Faculty and Personnel
Chemical Engineering
CFDC | Asst. Dean Industry Partnerships
Assoc. Professor Chemical Engineering
Email: wchirdon@louisiana.edu
Office: Building 601, Suite 410
Phone: 337-482-6564
Research: Sustainable Materials, Biomass-Based Polymers, Heat Transfer, Mathematical Modelling
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CFDC | Assoc. Professor
Email: erevellame@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-6983
Research: Bioprocess Optimization and Assessment
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CFDC | Asst. Professor
Email: dhanlord.fortela@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-5765
Research: Machine Learning, Computational Modelling, Waste Treatment and Utilization, Advanced Reactor Design
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CFDC | Instructor
Email: ashley.mikolajczyk@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-5765
Research: Separation Processes, Biochemical Conversion, Waste Treatment and Utilization, Applied Statistics, Pharmaceutical and Biopharaceutical System
CEP | Assoc. Professor
Email: ling.fei@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-1277
Research: Nanostructured Materials, Composite Materials, Energy Storage and Conversion, Drug Delivery, Catalysis, Water Purification
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CFDC | Research Engineer
Email: xiaobo.lei1@louisiana.edu
Research: Aquatic Plant Biochemical Conversion, Sustainability Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Wastewater Treatment, Chemical Analytics
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CFDC | Biochemical Research Engineer
Email: sarah.simoneaux1@louisiana.edu
Research: Photobioreactor Design/Construction/Operation, Microalgae Cultivation, Sustainability Engineering, Wastewater Treatment, Carbon Dioxide Utilization
LEES | Research Environmental Engineer
Email: e.boyd@louisiana.edu
Research: Environmental Remediation, Wastewater Treatment, Oxidation Technologies, Analytical Chemistry, Sustainability Engineering
LEES | Research Environmental Engineer
Email: robert.bertrand@louisiana.edu
Research: Reactor Fabrication, Bioreactor Design, Fermentation Technology, Prototyping, Biochemical Conversion, Sustainability Engineering
Civil Engineering
CEP | Professor
Email: ddgang@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-6688
Office: MDSN 227
Research: Waste and Wastewater Treatment, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sustainability
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CEP | Structural Engineering Professor
Associate Director, Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Email: vijaya.gopu@louisiana.edu
Phone: 225-767-9102
Research: 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
Electrical & Computer Engineering
EESE | Assoc. Professor
Email: farzad.ferdowsi@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-6571
Research: Control Advancement and Resilience Enhancement (CARE), Digital twinning, Harnessing Energy Flexibility, and Conducting Resilience-Driven Economic Analyses
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Emeritus Professor
Email: afef.fekih@louisiana.edu
Research: Control Theory and Applications, Fault Tolerant Control, Nonlinear and Robust Control, Dynamic System Modeling
Mechanical Engineering
EESE | Assoc. Professor
Director of Research, Informatics Research Institute (IRI)
Site Director, NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics
Email: raju@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-0632
Research: Cyber Physical Systems, Big Data Platforms, System Resilience, System Modelling and Verification, Software Defined Networks, Visual Analytics
CFDC | Emeritus Professor
Email: john.guillory@louisiana.edu
Research: Process Analysis and Design of Combustion and Gasification Systems, Energy Systems Testing and Data Analysis, Heat Exchanger Design, Fluidized Bed Design
EESE | Professor
Asst. Dean for Graduate Studies
Email: jlee@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-5354
Research: Process Optimization, Power Utilization, Systems Engineering, Lean Six Sigma, Engineering Statistics and Economics
EESE | Assoc. Professor
Director of the Institute for Materials Research & Innovation
Email: jraush@lousiana.edu
Research: Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), Design and Characterization of Advanced Materials, Molecular Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics
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EESE | Asst. Professor
Email: lelia.deville@louisiana.edu
Research: Photovoltaic (PV) performance modeling and evaluation, PV system characterization and data-driven performance analysis, Emerging solar technologies and field-scale evaluation, and General modeling evaluation and validation techniques
CLECO | Research Engineer
Email: hayden.hulin1@lousiana.edu
Research: Thermal Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Autodesk, CAD, Additive Manufacturing
EESE | Research Energy Engineer
Email: tamjid.shafiq1@louisiana.edu
Research: Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Systems, Sustainability, Building Energy Modeling, Simulation, HVAC, R Systems, Process Optimization, Lean Manufacturing
Petroleum Engineering
COPS | Endowed Professor
Email: fboukadi@louisiana.edu
Phone: 337-482-6148
Research: Oil and Gas Systems IOR/EOR, Data Analytics, CO2 Rezource Equations/Plume Migration Simulation, Geothermal Solutions, Resevoir Simulation, Well Testing
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COPS | Assoc. Professor
Email: yin.feng@louisiana.edu
Research: Reservoir Simulation, Parallel Computation, Geothermal Engineering, Fracture Representation, Subsurface Nanoparticle Transport, Thermodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamic, Streamline Simulation
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COPS | Assoc. Professor
Email: ning.liu@louisiana.edu
Research: Petroleum Resource Management, Petroleum Technology Development
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