Endowed Chairs and Professorships

• Department Chair and Professor, OREM 

• Cecil H. Green Professor of Engineering

• Primary Areas of Research are Supply Chain, Production and Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Optimization under Uncertainty and Healthcare Delivery and Operations Management.

sila@lyle.smu.edu

J. Lindsay Embrey Trustee Assistant Professor

Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity

Fellow, Caruth Center for Engineering Education

Primary areas of research include:

• Sociotechnical systems modelling and systems theory
• Transportation impacts on social determinants of health
• Resilient infrastructure planning and evaluation

jsmithcolin@smu.edu

• Interim Chair, Computer Science

• Professor, Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering

• Primary Areas of Research are Data Science Infrastructure and Machine Learning.

jiazhang@smu.edu

• Department Chair, Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Solomon Professor for Global Development

• Senior Fellow, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity 

• Primary Areas of Research are Energy and the Environment and Contaminant transport.

ksmits@smu.edu

• Associate Dean for Research Innovation and Industry Partnerships

• George R. Brown Chair, Mechanical Engineering

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary Areas of Research are Micro- and nano-scale transport and Bio-Microfluidics and Lab on a Chip Technologies.

abeskok@lyle.smu.edu

• Altshuler Distinguished Professor

• University Distinguished Professor

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary research area are rigid-body collisions of planar kinematic chains with smooth external contacts and locomotion.

hurmuzlu@lyle.smu.edu

• Robert C. Womack Chair in Engineering

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary Areas of Research are Microbiorobotics and Single molecule biophysics.

mjkim@smu.edu

• Mary and Richard Templeton Centennial Chair Professor

• Primary Areas of Research are Medical implants and Flexible biomedical sensors.

jchiao@smu.edu

• Addy Family Centennial Professor in Civil Engineering

• Primary Areas of Research are Structural/Earthquake Engineering and Applied Mechanics/Dynamics.

nmakris@mail.smu.edu

• Professor and Mary and Richard Templeton Dean

dean@lyle.smu.edu

• Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship

• Senior Fellow in the Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity

• Primary Areas of Research are Urban sustainability and resilience and Infrastructure equity.

minsker@smu.edu

• George R. Brown Endowed Chair, Mechanical Engineering

• Professor, Mechanical Engineering

• Primary Areas of Research are Experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics and heat transfer and Photonic sensors.

otugen@lyle.smu.edu

• Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship

• Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• Primary Areas of Research are Photonic Integrated Circuits and Quantum Informatics.

dmacfarlane@lyle.smu.edu

• Associate Dean, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• Cecil H. Green Professor 

• Primary Areas of Research are Wireless Networking and Information Theory and Imaging (3D, Computational).

rajand@lyle.smu.edu

• Cecil H. Green Chair of Engineering

• Executive Director, Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity

• Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering 

• Primary Areas of Research are Cyber Security and Quantum Informatics and Quantum Photonics.

mitch@lyle.smu.edu

• Inaugural Bobby B. Lyle Centennial Distinguished Chair in Cybersecurity

• Professor, Computer Science

• Founding Director, Darwin Deason Institute for Cybersecurity

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