Endowed Chairs and Professorships
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Sila Çetinkaya, Ph.D.
- Department Chair and Professor, OREM
- Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Supply Chain, Production and Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Optimization under Uncertainty and Healthcare Delivery and Operations Management.
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Janille Smith Colin, Ph.D., P.E.
J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professor
Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
Fellow, Caruth Center for Engineering Education
Primary areas of research include:
- Sociotechnical systems modelling and systems theory
- Transportation impacts on social determinants of health
- Resilient infrastructure planning and evaluation
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Jia Zhang, Ph.D.
- Interim Chair, Computer Science
- Professor, Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Data Science Infrastructure and Machine Learning.
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Kathleen Smits, Ph.D., P.E.
- Department Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Solomon Professor for Global Development
- Senior Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Primary Areas of Research are Energy and the Environment and Contaminant transport.
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Ali Beskok, Ph.D.
- Associate Dean for Research Innovation and Industry Partnerships
- George R. Brown Chair, Mechanical Engineering
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Micro- and nano-scale transport and Bio-Microfluidics and Lab on a Chip Technologies.
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Yildirim Hurmuzlu, Ph.D.
- Altshuler Distinguished Professor
- University Distinguished Professor
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary research area are rigid-body collisions of planar kinematic chains with smooth external contacts and locomotion.
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MinJun Kim, Ph.D.
- Robert C. Womack Chair in Engineering
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Microbiorobotics and Single molecule biophysics.
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J.-C. Chiao, Ph.D.
- Mary and Richard Templeton Centennial Chair Professor
- Primary Areas of Research are Medical implants and Flexible biomedical sensors.
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Nicos Makris, Ph.D.
- Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Structural/Earthquake Engineering and Applied Mechanics/Dynamics.
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Nader Jalili, Ph.D.
- Professor and Mary and Richard Templeton Dean
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Barbara Minsker, Ph.D, P.E.
- Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship
- Senior Fellow in the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
- Primary Areas of Research are Urban sustainability and resilience and Infrastructure equity.
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Volkan Otugen, Ph.D.
- George R. Brown Endowed Chair, Mechanical Engineering
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics and heat transfer and Photonic sensors.
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Duncan MacFarlane, Ph.D.
- Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship
- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Photonic Integrated Circuits and Quantum Informatics.
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Dinesh Rajan, Ph.D.
- Associate Dean, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Cecil H. Green Professor
- Primary Areas of Research are Wireless Networking and Information Theory and Imaging (3D, Computational).
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Mitchell Thornton, Ph.D.
- Cecil H. Green Chair of Engineering
- Executive Director, Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity
- Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Primary Areas of Research are Cyber Security and Quantum Informatics and Quantum Photonics.
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Frederick R. Chang, Ph.D.
- Inaugural Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Distinguished Chair in Cybersecurity
- Professor, Computer Science
- Founding Director, Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity
(On Leave)