Mechanical Engineering at University of Houston

39 faculty and 0 courses in Mechanical Engineering at University of Houston.

Faculty

• Gangbing Song, Moores Professor h-index 79
  Notable: “Recent applications of fiber optic sensors to health monitoring in civil engineering” (2004) · 885 citations
• Dong Liu, Professor h-index 79
  Notable: “Micro electrostatic energy harvester with both broad bandwidth and high normalized power density” (2017) · 420 citations
• Ben Xu, Assistant Professor h-index 72
  Notable: “Transition metal oxides for high performance sodium ion battery anodes” (2014) · 426 citations
• Pradeep Sharma, Dean, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished University Professor h-index 50
• Zheng Chen, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor h-index 50
  Notable: “Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench” (2021) · 1,147 citations
• Venkat Selvamanickam, M.D. Anderson Chair Professor h-index 49
  Notable: “High current density in bulk YBa2Cu3Ox superconductor” (1989) · 766 citations
• Yi-Chao Chen, Professor h-index 45
  Notable: “Performance and Cost Assessment of Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials” (2020) · 928 citations
• Hadi Ghasemi, J. Willard Gibbs Distinguished Professor h-index 37
  Notable: “Solar steam generation by heat localization” (2014) · 2,250 citations
• Jingyi Luan, Assistant Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Interfacial Design of Dendrite‐Free Zinc Anodes for Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries” (2020) · 1,197 citations
• Karolos Grigoriadis, Department Chair, Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor h-index 36
  Notable: “Static output feedback—A survey” (1997) · 996 citations
• Di Yang, Associate Department Chair, Associate Professor h-index 35
  Notable: “On the efficiency of chaos optimization algorithms for global optimization” (2006) · 412 citations
• Li Sun, Professor, Director of Subsea Engineering Program h-index 34
  Notable: “Performance Study of Two-Hop Amplify-and-Forward Systems With Untrustworthy Relay Nodes” (2012) · 152 citations
• Muhao Chen, Assistant Professor h-index 28
  Notable: “Auditing Cache Data Integrity in the Edge Computing Environment” (2020) · 151 citations
• Tian Chen, Kamel Salama Endowed Assistant Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “A reprogrammable mechanical metamaterial with stable memory” (2021) · 508 citations
• Matthew A. Franchek, Professor h-index 27
  Notable: “ADAPTIVE PASSIVE VIBRATION CONTROL” (1996) · 179 citations
• Bo Zhao, Assistant Professor h-index 24
  Notable: “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Review and Prediction Case Studies” (2020) · 548 citations
• Haleh Ardebili, Kamel Salama Endowed Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “High Ion Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite Electrolytes Using Hybrid Nanofillers” (2012) · 320 citations
• Daniel Floryan, Kalsi Assistant Professor h-index 15
  Notable: “Exact Coherent States and the Nonlinear Dynamics of Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows” (2020) · 137 citations
• Myoungkyu Lee, Assistant Professor h-index 14
• Christiana Chang, Instructional Associate Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Evaluation of piezoelectric property of reduced graphene oxide (rGO)–poly(vinylidene fluoride) nanocomposites” (2012) · 140 citations
• Yingjie Tang, Research Associate Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Air-Flow-Driven Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Self-Powered Real-Time Respiratory Monitoring” (2018) · 285 citations
• Olga Bannova, Research Professor, Director of Space Architecture Program h-index 10
  Notable: “Mixed reality architecture in space habitats” (2020) · 22 citations
• Jagannatha R. Rao, Cullen Associate Professor, Senior Associate Dean h-index 7
  Notable: “A STUDY OF OPTIMAL DESIGN UNDER CONFLICT USING MODELS OF MULTI-PLAYER GAMES” (1997) · 76 citations
• Kelly Huang, Kalsi Assistant Professor h-index 3
• Saiyid Zafar Kamal, Adjunct Faculty h-index 3
  Notable: “The Influence of Hierarchical Decisions on Ship Design” (1987) · 17 citations
• Marzia Cescon, David C. Zimmerman Assistant Professor h-index 2
  Notable: “Testing Spacecraft Formation Flying with Crazyflie Drones as Satellite Surrogates” (2024) · 3 citations
• Akira Miyase, Research Professor
• Aladin M. Boriek, Adjunct Faculty
• Farah Hammami Ep Kammoun, Instructional Associate Professor
• Holley Love, Instructional Associate Professor
• Hussein Nassar, Assistant Professor
• Jae-Hyun Ryou, Professor
• Julian F. Hallai, Lecturer
• Maksud Rahman, Assistant Professor
• Shailendra Joshi, Kalsi Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Admissions
• Steve Provence, Adjunct Faculty
• Theocharis Baxevanis, Associate Professor
• Xuemei Chen, Instructional Associate Professor
• Yashashree Kulkarni, Bill D. Cook Professor, Director of Research Computing

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.