Core Faculty

Margie Ackerman

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Protein engineering; biotherapeutics; vaccine technology; engineering immune responses

Mary R. Albert

Professor of Engineering
Executive Director, Ice Drilling Program Office

Snow physics; transport phenomena; numerical modeling

Ian Baker

Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Affairs

Mechanical behavior; phase tranformations; electron microscopy; x-ray topography; x-ray diffraction; ice; magnetic materials; intermetallic compounds

Andrea Borsic

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Medical imaging; discrete inverse problems; electrical impedance tomography; magnetic resonance methods for imaging electrical properties of tissues; scientific computing and visualization; high performance compounding and GPUs; numerical methods for electromagnetism; biomedical instrumentation; embedded systems

Mark E. Borsuk

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Decision theory; integrated systems modeling and management; Bayesian statistics, uncertainty analysis; risk assessment; valuation methods; imprecise probabilities; sustainability science

John P. Collier

Myron Tribus Professor of Engineering Innovation

Design and analysis of orthopedic prostheses; design and metallurgy of porous-metal-coated implants; study of implant/host interfaces; growth and repair of cartilage

Benoit Cushman-Roisin

Professor of Engineering

Environmental transport processes; environmental fluid mechanics; industrial ecology; sustainable design; energy efficiency

George Cybenko

Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering

Information systems and theory

Solomon G. Diamond

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Biomedical imaging; functional neuroimaging; physiological modeling; heart rate variability; stroke recovery; Alzheimer's disease

Eric R. Fossum

Professor of Engineering

Solid-state image sensors (CCDs, CMOS active pixel sensors, Quanta Image Sensors); advanced imaging systems; on-chip image processing; new applications for image sensors

Harold J. Frost

Associate Professor of Engineering

Materials science; modeling of microstructural evolution; deformation and fracture at high temperatures

Elsa Garmire

Sydney E. Junkins 1887 Professor of Engineering

Non-linear optics; integrated optics and semiconductor photonic devices; lasers; electro-optics; fiber optics

Tillman U. Gerngross

Professor of Engineering

Protein engineering; glycoprotein engineering; high cell density fermentation technology; metabolic engineering; protein expression

Michael Gerst

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Integrated assessment modeling of energy and climate policy; industrial ecology; sustainability science; agent-based simulation methods

Robert J. Graves

John H. Krehbiel Sr. Professor for Emerging Technologies
Director, Master of Engineering Management Program
Adjunct Professor, Tuck School of Business
Professor Emeritus, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

E-engineering information technologies; near real-time scheduling and dispatching; assembly system design; product design; multi-objective optimization; integrated material handling system concepting and design; intelligent control systems

Karl Griswold

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Protein engineering; directed evolution; biotherapeutics; applied biocatalysis; high throughput screening

Ryan Halter

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Biomedical instrumentation; electrical impedance tomography and spectroscopy; medical imaging; tissue bioimpedance; cancer detection technologies; traumatic brain injury; medical robotics

Eric W. Hansen

Associate Professor of Engineering

Signal and image processing; digital system design; optics

Alexander Hartov

Professor of Engineering
Director, M.S. and Ph.D. Programs

Biomedical engineering; medical imaging; electrical impedance tomography; image-guided surgery; cryosurgery; ultrasound; multi-modality imaging

Joseph J. Helble

Dean and Professor of Engineering

Environmental impacts of fossil energy utilization with emphasis on mercury; particulate matter; air pollution control; CO2 capture; combustion-derived pollution

Songbai Ji

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Image-guided surgery; medical imaging; multi-modality imaging; image analysis; finite element; numerical methods; image registration; traumatic brain injury; computational modeling of the human head

Shudong Jiang

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Optical spectroscopy and imaging systems for biomedical applications

Venkataramanan Krishnaswamy

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Optical techniques and systems for diagnostic cancer imaging and image-guided cancer therapy; multi-modality medical imaging; biomedical instrumentation

Ronald C. Lasky

Professor of Engineering
Director, Cook Engineering Design Center

Process optimization; designed experiments; statistical analysis; electronic assembly; Lean Six Sigma; electronic and optoelectronic packaging; materials science; environmental compliance for electronics; electronic assembly with lead-free solders

Frederic Leblond

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Biomedical optics technology for cancer imaging; small animal fluorescence imaging; fluorescence-guided surgery; diffuse optical tomography; multi-modality medical imaging; models for light propagation in tissue; inverse problem resolution methods

Christopher G. Levey

Associate Professor of Engineering
Director, Microengineering Laboratory
Director, Instructional Laboratories
Adjunct Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Microfabrication technology; micro-optical systems and binary optics; micromechanical and electromechanical systems (MEMS); microrobotics

Jifeng Liu

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Optoelectronic materials and devices; integrated nanophotonics for energy-efficient Information Technologies (Green IT); Nanomaterials and nanostructures for solar cells and thermophotovoltaic cells; Infrared and ultraviolet optical sensors

