The Ph.D. in Engineering Program is a collaborative effort in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Program faculty at Wright State reside in the Departments of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering; Electrical Engineering; and Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

Here is an alphabetical list of the Program Faculty and their Research Focus Areas. For additional information about each faculty member's research interests, follow the Research Focus Area links below. You can get more detailed information about the faculty, including specific research interests and contact information, by following the faculty links within each Research Focus Area.

 

Maher Amer Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  130k	Office: 132 Russ Phone: 937-775-5095 Email:	Raman spectroscopy, polymer composites, micromechanics of multiphase materials, phase transitions in nanostructured material systems PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology
Misty Blue Assistant Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  34k	Office: 260 Russ Phone: 937-775-5048 Email:	PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems
Henry Chen Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  264k	Office: 325 Russ Phone: 937-775-5056 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:	Computer-aided design, verification and testing of VLSI circuits and systems, specifically in digital, analog, mixed-signal IC, system-on-a-chip (SoC); VLSI and FPGA Instrumentation and measurement for communications, global positioning systems, and digital wideband microwave receivers PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VSLI, and Nanotechnology
Frank Ciarallo Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  61k	Office: 231 Russ Phone: 937-775-5024 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~fciarall/	management and control of systems with uncertainty, inventory and supply chain system optimization, vehicle traffic system modeling, perturbation analysis of traffic intersections, simulation PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems
Haibo Dong Assistant Professor Short Biography	Office: 126 Russ Email:	PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Marty Emmert Associate Professor Short Biography	Office: 415 Russ Phone: 937-775-5023 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~emmert/	Integrated circuit design with electronic warfare and radar receiver applications, built-in-self-test (BIST) for adaptive computer systems and mixed signal systems, and CAD tool development PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VSLI, and Nanotechnology
Jennie Gallimore Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  63k	Office: 246 Russ Phone: 937-775-5072 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jgalli/	humans in complex systems, aviation human factors, visualization, decision support, virtual environments, medical systems PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems
Fred Garber Associate Professor Short Biography	Office: 311 Russ Phone: 937-775-5033 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~fdgarber/	Decision theory and pattern recognition, communication theory PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Tarun Goswami Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  96k	Office: 257 Russ Phone: 937-775-5048 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:	PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems   Materials and Nanotechnology   Medical and Biological Systems
Ramana Grandhi Distinguished Professor of Research Short Biography Curriculum Vita  782k	Office: 210 Russ Phone: 937-775-5090 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~rgrandhi/	Structural optimization, mechanical vibrations, finite-element methods, metal-forming processes design PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Thomas Hangartner Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  152k	Office: 244 Russ Phone: 937-775-5070 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:	Biomedical engineering, medical imaging, CT scanning, instrumentation, computers, quantitative bone measurements PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing   Medical and Biological Systems
Ping He Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  30k	Office: 205 Russ Phone: 937-775-5069 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:	Biomedical engineering, medical imaging, ultrasonics, instrumentation, computers PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems   Sensor Signal and Image Processing   Medical and Biological Systems
Ray Hill Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  120k	Office: 232 Russ Phone: 937-775-5150 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~rhill/	Agent based model and simulation analysis; numerical and heuristic search methods; simulation based optimization and the application of operational research techniques to problems in the analytical and logistics domains PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems
Lang Hong Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  81k	Office: 329 Russ Phone: 937-775-5053 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:	Stochastic control systems, computer vision, image processing and pattern recognition, robotics, multiple sensor integration and target tracking PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing
George P. G. Huang Chair Short Biography Curriculum Vita  81k	Office: 209B Russ Phone: 937-775-5043 Email:	Flow Physics Modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Bor Jang Dean	Office: 405 Russ Phone: 937-775-5001 Fax: 937-775-5009 Email:	PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology
Marian Kazimierczuk Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  300k	Office: 418 Russ Phone: 937-775-5059 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:	Electronic circuit analysis, high-frequency tuned power amplifiers, power electronics PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VSLI, and Nanotechnology
Nathan Klingbeil Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  97k	Office: 228 Russ Phone: 937-775-5088 Email:	Solid mechanics, fracture mechanics and fatigue crack growth, mechanics and materials issues in layered manufacturing processes PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Junghsen Lieh Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  106k	Office: 236 Russ Phone: 937-775-5086 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jlieh/jlieh.html	Dynamics and control of mechanical systems, manufacturing, impact mechanics, biomechanics, vehicle systems, instrumentation PhD Focus Areas Controls and Robotics
Yan Liu Assistant Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  115k	Office: 230 RUss Phone: 937-775-5161 Email:      http://www.wright.edu/~yan.liu/	Human-computer interaction, information visualization, data mining, and decision making/aiding PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems
