Cesar Rego
crego ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5519

Research Interests:

• optimization

Wei-Yin Chen
cmchengs ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5651

Research Interests:

• fossil fuel utilization
• combustion
• gasification
• liquefication
• pyrolysis (thermal decomposition)
• emission control
• nitrogen oxide
• soot
• carbon monoxide
• carbon dioxide
• trace metals
• aerosols
• stochastic modeling of soot growth

Clint Williford
drwill ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5348

Research Interests:

• microbial conditioning of biomass for ethanol production

Amala Dass
amal ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-7301

Research Interests:

• Fuel cells
• battery electrode materials
• specifically nanoparticles as catalyst
• <1nm particles, surface area enhancement
• 100 times more cost-effective than conventional materials
• conducting polymers as electrode materials

Nathan Hammer
nhammer ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-3989

Research Interests:

• molecular spectroscopy of interacting systems

Keith Hollis
hollis ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5337

Research Interests:

• molecules for light-harvesting
• molecules for photocatalytic splitting of water

Jason Ritchie
jritchie ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5329

Research Interests:

• anhydrous proton conductivity
• cation conductivity and small molecule diffusion in the MePEG polymer
• electrolyte materials designed for electrochemical power sources
• inorganic chemistry
• nanomaterials
• MePEG polymer
• solid lithium ion conducting polymer electrolytes
• structure conductivity relationships in polymeric electrolytes
• synthesis of new polymeric electrolytes
• lithium ion conducting polymer electrolyte
• fuel cells
• electrochemical power source applications
• electrolyte materials
• PEM fuel cell electrolytes
• proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell electrolytes

Elizabeth Ervin
eke ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5618

Research Interests:

• Impact in nuclear structures
• fracture, leakage, damage
• health evaluation
• Education in nuclear engineering

Madhusudana Suryadevara
msuryand ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-7191

Research Interests:

• solar energy
• heat transfer
• fluidized bed combustion
• waste heat recovery
• fuel cells

Waheed Uddin
cvuddin ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5363

Research Interests:

• transportation
• greenhouse gases (GHG)
• economics
• infrastructure
• climate change

Paul Ruth
paulruth ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5355

Research Interests:

• virtual machines
• embedded devices
• reducing power consumption of computational science (high-performance computing)
• low power options for distributed computing

Tobin Maginnis
ptm ( at ) cs ( dot ) olemiss.edu (662) 915-5357

Research Interests:

• operating systems
• computer networking
• distributed computing
• alternative transportation
• battery electric vehicles (BEVs)

Atef Elsherbeni
atef ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5382

Research Interests:

• electromagnetics
• antennas
• numerical simulations
• applying antenna design technology for energy conservation (various frequency ranges)
• wireless energy & power transmission technology: investigation, analysis, experimentation

Darko Kajfez
eedarko ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5383

Research Interests:

• Microwaves
• Antennas
• Measurement and analysis

Alexander Yakovlev
yakovlev ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-7196

Research Interests:

• Electromagnetic waves
• Antennas
• Microwaves
• Metamaterials (new materials)
• Nanomaterials
• Nano metamaterials
• Plasmonics (plasmonic resonances)
• Nanocarbon tubes
• Graphene

Fan Yang
fyang ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5384

Research Interests:

• Electromagnetic waves; transmitting, receiving and manipulating
• Radio frequency systems
• Power concentration
• Electromagnetic waves
• Optical energy
• Nano fabrication
• Solar power capture material

Hal Robinson
hdrobins ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-1074

Research Interests:

• Geographic information systems (GIS)
• Remote sensing

Jeff Hallam
jhallam ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5140

Research Interests:

• Environmental influences on physical activity (built environment)
• Geoinformatics

Tyrus McCarty
mccarty ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5377

Research Interests:

• fluid mechanics
• heat transfer
• computation/numerical modeling
• energy harvesting (alternative methods)
• utilization of smart materials on a nano-scale to produce energy (modeling the physical phenomena)

Jeffrey Roux
meroux ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5375

Research Interests:

• energy conservation (efficiency)
• residential insulation systems
• radiant barriers
• solar energy (some interest)
• applying existing effective technologies

Jagdish Sharma
jsharma ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5698

Research Interests:

• smart nano coatings for renewable energy

Carol Lutken
cbl ( at ) mmri ( dot ) olemiss.edu (662) 915-5598

Research Interests:

• Resource Identification and Evaluation
• Energy hazards
• alternative energies
• fuel efficiencies

Charles Swann
cts ( at ) mmri ( dot ) olemiss.edu (662) 915-7611

Research Interests:

• enhanced oil and gas recovery
• biofuels
• alternative power sources:
• wind
• solar
• exploration of new reserves in MS
• lignite utilization

Sara Davis Brown
sarad ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-6547

Research Interests:

• biomedical acoustics
• cavitation
• ultrasonics

Charles Church
cchurch ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-6517

Research Interests:

• acoustic cavitation
• biological effects of ultrasound
• fusion-derived energy

Richard Raspet
raspet ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5888

Research Interests:

• thermoacoustic power generation
• inert gas/condensing vapor
• wind turbines

Ray Highsmith
ray ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5479

Research Interests:

• solar power

John Matthews
pljcm ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5153

Research Interests:

• environmental toxicology
• carbon monoxide as a fuel source
• carbon monoxide fuel cell
• using CO from auto exhaust as a fuel supplement

Josh Gladden
jgladden ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-7428

Research Interests:

• mechanical properties and phase transitions in novel materials at high temperatures and pressures
• energy related materials
• thermoelectrics
• metal hydrides
• bulk metallic glass

Joel Mobley
jmobley ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-1034

Research Interests:

• ultrasonics (including biomedical ultrasonics)
• acoustically driven exothermic reactions
• high performance computing
• acoustic cavitation

Richard Raspet
raspet ( at ) olemiss ( dot ) edu (662) 915-5888

Research Interests:

• thermoacoustic power generation
• inert gas/condensing vapor
• wind turbines