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Optical imaging, quantitative phase microscopy, compressive imaging, transformation optics, and nanopatterning-nanoassembly of surfaces and three-dimensional (3D) systems. Accomplishments include volume holographic microscopes for real-time 3D imaging without scanning; digital holographic characterization of 3D multi-phase flows; non-interferometric phase estimation using transport of intensity and phase-space tomography; a macroscale optical cloak that works at visible frequencies and is made of natural calcite; nanostructured origami assembly of 3D nanosystems; and numerous nanofabrication techniques such as Talbot patterning of 3D nanostructures and optical "anechoic chambers" (omni-directional broadband anti-reflective coatings.)

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Advancing the state of computational procedures for solids & structures, fluids, electromagnetics, problems of multiphysics and multiscale. The methods shall be reliable and efficient for general analyses in engineering and the sciences, and have an impact on the wide practice of analysis for many years.

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mechanics of materials -- polymers, elastomers, micro and nanocomposites, natural materials; interplay between structural geometry, inherent material behavior, deformation mechanisms and multifunctional behaviors; large deformation and instabilities to alter and trigger new material structures and behaviors

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Cryogenics: sub-Kelvin refrigeration, hydrogen liquefaction, innovative power cycles, innovative methods of ice cream manufacture, and micro-coolers.

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Microfluidics, Electrokinetics, Electrochemistry, Microbial Fuel Cells, Electrophoretic Deposition

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Solar energy conversion: high-efficiency materials and devices; improved materials utilization; novel manufacturing technologies; nanoscale defect characterization; synchrotron-based X-ray characterization techniques.

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Experimental, theoretical, and numerical study of fundamental energy conversion and transport mechanisms at micro- and nanometer scales, with applications to thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, thermophotovoltaics, microelectronics and photonics; nanoengineered materials with high and low thermal conductivities; thermal interface materials; ultrafast transport processes; thermal radiation and electromagnetic metamaterials; nanofabrication; desalination.

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Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Design, and analysis of the Shipboard Power Systems.

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Innovative manufacturing processes and systems. Developed the Uniform-Droplet Spray Process for production of solder balls used in electronics packaging.

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Theory, design, and fabrication of next generation precision machines and mechanisms. Enabled creation of new micro, meso, and macro-scale compliant mechanism-based devices/machines for manufacturing, metrology, manipulation and robotics applications.

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Control and dynamical systems theory and its applications to multi-agent nonlinear, hybrid and embedded systems, transportation systems, biomolecular networks, and synthetic biology

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The biophysical origins of atherosclerotic disease in arteries and predictive biological models of arterial response to flow. Produced the first workable cell culture systems for studying the effects of mechanical forces on living cells, and the first scalable computational system for very large biological models.

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The design and control of high performance mechatronic systems, with application to space robotics, fuel cell power of field robots and distributed environmental sensors, and the innovative design and control of clean water/clean energy systems.

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Tailored Wave-Material Interaction; Ionic Nanosystems and manufacturing; Hetergeneous Microstructured Active Materials

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Robust design, design or experiments, statistics, design methods, engineering for the developing world. Proposed and evaluated adaptive experimental strategies for making systems perform more consistently. Developed new theory to evaluate design of experiments.

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Analysis of high-performance, zero-emission integrated energy systems with CO2 capture. Thermal-Fluid Science and Engineering, Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion and Combustion, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence.

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Modelling and testing of mechanical properties of cellular materials. Coauthored the books Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties (joint with MF Ashby) and Cellular Materials in Nature and Medicine (joint with MF Ashby and BA Harley)

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Geometric modeling through the development of elastically deformable CAD models.

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Primary research interests are in the design and planning of manufacturing systems and supply chains; recent efforts have considered supply-chain optimization, the evaluation of manufacturing flexibility and various tactical issues arising in e-retailing and manufacturing systems.

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Tissue engineering, molecular design of biomaterials, drug development, microreactors, women's health

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Mechanobiology: mechanical regulation of gene expression and cellular synthesis, assembly, and degradation of extracellular matrix; Osteoarthritis and Joint Injury: models of cartilage injury, diagnostics, therapeutics, and drug discovery; Cartilage tissue engineering: functionalized self- assembling peptide hydrogel scaffolds encapsulating stem cells; Molecular Nano- Mechanics: AFM-based molecular mechanical properties of matrix proteins and proteoglycans; Cell and tissue biomechanics.

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Manufacturing, Design, Energy, Materials, Thermodynamics and the concept of Sustainability

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Control of Manufacturing Processes and Novel Process Development. Developed novel machines and control methods for manufacturing of micron-scale feature polymer parts, especially microfluidic devices. Scale up of micro contact printing methods for creating meta surfaces and meta materials with large surface areas.

