Affiliated Faculty Members - Nanotechnology Research & Education Center

More than 60 affiliated faculty from different departments are using the NREC facility to bring research grants.

Anthropology
- Dr. Robert Tykot, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-7279
    Office Location: SOC 046A
    Email: rtykot@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Archaeological science, Mediterranean prehistory, old world archaeology, ancient diets around the world, bone chemistry, exchange studies, obsidian, marble, Sardinia, Sicily
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Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
- Dr. Norma Alcantar, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-8009
    Office Location: ENC 3201
    Email: alcantar@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Properties of thin films and biosystems, Conducting organic thin films, Biomaterials engineering, Surface interactions
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- Dr. Venkat Bhethanabotla, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-2116
    Office Location: ENC 3403
    Email: bhethana@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Molecular Dynamics, Statistical mechanics, Molecular Thermodynamics
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- Dr. Richard Gilbert, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-2139
    Office Location: ENC 2210
    Email: gilbert@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Material Science, Biomedical Systems, Electrochemotherapy, Electrogenetherapy, Instrumentation, Engineering Education, and Drug delivery
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- Dr. Yogi Goswami, Distinguished University Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-0956
    Office Location: ENB 260A
    Email: goswami@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Energy Conversion, Solar Energy, Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells, Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, HVAC
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- Dr. Vinay Gupta, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-0851
    Office Location: ENC 3200
    Email: vkgupta@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Self-Assembly, Interfacial Phenomena, Polymeric Materials, Nanotechnology, Molecular Recognition
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- Dr. Babu Joseph, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-0692
    Office Location: IDRB 212A
    Email: joseph@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Process Modeling, Simulation and Control, Sensors and signal processing, Engineering Education
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- Dr. Aydin Sunol, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-3566
    Office Location: ENC 3217
    Email: sunol@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Systems engineering, Supercritical fluid technology, Green Engineering, Product and Process Design
- Dr. Ryan Toomey, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-9164
    Office Location: ENC 3503
    Email: rtoomey@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Materials science, polymer thin films, hydrogels, molecularly imprinted materials, and holographic polymerization
Chemistry
- Dr. Jianfeng Cai, Assistant Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-9506
    Office Location: BSF 313
    Email: jianfengcai@usf.edu
    Research Areas: The expansion of interdisciplinary research at the interface of chemistry and biology to discover novel peptidomimetics and other small molecules that modulate protein-protein interactions involved in critical cellular processes
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- Dr. Julie Harmon, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-3397
    Office Location: BSF 312
    Email: harmon@cas.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Vinyl polymerizations, polymer processing, carbon nanotube composites, optical fiber materials, polymer structure-property relations, radiation effects on polymers, thermal analysis - dielectric analysis, dynamic mechanical analysis, differential scanning calorimetry, mechanical properties
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- Dr. Xiao Li, Assistant Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4129
    Office Location: BSF 306
    Email: xli@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Bioanalytical chemistry, drug effect and development, optical spectroscopy, scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM), nanoparticle, electrochemistry
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- Dr. Abdul Malik, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-9688
    Office Location: SCA 426
    Email: malik@usf.ed
    Research Areas: Advanced technology for high-performance microseparation columns and solventless microextraction devices
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- Dr. Edward Turos, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-7312
    Office Location: NES 330B
    Email: eturos@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Synthesis and evaluation of new antibacterial and anticancer agents, development of nanoparticle polymers as drug delivery vehicles and biomedical plastics
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College of Medicine
- Dr. Shyam Mohapatra, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-8568
    Office Location: MDC2536
    Email: smohapat@health.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Immunology and inflammation in allergic, immunologic and infectious viral diseases and cancers
