Faculty & Staff
Faculty Directory
Core Faculty
DR. NORMA ALCANTAR
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Contact
norma@usf.edu | 813-974-8009 | ENC 3201 | Faculty Webpage
Surface Forces and Chemical Characterization • Micellar Surfactants • Nanoparticles • Organic/Inorganic Thin Films
DR. VENKAT R. BHETHANABOTLA
Professor and Director of Materials Science & Engineering
Contact
IDRB 218 | bhethana@usf.edu | 813-974-3041 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
Biosensors • Plasmonics • Computational Catalysis
DR. RAMON GONZALEZ
Professor and Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar
Contact
ENC 3202 | ramongonzale@usf.edu| 813-974-1223 | Faculty Page | Laboratory Website
Metabolic Engineering • Biorefining and Biofuels
DR. YOGI GOSWAMI
Distinguished University Professor
Contact
ENB 260A | goswami@usf.edu | 813-974-0956 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
Energy Conversion • Solar Energy • Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells • Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer • HVAC
DR. VINAY GUPTA
Chair, Professor, Graduate Advisor
Contact
ENC 3200 | vkgupta@usf.edu | 813-974-0851 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
Interfacial Phenomena • Polymeric Materials • Organic – Inorganic Composites • Self – Assembled Systems • Molecular Recognition • Nanoscale/Smart Materials
DR. PIYUSH KORIA
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
Contact
ENG 248 | pkoria@usf.edu| 813-974-6243 | Faculty Webpage
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine • Microscale Technologies • Biomaterials • Nanomedicine
DR. JOHN N. KUHN
Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies
Contact
IDRB 202D | jnkuhn@usf.edu| 813-974-6498 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
Heterogeneous Catalysis • Materials Chemistry • Electro – catalysis • Engineering Education • Renewable Energy
DR. WILLIAM E. LEE III, PE
Professor
Contact
ENG 245 | wlee2@usf.edu| 813-974-2136 | Faculty Webpage
Biomechanics • Prosthetic Design • Creative Processes • Education
DR. ANNA PYAYT
Associate Professor
Contact
IDRB 202E | pyayt@usf.edu | 813-974-6250 | Faculty Webpage | Website
Nano-photonic chips for biomedicine
DR. DAVID S. SIMMONS
Associate Professor
Contact
ENC 3205 | Email | 813-974-4988 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
Polymers • Molecular Simulations • Glass-Forming Materials • Nanocomposites • Elastomers • Films and Interfaces
DR. LAWRENCE A. STERN
Assistant Professor
Contact
ENC 2212 | sternl@usf.edu| 813-974-5587 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
Immunotherapy • Protein Engineering • Cell Engineering • Biomolecular Engineering • High-Throughput Screening Techniques
DR. AYDIN K. SUNOL, PE
Professor
Contact
ENC 3217 | asunol@usf.edu| 813-974-3566 | Faculty Webpage | Laboratory Website
Systems engineering • Supercritical fluid technology • Green Engineering • Product and Process Design
DR. RYAN TOOMEY
Professor
Contact
ENC 3503 | toomey@usf.edu| 813-974-9164 | Faculty Webpage
Responsive Polymers • Hydrogels
PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE
Dr. Christopher Schemel
Professor of Practice, Founder & President of Delta Q Consultants, Inc.
Research Areas: Fire & explosion safety, hazard identification & hazard analysis, consequence analysis and quanititaive risk assessment
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. J. Carlos Busot - Emeritus Professor
Research areas
Dr. Carlos Smith - Emeritus Professor
Research areas
Automatic process control, Dynamic process modeling, Process engineering
Affiliated Faculty
Dr. Christopher L. Alexander
Interdisciplinary Assistant Professor
Office: ENC 3208 | Email | 813-974-1137 | Website
Research areas
Corrosion diagnosis and control, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Multi-physics modeling
Dr. Mark Jaroszeski
Interdisciplinary Associate Professor
Office: ENG 243 | Email | 813-974-4662
Research areas
Drug and gene delivery, electrofusion, biomedical instrumentation, electrophoresis
Dr. Christopher Passaglia
Interdisciplinary Professor
Office: ENG 247 | Email | 813-974-7140 | Website
Research areas
Vision systems, neural signal processing, computational modeling, retinal physiology and disease
Dr. Robert Frisina, Jr
Interdisciplinary Distinguished University Professor, Chair of Medical Engineering Dept.
Office: ENC 3504 | Email | 813-974-4394 | Website
Research areas
Development of bio-therapeutic systems, devices and compounds for treating sensory deficits; emphasis on bench-to-bedside investigations of the auditory system, and translational research on deafness and other neuro-engineering applications