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Faculty, Lecturers and Staff

Faculty

Image	Name	Title	Office	Phone	Email
	Ahmad Bani Younes Ph.D., Texas A&M University	Associate Professor	E-212	619-594-2931	[email protected]
	Margherita Capriotti Ph.D., University of California, San Diego	Assistant Professor	A-105	619-594-1153	[email protected]
	Jun Chen Ph.D., Purdue University	Assistant Professor	A-107	619-594-3016	[email protected]
	Luciano Demasi Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino	Professor	E-307	619-594-3752	[email protected]
	Gustaaf Jacobs Ph.D, University of Illinois	Professor	E-306	619-594-4046	[email protected]
	Joseph Katz Ph.D., DSc, Technion University, Israel	Professor	E-214	619-594-2399	[email protected]
	Xiaofeng Liu Ph.D., University of Notre Dame	Associate Professor	E-311	619-594-1364	[email protected]
	Ping Lu Ph.D., University of Michigan	Chair and Professor	E-310	619-594-2278	[email protected]
	Pavel Popov Ph.D, Cornell University	Assistant Professor	A-101	619-594-2921	[email protected]
	Satchi Venkataraman Ph.D, University of Florida	Professor	E-309	619-594-6660	[email protected]
	Qi Wang Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University	Assistant Professor	PSFA-435	619-594-3847	[email protected]

Lecturers

Image	Name	Expertise	Email
	Behrooz Amini Ph.D, University of California San Diego	Systems and Control	[email protected]
	Geoffrey Butler	Flight Mechanics, Aircraft Stability & Control, and Aircraft Design	[email protected]
	Krish Chilukuri Ph.D.	Engineering, Business Development, Operations Support	[email protected]
	Gary Fogel Ph.D.	Aircraft Design, Unmanned Systems and Evolutionary Optimization	[email protected]
	Mario Kataoka Filho Ph.D.	Finite Element Analysis, Composite Structures, and Stress Analysis	[email protected]
	Farooq Rehman	Acoustics/Aeroacoustics, Computational Fluid Dymanics (CFD), Turbomachinery, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT), Thermal, Aerodynamics, and Fluid-structure interaction (FSI)	[email protected]
	Carl Tedesco	Fluid Mechanics and Rocket Propulsion	[email protected]

Staff

Image	Name	Work	Office	Phone	Email
	Paul Ahlers	Equipment Technician	E-102	619-594-1865	[email protected]
	Nicole Brokaw	Coordinator	E-308	619-594-6074	[email protected]

Emeritus

	Balbir Narang - RETIRED (Fall 2021) Ph.D., University of Illinois	Professor			[email protected]
	Nagy Nosseir - RETIRED (Spring 2020) Ph.D, University of Southern California	Professor			[email protected]
	Mauro Pierucci	Professor
	Allen Plotkin - RETIRED (Summer 2022) Ph.D, Stanford University	Professor			[email protected]