Appointed Faculty

Individuals employed as College of Engineering faculty members.

	Adolphson, Ryan Administrative Director Specialty: Bioenergy Phone: 706-542-4493 / Email: ryan@engr.uga.edu
	Allison, James Professor Emeritus Email: jandw@uga.edu
	Christian, Jason Assistant Professor Specialty: Unsteady and uncertain hydrologic and hydraulic systems; Water resource management; Floodplain delineation and analysis; Analysis of reliability and interdependence of infrastructure systems; Smoothed particle hydrodynamic (SPH) numeric solutions of shallow water equations. Phone: 706-542-8624 / Email: jkc@uga.edu
	Chorzepa, Mi Geum Assistant Professor Specialty: Structural Analysis & Design; Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis; Nuclear Safety Related Structures; Containment Structures; Steel Plate Structures; Cryogenic Structures; Sustainable Building Design; Progressive Collapse Analysis; Materials Modeling; Forensic Engineering; Structural Repair; Composite Materials Phone: 706-542-3437/Email: chorzepa@uga.edu
	Das, K.C. Professor Specialty: Biomass Conversion – Thermal and Biological; Bioenergy; Anaerobic digestion; Carbon Cycling Phone: 706-542-8842 / Email: kdas@engr.uga.edu
	Durham, Stephan Associate Professor Specialty: Structural Engineering; Concrete Materials and Properties; Sustainability through Concrete Materials and Construction; Structural Evaluation; Bridge Engineering Phone: 706-542-9480 / Email: sdurham@uga.edu
	Eiteman, Mark Professor Specialty: Fermentation and metabolic engineering Phone: 706-542-0833 / Email: eiteman@engr.uga.edu
	Fok, Mable Assistant Professor Specialty: Photonics, fiber-optics, lightwave neuromorphic signal processing, microwave photonics, photonic signal processing, non-linear fiber optics, physical (optical) layer network security, photonics system, optical communication system. Phone: 706-542-2233 / Email: mfok@uga.edu
	Foutz, Tim Professor Specialty: Biomechanics: a research and education program dedicated to discovering and disseminating knowledge related the biomechanics of human and animal movement S.T.E.M. / Engineering Education Outreach: a research and service program dedicated to the improvement of education Phone: 706-542-0868 / Email: tfoutz@engr.uga.edu
	Gattie, David Associate Professor Specialty: Environmental and natural resources engineering Phone: 706-542-0880 / Email: dgattie@engr.uga.edu
	Geller, Dan Public Service Assistant Specialty: Biodiesel; biofuels Phone: 706-583-0876 / Email: dgeller@uga.edu
	Haidekker, Mark Associate Professor Specialty: Biosensing and bioimaging; instrumentation Phone: 706-542-1653 / Email: mhaidekk@uga.edu
	Hamrita, Takoi Professor Specialty: Embedded Systems, Engineering Educations, International Education, International Engagement and Complex Systems Phone: 706-542-1973 / Email: thamrita@uga.edu
	Jambeck, Jenna Assistant Professor Specialty: Environmental engineering; solid and hazardous waste Phone: 706-542-6454 / Email: jjambeck@uga.edu
	Johnsen, Kyle Assistant Professor Specialty: Multimodel VH interfaces Phone: 706-583-8166 / Email: kjohnsen@uga.edu
	Kastner, Jim Associate Professor Specialty: Biochemical engineering Phone: 706-583-0155 / Email: jkastner@engr.uga.edu
	Kazanci, Caner Associate Professor with Mathematics Specialty: Ecological and biochemical networks Phone: 706-542-0863 / Email: caner@uga.edu
	Kellam, Nadia Associate Professor Specialty: Engineering education and complex systems Phone: 706-542-5478 / Email: nkellam@engr.uga.edu
	Kisaalita, William Professor Specialty: Tissue engineering and in particular cell-surface interactions with applications in the development of cell-based biosensors and/or assays for high throughput screening (HTS). Phone: 706-542-0835 / Email: williamk@engr.uga.edu
	Kner, Peter Assistant Professor Specialty: Bioimaging Phone: 706-542-8855 / Email: kner@engr.uga.edu
	Law, S. Edward D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor Emeritus Email: edlaw@engr.uga.edu
	Lawrence, Thomas Senior Public Service Associate Specialty: Green buildings and sustainable design of urban systems Phone: 706-542-4322 / Email: lawrence@engr.uga.edu
	Li, Changying Associate Professor Specialty: Sensing and automation for specialty crops and cotton Phone: 706-542-4696 / Email: cyli@uga.edu
	Li, Ke (Luke) Assistant Professor Specialty: Environmental engineering; water/wastewater treatment; sustainability Phone: 706-542-2201 / Email: keli@engr.uga.edu
	Locklin, Jason Associate Professor with Chemistry Specialty: Organic thin films, polymers, soft materials, interfacial characterization, organic electronics Phone: 706-542-2359 / Email: jlocklin@uga.edu
