Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl


Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Polythechnique Montreal . Canada

Morteza Gharib



Vice Provost; Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aronautics and Professor of Bio-Inspired Engineering at California Institute of Technology

Research areas: Unsteady aero- and hydro-dynamics, Vortical flows and flow/structure interaction; turbulent bubbly shear flows; development and application of advanced quantitative flow imaging techniques; bio-fluid dynamics; nanoscale fluid mechanics.

http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/people/faculty/gharib.html

Dr. Haleh Ardebili

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering , University of Houston




Research areas: Lithium Ion Batteries, Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolytes, Lithium Ion Conduction, Materials for Energy Storage, Electronics Materials

http://www.egr.uh.edu/me/faculty/ardebili/

Nastaran Hashemi
Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University




Research Interests: Microfluidics, Biosensors, Optofluidics, Bio-N/MEMS: Design, Modeling, and Fabrication, Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Physics of Micro/Nanoscale Phenomena, Nonlinear Dynamics

http://www.me.iastate.edu/directory/faculty/nastaran-hashemi/

Ardalan Vahidi
Associate Professor
Clemson University



Education
PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005
MSc George Washington University, Washington, 2001
MSc Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1998
BSc Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1996


Research Interests
Energy Technology: Hybrid Electrics, Fuel Cells, Distributed Energy Systems, Vehicle Technology: Advanced Powertrain Control, Improved Mobility through Telematics, and Automatic Control: Optimization-Based Control, Adaptive Control
http://www.clemson.edu/ces/me/people/faculty/vahidi.html

Mohammad A. Ayoubi
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Santa Clara University



Education: Ph.D., Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University, 2007
M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1998
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1991

Current Research Interests:
- Nonlinear dynamics and control
- Spacecraft dynamics
- Optimization

http://www.scu.edu/engineering/me/faculty/ayoubi.cfm

Behrouz Abedian
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Tufts University



Education
Ph.D., M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977, 1980
B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Tehran Institute of Technology, 1975

Research Interests
Dr. Abedian's research is in area of fluid mechanics and its applications in fluidic systems. He has expertise in electrohydrodynamcis, transport phenomenon and energy systems. His most recent effort has resulted in the development of a new generation of digital microfluidic devices. He has worked on flow electrification of dielectric liquids, electrowetting phenomenon, properties of silk fibroin solutions, magnetohydynamic flow in levitated droplets, and dental materials

http://engineering.tufts.edu/me/people/abedian/index.asp

Javad Mostaghimi
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Toronto



DR. JAVAD MOSTAGHIMI received the B.Sc. degree from Sharif University, Iran, in 1974, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1978 and 1982, respectively

Research areas:

Partially ionized gases, thermal plasma processing and plasma chemistry, arcs, radio-frequency inductively coupled plasmas, microwave plasmas, Diamond film synthesis; Plasma spray coating; Mathematical/computational modelling of high temperature processes

http://www.mie.utoronto.ca/faculty/profile.php?id=37

Azim Eskandarian, Professor
Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
George Washington University

http://www.cee.seas.gwu.edu/people/eskandarian_azim.html