Sustainability Research Directory

Dennice Gayme, PhD, focuses on modeling, analysis, and control for spatially distributed and large-scale networked systems in applications such as wall-bounded turbulent flows, wind farms, and power grids.

Helyette Geman, PhD, focuses on mathematical finance. Her career has comprised sub-disciplines including the finance of commodities, insurance, and probability theory.

Somnath Ghosh, PhD, has made pioneering contributions to the multidisciplinary fields of computational engineering and sciences integrating computational mechanics and physics, computational materials science, and Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), with emphasis on multiscale modeling, structure-materials modeling and simulations, multiphysics modeling of multifunctional materials, materials characterization, process modeling, machine learning, and uncertainty quantification.

James Guest, PhD, has research interests in topology optimization, additive manufacturing, materials design, structural optimization, and computational mechanics. His published algorithms, particularly those related to design for manufacturability, have been incorporated in multiple commercial software products.

Anthony Shoji Hall, PhD, investigates chemical reactions catalyzed by solid surfaces to address problems in renewable energy storage and utilization with his research group.

Rigoberto Hernandez, PhD, researches areas which can be broadly classified as the theoretical and computational chemistry of systems far from equilibrium. Through his work on the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, he has developed multiscale molecular and coarse grained models of engineered nanoparticles to assess and predict their interactions with bimolecular components. His team is aiming to use these models to determine design rules for making sustainable nanoparticles that necessarily reduce (or eliminate) negative environmental impacts or that improve plant growth.