MAD Center: People

	Michael Allen Assistant Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Vibro-Acoustic Analysis E-mail: miallen@vt.edu
	Romesh Batra Clifton C. Garvin Professor Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Specialization: Computational Solid Mechanics E-mail: rbatra@vt.edu
	Alan Brown NAVSEA Professor of Naval Ship Design Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: E-mail: brown@aoe.vt.edu
	John Burns Professor-Eminent Scholar Department of Mathematics Specialization: Optimal Control Theory E-mail: burns@math.vt.edu
	Eugene Cliff Professor Emeritus Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Optimal Control Theory E-mail: cliff@icam.vt.edu
	Michael Deisenroth Professor Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Specialization: Manufacturing E-mail: deisenroth@vt.edu
	William Devenport Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Experimental Fluid Dynamics E-mail: devenport@aoe.vt.edu
	Bernard Grossman Director, MAD Center NIA Vice President for Education and Outreach Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: CFD and Optimization E-mail: grossman@nianet.org
	Zafer Gürdal Professor Departments of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Structural Optimization and Composite Structures E-mail: zgurdal@vt.edu
	Chris Hall Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Spacecraft Dynamics and Control E-mail: cdhall@vt.edu
	Naira Hovakimyan Associate Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Dynamics and Control E-mail: nhovakim@vt.edu
	Owen Hughes Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Ship Design and Optimization E-mail: hugheso@vt.edu
	Daniel Inman Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Specialization: Intelligent Material Systems & Structures E-mail: dinman@vt.edu
	Prof. Rakesh K. Kapania (Director) Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Computational Aeroelasticity and Structural Mechanics Email: rkapania@vt.edu
	Liviu Librescu Professor Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Specialization: Composite Structures and Aeroelasticity E-mail: llinresc@vt.edu
	Alfred Loos Professor Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Specialization: Composite Manufacturing E-mail: aloos@vt.edu
	William Mason Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Applied Computational Aerodynamics and Airplane Design E-mail: mason@aoe.vt.edu
	Ron Moffitt Specialization: E-mail: rmoffitt@vt.edu
	Dean Mook Waldo Harrison Professor Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Specialization: Aerodynamics and Controls E-mail: dtmook@vt.edu
	Joel Nachlas Associate Professor Department of Industrial Engineering Specialization: Operations Research E-mail: nachlas@vt.edu
	Ali Nayfeh University Distinguished Professor Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics Specialization: Nonlinear Dynamics and Transition E-mail: anayfeh@vt.edu
	Wayne Neu Assistant Department Head & Associate Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Ships E-mail: neu@vt.edu
	Walter O'Brien J. Bernard Jones Professor and Department Head Department of Mechanical Engineering Specialization: Propulsion E-mail: walto@vt.edu
	Mayuresh Patil Assistant Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: E-mail: mpatil@vt.edu
	Joseph Schetz Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Specialization: Computational Fluid Dynamics E-mail: ptiger@vt.edu
	Layne Watson Professor Department of Computer Science and Mathematics Specialization: Parallel Computation and Numerical Optimization E-mail:ltw@cs.vt.edu
	Robert Walters AOE Department Head Department of Aerospace and Ocen Engineering Specialization: E-mail:rwalters@vt.edu
	Joseph Wang Associate Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocen Engineering Specialization: Advanced Space Propulsion E-mail:jowang@vt.edu
	Craig Woolsey Assistant Professor Department of Aerospace and Ocen Engineering Specialization: Nonlinear Control of Mechanical Systems E-mail:cwoolsey@vt.edu