Faculty Expertise Areas

Civil & Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Engineering & Technology Engineering
Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Peyman Abbaszadeh

Assistant Professor

Associate Editor of Water Resources Research Journal

Research Areas:
Computational hydrology and satellite data assimilation, studying the surface and subsurface hydrologic processes and their interactions to improve the predictability of extreme hydroclimate events under climate change.

Jason Anderson

Adjunct Instructor & Senior Research Associate

Research Areas:
Transportation safety modeling, spatial econometrics and statistics, big data analysis focusing on various concepts such as traffic flow, travel time, freight commodity analyses, methodological approaches.

Tanmoy Bhowmik

Assistant Professor

Editor, Frontiers in Future Transportation

Research Areas:
Advanced econometric modeling, transportation planning and demand analysis, transportation safety analysis, disaster management and evacuation behavior analysis, adoption of emerging technologies (electric and connected vehicles) and their impacts on land use, public health and transportation energy.

Peter Dusicka

Department Chair & Professor

Director of iSTAR Laboratory

Research Areas:
Earthquake resistance and retrofit of bridges, seismic assessment of high voltage infrastructure, strength assessment of green building systems, design strategies for rapid occupancy following extreme events.

Miguel Figliozzi

Professor

Founder of Transportation Technology and People Lab

Research Areas:
Electric vehicles and new vehicle technologies, emissions and air quality modeling, freight and logistics, innovations in traffic and transportation management and operations, non-motorized transportation.

Samantha Hartzell

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Ecohydrology, modeling the impact of vegetation on water, carbon, and energy fluxes between the land surface and atmosphere, sustainable agriculture in dryland ecosystems.

David Jay

Professor

Research Areas:
Tidal analysis, fluid mechanics research on the impact of the Columbia River plume on oceanic dynamics as they relate to tides, fish migration up the Columbia, and impacts of dams and dikes on fish habitat in the lower Columbia River.

Gwynn Johnson

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Groundwater hydrology, subsurface contaminant transport and fate, and environmental chemistry.

Arash Khosravifar

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil liquefaction, geotechnical numerical and physical modeling, soil-structure interaction (SSI), probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and ground motions

Sirisha Kothuri

Senior Research Associate

Research Areas:
Multimodal traffic operations, bicycle and pedestrian counting, multimodal safety, data archival for non-motorized transportation data.

Wentai Luo

Senior Research Associate

Manager of the Pankow Group Mass Spectrometry Facility

Research Areas:
Fate and transport of organic contaminants in environment, chemistry of tobacco and tobacco smoke, measurement of volatile organic compounds emission from industrial activities, consumer products, and biogenic sources, flavor chemicals and their impacts.

Christopher Monsere

Professor & Vice Provost for Faculty Success

Research Areas:
Multimodal transportation safety, management and dissemination of large transportation data, improvements in transportation operations.

Diane Moug

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Geotechnical earthquake engineering, geotechnical site investigation, liquefaction mitigation, non-standard soil behavior, characterization of unique or problematic soils.

Research spotlight: Infrastructure resilience research

James Pankow

Professor

Research Areas:
Design of autonomous water samplers for surface waters, air quality model development, chemistry of tobacco products.

Thomas Schumacher

Professor & Associate Chair of Graduate Programs

Research Areas:
Novel sensing methodologies for non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure, i.e. acoustic emission and ultrasonic monitoring, and video-based monitoring.

Scott Wells

Professor

Research Areas:
Surface water quality and hydrodynamic modeling, fluid particle dynamics.

David Yang

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Risk management and resilience assessment under disaster and climate change, decision-making under uncertainty, and life-cycle management of civil infrastructure.

Research spotlight: Infrastructure resilience research

Zhonglong Zhang

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Watershed hydrology and non-point source modeling, riverine water quality and riparian vegetation modeling, lake and reservoir water quality modeling, multi-media contaminant transport and environmental risk modeling, environmental software development.

Computer Science

Ameeta Agrawal

Assistant Professor

Director of the Natural Language Processing Lab

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning & natural language processing (NLP)

Ehsan Aryafar

Associate Professor

2020 NSF Career Award Winner

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, and systems & networking

Sergio Antoy

Professor

Research Areas:
Functional logic programming and languages, symbolic computation

Sayan Bandyapadhyay

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computer science theory

Andrew Black

Professor

Research Areas:
Programming languages & formal methods

Nirupama Bulusu

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy and systems & networking

Karla Fant

Senior Instructor

Research Areas:
High-resolution computer graphics, genetic algorithms, computer programming and languages

Wu-Chang Feng

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy, computer science education, and systems & networking

Wu-Chi Feng

Professor and Computer Science Department Chair

NSF Career Award Winner

Research Areas:
Computer vision & computer graphics and systems networking

Jim Hook

Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer security & privacy, computer science education and programming languages & formal methods

Atul Ingle

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computational imaging, computer vision and signal processing.

Mark Jones

Professor

Currently on sabbatical

Research Areas:
Programming languages & formal methods

Karen L. Karavanic

Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer security & privacy, high performance computing (HPC), and systems & networking

Yao Li

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer security & privacy, high performance computing (HPC), and systems & networking

Feng Liu

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Computer vision & computer graphics

David Maier

Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technologies

Research Areas:
Computer vision & computer graphics

Bart Massey

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Computer vision & computer graphics

Primal Pappachan

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy, data science, and systems & networking

Shravas Rao

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Computer science theory

Banafsheh Rekabdar

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision & computer graphics and data science

Anthony Rhodes

Instructor

Research Areas:
Machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, numerical analysis

Suresh Singh

Professor

Research Areas:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and systems & networking

Fang Song

Associate Professor

2020 NSF Career Award Winner

Research Areas:
Computing and quantum-safe cryptography

Andrew Tolmach

Professor

Research Areas:
Computer security & privacy and programming languages & formal methods

Fei Xie

Professor

Research Areas:
Software engineering

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Electrical & Computer Engineering

John Acken

Adjunct Research Professor

Research Areas:
Advanced computer architecture, digital integrated circuits, hardware information security, digital system testing, memristors

Jonathan Bird

Professor

Research Areas:
Electrical machines, controls, computational electromagnetics, maglev, magnetic gearboxes and renewable energy.

