CFES research is conducted by leaders in the fields of energy materials, devices, and systems. Following are selected faculty researchers in the three core research areas.
Faculty
Distributed Energy Resources Faculty
Michael Amitay
Professor and James L. Decker '45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering and Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC).
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Experimental Aerodynamics, Experimental fluid mechanics, Active and passive Flow Control
Chulsung Bae
Ford Foundation Professor
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Clean energy technology, Ion-conducting polymers for energy conversion, Green chemistry
Peter Henry Dinolfo
Associate Professor
Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dye-sensitized Semiconductor Solar Cells, Organic Photovoltaics, Artificial Photosynthesis, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Polymers, Materials and Energy
Partha Dutta
Professor
School of Engineering
Semiconductor Optoelectronics, Nanotechnology , Crystal Growth, Solar Thermal Energy, Full Spectrum Photovoltaics, Full Spectrum Solid State Lighting
Farhan Gandhi
Rosalind and John J. Redfern Jr Chair in Engineering and Director, Center for Mobility with Vertical Lift (MOVE)
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Smart and Adaptive Structures for Rotocraft, Material Systems, Cellular Structures
Liping Huang
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, School of Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Thermal sensors, Porous materials, Nanomaterials, Glass materials, Energy, Computational modeling, Ceramic materials
Mattheos Koffas
Dorothy and Fred Chau ʼ71 Career Development Constellation Professor in Biocatalysis and Metabolic Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Metabolic Engineering, Industrial Microbiology, Synthetic Biology, Natural Products
Nikhil Koratkar
John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Smart Materials and Structures, Graphene Electrodes, Electricity Energy Storage, Carbon Nanotubes
Daniel Lewis
Associate Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Mesoscopic Modeling, Microstructure Science and Microscopy, Image Driven Machine Learning, Solidification and Phase Transformations
Jie Lian
Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Nanotechnology, Advanced Nuclear Materials, Nano-scale Characterization, Graphene Composites
Toh-Ming Lu
Ray Palmer Baker Distinguished Professor
Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
Novel materials for advanced electronics and energy applications, Epitaxy of 3D semiconductors on 2D substrates
Jian Shi
Materials Science and Engineering
Epitaxy, Optoelectronic materials, Correlated materials and devices, Neuromorphic devices, Symmetry engineering
Jian Sun
Professor and Director, CFES
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Power factor correction, Power conversion, High-frequency, DC-DC, Communications, Analysis, Aerospace, AC-DC
Minoru Tomozawa
Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Glass Materials, Mass Transport, Reliability
Energy Efficiency Faculty
Ishwara B. Bhat
Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Type II-VI Semiconductors, CdTe, ZnTe, hBN and other , Epitaxial Films
Diana-Andra Borca-Tasciuc
Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Power Harvesting MEMS, Heat Transfer in Nanosystems, Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSC), New PV Materials
Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc
Professor and Associate Department Head for Graduate Affairs
Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering
Heat conduction in nanomaterials, Prototyping and testing advanced refrigeration/heat pump and heat transfer systems, Metrology for fast, accurate, and high spatial resolution of thermal and thermoelectric properties, Thermal transport across interfaces, Thermoelectric energy conversion
T. Paul Chow
Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Semiconductor Power Devices and ICs, Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Semiconductors, Electronics and Circuits
Mona M. Hella
Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
High speed circuits for wireless/optical transceivers, Millimeter wave and THz integrated circuits, biomedical and energy harvesting interface ICs
Robert Karlicek
Professor and Director, Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA)
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Advanced lighting systems, Advanced display technologies, Lighting and biological applications, Advanced sensor technology, Internet of Things, Optoelectronics
Nadarajah Narendran
Professor
School of Architecture
LED Packaging, Solid State Lighting, Light Testing and Evaluation
Joel L. Plawsky
Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Interfacial phenomena, Transport Processes, Thin Films, Microelectronics, Photonics
Michael Shur
Patricia W. and C. Sheldon Roberts Professor of Solid State Electronics
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
Solid State Devices, Semiconductor Devices, Integrated Circuits
Jian Sun
Professor and Director, CFES
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Power factor correction, Power conversion, High-frequency, DC-DC, Communications, Analysis, Aerospace, AC-DC
Shawn-Yu Lin
Professor
Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
Photonic Crystals, Nano-photonics, Integrated Optics, Plasmonics
Christian M. Wetzel
Professor
Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
Electronic Band Structure, Group III Nitrides, Solar Cell Junctions, Power Electronics , Solid State Lighting, Solar Fuels
Distributed System Platforms Faculty
Joe H. Chow
NAE, Institute Professor and Director, Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT)
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Web simulator, Voltage-sourced, Voltage stability analysis, Voltage and power dispatch, UPFC, Sensitivity analysis, Rated-capacity operation, Loadflow models
T. Paul Chow
Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Semiconductor Power Devices and ICs, Wide Bandgap Semiconductors, Semiconductors, Electronics and Circuits
Koushik Kar
Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
routing and traffic management in computer networks, congestion control and fair resource allocation, ad-hoc and sensor networks
Jian Sun
Professor and Director, CFES
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Power factor correction, Power conversion, High-frequency, DC-DC, Communications, Analysis, Aerospace, AC-DC
Ali Tajer
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Machine Learning, Information Theory
Luigi Vanfretti
Associate Professor
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
electric power engineering, power systems, system identification, electrified transportation, modeling and simulation of cyber-physical systems, real-time hardware-in-the-loop simulation, synchrophasor measurements, eVTOL
Meng Wang
Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering
Machine learning, High-dimensional data analytics, Power Systems, Signal Processing