College of Engineering

Associate Professor, Transportation Engineering

Research Interests: Traffic signal design; timing; operations; and analysis; traffic signal system design; timing; operations; and analysis; non-traditional intersection design; operations; and analysis; non-traditional interchange design; operations; and analysis; highway traffic simulation modeling.

Professor, Construction Materials

Research Interests: Construction materials; aggregates; portland cement concrete; flowable fill; bituminous materials.

Professor, Structural Engineering

Research Interests: Masonry; concrete and steel testing and design; structural dynamics and earthquake engineering; computational structural modeling.

Associate Provost, Professor of Structural Engineering

Research Interests: Structural analysis; reinforced concrete design; prestressed concrete design; structural steel design; bridge design.

Associate Professor, Water Resources

Research Interests: Climate impacts; computational hydraulics and hydrology; hydraulic/hydrologic modeling urban water management; regional scale flood modeling and simulation.

Professor, Structural Mechanics

Research Interests: Composite materials; vibration analysis; plates & shells; computational mechanics symbolic computer systems in engineering applications; computational algebraic geometry in nonlinear structural analysis.

Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Professor of Construction Materials

Research Interests: Durability; microstructure; and chemistry of cement-based materials; early-age behavior of cement and concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete; supplementary cementitious materials.

Associate Professor, Structural Mechanics

Research Interests: Theoretical and computational mechanics; mathematical formulation and corresponding computer implementation to describe the electro-mechanical behavior of solids under different types of environments.

Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering

Research Interests: Transport of pollutants in the environment; transformation of chlorinated compounds; oxidized metals and other pollutants in anaerobic environments in the presence of metallic iron.

University Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Nanostructured materials-with functional performance; micro- and nano-flows in biophysical systems; environmental catalysis; engineering education.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Improving sustainability at the water- energy nexus; fabrication and characterization of polymeric membranes; fabrication strategies for improving membrane fouling resistance and selectivity. 

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Research Interests: Agile manufacturing; rheology and non-newtonian fluid flow; blockchain technology and its applications in chemical industry; m2m communication and logistics; leadership in higher.

Interim Chair of Chemical Engineering; Associate Professor 

Research Interests: Bio-assay development; drug delivery; wound healing.

Chair of Computer Science; Stonecipher Distinguished Professor

Research Interest: Software engineering; agile software development; agile instruction; enterprise computing; mobile computing; data science; analytics; and machine learning.

931-372-6855 | jgannod@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 242 | Profile | Website

Interim Director, CEROC; Associate Chair for Computer Science; Professor

Research Interest: Machine learning; data mining; medical informatics; and usability.

931-372-6178 | dtalbert@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 234 | Profile

Interim Assistant Dean of Graduate Education for the College of Engineering; Professor

Research Interests: Data mining; graph-based anomaly detection; and fraud detection.

931-372-3278 | weberle@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 235 | Profile | Webpage

Professor

Research Interests: Institutional leadership; strategic planning; systems integration and effectiveness.

931-372-3386 | delizandro@tntech.edu | Prescott Hall 323 | Profile

Professor

Research Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; high performance computing; programming model for heterogeneous high-performance computing environment.

931-372-3687 | sghafoor@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 429 | Profile

Associate Professor

Research Interests: GPGPU computing; distributed computing; distributed shared memory; operating systems; and network protocols.

931-372-6304 | mrogers@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 427 | Profile

Professor

Research Interest: High-Performance Computing (MPI, scalable libraries, and
heterogeneous computing, and cybersecurity (with emphases on loT and
blockchain technologies).

931-372-6484 | askjellum@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 431

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Wireless networking, internet of things, machine learning, federated
learning

931-372-3253 | ahilal@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 233

Associate Professor Research Interests: GPGPU computing; distributed computing; distributed shared memory; operating systems; and network protocols.

