Saeed Ahmad, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Dr. Ahmad specializes in the development of using small molecules, peptides and proteins
Research and development using small molecules peptides and proteins Process development of new and existing active pharmaceutical ingredients Development of efficient and cost effective processes using continuous synthesis and flow chemistry.
Vitaliy Avrutin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Professor Avrutin specializes in the growth and characterization of oxide materials (ZnO, perovskite oxides)
III-Nitride expitaxial structures for light emitters and high-power devices including semipolar and nonpolar material on silicon and sapphire substrates
Cang Ye, Ph.D.
Professor · VCU College of Engineering
Dr. Ye's research interests include Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, 3D Computer Vision, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems.
Bartosz Krawczyk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor · VCU College of Engineering
Dr. Krawczyk's areas of research are machine learning, data stream mining, and big data.
Machine learning: ensembles, imbalanced data, one-class classification, kernel methods. Data stream mining: concept drift, active learning, online classification and regression. Big data: mining massive datasets, efficient and scalable learning algorithms
Fotis Sotiropoulos, Ph.D.
VCU Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs; Professor, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Fotis Sotiropoulos serves as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University
Ibrahim Guven, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Professor Guven specializes in fracture and failure analysis using peridynamics.
Fracture and failure analysis using Peridynamics Impact and penetration mechanics Finite element method Boundary element method Multi-scale modeling of physical phenomena
Hong-Sheng Zhou, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · VCU College of Engineering
Hong-Sheng Zhou's main research area is Cryptography, spanning the full spectrum from theory to practice
Cryptography Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Techniques Information Security Distributed Computing
Kostadin Damevski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · VCU College of Engineering
Interested in software engineering and in the use of natural language processing techniques to improve software maintenance and evolution.
Software Engineering Software Maintenance Recommendation Systems Natural Language Processing
Krzysztof “Krys” Cios, Ph.D., D.Sc., M.B.A.
Professor, Department of Computer Science · VCU College of Engineering
Research in data mining, machine learning and biomedical informatics.
Data Science Data Mining Machine Learning Computational Neuroscience Biomedical Informatics
Laleh Golshahi, Ph.D.
Engineering Foundation Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Dr. Golshahi specializes in aerosol science and in vitro-in vivo correlations for respiratory support, diagnosis and inhalation therapy.
Aerosol Science and Medicine In Vitro and In Vivo Models Of Respiratory Deposition Health-Related Aerosols Exposure Control Targeted Respiratory Drug Delivery Aerosol filtration
Liang-Chieh Ma, Ph.D.
Research Scientist · VCU College of Engineering
To integrate new technology and capabilities into the laboratory operations and expand infrastructure. Collaborates with PIs and users.
Mark A. McHugh, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Chemical and Life Science Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Professor McHugh researches high-pressure fluid properties and phase equilibria
High-Pressure Fluid Properties and Phase Equilibria Polymer Solution Behavior at High Pressures Scattering Phenomena in Polymer Solutions at High Pressures Supercritical Fluid Solvent Technology
Ning Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Professor Zhang is engineering strategies for the treatment of traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and brain stroke
Stem Cell Biology Central nervous system trauma and diseases Biomaterials for oral biofilm prevention
Paul F. Rocheleau
Executive Director of Strategic Development · VCU College of Engineering
Provides multi-functional support to grow the school, including the development of new initiatives
Paul A. Wetzel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and ABET Coordinator, Department of Biomedical Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Dr. Wetzel's research interests include eye tracking systems and eye movement analysis
Eye tracking systems and eye movement analysis Effects of neurological diseases on eye movement control Visual task analysis Physiological instrumentation and signal processing systems Human-machine interfaces based on based on eye and head movement
Yuichi Motai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Associate Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Virginia Commonwealth University.
System Safety Intelligent Systems with Adaptive Tracking Online Classification Methodologies Medical Imaging Pattern Recognition
Noelle Comolli, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering | College of Engineering · Villanova University
Noelle Comolli, PhD, researches the use of different polymers for either novel biomaterials or controlled release delivery vehicles
Spinal Cord Research Drug Delivery Chemical Engineering Biomaterials Polymer Chemistry
Alberto Cano, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · VCU College of Engineering
Dr. Cano specializes in machine learning, data mining, classification, big data, data streams, and high-performance computing.
Machine Learning Data Mining Classification Big Data High Performance Computing
Alen Docef, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · VCU College of Engineering
Professor Docef's research interests lie in medical image processing
Medical Image Processing Signal Processor Architectures Document Compression for Archiving Efficient Error-Resilient Network-Optimized Image and Video Coding
Bennett (Ben) Ward, Ph.D.
Associate Professor · VCU College of Engineering
Polymer chemistry and engineering. Product and device design, with a knack for robust program development.
Capstone Senior Design Program Innovation design and development processes High Performance Polymers and Fibers Applications of Materials and Surface Science Filtration and separation