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Manufacturing, characterization, and applications of nanostructured materials and devices; machine design; self-assembly; mechanochemistry; additive processing; carbon nanomaterials; composite materials; biointerfaces; research methodologies; scientific visualizations.

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Fluid mechanics, design, and instrumentation. Image processing, and optical diagnostics relating to health and the environment.

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Engines and fuels, future automotive technology. Identified future engine and fuel's opportunities; developed methodology for estimating fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from future vehicles.

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Contact Robotics; Human Performance Enhancement Technologies; Biomechanics & Neural Control of Movement; Physical System Modeling, Design and Control.

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Instabilities in viscous flows, low Reynolds number locomotion and bioinspired design.

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Design methods for complex marine systems. Developed vehicle technology and processes for automated in-water ship hull inspection.

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Head of BioInstrumentation Laboratory: high-performance instrumentation; drug delivery technologies; conducting polymer systems; sensors.

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Haptic and tactile displays; human haptic and thermal sensing; skin mechanics; wearable sensors and actuators. Developed body-based wireless controlled tactile displays for navigation

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Developing the technologies to create multicellular biological machines. Introduced a new concept in microfluidics creating realistic microenvironments for the culture of multiple communicating cell types and simulating organ function. Applications in cancer, cardiovascular disease, and angiogenesis.

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Continuum mechanics of deformable materials; Amorphous solids and constitutive modeling based on micro-level mechanics; Simulation methods for multi-phase interaction; Mobility laws for viscous flow over nonuniform surfaces.

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Physics of microfluidic and nanofluidic flows and device design.

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Smart MEMS, Nanomanufacturing, carbon nanotube assembly, energy harvesting

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Atomic-scale computational materials design; surface and interface properties; atomic & electronic structure-function relationships; thermodynamics & kinetics of thin film growth/nanostructure formation; (photo)catalysis; hybrid photovoltaics; multiferroics.

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To revolutionize the practice of rehabilitation medicine by applying robotics and information technology that can assist, enhance, and quantify neuro-rehabilitation and to develop effective biomarkers to characterize recovery.

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Navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots; marine robotics; long-term visual simultaneous localization and mapping in dynamic environments; mobile sensor networks; self-driving autonomous cars.

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Ocean Data Assimilation: Numerical Ocean Modeling, Uncertainty Quantification and Assimilation Schemes, and Applications to Ocean Dynamics

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Water purification and Desalination, including thermal and membrane based systems, transport, and thermodynamics.

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Theoretical and computational hydrodynamics with applications to ships, offshore structures, and marine energy devices. Development of prediction tools for nonlinear wave-body interactions, ocean wave fields, and multiphase flows in pipes.

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Acoustics, Sensing and Perception, Ocean Exploration, Marine Ecology, Scattering and Propagation in Random Media, Statistical Estimation, Polar and Icy Satellite Exploration, Marine Geophysics, Musical Instrument Evolution.

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New tools for single cell analysis and biomolecular detection

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Focus on the interface between naval architecture/technology and economics/management/regulation. My students & I developed a model to analyze the economic feasibility of moving containers through the arctic.

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Extensional rheology of complex fluids, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, microrheology & microfluidics, field-responsive fluids, free surface fluid dynamics of jets, sprays and threads, rheology of biopolymer gels, biomimetics, friction reduction & super-hydrophobicity and the development of nanocomposite materials. Our most recent focus has been on understanding the physico-chemical hydrodynamics controlling the fabrication and stable operation of superoleophobic (oil-repellent) and pagophobic (ice-repellent) nanotextured coatings for diverse applications including photovoltaic arrays, friction-reducing surfaces, fabrics and screens.

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Heat Transfer; Mass Transfer; Bioengineering; Energy; Electronic Cooling; Fluid Mechanics.

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Most of career has involved Marine and Ocean Hydrodynamics and related Applied mathematics and Optics. Hydrodynamics of sailing vessels and sails and their design has been worked on since 1958. Behavior of oil spills in the marine involvement and cleanup technology was studies theoretically, in the lab, and at sea for 30 years. 14 years of work were dedicated to the nonlinear dynamics of one vessel towing another in large ocean waves. For the last few years he has been working on energy-related issues. Recently, this involved determining conditions and costs for which PHEVs would be cost-competitive.

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Failure analysis; Stress analysis and design assessment; Multiscale micromechanical modeling of nanocomposites.

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Numerical methods, numerical analysis, computational engineering, continuum mechanics and transport, model order reduction.

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Stratified fluids and nonlinear dynamics; laboratory and field experiments, theory and application. Fundamental advances in internal wave dynamics, novel studies of diffusion phenomena, and applications of Lagrangian Coherent Structures to ocean decision-making strategies.

