrishna 702-895-1382 Research Assistant TBE-B310 email
Wu, Xiaolong 702-895-1388 Teaching Assistant TBE-B311 email


ENTERTAINMENT ENGINEERING AND DESIGN
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Cook, Daniel 702-895-4133 Coordinator TBE B372A email interdisciplinary design, magnetohydrodynamics, materials processing, thermal management of microelectronics systems, computational fluid dynamics
Aldridge, Joe 702-895-3096 Coordinator - College of Fine Arts JBT-20 email
Boehm, Robert 702-895-4160 Professor TBE-B124 email design of thermal systems, solar energy, renewable energy
Cobb, Warren 702-895-4220 Film & New Modem Technician UNH-106 email
Coyne, Travis 702-895-3849 Scene Shop Supervisor JBT-50 email theatre technology
Foley, Chuck email recording studio
Frayer, Brackley 702-895-2245 Associate Professor HFA-228C email lighting design
Hendee, Stephen 702-895-3237 Assistant Professor HFA-153 email advanced LED design
Kaupp, Gil email recording studio
Kroelinger, Michael 702-895-3830 Director - School of Architecture ARC-137 email architecture
Mauer, George 702-895-3830 Professor TBE-B130 email automatic controls, robotics, instrumentation
Nelson, Kevin 702-895-4285 Model Design Machinist TBE-B166 email composite materials, fabrication
Neumann, Edward 702-895-1072 Professor TBE-B138 email biomechanics
O'Toole, Brendan 702-895-3885 Associate Professor TBE-B122 email mechanical testing, stress analysis, composites, manufacturing, materials
Reynolds, Douglas 702-895-3807 Professor TBE-B116 email acoustics, vibration
Trabia, Mohamed 702-895-0957 Professor TBE-A211B email mechanical design, optimization, automatic control, fuzzy logic, robotics
Watkins, Helga 702-895-4804 Associate Professor GRA-203 email graphic art
Wysocki, Robert 702-895-3239 Assistant Professor HFA-152A email sculpture
Yfantis, Evangelos 702-895-3536 Professor TBE-B376 email computer graphics, compiler construction, principles of programming languages, and computer simulation


MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Hsieh, Hsuan-Tsung 702-895-2693 Research Associate Professor PAR 600 RM 619 email
Trabia, Mohamed 702-895-0957 Chairman & Professor TBE-A211B email mechanical design, optimization, automatic control, fuzzy logic, robotics
Beller, Dennis 702-895-1452 Research Professor HRC-413 email
Boehm, Robert 702-895-4160 Professor TBE-B124 email design of thermal system, solar energy, renewable energy
Chen, Yi-Tung 702-895-1202 Associate Professor PAR 600 RM 621 email computational fluid dynamics, thermal systems, transport phenomena, perturbation methods
Chen, HuaJun 702-895-2338 Research Associate Par 600, Rm617 email
Conway, Joan 702-895-1331 Administrative Assistant II TBE A211B email
Cook, Daniel P. 702-895-4133 Assistant Professor TBE-B372A email computational fluid dynamics, thermal systems, metallurgy
Gemci, Tevfik 702-895-0423 Research Associate Professor Par 600 Rm601 email
Hossain, Mohammad K 702-895-5075 Research Associate BSL 271 email
Hsieh, Hsuan-Tsung 702-895-2691 Research Assistant Professor Par 600 Rm619 email computational fluid dynamics, thermal systems
Hurt, Rick 702-895-3422 Research Associate TBE-B159 email
Kwan, Ling 702-895-3712 Research Associate Par 600, Rm620 email
Landsberger, Brian J. 702-895-5059 Research Assistant Professor BSL-271, C email
Lee, Joon Soo 702-895-5367 Research Associate BSL-271, J email
Liu, Quinli 702-895-5075 Research Associate BSL-271, N email
Ma, Jian 702-895-5055 Research Assistant Professor BSL-271, O email
Markle, Jeffrey 702-895-4285 Lab Director TBE-B166 email instrumentation
Mauer, George 702-895-3830 Professor TBE-B130 email automatic control, robotics, instrumentation
McRae, Bettie 702-895-1331 Administrative Assistant III TBE-A211B email
Moujaes, Samir 702-895-3265 Professor TBE-B134 email air conditioning, thermal systems, energy conservation, high temperature hydrogen production, nuclear waste disposal container design
Nassif, Nabil 702-895-7337 Post Doctoral Scholar BSL-271B email
Nelson, Kevin 702-895-4285 Model Design Machinst TBE-B166 email composite materials
Nie, Jianhu 702-895-2618 Research Associate PAR 600, RM622 email
O'Toole, Brendan 702-895-3885 Associate Professor TBE-B122 email mechanial testing, stress analysis, composites, manufacturing
Padua, Geraldine 702-895-2692 Professional Staff / Grants Coordinator NCACM PAR 600 email
Pepper, Darrell 702-895-1056 Professor TBE-B136 email computational fluid dynamics, environmental flows, heat transfer, species transport, computational methods
Qian, Shizhi 702-895-5452 Assistant Professor CEB 183 email biomedical engineering, lab on chip, computational fluid dynamics, microfluids
Ramos, Tasha 702-895-0429 Professional Staff / Grants Coordinator CER TAY 100 email
Rennels, Roger 702-895-5374 Research Assistant Professor BSL-271, M email
Reynolds, Douglas 702-895-3807 Professor TBE-B116 email acoustics, vibration
Roy, Ajit 702-895-1463 Associate Professor TBE-B112 email material science, corrosion
Tan, Liangcai (Tom) 702-895-5058 Research Assistant Professor BSL-271, D email
Wang, Zhiyong 702-895-3442 Associate Professor TBE-B362 email manufacturing, material science
Wang, Aihua 702-895-5476 Research Associate BSL-271, L email
Wells, William 702-895-1369 Professor TBE-B338 email aerospace, flight control
Wilcox, Trevor 702-895-1635 Research Assistant Professor TBE-B150 email computational methods, finite element methods
Yim, Woosoon 702-895-0956 Professor & Graduate Coordinator TBE-B126 email robotics, control
Marchev, Eugene 702-895-5282 Student Worker TBE-A211A email


SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Minor, John 702-895-3715 Director / Associate Professor TBE-B379 email artificial intelligence, logic representations, automated deduction techniques, rule based expert systems, and logic programming systems
Bein, Wolfgang 702-895-1477 Professor TBE-B372E email randomized algorithms, on-line algorithms, genetic algorithms, combinatorial optimization, supercomputing, software engineering and societal issues of computing
Berghel, Hal 702-895-3681 Professor TBE-214A email internet forensics, secure communications and networking technologies, multimedia, information customization, credential validation, identity theft, financial fraud prevention and detection
Bryce, Renee 702-895-5845 Assistant Professor TBE-B-370 email Software engineering, software testings, applications of combinatorial designs
Datta, Ajoy 702-895-0870 Professor TBE-B380 email operating systems, distributed systems, fault-tolerant systems, modeling and analysis of concurrent systems, and computer networks
Gewali, Laxmi 702-895-4028 Professor TBE-B370 email intelligent path planning, algorithms for routing/trajectories, transportation network optimization, software development in Java/C++, sensor network in transportation, computational geometry and GIS
Griffith, Neal 702-895-3681 Administrative Assistant II TBE-A211A email
Jorgensen, Edward Visiting Professor email
Kim, Yoohwan 702-895-5348 Assistant Professor CEB 183 email network security, internet traffic analysis, cell scheduling in high-speed routers, software design for wireless systems, and real-time embedded software
Kowalski, John 702-895-1407 Systems Administrator TBE-B378E email
Larmore, Lawrence 702-895-1096 Professor TBE-B378B email theoretical computer science, on-line algorithms, and dynamic programming
Martin, Mario 702-895-3681 Administrative Assistant II TBE-A-211-A email
Misch, Lee 702-895-3794 Lecturer TBE-B383 email programming languages, software engineering, and compiler construction
Nartker, Thomas 702-895-0848 Professor TBE-B378A email optical character recognition, information categorization, component based architectural design, modeling of concurrent systems, decision environments for software product development
Ogawa, Roy 702-895-3259 Associate Professor TBE-B381 email programming languages, computer architecture, concurrent programming, software engineering and program development environments
Pedersen, Jan (Matt) 702-895-2557 Assistant Professor TBE-B383 email programming languages, compilers for parallel languages and architectures, automatic compilation, paralel and distributed systems and programming, message passing systems, and parallel debugging techniques
Pinelle, David Assistant Professor email
Taghva, Kazem 702-895-0873 Professor TBE-B385 email information retrieval, information categorization, text and data mining, database management systems, optical character recognition
Willis, Carmen 702-895-3681 Administrative Assistant IV TBE-A211A email
Yfantis, Evangelos 702-895-3536 Professor TBE-B376 email computer graphics, compiler construction, principles of programming languages and computer simulation


SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS
Name Phone Title Office Email Expert Areas
Berghel, Hal 702-895-3681 Director TBE-A214 email internet forensics, secure communications and networking technologies, multimedia, information customization, credential validation, identity theft, financial fraud prevention and detection
Jo, Ju-Yeon 702.895.5873 Assistant Professor CEB 176 email Cybersecurity
Nasoz, Fatma 702.895.5150 Assistant Professor CEB-182 email Human Computer Interaction, Affectively Intelligent Systems, Adaptive Intelligent User Interfaces, User Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
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