Research spotlight: Power and Energy research

Bob Bass

Interim Department Chair & Professor

Director of the Power Engineering Research Group

Research Areas:
Distributed energy resource aggregation systems, distribution system modeling, high-power electric vehicle charging impacts on distribution systems, volt/VAr control, and cybersecurity threat detection.

Research spotlight: Power and Energy research

David Burnett

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Integrated circuit design, crystal-free wireless communication, wireless sensor mote miniaturization, field-deployable sensor systems.

Malgorzata Chrzanowska-Jeske

Professor

Research Areas:
3D heterogeneous integration, quantum inspired algorithms, cryogenic electronics

Garrison Greenwood

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Cyberphysical systems, evolutionary computation, evolvable hardware, and mathematical games

Charles Holland

Research Professor

Research Areas:
Acoustical oceanography, acoustic remote sensing, seafloor scattering/reflection, underwater acoustics, acoustic propagation, reverberation and ocean environmental effects on sonar systems

Roy Kravitz

Senior Instructor Emeritus

Research Areas:
Embedded systems and System-On-Chip Design

John Lipor

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Active machine learning, subspace methods and reinforcement learning

George McDonald

Research Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Atmospheric dynamics, radiative transfer, aeolian processes, atmospheric loss, and stellar atmospheres

Joshua Mendez

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Obscure problems in electrostatics, lightning, wireless sensor networks, amateur radio, volcanology and coffee

Branimir Pejcinovic

Professor

Director, IC Design and Test Lab

Research Areas:
Mixed-mode and high-frequency test and characterization of integrated circuits, semiconductor device characterization, design, and simulation

Martin Siderius

Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director of NEAR Lab

Research Areas:
Acoustics/sonar, electromagnetics/radar, computational methods for acoustics and electromagnetics and signal processing

Xiaoyu Song

Professor

Research Areas:
Modeling and verification of complex systems, formal methods, design automation, IC design, computing system design

Christof Teuscher

Professor

Research Areas:
Microprocessor system design, computer architecture, embedded systems programming, computation and simulation

Engineering & Technology Management

Tim Anderson

Department Chair & Professor

Research Areas:
Analytics, benchmarking, technology forecasting, data mining, and new product development.

Tugral Daim

Professor & Associate Director, Mark O. Hatfield Cybersecurity & Cyber Defense Policy Center

Director of the Technology Management Doctoral Program

Research Areas:
Technology roadmapping and forecasting.

Antonie Jetter

Department Chair & Associate Dean for Research

David Wedge Vision Professor, 2019-2022

Research Areas:
New product development, entrepreneurship, and technology marketing and engineering education.

Research spotlight: Power and Energy research

Charles Weber

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Innovation management, entrepreneurship, knowledge management, organizational learning and problem-solving.

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Mechanical & Materials Engineering

Raúl Bayoán Cal

Professor

2025 PSU Presidential Career Award Winner

Research Areas:
Fluid mechanics, renewable energy, wind and solar, fluid management in space applications, agrivoltaics, biomimicry, atmospheric processes, science education.

Research spotlight: Power and Energy research

Ilke Celik

Assistant Professor

National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award winner

Research Areas:
Sustainability concepts for infrastructure systems, sustainable energy storage systems and incorporating transparent photovoltaic (solar) technologies with urban agricultural systems.

Research spotlight: Power and Energy research

Elliott Gall

Associate Professor

David Wedge Vision Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Indoor air quality and building science, mathematical models to characterize sources, transformation, and removal processes of indoor air pollutants.

Research spotlight: Power and energy research

Alex Hunt

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Robotics, neural control of behavior and locomotion, computational neuroscience, additive manufacturing, adaptive algorithms, and machine learning.

Jun Jiao

Professor

Founder, Center for Electron Microscopy and Nanofabrication

Research Areas:
Semiconductor thin films, nanowires, graphene, carbon nanotubes syntheses and characterizations, and the fabrication and testing of the electronic devices based on these semiconductor materials.

Lemmy Meekisho

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Numerical modeling and simulation of thermal-mechanical behavior of materials processes; Programming, data analysis and visualization with MATLAB.

Robert Paxton

Teaching Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Fluid mechanics, general mechanics (statics, dynamics), instrumentation & measurement, engineering fundamentals (ethics, design), electrical fundamentals, programming, thermodynamics, system modeling and vehicle crash dynamics.

Derek Tretheway

Associate Professor

Undergraduate Program Director & Advisor

Research Areas:
Micro-particle image velocimetry, measurements of flow in micro-devices, and non-Newtonian fluid flow.

Chien Wern

Associate Professor

Research Areas:
Mechanical testing, fatigue testing, fracture mechanics, manufacturing process optimization, instrumentation, and robotics

Yi Xia

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
First-principles-based methods and machine learning approaches to simulate dynamics of phonons and electrons, and application of such to solve materials problems

Sung Yi

Professor

Research Areas:
Nanoscience, electronics packaging, reliability and failure analysis, electronic material characterization and modeling, deep learning

Xiaowei Zhu

Assistant Professor

Research Areas:
Electronic packaging, engineering analysis, design optimization, semiconductor materials and manufacturing, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling and characterization of electronic and engineering materials.