James Menart Assistant Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  145k	Office: 125 Russ Phone: 937-775-5145 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jmenart/	Thermal sciences, heat transfer, plasma science, magnetoaerodynamics PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Sharmila Mukhopadhyay Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  98k	Office: 129 Russ Phone: 937-775-5092 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~smukhopa/	nanoscale phenomena, surfaces and interfaces in solids, spectroscopic and microscopic techniques, interdisciplinary science and engineering education PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology
S. Narayanan Professor Chair Short Biography Curriculum Vita  104k	Office: 207 Phone: 937-775-5045 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~snarayan/	Modeling and simulation of complex technological systems, cognition, computational representation, interactive systems PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems
Ravi Penmetsa Assistant Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  91k	Office: 227 Russ Phone: 937-775-5089 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~pravi/	Robust design, multidisciplinary design optimization, uncertainty quantification PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Chandler Phillips Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  187k	Office: 204 Russ Phone: 937-775-5067 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:	Mathematical modeling of biomechanics, fuzzy decision making in rehabilitation,functional electrical stimulation PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems   Sensor Signal and Image Processing   Medical and Biological Systems
Kuldip Rattan Professor Short Biography	Office: 108 Russ Phone: 937-775-5052 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~krattan/	Computer-aided design, digital signal processing and control, bioengineering, robotics, fuzzy control, prosthetic/orthotics and microprocessor applications PhD Focus Areas Controls and Robotics
David Reynolds Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  114k	Office: 206 Russ Phone: 937-775-5068 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:	Biomedical engineering, biofluid mechanics, engineering approaches to respiratory/pulmonary physiology and to orthopedics and prosthetics PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems   Materials and Nanotechnology   Medical and Biological Systems
Brian Rigling Assisstant Professor Curriculum Vita  12k	Office: 422 Russ Phone: 937-775-5100 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~brigling/	Sensor signal processing including synthetic aperture radar, autofocus, and array processing. Radar systems engineering. Parametric modeling and estimation. Growing interest in noise radar and adaptive filtering. PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Joseph Shang Research Professor	Office: 127 Russ Phone: 937-775-5094 Email:	computational physics, computational fluid dynamics PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization   Electronics, Microwave, VSLI, and Nanotechnology
Arnab Shaw Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  65k	Office: 427 Russ Phone: 937-775-5064 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~ashaw/	Communication theory and stochastic processes, estimation and detection, signal modeling and signal processing, simulation of communication systems PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing
Raymond Siferd Professor Emeritus Short Biography Curriculum Vita  95k	Office: 324 Russ Phone: 937-775-5058 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~rsiferd/	integrated circuits, signal processing, microelectromechanical systems PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VSLI, and Nanotechnology
Julie Skipper Assistant Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  41k	Office: 242 Russ Phone: 937-775-5097 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:      http://www.wright.edu/~julie.skipper/	Medical imaging, computed tomography, radiation detector systems, hyperspectral imaging, image processing PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems   Sensor Signal and Image Processing   Medical and Biological Systems
Joseph Slater Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita	Office: 238 Russ Phone: 937-775-5085 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~jslater/	Structure dynamics and control PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization   Controls and Robotics
Raghavan Srinivasan Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  122k	Office: 128 Russ Phone: 937-775-5145 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/people/faculty/rsrin/RSrinivasan_Home.htm	High-temperature deformation, materials behavior modeling, materials engineering PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology
Scott Thomas Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  104k	Office: 124 Russ Phone: 937-775-5142 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~sthomas/	Heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, two-phase flow PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Mitch Wolff Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  94k	Office: 123 Russ Phone: 937-775-5141 Email:	Fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, unsteady aerodynamics, CFD, aeroelasticity, instrumentation, power systems, fuel cells, high altitude airships, two-phase flow PhD Focus Areas Computational Design and Optimization
Zhiqiang (John) Wu Assistant Professor	Office: 481 Joshi Phone: 937-775-5060 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:	PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VSLI, and Nanotechnology
Kefu Xue Chair Associate Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  77k	Office: 311 Russ Phone: 937-775-5037 Fax: 937-775-3936 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~kxue/	Image processing and computer vision, stochastic processes and filtering, computer and communication systems, control and estimation theory PhD Focus Areas Sensor Signal and Image Processing
H. Daniel Young Assistant Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  77k	Office: 130 Russ Phone: 937-775-5027 Email:	Nanochannel materials, multimaterial fiberous materials, laser micromachining and forward transfer techniques PhD Focus Areas Materials and Nanotechnology
Xinhui Zhang Assistant Professor Short Biography Curriculum Vita  165k	Office: 234 Russ Phone: 937-775-5151 Fax: 937-775-7364 Email:      http://www.wright.edu/~xinhui.zhang/	Mathematical programming/optimization, manufacturing/production and inventory control, logistics/transportation, and decision science PhD Focus Areas Industrial and Human Systems
Frank Zhang Assistant Professor	Office: 335 Russ Fax: 937-775-4463 Email:      http://www.engineering.wright.edu/~xiaodong.zhang/	Intelligent Control Systems, Integrated Health Management Systems, Distributed & Cooperative Control Systems, Smart Adaptive Systems PhD Focus Areas Controls and Robotics
Yan Zhuang	Office: 421 Russ Phone: 937-775-4556 Email:	PhD Focus Areas Electronics, Microwave, VSLI, and Nanotechnology   Materials and Nanotechnology