Graduate Faculty List

Last updated: April 12, 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

Faculty Listing by Academic Unit (Discipline)

Aeronautics

Dr. B. Michael Barker (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Clifford Bragdon (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. John Cain (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Meredith Carroll
*Dr. Deborah Carstens (also HCD)
Dr. Ken E. Crooks (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. John E. Deaton (Interim Dean)
*Dr. Michael A. Gallo (Professor Emeritus)
Ms. Anna Marron
*Dr. Ulreen Jones-McKinney
*Dr. Rian Mehta
*Dr. Korhan Oyman
*Dr. William Rankin
*Dr. Isaac Silver (term expires 5/23)
Mr. Michael Splitt
*Dr. Ersoy Subasi
*Dr. Tolga R. Turgut
Ms. Margaret Wallace
*Dr. Brooke Wheeler
*Dr. Donna Wilt (Professor Emeritus)

Aerospace Engineering

*Dr. Mark Archambault
*Dr. Paula do Vale Pereira
*Dr. David Fleming (Department Head)
Dr. Vernon Gordon
*Dr. Reza Jahanbakhski
Dr. Ralph Kimberlin (term expires 9/25)
*Dr. Daniel Kirk
Dr. Brian Kish (term expires 8/24)
*Dr. Mary Helen McCay (also Mechanical Engineering)
*Dr. Mirmilad Mirsayar
*Dr. Razvan Rusovici
*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. Debbie Lelekis
*Dr. Moti Mizrahi
*Dr. Joseph Montelione
*Dr. JoAnn Parla-Palumbo (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Gordon M. Patterson
*Dr. Lisa Perdigao (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Ted Petersen
*Dr. Kenneth Pike
*Dr. Matthew Ruane
*Dr. Youngju Sohn
*Dr. Renee Souris Smith
*Dr. Andy Stanfield
*Dr. Judith B. Strother (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Robert Taylor (Dean)
*Dr. Angela Tenga
*Dr. Dzmitry Yuran
*Dr. Wanfa Zhang

Behavior Analysis

Dr. Elbert Blakely (term expires 9/25)
Dr. Kaitlynn Gokey (term expires 9/23)
*Dr.Jonathan Fernand
*Dr. Mark Harvey
Dr. Bryon Neff
*Dr. Catherine Nicholson
*Dr. Kimberly Sloman
*Dr. Rachael Tilka
*Dr. Frank Webbe (also PSY) (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. David Wilder (School Head)

Biomedical Sciences

*Dr. Melissa Borgen
*Dr. David J. Carroll (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Tristan Fiedler
*Dr. Michael S. Grace (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Julia E. Grimwade (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Eric Guisbert
*Dr. Karen Guisbert
*Dr. Charles E. Helmstetter (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Alan C. Leonard (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Kenia Nunes
*Dr. Charles D. Polson
*Dr. Gary N. Wells (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Russel C. Weigel Jr. (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Shaohua Xu

Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Margaret Ahmad (term expires 5/25)
*Dr. Christopher Bashur
*Dr. Venkat Chivukula
*Dr. Pengfei Dong
*Dr. Peshala Gamage
*Dr. Linxia Gu (also Mechanical Engineering)
*Dr. Mehmet Kaya
*Dr. Kunal Mitra (also Mechanical Engineering)

Business

Dr. John C. Barranti
*Dr. LuAnn Bean
*Dr. S. Ann Becker (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Charles Bryant
*Dr. Darrell Burrell
*Dr. Jeffrey Cerny
*Dr. David E. Clapp (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. B. Andrew Cudmore
*Dr. Nick Daher
*Dr. Ivonne Delgado-Perez
*Dr. Amitabh Dutta
*Dr. Carolyn Fausnaugh (Professor Emerita)
Dr. Troy Glassman (term expires 3/24)
Dr. James Glenn (term expires 9/23)
*Dr. Edward Haberek
Dr. Shellie Halstead (term expires 5/25)
*Dr. Keiron Hylton
*Dr. Robert Keimer
*Dr. Vicky Knerly
Dr. Kim LaFevor (term expires 9/24)
*Dr. Fingkun Liu
*Dr. Alina Malkova
*Dr. T. Roger Manley (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Angel Otero
Dr. Darrell Parsons (term expires 9/24)
*Dr. Jignya Patel
*Dr. John Patton (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Enrique Perez (Associate Dean)
Dr. Jonathan Reed (term expires 3/24)
*Dr. Theodore Richardson (Dean)
*Dr. Steven Rivet
Dr. Darrell Sandall (term expires 12/22)
*Dr. Robert Schaller
*Dr. Denise Siegfeldt
*Dr. Michael H. Slotkin
*Dr. Christian Sonnenberg (Associate Dean)
Dr. Johnnie Taylor, Jr. (term expires 10/21)
*Dr. Alexander R. Vamosi
*Dr. Penny Vassar
*Dr. Emily Vogt
*Dr. Abram Walton
*Dr. Joan Wiggenhorn (Professor Emerita)

