Research Faculty & Staff

Dr. Stephanie Ivey is the Associate Dean for Research for the Herff College of Engineering, associate director of the Division of Transportation and Logistics with the Center for Applied Earth Science and Engineering Research and an Associate Professor with the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Memphis. She also directs the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute (IFTI) and the Southeast Transportation Workforce Center. Her research includes focus on community livability and transportation planning and policy. She is the project director for the West Tennessee STEM Hub, a regional K-12 outreach initiative. Ivey also has a lengthy and nationally recognized research record focused on STEM and transportation education and workforce issues. She serves as faculty advisor for the University of Memphis student chapters of WTS and the Institute of Transportation Engineers and is a member of the Executive Committee of the ITE Transportation Education Council.
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Dr. Mariquita "Kit" Boone is the pre-award coordinator for Herff College of Engineering. In her fole, Kit helps Herff researchers find and secure funding for UofM research and educational projects. She works with research teams during the pre-award phase of the sponsored project lifecycle to ensure the proposal is accurate, complete, and compliant with the sponsor requirements. Support includes proposal assistance, non-financial post-submission assistance, as well as research administration services.

Current Research Activity at Herff

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	Dr. Hasan Ali	Smart grid and microgrid controls, cybersecurity issues in modern power grids, electric vehicle charging infrastructure and system, 5G communication, renewable energy, and energy storage
	Dr. David Arellano	Expanded-polystyrene block geofoams, backfill, retaining walls
	Dr. Ebrahim Asadi	Material science, mechanical properties of Ti6AIV4, field crystal modleing using NASA-PSI coarsening solid-liquid mixtures, 3d biofabrication ndmanufacturing, tissue regeneration and implantable devices
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	Dr. Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian	Glaucoma, convolutional neural network
	Dr. Kevin Berisso	Vest testing, RF controls
	Dr. Gary Bowlin	Cardiovascular, DNA, in vitro im plants, designing drugs, bio material for dental bone, electrospinning polymers
	Dr. Joel Bumgardner	Bone graft materials, Chitosan, biomaterials
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	Dr. Charles Camp	Bridge remediation; 3D Dynamic analysis Center for Innovative Research in Bridge Engineering (CIRBE)
	Dr. Amy Curry	Phantom Limb
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	Dr. Mohammadreza Davoodi	Control systems, Complex networks, Fault/Attack diagnosis, Robotics
	Dr. Russell Deaton	VLSI Fabrication, Algorithmic Self-Assembly of Materials, Nanotechnology.
	Dr. Ana Doblas	Optical Instrumentation Multimodal imaging platforms Low-cost imaging systems Automatic and open-source reconstruction algorithms Healthcare sensing devices
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	Dr. Maryam Salehi Esfandarani	Storm water quality
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	Dr. Ali Fatemi	Multiaxial fatigue, additive manufacturing metals, wrought materials, co-extruded high density polyethylene-based multilayer materials, axial and bending fatigue
	Dr. Lenwood Fields	Thermoelectrics, emerging technology, STEM
	Dr. Daniel Foti	Drone research 2022: Awarded $198,766 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his project “ERI: Formation Mechanisms and Modeling of Wake Meandering in Wind Farms”
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	Mr. Michail Gkolias	Freight mobility, corridor feasibility, wrong-way prevention technologies, commodity movement, truck parking needs, freight networks, integrated land use and freight movement
	Dr. Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan	Modeling concentrated dusty plasma; ultrasonic aerosol generators fabrication
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	Dr. John Hochstein	Vehicle emission reduction
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	Dr. Stephanie Ivey	STEM, Workforce development, apprenticeship accelerator, girl/women empowerment, diversity, transformative technology, intermodal freight
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	Dr. Eddie Jacobs	Empathic engineer, gender equity, PALS simulation support, drone research, cybersecurity
	Dr. Farhad Jazaei	Developing a framework to quantify Microplastic load transported by urban stormwater, Brown and Caldwell, 2021 (PI)- ~$33K ITESO-Memphis Engineering Exchange, US Department of State, 2021 (co-PI)- ~$83K Pre- and post-restoration assessment of Loan Oak basin, West Tennessee River Basin Authority, 2021 (Co-PI)- ~$163K Microplastics Fate and Transport in Agricultural Soil: Interrelation of Hydrodynamics, Chemistry, and Material sciences, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA-NIFA), 2020 (Co-PI) - ~$500K Toward a Water Smart Campus- Green Fee, University of Memphis, 2020 (PI)- ~$27K Investigating contaminant storage and release mechanisms at low permeability zones, Herff College of Engineering Faculty Research Grants- UoM, 2020 (PI)- ~$15K West TN Dept of Agriculture, Tennessee Department of Agriculture, 2019 (Co-PI) ~$430K MLGW Aquitard, Memphis Light, Gas, and Water Division, 2019 (Co-PI)- ~$5M Community of Research Scholars grant (CoRS), University of Memphis, 2019 (PI) -$2K Allen Wellfield Evaluation, Memphis Light, Gas, and Water (MLGW) Division, 2017 (Co-PI)- $1.2M Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Laboratory (GFCT Lab)...underdevelopment
	Dr. Jessica Jennings	Research fellowships
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	Dr. Daniel Larsen (CAESER)	Groundwater, bioretention pond assessment, hydrologic modeling, stream restoraion/flood control structures
	Dr. Hsiang Lin	Dynamic vibration reasoning design optimization
	Dr. Erno Lindner	Medical Electronics
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	Dr. Jeffrey Marchetta	3-star industrial assessment, magnetically induced fluid motion in reduced gravity
	Dr. James Mcginnis	Cybersecurity Center for Information Assurance (CfIA)
	Dr. Claudio Meier	Stream restoration
	Dr. Sabyasachee Mishra	Transport research, smart cities, asset management transit fleet, land use, work zone alert systems, freight congestion and mobility multimodal freight model
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	Dr. Shahram Pezeshk	Spatial analysis, attenuation model, spectrum matching-response spectrum, vertical to horizontal response spectral ratios,, ground motion prediction equations
	Dr. Chrysanthe Preza	3D resolution, spherical aberration cellular imaging, optical sectioning microscopy
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	Dr. Esra Roan	Cell stiffness, lung injury
	Dr. Aaron Robinson	Image and signal processing
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	Dr. Aaryani Sajja	Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) NMR Spectroscopy & Metabolomics Image Processing & Analysis Medical Imaging and Physics Iron & Fat Quantification using MRI
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	Dr. Brian Waldron	Groundwater, storm water controlblight mapping, GIS, water portal maintenance, water use app development, increasing aggie production resilience, water resources use
	Dr. John L. Williams	Biomechanics of human motion, joints, orthopaedic and dental implants, mechanical testing and numerical modeling of bone and cartilage, mechanobiology of bone growth and growth plate cartilage.
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	Dr. Mohammed Yeasin	geisinger DSA
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