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School of Engineering welcomes 13 new faculty

August 14, 2019 - By Kim Delker

The following faculty have joined the School of Engineering in 2018-19:

Tameem Albash, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Research interests are in developing theoretical methods and numerical tools to error-correct quantum annealing.

Viktoriia Babicheva, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Research interests are nano-optics, nanophotonics, numerical modeling, nanofabrication, and optical characterization.

Daniel T. Banuti, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Research interests are in multi-physics thermo-fluids and innovative modeling in high-performance computational fluid dynamics for aerospace and sustainable energy.

William Bricker, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering. Research interests are in photosynthesis, light harvesting, quantum biology, and computational chemistry.

Leah Buechley, associate professor of computer science. Research interests are in the integration of electronics, computing, arts, crafts, and design.

Tito Busani, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Research interests are in materials science and photonics.

Minghui Chen, assistant professor nuclear engineering. Research interests include nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety and high-temperature thermal-fluid systems.

Eric Hamke, lecturer II, electrical and computer engineering. Research interests are in engineering education; signal processing; guidance and control of aerial robots; and speech processing.

Maryam Hojati, assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering. Research interests are in green materials, additive manufacturing, special concretes, and functionally-graded materials.

James Paul Holloway, professor of nuclear engineering. Research interests are in nuclear reactor theory, fusion plasma physics, and radiation hydrodynamics.

Gowtham Mohan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering. Research interests include carbon emission mitigation, solar thermal energy, and energy storage.

Shuya Wei, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering. Research interests include energy storage, electrochemical fundamentals, carbon capture, and nanomaterials.

Carl A. Willis, lecturer in nuclear engineering. Research interests are in particle accelerator applications, radiation detection and measurement, radiation protection, and radiation transport modeling and is a licensed senior reactor operator at UNM.