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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Ashutosh Agarwal

Ashutosh Agarwal

Professor

(305) 243-8925
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Fotios M Andreopoulos

Fotios M Andreopoulos

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-2069
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David Alfonso Castilla Casadiego

David Alfonso Castilla Casadiego

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-8237
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David Castilla Casadiego is an assistant professor in the University of Miami Department of Biomedical Engineering, where he joined the faculty in January 2025. Originally from Barranquilla, Colombia, he previously served as a Provost Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow and National Institutes of Health Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00)...
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Jeffrey Duerk

Jeffrey Duerk

Professor

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Jeffrey L. Duerk, former executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, and former dean of the School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, is an accomplished engineer and scientist, as well as a respected academic with deep appreciation for the social sciences, the arts, and the humanities. Throughout his distinguished...
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Courtney M Dumont

Courtney M Dumont

Assoc. Professor

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Courtney Dumont leads the Neural Stem and Tissue Engineered Microenvironments (NeuSTEM) Group, working at the interface of neural, vascular and immune engineering to overcome barriers that arise after injury to the nervous system. Dumont earned a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014, where she...
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CHEMICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING

Samiul Amin

Samiul Amin

Professor Prof. Practice

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Samiul Amin is a professor of professional practice in the University of Miami College of Engineering’s Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering. He also serves as director of the Engineering Corporate Affiliates Program (E-CAP). Before joining the University of Miami, he was an associate professor of chemical...
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Pratim Biswas

Pratim Biswas

Professor

(305) 284-5986
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Pratim Biswas is a faculty member in the Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Miami, with an affiliated appointment in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. He served as dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering from 2020 to 2025. Biswas is a pioneer in his field...
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David A. Chin

David A. Chin

Professor

(305) 284-3508
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Water-quality control in natural systems, terrestrial fate and transport of bacteria, environmental fluid mechanics, stochastic hydrology, design of stormwater control measures, design of hydraulic structures, agrohydrology, geohydrology, and TMDLs.
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Chao Luo

Chao Luo

Assoc. Professor

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Chao Luo is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering at the University of Miami College of Engineering. His research focuses on the development of organic materials, polymers, carbon-sulfur composites and electrolytes for high-energy, sustainable battery technologies.Luo earned a...
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Dibyendu Mukherjee

Dibyendu Mukherjee

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

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CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

Esber Andiroglu

Esber Andiroglu

Professor Prof. Practice

(305) 284-3391
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Esber Andiroglu is a professor of practice in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Miami College of Engineering. He also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering and the School of Architecture. He serves as director of the Murphy Construction...
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Jean Pierre Bardet

Jean Pierre Bardet

Vice Provost for Strategic Projects

(305) 284-8625
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Jean-Pierre Bardet joined the Office of the Provost in June 2019. As the Vice Provost for Strategic Projects he led key industry collaborations with the University of Miami; these partnerships encourage the advancing of innovation and interdisciplinary projects across departments. He previously served as dean of the College of Engineering at UM....
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Minghui Cheng

Minghui Cheng

Asst. Professor

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Minghui Cheng is an assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and the School of Architecture, with an affiliation to the Climate Resilience Academy. Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate in systems engineering at Cornell University. He earned a doctorate in structural engineering from...
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Ali Ghahremaninezhad

Ali Ghahremaninezhad

Professor

(305) 284-3465
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Advanced Materials Research Lab
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James W Giancaspro

James W Giancaspro

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-1006
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James Giancaspro is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Director in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (CAE) at the University of Miami’s College of Engineering.  His expertise is in the areas of civil engineering materials and mechanics, while his research aims to improve STEM...
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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Hammam Alsafrjalani

Hammam Alsafrjalani

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

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Research interests include heterogeneous-and-configurable systems, cybersecurity through configurable-systems, embedded systems, runtime optimization, and consumer electronics designs
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Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Professor

(305) 284-7888
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Pinhas Ben-Tzvi is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami College of Engineering and the founding director of the Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory. His research focuses on robotics, intelligent autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning,...
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Xiaodong Cai

Xiaodong Cai

Professor

(305) 284-1941
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Develop machine learning algorithms and computer programs to analyze (big) data in cancer genomics, particularly those related to DNA sequences, gene expression, alternative splicing, and DNA methylation; Design and analyze mathematical models for gene regulatory networks for identifying cancer driver; Develop computational method for chemical...
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Mingzhe Chen

Mingzhe Chen

Asst. Professor
Knight Foundation Chair in Data Science and AI
AI + Machine Learning Core Faculty, Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing

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Mingzhe Chen earned a doctorate from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a visiting researcher in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. He served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University...
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Nigel M John

Nigel M John

Sr. Lecturer and Undergraduate Program Director
Undergraduate Program Director (UPD)

(305) 284-5564
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Computer/Network Security, Cloud Systems, Medical Informatics, Medical Imaging and Image Processing
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INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Khaled Yahia Zakaria Abdel Rahman

Khaled Yahia Zakaria Abdel Rahman

Lecturer

(305) 284-8184
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Mario G. Beruvides

Mario G. Beruvides

Professor Prof. Practice

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Mario G. Beruvides is a faculty member in the University of Miami Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Before joining the University of Miami, he served for 30 years as a faculty member in the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department at Texas Tech University, where he developed a national and international...
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Jaime H Buitrago

Jaime H Buitrago

Capstone Lecturer

(305) 284-2831
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Jaime Buitrago, P.E., is a professional with experience spanning engineering, technology and business development. He earned a doctorate in industrial engineering from the University of Miami, where his research focused on artificial neural networks and machine learning for energy forecasting. With more than two decades of experience, Buitrago...
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Nurcin Celik

Nurcin Celik

Professor & Associate Dean for Research

(305) 284-2391
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Energy systems for smart cities Decision making under uncertainty Dynamic-data-driven modeling and simulation Distributed and hybrid modeling paradigms Computationally feasible analysis of massive datasets Machine learning and clustering Bayesian inferencing and particle filtering methodologies Epigenetic modeling for pathway...
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Cheng-Bang Chen

Cheng-Bang Chen

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-2367
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Cheng-Bang Chen is an assistant professor in the University of Miami Department of Industrial Engineering. He earned a dual-title doctorate in industrial engineering and operations research from Pennsylvania State University and master’s degrees in statistics from Columbia University and industrial engineering from National Taiwan...
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MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Kevin Boutsen

Kevin Boutsen

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

(305) 284-5913
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Kevin Boutsen is an associate professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Miami, where his research focused on engine exhaust flow analysis. Boutsen brings experience from both academia and industry, with expertise in race engineering,...
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Emrah Celik

Emrah Celik

Associate Professor

(305) 284-9364
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Thermoelectricity, Additive Manufacturing, Nanotechnology, Microfluidics, Solid Mechanics and Numerical Simulation.
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Weiyong Gu

Weiyong Gu

Professor
Undergraduate Director

(305) 284-8553
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Weiyong Gu is a professor and undergraduate program director in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami. He previously served for 13 years as a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. An internationally recognized researcher in biomedical engineering, Gu specializes in soft tissue...
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Kaan Inal

Professor

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Hongtan Liu

Hongtan Liu

Professor Prof. Practice

(305) 284-2019
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PEM Fuel Cells, Direct Methanol Fuel Cells, Solar Energy, Hydrogen Energy, Storage Energy, Clean Energy
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