Faculty Expands as School Grows
We just added a new dean and 10 extra faculty members, and we’re expanding with a dozen additional searches this year.
More and more students are choosing the KU School of Engineering for the outstanding experience they receive in our classrooms and laboratories. And we’re responding by giving them access to great teachers and great researchers in fields that drive economic growth in Kansas, the Midwest and our nation.
The expansion is part of the school’s Building on Excellence Initiative that drives growth in faculty, facilities, discovery and enrollment.
New Faculty, 2013
Michael Branicky, Dean and Professor
School of Engineering / Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research expertise: Hybrid systems, intelligent control and learning with applications to robotics, manufacturing, control over networks and biology.
Doctoral granting institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Haiyang Chao, Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Research expertise: UAV design and programming, flight testing for small UAVs for flight control, aviation safety and remote sensing applications.
Doctoral granting institution: Utah State University
Kevin Leonard, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
Research expertise: Electrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, energy storage, scanning electrochemical microscopy.
Doctoral granting institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Andres Lepage, Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Research expertise: High-performance fiber reinforced concrete and ultrahigh strength steel for disaster-resistant buildings.
Doctoral granting institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Remy Lequesne, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Research expertise: Design and performance of reinforced concrete structures subjected to earthquakes.
Doctoral granting institution: University of Michigan
Jian Li, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Research expertise: Structural health monitoring using wireless sensor networks, system identification, substructure hybrid simulation, seismic risk assessment.
Doctoral granting institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lin Liu, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research expertise: Energy storage, energy conversion, multi-scale and multi-physics modeling, mechanics of manufacturing processes, advanced manufacturing.
Doctoral granting institution: Iowa State University
Matthew O’Reilly, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Research expertise: Corrosion, concrete materials, and reinforced concrete performance.
Doctoral granting institution: University of Kansas
Candan Tamerler, Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research expertise: Biomimetrics, bionanotechnology, nanotechnology, bio-enabled materials science, biomaterials.
Doctoral granting institution: Bogazici University
Dai “Daniel” Tran, Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering
Research expertise: Risk analysis and decision making, project delivery methods, life-cycle assessment, and statistical modeling.
Doctoral granting institution: University of Colorado, Boulder
Heechul Yun, Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Research expertise: Performance isolation in multicore systems, power/energy-aware scheduling, real-time Linux, operating systems, embedded real-time systems, computer architecture.
Doctoral granting institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
