Faculty

Faculty

Department Faculty

Jason Rife

Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering

navigation, safety-critical transportation systems, state estimation, human-robot interaction

Nadine Aubry

Professor and Senior Advisor to the Dean of Engineering

Fluid dynamics, turbulence, reduced modeling of complex systems, dynamical systems theory, chaotic mixing, microfluidics, electrohydrodynamics, manipulation and assembly of nanoscale particles in microfluidics, biofluids

Briana Bouchard

Assistant Teaching Professor

Product Design, Educational Robotics, Mechanical Design, Engineering Education, Electronic Portfolios & Assessment

Luisa Chiesa

sustainable energy, superconducting materials, materials science

Jeffrey Guasto

Associate Professor

biophysics and soft matter, microscale fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, microfluidic devices

Daniel Hannon

Professor of the Practice

human factors, airspace systems

Trevion Henderson

Assistant Professor

Engineering education; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; team-based engineering pedagogies; engineering design thinking

Marc Hodes

heat transfer, apparent slip, thermal management of electronics, mass transfer in supercritical fluids and thermoelectricity, material science

Felix Huang

human factors, human motor learning, human motor control, neuro-rehabilitation, robotics, virtual reality, surgery skill training

James Intriligator

Professor of the Practice

Human Factors Engineering, Innovation, Design Thinking, AI-powered Innovation and R&D, Human Machine System Design, Robotics, Machine Learning, Perception, Psychology

Mark Kachanov

Mechanics of materials; effective properties of heterogeneous materials; microstructure-property relationships; applications to material science

Erica Kemmerling

Assistant Teaching Professor

Fluid mechanics, flow in the human body, hemodynamics, aneurysms, heart development, flow in tumors, cardiac assist devices

Hoda Koushyar

Assistant Teaching Professor

biomechanics, applied mechanics, materials characterization, engineering education

Gary Leisk

Associate Teaching Professor

machine design, nondestructive testing

Douglas Matson

solidification processes, thermal manufacturing, machine design, materials science

Dave Miller

Assistant Teaching Professor

Human-technology collaboration, cooperation, and conflict; moral decision-making; mental models

Pratap Misra

Professor of the Practice

GPS, emerging satellite navigation systems

Jannatun Nawer

Research Assistant Professor

High-temperature material processing, Material Characterization, Advanced alloy design, Additive manufacturing

Markus Nemitz

Assistant Professor

Pushing towards his vision of rapidly designing robots and materializing them at points of impact, Prof. Nemitz's research interests encompass 3D-printable robots, real-time adaptive additive manufacturing, and automated discovery processes for robotic materials.

Chris Rogers

John R. Beaver Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Engineering Education, Human Robot Interaction, Mechanical Engineering, Music Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Anil Saigal

materials engineering, materials science, manufacturing processes, quality control

Igor Sokolov

Engineering for Health -> Physics of cancer and aging -> Mechanics of biomaterials at the nanoscale, Synthesis and study of functionals nanomaterials for biomedical imaging and drug delivery, Advanced imaging for medical diagnostics, Novel processes and materials for dentistry: nano-polishing and self-healing materials

Kristen Wendell

Associate Professor and Stacey and Robert Morse Fellow

learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, classroom discourse, engineering knowledge construction

Robert White

Associate Professor

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) fabrication, modeling, and testing. Particularly acoustic MEMS (microphones, ultrasound), and aerodynamic measurement technologies (skin friction sensors, aeroacoustic sensors). Acoustics, vibrations, dynamics and controls. Electromechanical systems including robotics. Finite element methods and system modeling. Electronics for measurement. Mechanical measurements.

Michael Wiklund

Professor of the Practice

human factors

Matthew Woodward

Assistant Professor

Animals, as a consequence of evolution, employ multiple, complex, highly interconnected, locomotion modes to overcome obstacles and move through unstructured environments; the individual contributions of which are not well understood. While roboticists have made great strides in enhancing robot performance, the focus has been on the control system (brain, sensors), and yet a significant gap still exists between robots and their biological counterparts. The Robot Locomotion & Biomechanics Laboratory at Tufts University focuses on enhancing robot mobility through a deeper understanding of the fundamental design methodologies employed by animals to combine locomotion modes (integrated multimodal locomotion), interact deterministically yet passively with the environment (morphological intelligence), and actuate their physical systems (advance actuation). Current projects include, adapting the complex, passive, multifunctional feet of desert locusts to enhance the dynamic surface interactions of terrestrial robots and support highly dynamic behaviors, studying how flying animals may use their physical systems (bodies) to transform relatively simple inputs into complex non-linear outputs through an understanding of the unsteady aerodynamics, and understand how swarms communicate and create complex structures.

