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Kody Varahramyan Director
Entergy Distinguished Professor
Alan Chiu Assistant Professor
Despina Davis Assistant Professor
Mark DeCoster Associate Professor
Pedro Derosa JFAP Professor
Tabbetha Dobbins JFAP Professor
Sven Eklund Assistant Professor
Scott Gold
Assistant Professor
Hisham Hegab Associate Professor
Haifeng Ji Associate Professor
Ville Kaajakari Assistant Professor
Yuri Lvov T.C. Pipes Endowed Chair
Professor of Micro and Nanosystems
Daniela Mainardi Assistant Professor
David Mills Professor
Raja Nassar Professor
Chad O'Neal Assistant Professor
Max Watson Sr. Endowed Professor
Patrick O'Neal Assistant Professor
Andrei Paun Assistant Professor
Long Que Assistant Professor
Rastko Selmic Assistant Professor
Sandra Selmic Assistant Professor
Sidney Sit Assistant Professor
Yuri Voziyanov Assistant Professor
Chester Wilson  Assistant Professor


Kody Varahramyan Kody Varahramyan, Ph.D.
Director
Entergy Distinguished Professor

Phone:  318.257.5107
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   kody@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Micro- and Nanofabrication Processes, Materials, and Devices for Integrated Micro and Nanosystems.

 Alan Chiu Alan Chiu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering

Office:  BME 209
Phone:  318.257.5231
Fax:     318.257.4000
Email:   alanchiu@latech.edu
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 Despina Davis Despina Davis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering

Office:  IfM 116
Phone:  318.257.5142
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   ddavis@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Electrochemical Engineering, Nanofabrication, Magnetic and Thermo-
electric Materials, Sensors, Thin Films

 Mark DeCoster Mark DeCoster, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering

Office:  IfM 212
Phone:  318.257.5118
Fax:     318.257.5104

Office:  BME 207
Phone:  318.257.5233
Fax:     318.257.4000
Email:   decoster@latech.edu
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Pedro Derosa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physics
Joint Faculty Appointment with
Grambling State University 


Office:  IfM 110
Phone:  318.257.5139
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   
pderosa@latech.edu
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Specialization:   
Molecular simulations using Density Functional Theory, semiempirical methods, and Molecular dynamics; Radiation interaction with matter using Monte Carlo Technique; Interaction of radiation and radioactive atoms with matter; Modeling of polymers and nanostructured materials.


Tabbetha Dobbins  Tabbetha Dobbins, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Physics
Joint Faculty Appointment with
Grambling State University


Louisiana Tech University
Office:  IfM 216
Phone:  318.257.5134
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   
tdobbins@latech.edu

Grambling State University
Office:  Carver Hall Room 90
Phone:  318.274.2391
Email:   
tdobbins@latech.edu

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Specialization:  Nanomaterial synthesis and small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS).


Sven Eklund 

Sven Eklund, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chemistry

Office:  IfM 217
Phone:  318.257.5109
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:
  seklund@latech.edu
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Specialization:  Electrochemistry and nanotechnology focusing on the development of micro-scale bio-fuel cells for implantable devices and measurement of cellular metabolic processes with micro-scale chemical and biological sensors. Other interests include chiral catalysis at modified platinum surfaces and electrodeposition from room temperature ionic liquids.


0 Scott Gold, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering


Office:  IfM 113
Phone:  318.257.5148
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:  
sgold@latech.edu
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Specialization:  Micro-chemical Systems, Fuel Cells, Microfabrication, Electrochemical Engineering, Surface Chemistry.

  Hisham Hegab, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Office:  BH 256
Phone:  318.257.3791
Fax:     318.257.2562
Email:   hhegab@latech.edu
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Haifeng Ji, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chemistry

Office:  IfM 218
Phone:  318.257.5125
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   hji@latech.edu
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Specialization:  Micro-Mechanical Chem- and Bio-Sensors, Conjugated Polymers; Surface Modification, Combinatory Chemistry, Host-Guest Interaction, Molecular Recognition.