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Soft Mechanical Structures and Soft Materials. Harvest mechanical instabilities, guided primarily through precision desktop-scaled experiments, towards understanding and exploiting novel functionalities in thin structures over a wide range of length scales.

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Medical Imaging Technology; Computer Assisted Engineering; System Dynamics, Control Theory; Biomedical Engineering.

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Stochastic mechanics with applications to navalarchitecture, passive protection configurations for mechanical systems, andfiltering and probabilistic prediction of nonlinear high-dimensional systems

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RFID, Sensors, Energy, Transportation. Developed high-throughput scanning system for long-wave infrared (LWIR) imaging of buildings from streets.

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Arctic and shallow water acoustics; Seismic-acoustic propagation and reverberation; Scattering and reverberation due to sea surface and ice roughness. 3-D acoustics in very shallow water. Acoustic tomography for coastal ocean observation and forecasting.

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Marine hydrodynamics; Floating Offshore Wind Turbines; Responses and Stability of Ships and Floating Structures in Steep Random Waves.

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Clean energy conversion and storage, photoelectro/electrochemistry, nanotechnology, nano materials, Electrocatalysis/catalysis. Developed design principles for oxide catalysts for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution via water splitting.

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Precision Machine Design, medical devices, manufacturing machines, renewable energy machines

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Dynamic Systems, Robotics and Learning Systems, Computational Neuroscience, Control Theory, Systems Biology

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Design and develop instrumentation for spectroscopy, microscopy, and imaging. Apply biophotonics technology for biological and medical research including neurobiology, biomechanics, fiborgenesis diseases, and biological machines. Develop high throughput 3D mcirofabrication technology for areas such as fluidics and regenerative medicine.

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Human Haptics: Biomechanics, Neuroscience, Psychophysics, Motor Control; Machine Haptics: Device design and control, Rendering algorithms (Computer Haptics); Multimodal Virtual Environments and Teleoperation; Human-Machine Interactions

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Experimental Hydrodynamics; light field imaging for fluid mechanics; 3D imaging of multi-phase flows and sprays; unsteady bio-inspired propulsion/ maneuvering; flow structure interactions; water entry hydrodynamics; ocean instrumentation.

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Developing models for the lubrication system of internal combustion engines. Tools for the lubrication and dynamics of the piston and rings as well as gas and oil flows at all relevant scales to assist auto industry to reduce engine friction and emissions.

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Biomimetic flow sensing and control to achieve super-maneuverability of ocean vehicles.

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Mechatronics; Design of Precision Electromechanical Systems; Continuous- and Discrete-Time Control; Instrumentation; Electromechanics; Magnetic Suspensions and Bearings; Control of Fluid Systems; Analog and Digital Signal Processing.

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Nonlinear dynamics of complex and/or stochastic systems. With applications soft matter, turbulent and chaotic flows, large and small scale energy systems.

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Dynamics of offshore structures and flow-induced vibration.

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Surface Science & Engineering: Nanoengineered Surfaces and their applications to Energy, Water, Oil & Gas, Agriculture, Aviation, Electronics Cooling Systems.

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Environmentally-conscious design, computer-aided industrial design, and new-media design education.

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Ductile fracture with application to automotive (crashworthiness), steel (sheet forming, pipe manufacturing), offshore and aerospace industries. Modeling of lithium-ion batteries for structural integrity and safety. Developed and calibrated a new model for initiation and propagation of cracks, applicable to a wide range of stress states and two and three dimensional problems

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Design, Dynamic Systems and Control, Robotics, Product Design and Engineering Management.

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(a) NDE of high-performance composite aircraft structures; (b) repair of advanced composites; (c) pre-repair and post-repair stress analysis of advanced composite laminates; (d) thermography of advanced composites; (e) mechanical vibration and shock mitigation; (f) wave propagation in anisotropic media; and (g) dynamic fracture of advanced composites.

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Design for emerging markets and developing countries; international development; reverse innovation and cross-cultural technology transfer; biologically-inspired design; fluid, solid, granular mechanics; biomechanics; mechanical, precision machine design; medical device design; water purification; agricultural equipment; design of ocean systems.

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Engine Tribology, Lubrication Engineering, Lubricant and Additive Technologies, Engine Efficiency, Diesel Engines, Emissions, Exhaust Aftertreatment, Alternative Fuels, Biomass Cookstoves and Indoor Pollution.

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Early stage design process, design methodology, design representation, designer behavior, user-centered design.

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Molecular biological mechanisms for induced regeneration of organs by scaffolds. Invented the first regeneration template, a collagen scaffold that induces regeneration of skin.

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Design of Machines with Compliant Bodies for Biomimetic Locomotion in Liquid Environments.