UC welcomes six engineering faculty

Engineering faculty across five departments joined UC in Spring 2024

The University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science welcomed six new faculty members at the start of the spring semester. 

Meet the new faculty

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Andrew Erwin

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research/Teaching Interests: Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Rehabilitation Robotics, Haptic Interfaces, Motor Learning, System Dynamics and Controls

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Ahmed Allam

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research/Teaching Interests: Acoustics, Vibrations, Additive Manufacturing, Metamaterials, Underwater Communications, Internet of Things, Wireless Sensing, Non-destructive Testing

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LaShan Hendrix

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Research/Teaching Interests: Vascular Calcification, Smooth Muscle Cells, Mechanotransduction, Sense of Belonging, Inclusion

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Chaowen Guan

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Research/Teaching Interests: Thereotical Computer Science, Security, Cryptography, Computational Complexity, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Machine Learning 

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Tianren Wu

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Research/Teaching Interests: Fate and transport of indoor VOCs/SVOCs, New Particle Formation, Indoor Aerosol Dynamics, Online Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer, Indoor Ozone Chemistry, Air Cleaning Technologies, Low-Cost VOC Sensors, Human Exposure, Building Ventilation, Air Filtration

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Abhinav Sinha

Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Research/Teaching Interests: Multicriteria Intercept Guidance and Control, Multiagent Cooperative Pursuit-Evasion, Resilience and Robustness in Networked Systems, Learning and Control in Autonomous Systems, Multivehicle Motion Planning and Control, High-fidelity Aerial Mobility and Manipulation

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