航空航天与机械工程哲学博士-能源，热科学

该领域的实验和理论研究是在边界层现象，流体系统混乱，计算流体力学，爆轰理论，液滴喷雾，火灾研究，流固耦合，流量控制，食品加工技术，水力学，流体动力稳定性，工业方面进行的。节能，微流体力学，分子动力学，多相和浮力流，反应流，湍流和液态金属的凝固。当前关注的领域是纳米级传热，微流体，燃烧和传热，热力学，传输，生物分析系统，原子和分子物理学，电磁现象以及多尺度建模。
Increases in computational power, reductions in advanced sensor costs, and improvements in actuator power and efficiency have converged to increase the impact of robotics and autonomous systems in society. Research in the Robotics and Controls pillar leverages these advancements to address pressing challenges in the design and control of robots, the development of new control theory, and the study of whole-body human biomechanics. Applications span these areas of inquiry, such as developing robotic solutions for restoring human mobility. Our research is inherently interdisciplinary, involving extensive collaborations within the group and with other domain experts in engineering, applied math, physical therapy, and psychology, and spans experiment, theory, and computation. Laboratories feature custom-built robots designed in-house and fabrication facilities to support ongoing experimentation with them. Motion capture and other sensing systems provide for high-speed data collection. Our Robotics and Controls faculty also leverage advanced computational capabilities to predict, design, and optimize autonomous systems. We study how applied optimization techniques can enable sophisticatedly dynamic robot behavior on rapid time scales, how design algorithms can lead to unintuitive mechanical systems that push the bounds of performance, how new analytical formulations can create fundamental insight into the dynamics of mechanical systems, and how advanced models and simulations of human motion can explain both healthy and impaired motor control. The Center for Research Computing (CRC) is a critical resource facilitating the computational elements of the research.