Faculty

• Chiang, Fu-Pen
  Distinguished Professor and Chairperson.  Ph.D., 1966, University of Florida: Experimental solid mechanics; optical-nondestructive evaluation.
• Cubaud, Thomas
  Assistant Professor.  Ph.D., 2001, Paris-Sud University/ESPCI, France: Microfluidics, multiphase flows, interfacial fluid dynamics, complex fluids, nanotechnologies.


• Ge, Q. Jeffrey
  Professor.  Ph.D., 1990, University of California, Irvine: Design automation; robotics; CAD/CAM; design for manufacture; mechanical systems analysis and simulation.


• Huang, Peisen S
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1993, University of Michigan and Ph.D., 1995, Tohoku University, Japan: Manufacturing; optical measurement; precision engineering.


• Kao, Imin
  Professor.  Ph.D.. 1991, Stanford University: Robotics; stiffness control; wiresaw manufactururing process; manufacturing automation; Taguchi methods.


• Kincaid, John
  Professor.  Ph.D., 1974, Rockefeller University: Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics.


• Korach, Chad
  Assistant Professor.  Ph.D., 2004, Northwestern University: Solid Mechanics, micro and nanoscale tribology, thin films for wear applications, friction and wear modeling.


• Kukta, Robert
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1998, Brown University: Solid mechanics, thin films, crystal growth, micro-mechanics of defects in crystals.


• Ladeinde, Foluso
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1988, Cornell University: Turbulence; high speed flows; theoretical and computational fluid dynamics; materials processing.


• Longtin, Jon
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1995, University of California at Berkeley: Short-pulse laser-material interactions; precision laser measurement techniques, microscale heat transfer.
• Lopez-Pamies, Oscar
  Assistant Professor.  Ph.D., 2006, University of Pennsylvania: Solid mechanics; nonlinear homogenization; instabilities; polymers; multi-functional materials.
• Nakamura, Toshio
  Professor.  Ph.D., 1986, Brown University: Solid mechanics; computational fracture mechanics.


• Nearon, Michelle
  Visiting Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2000, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
  
• Nejat, Goldie
  Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2005, University of Toronto: Autonomous systems, Robotics and Mechatronics


• O'Brien, Edward E
  Emeritus Professor.  Ph.D., 1960, The Johns Hopkins University: Fluid mechanics; theoretical studies of turbulence transport, and chemical reactions.
  
• Purwar, Anurag
  Research Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2005, Stony Brook University: CAD/CAM, Computational Kinematics, Design Automation, Robotics


• Rastegar, Jahangir
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1976, Stanford University: Kinematics, dynamics and control of high performance machinery, optimal design of mechanical systems.
  
• Sesay, Juldeh
  Visiting Assistant Professor, Ph.D., 2005, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Turbulent flows;combustion;computational fluid dynamics and biothermal fluid
sciences.

• Sharma, Satya
  Visiting Professor . Ph.D., 1975, University of Pennsylvania: Manufacturing and Production


• Tasi, James
  Professor Emeritus. Ph.D., 1962, Columbia University: Solid mechanics; shock waves in crystal lattices and granular media; dislocation motion in crystals.


• Wang, Lin-Shu
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1966, University of California, Berkeley: Energy conversion; thermodynamics; high-efficiency combustion engines.


• Zhang, Hui - On Leave Spring 2008
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1994, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn: Materials processing, solidification and free surface problems; and computational fluid dynamics.


• Zheng, Lili
  Associate Professor.  Ph.D., 1994, Cambridge University:  Turbulence Combustion, solidification, magnetohydrodynamics, and two-phase flow.
  
• Zhou, Yu
  Assistant Professor.  Ph.D., 2004, Johns Hopkins University: robot kinematics and dynamics, robot motion planning, sensing and control

Affiliated Faculty

• Cess, Robert D.
  Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Service Professor Marine Sciences Research Center.  Ph.D., 1959, University of Pittsburgh: Atmospheric sciences; climate modeling; greenhouse effect; nuclear winter theory.


• Shmuel, Einav
  Affiliated Professor, Ph.D. State University of New York at Stony Brook 1972: biomedical engineering, two dimensional flow systems


• Stell, George
  Leading Professor Department of Chemistry. Ph.D., 1961, New York University: Molecular theory of the fluid state; ionic fluid structural properties; transport in multiphase systems


• Wong, Teng-Fong
  Affiliate Professor. (also, Chair, GeoSciences Dept, Stony Brook University) Ph.D., 1980, MIT: Rock Mechanics

Adjunct Faculty

• Rohatgi, Upendra Singh
  Adjunct Professor. Ph.D., 1975, Case Western Reserve University: Fluid  mechanics; heat transfer; two-phase flow; turbomachinery; numerical analysis; nuclear reactor safety.


• Philippacopoulos, A.J.
  Adjunct Professor. Ph.D., 1979, Polytechnic Institute of New York: Elasticity; Soil Structure Interactions; Uncertanties in Structural Modeling; Disposal of Nuclear Wastes; Earthquake Analysis.


• Yuan, LiFang
  Adjunct Assistant Professor. Ph.D., 2001, State University of New York at Stony Brook: Cam Integrated High Speed Mechanisms, Smart Materials, Robotics, Optimal Machine Design.


• Hodson, Donald
  Adjunct Instructor. M.S., 1969, S.U.C. at Buffalo. C.A.D.; Industrial Arts; Desktop Publishing