College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences
Fall 2022 – New Faculty
First Name | Last Name | Title/Rank | Dept/Unit | |
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Alexander | Maurer | Assistant Teaching Professor | SICCS | |
Dr. Alexander Maurer is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems. He has received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2012, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2014, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University in 2016. From 2017 to 2022 he taught engineering courses at Arizona State University and Mesa Community College. Dr. Maurer’s doctoral research was based in neuroscience applications of statistical signal processing and detection, and estimation algorithms for target tracking | ||||
Aminul | Islam Khan | Assistant Teaching Professor | ME | |
Dr. Aminul Islam Khan is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Mechanical Engineering Department at Northern Arizona University, where he has been since 2022 after receiving a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University. Before that he received his B.S. and M. S. from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology where he also served as a Lecturer and then as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department. Dr. Khan’s research interests are inverse methods including Bayesian inferences, MCMC methods, physics informed neural networks, deep learning modeling for virus characterization, drug delivery modeling across blood-brain barrier, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), hands-on learning for STEM education, and transport modeling in micro/nano scale device. In 2020, he was granted the best Research Assistant award by the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. | ||||
Ana | Chaves | Assistant Teaching Professor | SICCS | |
Dr. Ana Chaves is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems. She has a Master's degree in Computer Sciences from the State University of Maringa (2009) in Brazil and a Ph.D. in Informatics and Computer Sciences from Northern Arizona University (2020). She has worked as a Lecturer for 12 years at the Federal University of Technology - Paraná, Campus Campo Mourão in Brazil. Dr. Chaves has 14 years of experience teaching undergraduate courses, advising students in Capstone, and research and extension projects. Her research and academic interests intersect Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), and Software Engineering. Furthermore, she is interested in women's empowerment in Computing and Technology activities. | ||||
Armin | Eilaghi | Assistant Teaching Professor | ME | |
Dr. Armin Eilaghi is an Assistant Professor of Teaching in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University. He holds an M.Sc. and a B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology and received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Dr. Eilaghi was an Assistant Professor at the Australian University (Kuwait Campus) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at York University, Canada. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Sessional Instructor at the University of Calgary before joining Australian University. Dr. Eilaghi has extensive experience in teaching and curriculum development and a proven track record of multidisciplinary applied research funded by governmental institutions and industrial partners. | ||||
Ashish | Amresh | Associate Professor | SICCS | |
Dr. Ashish Amresh is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber-Systems at Northern Arizona University. He has an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University. Dr. Amresh conducts research in the development of Serious Games. He previously led the Computer Gaming curriculum initiatives at Arizona State University, where he founded the Computer Gaming Certificate, Camp Game and UTBC summer programs. He was the founding program chair for the Simulation Science Games and Animation program at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and his industry pursuits included working for Ronin Entertainment as a Graphics Software Engineer known for Star Wars: Force Commander and Bruce Lee Quest of the Dragon games. He is the author of Unreal Game Development, a popular book used for teaching game development skills for high school students. He has given numerous talks on using games in the classroom for enhancing math and science learning. He is currently researching the development of software tools to improve game-based learning outcomes. | ||||
Khadidja | Bakhti | Assistant Professor of Practice | SICCS | |
Dr. Khadidja Bakhti is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems. In 2018, Dr. Bakhti received her Ph. D in Computer Science from Beijing Institute of Technology, China. She has published multiple scientific articles in the Remote Sensing field. In her previous position as Assistant Professor, Dr. Bakhti worked on a project focusing on deep learning for satellite image analysis including urban analytics (detection and classification), time-series classification, change detection, and object detection. Her research interests include satellite image classification, machine learning, deep learning, citation analysis, information retrieval and data mining. | ||||
Ben | Dymond | Associate Professor | CECMEE | |
Dr. Ben Dymond is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management & Environmental Engineering. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. After working in the structural engineering industry, he was a faculty member at the University of Minnesota Duluth from 2016 - 2022. Dr. Dymond’s research interests have focused on the resiliency of concrete building and bridge infrastructure and the challenges related to deterioration and extending service life of these structures. Several of his papers were nominated for awards from the American Society of Civil Engineering and he was recipient of the Gerald R. Seeley Early Career Faculty Research Award from the American Society of Engineering Education for education-based research. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate structural engineering courses and was the recipient of the Walter P. Moore Faculty Achievement Award for teaching from the American Concrete Institute. In his spare time, Ben loves all things outdoors, including trail running, mountain biking, skiing, and camping. | ||||
Carlo | Requiao da Cunha | Assistant Professor | SICCS | |
Dr. Carlo Requiao da Cunha is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber-Systems at Northern Arizona University. He has an M.Sc. In Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University, a Ph.D. also in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Physics of McGill University in Canada. His research focuses on the design of electronic devices for high-performance computing and has been funded by agencies such as the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Particularly interested in investigating the use of low-dimensional semiconductors and their emergent complex phenomena to implement novel structures such as artificial neural networks, he has been investigating the use of machine learning tools to aid the design of these devices. His publication list consists of more than twenty technical papers about electronic devices, and he has also authored a recent book about econophysics. | ||||
Cole | Joslyn | Assistant Professor | ME | |
