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Lane Carasik, Ph.D. profile photo

Lane Carasik, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Dr. Carasik researches computational and experimental thermal hydraulics for fusion & nuclear energy and medical isotope production.

Nuclear EngineeringExperimental Thermal-FluidsThermal-Fluids DesignVerification and ValidationComputational Fluid Dynamics
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Charles Cartin, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Director of Makerspaces & Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University

Additive ManufacturingAdvanced Engineering MathematicsComputer Aided Design (CAD)Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)Design Engineering
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Daren Chen, Ph.D.

Floyd D. Gottwald, Sr. Chair, Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Professor D. Chen researches particle sceinece and technology with emphasis on aerosol particles.

Particle instrumentation and characterization Nanoparticles and nanotechnologyParticle processing (i.g. classification charging dispersion...)Drug target delivery and release controlAir pollution and indoor air quality control
Shawn (Sheng-Chieh) Chen, Ph.D. profile photo

Shawn (Sheng-Chieh) Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

Shawn's research interests include airborne and liquid-borne nanoparticle filtration, NanoEHS, and indoor and urban air pollution control.

Nanofiltration and ultrafiltrationAir pollution controlAerosol sampling and instrumentationIndoor Air QualityCFD simulation
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D. Joshua Cohen, M.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Applications to solve orthopedic and dental challenges involving the musculoskeletal system; focusing on in vivo studies using rodent models

MicroCT imagingOrthopedic and dental implantologyBreast cancer metastasis to boneSmall animal model surgery
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Kostadin Damevski, Ph.D.

Professor, Graduate Program Director

Interested in software engineering and in the use of natural language processing techniques to improve software maintenance and evolution.

Software EngineeringSoftware MaintenanceRecommendation SystemsNatural Language Processing
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Nibir K. Dhar, Ph.D.

Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Chair in Engineering |CCI Eminent Scholar, SPIE Fellow, OPTICA (OSA) Fellow

Professor Dhar researches semiconductor heterostructures, devices and systems applications in Electro-Optic and Infrared (EOIR)

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Thang Dinh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Computer scientist focusing on security and optimization challenges in complex systems including social networks.

Network vulnerability assessmentSecurity and privacy in social networks and wireless networksCombinatorial OptimizationApproximation algorithm
Alen Docef, Ph.D. profile photo

Alen Docef, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor Docef's research interests lie in medical image processing

Medical Image ProcessingSignal Processor ArchitecturesDocument Compression for ArchivingEfficient Error-Resilient Network-Optimized Image and Video Coding
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Henry J. Donahue, Ph.D.

Alice T. and William H. Goodwin, Jr. Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering; BS, San Diego State University; Ph.D. UC Santa Barbara

Bone, mechanobiology, regenerative medicine, effects of space travel on bone and muscle, gap junctions, osteoblast, osteocyte, osteoclast

Regenerative Medicine and Tissue EngineeringMusculoskeletal MechanobiologySpace Biology and Bioengineering