Graduate Faculty List

 Last updated:  November 27, 2023

All members of the graduate faculty are authorized to supervise master's theses, serve on master's final program examination committees, and serve on dissertation committees. 

* Indicates graduate faculty who are also authorized to supervise doctoral research projects and dissertations (doctoral-level appointment).   

Date in parenthesis indicates expiration of term (MM/YY).  In general, these individuals are not FL Tech "full-time graduate faculty" as required in graduate policy.  

College of Aeronautics 

*Dr. John Deaton, Dean

 Nathan M. Bisk College of Business

 *Dr. Theodore Richardson, Dean

 College of Engineering and Science

 *Dr. John Harris, Dean

 College of Psychology and Liberal Arts

 *Dr. Robert Taylor, Dean

Office of Graduate Programs

 *Dr. Munevver Mine Subasi, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs

Faculty Listing by Academic Unit (Discipline)

Aeronautics

• *Dr. Meredith Carroll
• *Dr. Deborah Carstens (also HCD)
• *Dr. John E. Deaton (Dean)
•  Dr. Victoria Dunbar (term expires 5/26)
• *Dr. Gregory Fox
•   Ms. Anna Marron 
• *Dr. Ulreen Jones-McKinney
• *Dr. Rian Mehta
• *Dr. Korhan Oyman
• *Dr. William Rankin
• *Dr. Vivek Sharma
•   Mr. Michael Splitt
• *Dr. Ersoy Subasi
• *Dr. Tolga R. Turgut
•   Ms. Margaret Wallace
• *Dr. Brooke Wheeler

Aeronautics - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

•   Dr. B. Michael Barker (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Clifford Bragdon (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. John Cain (Professor Emeritus)
•   Dr. Ken E. Crooks (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Michael A. Gallo (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Donna Wilt (Professor Emeritus)

Aerospace Engineering

• *Dr. Mark Archambault
• *Dr. Paula do Vale Pereira
• *Dr. David Fleming
•   Dr. Vernon Gordon
• *Dr. Reza Jahanbakhski
• *Dr. Ratneshwar Jha (Department Head)
•   Dr. Ralph Kimberlin (term expires 9/25)
• *Dr. Daniel Kirk
•   Dr. Brian Kish (term expires 8/24)
• *Dr. Kibaek Lee
• *Dr. Mary Helen McCay (also Mechanical Engineering)
• *Dr. Mirmilad Mirsayar
• *Dr. Camilo Andres Riano-Rios
• *Dr. Chelakara S. Subramanian
• *Dr. Eric Swenson
• *Dr. Madhur Tiwari
•  Dr. Markus Wilde (term expires 8/25)

Arts and Communication

• *Dr. Andrew Aberdein
•   Dr. Gabriella Baika
• *Dr. Melissa Crofton
• *Dr. Natalie Dorfeld
• *Dr. Heidi Edwards
• *Dr. Lars Jones
• *Dr. John Lavelle
• *Dr. Moti Mizrahi
• *Dr. Joseph Montelione
• *Dr. Gordon M. Patterson
• *Dr. Ted Petersen
• *Dr. Kenneth Pike
• *Dr. Youngju Sohn
• *Dr. Renee Souris Smith
• *Dr. Andy Stanfield
• *Dr. Robert Taylor (Dean)
• *Dr. Angela Tenga
• *Dr. Dzmitry Yuran
• *Dr. Wanfa Zhang

Art and Communication - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. JoAnn Parla-Palumbo (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. Lisa Perdigao (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. Matthew Ruane (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Judith B. Strother (Professor Emerita)

Behavior Analysis

•  Dr. Elbert Blakely (term expires 9/25)
•  Dr. Kaitlynn Gokey
• *Dr.Jonathan Fernand
• *Dr. Mark Harvey
•   Dr. Bryon Neff
• *Dr. Catherine Nicholson
• *Dr. Kimberly Sloman
• *Dr. Rachael Tilka
• *Dr. David Wilder (School Head)

Behavior Analysis - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Frank Webbe (also PSY) (Professor Emeritus)

 Biomedical Engineering

•   Dr. Margaret Ahmad (term expires 5/25)
• *Dr. Christopher Bashur
• *Dr. Venkat Chivukula
• *Dr. Pengfei Dong
• *Dr. Sujoy Ghosh Hajra
• *Dr. Peshala Gamage
• *Dr. Linxia Gu (also Mechanical Engineering) (Department Head)
• *Dr. Mehmet Kaya
• *Dr. Careesa C. Liu
• *Dr. Kunal Mitra (also Mechanical Engineering) 

