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Ryan Chapman
Assistant Professor
Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (limited) and Kinesiology

Susan D’Andrea
Assistant Professor
Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering (limited) and Kinesiology

Carl-Ernst Rousseau, P.E.
Professor and Department Chair
Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Anthony Marchese, Ph.D.
Dean, URI College of Engineering, Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Christopher Baxter, P.E.
Professor and CVE Department Chair
Civil & Environmental Engineering and Ocean Engineering

Mehrshad Amini
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering / Ocean Engineering
- Multi-hazard analysis
- Risk and resilience assessment
- Coastal fluid-structure interactions
- Performance-based design
- Reliability analysis

Sigrid Berka
Executive Director & Director of the Chinese and German IEPs & Professor of German
International Engineering Program

Aaron Bradshaw, P.E.
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Marine Geotechnics, Soil-Structure Integration, Dynamic Properties of Soils

Mayrai Gindy
Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Joseph Goodwill, P.E.
Carroll D. & Charles M. Billmyer Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Angela Graney
Associate Director for Business and Administration, IEP
International Engineering Program

Otto J. Gregory
Distinguished Engineering Professor
Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering

Sungho Kim
Assistant Professor
Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering
- ASIC in harsh environments
- Readout electronics for superconducting photon detectors
- High-performance computing hardware
- Neuromorphic computing hardware (spiking neural network)

Bradford Knight
Assistant Professor
Ocean Engineering
- Hydrodynamics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Vessel Seakeeping and Maneuvering
- Hull-Propeller-Rudder interaction
- Ocean Renewable Energy
- Naval Architecture

Michelangelo La Luna
Director of the Italian IEP
International Engineering Program
Prof. La Luna research activity focuses on Girolamo De Rada (1814-1903), the major Italian-Albanian poet of the Romantic period. He is also a passionate researcher of Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” and of Luigi Capuana’s (1839-1915) fairy tales. As the Director of the book serie SOPHIA, Dr. La Luna edited several books in honor of the best Italian female writer, Dacia Maraini (1936-).

Samantha Meenach
Victor Baxt Professor
Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering / Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jyothi U. Menon
Associate Professor
Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering / Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Adriana Morales Wright
Director of the Spanish IEP, Lecturer of Spanish
International Engineering Program

Bahram Nassersharif
Distinguished University Professor
Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Marc Parlange
President, University of Rhode Island, Professor, Mechanical, Ocean, and Civil Engineering

Nassim Rahmani
Associate Teaching Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering / Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Daniel Roxbury
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering

Ting-Yu Shih
Assistant Professor
Chemical, Biomolecular, and Materials Engineering / Pharmaceutical Sciences

Chengzhi Yuan
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering