• ZhongYang Cheng
• Bryan Allen Chin
• Jeffrey Fergus
• Jong Wook Hong
• Dong-Joo (Daniel) Kim

• Chain T. Liu
• Ruel A. (Tony) Overfelt
• Bart Prorok
• Aleksandr Simonian
• Ralph Zee

ZhongYang (Z.-Y.) Cheng
Associate Professor
3M Grant Researcher

Office: 280 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4913
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Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Xian Jiaotong University, 1995
Smart materials preparation and characterization; materials physics; application of smart materials in actuators, transducers, sensors and MEMS/NEMS; design, fabrication and characterization of electromechanical actuators and sensors;

Smart Materials: dielectrics; ferroelectric/piezoelectric ceramics, crystals and thin film; electroactive polymers (artificial muscle); nonlinear optical polymers; nanocomposites and magnetostriction (metal glass); Electromechanical actuators, sensors and transducers for robots, artificial muscle and organs, vibration and noise control; MEMS for switch, fluid pump and valves; Biosensors for detecting biological/chemical threat agents under
Auburn University Detection and Food Safety Center

Bryan Allen Chin
Professor

Office: 277 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-3322
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Ph.D., Stanford University with distinction, Materials Science and Engineering, 1976
Research and development of biosensors for the detection of bacteria, spores and toxins that may contaminant our food system; materials and methods to improve food safety, medical and health applications; chemical sensors for detection of toxic gas compounds; Radio Frequency Identification Sensor Tags for automatic inventory and quality of food products; Sensors for manufacturing process control, welding and joining; and Fabrication and manufacture of adaptive materials

Jeffrey Fergus
Associate Professor

Office: 284 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-3405
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Jong Wook Hong
Assistant Professor

Office: 278 Wilmore Labs
Phone:(334) 844-7385
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Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, the University of Tokyo, 2000 Semicondoctor nanoparticle synthesis and characterization; Integrated micro/nanofluidic systems for nanobiotechnology; bioMEMB and Biosensors; Biomaterials; Automated high-throughput systems for systems biology; Microarray; Biomolecular engineering; Biological fuel cells.

Dong-Joo (Daniel) Kim
Associate Professor

Office: 276 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4864
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Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering (minor: Electrical Eng.), North Carolina State University, 2001. Micro/nanosystems; multifunctional (smart) materials; sensors; energy harvesting and storage.

Chain T. Liu
Distinguished Professor

Office: 281 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-3461
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Ruel A. (Tony) Overfelt
Philpott-WestPoint Stevens Professor

Office: 282 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-5940
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Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Vanderbilt University,1984 Metal casting and related materials processes; thermophysical property measurement technology; biomaterials and biomechanical engineering

Bart Prorok
Associate Professor

Office: 283 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4733
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Aleksandr Simonian
Professor

Office: 274 Wilmore Laboratories
Phone: (334) 844-4485
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Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics, USSR Academy of Science, 1973 Doctor of Science, Bioengineering, Moscow Institute of Applied Biochemistry, Russia, 1993
Development and fabrication of biosensors for environmental analysis (CW and BW agents, phenols, mercury), food safety (pathogens), medicine (glucose, uric acid, amino acids) agriculture (pesticides), veterinary (express monitoring of animals health status), industrial process control (amino acids and alcohol);Application of Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy for biomolecules/surface interaction analysis and biosensing; Nanocomposite films and nanoparticles for sensing applications; Optical imaging and fluorescence spectroscopy; Biomaterials and bio-surfaces

Ralph Zee
Associate Dean for Research

Office: 1301 Shelby Center
Phone: (334) 844-2301
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Ph.D., Materials Science, University of Wisconsin, 1981, Engineering education research & scholarship, high temperature materials for power conversion, sensing concepts, manufacturing processes.