Research Faculty & Staff

Dr. Stephanie Ivey is the Associate Dean for Research for the Herff College of Engineering, associate director of the Division of Transportation and Logistics with the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research and an Associate Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis. She also directs the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute (IFTI) and the Southeast Transportation Workforce Center. Her research includes focus on community livability and transportation planning and policy. She is the project director for the West Tennessee STEM Hub, a regional K-12 outreach initiative. Ivey also has a lengthy and nationally recognized research record focused on STEM and transportation education and workforce issues. She serves as faculty advisor for the University of Memphis student chapters of WTS and the Institute of Transportation Engineers and is a member of the Executive Committee of the ITE Transportation Education Council.
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Dr. Mariquita "Kit" Boone is the pre-award coordinator for Herff College of Engineering. In her fole, Kit helps Herff researchers find and secure funding for UofM research and educational projects. She works with research teams during the pre-award phase of the sponsored project lifecycle to ensure the proposal is accurate, complete, and compliant with the sponsor requirements. Support includes proposal assistance, non-financial post-submission assistance, as well as research administration services.
Current Research Activity at Herff
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Dr. Hasan Ali | Smart grid and microgrid controls, cybersecurity issues in modern power grids, electric vehicle charging infrastructure and system, 5G communication, renewable energy, and energy storage |
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Dr. David Arellano | Expanded-polystyrene block geofoams, backfill, retaining walls |
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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 |
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Dr. Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian | Glaucoma, convolutional neural network |
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Dr. Kevin Berisso | Vest testing, RF controls |
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Dr. Gary Bowlin | Cardiovascular, DNA, in vitro im plants, designing drugs, bio material for dental bone, electrospinning polymers |
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Dr. Joel Bumgardner | Bone graft materials, Chitosan, biomaterials |
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Dr. Charles Camp | Bridge remediation; 3D Dynamic analysis Center for Innovative Research in Bridge Engineering (CIRBE) |
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Dr. Amy Curry | Phantom Limb |
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Dr. Mohammadreza Davoodi | Control systems, Complex networks, Fault/Attack diagnosis, Robotics |
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Dr. Russell Deaton | VLSI Fabrication, Algorithmic Self-Assembly of Materials, Nanotechnology. |
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Dr. Ana Doblas |
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Dr. Maryam Salehi Esfandarani | Storm water quality |
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Dr. Ali Fatemi | Multiaxial fatigue, additive manufacturing metals, wrought materials, co-extruded high density polyethylene-based multilayer materials, axial and bending fatigue |
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Dr. Lenwood Fields | Thermoelectrics, emerging technology, STEM |
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Dr. Daniel Foti |
Drone research 2022: Awarded $198,766 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project “ERI: Formation Mechanisms and Modeling of Wake Meandering in Wind Farms” |
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Mr. Michail Gkolias | Freight mobility, corridor feasibility, wrong-way prevention technologies, commodity movement, truck parking needs, freight networks, integrated land use and freight movement |
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Dr. Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan | Modeling concentrated dusty plasma; ultrasonic aerosol generators fabrication |
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Dr. John Hochstein | Vehicle emission reduction |
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Dr. Stephanie Ivey | STEM, Workforce development, apprenticeship accelerator, girl/women empowerment, diversity, transformative technology, intermodal freight |
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Dr. Eddie Jacobs | Empathic engineer, gender equity, PALS simulation support, drone research, cybersecurity |
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Dr. Farhad Jazaei |
Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Laboratory (GFCT Lab)...underdevelopment |
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Dr. Jessica Jennings | Research fellowships |
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Dr. Daniel Larsen (CAESER) | Groundwater, bioretention pond assessment, hydrologic modeling, stream restoraion/flood control structures |
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Dr. Hsiang Lin | Dynamic vibration reasoning design optimization |
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Dr. Erno Lindner | Medical Electronics |
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Dr. Jeffrey Marchetta | 3-star industrial assessment, magnetically induced fluid motion in reduced gravity |
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Dr. James Mcginnis |
Cybersecurity |
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Dr. Claudio Meier | Stream restoration |
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Dr. Sabyasachee Mishra | Transport research, smart cities, asset management transit fleet, land use, work zone alert systems, freight congestion and mobility multimodal freight model |
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Dr. Shahram Pezeshk | Spatial analysis, attenuation model, spectrum matching-response spectrum, vertical to horizontal response spectral ratios,, ground motion prediction equations |
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Dr. Chrysanthe Preza | 3D resolution, spherical aberration cellular imaging, optical sectioning microscopy |
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Dr. Esra Roan | Cell stiffness, lung injury |
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Dr. Aaron Robinson | Image and signal processing |
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Dr. Aaryani Sajja |
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Dr. Brian Waldron | Groundwater, storm water controlblight mapping, GIS, water portal maintenance, water use app development, increasing aggie production resilience, water resources use |
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Dr. John L. Williams | Biomechanics of human motion, joints, orthopaedic and dental implants, mechanical testing and numerical modeling of bone and cartilage, mechanobiology of bone growth and growth plate cartilage. |
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Dr. Mohammed Yeasin | geisinger DSA |
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