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 Sassoubre headshotLauren (Lou) Sassoubre

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CO-CHAIR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Email: lsassoubre@usfca.edu


Full-Time Faculty

Christopher Brooks

Professor

(415) 422-7086

Christopher Brooks is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at USF, with a joint appointment in the Department of Engineering. He joined…

Johnathan Cromwell

Associate Professor

(415) 422-6537

Associate Professor Johnathan Cromwell's research focuses on how people collaborate with each other as they define, solve, and change problems while…

Xiaosheng Huang

Professor

(415) 422-6281

Xiaosheng Huang leads a research team, with mostly undergraduate students, that has found the largest number of strong gravitational lens candidates…

Amalia Kokkinaki

Associate Professor

(415) 422-4117

An associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science since 2016, Dr. Amalia Kokkinaki holds a PhD degree from the University of Toronto…

Thomas MacDonald

Associate Professor

(415) 422-5895

Tom MacDonald received his PhD from Stanford University. Professor MacDonald's research focuses on designing computer simulations of problems of…

Julio E. Moreno

Professor

(415) 422-6082

Julio Moreno is a professor of history and affiliated engineering faculty at the University of San Francisco. Born in the Salvadoran countryside,…

Hana Mori

Professor

(415) 422-4690

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…

Sean Olson

Director of Engineering Laboratories

(415) 422-5517

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…
Akshay joined as an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering during fall 2022. He is passionate about teaching complex engineering…

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…

Luigi (Lou) Lucaccini

Adjunct Professor

(415) 383-4616

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,…
Joshua Mindel is a transformative coach, an educator, an active writer, and a veteran leader of technical programs and teams. His experience spans…

Sean Olson

Director of Engineering Laboratories

(415) 422-5517

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…