Research

Below you will find a listing of research areas and faculty focus areas.

Catalysis & Reaction Engineering

  • Dr. Rai – Computational Design of Catalytic Materials

ChE Fundamentals

Data Analytics

Engineering Education

Energy Engineering

Environmental Engineering

  • Dr. Amirlatifi - Carbon Dioxide Capturing, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS)
  • Dr. Bricka - Soil Remediation
  • Dr. Mir – Oilfield Produced Water Management, Sustainable Carbon Sequestration

Geofluids

  • Dr. Heshmati – Dynamics of Fluid Flow in Porous Media, Capillarity, Interfacial Phenomena

Geomechanics

Machine Learning & Data Science

  • Dr. Rai – Application of Machine Learning for Materials Design and Molecular Simulations

Materials

  • Dr. Hill - Crystallization
  • Dr. Jessop - Polymers
  • Dr. Kundu - Polymers and Soft Materials
  • Dr. Rai – Rational Design of Optoelectronic Materials, Organic Electronics, Perovskites, Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Materials, Self-assembly

Molecular Simulations & Thermodynamics

  • Dr. Rai – Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) Simulations, First Principles MD and MC Simulations, Statistical Mechanics