Faculty and Staff
| General Inquiry: computationalscience@utep.edu Phone: (915)747-6761 |
Systems Analyst: Khodeza Begum, PhD Email: kbegum@utep.edu |
| Assistant Director: Jackie Fiest, MS Email: jafiest@utep.edu |
Director: Ming-Ying Leung, PhD Email: mleung@utep.edu |
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Research Area |
Phone; Fax* |
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Home Department |
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Biochemistry and molecular biology, genome and metabolic pathways |
747-8813; 747-6474 |
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Electronic, structural, magnetic, and vibrational properties of biomolecules |
747-7529; 747-5447 |
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Multiscale models of multi-omics data; in silico tools to study complex living systems for predicting therapeutic plans; computational AI models for hybrid systems |
747-6759; 747-6502 |
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Signal and image processing |
747-6968; 747-7871 |
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Numerical constraint solving, interval computations, optimization, and multi-criteria decision making |
747-6950; 747-5030 |
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Antarctica crustal structure imaging, spectral element simulations, machine learning, and nonlinear Bayesian inversions |
747-5501; 747-5073 |
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Estimation and testing methodologies for the nonparametric models fitted to dependent and high-dimensional data |
747-6764; 747-6502 |
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Computational solid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics |
747-6900; 747-5019 |
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Fuel combustion, micropropulsion, and space system design |
747-6906; 747-5019 |
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Development of high-fidelity computational tools to solve partial differential equations, including the analysis of perfectly matching layers for wave equations, with applications to the study of earthquakes and atmospheric fluid flow |
747-5761; 747-6502 |
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Environmental science and engineering, transport of aerosols in cities, transmission of lights through metal films |
747-7530; 747-5447 |
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Hardware-software energy-sensitive co-design of high performance systems, strategies for improving caches and memory allocation in mobile systems, and their computational applications |
747-6954; 747-5030 |
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Development of novel computational, electrophysiological, and optical methods to record and analyze neuronal ensembles |
747-8813;(857)233-1843 |
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Machine learning, computer vision, robotics, and natural language processing |
747-6956; 747-5030 |
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Fiber Optic sensors for structural health monitoring, study of wireless sensor network performance, and power smart grid networking |
747-6622; 747-7871 |
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Big data analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, distributed and parallel computing, text and visual analytics, transfer learning, and computational biology |
747-6340; 747-5030 |
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Theoretical and computational chemistry, applying relativistic quantum chemistry methodologies for molecular systems, heavy-element chemistry and x-ray spectroscopies, and computational methodologies for investigating electronic and magnetic properties of materials |
747-7346 |
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Tectonics and structural geology |
747-5669; 747-5073 |
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Computational modeling and simulation, biomechanics, systems engineering, engineering education and leadership development, design methodology, and collaborative design |
747-7829 |
mvaughan@utep.edu |
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Artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational game theory, risk analysis, distributed optimization, mechanism design, team and coalition formation |
747-5564; 747-5030 |
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Interval computations, intelligent control, and reasoning under uncertainty |
747-6951; 747-5030 |
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Computational chemistry, reaction kinetics, impacts of atmospheric aerosols on climate |
747-6552; 747-5073 |
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Predictive algorithms, scan statistics, sequence analysis, structural bioinformatics, and probabilistic modeling in genomics and proteomics |
747-6836; 747-6502 |
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Computational biophysics, computational biology, bioinformatics, protein interactions, virus capsid assembly, molecular motor |
747-8423; 747-5447 |
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Molecular dynamics simulations of nuclear fragmentation, modeling nuclear caloric curve, entropy generation in collisions, and nuclear spindoal decomposition |
747-7528; 747-5447 |
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| Model-based systems engineering, strategic decision-making, social media in disaster response, and computational optimization models |
747-8686; 747-5019 |
salunafong@utep.edu | ||
| Power system operations, planning, forecasting, optimization, and economics; transactive energy systems; distribution system, microgrid and smart gird; computational intelligence; machine learning, cyber physical systems. |
747-8653; 747-7871 |
pmandal@utep.edu | ||
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Nonlinear partial differential equations, stochastic differential equations, mathematical finance, mathematical physics, and numerical methods |
