Composites, Materials and Mechanics

  • Amir Ameli (UMass Lowell) – Additive manufacturing / 3D printing, foaming, and injection molding, multifunctional polymer nanocomposites, bio-based polymers and composites, advanced polymeric foams
  • Alireza Amirkhizi (UMass Lowell) – Mechanics and physics of materials, composites, and structures under extreme conditions, including high strain-rate, high pressure, and low and high temperatures
  • James Sherwood (UMass Lowell) – Finite element modeling, modeling of composite manufacturing processes, linking of the manufacturing process to the structural performance, high-speed impact
  • Scott Stapleton (UMass Lowell) – Solid mechanics, composite materials, textiles, multi-scale modeling, finite element modeling, adhesively bonded joints, sandwich structures
  • Dong Qian (University of Texas (UT) Dallas) – Stress and fatigue analysis of wind energy systems. Modeling of nondestructive evaluation of flaws and micro-cracks. Nonlinear constitutive modeling of composites.
  • Hongbing Lu (UT Dallas) – Long-term durability of wind turbines and towers under creep, fatigue and environmental conditions. Accelerated life testing under multiaxial stress states. Non-contact full-filed geometry and deformation measurements using digital image correlation.
  • Christopher Hansen (UMass Lowell) – Composites manufacturing and experimental
  • Lei Chen (UMass Lowell) – Advanced manufacturing processes, soft and hard tissue cutting mechanics, additive manufacturing for custom healthcare, precision engineering

Control Systems and Optimization

  • Alain Bensoussan (UT Dallas) Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (FSIAM), French Academy of Science - Risk and decision analysis in wind energy systems, stochastic control
  • Yulia Gel (UT Dallas) - Statistical foundation of data science; machine learning; high-dimensional data inference, analysis of spatio-temporal processes; time series of graphs
  • Yaoyu Li (UT Dallas) - Wind turbine control for energy capture and load reduction, controls and fault diagnosis for mechanical and electromechanical systems, dynamic modeling and controls of thermo-fluid systems 
  • Mario Rotea (UT Dallas) (WindSTAR Site Director) (FIEEE) - Control systems analysis and design, structural control of wind turbines, control of wind storage systems, wind farm control
  • Tyler Summers (UT Dallas) - Control and optimization, power and energy networks, distributed robotics
  • Armin Zare (UT Dallas) – Control systems and optimization of fluid systems
  • Jie Zhang (UT Dallas) - Forecasting, analytics and grid integration

Fluid Mechanics

  • Xianming (Simon) Dai (UT Dallas) - Superhydrophobic surfaces, wetting, nanofabrication, and thermal management
  • Stefano Leonardi (UT Dallas) - Computational fluid mechanics, wind energy, super hydrophobic surfaces, oceanography
  • Giacomo Valerio Lungo (UT Dallas) - Wind Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) remote sensing, wind tunnel testing, wind turbine wake modeling and control, wind farm optimization
  • Yaqing Jin (UT Dallas) - Experimental fluid mechanics, Fluid-structure interactions, Turbulent flow
  • Kianoosh Yousefi (UT Dallas)- Wind/Wave tunnel testing, turbulence, air-sea interactions
  • David Willis (UMass Lowell) - Computational aerodynamics, multi-fidelity unsteady potential flow methods, fluid-structure interaction

Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering

  • Farokh B. Bastani (UT Dallas) (Co-director of Net-Centric Software and Systems - Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/UCRC)) - Multi-tiered decentralized control systems, optimal real-time embedded control systems, proactive dependability assurance, automated multi-core control software synthesis
  • Matthew Gardner (UT Dallas) - design, control, and diagnostics for magnetic gears, generators, and power electronic converters
  • Yuzhang Lin (UMass Lowell) – Smart grid modeling and monitoring; renewable energy forecasting and estimation; cyber-physical security and resiliency; data analysis and machine learning Smart grid modeling, monitoring, forecasting, cyber-physical security, data analysis
  • Yan Luo (UMass Lowell) – Computer engineering, heterogeneous computing, networking, deep learning, parallel and distributed processing, embedded systems network processors, low power processors, internet router and web server architectures, embedded systems, simulation and performance evaluation
  • Siavash Pakdelian (UMass Lowell) – Magnetic gears and gear-integrated machines, Analysis and design of electric machines, Advanced motion control, Marine and hydrokinetic energy systems, Biomechanical energy harvesting
  • Xingwei Wang (UMass Lowell) - Optical sensors, high temperature sensors, ultrafast pressure sensors, optical ultrasound imaging transducers

Structural Health Monitoring/Vibrations

  • Peter Avitabile (UMass Lowell) – Structural dynamic modeling using analytical and experimental methods, experimental modal analysis testing, test/analysis correlation and updating of models, finite element modeling
  • Robert Giles (UMass Lowell) – Radar signatures of field structures/vehicles and sub-millimeter wave inspection
  • Todd Griffith (UT Dallas) – Structural dynamics, aero-elastics, dynamics and control, structural health monitoring and prognostics management, design, experimental and analytical methods, reduced order modeling, model validation and uncertainty quantification
  • Murat Inalpolat (UMass Lowell) – Condition monitoring of gear trains and bearings, signal processing, and acoustics
  • Christopher Niezrecki (UMass Lowell) (WindSTAR Director) – Structural dynamics, non-destructive inspection, structural health monitoring, acoustics, smart structures and materials, active vibration control, blade testing
  • Tzu-Yang Yu (UMass Lowell) – Distant radar inspection, synthetic aperture radar imaging, electromagnetic wave-medium interaction, dielectric measurement and modeling of multiphase media, electrodynamic simulation, wavelet analysis

Additional Expertise

  • Raj Gondle (UMass Lowell) – Computer methods in geotechnical and civil engineering; experimental and computational geomechanics for energy and the environment; finite element modeling; multiphase fluid flow and geomechanics; coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes in geological media; reservoir and petroleum geomechanics
  • Pradeep Kurup (UMass Lowell) – Geotechnical engineering, multi-sensor data fusion, site characterization and monitoring, application of novel sensing technology to geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering; finite element modeling; artificial neural networks; calibration chamber testing; and soil-structure interaction
  • David Turcotte (UMass Lowell) – Firm and industry level educational and skills needs assessment and resource identification, labor market trend analysis, and supply chain opportunity assessment, workforce development
  • Nasser Kehtarnavaz (UT Dallas) - Signal and image processing, machine learning, deep learning; real-time implementation on embedded processors