Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science (MEMS)
Gaurav Arya
Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
My research laboratory uses physics-based computational tools to provide fundamental, molecular-level understanding of a diverse range of biological [...]
Volker Blum
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Volker Blum heads the "Ab initio materials simulations" group at Duke University. Dr. Blum's research focuses on "first-principles" computational [...]
Ashutosh Chilkoti
Alan L. Kaganov Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Ashutosh Chilkoti is the Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University [...]
Olivier Delaire
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
The Delaire group investigates atomistic transport processes of energy and charge, and thermodynamics in energy materials. We use a combined [...]
Silvia Ferrari
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Professor Ferrari's research aims at providing intelligent control systems with a higher degree of mathematical structure to guide their application [...]
Jeffrey Glass
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeffrey T. Glass is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Institute for Enterprise Engineering. [...]
Kris Hauser
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning. Applications of this research have included [...]
Po-Chun Hsu
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Po-Chun Hsu’s research group aims to develop innovative materials for light and heat management. With the application and desired functions in [...]
Tony Huang
William Bevan Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Tony Jun Huang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2005. His [...]
REGIS Kopper
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Dr. Regis Kopper is an Adjunct Assistant Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke’s Pratt School of [...]
Shivanand Lad
Professor of Neurosurgery
Dr. Nandan Lad is a neurosurgeon, scientist, and entrepreneur and Professor and Vice Chair of Innovation for Duke Neurosurgery. He is Director [...]
Maiken Mikkelsen
James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
David Mitzi
Simon Family Distinguished Professor
David Mitzi received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics from Princeton University in 1985 and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics [...]
Christine K. Payne
Yoh Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Michael Rubinstein
Aleksandar S. Vesic Distinguished Professor
The research of the Rubinstein group is in the field of polymer theory and computer simulations. The unique properties of polymeric systems are due [...]
Shyni Varghese
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Shyni Varghese has a triple appointment in the Duke departments of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and [...]
Benjamin J. Wiley
Professor of Chemistry
In the Wiley Group, we make new nanomaterials by controlling the assembly of atoms in solution, and explore applications for nanomaterials in [...]
Benjamin Yellen
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Yellen's group is interested in developing highly parallel mechanisms for controlling the transport and assembly of ensembles of objects ranging from [...]