Chemical Engineering

*Dr. James R. Brenner
Dr. Justin Hill (term expires 5/26)
*Dr. Paul A. Jennings (Professor Emeritus)
*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)

Chemistry

*Dr. Boris B. Akhremitchev
*Dr. Michael W. Babich (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Alan B. Brown
*Dr. Christopher Chouinard
*Dr. D. Andrew Knight (Deptartment Head)
*Dr. Yi Liao
*Dr. Gordon L. Nelson
*Dr. Nasri Nesnas
*Dr. Joel Olson (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Pavithra Pathirathna
*Dr. Roberto Peverati
*Dr. Joshua Rokach (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Jessica Smeltz
*Dr. Stephen Smith
*Dr. Mary L. Sohn (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Norito Takenaka
*Dr. Robert Usselman
*Dr. Rudolf Wehmschulte

Civil Engineering

*Dr. Jungong Ahn
*Dr. Albert Bleakley
*Dr. Paul J. Cosentino
*Dr. Howell H. Heck (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Edward H. Kalajian (Professor Emeritus)
Mr. Ralph Locurcio (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Rodrigo Mesa-Arango
*Dr. Troy Nguyen
*Dr. Efthymios Nikolopoulos
*Dr. Ashok Pandit (Department Head)
*Dr. Jean-Paul Pinelli
*Dr. Nakin Suksawang

Computing

*Dr. William Allen
*Dr. Philip Bernhard (Department Head)
*Dr. Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
*Dr. Walter P. Bond, Jr. (Professor Emeritus)
Dr. Kevin Bowyer (term expires 11/22)
*Dr. Marco Carvalho (also Human Centered Design)
*Dr. Philip K. Chan
*Dr. Thomas Eskridge (also Human Centered Design)
*Dr. Keith Gallagher (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Cem Kaner (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Michael King
Dr. Celine Lang (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Gerald Marin (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Ronaldo Menezes (term expires 7/21)
*Dr. Debasis Mitra
Dr. David W. Mutschler (term expires 9/21)
Dr. Ambarish Nag (term expires 4/22)
Dr. Natasha Neogi (term expires 3/24)
*Dr. J. Richard Newman (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Nasheen Nur
*Dr. Terrance O’Connor
*Dr. Bernard Parenteu
Dr. Samuel Perl (term expires 10/21)
Dr. Anand Rangarajan (term expires 9/24)
*Dr. Eraldo Ribeiro
Dr. Karl Ricanek, Jr. (term expires 4/24)
*Dr. William D. Shoaff
*Dr. Marius Silaghi
*Dr. Khaled Slhoub
*Dr. Ryan Stansifer
Dr. Shengzhi Zhang (term expires 7/21)

Education and Interdisciplinary Studies

Dr. Mary Bonhomme (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Richard Enstice (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Samantha Fowler (term expires 5/22)
*Dr. Robert Fronk (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Kastro Hamed
*Dr. Tom J. Marcinkowski
Dr. John Meyer (term expires 9/23)
*Dr. Joo Young Park

Electrical and Computer Engineering

*Dr. Georgios Anagnostopoulos
*Dr. Abdullah Aydeger
Dr. Ed Lee Caraway (term expires 7/22)
Dr. Dean Clauter (term expires 5/25)
*Dr. John Harris (Dean)
*Dr. Veton Kepuska
*Dr. Ivica Kostanic
*Dr. Samuel P. Kozaitis
*Dr. Brian Lail
*Dr. Chul-Ho Lee
*Dr. Naveed Mahmud
*Dr. Syed Murshid
Dr. Maureen Nardo (term expired 9/23)
*Dr. Carlos Otero
*Dr. Anthony Smith
*Dr. Sneha Sudhakaran
*Dr. Robert L. Sullivan (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Lynn Weaver (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Josko Zec

