Faculty

Anand Ramasubramanian, PhD.
Department Chair                                                          Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-3922 
anand.ramasubramanian@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385H
Research interests: Vascular mechanobiology; Antimicrobial drug discovery; Biofilms

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

Katy Kao, PhD.
Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-3827
katy.kao@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385I
Research interests: Dr. Kao's research focuses on genomics, systems biology and biotechnology. Her laboratory is interested in using genomic and systems biological tools to study microbial adaptation in various environments. Specifically, Kao is focusing on the use of adaptive laboratory evolution to develop microbes such as yeast and bacteria for enhanced tolerance to toxic feedstock and products and to increase product formation. Her lab utilizes omics tools in an effort to identify the cellular components responsible for the selected traits. In addition to industrial biotechnology application, she is also interested in understanding how opportunistic human fungal pathogens adapt to environmental stressors and how interactions between different species that are co-isolated impact biofilm.

Özgür Keleş, PhD.
Assistant 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.

Santosh KC, PhD.
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, 2D materials.

Claire Komives, PhD.
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, PhD.
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.

Melanie McNeil, PhD.
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, PhD.
Assistant 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

Liat Rosenfeld, PhD.
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 biosensorsfluids

David Wagner, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
(408) 924-3189
david.wagner@sjsu.edu
Office: ENGR 385J
Research interests: Sustainability, Thermal Analysis, Carbon capture, Bio- and Renewable Energies, and Engineering Education