Eva Chi, Assistant Professor
Chi's mission is to understand how proteins aggregate and result in toxicity, which will contribute toward the development of a successful therapy to treat a wide range of diseases. Her research interests include biomolecular engineering, protein interfacial dynamics, and protein misfolding and aggregation in human diseases. Chi obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Adam Hecht, Assistant Professor
Hecht comes to UNM following a post-doc in Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin, with work on neutron production from proton beam radiotherapy. Previous experimental work includes stellar nucleosynthesis studies at Argonne National Laboratory. He has a patent pending on a novel accelerator mass spectrometry system based on a flexibly phased dynamic accelerator. Hecht earned his Ph.D. at Yale University.
Steven W. Graves, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Center for Biomedical Engineering
Graves' research interests include flow cytometry, affordable medical diagnostics, pre-symptomatic detection disease, and the study of protease mechanisms. He will also assist with the Center for Biomedical Engineering's efforts to develop a graduate program in Biomedical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
Mark Stone, Assistant Professor
Stone specializes in sustainability issues in water resources engineering, specifically related to human impacts on aquatic ecosystems. Having served as a research professor at the Desert Research Institute, Stone is experienced with arid region hydrology, ecohydrology and ecohydraulics, stream and wetland restoration, and climate change impacts on water resources. He received his Ph.D. from Washington State University in 2005.
Lydia Tapia, Assistant Professor
Tapia joined UNM in the Spring 2011 semester. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M in 2009 and most recently was an NSF Computing Innovations Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin. Tapia’s research studies intelligent motion planning with application to robots and molecules.
Dorian Arnold, Assistant Professor
Arnold's research interests are in high-performance computing, fault-tolerance, and parallel programming tools. His research focuses on scalable, robust, autonomic infrastructures for effective utilization of extremely large scale distributed systems. In 2008, he received his Ph.D from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied reliable tree-based overlay networks.
Thomas P. Hayes, Assistant Professor
Hayes' research interests include Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms, online optimization, algorithms and complexity theory, machine learning, probability theory, statistical group theory, distributed and network algorithms. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and most recently was a Research Assistant Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago.
Olga Lavrova, lecturer III in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Lavrova has been affiliated with UNM as visiting faculty since 2007. Her research interests include photovoltaics and nano-scale semiconductor structures for photovoltaic applications, as well as Smart Grid and emerging energy generation, distribution and storage technologies. She also heads the UNM solar car project.
Ganesh Balakrishnan, Assistant Professor
Balakrishnan was formerly the Technical Director at the Integrated NanoMaterials Core Facility at the California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from UNM and did post-doctoral research at the UNM Center for High Technology Materials. His research interests include compound semiconductor based optoelectronics and novel epitaxial processes.
James Plusquellic, Associate Professor
One of Plusquellic's areas of expertise is defect-based testing for integrated circuits. He is currently working on a NSF-funded grant to research the detection and isolation of hardware Trojan circuits in secure hardware. Plusquellic was formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
Mani Hossein-Zadeh, Assistant Professor
Hossein-Zadeh's main research area is photonics. His interests include RF/ microwave-photonics devices and systems, optomechanical oscillators, ultra high-Q optical microresonators and bio/chemical photonic sensors. He was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology and received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.
Svetlana Poroseva, Assistant Professor
Poroseva joined the department in 2010. She holds a Ph.D. in fluid and plasma mechanics from the Novosibirsk State University, Russia. Her research areas in computational fluid dynamics, wind energy, network resilience to massive damage, and uncertainty analysis are expanding the department’s strengths in renewable energy.
Claudia C. Luhrs, Assistant Professor
Luhrs has 10 years of teaching and research experience in academic and industry environments. Her research interests focus on nanostructured materials; novel synthetic pathways for their preparation, characterization of their crystal structures, properties and reactivity. Luhrs received her Ph.D. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.