Team

Leadership Team

Mario A. Rotea

Center Director

Control theory
Control technology
Optimization

Todd Griffith

Center Deputy Director

Structural dynamics
Aeromechanics
Wind turbine design

Stefano Leonardi

Educational Program Director

Turbulence
Computational fluid mechanics
Drag reduction

Giacomo V. Iungo

Wind Tunnel Director

Experimental fluid mechanics
Power harvesting from flows

Faculty Members

Yulia Gel

Machine learning
Graph mining
Climate informatics

Nasser Kehtarnavaz

Machine learning
Signals and systems
Embedded processors

Yaqing Jin

Experimental Fluid Mechanics
Fluid-structure interaction

Yaoyu Li

Control Systems
Energy efficiency

Hongbing Lu

Experimental  Mechanics
Nanomechanics
Fracture Mechanics

Arif Malik

Computational structural mechanics
Uncertainty
Reliability-based design

Dong Qian

Computational mechanics
Fatigue and life prediction

Kianoosh Yousefi

Fluid Dynamics
Turbulence
Air-Sea Interactions

Armin Zare

Control Theory
Optimization
Fluid Dynamics

Jie Zhang

Design Optimization
Big data analytics

Staff

Michael Mendoza

Assistant Director for Communications and Business Development

Wasi Ahmed

Wind Tunnel Engineer

Doreen Tracy

Administrative Services Officer