Christos Alexopoulos

Christos Alexopoulos
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Christos Alexopoulos is the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies as well as a Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. 

Dr. Alexopoulos' research interests center on applied probability, statistics, and optimizations of stochastics systems. His recent work involves problems related to the optimal design of telecommunications and transportation networks.

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Phone
404.894.2361
Office
Groseclose Building, Room 429
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Applied probability; statistics; optimizations of stochastics systems; design of telecommunications and transportation networks
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William Singhose

William Singhose
william.singhose@me.gatech.edu
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William Singhose grew up mostly in Oregon and Washington. He went to the University of Oregon for two years before transferring to the Mechanical Engineering department at MIT. 

Singhose then went to Stanford to to pursue his Masters in Mechanical Engineering in 1992. He then worked at Convolve, Inc. for 2 1/2 years before returning to MIT to work on a Ph.D. He finished his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in June 1997, completing his thesis on Command Generation for Flexible Systems

Singhose joined the faculty at Georgia Tech in 1998 as an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering. He is now a full professor.

Professor
Phone
404.385.0668
Office
Callaway Manufacturing Research Center, Room 432
Additional Research
Automation and Mechatronics; Vibration and oscillation conrol; flexible dynamics; command generation; active seating; crane control; human-machine interfaces; spacecraft control
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Raghuram Puchca

Raghuram Puchca
raghuram.pucha@me.gatech.edu
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Raghu Pucha obtained his Ph.D. in 1995 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He held post-doctoral research positions at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Purdue University, West Lafayette before coming to Georgia Tech in 2000. 

His research focuses on developing upfront computational tools for the design, analysis and manufacturing of composite materials. His research contributions in composite materials include (i) Special purpose finite elements for design and delamination failure analysis of fiber reinforced laminated composites (ii) Microstructure simulations for impact damage analysis of composites (iii) Design, analysis and optimization tools for advanced composites in electronics applications. His current research includes design and analysis of nano-filler composites for structural, electronics and bio applications. 

Dr. Pucha teaches computer graphics, CAD/CAE and design courses.

Senior Research Engineer
Phone
404.894.7409
Office
Callaway Manufacturing Research Center, Room 451
Additional Research
Computer-Aided Engineering & Design and Manufacturing: Analysis of composite materials for structural and electronics applications; Manufacturing Process Mechanics and Design-for-Reliability.
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Steven Liang

Steven Liang
steven.liang@me.gatech.edu
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Dr. Liang began at Tech in 1990 as an assistant professor. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University. He was named to the Bryan Professorship in 2005. He was President of Walsin-Lihwa Corporation in 2008-2010.

Morris M. Bryan, Jr. Professorship in Mechanical Engineering for Advanced Manufacturing Systems
Phone
404.894.8164
Office
Callaway Manufacturing Research Center, Room 458
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Manufacturing and Automation and Mechatronics; Modeling; monitoring; control of advanced manufacturing processes and equipment.

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Jonathan Colton

Jonathan Colton
jonathan.colton@me.gatech.edu
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Colton's research interests are in the areas of design and manufacturing, focusing on polymers and polymer composites. Processing techniques, such as micro-molding, injection molding, filament winding, resin transfer molding and the like, are studied and used to fabricate these devices and products, such as smart composite structures.

The design of processing techniques and equipment for metamaterials also are being studied with applications being dielectric materials for electromagnetic applications. Due to the small-scale physics associated with their engineering, nano-scale metamaterials exhibit superior properties and enhanced performance.

Colton has a strong passion for the application of engineering for the common good – "humanitarian design and engineering" and "design that matters," - such as in developing countries and other resource limited environments. To be successful, multidisciplinary teams must work together to produce products that function as well as delight, that exceed customer's expectations, regardless of where the product is used. Along these lines, product design and role that the interactions between engineering and industrial design forms another research interest.

Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Phone
404.894.7407
Office
Callaway 434
Additional Research

Manufacturing and CAE & Design; Humanitarian Design and Engineering (HumDE); Manufacturing; Production; and Design; Polymer and polymer composites; Biomedical and Medical Devices; Technologies for developing countries and other resource-limited environment; Product development and industrial design; Computer-Aided Engineering; Polymeric composites; Materials Design

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Min Zhou

Min Zhou
min.zhou@me.gatech.edu
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Zhou's research interests concern material behavior over a wide range of length scales. His research emphasizes finite element and molecular dynamics simulations as well as experimental characterization with digital diagnostics. The objective is to provide guidance for the enhancement of performance through material design and synthesis. Zhou maintains a high-performance computer cluster with 384 parallel processors and an intermediate-to-high strain rate material research facility which includes a split Hopkinson pressure bar apparatus, a tension bar apparatus, and a combined torsion-tension/torsion-compression bar apparatus.