931-372-6304 | mrogers@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 427 | Profile

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Cyber-physical security; networking; smart grids; blockchain; resource
allocation; machine learning; optimization; stochastic modeling.

931-372-6287 | mismail@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 333 | Profile

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Cybersecurity, formal methods and simulation analysis, smart cities & loT,
computer network security, and blockchain technology & consensus algorithms.

931-372-3096 | aaltarawneh@tntech.edu | Bruner Hall 232

Interim Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Computer Science

Research Interests: Data mining; graph-based anomaly detection; and fraud detection.

Professor

P: (931) 372-3386

E: delizandro@tntech.edu

Institutional leadership; strategic planning; systems integration and effectiveness.

Chair of Computer Science; Professor

Research Interest: Software engineering; agile software development; agile instruction; enterprise computing; mobile computing; data science; analytics; and machine learning.

Professor

Research Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; high performance computing; programming model for heterogeneous high-performance computing environment.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Foundational cyber and computer security; access control models; formal analysis; secure cyber physical systems; smart and connected cars; internet of things; ai and machine learning assisted security solutions; malware clustering and classification.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Cyber-physical security; networking; smart grids; blockchain; resource allocation; machine learning; optimization; stochastic modeling.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: GPGPU computing; distributed computing; distributed shared memory; operating systems; and network protocols.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Computer networks; future internet architectures; networking Internet of Things (IoT) devices; future mobile communications.

Associate Chair for Computer Science; Professor

Research Interest: Machine learning; data mining; medical informatics; and usability.

Professor

Research Interest: Autonomous robots, Internet of Things (IoT), driverless vehicle, intelligent control systems, mechatronics systems, health monitoring, learning systems, sensor data fusion.

Associate Professor

Research Interest: Signal processing; communication systems.

Professor

Research Interest: High-efficiency solar cells; high-energy-density sodium and lithium-ion batteries; wireless power transfer; semiconductor electronics; photonics and optics; electromagnetics.

Professor

Research Interest: Data converter architectures; embedded and cyber-physical systems design; quantum computing logic systems; integration of unmanned aerial vehicles in the national airspace; engineering education.

Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs; Professor

Research Interest: Remote sensing; image analysis; artificial intelligence; data analytics; hyperspectral imaging and precision agriculture.

Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Smart grids; mobile vehicle-to-grid technique; next-generation wireless and resource management for vehicular communication.

Associate Professor

Research Interest: Structural health monitoring (SHM) using wireless sensor networks (WSNs).

Professor

Research Interest: Artificial intelligence for edge computing; edge intelligence; security threats in deep learning architectures; Internet of Things'; vulnerabilities against hardware based attacks; machine learning algorithms on hardware.

Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Interest: Wireless communications and networking; dynamic spectrum access systems and spectrum policy; cognitive radio and cognitive networks; applications of game theory and auction theory; error control coding.

Director of the Center for Energy Systems Research (CESR); Professor

Research Interest: Optoelectronics (lasers; solar cells; optical fibers); electromagnetics; wireless charging of EVs; sensors; renewable energy.

Professor

Research Interest: Security & privacy in smart grid, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET), and cloud applications.; secure/privacy-preserving machine learning models.; blockchain; cryptography and machine learning.

Professor

Research Interest: Electric machine analysis and design; adjustable; speed motor drives; power electronic convertors; control theory applied to power electronics and power systems, power systems economics and deregulation issues.

Professor

Research Interest: Smart grid; Integration of renewable energy sources; Power system operation/control.

Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Control theory; reinforcement learning; autonomous systems; cyber-physical systems; facilities planning and material handling; freight modeling and logistics; microalloying and mechanical behavior; modern manufacturing systems; optimization and simulation modeling; production planning and control.

Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Energy generation and transmission; wireless and quasi-wireless power transfer; high frequency inverter design; electronic instrumentation; electromagnetic interactions.

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering; Professor

Research Interest: Hardware assisted security; vehicular ad hoc network (VANET); security & privacy in vehicle communication; federated machine learning; engineering education.