Michael Zimmerman

Professor of the Practice

novel polymer electrolytes for batteries, liquid crystal polymers, composite materials, materials science

Secondary Appointments

Karen Panetta

Professor and Dean of Graduate Education

Signal processing; image processing; simulation modeling

Abani Patra

Center Director for Data Science of TIAI, Professor of Computer Science and Math

computational sciences, data driven modeling

Greses Pérez

McDonnell Family Assistant Professor of Engineering Education

cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence

Matthias Scheutz

Karol Family Applied Technology Professor

Artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive modeling, foundations of cognitive science, human-robot interaction, multi-scale agent-based models, natural language understanding.

Elaine Short

Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor

human-robot interaction, accessibility, robotics, human-in-the-loop machine learning, assistive technology Applying human-centered design and disability community values to the development, deployment, and evaluation of AI and machine learning for robotics, including: human-centered human-in-the-loop machine learning; disability-friendly assistive robotics; autonomous HRI in groups, public spaces, and other human-human contexts; and accessibility and disability inclusion in robotics education and the computing research community.

Jivko Sinapov

Associate Professor

Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Robotics, Computational Perception, Robotic Manipulation, Machine Learning, Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interaction

Deborah Sunter

Assistant Professor

Science focused on energy, development and environmental management. Computational modeling of electrical grid integration of renewable energy and storage. Interaction of science and policy in academia, industry and government

Holly Taylor

Moses Hunt Professor of Psychology

Spatial Cognition, Language, Memory

Thomas Vandervelde

Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Interaction of light with matter, physics of nanostructures and interfaces, metamaterials, material science, plasmonics, and surfactants, semiconductor photonics and electronics, epitaxial crystal growth, materials and devices for energy and infrared applications.

Part-time Lecturers

David Aurelio

Engineering/applied psychology, consumer product design, usability metrics, information visualization, and research field methods.

Maxwell Bischoff

Part-time Lecturer

industrial design, design strategy, interaction design, UI, UX

Linda Borghesani

Part-time Lecturer

Human Factors, user interface design, user research, usability testing, heuristic & expert evaluations, concept testing, card sort/IA studies, benchmarking/competitive studies, customer experience, diary studies, mobile devices, customer research, strategic insights, journey mapping, user personas, design thinking workshops

Gian Calise

Part-time Lecturer

Alexandria Carlson

Part-time Lecturer

Divya Chandra

Part-time Lecturer

Bradley Duncan

Part-time Lecturer

Sami Durrani

Part-time Lecturer

Daniel Fox

Part-time Lecturer

Kenneth James

Part-time Lecturer

Nicholas Katis

Part-time Lecturer

Golriz Kermani

Part-time Lecturer

Material characterization, lithium-ion batteries, tissue biomechanics, and engineering education

Steven Langel

Part-time Lecturer

Chaiwoo Lee

Part-time Lecturer

Harold Miller-Jacobs

Part-time Lecturer

Engineering psychology, self-driving cars, health care, organizational psychology, mechanical engineering.

Kelsey Rogers

Part-time Lecturer

architectural acoustics, acoustical simulation

Jason Ryan

Part-time Lecturer

Brandon Stafford

Manager, Nolop FAST Facility

Mary Stearns

Part-time Lecturer

Dr. Stearns provided thought leadership to USDOT in the areas of human factors research and evaluation focusing on relationships between humans and transportation policies and processes. She has a broad understanding of the human factors issues affecting transportation due to her work as the founding Executive Agent for the DOT's Human Factors Coordinating Committee (HFCC). Her research contributions focused on social factors influencing the use, operation, and organization of transportation systems and equipment. She led research to address user acceptance of new vehicle technologies and designed and conducted evaluations of user acceptance of automotive collision avoidance and roadway departure warning systems. She led a government-industry cooperative program to develop the first generation of driver assist features using an adaptive interface system to minimize driver distraction. She led the Volpe Center's aviation human factors program and designed and conducted a longitudinal effort to assess the impact of advanced technology on transit operations. She and her team developed a software tool to evaluate and record human factors considerations for air traffic controllers' equipment, provided the human factors plan for a proposed air traffic control upgrade, and provided software tools for acquiring and archiving data on air traffic control activity. She documented the differential impacts of the energy shortage by user category. She has also analyzed alcohol-related recreational boating fatalities, use of automotive safety belts, experiences of older drivers, general aviation fatalities, marine crew fatigue, characteristics of the future FAA maintenance work force, and the impacts of crew scheduling and fatigue on the railroad industry. She has extensive experience developing data collection and analyses strategies and has consulted on, as well as designed, numerous data collection instruments and surveys.

Ken Tango

Part-time Lecturer

Ryan Wexler

Part-time Lecturer

Affiliate Faculty

Jianmin Qu

Adjunct Professor

micromechanics of composites, interfacial fracture and adhesion, fatigue and creep damage in solder alloys, thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic packaging, defects and transport in solids with applications to solid oxide fuel cells and batteries, ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of advanced engineering materials, material science

Emeriti

Behrouz Abedian

Associate Professor Emeritus

Fluid Mechanics, Rheology, Electrohydrodynamics, Fluidic devices.

Robert Greif

Professor Emeritus

Benjamin Perlman

Professor Emeritus