Nanotechnology Faculty
Core faculty members from the founding departments are key enablers of the NGP. They are the providers and instructors of various core and elective courses in the nanotechnology curriculum, as part of their regular teaching responsibilities in their academic departments. Listed below are current core faculty members by departments, together with their nano-relevant research interests and expertise.
| Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) | ||
| Hongjun Wang | Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering | nanomedicine and biomaterials design, cell signaling |
| Xiaojun Yu | Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering | regenerative medicine and cell-cell interaction |
| Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) | ||
| James Liang | Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | synthesis and nanofabrication of drugs and biomaterial surfaces for controlled release |
| Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (CEMS) | ||
| Pinar Akcora | Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering | ordered soft materials; self-assembly of nanoparticles; polymer nanohybrids |
| Ron Besser | Professor of Chemical Engineering | nano/micro-fabrication for microreactor technology |
| Henry Du | Professor of Materials Engineering | molecular and nano-scale surface modification and nanophotonic sensing and imaging |
| Dilhan Kalyon | Professor of Chemical Engineering | synthesis and fabrication of colloids, nanoparticles, and nanocomposites |
| Stephanie Lee | Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering | hybrid metal-organic solar cells and transistors, crystal engineering of functional materials |
| Woo Lee | Professor of Materials Engineering | multi-scale synthesis and fabrication of novel structures, chemical/biological microsystems |
| Matt Libera | Professor of Materials Engineering | cell-material interactions and electron beam-assisted fabrication of biologically active nano-/micro-arrays |
| Simon Podkolzin | Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering | catalysis on nanoparticles of metals and metal oxides; chemical reaction kinetics at the nanoscale |
| Department of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering (CEOE) | ||
| Xiaoguang Meng | Professor of Environmental Engineering | science and technology of nanoparticulates for environmental remediation |
| Valentina Prigiobbe | Assistant Professor | sustainable energy production, magnetic nanoparticles for brine treatment, nanoparticle-stabilized foams in porous media |
| Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) | ||
| Robert Chang | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering | biofabrication across multiple length scales, computer-aided tissue engineering, mechanobiology and mechanosensing |
| Chang-Hwan Choi | Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering | large-area surface nanopatterning, superhydrophobic nanostructured materials, multiscale fluid physics and heat transfer, microfluidic self-assembly, nanofluidic energy harvesting, optofluidic sensors |
| Frank Fisher | Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering | nanocomposites and nanomechanics, bioinspired nanomaterials, nanosensors |
| Manu S. Mannoor | Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering | nanobionics, bionic nanosensors, bioinspired nanomaterials, nanomedicine |
| Yong Shi | Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering | MEMS/NEMS design and fabrication, nanofibers and nanocomposites, smart structures |
| EH Yang | Professor of Mechanical Engineering | nano/microtechnologies for energy conversion, nanomanufacturing, nano/micro sensors, microactuators |
| Department of Physics and Engineering Physics (PEP) | ||
| Yu-Ping Huang | Assistant Professor of Physics | quantum optics, AMO, optical control, classical and quantum information processing |
| Rainer Martini | Associate Professor of Physics | semiconductor and semiconductor heterostructures for ultrafast switching, photonic sensing, control of quantum systems |
| Svetlana Malinovskaya | Associate Professor of Physics | AMO physics, ultrafast dynamics, control of quantum systems |
| Stefan Strauf | Associate Professor of Physics | nanophotonics, semiconductor quantum optics, plasmonics, 2D materials, carbon nanotubes, cavity-QED, nanolaser, solar cells |
| Ting Yu | Associate Professor of Physics | entanglement and decoherence of quantum nanodevices, continuous quantum measurement, quantum feedback control |
| School of Business | ||
| Thomas Lechler | Associate Professor of Technology Management | project management, innovation management, entrepreneurship, global innovation management |
| Gary Lynn | Associate Professor of Technology Management | emerging technology, marketing, entrepreneurship and new product development |