Reactor Engineering; Transport-Kinetic Integration; Advanced Measurement and Computational Techniques

Hybrid energy systems, Fuels combustion and gasification, Industrial gas flare design, operation, and regulation, Process modeling, monitoring, control, and operation

• Physical chemistry
• Theoretical spectroscopy
• Molecular dynamics

• Rubisco biomimetics for CO2 capture from air
• Ferrolelectrical materials for nonlinear optics
• Oscillating chemical reactions: Video-based kinetic analysis and simulation by dynamic methods
• Layer models of enzyme activity

• Physical chemistry
• Advanced microwave spectroscopy
• Materials chemistry

1. The study of the electronic, magnetic, and Mössbauer spectral properties of magnetically coupled transition metal complexes at ambient and high pressure.
2. Mössbauer spectroscopy of iron, tin, antimony, and europium organometallic compounds.
3. Mössbauer-effect and x-ray absorption spectroscopic and neutron and x-ray diffraction studies of transition metal complexes, hard permanent magnetic materials, nano-structured materials, and thermoelectric materials.

• Materials for extreme environments
• Energy
• Biomedicine

• Computational wind engineering (CFD simulations of different wind fields, such as tornadoes and hurricanes)
• Improvement of tornado risk awareness through virtual reality animation, social science and behavior finance
• Wind hazard mitigation to achieve resilient communities and cities by improving design codes and reinforcing strategies
• Structural health monitoring and condition assessment (Linear/Nonlinear system identification and damage detection under multi-hazard environments)

• Internet of Things
• Machine Learning
• Cybersecurity

• Mobile data management
• Cloud computing
• Cyber security
• Wireless computing
• Data analytics

• lustering or unsupervised learning
• Adaptive dynamic programming (ADP) or reinforcement learning
• Neural networks hardware and applications

• Geodesy
• Crustal deformation
• Fault mechanics
• Natural hazards
• Geostatistics
• Earthquakes

Holding a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Park College, he has more than 25 years of experience in software development, systems administration, technical instruction, computer aided instruction design, product development, development and support team operations, project and program management, and strategic development. Mark currently serves as the director for Research Support Services at Missouri S&T, a directorate within the IT organization.

Keeping the cluster alive for everyone to use!

• Computational mechanics/material science
• Phase-field modeling (crack propagation, solidification, oxidation, material microstructure)
• Phase-field crystal modeling of solidification
• Computational modeling of ceramics processing
• Finite element analysis
• Fracture mechanics
• ICME

• Computational Materials
• Additive Manufacturing
• Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Materials
• Process-Structure-Property-Performance Relationship

Numerical analysis and mathematical foundation of machine learning and its applications to numerical partial differential equations (PDEs), data fitting, and image classification.

Fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics of energy systems. Heat and mass transfer in buoyant flows, second-law and exergy analysis, numerical simulation of transport phenomena and experimental methods.

• Composite materials
• Smart structures
• Nanocomposites
• Biocomposites
• Structural dynamics
• Finite element analysis
• Damage monitoring
• Composite manufacturing and experimental characterization

• Nuclear Thermal-Hydraulics
• Bubble Hydrodynamics
• Interfacial Forces
• Multiphase Flow Modeling
• Experiments in Multiphase Dynamics