Faculty & Staff

Faculty Directory

Core Faculty

Norma Alcantar

Dr. Norma Alcantar

Professor, Associate Dean for Research

ENC 3201 | Email | 813-974-8009 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Surface Forces and Chemical Characterization, Micellar Surfactants, Nanoparticles, Organic/Inorganic Thin Films

Marimuthu Andiappan

DR. MARIMUTHU ANDIAPPAN

Associate Professor

ENC 2212 | Email | 813-396-0671 | Faculty Bio|

Research areas

Plasmonic nanomaterials and high-dielectric metal oxide nanomaterials-based photocatalytic processes, solar energy conversion and storage, sustainable production of fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals, and carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion

 

Venkat Bhethanabotla

Dr. Venkat Bhethanabotla

Professor

IDRB 218 | Email | 813-974-3041 | Faculty Bio |

Research areas

Biosensors, Plasmonics, Computational Catalysis

Dr. Michelle Cardenas

Dr. Michelle Cardenas

Assistant Professor of Instruction

ENC 3203 | Email | 813-974-1304 

Research areas

Mathematical modeling, chemical engineering

Ramon Gonzalez

Dr. Ramon Gonzalez

Professor, Florida 21st Century World Class Scholar

ENC 3202 | Email | 813-974-1223 | Faculty Bio | 

Research areas

Metabolic Engineering, Biorefining and Biofuels

Yogi Goswami

Dr. Yogi Goswami

Distinguished University Professor

ENB 260A | Email | 813-974-0956 | Faculty Bio | 

Research areas

Energy Conversion, Solar Energy, Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, HVAC

Vinay Gupta

Dr. Vinay Gupta

Chair, Professor, Graduate Advisor

ENC 3200 | Email | 813-974-0851 | Faculty Bio |

Research areas

Interfacial Phenomena, Polymeric Materials, Organic 鈥� Inorganic Composites, Self 鈥� Assembled Systems, Molecular Recognition, Nanoscale/Smart Materials

Piyush Koria

Dr. Piyush Koria

Associate Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

ENG 248 | Email | 813-974-6243 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, Microscale Technologies, Biomaterials, Nanomedicine

John Kuhn

Dr. John Kuhn

Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

IDRB 202D | Email | 813-974-6498 | Faculty Bio | 

Research areas

Heterogeneous Catalysis, Materials Chemistry, Electro 鈥� catalysis, Engineering Education, Renewable Energy

Anna Pyayt

Dr. Anna Pyayt

Associate Professor

IDRB 202E | Email | 813-974-6250 | Faculty Bio | 

Research areas

Nano-photonic chips for biomedicine

Dr. Rituparna Samanta

Dr. Rituparna Samanta

Assistant Professor

BPB 213A | Email | 813-396-0544 |  

Research areas

Computational Biology, Polymer Physics, Engineering solube proteins and assemblies

David Simmons

Dr. David Simmons

Professor, Faculty Senate President

ENC 3205 | Email | 813-974-4988 | Faculty Bio | 

Research areas

Polymers, Molecular Simulations, Glass-Forming Materials, Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Films and Interfaces

Lawrence Stern

Dr. Lawrence Stern

Assistant Professor

ENC 2212 | Email | 813-974-5587 | Faculty Bio | 

Research areas

Immunotherapy, Protein Engineering, Cell Engineering, Biomolecular Engineering, High-Throughput Screening Techniques

Aydin Sunol

Dr. Aydin Sunol, PE

Professor

ENC 3217 | Email | 813-974-3566 | Faculty bio | 

Research areas

Systems engineering, Supercritical fluid technology, Green Engineering, Product and Process Design

Ryan Toomey

Dr. Ryan Toomey

Professor

ENC 3503 | Email | 813-974-9164 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Responsive Polymers, Hydrogels

Dr. Weizhong Zou

Dr. Weizhong Zou

Assistant Professor

ENC 2210 | Email | 813-396-0787 | Faculty Bio

Research areas

Reactive processing of plastics, Polymer informatics, Directed engineering of soft materials

Emeritus Faculty

Carlos Busot

Dr. J Carlos Busot

Research areas

Reactor design and Simulation, Irreversible Thermodynamics, Engineering Education

Carlos Smith

Dr. Carlos Smith

Email

Research areas

Automatic process control, Dynamic process modeling, Process engineering

Dr. Babu Joseph

Email |

Research areas

Modeling, simulation and control, multi鈥搒cale modeling of systems, clean liquid fuels from biomass, Fischer鈥揟ropsch synthesis

Dr. William Lee

Dr. William E. Lee, III, PE

Email | Website

Research area

Biomechanics, Prosthetic Design, Creative Processes, Education

Affiliated Faculty 

Dr. Christopher Alexander

Assistant Professor

ENC 3208 | Email | 813-974-1137 | 

Research areas

Corrosion diagnosis and control, Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Multi-physics modeling

Dr. Michael Cai Wang

Assistant Professor 

ENC 2206 | Email | 813-974-8586 | 

Research areas

Nano-science/nano-manufacturing, Interfacial/surface phenomena.

Dr. Nathan Gallant

Professor

ENC 2407 | Email | 813-974-5840 | 

Research areas

Materials, tissue engineering, mechanotransduction

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Dr. Ionnnis Spanapoulos

Assistant Professor

IDRB 202G | Email | 813-974-6370 |

Research areas

Organic and inorganic synthesis, design of multi-functional materials,energy and environment-related applications

Dr. Christopher Passaglia

Professor

ENG 247 | Email | 813-974-7140 |

Research areas

Vision systems, neural signal processing, computational modeling, retinal physiology and disease

Dr. Robert Frisina, Jr.

Distinguished University Professor, Chair of Medical Engineering Dept.

ENC 3504 | Email | 813-974-4394 |

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