	Mani, Sudhagar Assistant Professor Specialty: Biomass and bioenergy Phone: 706-542-2358 / Email: smani@engr.uga.edu
	Mao, Leidong Assistant Professor Specialty: Micro-electro-mechanical systems Phone: 706-542-1871 / Email: mao@uga.edu
	McClendon, Ronald Professor (Part-time) Email: rwmc@engr.uga.edu
	Mohammadpour, Javad Assistant Professor Specialty: System dynamics and controls; System identification of dynamical systems; Analysis and control of hybrid dynamical systems; Fault detection and fault tolerant control; General application areas of expertise include smart grids, internal combustion engines, wind energy conversion systems and robotics Phone: 706-542-7295 / Email: javadm@uga.edu
	Pan, Zhengwei Associate Professor with Physics Specialty: Functional nanomaterials Phone: 706-542-4657 / Email: panz@uga.edu
	Ramasamy, Ramaraja Assistant Professor Specialty: Electrochemistry; bio-nanomaterials; fuel cells; batteries; biofuel cells Phone: 706-542-4101 / Email: rama@uga.edu
	Savadatti, Siddharth Lecturer Specialty: Computational Mechanics; Structural Engineering Phone: 706-542-9117/ Email: sidsavad@uga.edu
	Schramski, John Assistant Professor Specialty: Energy systems; ecosystems energetics; thermodynamics; theoretical ecology; complex network analysis; ecological network theory Phone: 706-542-4828 / Email: jschrams@uga.edu
	Sellers, Jackie Public Service Associate Specialty: Water, energy, finance Phone: 706-542-8293 / Email: js@uga.edu
	Stooksbury, David Associate Professor Specialty: Climate, coastal systems, wind/solar resources Phone: 706-583-0156 / Email: stooks@engr.uga.edu
	Tanner, Hillary Instructor Specialty: Watershed Monitoring, Assessment, and Protection for Cities and Counties in Georgia Phone: 706-542-0256 / Email: hstanner@engr.uga.edu
	Thai, Chi Associate Professor Specialty: Spectroscopy and Spectral Imaging for Biosystems; Computer Mediated Learning Technologies; Educational Robotics Phone: 706-542-1130 / Email: thai@engr.uga.edu
	Thompson, Sid Professor Specialty: Structural design, storage of grain Phone: 706-542-0873 / Email: sidt@uga.edu
	Threadgill, Dale Professor Specialty: Leadership for all University of Georgia engineering teaching, research, and extension programs statewide; irrigation systems and management: soil and water conservation; soil-plant-water relations; chemical application systems including chemigation; crop production systems; soil tillage systems. Phone: 706-542-1653 / Email: tgill@engr.uga.edu
	Tollner, Bill Professor Specialty: Natural resources engineering; Watershed assessment; postharvest Phone: 706-542-3047 / Email: btollner@engr.uga.edu
	Tse, Zion Assistant Professor Specialty: Medical Robotics, Human-Robot Interaction, Computer-Aided Surgery, MRI Imaging Email: ziontse@engr.uga.edu
	Verma, Brahm Professor Emeritus Email: bverma@engr.uga.edu
	Wagner, Ben Lecturer Specialty: Dynamics and vibrations; Rotating machinery; Industrial utilities and energy conservation Phone: 706-542-8832 / Email: wagner@uga.edu
	Walther, Joachim Assistant Professor Specialty: Engineering education Phone: 706-542-0313 / Email: jwalther@engr.uga.edu
	Wang, Xianqiao Assistant Professor Specialty: Multiscale Material Modeling and Simulation, Computational Nanomechanics, Bio-continuum Mechanics, Nanoscale Energy Harvesting, Coupled Physics Analyses of Nanomaterials, Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Microcontinuum Field Theory, Fracture Mechanics, Material Design Phone: 706-542-6251 / Email: xqwang@uga.edu
	Webb, Antonio Assistant Professor Specialty: Biochemical Engineering Phone: 706-542-3354 / Email: arwebb@uga.edu
	Woodson, Brock Assistant Professor Specialty: Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Mixing and Transport Processes; Coastal Oceanography; Biophysical Interactions in the Ocean; Fisheries; Climate Change; Sustainable Use of Marine Ecosystems Phone: Email: bwoodson@uga.edu
	Xu, Bingqian Associate Professor Specialty: Ultrahigh resolution imaging in liquids; Single molecule recognition imaging, kinetics and dynamics;Controlling electronic transport in single molecule junction devices; SPM nanolithography Phone: 706-542-0502 / Email: bxu@engr.uga.edu
	Yao, Kun Lecturer and Cleanroom Manager (with Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center) Specialty: micro&nano-fabrication, electronic properties of materials, circuit devices, sensors, photocatalyst Email: kunyao@uga.edu
	Yan, Yajun Assistant Professor Specialty: Metabolic engineering, protein engineering, natural products for drug discovery, biofuels Phone: 706-542-8293 / Email: yajunyan@uga.edu
	Yoder, Mike Instructor Specialty: Undergraduate instruction Phone: 706-583-5493 / Email: myoder@engr.uga.edu