# Chemical and Nano Engineering (CNE)

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*All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.*

#### Professors

Pao C. Chau, PhD, *Professor Emeritus*

Shaochen Chen, PhD, *Zable Endowed Chair in Energy Technologies*

Zheng Chen, PhD

Sadik C. Esener, PhD, *Professor Emeritus, CNE/ECE*

David Fenning, PhD, *Francine Berman Endowed Chair*

Eric Fullerton, PhD, *Distinguished Professor, CNE/ECE*

Joe Goddard, PhD, *Professor Emeritus, CNE/MAE*

Michael J. Heller, PhD, *Professor Emeritus, CNE/BENG*

Richard Herz, PhD, *Professor Emeritus*

Jesse Jokerst, PhD

Ping Liu, PhD, *William Coles Endowed Chair*

Vlado Lubarda, PhD*, Senior Teaching Professor*

Jian Luo, PhD

Marc A. Meyers, PhD, *Distinguished Professor, CNE/MAE*

David R. Miller, PhD, *Professor Emeritus, CNE/MAE*

Shyue Ping Ong, PhD

Jonathan K. Pokorski, PhD

Nicole F. Steinmetz, PhD

Andrea R. Tao, PhD, *Jeanne Ferrante Endowed Chair*

Kenneth S. Vecchio, PhD, *Distinguished Professor*

Joseph Wang, PhD, *Distinguished Professor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Chair in Engineering*

Sheng Xu, PhD

Kesong Yang, PhD

Liangfang Zhang, PhD, *Joan and Irwin Jacobs Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Innovations for Engineering in Medicine*

#### Associate Professors

Ertugrul Cubukcu, PhD

Aaron Drews, PhD, *Associate Teaching Professor*

Yanran Li, PhD

Justin Opatkiewicz, PhD, *Associate Teaching Professor*

Tod Pascal, PhD

Donald J. Sirbuly, PhD

Oscar Vazquez Mena, PhD

#### Assistant Professors

Zeinab Jahed, PhD

Wanlu Li, PhD

Alyssa Powell, PhD, *Assistant Teaching Professor*

#### Adjunct Professors

Jinhye Bae, PhD

Arunava Gupta, PhD

Darren Lipomi, PhD

Shirley Meng, PhD

Eugene Olevsky, PhD

#### Affiliated Faculty

Adah Almutairi, PhD,*Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences*

Prab Bandaru, PhD, *Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*

Renkun Chen, PhD,*Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*

Karen Christman, PhD, *Professor, Bioengineering*

Seth M. Cohen, PhD, *Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*

Olivia Graeve, PhD, *Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*

Vicki Grassian, PhD, *Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*

Andrew C. Kummel, PhD, *Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*

Yu-Hwa Lo, PhD, *Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering*

Lisa V. Poulikakos, *Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*

Padmini Rangamani, PhD, *Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*

Michael J. Sailor, PhD, *Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*

Gabriel A. Silva, PhD, *Professor, Bioengineering*

Shankar Subramanian, PhD, *Professor, Bioengineering*

William R. Trogler, PhD, *Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*

James K. Whitesell, PhD, *Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry*

Paul Yu, PhD, *Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering*

#### Professional Research

Sabine Faulhaber, MS, *Senior Development Engineer*

James Findley de Regt, MS, *Development Engineer*

Weiwei Gao, PhD, *Associate Project Scientist*

Stephen Horvath, PhD, *Senior Development Engineer*