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Faculty & Staff

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Department Chairman

Bell
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Matthew Bell

Title: Department Chairman

Department: Engineering

Email: Matthew.Bell@umb.edu

Faculty

Buchwald

Walter Buchwald

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: Walter.Buchwald@umb.edu

Chen

Ping Chen

Title: Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: Ping.Chen@umb.edu

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, and Machine Learning
Dahl

Joanna Dahl

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: Joanna.Dahl@umb.edu

Expertise: biomechanics, microfluidics, extracellular vesicles, cell spheroids
Elsallal
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Mohdwajih Elsallal

Title: Associate Lecturer

Department: Engineering

Email: Mohdwajih.Elsallal@umb.edu

Hamad

Kimberly Hamad

Title: Graduate Program Director/Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: Kim.Hamad@umb.edu

Expertise: Nanotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Nanomaterials, Rapid Diagnostics
Kerby-Patel

Kiersten Kerby-Patel

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: KC.Kerby-Patel@umb.edu

Expertise: Applied electromagnetics, Antennas
Materdey

Tomas Materdey

Title: Senior Lecturer III

Department: Engineering

Email: Tomas.Materdey@umb.edu

Expertise: Classical and Quantum Computing; Phase-Space Quantum Mechanics and Nanostructures; Digital...
Rahaim
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Michael Rahaim

Title: Associate Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: Michael.Rahaim@umb.edu

Sun

Greg Sun

Title: Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: Greg.Sun@umb.edu

Expertise: Silicon photonics: Silicon based photonic devices and systems, including lasers...
Valotta Rodrigues

Rafael Valotta Rodrigues

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: R.ValottaRodrigues@umb.edu

Expertise:  , , Multidisciplinary Optimization , Wind Farms Wakes: Numerical Modeling , AI...
Zhang

Honggang Zhang

Title: Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: Honggang.Zhang@umb.edu

Expertise: Edge computing, deep reinforcement learning, mobile computing, Internet of things...
Zografopoulos

Ioannis Zografopoulos

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Engineering

Email: I.Zografopoulos@umb.edu

Expertise: Electric grid security and resilience with the integration of...

Affiliated Faculty & Researchers

Annavajjala
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Ramesh Annavajjala

Title: Adjunct Faculty

Department: Engineering

Email: Ramesh.Annavajjala@umb.edu

Soref
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Richard Soref

Title: Hourly Research Fellow

Department: Engineering

Email: Richard.Soref@umb.edu

White

Brian White

Title: Assoc Professor U of M

Department: Biology

Phone: 617.287.5611

Email: Brian.White@umb.edu

Expertise: Science Education

Departmental Support Staff

For general inquiries, please contact Engineering@umb.edu