Faculty and Personnel

Dr. William Chirdon

Chemicals & Fuels Development Center (CFDC)
Assistant Dean for Industry Partnerships
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Email: wchirdon@louisiana.edu
Office: Building 601, Suite 410, 601 W. St. Mary Blvd., Lafayette, LA, 70506
Phone: 337-482-6564
Research areas: Sustainable Materials, Biomass-Based Polymers, Heat Transfer, Mathematical Modelling
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Dr. Emmanuel Revellame

Chemicals & Fuels Development Center (CFDC)
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Girard M. Eloi/LEQSF Regents Professorship in Engineering III
Email: erevellame@louisiana.edu
Office: NOAA building, 646 Cajundome Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70506
Phone: 337-482-6983
Research areas: Bioprocess Optimization and Assessment, Green Products, Sustainability Engineering
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Dr. Dhan Lord B. Fortela

Chemicals & Fuels Development Center (CFDC)
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Email: dhanlord.fortela@louisiana.edu
Office: NOAA building, 646 Cajundome Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70506
Phone: 337-482-5765
Research areas: Machine Learning, Computational Modelling, Waste Treatment and Utilization, Advanced Reactor Design
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Dr. Ashley Mikolajczyk, P.E.

Chemicals & Fuels Development Center (CFDC)
Instructor of Chemical Engineering
Email: ashley.mikolajczyk@louisiana.edu
Office: NOAA building, 646 Cajundome Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70506
Phone: 337-482-5765
Research Areas: Separation Processes, Biochemical Conversion, Waste Treatment and Utilization, Applied Statistics, Pharmaceutical and Biopharaceutical Systems
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Dr. Ling “Jessica” Fei

Center for Environmental Protection (CEP)
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chervron Endowed Professorship in Chemical Engineering
Email: ling.fei@louisiana.edu
Office: NOAA building, 646 Cajundome Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70506
Phone: 337-482-1277
Research areas: Nanostructured Materials, Composite Materials, Energy Storage and Conversion, Drug Delivery, Catalysis, Water Purification
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Ms. Sarah Simoneaux

Chemicals & Fuels Development Center (CFDC)
Research Biochemical Engineer
Ph.D. Student in Systems Engineering
Email: sarah.simoneaux1@louisiana.edu
Office: NOAA building, 646 Cajundome Blvd, Lafayette, LA 70506
Research areas: Photobioreactor Design/Construction/Operation, Microalgae Cultivation, Sustainability Engineering, Wastewater Treatment, Carbon Dioxide Utilization
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Ms. Elizabeth Boyd, E.I.

Louisiana Energy Extension Service (LEES)
Research Environmental Engineer
Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Engineering
Email: e.boyd@louisiana.edu
Office: MDSN 221, 131 Rex St. Lafayette, LA, 70503
Research areas: Environmental Remediation, Wastewater Treatment, Oxidation Technologies, Analytical Chemistry, Sustainability Engineering
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Mr. Robert Bertrand

Louisiana Energy Extension Service (LEES)
Research Environmental Engineer
Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Engineering
Email: robert.bertrand@louisiana.edu
Office: MDSN 227, 131 Rex St. Lafayette, LA, 70503
Research areas: Reactor Fabrication, Bioreactor Design, Fermentation Technology, Prototyping, Biochemical Conversion, Sustainability Engineering
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Dr. Daniel Dianchen Gang, P.E., F. ASCE

Center for Environmental Protection (CEP)
Professor of Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering
SLEMCO/BORSF Endowed Professor of Engineering II
Phillip J. Burguieres/BORSF Endowed Professor of Engineering
Email: ddgang@louisiana.edu
Office: MDSN 227, 131 Rex St. Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 337-482-6688
Research areas: Waste and Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sustainability
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Dr. Vijaya “VJ” K.A. Gopu, P.E., F.SEI, F.ASCE

Center of Environmental Protection (CEP)
Professor of Structural Engineering in Civil Engineering
Matthew G. Stuller Endowed Professor and Associate Director, Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Email: vijaya.gopu@louisiana.edu; v.gopu@la.gov
Phone: 225-767-9102
Research areas: Advanced Bridge Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin Systems, Numerical and Experimental Structural Modeling, AI-Enhanced Structural System, Coastal and Offshore Structural Engineering, Windborne Debris Risk for Buildings, Hurricane-Resilient City
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Dr. Farzad Ferdowsi

Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Center (EESE)
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Email: farzad.ferdowsi@louisiana.edu
Office: MDSN 248A, 131 Rex St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 337-482-6571
Research areas: Control Advancement and Resilience Enhancement (CARE), Digital twinning, Harnessing Energy Flexibility, and Conducting Resilience-Driven Economic Analyses
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Dr. Afef Fekih

Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Center (EESE)
Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering
Email: afef.fekih@louisiana.edu
Research areas: Control Theory and Applications, Fault Tolerant Control, Nonlinear and Robust Control, Dynamic System Modeling
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Dr. Raju Gottumukkala

Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Center (EESE)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Research, Informatics Research Institute (IRI)
Site Director, NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics
Email: raju@louisiana.edu
Office: CLR 223, 250 E Lewis St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 337-482-0632
Research areas: Cyber Physical Systems, Big Data Platforms, System Resilience, System Modelling and Verification, Software Defined Networks, Visual Analytics
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Dr. John Guillory

Chemicals & Fuels Development Center (CDFC)
Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email: john.guillory@louisiana.edu
Research areas: Process Analysis and Design of Combustion and Gasification Systems, Energy Systems Testing and Data Analysis, Heat Exchanger Design, Fluidized Bed Design
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Dr. Jim Lee

Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Center (EESE)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies
Email: jlee@louisiana.edu
Office: CLR 244, 250 E Lewis St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 337-482-5354
Research areas: Process Optimization, Power Utilization, Systems Engineering, Lean Six Sigma, Engineering Statistics and Economics
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Dr. Johnathan Raush

Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Center (EESE)
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email: jraush@lousiana.edu
Office: CLR M123, 250 E Lewis St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 337-482-1807
Research areas: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), Design and Characterization of Advanced Materials, Molecular Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics
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Mr. Tamjid Shafiq

Energy Efficiency & Sustainable Energy Center (EESE)
Energy Research Engineer
Ph.D. Student in Systems Engineering
Email: tamjid.shafiq1@louisiana.edu
Office: CLR 139, 250 E Lewis St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Research areas: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Systems, Sustainability, Building Energy Modeling & Simulation, HVAC&R Systems, Process Optimization, Lean Manufacturing
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Dr. Fathi Boukadi

Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems (COPS)
Endowed Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Email: fboukadi@louisiana.edu
Office: MDSN 126, 131 Rex St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 337-482-6148
Research areas: Oil and Gas Systems IOR/EOR, Data Analytics, CO2 Rezource Equations/Plume Migration Simulation, Geothermal Solutions, Resevoir Simulation, Well Testing
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Dr. Yin Feng

Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems (COPS)
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Email: yin.feng@louisiana.edu
Office: MDSN 124A, 131 Rex St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 377-482-1767
Research area: Reservoir Simulation, Parallel Computation, Geothermal Engineering, Fracture Representation, Subsurface Nanoparticle Transport, Thermodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamic, Streamline Simulation
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Dr. Ning Liu

Center for Optimization of Petroleum Systems (COPS)
Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering
Email: ning.liu@louisiana.edu
Office: MDSN 124C, 131 Rex St., Lafayette, LA, 70503
Phone: 377-482-6555
Research area: Petroleum Resource Management, Petroleum Technology Development
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