Current Research at Herff

	Lead PI	Research Interest
	Dr. Hasan Ali	Power forecasting, behind the meter photovoltaic (PV), PV supercapacitor energy storage, Electric Vehicle research
	Dr. David Arellano	Expanded-polystyrene block geofoams, backfill, retaining walls
	Dr. Ebrahim Asadi	Material science, mechanical properties of Ti6AIV4, field crystal modleing using NASA-PSI coarsening solid-liquid mixtures, 3d biofabrication ndmanufacturing, tissue regeneration and implantable devices
	Dr. Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian	Glaucoma, convolutional neural network
	Dr. Kevin Berisso	Vest testing, RF controls
	Dr. Gary Bowlin	Cardiovascular, DNA, in vitro im plants, designing drugs, bio material for dental bone, electrospinning polymers
	Dr. Joel Bumgardner	Bone graft materials, Chitosan, biomaterials
	Dr. Charles Camp	Bridge remediation; 3D Dynamic analysis Center for Innovative Research in Bridge Engineering (CIRBE)
	Dr. Amy Curry	Phantom Limb
	Dr. Russell Deaton	VLSI Fabrication, Algorithmic Self-Assembly of Materials, Nanotechnology.
	Dr. Maryam Salehi Esfandarani	Storm water quality
	Dr. Ali Fatemi	Multiaxial fatigue, additive manufacturing metals, wrought materials, co-extruded high density polyethylene-based multilayer materials, axial and bending fatigue
	Dr. Lenwood Fields	Thermoelectrics, emerging technology, STEM
	Dr. Daniel Foti	Drone research
	Dr. Michail Gkolias	Freight mobility, corridor feasibility, wrong-way prevention technologies, commodity movement, truck parking needs, freight networks, integrated land use and freight movement
	Dr. Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan	Modeling concentrated dusty plasma; ultrasonic aerosol generators fabrication
	Dr. John Hochstein	Vehicle emission reduction
	Dr. Stephanie Ivey	STEM, Workforce development, apprenticeship accelerator, girl/women empowerment, diversity, transformative technology, intermodal freight
	Dr. Eddie Jacobs	Empathic engineer, gender equity, PALS simulation support, drone research, cybersecurity
	Dr. Farhad Jazael	Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Laboratory (GFCT Lab)...underdevelopment Developing a framework to quantify Microplastic load transported by urban stormwater, Brown and Caldwell, 2021 (PI)- ~$33K ITESO-Memphis Engineering Exchange, US Department of State, 2021 (co-PI)- ~$83K Pre- and post-restoration assessment of Loan Oak basin, West Tennessee River Basin Authority, 2021 (Co-PI)- ~$163K Microplastics Fate and Transport in Agricultural Soil: Interrelation of Hydrodynamics, Chemistry, and Material sciences, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA-NIFA), 2020 (Co-PI) - ~$500K Toward a Water Smart Campus- Green Fee, University of Memphis, 2020 (PI)- ~$27K Investigating contaminant storage and release mechanisms at low permeability zones, Herff College of Engineering Faculty Research Grants- UoM, 2020 (PI)- ~$15K West TN Dept of Agriculture, Tennessee Department of Agriculture, 2019 (Co-PI) ~$430K MLGW Aquitard, Memphis Light, Gas, and Water Division, 2019 (Co-PI)- ~$5M Community of Research Scholars grant (CoRS), University of Memphis, 2019 (PI) -$2K Allen Wellfield Evaluation, Memphis Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW) Division, 2017 (Co-PI)- $1.2M
	Dr. Jessica Jennings	Research fellowships
	Dr. Daniel Larsen	Groundwater, bioretention pond assessment, hydrologic modeling, stream restoraion/flood control structures
	Dr. Hsiang Lin	Dynamic vibration reasoning design optimization
	Dr. Erno Lindner	Medical Electronics
	Dr. Jeffrey Marchetta	3-star industrial assessment, magnetically induced fluid motion in reduced gravity
	Dr. James Mcginnis	Cybersecurity Center for Information Assurance (CfIA)
	Dr. Claudio Meier	Stream restoration
	Dr. Sabyasachee Mishra	Transport research, smart cities, asset management transit fleet, land use, work zone alert systems, freight congestion and mobility multimodal freight model
	Dr. Larry Moore	Manufacturing, workforce development, energy consevation, wastewater, industrial facilties storm water quality
	Dr. Bashir Morshed	Events-of-interest, body-worn, fully passive wireless sensors
	Dr. Daniel Pallme	Logistic Accelerator
	Dr. Shahram Pezeshk	Spatial analysis, attenuation model, spectrum matching-response spectrum, vertical to horizontal response spectral ratios,, ground motion prediction equations
	Dr. Chrysanthe Preza	3D resolution, spherical aberration cellular imaging, optical sectioning microscopy
	Dr. Esra Roan	Cell stiffness, lung injury
	Dr. Aaron Robinson	Image and signal processing
	Dr. Aaryani Sajja	Medical
	Dr. Brian Waldron	Groundwater, storm water controlblight mapping, GIS, water portal maintenance, water use app development, increasing aggie production resilience, water resources use
	Mohammed Yeasin	geisinger DSA