Faculty
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Email: jianzhi.li@utrgv.edu |
Jianzhi (James) Li
Dr. James Li is the Professor at UTRGV. He received his doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas Technology University. Dr. Li has 20+ years of leadership and research experiences in the areas of advanced manufacturing and materials, focusing on laser material processing, additive manufacturing, process modelling and optimization, composite materials, sustainable manufacturing, and logistics. As the director of the consortium, Dr. Li supports research, innovation, and education programs at three consortium institutions to support talent needs in Manufacturing. |
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Javier Macossay TorresDr. Macossay graduated from UANL with a BS in Chemistry in 1989. He obtained his MS in 1993 and PhD in 1995 from LSU in Chemistry. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Naval Research Laboratory, the Western Regional Research Center USDA, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. |
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Email: douglas.timmer@utrgv.edu |
Douglas TimmerDr. Douglas Timmer is currently a professor in Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering at UTRGV. He received his Ph.D. degree from Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M in 1994. Some of his research areas are Education Research, Applied Statistics, Design of Experiments, Process Modeling, and Statistical Quality Control |
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Email: anil.srivastava@utrgv.edu |
Anil SrivastavaDr. Anil Srivastava is currently a Star Professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering at UTRGV. He received his doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Dr. Srivastava has 30+ years of industry and academic research and leadership experiences in the areas of advanced manufacturing and materials, mainly, focusing on Precision Machining, Sustainability, Composite Materials, Smart Manufacturing, and Sensor Applications to Manufacturing Processes. Dr. Srivastava is member of SME and ASME and also, a Fellow of SME and Fellow of ASME. |
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Email: mohammed.uddin@utrgv.edu |
Mohammed Uddin
Dr. M. Jasim Uddin (h-index 29) obtained his PhD degree (Materials Science and Tech) from University of Turin, Italy. He is currently working as an Assoc. Professor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He served the Department of Chemistry as Chair for one term. He is specialized in advanced materials synthesis and manufacturing, focusing on processing, and optimization of the materials composition toward application. |
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Email: benjamin.peters01@utrgv.edu |
Benjamin PetersDr. Peters is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Texas-Pan American in May 2011. In August 2014, he graduated from the University of Texas-Pan American with two Master’s of Science in Manufacturing Engineering with focuses in Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. Following graduation, he attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. While at Georgia Tech, he developed multiple frameworks that process information-rich, but spatially large data structures for monitoring the health of industrial assets from fields such as: automotive, gas turbine, and aviation. In December 2021, he graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with my Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering. |
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Email: chulin.cheng@utrgv.edu |
Chu-Lin ChengDr. Chu-Lin Cheng is an associate professor in Department of Civil Engineering with an joint appointment with School of Earth, Environmental and Marine Sciences. His research includes and not limit to characterization and testing physical surface/matrix properties of porous materials for multiphase flow and transport in natural and engineered media, especially for applications in geo-energy harvesting (geothermal & petroleum), water resources, and environmental remediation. In past years, Dr. Cheng has been applying nondestructive testing (NDT) (i.e., imaging) methods to study transport and interactions of hydrogen-rich fluids (water, oil/gas) in porous geomaterials/composites and as well as engineered porous media (e.g., concrete, ceramic, polymers) in civil/urban infrastructure. Prior to UTRGV (joined UTPA in Fall 2014), he was a joint postdoctoral researcher in the Environmental Sciences Division, Climate Change Science Institute at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE), and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. For student opportunity, complete list of research projects and publications, please visit my website. http://faculty.utrgv.edu/chulin.cheng/ |
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Email: farid.ahmed@utrgv.edu |
Farid AhmedDr. Farid Ahmed is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Victoria. His research interests include additive manufacturing processes and applications, convergent manufacturing, laser material processing, sensing technologies for monitoring applications in advanced manufacturing, and printed electronics. |
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Email: javier.ortega@utrgv.edu |
Javier OrtegaDr. Javier A. Ortega is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). He received his doctoral degree in Materials Engineering from UANL in 2013. His research interests include Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing (CSAM), Tribology, Lubrication, and Biomaterials. Dr. Ortega has been involved in different research projects that include tribological and corrosion studies of surface-engineered biomaterials intended for hip joint replacements and developing vegetable-oil-based lubricants modified with nanoparticles as lubricant additives. |
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Email: satya.akundi@utrgv.edu |
Satya AkundiDr. Akundi is an assistant professor in the department of Informatics and Engineering Systems at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Dr. Akundi received his PhD at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2016. In his doctoral thesis, he investigated the use of information theory to understand and assess complex socio-technical systems. Before joining UTRGV, he worked as a research assistant professor in the Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering department at UTEP for a period of three years from 2016 to 2019. Dr. Akundi published several papers in the field of systems modeling, systems testing, assessing INCOSE Handbook, model-based systems engineering, and engineering education. His research has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and U.S Department of Education. He is a member of INCOSE and ASEE. He received the outstanding junior faculty award from the ASEE Manufacturing division in 2017 and 2018 and currently serves as the division chair of the ASEE manufacturing division. |
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Email: ali.ashraf@utrgv.edu |