Biomedical Sciences

• *Dr. Melissa Borgen
• *Timothy Crombie
• *Dr. Tristan Fiedler
• *Dr. Eric Guisbert
• *Dr. Karen Guisbert
• *Dr. Jianhui Li
• *Dr. Kenia Nunes
• *Dr. Charles D. Polson
• *Dr. Shaohua Xu

Biomedical Sciences - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. David J. Carroll (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Michael S. Grace (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Julia E. Grimwade (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Charles E. Helmstetter (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Alan C. Leonard (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Gary N. Wells (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Russel C. Weigel Jr. (Professor Emeritus)

Business 

•   Dr. John C. Barranti
• *Dr. LuAnn Bean
• *Dr. Charles Bryant
• *Dr. Jeffrey Cerny
• *Dr. B. Andrew Cudmore
• *Dr. Nick Daher
• *Dr. Ivonne Delgado-Perez
• *Dr. Amitabh Dutta
• *Dr. Edward Haberek
• Dr. Shellie Halstead (term expires 5/25)
• *Dr. Keiron Hylton
• *Dr. Robert Keimer
• *Dr. Vicky Knerly
• *Dr. Fingkun Liu
• *Dr. Alina Malkova
• *Dr. Angel Otero
•   Dr. Darrell Parsons (term expires 9/24)
• *Dr. Jignya Patel
•   Dr. Jonathan Reed (term expires 3/24)
• *Dr. Theodore Richardson (Dean)
• *Dr. Steven Rivet
• *Dr. Robert Schaller
• *Dr. Samuel Sekar
• *Dr. Denise Siegfeldt
• *Dr. Michael H. Slotkin
• *Dr. Christian Sonnenberg
• *Dr. Penny Vassar
• *Dr. Emily Vogt
• *Dr. Abram Walton

Business - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. S. Ann Becker (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. David E. Clapp (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Carolyn Fausnaugh (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. T. Roger Manley (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. John Patton (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Enrique Perez (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Alexander R. Vamosi (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Joan Wiggenhorn (Professor Emerita)

Chemical Engineering 

• *Dr. James R. Brenner
•   Dr. Justin Hill (term expires 5/26)
• *Dr. Vipuil Kishore
• *Dr. Maria E. Pozo De Fernandez
• *Dr. Toufiq Reza
•   Dr. Ali Tabatabais-Raissi (term expires 1/24)
• *Dr. Manolis M. Tomadakis
• *Dr. Bo Wang
• *Dr. Jonathon E. Whitlow
•   Dr. Paul Yelvington (term expires 5/25)

Chemical Engineering - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Paul A. Jennings (Professor Emeritus)

Chemistry

• *Dr. Boris B. Akhremitchev
• *Dr. Alan B. Brown
• *Dr. Christopher Chouinard
• *Dr. Yi Liao
• *Dr. Gordon L. Nelson
• *Dr. Nasri Nesnas
• *Dr. Pavithra Pathirathna
• *Dr. Roberto Peverati
• *Dr. Jessica Smeltz (Interim Head)
• *Dr. Stephen Smith
• *Dr. Norito Takenaka
• *Dr. Robert Usselman
• *Dr. Rudolf Wehmschulte

Chemistry - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Michael W. Babich (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Joel Olson (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Joshua Rokach (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Mary L. Sohn (Professor Emerita)

Civil Engineering

• *Dr. Jungong Ahn
• *Dr. Albert Bleakley
• *Dr. Paul J. Cosentino
• *Dr. Rodrigo Mesa-Arango
• *Dr. Troy Nguyen
• *Dr. Efthymios Nikolopoulos
• *Dr. Ashok Pandit (Department Head)
• *Dr. Jean-Paul Pinelli
• *Dr. Nakin Suksawang

Civil Engineering - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Howell H. Heck (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Edward H. Kalajian (Professor Emeritus)
•   Mr. Ralph Locurcio (Professor Emeritus)

