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The faculty members of the department

	Jane P. Chang Professor Email Research Website (310) 206-7980	Plasma chemistries and surface kinetics, atomic layer deposition of complex and multifunctional oxide materials, semiconductor processing and chemistry, computational surface chemistry, nanostructured complex oxides
	Yvonne Chen Assistant Professor Email On leave, Harvard Univ. 2011-13	Synthetic biology, cell-based immunotherapy
	Panagiotis Christofides Professor Email Research Website (310) 794-1015	Control of nonlinear and hybrid processes, networked process control, fault-tolerant process control, water systems modeling and control, control of multiscale process systems, model reduction, optimization and control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems, modeling and control of particulate and bacterial systems
	Yoram Cohen Professor Email Research Website (310) 825-8766	Surface nano-structuring with polymers and organosilanes, graft polymerization, membranes: desalination, ultrafiltration and pervaporation, surface crystallization, neural networks for quantitative-structure property estimation, intermedia and multimedia transport in environmental systems, environmental impact assessment
	James F. Davis Professor Email Research Website (310) 206-0011	Information technology
	Robert Hicks Professor Email Research Website (310) 206-6865	Atmospheric pressure plasmas - physics, chemistry and materials processing, semiconductor nanotechnology, surface chemistry of materials
	Louis J. Ignarro Professor Email Research Website (310) 825-5159	Molecular and medical pharmacology
	Eldon Knuth Emeriti Faculty (310) 825-8485	Molecular dynamics, thermodynamics, combustion, kinetics and the thermodynamics of processes in rapidly expanding fluid flows.
	James C. Liao Chancellor's Professor and Vice-Chair Email Research Website (310) 825-1656	Next-generation biofuels, transcriptional and metabolic networks analysis, gene-metabolic circuits, nitric oxide metabolism, fatty acid metabolism
	Yunfeng Lu Professor Email Research Website (310) 794-7238	Nanostructured Materials and Devices, molecular design and self-assembly, energy storage and conversion, biomimetic materials and system
	Vasilios Manousiouthakis Professor Email Research Website (310) 206-0300	Plasma simulation, process design, process optimization, process control
	Harold Monbouquette Professor and Chair Email Research Website (310) 825-8946	Biochemical engineering
	Ken Nobe Emeriti Faculty (310) 825-2447	Research is focused in electrochemical processes and nano-electrochemical systems. Specific interests involve the kinetics and mechanisms of electrodissolution and electrodeposition of metals and semiconductors, oscillatory behavior in electrochemical systems, electroorganic electrochemical and bioelectrochemical processes, corrosion, fuel cells and batteries, processing of magnetic polymer and alloy thin films for nano-electrochemical systems (NEMS).
	Gerassimos Orkoulas Assistant Professor Email (310) 267-0169	Novel algorithms for fluid simulation, fluid criticality: scaling theory and simulations, modeling and control of protein crystallization, multiscale modeling and control of thin film deposition
	Tatiana Segura Assistant Professor Email Research Website (310) 206-3980	My laboratory focuses on the design of hydrogel biomaterials for stem cell culture and differentiation studies in vitro and vascularization and stem cell transplantation strategies in vivo. We utilize a combination of carbohydrates, protein, peptide and DNA delivery in the design of our hydrogels.
	Selim Senkan Professor Email Research Website (310) 206-4106	Chemical reaction engineering, catalysis and combustion
	Yi Tang Associate Professor Email Research Website (310) 825-0375	Metabolic engineering, natural product biosynthesis
	William D. Van Vorst Emeriti Professor (310) 825-2816	Thermodynamics, energy conversion, alternative energy systems, hydrogen and alcohol as engine fuels.
	A. R. Frank Wazzan Emeriti Professor and Former Dean (310) 206-1598	Professor Wazzan is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of nuclear material, thermal hydraulics, and stability of laminar flows. He was also a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark for his studied of magnetic interactions in solids. His research has had significant impact on the design of high-performance underwater weapons systems for the U.S. Navy.

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