Krishan Ahuja

Krishan Ahuja

Krishan Ahuja

Regents' Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

A 2019 inductee to the National Academy of Engineering, Ahuja has more than 35 years of research and development experience in aircraft noise research, acoustics facilities design, flow control, state-of-the-art instrumentation, and advanced signal processing. During his employment of 13 years at Lockheed Georgia Company in various capacities, including the head of the Aeroacoustics Research and acting manager of the Advanced Flight Sciences Department, he was the principal investigator and/or the program manager on several successfully completed projects funded by Lockheed, the U. S. Air Force and NASA. He joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology as a Senior Faculty Research Leader in March 1989. He recently served in the capacity of the director of Georgia Tech Ireland. Ahuja is a former associate editor of the AIAA Journal and also a former Chairman of the AIAA Aeroacoustics Technical Committee. Ahuja has authored or co-authored over 180 technical articles or reports on a range of topics including acoustic shielding, fan noise, active flow control, flow/acoustic interactions, jet noise, cavity noise, automobile noise, sonic boom research, psychoacoustics, high-temperature fiber optics strain gauges, acoustic transducers, active noise control, tilt rotor noise, source separation, acoustic fatigue, duct acoustics, computational aeroacoustics, innovative flow visualization techniques, tornado signatures, rapid charging of batteries and others. The international media, including CNN and Beyond 2000, has covered his work.

krishan.ahuja@gtri.gatech.edu

404.385.1140

Office Location:
Guggenheim 362

Research Focus Areas:
  • Aerospace
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Additional Research:
    Propulsion; Aerodynamics; Acoustics and Dynamics

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    Abdul-Hamid Zureick

    Abdul-Hamid  Zureick

    Abdul-Hamid Zureick

    Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Abdul-Hamid Zureick is Professor of Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. He earned his BCE from Tishreen University, Syria in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982 and 1985, respectively

    Professor Zureick is an authority on the use of innovative materials in civil engineering applications. His research has been to develop criteria and specifications for the design, testing, and construction of polymer composite structural systems. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Composites for Construction and Structural Engineering and Mechanics,  and was the founder and first Chair of the ASTM International Technical Subcommittee on Composites for Civil Engineering and Marine Applications.  In 2007, he guided the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 10-73, which led to the development of the first AASHTO Guide Specifications for Design of Bonded FRP Systems for Repair and Strengthening of Concrete Bridge Elements, published in 2012.

    Professor Zureick received numerous awards and recognitions, notable among them is the 1989 ASCE Norman Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a technical paper judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to the Engineering Science. He has frequently served as a consultant, an invited speaker, and a panelist on behalf of a number of Federal, State, and private organizations in the United States and around the world.

    abdul-hamid.zureick@ce.gatech.edu

    404.894.2294

    Office Location:
    Mason 3140C

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  • Research Focus Areas:
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Additional Research:
    Bridge StructuresDesign of Steel StructuresPolymeric Composite MaterialsStructural OptimizationStructural Stability 

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    Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

    Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

    Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

    Professor, School of Physics

    My areas of interest include theoretical condensed matter and ultra-cold atomic and molecular physics. I strongly encourage my students to be broad, deep and creative. Breadth of knowledge is very important in today's physics job market, as is expert (deep) knowledge in a particular area. But most of all the development of new directions, never explored before is the dominant component of my research. Most of my interests are in many body aspects of condensed matter systems (superconductors, quantum magnets, and semiconductors) and atomic/molecular systems (ultra-cold atoms and molecules).

    carlos.sademelo@physics.gatech.edu

    404.894.5088

    Office Location:
    Howey W511

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Quantum Computing
  • Additional Research:
    superconductors; quantum materials; Semiconductors

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    Uzi Landman

    Uzi Landman

    Uzi Landman

    Regents' and Institute Professor, School of Physics
    F.E. Callaway Chair in Computational Materials Science
    Director, Center for Computational Materials Science

    Uzi Landman is an Israeli/American computational physicist, the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Computational Materials Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

    He earned a B.Sc. in chemistry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1965, an M.Sc. in chemistry from the Weizmann Institute in 1966 and a D.Sc. from the Israel Institute of Technology in 1969. His research interests included surface and materials science, solid state physics and nanoscience. 

    He joined the faculty of Georgia Tech in 1977 as an associate professor of physics and made professor in 1979, In 1988 he was promoted to regents professor of physics, a title he still holds. In 1992 he became director of the Center for Computational Materials science, at Georgia and in 1995 appointed Fuller E. Callaway endowed Chair in Computational Materials Science.  

    In 1989, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for applications of numerical simulation modeling of both the status structure and nonequilibrium dynamics of solid surfaces, interfaces, and small clusters."  In 2000, he was awarded the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology by the Foresight Institute. 

    He received the 2005 Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics, which is the highest honor given by the American Physical Society for work in computational physics. He was also awarded the 2008 Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists.

    uzi.landman@physics.gatech.edu

    404.894.3368

    Office Location:
    Howey W411/W410

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Computational Materials Science
  • Additional Research:
    quantum materials; condensed matter systems; Surfaces and Interfaces; Epitaxial Growth

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    Andrew Zangwill

    Andrew Zangwill

    Andrew Zangwill

    Professor, School of Physics

    Professor Zangwill earned a B.S. in Physics at Carnegie-Mellon University in 1976. His 1981 Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania introduced the time-dependent density functional method. 

