Faculty Directory

Tenured/Tenure-Track

Pulickel M. Ajayan Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson Professor in Engineering	John E. Akin Professor	Enrique V. Barrera Professor	Yildiz Bayazitoglu Harry S. Cameron Chair Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Michael M. Carroll Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor in Mechanical Engineering	Andrew J. Dick Assistant Professor	Fathi H. Ghorbel Professor Director of Graduate Studies	Brent C. Houchens Assistant Professor
Jun Lou Assistant Professor	Rex B. McLellan Professor	Andrew J. Meade Department Chair and Professor	Marcia O'Malley Associate Professor
Pol D. Spanos Lewis B. Ryon Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science	Tayfun E. Tezduyar James F. Barbour Professor in Mechanical Engineering	Ned Thomas William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering and Professor	Boris I. Yakobson Karl F. Hasselmann Chair in Engineering

Joint Appointments

Andrew R. Barron Charles W. Duncan, Jr. - Welch Chair of Chemistry

Satish Nagarajaiah Professor

Ilinca Stanciulescu Assistant Professor

James M. Tour T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Chemistry

Emeriti

Angelo Miele
R. J. Foyt Family Professor Emeritus in Mechanical Engineering
miele@rice.edu | 713-348-4907 | 216 Ryon Lab

Chao-Cheng Wang
Professor Emeritus
ccwang@rice.edu | 713-777-0254

Professor in the Practice

David M. McStravick Professor in the Practice

Faculty Fellow

Robert Vajtai Faculty Fellow

Adjunct

Sarmad Adnan
Adjunct Associate Professor
sarmad@slb.com | 713-348-3607 | 117 MEB

Hugh Banon
Adjunct Associate Professor
H.H.Banon@rice.edu

Nazareth Bedrossian
Adjunct Associate Professor
Nazareth.S.Bedrossian@rice.edu

Aladin Boriek
Adjunct Professor
boriek@rice.edu

Ray Bowen
Distinguished Visiting Faculty
rbowen@rice.edu

Charles Burgar
Adjunct Associate Professor
Charles.G.Burgar@rice.edu

Steven Curley
Adjunct Professor
Steven.A.Curley@rice.edu

Jim Dabney
Adjunct Associate Professor
jdabney@rice.edu

Thomas Hughes
Adjunct Professor
Thomas.J.Hughes@rice.edu

Michael Massimino
Adjunct Professor
Michael.J.Massimino@rice.edu | 281-244-8768

William Miller
Adjunct Professor
Bill.Miller@rice.edu | 301 Space Science & Tech. Bldg.

John Muratore
Adjunct Associate Professor
John.F.Muratore@rice.edu

Abhishek Singh
Adjunct Assistant Professor
abhishek.k.singh@rice.edu

Kenji Takizawa
Adjunct Associate Professor
Kenji.Takizawa@tafsm.org | 230 Ryon Lab

David Warden
Adjunct Lecturer
David.E.Warden@rice.edu | 713-632-8007

Research Scientists

Leela Arava
Research Scientist
leela@rice.edu | 713-348-5654 | 125 MEB

Jae-Hwang Lee
Research Scientist
leejh@rice.edu | 713-348-3081 | 325 SST

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Vasili Artyukhov
Postdoctoral Research Associate
artyukhov@rice.edu

Myung Gwan Hahm
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Myunggwan.Hahm@rice.edu

Huma Jafry
Postdoctoral Research Associate
huma.r.jafry@rice.edu

Seunghyun Lee
Postdoctoral Research Associate
sl4525@rice.edu

Zheng Liu
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Zheng.Liu@rice.edu

Narayanan Tharangattu Narayanan
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Evgeni Penev
Postdoctoral Research Associate
epenev@rice.edu

Mohammad Rafiee
Postdoctoral Research Associate
rafiem@rice.edu

Xiaolong Zou
Postdoctoral Research Associate
xiaolong.zou@rice.edu