747-5761; 747-6502 |
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Bioinformatics, genomics, population genetics, transcriptomics, cancer, O-glycosylation, machine learning, data mining, high-performance computing application development |
747-6027; 747-6502 |
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High-performance computing, power modeling, and energy optimization |
747-5054; 747-5030 |
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Machine learning algorithms, atomistic simulations of materials, neural and Bayesian networks |
747-7541; 747-5447 |
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Hybrid nonlinear computation models: focusing on benefits of neural networks and fuzzy systems |
747-5994; 747-7871 |
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Development and application of serial and parallel computational methods for chemical and molecular physics, and quantum chemistry |
747-5715; 747-5447 |
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| Image data mining, Big data analytics, Deep learning, Computer modeling and simulation for complex systems, insitu process monitoring and prognostic analysis for the Smart Manufacturing ecosystem |
747-6903; 747-7184 |
mrahman13@utep.edu | ||
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Electron-induced processes in semiconductors and multiscale modeling of material response under dynamic loading |
747-5620; 747-5447 |
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High-performance computing and scientific visualization |
747-6090; 747-7871 |
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Bayesian computational methods |
747-6843; 747-6502 |
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3D printed electromagnetics and circuits, computational electromagnetics and computational lithography, sensors and microsystems |
202-64-EMLAB; 747-7871 |
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Power system operations and planning, economics, reliability and resilience, including applications of high-performance computing, blockchain in electricity markets, and risk analysis for power systems with high penetration of renewable energy, data analytics, and AI |
747-6632; 747-7871 |
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| Classification and clustering, Bayesian approaches |
747-6844; 747-6502 |
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| Numerical analysis, optimization, and Monte Carlo analysis in simulation and prediction; bioinformatics and molecular evolution; metabolic networks in microbial ecology; machine learning, bayesian analysis, and uncertainty quantification for analyzing biogeochemical cycles |
747-5501; 747-5073 |
Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences | ||
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Numerical methods solving differential equations describing problems on electromagnetic wave propagation, incompressible flow, plate bending, time-dependent processes and their error analysis, and on developing mesh and time adaptivity schemes |
747-6858; 747-6502 |
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| Quantum computing in solid state devices, superconducting qubits, semiconductor quantum dot spin qubits, and quantum algorithms for applications in near-term noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices |
747-5715; 747-5447 |
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| Asphalt concrete, pavement material and design, pavement material testing and evaluation, resilient and sustainable materials for civil infrastructure, and predictive pavement performance modeling |
747-6924; 747-8037 |
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| Automating the process of finding bugs and vulnerabilities in large-scale software and machine learning systems; analyzing differential issues where the differences in systems' behaviors lead to information leaks, denial-of-service issues, and adversarial-example attacks. |
747-8408; 747-5030 |
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Renewable energy, biomedical engineering, Internet-based manufacturing/computer-based decision support systems, sustainability engineering, data mining, and knowledge management and quality improvement technology |
747-7990; 747-5019 |
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| Earthquake source modeling and hazards, seismotectonics, and nuclear treaty monitoring research. |
747-5101; 747-5073 |
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Information extraction for imaging spectroscopy or hyperspectral remote sensing; physics-based signal processing; pattern recognition and machine learning; modeling simulation and control of electric power, electric energy, and cyber-physical systems |
747-5534; 747-7871 |
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| Computational chemistry methods on nucleic acids in biology and nanotechnology, design of molecules with high-affinity target binding |
747-7551 |
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| Multiple comparisons, generalized linear models, and categorical data analysis |
747-6847 |
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Numerical analysis and numerical partial differential equations |
747-6864; 747-6502 |
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Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods, structure preserving numerical methods, dynamical low-rank approximations, time integration for gradient flows, efficient numerical methods for multiscale problems and for transport and kinetic equations, methods for singular elliptic PDEs, deep learning and PDE-based data-driven modeling |
747-5761; 747-6502 |
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Properties of molecules, nanocrystals and materials using quantum chemical simulations |
747-8742; 747-5447 |
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Computational modeling and experimental work in semiconductors, crystal growth, nano-materials, fabrication, and nano-devices |
747-6970; 747-7871 |