Faculty
Department Chair
![Karolos Grigoriadis](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/grigoriadis_karolos1.jpg?itok=L7h0bu3N)
Dr. Karolos Grigoriadis
Department Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Director of Aerospace Engineering
Office Location W212 Engineering Building 2
Phone 713-743-4387
Email karolos [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Dynamic Systems and Controls—Feedback control systems analysis and design, linear and nonlinear systems theory, robust and fault-tolerant control…
Associate Department Chair
![Di Yang](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/yang.jpg?itok=MDYjYNIL)
Dr. Di Yang
Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair
Office Location N238 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-7260
Email diyang [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Computational fluid dynamics; large-eddy simulation and direct numerical simulation of turbulent flows; renewable wind, tidal and wave energy;…
Professors
![Haleh Ardebili](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/ardebili.jpg?itok=vySQa90-)
Dr. Haleh Ardebili
Kamel Salama Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N223 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-5562
Email hardebili [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Lithium Ion Batteries, Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolytes, Lithium Ion Conduction, Materials for Energy Storage, Electronics Materials
![Yi-Chao Chen](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/chen.jpg?itok=qqvrXTwI)
Dr. Yi-Chao Chen
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N210 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4533
Email chen [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Solid Mechanics
![Matthew A. Franchek](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/franchek.jpg?itok=Xmw6wgYo)
Dr. Matthew A. Franchek
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location W214 Engineering Building 2
Phone 713-743-2758
Email mfranchek [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control—Linear and nonlinear system identification, information synthesis, multivariable control theory,…
![Yashashree Kulkarni](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/kulkarni_yashashree.jpg?itok=HBzN5Eep)
Dr. Yashashree Kulkarni
Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N235 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-3657
Email ykulkarni [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Computational mechanics and materials science
![Dong Liu](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/liu.jpg?itok=N0yPm6Hr)
Dr. Dong Liu
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N212 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4532
Email dongliu [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Microscale Thermal Transport Phenomena
![Andrea Prosperetti](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/prosperetti.jpg?itok=kWHBtgCf)
Dr. Andrea Prosperetti
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N214 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-5864
Email aprosperetti [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Multiphase flow, scientific computing, fluid dynamics, applied mathematics, bubble dynamics
![Venkat Selvamanickam](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/selva.jpg?itok=f5531dHw)
Dr. Venkat Selvamanickam
M.D. Anderson Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N237 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4044
Email selva [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Superconductor thin film tapes and wires, Epitaxial thin film growth by PVD and CVD, Single crystalline films on polycrystalline/amorphous…
![Pradeep Sharma](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/sharma_0.jpg?itok=shLW4qL_)
Dr. Pradeep Sharma
Dean of the Cullen College of Engineering, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor
Office Location N227 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4502
Email psharma [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Solid mechanics, Theoretical and computational materials science, Multifunctional materials, Flexoelectricity, Mechanics and physics of soft…
![Gangbing Song](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/song.jpg?itok=Ej82Fo-N)
Dr. Gangbing Song
Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location W210 Engineering Building 2
Phone 713-743-4525
Email gsong [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Smart materials and Structures—Adaptive control, Robust control, Dynamics, Robotics, Friction Compensation
![Li Sun](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/sun.jpg?itok=OooGkWr-)
Dr. Li Sun
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Director of Subsea Engineering
Office Location N224 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4509
Email lsun4 [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Multifunctional materials design, fabrication, characterization, manipulation and manufacturing; Novel composites and devices for energy,…
![Su Su Wang](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/wang.jpg?itok=0n9iqXXT)
Dr. Su Su Wang
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor
Office Location N216 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-5057
Email sswang [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Solid Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering—Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Professors
![Ashutosh Agrawal](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/agrawal.jpg?itok=pnOPyp77)
Dr. Ashutosh Agrawal
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N217 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4534
Email ashutosh [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Biophysics, Mechanics of Surfaces and Interfaces
![Theocharis Baxevanis](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/baxevanis.jpg?itok=vz7QItWE)
Dr. Theocharis Baxevanis
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N232 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-9165
