IERS Center

Co-Director
Dr. Navid Goudarzi
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: n.goudarzi@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Wind energy (residential/commercial, technology, assessment, engineering)
• Solar energy (PV systems, design, O&M)
• Ocean energy (ocean current turbines, wave energy converters, resource assessment)
• Feature extraction (ROM, SVD)
• High-performance buildings (net-zero, building-integrated renewable energy solutions)
• Integrated cost-performance design (multidisciplinary designs)

Co-Director
Dr. Wei Zhang
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: w.zhang13@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Wind-structure interactions in normal operational and extreme weather conditions (non-synoptic winds, hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms)
• Wind energy (wind prediction, wind characteristics affected by terrain, diurnal cycles, turbulence impact on wind turbines’ performance, environmental impact of wind farms)
• Bio-inspiration and biomimicry
• Synergy of rigorous laboratory simulation, numerical modelling and field tests

Dr. Hanz Richter
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: h.richter@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Modeling and simulation of multidomain power networks
• Generalized thermodynamic optimization
• Energy-optimal design and control of electromechanical systems
• Hybrid fuel-electric aircraft propulsion
• Energy-aware robotics and cyber-physical systems
• Supercapacitors

Dr. Mustafa Usta
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Contact: m.usta@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Carbon-neutral energy-water-climate nexus
• Sustainable and green desalination
• Carbon capturing
• Energy storage
• Osmotic energy
• Integrated SciML/AI

Dr. Qin Lin
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Contact: q.lin80@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Robotics (motion planning and control)
• Machine learning (explainable AI, symbolic AI, hybrid automata learning, learning for control)
• Unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)
• Cyber security for cyber-physical systems/industrial control systems (spoofing attacks detection, recovery control)
• Safe control (safety-guaranteed human-robot interaction, collision avoidance, etc.)
• Formal methods (reachability analysis for hybrid dynamic systems)

Dr. Wenbing Zhao
Professor
Electrical  Engineering
Contact: w.zhao1@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Dependable Distributed Computing
• Cyber Physical Systems
• Smart and Connected Healthcare
• Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Dr. Ye Zhu
Associate Professor
Computer Engineering
Contact: y.zhu61@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Networking & distributed systems
• Security & Privacy
• Privacy-preserving Data Mining

Dr. Xiongyi Liu
Associate Professor
Curriculum and Foundations
Contact: x.liu6@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Technology-enhanced collaborative learning
• Web-based peer assessment
• Motivation and self-regulated learning
• Case-based learning
• Game-based learning
• STEM education
• Technology-facilitated intervention for individuals with special needs

Andrew Thomas
Executive In Residence, Energy Policy Center
Urban Research & Public Service Center
Contact: a.r.thomas99@csuohio.edu

Relevant Research

• Microgrids, energy storage systems, distributed generation
• Electricity and natural gas markets
• Fuel Cells, hydrogen economy, zero emission transportation
• Oil and Gas law, mid and downstream hydrocarbon development

Mark Henning
Research Associate, Energy Policy Center
College of Urban Affairs
Contact: m.d.henning@csuohio.edu