Saudi Arabia

Chris Abbyad

Nursing

Chris Abbyad’s research focuses on Black/White racism in healthcare, racism experienced by pregnant Black women, smoking cessation, water pipe use by university students, and smoking during pregnancy. Abbyad also has an interest in cultural awareness and competency having taught nursing in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

Matthew Balhoff

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Matthew Balhoff's research objective is to model, understand, and validate fundamental flow and transport behavior of subsurface fluids with applications to hydrocarbon recovery, carbon sequestration, groundwater remediation, and nuclear waste storage.

Amit Bhasin

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Amit Bhasin’s research focuses on developing models that relate material properties to performance of asphalt binders and mixtures, including evaluating the impact of chemical modifiers, additives, and other agents, developing comprehensive models for undamaged behavior and damage evolution in asphalt binders and mixtures, and characterizing physical and chemical properties of asphalt binders and aggregates.

Chandra Bhat

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Economics

Chandra Bhat is an expert in the area of travel demand modeling and travel behavior analysis. His methodological research interests and expertise are in the areas of econometric and mathematical modeling of consumer behavior, including discrete choice analysis, discrete-continuous econometric systems, and hazard duration models.

Paulo Ferreira

Mechanical Engineering

Paulo Ferreira's research is focused on the study of the atomic structure and defect behavior of nanomaterials, used for alternative energy technologies, through in-situ and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy techniques. Ferreira is interested in understanding the relationships between the structure and the properties of nanomaterials, and the underlying mechanisms of structural and property changes induced by crystalline defects.

Sergey Fomel

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sergey Fomel's research interests include computational and exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, wave propagation, seismic data analysis, inverse problems, and geophysical estimation.

Fares Fraij

Computer Science

Fares Fraij's major research interests includes automatic theorem proving, computer-aided instruction, and visual-assisted pedagogy.

Omar Ghattas

Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Oden Institute

Omar Ghattas' research focuses on advanced mathematical, computational, and statistical theory and algorithms for large-scale inverse and optimization problems governed by models of complex engineered and natural systems.

Robert Jansen

Integrative Biology

Robert Jansen studies plant molecular systematics and evolution with a primary focus on comparative genomics of plastids, their utility for understanding genome evolution and phylogenetic relationships of angiosperms, and coevolution between plastid, mitochondrial and nuclear genomes.

Manish Kumar

Chemical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Manish Kumar's research group is interested in mimicking biological processes and materials at the molecular scale, particularly cell membrane components, to develop materials and processes that bring the specificity and functionality of biological molecules and processes to engineering scales.

Keji Lai

Physics

Keji Lai's group actively studies quantum materials with novel electrical, magnetic, and optical properties.

Xiaoqin "Elaine" Li

Physics

Elaine Li's research focuses on using laser spectroscopy methods to investigate new materials on the nanoscale or individual nanoparticles, quasiparticles, and collective excitations. 

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Kishore Mohanty

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Kishore Mohanty's research focuses on transport of simple and complex fluids in complex micro-structured materials for applications in energy, environment and biotechnology.

Muhammad T. Rahman

Geography and the Environment

Muhammad T. Rahman’s research interests include human-environmental interactions during and after natural disasters, geographic information science, urban remote sensing, and quantitative methods.

Jonathan Sessler

Chemistry

Jonathan Sessler's research expertise is focused on organic chemistry, texaphyrin, expanded porphyrins, anion recognition, drug development, anti cancer agents, and the technical analyses of patents.

Guihua Yu

Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Guihua Yu's researches design and synthesis of functional nano-architectured materials, like organic and hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, understanding of their chemical and physical properties, and development of large-scale assembly and integration methodologies to enable important applications in energy, environment and sustainability, e.g. fast-charging batteries, electrocatalysis, solar water purification, critical mineral recovery.

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