Email tbaxevanis [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Deformation and failure response of inelastic materials — Continuum thermodynamics; Fracture mechanics; Computational micromechanics; Localization…
![Dr. Zheng Chen](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/chen_zheng.jpg?itok=Btyaw6Uw)
Dr. Zheng Chen
Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location W208 Engineering Building II
Phone 713-743-6427
Email zchen43 [at] central.uh.edu
Research Interests Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Sensors, Bio-inspired Robotics, Energy Storage System, Hydraulic Fracturing Automation
![Hadi Ghasemi](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/ghasemi.jpg?itok=C06fP0qy)
Dr. Hadi Ghasemi
Cullen Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N229 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-6183
Email hghasemi [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Thermodynamics, Heat transfer and Nanotechnology
![Shailendra Joshi](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/joshi_shailendra.jpg?itok=JEbqlAQF)
Dr. Shailendra Joshi
Kalsi Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Admissions Director of Mechanical Engineering
Phone 713-743-6930
Email shailendra [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Mechanics of Advanced Materials, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Multi-scale Failure Processes
![Jagannatha R. Rao](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/rao.jpg?itok=-opf7w0x)
Dr. Jagannatha Rao
Cullen Associate Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Distance Learning
Office Location N218 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4535
Email rao [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Mathematical Optimization Theory and Algorithms—Parametric nonlinear programming, multilevel algorithms, duality in mechanical design models, game…
![Jae-Hyun Ryou](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/ryou.jpg?itok=7pN0QIj3)
Dr. Jae-Hyun Ryou
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N213 (Eng. Bldg 1) or 102A (ERP Bldg 15)
Phone 713-743-0858
Email jryou [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Materials Science and Engineering - Semiconductor materials and devices for energy/photonic/electronic applications, including flexible electronic…
Assistant Professors
![Marzia Cescon](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/cescon.jpg?itok=Z1nm4U_8)
Dr. Marzia Cescon
David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location W206 Engineering Building 2
Phone 713-743-2037
Email mcescon2 [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Controls and Dynamical Systems, Information and Decision Systems, Machine Learning, Learning for Control, Modeling and System Identification,…
![Tian Chen](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/chen_tian.jpg?itok=egCGHMy6)
Dr. Tian "Tim" Chen
Kamel Salama Endowed Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone 713-743-2548
Email tianchen [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Meta-materials, Morphing Structures, Computational Design, Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing
![Daniel Floryan](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/floryan.jpg?itok=2En71IsU)
Dr. Daniel Floryan
Kalsi Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N231 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-3557
Email dfloryan [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Fluid Mechanics, Dynamics and Control, Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning and Data Science, Energy and Environment
![Kelly Huang](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/huang_kelly.jpg?itok=dw1aygJg)
Dr. Kelly Huang
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N223 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-2728
Email yhuang68 [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Turbulence, Experiments, Atmospheric Flows, Environmental Fluid Dynamics
![Myoungkyu Lee](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/lee_myoungkyu.jpg?itok=duaPS9u6)
Dr. Myoungkyu Lee
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone 713-743-3536
Email leemk [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Computational fluid dynamics, Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flows, Energy system, Magnetohydrodynamic flow, Turbulent Thermal…
![Jingyi Luan](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/luan.jpg?itok=s_cPoMp2)
Dr. Jingyi Luan
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone 315-391-2457
Research Interests Biomaterials and Nanomaterials for Bio-sensing and Bio-imaging, Next-generation Molecular Diagnostics, Point-of-care and Wearable Sensor
![Ben Xu](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/xu.jpg?itok=PTrLfNOz)
Dr. Ben Xu
Assistant Professor
Office Location N206 Engineering Building 1
Email bxu12 [at] central.uh.edu
Research Interests Solar Thermal Storage, Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Additive Manufacturing, Laser-Assisted Bioprinting
![Bo Zhao](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/zhao_bo.jpg?itok=T-PKRdRF)
Dr. Bo Zhao
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone 713-743-2557
Email bzhao8 [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Thermal photonics and plasmonics; Photon-mediated heat engines and refrigerators; Electronic, photonic, and thermal circuits; Radiative properties…
Research Professors
![Olga Bannova](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/bannova.jpg?itok=h9HdqhLn)
Dr. Olga Bannova
Research Professor, Director of the Space Architecture Graduate Program
Email obannova [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Planning analyses for a broad range of space vehicles, habitats and systems; inflatable hydroponics laboratory and logistic modules; special…
![Goran Majkic](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/majkic.jpg?itok=dLrG2cGs)
Dr. Goran Majkic
Research Professor
Office Location Technology Bridge 15
Email gmajkic [at] uh.edu