Associate Professor

Research Interest: Teaching and learning strategies; student success and retention; first year engineering programs.

Associate Professor

Research Interest: Freight modeling and logistics; facilities planning and material handling; optimization and simulation modeling; production planning and control; reverse logistics and recycling; modern manufacturing systems; microalloying and mechanical behavior.

Associate Professor

Research Interest: Manufacturing for design (M4D); additive manufacturing.

Assistant Professor

Research Interest: Website development; global engineering communication; assisting international students in acclimating to American culture.

Chair of General and Industrial Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interest: Composite materials testing; materials properties; simulation.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Energy harvesting; smart materials; piezoelectric sensing; biomedical sensing; robotics-based stem education; structural health monitoring; 3D printing.

Professor

Research Interests: Robotics; dynamic modeling; compliant mechanisms; smart actuators; mechatronics.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Modeling and control of engine; emission control; automated and connected vehicles; electric vehicle control and optimization; nonlinear control and optimization.

Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering; Professor

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; turbulence modeling; large eddy simulation; numerical heat transfer; thermal fluids.

Professor

Research Interests: Scale model testing; fluid flow measurement; thermal modeling; fluid mechanics; heat transfer.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Heat transfer study of functionalized nanodiamond colloids; latent thermal energy storage systems; sustainable evaporation in porous media; industrial equipment energy efficiency enhancement; heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Random vibrations; modal analysis; non-destructive evaluation; machine design.

Chair of Mechanical Engineering; Professor

Research Interests: Vibrations; acoustics; noise control; damping design; sound quality and auditory engineering.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: transient model for propulsion; power and thermal systems for system design; optimization and control architecture development.

Dean of the College of Engineering; Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Vibration of structures and machines; aeroelasticity; linear and nonlinear system identification; experimental modal analysis; nonlinear dynamics; cyber physical systems; morphing wing control; turbomachinery blade vibration.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Turbulence and vortex dynamics; renewable energy generation; energy storage: atmospheric flows; fluid-structure interactions.

Chair of General and Industrial Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interest: Composite materials testing; materials properties; simulation.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; experimental fluid and solid mechanics; fluid-structure interactions; multi-functional materials; optimal design

Director of the Center for Manufacturing Research; Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Protective coatings; high-temperature materials; thermal barrier coatings (TBC); chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

Professor

Research Interests: Solid oxide fuel cell; high-temperature materials; coatings; environmental effects in advanced materials; intermetallics.

Professor

Research Interest: Additive manufacturing; smart manufacturing; electronics manufacturing; stem education and distance learning/remote laboratories.

Associate Professor

Research Interest: Advanced manufacturing, wire + arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), metal big area additive manufacturing (mBAAM), data analytics, machine vision, high temperature alloys, and high entropy alloys (HEAs).

Chair of Manufacturing and Engineering Technology; Professor

Research Interest: Metal casting processes; foundry tooling materials; industrial maintenance.

Director of the Center for Energy Systems Research (CESR); Professor

Research Interests: Optoelectronics (lasers; solar cells; optical fibers); electromagnetics; wireless charging of EVs; sensors; renewable energy.

Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Grid-Friendly, Smart, and Intelligent Control of Inverter-Based Resources; Transmission Planning with EMT Software; Real-Time Simulations and HIL Studies; Active Distribution Networks

Director of the Center for Manufacturing Research; Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests: Protective coatings; high-temperature materials; thermal barrier coatings (TBC); chemical vapor deposition (CVD).

Research Assistant Professor

Research Interests: NextG wireless communication & networking; Data & information science (data science, information theory, detection & estimation theory, signal processing, sensing, etc.); Industrial IoT & secure smart manufacturing

Interim Director of the Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach Center; Associate Chair for Computer Science; Professor

Research Interest: Machine learning; data mining; medical informatics; and usability.