Faculty
Here is an alphabetical listing of our faculty in the Engineering Department and affiliated departments. Click any name below to view their complete biography.
Tom Böttger is from Berlin, Germany and is first and foremost a teacher. He enjoys teaching the large introductory physics courses as well as hands-…
Education
Montana State University, PhD in Physics, 2002, Montana State University, MS in Physics, 1999, Humboldt University, Germany, Diploma in Physics, 1996, University of Kent, England, University Diploma in Physics, 1993
Professor Böttger’s interests lie at the intersection of structural materials engineering and architecture, and she created and has been directing…
Education
MArch, MS, Structural Materials Engineering, UC Berkeley, BS, Civil Engineering, UC Berkeley
Christopher Brooks is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at USF, with a joint appointment in the Department of Engineering. He joined…
Education
University of Michigan, Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, 2002, San Francisco State University, M.S.. Computer Science, 1997, University of Wisconsin, B.A./J.B.A., English and Journalism, 1991Expertise
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Multiagent Systems, Computing and Social Justice
Innovation drives the production of new and useful products, services, and technologies that can help solve some of society's greatest problems…
Education
DBA Management, Harvard Business School, S.B. Chemical-Biological Engineering, MIT
Osasere Evbuomwan
Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of Engineering Summer Zero Program
oevbuomwan@usfca.edu
(415) 422-4914
Professor Evbuomwan received her BS in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho in May 2006. Later…
Education
PhD, University of Texas at Dallas, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Texas at Dallas, Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
My research interests are in observational cosmology. Fourteen years after the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe (Nobel Prize…
Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Physics (2004)
Jeremy Kasdin is the assistant dean for engineering programs. He is also the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,…
Education
Stanford University, PhD in Aeronautical and Astronautical Sciences, 1991, Stanford University, MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1987, Princeton University, BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1985Expertise
Satellite Design, High-contrast Imaging, Guidance and Control
An assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science since 2016, Dr. Amalia Kokkinaki holds a PhD degree from the University of Toronto…
Education
University of Toronto, PhD, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2013, University of Toronto, MASc, Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2007, Technical University of Crete, BS and MS, Environmental Engineering, 2005Expertise
Groundwater flow and transport, Contaminant hydrogeology, Environmental chemistry and microbiology, Statistical modeling and data assimilation, Bayesian inverse modeling
Luigi (Lou) Lucaccini has a PhD in engineering psychology from UCLA and an MBA from USF. He is an adjunct professor in the Entrepreneurship and…
Education
UC Los Angeles, PhD in Engineering Psychology, 1968, USF, MBA, 1980Expertise
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Operation, Engineering Psychology, Education Research and Development, Adaptive Computer-Aided Training Systems
Although Professor Elizabeth Mickaily-Huber's degrees are in chemical engineering, her specialty is in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Over…