Computing

• *Dr. Abdullah Aydeger
• *Dr. Philip Bernhard
• *Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
• *Dr. Marco Carvalho (also Human Centered Design)
• *Dr. Philip K. Chan
• *Dr. Thomas Eskridge (also Human Centered Design)
• *Dr. Michael King
• *Dr. Debasis Mitra
•   Dr. Natasha Neogi (term expires 3/24)
• *Dr. Nasheen Nur
• *Dr. Terrance O’Connor
• *Dr. Bernard Parenteu
•   Dr. Anand Rangarajan (term expires 9/24)
• *Dr. Eraldo Ribeiro
•   Dr. Karl Ricanek, Jr. (term expires 4/24)
• *Dr. Marius Silaghi
• *Dr. Khaled Slhoub
• *Dr. Ryan Stansifer
• *Dr. Sneha Sudhakaran

Computing - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. William Allen (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Walter P. Bond, Jr. (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Keith Gallagher (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Cem Kaner (Professor Emeritus)
•   Dr. Celine Lang (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. Gerald Marin (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. J. Richard Newman (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. William D. Shoaff (Professor Emeritus)

Education and Interdisciplinary Studies

• *Dr. Kastro Hamed
• *Dr. Tom J. Marcinkowski
•   Dr. John Meyer (term expires 9/23)
•  *Dr. Joo Young Park
• *Dr. Nasheen Nur (approved for Educational Technology) (also Computing)
• *Dr. Khaled Slhoub (approved for Educational Technology) (also Computing)

Education and Interdisciplinary Studies - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

•   Dr. Mary Bonhomme (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. Richard Enstice (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Robert Fronk (Professor Emeritus)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• *Dr. Georgios Anagnostopoulos
•   Dr. Ed Lee Caraway (term expires 5/26)
•   Dr. Dean Clauter (term expires 5/25)
• *Dr. John Harris (Dean)
• *Dr. Ivica Kostanic
• *Dr. Samuel P. Kozaitis
• *Dr. Brian Lail (Department Head)
• *Dr. Chul-Ho Lee
• *Dr. Naveed Mahmud
• *Dr. Neji Mensi
• *Dr. Syed Murshid
• *Dr. Carlos Otero
• *Dr. Anthony Smith
• *Dr. Josko Zec

Electrical and Computer Engineering - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Veton Kepuska (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Robert L. Sullivan (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Lynn Weaver (Professor Emeritus)

Human-Centered Design

• *Dr. Deborah Carstens (also Aeronautics)
• *Dr. Marco Carvalho (also Computer Science)
• *Dr. Thomas Eskridge (also Computer Science)
•   Dr. Mark Rosenbloom (term expires 9/24)
•  *Dr. Troy Weekes (term expires 5/25)

Marine Science

• *Dr. Richard B. Aronson (Department Head)
• *Dr. Mark B. Bush
• *Dr. Toby Daly-Engel
• *Dr. Spencer Fire
•   Dr. Glenn Miller (term expires 9/26)
• *Dr. Andrew Palmer
• *Dr. Ralph G. Turingan
• *Dr. Robert van Woesik

Marine Science - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. John G. Morris (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Jonathan M. Shenker (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Richard L. Turner (Professor Emeritus)

Mathematical Sciences

• *Dr. Yakov Berchenko-Kogan
• *Dr. Vladislav Bukshtynov
•   Dr. Scott A. Clary (term expires 9/24)
• *Dr. Jewgeni Dshalalow
• *Dr. Jian Du
• *Dr. Tariel Kiguradze
• *Dr. Jay Kovats
• *Dr. Xianqi Li
• *Dr. Pei Liu
• *Dr. Shibo Liu
• *Dr. Razvan Mosincat
• *Dr. Nezamoddin Nezamoddini-Kachouie
• *Dr. Son Luu Nguyen
• *Dr. Kanishka Perera
•   Dr. Michael Shaw
• *Dr. Stanley Snelson
• *Dr. Munevver Mine Subasi 
• *Dr. Gnana B. Tenali (Department Head)
• *Dr. Aaron Welters
• *Dr. Ryan White

Mathematical Sciences - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Charles T. Fulton (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Dennis E. Jackson (Professor Emeritus)

Mechanical  Engineering

• *Dr. Weinan Gao
• *Dr. Linxia Gu (also Biomedical Engineering)
• *Dr. Hector M. Gutierrez
• *Dr. Xiang He
• *Dr. Seong Hyeon Hong
• *Dr. Pei-Feng Hsu
•  *Dr. Mary Helen McCay (also Aerospace Engineering)
• *Dr. Ilya Mingareev
• *Dr. Kunal Mitra (also Biomedical Engineering)
• *Dr. Hamidreza Najafi
• *Dr. Anand Nellippallil
• *Dr. Kim-Doang Nguyen
• *Dr. Darshan Pahinkar
• *Dr. Soheil A. Saedi
• *Dr. Sayed Ehsan Saghaian
• *Dr. Chiradeep Sen
• *Dr. Steven Shaw
• *Dr. Kegang Wang
• *Dr. Shengyuan Yang (term expires 12/23)

