Faculty Affiliates

CEPDAM’s faculty affiliates form a vibrant, interdisciplinary community spanning seven colleges at NC A&T. Together,they unite innovators in engineering, design, computational sciences, and the arts to drive convergent research andeducation in product design, human-centered computing, and smart manufacturing.

Elizabeth Newcomb-Hopfer, Associate Professor - eanewcom@ncat.edu
Geetika Jaiswal, Assistant Professor - gjaiswal@ncat.edu
Devona Dixon, Associate Professor - dldixon@ncat.edu
Roberta Claro da Silva, Assistant Professor - rcsilva@ncat.edu

Salam A. Ibrahim, Professor - ibrah001@ncat.edu

Arnab Bhowmik, Assistant Professor - abhowmik@ncat.edu

Shona Morgan, Professor - smorgan@ncat.edu

 

Geleana D. Alston, Associate Professor - gdalston@ncat.edu

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

Mohd Anwar, Associate Professor - manwar@ncat.edu

Kristen Rhinehardt, Assistant Professor - klrhineh@ncat.edu 
Balakrishna Gokaraju, Associate Professor - bgokaraju@ncat.edu
Marwan Bikdash, Professor and Chair - bikdash@ncat.edu

Binbin Yang, Assistant Professor - byang1@ncat.edu
Ioannis Raptis, Assistant Professor - iraptis@ncat.edu
Kory Bennett, Director of Robotics Outreach - kory@ncat.edu
Abdullah Eroglu, Professor and Chair - aeroglu@ncat.edu

 

Tobin N. Walton, Assistant Professor - tnwalton@ncat.edu
Stephanie Teixeira-Poit, Assistant Professor - steixeirapoit@ncat.edu

Grace Gowdy, Assistant Professor - gmgowdy@ncat.edu

Troy Purdom, Assistant Professor - tpurdom@ncat.edu

Andrea Ofori-Boadu, Assistant Professor - andreao@ncat.edu
Dongyang Deng, Assistant Professor - ddeng@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
Alanna Wise, Instructor - atwise@ncat.edu

James Kribs, Assistant Professor - jdkribs@ncat.edu
Xiaochuan Lu, Associate Professor - xlu@ncat.edu
Andy Ham, Associate Professor - aham@ncat.edu
Aixi Zhou, Professor and Chair - azhou@ncat.edu

Zhaohui Wang, Assistant Professor - zwang3@ncat.edu

Robert Newman, Associate Professor - rhnewman@ncat.edu
Jenora Waterman, Associate Professor - jdwaterm@ncat.edu

Bishnu Bastakoti, Assistant Professor - bpbastakoti@ncat.edu
Ming Dong, Assistant Professor - mdong@ncat.edu
Robert Ferguson, Associate Professor - rferguson1@ncat.edu
Debasish Kuila, Professor - dkuila@ncat.edu

Chih Kuan Tung, Assistant Professor - ctung@ncat.edu

Ling Xu, Assistant Professor - lxu@ncat.edu

 

Shyam Aravamudhan, Associate Professor - saravamu@ncat.edu
Shanthi Iyer, Professor - iyer@ncat.edu
Ram Mohan, Professor - rvmohan@ncat.edu
Lifeng Zhang, Associate Professor - lzhang@ncat.edu
Jeff Alston, Assistant Professor - jralston1@ncat.edu
Reza Zadegan, Assistant Professor - rzadegan@ncat.edu
Kristen Dellinger, Assistant Professor - kdellinger@ncat.edu