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
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
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
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research/Teaching Interests: Vascular Calcification, Smooth Muscle Cells, Mechanotransduction, Sense of Belonging, Inclusion
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Research/Teaching Interests: Thereotical Computer Science, Security, Cryptography, Computational Complexity, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Machine Learning
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
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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