Faculty
Paul R. Chiarot
Professor; Chair
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Microfluidics
- Multiphase Flows
- Electrohydrodynamics
- Fluid Mechanics
- Energy
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Junghyun Cho
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Materials
- ceramic films
- metals and alloys
- microstructure design of advanced materials
- mechanical property
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Cosan (Joe-Sean) Daskiran
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Multiphase flows
- Turbulent flows
- Renewable energy
- Transport phenomena
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Yuyang Gu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Acoustics
- Ultrasound imaging
- Wave control
- Microfluidics
- Biomedicine
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Pong-Yu (Peter) Huang
Associate Professor; Director
Mechanical Engineering; Engineering Design Division (EDD)
Research Interests
- Microfluidics
- transport phenomena
- optical diagnostics
- computational modeling
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Changhong Ke
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Experimental mechanics of 1D and 2D nanostructures
- nanoscale adhesion and interfaces
- nanocomposites
- bio-inspired complex and hybrid nano-systems
- and NEMS
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Atul Kelkar
Dean
Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science
Research Interests
- Dynamics and control
- Modeling and control of aerospace systems
- Active control of vibrations and noise
- Energy technologies
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Jaeho Lee
Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Contact mechanics
- Fundamental mechanism of friction, wear and lubrication
- Multiscale mechanics of thin films
- Dynamic adhesion
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Dehao Liu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Multiscale multiphysics modeling and simulation
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Optimization and uncertainty quantification
- Process monitoring and control
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Ronald N. Miles
Distinguished Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Mechanical vibrations
- acoustics
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Bruce T. Murray
Bartle Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Computational modeling
- heat and mass transfer
- mechanobiology
- materials processing
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S.B. Park
Director of IEEC; Director of IEEC; SUNY Distinguished Professor
Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC); Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Electronics MEMS packaging
- reliability
- computer aided engineering
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James M. Pitarresi
Vice Provost; Vice Provost; Distinguished Teaching Professor; Vice Provost for Online and Innovation Education
Center for Learning and Teaching; Mechanical Engineering; Academic Affairs, Office of the Executive VP and Provost
Research Interests
- Computational mechanics
- vibration modeling and testing
- opto-mechanical techniques
- electronic packaging
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Mir Jalil Razavi
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Solid/bio mechanics
- Mechanics of soft/bio materials
- Finite element modeling
- Fracture and fatigue mechanics
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Bahgat G. Sammakia
Director of CHIRP at Binghamton University; Distinguished Professor; Vice President for Research; Dir of CHIRP at Binghamton Univ; Center Director of ES2; Director, S3IP; Center Director of ES2; Vice President for Research; Director, S3IP
Center for Heterogeneous Integration Research in Packaging (CHIRP); Mechanical Engineering; Center for Energy- Smart Electronic Systems (ES2); Research, Office of the Vice President for; S3IP – Small Scale Systems Integration and Packaging
Research Interests
- Heat Transfer
- Electronics Packaging
- Thermal Management of Data Centers
- Heterogeneous Integration Research
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Scott Schiffres
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Nanoscale and microscale energy transport
- Thermal properties of nanomaterials
- Thermal processes of additive manufacturing
- Sustainability engineering
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Timothy J. Singler
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Fluid dynamics
- high temperature capillarity
- wetting
- reactive wetting
- physics of interfaces
- functional materials
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Jifu Tan
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Multiscale/multiphysics modeling and simulations
- High-performance computational modeling
- Physics-based machine learning
- Transport phenomena
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Shahrzad Towfighian
Professor; Graduate Studies Director
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Mems actuators and sensors
- mechanical vibration
- linear and nonlinear dynamics
- energy harvesting
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Robert J. Wagner
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Solid mechanics
- Computational mechanics
- Soft matter
- Polymers
- Living systems and bioinspired design
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Mohammad Younis
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Nonlinear dynamics of micro and nano systems (MEMS/NEMS)
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Kaiyan Yu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Autonomous robotic systems
- Nano/micro particles control and manipulation
- Dynamic systems and control
- Motion planning and motion control
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Kirill Zaychik
Research Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Flight and ground vehicle simulation
- man-machine systems control systems (theory and application)
- human operator modeling
- parameter identification
- micro-macro system dynamics analysis
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Pu Zhang
Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Studies Director
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Composite and architected material
- Constitutive modeling
- Multiscale and multiphysics simulation
- Additive and hybrid manufacturing
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Jingzhou (Frank) Zhao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Solidification nanomanufacturing processes
- Interfacial transport dynamics and control
- In-situ sensing systems
- High-temperature thermal energy storage materials
- Applied machine learning
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Guangwen Zhou
SUNY Distinguished Professor ; Associate Director, Institute of Materials Research; Deputy Director of Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- Materials Science
- Atomistic mechanisms of surface and interface phenomena
- In situ electron microscopy in materials research
- Materials modeling
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Jian Zhou
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests
- Nanoengineering and NEMS
- Nano mechanics and manufacturing
- Acoustics and vibration
- Bio-inspired engineering
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Staff
Elizabeth Kucharek
Administrative Coordinator
Mechanical Engineering
Bridget Tiska
Graduate Administrative Assistant
Mechanical Engineering
Tara Zajack
Department Administrative Assistant
Mechanical Engineering
Emeritus Faculty
Research Faculty
Arad Azizi
Morteza Haji Bagheri
William Chen
Fatemeh Hejripour Rafsanjani
Dorel Homentcovschi
Al Ortega (Visiting)
Srikanth Rangarajan
Gamal Refai-Ahmed
Mohammad Tradat
Professional and Academic Advisors
A team of people within the department and across the campus guides students in the
development of their intellectual life and prepares them to contribute constructively
to a world that is rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent.
Within the Department
Within the School
Industrial Advisory Board
Joseph Kolly '88, Board Chair
Director, Transportation Innovation Center
MITRE
Chris Kopec '96
Facilities Group Manager
McFarland Johnson
E. Duane Daddis, Jr. PE, LEED, AP '88
Associate Director of Engineering, Applied Rooftop Products
Carrier North America HVAC Commercial Systems
Stephan Meschter, MS '87, PhD '01
Staff Design Engineer
BAE Systems
Tony Tsang, MS '11
General Manager
Pumpman – Pump Systems (Federal Pump & Alyan Pump)
Liang Yin, MS '03, PhD '05
Electronic Packaging Engineer
GE Global Research
Mechanical Engineering Student Advisory Committee (MESAC)
Contact MESAC: mesac@binghamton.edu
Graduate
Rachel Koppelman
Joseph Green
Emma Pawliczak
Seniors
Sasha Noble
Jules Verrino
Liam Heanue
Juniors
McKenzie Viersma
Samuel Estroff-Liberti
Sophomores
Zachary Boje
Matthew Cardenaz
Emmanual Mingo
Evan Lebediker
Student groups
There are a number of honor societies and student organizations that represent various engineering and computer science disciplines in which Watson
College students can participate.