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.

Ashutosh Agarwal

Assoc. 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 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...
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Jeffrey Duerk

Jeffrey Duerk

Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost

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Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Jeffrey L. Duerk is the University of Miami's chief academic officer, with appointing and oversight authority concerning the deans of the 11 schools and colleges, as well as the senior administrators involved with research, undergraduate and graduate education, and other academic...
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Courtney M Dumont

Courtney M Dumont

Assoc. Professor

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Courtney Dumont received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer in 2014 under the mentorship of Deanna Thompson while studying the effects of endothelial hemodynamics on neural stem cell fate, and her BS at Rensselaer in 2009. Dr. Dumont performed her postdoctoral research under the mentorship of Lonnie Shea at the Univeristy of...
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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

Samiul Amin

Professor Prof. Practice

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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....
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Pratim Biswas

Pratim Biswas

Dean, College of Engineering

(305) 284-5986
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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...
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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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Dibyendu Mukherjee

Dibyendu Mukherjee

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

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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

Esber Andiroglu

Professor Prof. Practice

(305) 284-3391
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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...
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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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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...
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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

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

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

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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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 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...
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Craig Gotsman

Craig Gotsman

Professor Prof. Practice

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Nigel M John

Nigel M John

Lecturer

(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

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

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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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...
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Jaime H Buitrago

Jaime H Buitrago

Capstone Lecturer

(305) 284-2831
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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,...
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Nurcin Celik

Nurcin Celik

Professor

(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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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

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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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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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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