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- Dr. Subhra Mohapatra, Assistant Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-8568
    Email: smohapa2@health.usf.edu
Computer Science and Engineering
- Dr. Srinivas Katkoori, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5737
    Office Location: ENB 316
    Email: katkoori@cse.usf.edu
    Research Areas: High-level synthesis, low power synthesis, radiation tolerant VLSI design and CAD
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Electrical Engineering
- Dr. Sanjukta Bhanja, Professor and Associate Dean
  - Phone: 813-974-4755
    Office Location: ENB 376
    Email: bhanja@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: VLSI design automation, reliable computing with inherent errors, soft errors, quantun-dot cellular automata, fab-aware modeling of (magnetic cellular automata), modeling faithful to quantum mechanical behaviors, error, power and redundancy trade-off, unconventional mapping of algorithms into nano devices like QCA and Y-CNT
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- Dr. Christos Ferekides, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4818
    Office Location: ENB 256
    Email: ferekide@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Study and development of electronic materials and devices for opto-electronic applications
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- Dr. Andrew Hoff, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4958
    Office Location: ENB 248
    Email: hoff@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Contamination monitoring and control in IC manufacturing, microsystem and MEMS fabrication, integrated circuit manufacturing and in-line testing
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- Dr. Vijay Jain, Distinguished University Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4741
    Office Location: ENB 372
    Email: jain@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Biomedical systems, biomedical imaging and biomedical image processing, communication systems and networks, digital image and video processing, VLSI implementations, system on a chip (bio-sensing, DNA microarrays, opto-electronics, MEMS, digital, analog), 3D SOCs
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- Dr. Don Morel, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-2508
    Office Location: ENB 244
    Email: morel@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: High efficiency thin film tandem solar cells, photovoltaic device modeling and simulation, photodetectors, thin film transistors and memory devices, LEDs, and x-ray and gamma ray detectors, physical vapor deposition including sputtering, evaporation, close space sublimation and scale up to pre-manufacturing
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- Dr. Wilfrido Moreno, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4775
    Office Location: ENB 254
    Email: moreno@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: System integration by providing off-the-shelf hardware/software solutions to industrial application in the areas of digital signal processing, communications, industrial controls, microelectronics, biomedical engineering and multimedia solutions
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- Dr. Gokhan Mumcu, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-8178
    Office Location: ENB 362
    Email: mumcu@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Electromagnetic theory, computational electromagnetics, THz imaging systems, metamaterials and their applications to small directive radiators and printed miniature antennas
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- Dr. Stephen Saddow, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4773
    Office Location: ENB 243
    Email: saddow@ieee.org
    Research Areas: Developing wide-bandgap semiconductor materials for high-field and high-power device applications
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- Dr. Rudy Schlaf, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-8463
    Office Location: ENB 372A
    Email: schlaf@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Spray based deposition of macro-molecular thin films and interfaces, photoemission spectroscopy on organic semiconductor/bio-materials interfaces, work function measurements, directed assembly of macromolecular materials, biosensors, thin film photovoltaics
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- Dr. Lee Stefanakos, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4413
    Office Location: ENB 250
    Email: stefanak@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Solar energy conversion (photovoltaics, rectennas, etc.), fuel cells, hydrogen production and storage, energy systems, electric/hybrid vehicles, alternative fuels
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- Dr. Sylvia Thomas, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-4011
    Office Location: ENB 368
    Email: sylvia@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Advanced materials for applications in alternative energy sources, sustainable environments, and bio-applications for nano-electro mechanical system (NEMS) devices - nanowires and nanoparticles
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- Dr. Jing Wang, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-6011
    Office Location: ENB 378
    Email: jingw@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Nano/microfabrication, nanomaterials, RF MEMS devices, on-chip power generation, microfluidics, MEMS transducers, RF integrated circuit, wide bandgap materials, polymer nanocomposite and responsive polymers.