Mechanical Engineering - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Martin Glicksman (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Gerald Micklow (Professor Emeritus)

Ocean Engineering and Sciences

• *Dr. Charles R. Bostater, Jr.
• *Dr. Austin Fox
• *Dr. J. Travis Hunsucker
• *Dr. Kelli Hunsucker
• *Dr. Chungkuk Jin
• *Dr. Kevin B. Johnson (term expires 12/25)
• *Dr. Steven Lazarus
• *Dr. Ken Lindeman
• *Dr. Emily Ralston
• *Dr. Pallav Ray
• *Dr. Ronnal Reichard
• *Dr. Deniz Velioglu Sogut
• *Dr. Geoffrey Swain
• *Dr. Robert Weaver
• *Dr. Stephen Wood
• *Dr. Gary Zarillo

Ocean Engineering and Sciences - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

•  Dr. Tom V. Belanger (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Iver W. Duedall (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. John C. Sainsbury (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. John H. Trefry (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. John G. Windsor, Jr. (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Andrew Zborowski (Professor Emeritus)

Physics and Space Sciences

• *Dr. Marc Baarmand
• *Dr. Sofiane Bourouaine
•   Dr. Saida Caballero-Nieves (term expires 8/25)
• *Dr. Howard Chen
•   Dr. Kenneth L. Cummins (term expires 5/25)
• *Dr. Konstantin Gamayunov
• *Dr. David Harris
• *Dr. Marcus Hohlmann
• *Dr. Manasvi Lingam
• *Dr. Bagrat Mailyan
• *Dr. Amitabh Nag
• *Dr. Csaba Palotai
• *Dr. Jean Perez
• *Dr. Eric Perlman
• *Dr. Donald Platt
• *Dr. Luis Quiroga-Nuñez
• *Dr. Hamid K. Rassoul
•   Dr. Jeremy Riousset (term expires 8/25)
•   Dr. George Rybicki (term expires 8/25)
• *Dr. Donald C. Warren
•   Dr. Francisco Yumiceva (term expires 8/24)
• *Dr. Ming Zhang 

Psychology

• *Dr. Richard Addante
• *Dr. Patrick Aragon
• *Dr. Gary Burns (Head)
• *Dr. Felipa Chavez
• *Dr. Travis Conradt
• *Dr. Patrick Converse
• *Dr. Julie Costopolous
• *Dr. Mary Caitlin Fertitta
• *Dr. Richard Griffith
• *Dr. Scott Gustafson
• *Dr. Marshall Jones
• *Dr. Mariana Juras
• *Dr. Liana M. Kreamer
• *Dr. Radhika Krishnamurthy
• *Dr. Maria Lavooy
• *Dr. Anthony LoGalbo
• *Dr. Katrina Merlini
• *Dr. Darby Proctor
• *Dr. Lisa Steelman
• *Dr. Catherine Talbot
• *Dr. Robyn Tapley
• *Dr. Amanda Thayer
• *Dr. Vida Tyc
• *Dr. Kristi Van Sickle
• *Dr. Jessica Wildman

Psychology - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Juanita N. Baker (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. Vanessa Edkins (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. Richard T. Elmore (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. William K. Gabrenya, Jr. (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Arthur Gutman (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Thomas H. Harrell (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Mary Beth Kenkel (Professor Emerita)
• *Dr. Frank M. Webbe (also BA) (Professor Emeritus)

Systems Engineering

• *Dr. William Arrasmith
•   Dr. Juan Camilo Avendano (term expires 5/25)
• *Dr. Francis Bourne
• *Dr. Aldo Fabregas
• *Dr. Mary A. Gaal
• *Dr. Michael Grieves
• *Dr. Karen Holness
• *Dr. Luis Daniel Otero
• *Dr. Adrian Peter
• *Dr. Ersoy Subasi

Systems Engineering - Emeriti  Graduate Faculty

• *Dr. Muzaffar A. Shaikh (Professor Emeritus)
• *Dr. Scott Tilley (Professor Emeritus)