![Akira Miyase](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/miyase_akira.jpg?itok=qGdDeroy)
Dr. Akira Miyase
Research Professor
Office Location W222-D3 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4537
Email amiyase [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Solid Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering—Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Associate Professors
![Salavat Aglyamov](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/aglyamov.jpg?itok=AnIgzpAo)
Dr. Salavat Aglyamov
Research Associate Professor
Email saglyamov [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Elastography; Biomechanics of soft tissues; Biomedical imaging; Ultrasound; OCT; Viscoelasticity; Photoacoustics; Contrast agents; Microbubbles;…
Research Assistant Professors
![Yingjie Tang](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/tang.jpg?itok=uwFTNe3a)
Dr. Yingjie Tang
Research Assistant Professor
Office Location Room 204, Engineering Building 1
Email ytang23 [at] central.uh.edu
Research Interests Multi-physics modeling on fluid mechanics, heat transfer, thermodynamic power cycle, fluid-structure interaction, corrosion/erosion, system-level…
Instructional Faculty
![Christiana Chang](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/chang.jpg?itok=gfIY_0WW)
Dr. Christiana Chang
Instructional Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location N254 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-5265
Email cchang2 [at] uh.edu
![Xuemei Chen](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/chen_x.jpg?itok=yW1nZmSs)
Dr. Xuemei Chen
Instructional Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location W226 Engineering Building 2
Phone 713-743-4852
Email xchen46 [at] central.uh.edu
![Farah Hammami Ep Kammoun](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/hammami.jpg?itok=FtIwMZxJ)
Dr. Farah Hammami Ep Kammoun
Instructional Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Office Location 207 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-9067
Email fhammami [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Nanostructured materials, atomistic simulations, computational mechanics
![Holley Love](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/love.jpg?itok=ZBvyPQRP)
Dr. Holley Love
Instructional Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Phone 713-743-9045
Email hclove [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Mechanical Circulatory Support, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer in Biomedical Applications, Bioreactors, and Numerical Modelling
Lecturers
![Wenhua Yang](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/yang_wenhua.jpg?itok=bmGlZvDZ)
Dr. Wenhua Yang
Lecturer
Email wyang27 [at] central.uh.edu
Emeritus Faculty
![Richard B. Bannerot](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/bannerot.jpg?itok=yx3HzNG2)
Dr. Richard B. Bannerot
Professor Emeritus
Office Location N231 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4511
Email rbb [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Thermal sciences and engineering education
![Charles Dalton](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/dalton.jpg?itok=AWqr343m)
Dr. Charles Dalton
Professor Emeritus
Office Location N218 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4517
Email dalton [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Fluid Mechanics—Computational fluid dynamics applied to flow past bluff bodies.
![Stanley Kleis](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/kleis.jpg?itok=2SS2nrBk)
Dr. Stanley Kleis
Professor Emeritus
Office Location N210 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4536
Email kleis [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Fluid Mechanics—Turbulent shear flows and fluid mechanics, solid-liquid two phase flows, mass transfer in micro gravity, stratified flows
![John Lienhard](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/lienhard.jpg?itok=_PZOPfOn)
Dr. John Lienhard
M.D. Anderson Professor of Technology and Culture, Emeritus
Office Location N220 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4518
Email jhl [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Cultural History and Public Radio. (Formerly Thermal Sciences, thermodynamics and Boiling.)
![Ralph Metcalfe](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/metcalfe.jpg?itok=3yyoW-66)
Dr. Ralph Metcalfe
Professor Emeritus
Office Location N208 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4521
Email metcalfe [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Fluid Mechanics
![Nagaraja Shamsundar](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/shamsundar_nagaraja.jpg?itok=E-wPHaRo)
Dr. Nagaraja Shamsundar
Professor Emeritus
Office Location N236 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4532
Email shamsundar [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Thermal sciences—Design of energy systems, thermodynamic properties
![Lewis T. Wheeler](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/wheeler.jpg?itok=7EQG_t5c)
Dr. Lewis T. Wheeler
Professor Emeritus
Office Location N222 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4519
Email lwheeler [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Continuum Mechanics—Mathematical Elasticity Theory, Lattice Dynamics and Structure
![Ken W. White](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/white.jpg?itok=uE0xiDwr)
Dr. Ken W. White
Professor Emeritus
Office Location N212 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4526
Email kwwhite [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Materials Science and Engineering—Ceramic Microstructure development, Mechanical behavior of ceramics and thin films. Electrical-mechanical…
![Larry Witte](/sites/me-new/files/styles/facultyportrait/public/images/faculty/witte.jpg?itok=FFP9g_3T)
Dr. Larry Witte
Professor Emeritus
Office Location W438 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-4501
Email witte [at] uh.edu
Research Interests Thermal Sciences—Forced and natural convection; boiling heat transfer; sliding bubble heat transfer