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Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
- Dr. Tapas Das, Professor and Chair
  - Phone: 813-974-5585
    Office Location: ENC 2207
    Email: das@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Applied stochastic processes, quality engineering, and dynamic decision processes
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- Dr. Susana Lai-Yuen, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5547
    Office Location: ENC 2505
    Email: laiyuen@eng.usf.edu
    Research Areas: Computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided molecular design (CAMD), nanotechnology, human-computer haptic interfaces, and computational geometry for design and manufacturing
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Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Nathan Gallant, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5840
    Office Location: ENC 2504
    Email: ngallant@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Biomechanics, cell adhesion, biomaterials, tissue engineering, surface functionalization and micropatterning
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- Dr. Rasim Guldiken, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5628
    Office Location: ENC 2216
    Email: guldiken@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Bio-MEMS sensor design and fabrication, micro-fluidics, ultrasonic imaging, micromachined ultrasonic transducer design, ultrasonic cleaning and non-destructive testing
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- Dr. Daniel Hess, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5643
    Office Location: ENC 2205
    Email: hess@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Dynamics of mechanical and structural systems with friction, machinery dynamics and diagnostics, mechanical design
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- Dr. Autar Kaw, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5626
    Office Location: ENC 2215
    Email: kaw@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Engineering education research, mechanics of composite materials, elasticity, fracture, thermal stresses, graphical user interfaces for engineering problems, web based course development, rehabilitation engineering
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- Dr. Ashok Kumar, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-3942
    Office Location: ENB 252
    Email: kumar@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Thin film technology for multifunctional applications, processing, characterization, and applications of nanomaterials, reliability issues in microelectronics and MEMS devices, sensor technology, novel materials for energy applications, analytical techniques of thin films and surfaces
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- Dr. Craig Lusk, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-1394
    Office Location: ENC 2507
    Email: clusk2@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Compliant mechanisms, MEMS design, biomechanics, theoretical kinematics
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- Dr. Ajit Mujumdar, Instructor
  - Phone: 813-974-9677
    Office Location: ENC 1201
    Email: ajit@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Particle technology: micron to nano scale dry particle coating, mixing and segregation, fluidization, granulation, numerical simulations by discrete element method (DEM), computational fluid dynamics, ANN
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- Dr. Frank Pyrtle, Instructor
  - Phone: 813-974-9015
    Office Location: ENC 2508
    Email: pyrtle@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Two-phase heat transfer, droplet and spray cooling, micro/nano scale heat transfer microelectronic device thermal management
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- Dr. Alex Volinsky, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5658
    Office Location: ENC 2214
    Email: volinsky@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Thin films processing, mechanical properties and characterization
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Physics
- Dr. Matthias Batzill, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-0618
    Office Location: ISA 5106
    Email: mbatzill@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Surface science, gas-surface interactions, structure and electronic properties of metal oxide surfaces, nanoclusters and quantum dots, solid state gas sensors, photocatalysis and photovoltaic for sustainable and renewable energy
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- Dr. Donald Haynie, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-7793
    Office Location: ISA 6219
    Email: dhaynie@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Nanomedicine, bionanotechnology
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- Dr. Xiaomei Jiang, Assistant Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-7765
    Office Location: ISA 4214
    Email: xjiang@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Organic electronic materials, device physics study, high efficiency organic solar cell, novel type of hybrid solar cells
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- Dr. Dale Johnson, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-5125
    Office Location: ISA 4212
    Email: dalejohnson@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Development of electron probe devices, analytical electron microscopy, subcellular elemental distributions in biological systems
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- Dr. Garrett Matthews, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-396-9329
    Office Location: ISA 6215
    Email: garrettm@usf.edu
    Research Areas: The investigation of biological macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies on the nanometer length scale
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- Dr. Casey Miller, Associate Professor
  - hone: 813-974-7771
    Office Location: ISA 4211
    Email: millercw@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Spintronics, spin-dependent tunneling, spin-polarization measurements, spin-injection, magnetic thin films and heterostructures
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- Dr. Pritish Mukherjee, Professor and Chair
  - Phone: 813-974-3293
    Office Location: ISA 2022D
    Email: pritish@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Solid state and materials physics, picosecond lasers and applications, laser-assisted materials processing
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- Dr. Martin Muschol, Associate Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-2564
    Office Location: ISA 6212
    Email: mmuschol@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Imaging neuronal activity, modeling neuronal information processing, protein interactions, aggregation and phase separation, colloidal models of protein interactions
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- Dr. George Nolas, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-2233
    Office Location: ISA 6214
    Email: gnolas@usf.edu
    Research Areas: New materials synthesis and characterization, nano-scale properties of material, slow temperature electrical and thermal transport, structure-property relationships, energy technologies
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- Dr. Hariharan Srikanth, Professor
  - Phone: 813-974-2467
    Office Location: ISA 5110
    Email: sharihar@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Solid state and materials physics, magnetic materials, nanostructured materials, thin films, electromagnetic response in materials
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- Dr. Sarath Witanachchi, Professor and Associate Chair
  - Phone: 813-974-2789
    Office Location: ISA 5111
    Email: switanach@usf.edu
    Research Areas: Laser ablation and plasma processes for thin film growth, nanostructures and nanocomposites, materials for energy, multiferroics
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College of Pharmacy
- Yashwant Pathak, M.Pharm., EMBA, MS (Conflict Management), Ph.D.
  - Phone: 813-974-1026
    Email: mypathak1@health.usf.edu
  - Dr. Vijaykumar Sutariya, Associate Professor
    - Phone: 813-453-6804
      Email: vsutariy@health.usf.edu
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