Faculty

The College of Engineering is home to a dynamic group of 85 faculty members across six departments. This includes 59 tenured and tenure-track professors, along with 26 faculty of practice and lecturers.

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

This department includes 14 tenured or tenure-track professors and 5 additional faculty members and lecturers.




David Alfonso Castilla Casadiego

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-8237
David is a Latino in the sciences from Barranquilla, Colombia, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering since January 2025. Prior to this position, he was a Provost Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow and an NIH Pathway to Independence Awardee (K99/R00) at the University of Texas at Austin. David was...

Jeffrey Duerk

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

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...

Courtney M Dumont

Assoc. Professor

Dr. 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. Dr. Dumont received her PhD in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2014, investigating the...

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CHEMICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING

This department includes 7 tenured or tenure-track professors and 3 additional faculty members and lecturers.


Samiul Amin

Professor Prof. Practice

Samiul Amin,is currently Professor of Practice at the University of Miami, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering Department.  He is also the Director of the Engineering Corporate Affiliates Program (E-CAP) for the College of Engineering. Prior to this he was Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Manhattan College....

Pratim Biswas

Professor

(305) 284-5986
Professor Biswas is the Dean of the University of Miami College of Engineering. He is a faculty member in the Dept of Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, with an affiliated appointment in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Dean Biswas is a pioneer in his field recognized for applying aerosol science...

David A. Chin

Professor

(305) 284-3508
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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CIVIL AND ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING

This department includes 11 tenured or tenure-track professors and 3 additional faculty members and lecturers.


Esber Andiroglu

Professor Prof. Practice

(305) 284-3391
Dr. Andiroglu has BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a PhD in Civil / Architectural Engineering. He is a Professor of Practice with primary appointment in Dept. of Civil & Architectural Engineering and secondary appointments in the Dept. of Chemical, Environmental & Materials Engineering and at School of Architecture. He is...

Jean Pierre Bardet

Vice Provost for Strategic Projects

(305) 284-8625
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....

Minghui Cheng

Asst. Professor

Dr. Minghui Cheng is an assistant professor jointly appointed by the Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering and the School of Architecture, with an affiliation with Climate Resilience Academy. Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate at Systems Engineering, Cornell University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from...


James W Giancaspro

Assoc. Professor

(305) 284-1006
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

This department includes 8 tenured or tenure-track professors and 5 additional faculty members and lecturers.


Hammam Alsafrjalani

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

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

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

Professor and Chair

(305) 284-7888
Dr. Pinhas Ben-Tzvi is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Miami. He is internationally recognized for his research in robotics, intelligent autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, healthcare technologies, human–machine...

Xiaodong Cai

Professor

(305) 284-1941
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...

Mingzhe Chen

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

Mingzhe Chen received his Ph.D. from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Virginia Tech. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and...

Nigel M John

Senior Lecturer
Undergraduate Program Director (UPD)

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

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INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

This department includes 7 tenured or tenure-track professors and 4 additional faculty members and lecturers.



Mario G. Beruvides

Professor Prof. Practice

Dr. Mario G. Beruvides is a faculty member at the University of Miami in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Prior to his service at UM, Dr. Beruvides was a faculty member at Texas Tech University for 30 years in the Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering department. At TTU, he developed a national and...

Jaime H Buitrago

Capstone Lecturer

(305) 284-2831
Jaime Buitrago, P.E., Ph.D., is a seasoned professional with a diverse background in engineering, technology, and business development. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Miami, where his research focused on Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning for energy forecasting. With over two decades of experience,...

Nurcin Celik

Professor

(305) 284-2391
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...

Cheng-Bang Chen

Asst. Professor

(305) 284-2367
Dr. Cheng-Bang Chen is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Miami, USA. He earned his dual-title Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at Pennsylvania State University and received his master's degrees in Statistics from Columbia University and Industrial Engineering...

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MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

This department includes 12 tenured or tenure-track professors and 6 additional faculty members and lecturers.


Ines Basalo

Associate Professor of Professional Practice

(305) 284-3332
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...

Kevin Boutsen

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

(305) 284-5913
Dr. Kevin Boutsen is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Miami. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Miami, with research expertise in engine exhaust flow analysis. Dr. Boutsen brings a wealth of experience from both academia...

Emrah Celik

Associate Professor

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

Weiyong Gu

Professor
Undergraduate Director

(305) 284-8553
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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