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Ville Kaajakari, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering

Office:  IfM 211
Phone:  318.257.5112
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:
   ville@latech.edu
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Specialization:  Microresonators, Nonlinear effects in MEMS, MEMS sensors, and Micromachining processes.


Yuri Lvov Yuri Lvov, Ph.D.
T.C. Pipes Endowed Chair
Professor of Micro and Nanosytems

Office:  IfM 217
Phone:  318.257.5144
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:  
ylvov@latech.edu
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Nano Pulp and Paper, L.L.C.

Specialization:  Self Assembly Nano-Systems.

Daniela Mainardi Daniela Mainardi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering

Office:  IfM 121
Phone:  318.257.5126
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   mainardi@latech.edu
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SpecializationMolecular modeling of nano and bio-systems.

David Mills, Ph.D.
Professor
Biological Sciences

Office:  IfM Nero Office
Phone:  318.257.5147
Fax:     318.257.5104

Office:  BME 242
Phone:  318.257.5205
Fax:     318.257.4000

Office:  CTH 213
Phone:  318.257.4573
Fax:     318.257.4574
Email:  
dkmills@latech.edu
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Specialization:  Extracellular Matrix, TMJ Structure & Function, Tissue Engineering, Cell & Tissue Culture.

Raja Nassar Raja Nassar, Ph.D.
Professor
Mathematics and Statistics

Office:  CTH 241
Phone:  318.257.2566
Fax:     318.257.2182
Email:   nassar@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Modeling and Stratistical analysis in relation to Micro-and Nanotechnologies.

Chad O'Neal Chad O'Neal, Ph.D., P.E.
Assistant Professor
Max Watson Sr. Endowed Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Nanosystems Engineering

Office:  IfM 213
Phone:  318.257.5122
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   coneal@latech.edu
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Specialization:   MEMS/NEMS Sensors and Actuators, Piezoelectric Devices, Packaging, and Nanomachining.

 Patrick O'Neal Patrick O'Neal, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering

Office:  BME 208
Phone:  318.257.5235
Fax:     318.257.4000
Email:   dponeal@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Nanoparticle-based systems for cancer detection and treatment. Other interests include using the same core nanotechnologies for optical sensing modalities such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

Andrei Paun  Andrei Paun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Computer Science

Office:  IfM 119
Phone:  318.257.5135
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   apaun@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Computer Science, bioinformatics, biocomputing, H systems, P systems, hyper-computation based on H systems, cell simulation and theory and implementation of new simulation techniques; finite state machines, NFA minimization, DFA complexity and cover automata.

 Long Que Long Que, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering

Office:  IfM 115
Phone:  318.257.5121
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   lque@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Advanced micro and nano-scale materials, micro and nanodevices, micro  and nanosystems for nanoscience, biotechnology, and life science applications.

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Rastko Selmic, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering


Office:  NH 115
Phone:  318.257.4829
Fax:     318.257.4922
Email:   rselmic@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Sensors and Actuators, Wireless Sensor Networks, Intelligent Control.


 0 Sandra Selmic, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering

Office:  IfM 219
Phone:  318.257.5145
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   sselmic@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Semiconductor Lasers, Polymer Optoelectronics, Fiber Optic Sensors.

0  Sidney Sit, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering

Office:  BME 210
Phone:  318.257.5237
Fax:     318.257.4000
Email:   sidney@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Molecular/Nanometer scale bio-material interfaces, Combinatorial approach for biomaterials development, Micro/Nano-fabricated biomedical devices, Nanobiotechnology, Bio-molecular engineering, Cellular engineering.

0  Yuri Voziyanov, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences

Office:  IfM 117
Phone:  318.257.5141
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   voziyan@latech.edu
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Specialization:   DNA Recombination, Protein-DNA Interactions, Advanced Genome Engineering.

 Chester Wilson Chester Wilson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering

Office:  IfM 220
Phone:  318.257.5140
Fax:     318.257.5104
Email:   chester@latech.edu
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Specialization:   Micro/nano radiation detectors and neutron sources, microplasma based gas spectroscopy devices, micro-exothermic metal casting technologies, miniaturized biomedical optical sources, micro-electronegative gas absorption, and water impurity detectors.


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