Academic Staff

• Forecasting energy and electricity demand by machine learning
• Modeling, simulation, and optimization of energy systems
• Renewable energy including solar, wind, and bioenergy systems

• Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits 
• Biomedical Circuits and Systems 
• Embedded System Design

• Construction materials
• Alkali-activated materials & Geopolymers

• Rheological properties

• Fracture behavior of cementitious materials
• Material characterization
• Fiber reinforced concrete
• Concrete durability

Research Interests

• Machine Design & Computer Aided Machine Design
• Solid Mechanics
• Wear & Fatigue in Engine Parts
• Mechanical Failures & Deformation Mechanisms in Machine Components
• Computational Mechanics
• Automotive & Aerospace Materials, Lightweight Vehicle Design
• Mechanics of Materials
• Finite Element Methods
• Mechanical Design Optimization
• Internal Combustion Engines, 
• Defense Technologies
• NEMS/MEMS in Defense & Automotive & Aerospace Applications
• Fuel cells, Supercapacitors for Electric Cars

transportation planning, discrete choice models, freight transportation, airport access, micromobility

• Ocean, coastal, estuarine, riverine, and lacustrine physics: Waves, Hurricanes, Currents, Tides, Sediment transport, Turbulence
• Hurricanes and their oceanic and coastal impacts
• Numerical modeling and simulation of ocean, coastal, estuarine, riverine, and lacustrine hydrodynamics
• Adapting aquatic systems to natural and anthropogenic stressors and climate change; nature-based solutions
• Morphodynamic evolution of ocean, coastal, estuarine, riverine, and lacustrine zones
• Data analysis of ocean, coastal, estuarine, riverine, and lacustrine hydrodynamics
• Ocean, coastal, estuarine, riverine, and lacustrine field experiments
• Ocean and coastal structures; nature-based solutions; living shorelines

Sensors, Optical & Biomedical MEMS, Microsystems, Biomedical Instrumentation

• Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making
• Fuzzy Multi-Objective Mathematical Programming 

• Supply Chain, Reverse Logistics 
• Humanitarian Logistics

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

             Development of scaffold systems for tissue engineering applications

Controlled Drug Delivery Systems

             Targeted drug delivery, Micro-Nanoparticles for drug delivery

• Brain-Computer Interface
• Biomedical Signal Processing
• Electroencephalography
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Neural Networks

Telecommunication, integer programming, decomposition techniques.

• Coastal Structures and Processes
• Physical Modelling
• Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
• Environmental Impact Assessment of Coastal and Offshore Structures
• Discharge of Brine Effluents

• Molecular Analyses of Genetic Diseases
• Molecular Cytogenetics Methods (Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH), Microarray CGH (aCGH))
• Molecular Genetics Methods (Next Generation DNA Sequencing Technologies)
• Bioinformatics

• Machine Learning
• Natural Language Processing
• Network Analysis
• Multimodal Learning
• Computational Social Science

• Protein Engineering
• Biosensors
• DNA binding proteins

Theoretical high energy and particle physics, mathematical physics

Relativity theory, Classical and quantum fields

• Mixed Signal (analog, digital, RF) electronics
• VLSI Circuit & Systems design and implementation
• Wireless communication circuits and systems
• Ultra-Wideband transceiver technologies
• Biomedical Circuit and systems

• Computational Biochemistry
• Modeling biochemical and organic reactions
• Computer aided drug design
• Quantitative structure-activity relationship

Decomposition Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization

Decision Making Under Uncertainty

Applied Optimization, Metaheuristic approaches, Transportation and logistics systems

• Biomolecular Interactions
• Computer-aided Drug Design
• Functional Genomics
• Statistical Leaning and Data Analysis

Cardiovascular Dynamics

Artificial Heart Pumps

Biofluid Dynamics

Medical Device Design

• Dignostic analysis of pulmonary sounds
• Biomedical signal processing and pattern recognition
• Biomedical instrumentation 

• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• Seismic Soil Liquefaction
• Probabilistic Modelling
• Numerical modeling and simulation of coastal and ocean hydrodynamics
• Construction safety and QA/QC management

Model Theory

Passivity-Based Control

Adaptive Control

Control of Nonlinear Systems with Time Delay

Nonlinear H-Infinity Control

Chaotic Control

• Optimal Control
• Time Delay System

• Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits 

Embedded System Design

Machine Theory and Control

System Dynamics and Control

Control Theory and Applications

Mechanical Vibrations

Algebraic Coding Theory

Field Theory and Polynomials

Locally Recoverable Codes

Energy, Heat Transfer, CFD, Machine Learning, 3D Printing, Data Center Cooling, Thermal and Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems,  Energy Efficiency,  Renewable Energy Systems

• Construction Management
• Geotechnical Engineering