Faculty and Staff
Here is an alphabetical listing of our faculty in the Engineering Department and affiliated departments. Click any name below to view their complete biography.
Department Chair
Lauren (Lou) Sassoubre
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CO-CHAIR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Email: lsassoubre@usfca.edu
Full-Time Faculty
Noopur Agarwal is a practicing visual communication designer dedicated to increasing critical public engagement with issues of global and local…
Christopher Brooks is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at USF, with a joint appointment in the Department of Engineering. He joined…
Associate Professor Johnathan Cromwell's research focuses on how people collaborate with each other as they define, solve, and change problems while…
My research interests are in observational cosmology. Fourteen years after the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe (Nobel Prize…
An associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science since 2016, Dr. Amalia Kokkinaki holds a PhD degree from the University of Toronto…
Nick Leonard is interested in epistemology, cognitive psychology, and certain topics at the intersection of the two. He received his PhD in…
Tom MacDonald received his PhD from Stanford University. Professor MacDonald's research focuses on designing computer simulations of problems of…
Julio Moreno is a professor of history and affiliated engineering faculty at the University of San Francisco. Born in the Salvadoran countryside,…
Hana Mori loves teaching structural materials engineering and experimental methods for engineering and architecture. She was the first chairperson of…
Daniel is the director of the Bachelors of Science in Data Science program. Daniel's research interests are in large-scale optimization modeling and…
Part-Time Faculty
Henriette Cornet is an expert in sustainable urban mobility and autonomous vehicles. From 2020 to 2023, she led the thematic area of automated…
Nick Leonard is interested in epistemology, cognitive psychology, and certain topics at the intersection of the two. He received his PhD in…
Luigi (Lou) Lucaccini has a PhD in engineering psychology from UCLA and an MBA from USF. He is an adjunct professor both in the entrepreneurship,…
Sean has an MFA in visual arts from Mills College, and a BA and BFA in art history and ceramics from Eastern Washington University.
Sean recently…
Moses is a spring 2024 term instructor in the department of engineering. They are committed to adaptive and inclusive education, and their…