Faculty

Richard Chung, Ph.D.
Professor of Materials Engineering 
(408) 924-3927
richard.chung@sjsu.edu 
Office: ENGR 385E
Research interests: Material synthesis and processing, Polymers, Mechanics of biological materials, Semiconductor physics and devices, Failure analysis, Membrane technology, Smart materials, Nanotechnology and nanocomposites.

Katy Kao, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-3827
katy.kao@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385I
Research interests: Genomics, Systems biology and Biotechnology; Fungal biofilms 

Santosh KC, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Materials Engineering
(408) 924-3823
santosh.kc@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 379 
Research interests: Materials theory and simulations, electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic materials, energy conversion and storage materials, nanomaterials.

Özgür Keleş, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Materials Engineering
(408) 924-3926
ozgur.keles@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385F
Research interests: Additive manufacturing; Machine learning approaches for mechanics of materials; Virtual/Augmented reality for engineering education and training.

Claire Komives, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-4003
claire.komives@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385
Research interests: Process development and quantitative analysis of a low cost therapy for snakebite.

Gautam Kumar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-3894
gautam.kumar@sjsu.edu
Office: E385B
Lab website: sites.google.com/sjsu.edu/gautamkumar
Research interests:  Process Modeling, Control, Computational Neuroscience, Brain-Machine Interfaces. 

Christopher Lew, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-3189
christopher.lew@sjsu.edu                                                      Office: ENGR 385J
Research interests: Nanoporous materials, Nucleation and  crystallization, Catalysis, Adsorption, Environmental remediation

Melanie McNeil, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-4000 
melanie.mcneil@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385
Research interests: Enzyme kinetics. Membrane separation processes. Energy/water/food nexus. Thin film applications for drug delivery and photovoltaics.

Dahyun Oh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Materials Engineering
(408) 924-3197
dahyun.oh@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385D
Research interests: Aqueous lithium ion batteries; Porous structure development; In situ gas evolution analysis; Biomaterials driven inorganic synthesis

Anand Ramasubramanian, Ph.D.
Department Chair 
Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-3922 
anand.ramasubramanian@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385H
Research interests: Vascular mechanobiology; High-throughput assay development

Liat Rosenfeld, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-4051
liat.rosenfeld@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385G
Research interests: Microscale Transport Phenomena; Microfluidic based artificial placenta for preterm babies, Droplet Actuation on Digital Microfluidics Devices; Microfluidic based biosensorsfluid

Lee Aarons, Ph.D.
lee.aarons@sjsu.edu

Shashi Agarwal, Ph.D.
shashi.argawal@sjsu.edu

Vasuda Bhatia, Ph.D.
vasuda.bhatia@sjsu.edu

Daniel Chafey
daniel.chafey@sjsu.edu

Smita Duorah, Ph.D.
smita.duorah@sjsu.edu

Craig England, Ph.D.
craig.england@sjsu.edu

Yen Fu, Ph.D.
yen.fu@sjsu.edu

Emi Ishida, Ph.D.
emi.ishida@sjsu.edu

Pavan Kambam
pavan.kambam@sjsu.edu

Brooke Lustig, Ph.D.
brooke.lustig@sjsu.edu

Micheal Oye, Ph.D.
micheal.oye@sjsu.edu

Tony Pan, Ph.D.
tony.pan01@sjsu.edu

Yazdan Pedram Razi
yazdan.pedramrazi@sjsu.edu

Yanika Schneider, Ph.D.
yanika.schneider@sjsu.edu

Brenda Serrano
brenda.serrano@sjsu.edu

Xhavin Sinha
xhavin.sinha@sjsu.edu

David Wagner, Ph.D.
david.wagner@sjsu.edu