Recent research focuses on the characterization of the dynamic shear failure resistance of structural metals and the role of microscopic damage in influencing failure processes through shear banding and fracture. Micromechanical models are developed to outline microstructural adjustments that can improve the performance of materials such as metal matrix composites, ceramic composites, composite laminates and soft composites. These models explicitly account for random microstructures as well as random crack and microcrack development. At the nanoscale, ongoing research focuses on the novel shape memory and pseudoelasticity that were recently discovered in metal (e.g., Cu, Au and Ni) nanowires. The coupling between the thermal and mechanical responses of semiconducting oxide (e.g., ZnO and GaN) nanowires is another active research direction which uses molecular dynamics simulations and continuum modeling. Dr. Zhou's group is also actively engaged in research on the equivalent continuum (EC) representation of atomistic deformation at different length scales. Related research projects are sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Army Research Office (ARO), industry, and the Center for Computational Materials Design (CCMD).

George W. Woodruff Professorship, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Phone
404.894.3294
Office
MRDC 4109
Additional Research

Computational MechanicsFracture & FatigueMechanics of Materials & ManufacturingMicro- and Nanoscale BehaviorNanomechanics.  

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Donggang Yao

Donggang Yao
yao@gatech.edu
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Donggang Yao is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. and Master’s degrees both from University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He teaches and directs research in the broad area of polymer engineering. His current research focuses on polymer micromolding, fiber spinning, single-polymer composites, constitutive modeling, and process modeling and simulation. He has published over 60 journal papers and 80 conference papers on polymer processing. He was a recipient of NSF Career Award in 2003 for his research on polymer micromolding. He chaired the ASME Composites and Textile Engineering Technical Committee from 2009 to 2011. He currently serves as an associate editor for ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering and an editorial board member for Polymer Engineering and Science.

Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Phone
404.894.9076
Office
MRDC, Room 4407
Additional Research

Biocomposites; Biomanufacturing; Biomaterials; Bioprocessing; Bioproducts; Fiber Properties; Forming; Lignin & Hemicellulose; Manufacturing; Mechanics of Materials; Microfluidics; Microporous Materials; New Materials for 3D Printing; Polymer & Fiber; Process Modeling; Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

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David Rosen

David Rosen
david.rosen@me.gatech.edu
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When Dr. Rosen arrived at Georgia Tech, he helped form the Systems Realization Laboratory, along with Drs. Janet Allen, Bert Bras, and Farrokh Mistree. In August 1995, Dr. Rosen was appointed the Academic Director of the Georgia Tech Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing Institute (RPMI), where he has responsibility for developing educational and research programs in rapid prototyping. In 1998, he was appointed the Director of the RPMI. He began at Tech in Fall 1992 as an Assistant Professor.

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Associate Chair for Administration
Phone
404.894.9668
Office
Callaway Manufacturing Research Center, Room 252
Additional Research
Papermaking; Energy & Water; Separation Technologies; New Materials for 3D Printing; Paper & Board Mechanics; Microfluidics; Computer-Aided Engineering; Design and Manufacturing; Virtual and rapid prototyping; intelligent CAD/CAM/CAE
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Hamid Garmestani

Hamid Garmestani
hamid.garmestani@mse.gatech.edu

Hamid Garmestani is a professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his education from Cornell University (Ph.D. 1989 in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) and the University of Florida (B.S. 1982 in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. 1984 in Materials Science and Engineering). After serving a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Yale University, he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Florida State University (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) in 1990. 

Primary research and teaching interests include microstructure/property relationship in textured polycrystalline materials, composites, superplastic, magnetic and thin film layered structures. He uses phenomenological and statistical mechanics models in a computational framework to investigate microstructure and texture (micro-texture) evolution during processing and predict effective properties (mechanical, transport and magnetic). His present research interests are processing of fuel cell materials and modeling of their transport and mechanical properties.

Garmestani has been the recipient of a research award (FAR) through NASA in  1997. He received the Superstar in  Research award in 1999 by FSU-CRC.  He  has also been the recipient of the Engineering Research Award at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Spring 2000. He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Plasticity and board of reviewers for journal of Metal Transaction.  He is presently funded through NSF (MRD), NASA, Air Force and the Army.

Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering
Phone
404.385.4495
Office
Love 361
Additional Research

computational mechanics; micro and nanomechanics; Electrical charge storage and transport; Fuel Cells

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Chuck Zhang

Chuck Zhang
chuck.zhang@isye.gatech.edu
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Chuck Zhang is the Harold E. Smalley Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Zhang's research interests include scalable nanomanufacturing, modeling, simulation, and optimal design of advanced composite and nanomaterials manufacturing processes, multifunctional materials development, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, and metrology. Most recently, he has initiated new research and education programs in advanced materials and manufacturing engineering for orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) applications. His research projects have been sponsored by a number of organizations, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Army Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, and Society of Manufacturing Engineers, as well as industrial companies such as ATK Launch Systems, Cummins, General Dynamics, GKN Aerospace Services, Lockheed Martin, and Siemens Power Generation.

Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa, an M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China. Prior to joining ISyE, Zhang served as a professor and chairman of the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at the Florida A&M University - Florida State University College of Engineering.

Harold E. Smalley Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Phone
404.894.4321
Office
Groseclose 0205 334
Additional Research

CompositesManufacturingNanomanufacturing

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