Ali AshrafExperienced Technology Development Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the semiconductors industry. Skilled in nanomaterials, material characterization, micro-and nanofabrication, interfacial phenomena, water desalination, sensing, CAD. Strong operations professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Mechanical Scinece and Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
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Email: peiwen@arizona.edu |
Peiwen LiAreas of Teaching Interest:
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 Email: smissoum@arizona.edu
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Samy MissoumDr. Missoum is a Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Arizona where he leads the Computational Optimal Design of Engineering Systems (CODES) laboratory. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Toulouse, France in 1999 and was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Virginia Tech from 1999 to 2002. He is an expert in computational design optimization and probabilistic design. His main research area is the development of methods for the design optimization and uncertainty quantification of complex nonlinear systems. He served as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design and is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.Expertise: Design Optimization, Probabilistic Design, Finite Element Analysis, Vibrations, Machine Learning for Computational Design
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Email: ruyan.guo@utsa.edu |
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Email: brendy.rincon@utsa.edu |
Brendy RinconDr. Brendy Rincon Troconis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering and an Adjunct in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Construction Management at UTSA. She is one of the six recipients of the 2021 Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellow in the Offshore Energy Safety Track from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the recipient of the 2023 Early-Career Excellence Award from The Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP). She is an expert on Aqueous Corrosion with experience related to atmospheric corrosion, galvanic corrosion, coating adhesion durability, hydrogen embrittlement, stress corrosion cracking and others. Dr. Rincon has participated in several activities to develop learning and outreach opportunities for students (K-12, undergrad and grad students), including the Career day at the Young Women's Leadership Academy Primary School (female 3rd and 4th graders) with an interactive activity with a presentation and a demonstration of the lemon battery, high-school student workshops (Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Camp: Robotics and Corrosion Control, 2022), lab exhibit tours (UTSA STEM outreach, 2019 and 2020), facility tours (Seguin CMC 2021), STEMinism Conference (female mid- and high-school students, 2016), outreach talk at STEM Early College High School in Harlandale ISD (2019), panelist in virtual forums 1) “Informal Discussion about Academia - LatinX Fellows” organized by LATin E (2020); and 2) “Women in the Academy” organized by the Diversity and Outreach Program in the UTSA Student Success Center (2021); and participating in an international multidisciplinary program to enhance education and equity called “CREATE” with headquarters in Canada. |
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Email: ff.chen@utsa.edu |
F. Frank ChenDr. F. Frank Chen is the Lutcher Brown Distinguished Chair in Advanced Manufacturing at University of Texas-San Antonio where he founded the Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Lean Systems. Dr. Frank Chen received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. As one of the nine NSF nominated engineering professors in the nation who received the 1996 Presidential Faculty Fellows Award from President Clinton at the White House. His current research interests include lean tools and concepts for product development and R&D operations, design and operation of energy efficient buildings, intelligent manufacturing, and enterprise integration and transformation. |
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Email: joseph.dumont@lanl.gov |
Joseph H. DumontMaterials engineer with more than 9 years of experience in a national laboratory setting, specializing in the aging of composite materials used in storage, cushioning, and additive manufacturing for space, biomedical, optical, energy conversion & storage and nuclear applications. |
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Email: trock@lanl.gov |
Tommy RockwardCurrently a Research Scientist in the Materials, Physics, and Applications Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His work has continued over 15 years at LANL and expanded to include cathodes and contaminants issues. He has actively participated in the USFCC Materials and Components Working Group to Tommy served as the U.S. international representative to establish a hydrogen fuel standard for the Department of Energy’s Safety, Codes, and Standards sub-program. |
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Email: hassenaa@ornl.gov |
Ahmed HassenDr. Hassen is an R&D Staff Scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is leading ORNL's development efforts for advanced manufacturing of molds and dies for the composite manufacturing industry. Dr. Hassen contributed to creating a new market for Additive Manufacturing (AM) technologies by developing new class of composite feedstock materials for large scale AM systems. Dr. Hassen is serving on the Board of Directors (BOD) of the American Society for Non-destructive Testing (ASNT) and is the current Chairman of the ASNT Research Symposium. |
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Email: kean@ornl.gov |
Ke AnDr. Ke An is a Distinguished R&D Staff Scientist and the Lead Scientist of the VULCAN instrument at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). He also serves as the neutron scattering Materials and Engineering Initiative Lead and Industrial Liaison of the industry application program of SNS and HFIR (High Flux Isotope Reactor).Research interests and activities are in neutron scattering studies of material systems under temperature, magnet, current, and complex loading, etc.; electrochemical performance, durability and reliability of energy storage/conversion materials; residual stress; fatigue life prediction of structural materials under complex loading; and scientific instrumentation and scientific software development. |
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Email: kuncv@ornl.gov |
Vlastimil KuncDr. Vlastimil Kunc is the Group Leader for Polymer Materials Development at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and serves as an adjunct professor at Purdue University. His research centers around microstructure and properties of discontinuous fiber composites produced with rapid flow molded processes such as, injection molding as well as highly controlled processes in extrusion deposition. In addition to development of fiber reinforced materials for extrusion deposition, his work experience includes the development of numerical methods for prediction of material response, structural modeling, experimental measurement of material and structural response under various loads and environmental conditions. |
