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University of Pittsburgh    
2026-2027 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Jul 20, 2026
 
2026-2027 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog

School of Engineering Faculty


MAI ABDELHAKIM, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Michigan State University
 
STEVEN D. ABRAMOWITCH, Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
MURAT AKCAKAYA, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Washington University
 
AMIR H. ALAVI, Associate Professor and B.P. America Faculty Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, Michigan State University
 
DAVID ANDERSON, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Rochester
 
HESSAM BABAEE, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Louisiana State University
 
ANNA C. BALAZS, Distinguished Professor and John A. Swanson Chair, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
HSEEN BALED, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
HENG BAN, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and R.K. Mellon Professor in Energy, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Kentucky
 
IPSITA BANERJEE, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Rutgers University
 
MASOUD BARATI, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Illinois Institute of Technology
 
MATTHEW BARRY, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
AARON P. BATISTA, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, California Institute of Technology
 
CARLA APARECIDA BAUMEL, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University
 
TARYN BAYLES, Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
ERIC J. BECKMAN, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Massachusetts
 
MOSTAFA BEDEWY, Associate Professor and Materials Science Graduate Program Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Michigan

KEVIN BELL, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
KURT E. BESCHORNER, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
MARY BESTERFIELD-SACRE, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
BOPAYA BIDANDA, Ernest E. Roth Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
 
HODA BIDKHORI, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
MELISSA M. BILEC, George M. and Eva M. Bevier Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
HARVEY S. BOROVETZ, Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
IONNIS BOURMPAKIS, Professor and Bicentennial Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Crete
 
BRYAN N. BROWN, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
ANDREW P. BUNGER, Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Minnesota
 
KAREN BURSIC, Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
LEONARD W. CASSON, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
 
RAKIE CHAM, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
JUN CHEN, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences
APRIL CHAMBERS, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
KEVIN P. CHEN, Paul E. Lego Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Toronto
 
MARKUS CHMIELUS, Assistant Professor and Materials Science Undergraduate Program Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
 
SUNG KWON CHO, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Seoul National University, Korea
 
YOUNGJAE CHUN, Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
 
MINKING CHYU, Associate Dean for International Initiatives and Distinguished Service Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Minnesota
 
RENEE CLARK, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
WILLIAM W. CLARK, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
 
DANIEL G. COLE, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
 
XINYAN CUI, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Michigan
 
AHMED DALLAL, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
LANCE A. DAVIDSON, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
 
RICHARD E. DEBSKI, Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
SAMUEL J. DICKERSON, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
AMRO EL-JAROUDI, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Northeastern University
MAHMOUD EL NOKALI, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, McGill University
 
ROBERT M. ENICK, Bayer Professor and Assistant Chair of Research, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
WILLIAM FEDERSPIEL, Professor Emeritus, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Rochester
 
SUSAN FULLERTON, Associate Professor, Bicentennial Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow, and Vice Chair of Education, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
 
GIOVANNI P. GALDI, Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Naples, Italy
 
NEERAJ J. GANDHI, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
 
WEI GAO, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
 
CALIXTO I. GARCIA, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
MARK J. GARTNER, Professor of Practice, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
ALAN D. GEORGE, Ruth E. and Howard T. Mickle Professor and Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Florida State University
 
LEANNE GILBERTSON, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, Yale University
 
PEYMAN GIVI, Distinguished Professor and James T. MacLeod Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
BRIAN M. GLEESON, Harry S. Tack Professor and Chair, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science PhD, University of California at Los Angeles
 
PRAHLAD MENON GOPALAKRISHNA, Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
BRANDON GRAINGER, Associate Professor and Eaton Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
SARAH HAIG, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Glasgow
 
JOEL M. HAIGHT, Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Auburn University
 
KENT A. HARRIES, Professor and Bicentennial Board of Visitors Faculty Fellow, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, McGill University
 
ALAN HIRSCHMAN, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
KATHERINE MARY HORNBOSTEL, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
JINGTONG HU, Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Texas at Dallas
 
TIN-KAN HUNG, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Iowa
 
ANTHONY T. IANNACCHIONE, Associate Professor Emeritus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
TAMER S. IBRAHIM, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, The Ohio State University
 
BISTRA IORDANOVA, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon
 
STEVEN P. JACOBS, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, DSc, Washington University
 
TEVIS D. B. JACOBS, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
 
DANIEL R. JIANG, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Princeton University
 
J. KARL JOHNSON, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Cornell University
 
ALEX K. JONES, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University
 
JOHN A. KEITH, Associate Professor and R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow in Energy, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, California Institute of Technology
 
ROBERT JOHN KERESTES, Associate Professor and Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
TONY L. KERZMANN, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
VIKAS KHANNA, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, The Ohio State University
 
PRATAP KHANWILKAR, Professor of Practice and Director of Master’s Programs, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Utah
 
LEV KHAZANOVICH, Anthony E. Gill Chair Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Illinois
 
KANG KIM, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, The Pennsylvania State University
 
HONG KOO KIM, Bell of PA/Bell Atlantic Professor and Graduate Program Director, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
KATRINA KNIGHT, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
TAKASHI DANIEL YOSHIDA KOZAI, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Michigan
 
PRASHANT N. KUMTA, Distinguished Professor and Edward R. Weidlein Chair Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Arizona
 
ALEXIS KWASINSKI, Associate Professor and R.K. Mellon Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
JUNG-KUN LEE, Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Seoul National University, Korea
 
