Faculty Affiliates
Dr. Desai is the University Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center of Excellence in Product Design and Advanced Manufacturing. His expertise is in the areas of smart digital manufacturing, hybrid additive, nano and bio manufacturing, multiphysics modeling, cyber-physical systems, regenerative tissue engineering, product design and realization. He holds a Ph.D. and MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
Salil Desai, sdesai@ncat.edu
University Distinguished Professor
Director, Center of Product Design and Advanced Manufacturing
Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering
College of Engineering
Department of Chemical, Biological and Bioengineering
Narayan Bhattarai, Associate Professor - nbhattar@ncat.edu
Arvind Chandrasekaran, Assistant Professor - achandra@ncat.edu
Mohammad Azad, Assistant Professor - maazad@ncat.edu
Yeo Heung Yun, Professor - yyun@ncat.edu
Lijun Wang, Professor - lwang@ncat.edu
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jag Sankar, University Distinguished Professor - sankar@ncat.edu
Dhananjay Kumar, Professor - dkumar@ncat.edu
David Schall, Assistant Professor - jschall@ncat.edu
Ajit Kelkar, Professor - kelkar@ncat.edu
Sun Yi, Associate Professor - syi@ncat.edu
Michael Atkinson, Assistant Professor - mdatkinson@ncat.edu
Paul Akangah, Associate Professor - pmakanga@ncat.edu
Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Steven Xiaochun Jiang, Associate Professor, xjiang@ncat.edu
Sanjiv Sarin, Professor - sarin@ncat.edu
Zhichao Li, Associate Professor - zli@ncat.edu
Lauren Davis, Professor - lbdavis@ncat.edu
Michael Hamilton, Assistant Professor - mahamilton1@ncat.edu
Younho Seong, Professor - yseong@ncat.edu
Stephen Oneyear, Adjunct Associate Professor - sjoneyea@ncat.edu
Hyung Nam Kim, Assistant Professor - hnkim@ncat.edu
Faisal Alkaabneh, Assistant Professor - fmalkaabneh@ncat.edu
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Taher Abu-Ledbeh, Professor - taher@ncat.edu
Renzun Zhao, Assistant Professor - rzhao@ncat.edu
Raymond Tesiero, Assistant Professor - rctesier@ncat.edu
Ahmed Megri, Associate Professor - acmegri@ncat.edu
Sameer Hamoush, Professor - sameer@ncat.edu
Venkatesh Pandey, Assistant Professor - vpandey@ncat.edu
Kristen Rhinehardt, Assistant Professor - klrhineh@ncat.edu
Marwan Bikdash, Professor and Chair - bikdash@ncat.edu
Ali Karimoddini, Associate Professor - akarimod@ncat.edu
Department of Graphic Design Technology
Robert Cobb Jr., Associate Professor - rcobbjr@ncat.edu
Devang Mehta, Interim Chair and Associate Professor - mehtad@ncat.edu
Grace Gowdy, Assistant Professor - gmgowdy@ncat.edu