Faculty

Chair and Program Directors

Qingda Yang

Qingda Yang

Professor and Department Chair

(305) 284-3221
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Dr. Yang's research has focused mainly on developing multi-scale methodologies that can lead to realistic virtual testing and designing of complex heterogeneous materials and structures. My research has been funded by federal agencies such as NSF, NASA, AFOSR, ARO, NAVY, and DARPA , and industrial companies including Teledyne and Boeing. I...
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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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Dr. Weiyong Gu is a professor and the undergraduate director of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Previously, he served for 13 years as a professor in the University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering. Gu is an internationally recognized researcher in biomedical engineering, in particular in the field of soft...
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Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty

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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Giacomo Po

Giacomo Po

Assoc. Professor

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Giacomo Po joined the University of Miami College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering as an assistant professor. A leader in computational mechanics of materials, he developed novel tools to predict the microstructural evolution of high-temperature and high-strength materials such as refractory metals...
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Ali Rownaghi

Ali Rownaghi

Assoc. Professor

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Kaan Inal

Professor

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GeCheng Zha

GeCheng Zha

Professor

(305) 284-3328
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Aerodynamics, Aircraft Design, Flow Control, Co-Flow Jet Airfoil; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Fluid-Structural Interactions; Supersonic Inlets, Turbomachinery; Design Optimization, Propeller Design
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Xiangyang Zhou

Xiangyang Zhou

Professor

(305) 284-3287
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Xiangynag Zhou, materials scientist, graduated from physics department, Wuhan University in 1984. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1992. He worked as a research associate in the Energy Institute of Pennsylvania State University on electrochemical materials in 1992-2002. He joined...
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Jiayu Li

Jiayu Li

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-3316
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Francesco Travascio

Francesco Travascio, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

(305) 284-2371
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Biomechanics, Orthopaedics, Robot Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, Musculoskeletal Modeling, Biomedical Imaging, Biotransport
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Chunlei Wang

Chunlei Wang

Professor

(305) 284-3308
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Chunlei (Peggy) Wang is a professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Miami. She earned her PhD in Solid State Physics from Jilin University in 1997. From 2006 to 2023, she dedicated 17 years to Florida International University (FIU), progressing from a tenure-track assistant professor to a full...
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Teaching and Research Faculty

Ines Basalo

Ines Basalo

Associate Professor of Professional Practice

(305) 284-3332
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Dr. Ines Basalo is an assistant professor in practice in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Basalo received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University on 2006. Following a brief career on Wall Street, she returned to Columbia in 2008 as an adjunct professor in Mechanical Engineering, a...
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Kevin Boutsen

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

(305) 284-5913
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Bertrand Dano

Bertrand Dano

Asst. Professor Prof. Practice

(786) 449-7182
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Ram Narasimhan

Ram Narasimhan, Ph.D.

Asst. Professor Prof. Practice

(305) 284-3100
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Dr. Ram Narasimhan is Assistant Dean for Engineering Advising and Undergraduate Studies in the College of Engineering. He also holds the position of Assistant Professor in Professional Practice in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Narasimhan received his Bachelors degree from the University of Madras, in India, and his...
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Sivakumar Ramanathan

Sivakumar Ramanathan

Asst. Professor Prof. Practice

(786) 774-6396
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Charles Vincent Tomonto

Charles Vincent Tomonto

Professor Prof. Practice

(305) 905-3561
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Affiliated Faculty

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Ved Chirayath
Affiliated Professor
ved@miami.edu 

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Alain Hanover
Adjunct Professor
axh2416@miami.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Dr. Singiresu S. Rao
Emeritus Professor

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