KEEWON LEE, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
 
SANGYEOP LEE, Associate Professor and Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Graduate Program Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
PAUL LEU, Professor and B.P. America Faculty Fellow, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Stanford University
 
GUANGYONG LI, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Michigan State University
 
LEI LI, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Michigan
XU LIANG, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Washington
 
JEEN-SHANG LIN, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
STEVEN LITTLE, Distinguished Professor and George M. and Eva M. Bevier Endowed Chair, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
PATRICK J. LOUGHLIN, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Washington
 
NIATIKUN LOUIS LUANGKESORN, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University
 
ARASH MAHBOOBIN, Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
SPANDAN MAITI, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 
LISA M. MAILLART, Professor and Interim Chair, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Michigan
 
MICHELE V. MANUEL, U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University
 
SCOTT X. MAO, John A. Swanson Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Tohoku University
 
ZHI-HONG MAO, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
JOSEPH J. McCARTHY, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University
 
JAMES R. McKONE, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, California Institute of Technology
 
RAVI SHANKAR MEENAKSHISUNDARAM, John A. Swanson Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Purdue University
 
IRENE MENA, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, and First Year Engineering Program Director, PhD, Purdue University
NATASA MISKOV-ZIVANOV, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
KARTIK MOHANRAM, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
 
BADIE I. MORSI, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, ScD, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine-Ecole Nationale Superieure des Industries Chimiques
 
RAMAKRISHNA MUKKAMALA, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
JOHN MURPHY, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Duquesne University
 
SITTICHAI NATESAKHAWAT, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, The Ohio State University
 
IAN NETTLESHIP, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Leeds
 
TAGBO HERMAN ROLAND NIEPA, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Syracuse University
 
PAUL R. OHODNICKI, Professor and Engineering Science Undergraduate Program Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
ROBERT S. PARKER, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Robert V.D. Luft Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Delaware
 
JACK PATZER, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Sta
 
THOMAS PICCONE, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
OLEG A. PROKOPYEV, Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Florida
 
JAYANT RAJGOPAL, Professor and Graduate Program Director, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Iowa
 
MARK S. REDFERN, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Michigan
 
GREGORY F. REED, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
PIERVINCENZO RIZZO, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of California at San Diego
 
ANNE M. ROBERTSON, Distinguished Service Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
 
JOAQUIN RODRIGUEZ, Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
ABHIJIT ROY, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology
 
PARTHA ROY, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center
 
WARREN RUDER, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
STEVEN G. SACHS, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
JOSEPH T. SAMOSKY, Associate Professor Emeritus, Bioengineering, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
DAVID SANCHEZ, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
WISSAM SAIDI, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Ohio State University
 
DAVID SCHMIDT, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
 
JOHN SEBASTIAN, Professor of Practice, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MBA, University of Pittsburgh
 
ERVIN SEJDIC, Associate Professor and Fulton C. Noss Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Western Ontario
 
INANC SENOCAK, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Florida
 
JASON SHOEMAKER, Associate Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara
 
SANJEEV G. SHROFF, Distinguished Professor and Gerald E. McGinnis Chair, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
 
LARRY SHUMAN, Distinguished Service Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
 
WILLIAM S. SLAUGHTER IV, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Harvard University
 
PATRICK SMOLINSKI, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Northwestern University
 
MAX STEPHENS, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Washington
 
GEORGE DEWITT STETTEN, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of North Carolina
 
ALEKSANDAR STEVANOVIC, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Utah
 
SCOTT STREINER, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
SUSHENG TAN, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences
 
ALBERT TO, William Kepler Whiteford Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of California at Berkeley
 
GELSY TORRES-OVIEDO, Associate Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
 
LUIS E. VALLEJO, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Wisconsin
 
JONATHAN VANDE GEEST, Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
JULIE M. VANDENBOSSCHE, Professor and Associate Chair of Research, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Minnesota
 
SACHIN S. VELANKAR, Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, University of Delaware
 
OLEG VELIKOKHATNYI, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of Russian Academy of Sciences
GÖTZ VESER, Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck-Society
 
NATASA VIDIC, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
RADISAV D. VIDIC, Nickolas A. DeCecco Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, PhD, University of Cincinnati
 
JEFFREY S. VIPPERMAN, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Duke University
 
DAVID VORP, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Facilities and John A. Swanson Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Pittsburgh
 
WILLIAM R. WAGNER, Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
 
GUOFENG WANG, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, California Institute of Technology
 
QING-MING WANG, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Pennsylvania State University
 
DOUGLAS WEBER, Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Arizona State University
 
JUSTIN WEINBAUM, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, PhD, Washington University in St. Louis
 
JOHN WHITEFFOOT, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
 
JÖRG M. WIEZOREK, Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Cambridge
 
CHRISTOPHER E. WILMER, Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Northwestern University
 
SYLVANUS N. WOSU, Associate Dean for Diversity Affairs and Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, University of Oklahoma
 
FENG XIONG, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 
WEI XIONG, Associate Professor and William Kepler Whiteford Faculty Fellow, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
JUDITH C. YANG, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Cornell University
 
JUN YANG, William Keppler Whiteford Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of Arizona
 
VICTOR YASHIN, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, PhD, Moscow State University
 
BO ZENG, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering, PhD, Purdue University
 
MIN HEE YUN, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Arizona State University
 
XIAYUN ZHAO, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology
 
LIANG ZHAN, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles


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