William Lotko

Professor of Engineering

Geospace environment; space plasma physics, modeling, simulation; electromagnetic fields and waves

Daniel R. Lynch

MacLean Professor of Engineering

Scientific management of natural resources; physical/biological interactions in the coastal ocean; advanced computational methods with applications in water resources and environmental engineering

Lee Rybeck Lynd

Paul E. and Joan H. Queneau Distinguished Professor in Environmental Engineering Design
Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences
Professor Extraordinary of Microbiology, Stellenbosch U., South Africa
Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Mascoma Corporation

Technology for production of energy from cellulosic biomass; transition paths to a sustainable world; metabolic engineering; applied microbiology; process design and evaluation

Vicki V. May

Associate Professor of Engineering

Engineering education: Inquiry-based learning, student-centered learning, K-12 and outreach activities, textbook alternatives, creativity, and the theory of mind

Paul M. Meaney

Professor of Engineering

Microwave imaging ultrasound computed tomography for biomedical applications; microwave antenna design; thermal modeling and system design for focused ultrasound surgery applications

Kofi M. Odame

Analog Devices Career Development Chair
Assistant Professor of Engineering

Analog integrated circuits; low power sensor interfaces; nonlinear signal processing

Reza Olfati-Saber

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Distributed control and robotics; networked systems; sensor networks; swarms and self-organizing systems; information fusion; multi-agent systems; evolution of behavior in social networks

Keith D. Paulsen

Robert A. Pritzker Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Radiology, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Director, Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Co-Director, Cancer Imaging and Radiobiology Research Program, Norris Cotton Cancer Center

Biomedical engineering; numerical methods in electromagnetics; cancer therapeutics; medical imaging methodologies; bioelectromagnetics

Victor F. Petrenko

Professor of Engineering

Materials science; physics of semiconductors; heat transfer and refrigeration technologies; ice physics and ice engineering; de-icing and anti-icing technology; ice and snow friction

Minh Q. Phan

Associate Professor of Engineering

System identification; iterative learning control; model predictive control; control of robotic swarms; intelligent control; adaptive control

Brian W. Pogue

Professor of Engineering
Dartmouth Dean of Graduate Studies

Biomedical optics and lasers; medical imaging; image guided spectroscopy of cancer; photodynamic therapy; modeling of tumor pathophysiology and contrast

Laura Ray

Professor of Engineering

Dynamics and controls; nonlinear estimation; mobile robots; active noise control; damage detection in smart structures; mechatronics

Peter J. Robbie

Associate Professor of Engineering

Product Design, human-centered design, cognitive strategies and methodologies for creative design practice

Eugene Santos Jr.

Professor of Engineering

Intelligent systems; artificial intelligence; probabilistic reasoning; adversarial modeling; intent inferencing; user modeling; information retrieval; evolutionary computation; socio-cultural modeling

Erland M. Schulson

George Austin Colligan Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Chair, Engineering Sciences Department
Director, Ice Research Laboratory

Flow and fracture of ice; mechanical behavior of metals and alloys; physical metallurgy and materials science

Simon G. Shepherd

Associate Professor of Engineering

HF radar development; ionospheric plasma convection and physics; solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere coupling; space weather and climatology

Fridon Shubitidze

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Numerical methods in computational electromagnetic; electromagnetic sensing methodologies; detection and discrimination of sub-surface objects; linear and non-linear inverse-scattering; induced geo-electromagnetic fields; micro strip antennas; photonic band gaps; near field optics; DNA sequencing; electrostatic discharge

Jason Stauth

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Power management and systems solutions for photovoltaic applications; electronics and integrated circuit design (analog/mixed signal, RF, power and embedded applications); systems engineering; engineering management; technology entrepreneurship.

Anatoly V. Streltsov

Associate Professor of Engineering

Computational sciences; space plasma physics; electromagnetic waves in nonhomogeneous media

Charles R. Sullivan

Associate Professor of Engineering

Power electronics; electromagnetic design of power electronics components; micro-fabricated magnetic components; nanocomposite magnetic materials; energy efficiency and renewable energy

Stephen Taylor

Professor of Engineering

Cyber-forensics; network security; information warfare; real-time sensor fusion; distributed computing and web technologies; high performance distributed applications

B. Stuart Trembly

Associate Professor of Engineering

Therapeutic heating of tissue; biomedical engineering; antenna theory

Douglas W. Van Citters

Assistant Professor of Engineering

Orthopaedic failure analysis and design; wear of polymers; polymer processing; biomaterials and surgical device design

Ulrike G.K. Wegst

Associate Professor of Engineering

Mechanical performance of natural materials; biomaterials and tissue engineering; self-assembly; biotemplated materials; biomimetics; novel materials for nuclear fuel applications; multifunctional hybrid materials; materials selection and eco-design; eco-audits; materials in musical instruments and sports equipment; science education through interdisciplinary projects linking music, arts and sport