Faculty Directory

Elias Balaras

Professor
Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), 1995

3870 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday: 2:00 – 4:00 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-3326
[email protected]
Website: seas.gwu.edu/~balaras
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Lorena A. Barba

Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 2004

3620 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 202-994-3715
[email protected]
Website: lorenabarba.com
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Philippe M. Bardet

Professor
Ph.D., University of California Berkeley, 2006

3580 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 202-994-2650
[email protected]
Website: blogs.gwu.edu/bardet/
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Andrew D. Cutler

Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1984

3655 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Phone: 202-994-2231
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Charles Garris

Professor, P.E.
Fellow of ASME
Ph.D., SUNY-Stony Brook, 1971

5570 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 202-994-3646
[email protected]
Website: cgarris.com
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Stephen M. Hsu

Professor
Fellow of ASME
Ph.D., Penn State University, 1976

3665 Science & Engineering Hall
323C Exploration Hall (VA Campus)
Office Hours: Tuesday: 4:00 – 6:00 pm (VA Campus); By appointment
Phone: 202-994-6069
[email protected]
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Michael Keidar

A. James Clark Professor of Engineering
Fellow of AIAA
Director of GWIN; Fellow of American Physical Society (APS)
Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 1997

3550 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday & Wednesday: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-6929
kei[email protected]
Website:  https://mpnl.seas.gwu.edu
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Saniya LeBlanc

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2012

3570 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 10:00 – 11:00 am; Tuesday: 6:00 – 7:00 pm via webex
Phone: 202-994-8436
[email protected]
Website: leblanclab.com
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James D. Lee

Professor, P.E.
Fellow of ASME
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971

4630 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday & Wednesday: 2:00 – 3:30 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-5971
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Taeyoung Lee

Professor
Ph.D, University of Michigan, 2008

3610 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 1:30 – 3:30 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-8710
[email protected]
Website: seas.gwu.edu/~tylee
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Megan Leftwich 

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University, 2010

3880 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: By Appointment
Phone: 202-994-9830
[email protected]
Website: leftwichlab.seas.gwu.edu
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Yongsheng Leng

Professor
Ph.D., Tsinghua University, 1999

4660 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Phone: 202-994-5964
[email protected]
Website: seas.gwu.edu/~leng
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Michael W. Plesniak

Professor, Department Chair, Director of Center for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering
Fellow of AIAA, ASME, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Physical Society (APS), and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE ), Fellow of Washington Academy of Sciences, Fellow of American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE)
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990

3000B Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 202-994-9800
[email protected]
Website: cbbe.seas.gwu.edu
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Kausik Sarkar

Professor
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), American Physical Society (APS), and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE ), Fellow of ASME
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1994

4550 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday: 1:00 – 2:30 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-8710
[email protected]
Website: sarkarkausik.com
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Yin-Lin Shen

Professor
Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991

3630 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday: 2:00 – 4:00 pm; Thursday: 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Phone: 202-994-5995
[email protected]
Website: seas.gwu.edu/~yshen
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Steven Shooter

Professor
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995

4620 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: tbd
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Murray R. Snyder

Professor, P.E.
Ph.D, Johns Hopkins University, 2007

2870 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday: 2:30 – 5:00 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-4706
[email protected]
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Santiago Solares

Professor
Ph.D, California Institute of Technology, 2006

3560 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-0372
[email protected]
Website: http://www.solaresspmlab.com
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Peng Wei

Assistant Professor
Ph.D, Purdue University, 2013

3600 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: by appointment
Phone: 202-994-0895
[email protected]
Website: web.seas.gwu.edu/pwei
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Lijie Grace Zhang

Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
Ph.D, Brown University, 2009

3590 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm; By appointment
Phone: 202-994-2479
[email protected]
Website: blogs.gwu.edu/lgzhang
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Kartik V. Bulusu

Associate Research Professor
D.Sc., The George Washington University, 2010
 

105A Tompkins Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 202-994-3379
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Ken P. Chong

Research Professor
Fellow of ASME, American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) and Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); P.E)
Ph.D., Princeton 1969

105 Tompkins Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 202-994-6068
[email protected]
Website: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_P._Chong

David S. Dolling

Research Professor
Fellow of AIAA and Royal Aeronautical Society (UK)
Ph.D., London University, 1977

3600 Science & Engineering Hall
Office Hours: Monday: 3:00 – 5:00 pm
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M. Ashraf Imam

Research Professor
Fellow ASM
D.Sc., The George Washington University, 1978

105B Tompkins Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: 202-994-0986
[email protected]
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