    He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1981-1985 before taking up his present position at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 

    He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1997 for theoretical studies of epitaxial crystal growth. 

    He is the author of the monograph Physics at Surfaces (1988) and the graduate textbook Modern Electrodynamics (2013). In 2013, he began publishing scholarly work on the history of condensed matter physics.

    andrew.zangwill@physics.gatech.edu

    404.894.7333

    Office Location:
    Howey N102

    Modern Electrodynamics

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Electronic Materials
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantum Computing and Systems
  • Semiconductors
  • Additional Research:
    ElectrodynamicsEpitaxial GrowthQuantum MaterialsIII-V Semiconductor Devices

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    Phillip First


    Phillip First

    Professor, School of Physics
    Director, Surface, Interface, and Nanostructure Research Group

    A primary goal of Professor First's research is to develop an understanding of solid-state systems at atomic length scales. The main experimental tools in this pursuit are scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and related techniques such as ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM). These methods rely on the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect to obtain atomically-resolved maps of the electronic structure of surfaces, clusters, and buried layers.

    phillip.first@physics.gatech.edu

    404.894.0548

    Office Location:
    Howey N018/ S03

    Surface, Interface and Nanostructure Research Group

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Electronic Materials
  • Additional Research:
    Electron microscopy, surfaces and interfaces, graphene, epitaxial growth

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    Guillermo Goldsztein

    Guillermo Goldsztein

    Guillermo Goldsztein

    Professor, School of Mathematics

    Professor Goldsztein is originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1992 he received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Buenos Aires and in 1997 a Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT. During the three following years (1997-2000), he was a postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in applied mathematics at CalTech. Since 2000, he has been a faculty member of the School of Mathematics of Georgia Tech, where he is now a full professor. Professor Goldsztein enjoys applying mathematics that can be used in other other fields of science such as computational biology, machine learning, and the intersection between math and physics. Machine learning is among his areas of expertise.

    ggold@math.gatech.edu

    404.894.2286

    Office Location:
    Skiles 112

    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
  • Computational Materials Science
  • Additional Research:
    computational mechanics

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    Angus Wilkinson

    Angus Wilkinson

    Angus Wilkinson

    Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and School of Materials Science and Engineering
    Associate Chair for Operations and Undergraduate Programs

    Angus Wilkinson is a professor in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and holds a joint appointment with the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Wilkinson obtained his bachelors degree in chemistry from Oxford University in 1988. He was a graduate student with A. K. Cheetham in the Department of Chemical Crystallography /Inorganic Chemistry at Oxford from 1988 until December 1991. His graduate work focused on the application of synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction to problems in solid-state chemistry. 

    For the last two years of his graduate studies he held a senior Scholarship from Christ Church, Oxford. From October 1991 until June 1993, Wilkinson was a Junior Research Fellow with Christ Church, Oxford. However, most of this period was spent on leave at the Materials Research Laboratory, University of California Santa Barbara. His work in Santa Barbara focused on the processing and structure of oxide ferroelectric materials. In October 1993 he joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. He received tenure in 1999 and was promoted to full professor in 2004. He is currently Associate Chair for operations in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry. 

    His work at Georgia Tech has been wide ranging. Current projects include the synthesis and characterization of negative thermal expansion ceramics, in-situ studies of cement hydration under oil well conditions (high pressure and temperature) using x-ray and ultrasonic techniques, and the development of reversible carbon dioxide adsorbents. Previous work at Georgia Tech has included an exploration of chiral templates for the synthesis of chiral microporous materials, the low temperature synthesis of ferroelectrics, an exploration of low oxidation state gallium and indium oxide chemistry with a view to finding new ferroelectric and nonlinear optical materials, the development of resonant x-ray scattering methods for use on thermoelectric energy conversion materials, and an examination of cement durability under sulfate attack conditions using high energy x-ray scattering combined with microtomography.

    angus.wilkinson@chemistry.gatech.edu

    404.894.4036

    Office Location:
    MoSE 1100J

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Additional Research:
    Thermoelectric Materials; Metal-Organic Frameworks; Modeling

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    Jung Choi

    Jung Choi

    Jung Choi

    Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
    Director, M.S. Program in Bioinformatics

    Jung Choi is an associate professor in the School of Biology at Georgia Tech and director of the Professional Masters program in Bioinformatics. He has been at Georgia Tech since 1986. Choi has done research on plant protein kinases with calmodulin-like domains, and some research with yeast lipid metabolism that has yet to bear fruit. He has taught a wide variety of courses, but most enjoys teaching large intro lecture courses – which he finds both challenging and rewarding.

    jung.choi@biology.gatech.edu

    404.894.8423

    Office Location:
    Cherry Emerson 213

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    Research Focus Areas:
  • Biobased Materials
  • Additional Research:
    Bioinformatics; Kinetics; Materials Testing; Materials Synthesis and Processing

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