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. Luis Daniel Otero
*Dr. Adrian Peter
*Dr. Muzaffar A. Shaikh (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Ersoy Subasi
*Dr. Scott Tilley (Professor Emeritus)

Human-Centered Design

*Dr. Deborah Carstens (also Aeronautics)
*Dr. Marco Carvalho (also Computer Science)
*Dr. Thomas Eskridge (also Computer Science)
Dr. Nicholas Kasdaglis (term expires 2/21)
Dr. Anil Raj (term expires 5/21)
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 9/23)
*Dr. John G. Morris (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Andrew Palmer
*Dr. Jonathan M. Shenker (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Ralph G. Turingan
*Dr. Richard L. Turner (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Robert van Woesik

Mathematical Sciences

*Dr. Yakov Berchenko-Kogan
*Dr. Vladislav Bukshtynov
Dr. Scott A. Clary (term expires 9/24)
*Dr. Jewgeni Dshalalow
*Dr. Jian Du
*Dr. Charles T. Fulton (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Dennis E. Jackson (Professor Emeritus)
*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. Jerome Wettstein
*Dr. Ryan White

Mechanical Engineering

*Dr. Weinan Gao
*Dr. Martin Glicksman (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Linxia Gu (also Biomedical Engineering)
*Dr. Hector M. Gutierrez
*Dr. Xiang He
*Dr. Seong Hyeon Hong
*Dr. Pei-Feng Hsu
Dr. Jennifer Long (term expires 9/23)
*Dr. Mary Helen McCay (also Aerospace Engineering)
*Dr. Gerald Micklow (Professor Emeritus)
*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

Ocean Engineering and Sciences

Dr. Tom V. Belanger (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Charles R. Bostater, Jr.
*Dr. Iver W. Duedall (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Austin Fox
*Dr. J. Travis Hunsucker
*Dr. Kelli Hunsucker
*Dr. Chungkuk Jin
*Dr. Kevin B. Johnson
*Dr. Steven Lazarus
*Dr. Ken Lindeman
*Dr. Emily Ralston
*Dr. Pallav Ray
*Dr. Ronnal Reichard
*Dr. John C. Sainsbury (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Deniz Velioglu Sogut
*Dr. Geoffrey Swain
*Dr. John H. Trefry (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Robert Weaver
*Dr. John G. Windsor, Jr. (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Stephen Wood
*Dr. Gary Zarillo
*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. Tracy Gibson (term expires 10/22)
*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 Yumicev (term expires 8/24)
*Dr. Ming Zhang

Psychology

*Dr. Richard Addante
*Dr. Patrick Aragon
*Dr. Juanita N. Baker (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Demara Bennett
*Dr. Gary Burns (Head)
*Dr. Felipa Chavez
*Dr. Xinxuan Che
*Dr. Travis Conradt
*Dr. Patrick Converse
*Dr. Julie Costopolous
*Dr. Vanessa Edkins (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Richard T. Elmore (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Philip D. Farber (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Victoria Follette
*Dr. William K. Gabrenya, Jr. (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Richard Griffith
*Dr. Scott Gustafson
*Dr. Arthur Gutman (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Thomas H. Harrell (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Marshall Jones
*Dr. Mariana Juras
*Dr. Mary Beth Kenkel (Professor Emerita)
*Dr. Radhika Krishnamurthy
*Dr. Maria Lavooy
*Dr. Anthony LoGalbo
*Dr. Katrina Merlini
*Dr. Barbara Paulillo
*Dr. Darby Proctor
*Dr. Lisa Steelman
*Dr. Catherine Talbot
*Dr. Robyn Tapley
*Dr. Amanda Thayer
*Dr. Vida Tyc
*Dr. Kristi Van Sickle
*Dr. Frank M. Webbe (also BA) (Professor Emeritus)
*Dr. Jessica Wildman
Dr. Zhiqing Zhou (term expires 7/21)

Graduate Faculty List