Dr. Cole Joslyn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He holds a B.S.I.E. in Industrial Engineering, an M.Ed. specializing in mathematics education from The University of Texas at El Paso, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. He has also worked as an engineer in the manufacturing industry, a pastor in full-time ministry, and a high school STEM teacher. He is currently the director of THE Education Lab: To Humanize Engineering Education which emphasizes promoting student growth and development in multiple dimensions, integrating inclusive and emancipatory pedagogy and teaching practices, and reconciling the social and technical nature of engineering. Dr. Joslyn’s current research includes exploring how integrating holistic, socio-culturally responsive practices and Hispanic/LatinX cultural assets and values into educational success strategies influences Hispanic/LatinX students’ sense of belonging in engineering as well as how Hispanics/LatinXs experience values conflicts in engineering and then navigate/reconcile those conflicts, as students or professionals. | ||||
Diana | Calvo | Assistant Professor | CECMEE | |
Dr. Diana Calvo is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Civil Engineering, Construction Management & Environmental Engineering Department. She is originally from Colombia, where, as a Junior Professor, she focused on water-related issues and biological processes. She pursued her Ph.D. in the Swette Center for Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University where she worked on carbon recycling with microbes. She continued there for a Post-doctoral Fellowship investigating uranium removal from water. Afterwards, she joined the Center for Health Through Microbiomes at ASU working in gut microbiome and autism. Diana wants to apply her expertise to solve water issues in vulnerable communities. She has a strong passion to bring international Latino students to NAU and to take local students to Latin America, and loves nature, hiking, swimming, puzzles, and spending time with family and friends. | ||||
Haixin(Michael) | Zhu | Assistant Professor of Practice | SICCS | |
Dr. Haixin (Michael) Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Practice in NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems. He has received a B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China in 1996, and an M.S. from the Fudan University in 1999. In 2006 Dr. Zhu received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University. From 2015 to 2022 he worked for Agilent Technologies as an Advanced R&D Engineer. From 2012 to 2015, he was professor in Shanghai Dianji University. During 2007-2012, he was a Senior Researcher at Center for Biosignatures Discovery Automation, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, and in 2006-2007 he was a post-doc fellow in University of Alabama. | ||||
Jared | Duval | Assistant Professor | SICCS | |
Dr. Jared Duval is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Duval received his Ph.D. in Computational Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. and his B.S. in Computer Science and Information Technology at Western New England University. His research is grounded in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and explores the intersection of social computing, health, and play. To better understand the complex, intersecting dynamics at the heart of disability, technology, and healthcare, he forges interdisciplinary research teams and community partnerships to develop a more holistic understanding of how to address the long-standing barriers faced by populations of people with disabilities. Dr. Duval is the founder of SpokeIt, a speech therapy game for children born with a cleft, Cirkus—a physical rehabilitation probe for children with Sensory-Based Motor Disorder, and the lead researcher on Spellcasters—a virtual reality game for stroke rehabilitation. Dr. Duval teaches courses in HCI, Game Design, and Accessibility and his publications appear in Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI), Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS), Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS), Interaction Design and Children (IDC), and many others. | ||||
Reza | Sharif Razavian | Assistant Professor | ME | |
Dr. Reza Sharif Razavian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Razavian received his PhD (2018) and MASc (2012) in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, and his BSc (2010) in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Prior to joining NAU, he held an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northeastern University, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Imperial College London. Dr. Razavian’s expertise is in robotics and control, with a deep interest in neural control of human movements. His pioneering research joins state-of-the-art robotics and control algorithms with the latest neuroscientific theories and musculoskeletal models to advance the field of human-robot interaction. Dr. Razavian leads a broad spectrum of projects that spans medical and industrial robotics, human motor neuroscience, and biomechanics. He is also the recipient of multiple awards, including an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2019-2021), the Springer/IUTAM Lagrange Award for best thesis in multibody dynamics (2018), and the Society for the Neural Control of Movement Scholarship (2016). | ||||
Sareh | Assiri | Assistant Professor of Practice | SICCS | |
Dr. Sareh Assiri is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Assiri has a Master of Science and a PhD in Informatics from Northern Arizona University. He has multiple years of experience programming C, C++, MATLAB, and Python as well as experience on security analysis of embedded devices, and implementation of PUFs. Dr. Assiri has multiple years of experience teaching computer programming, cryptography, and data structurer. | ||||
Subhayan | De | Assistant Professor | ME | |
Dr. Subhayan De is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University. Prior to joining NAU, Dr. De was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder). Dr. De received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2018, where he was supported by a Viterbi Ph.D. Fellowship and a Gammel Scholarship. Dr. De also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from USC and an MEng in Structural Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his BEng in Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His research focuses on design optimization under uncertainty, physics-based machine learning, probabilistic model validation, and uncertainty quantification. | ||||
Timothy | Womack | Assistant Professor of Practice | CECMEE | |
Mr. Timothy Womack is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Civil Engineering, Construction Management & Environmental Engineering Department at Northern Arizona University. Mr. Womack has a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Master of Administration with an Emphasis in Construction Management. He has spent many years working within the Construction Management field with extensive experience in project management and estimation. Mr. Womack enjoys golfing, hiking, and spending time with his family. | ||||
Tuy | Nguyen | Assistant Professor | SICCS | |
Dr. Tuy Nguyen is an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Engineering from Inha University, South Korea. Dr. Nguyen is the recipient of First Prize in Haedong Best Paper Award from Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science in 2020, and Outstanding Research Award from Graduate Office, Inha University in 2019. Prior to his current position, he was a Lecturer at the School of Global Convergence Studies, and a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inha University, South Korea. From August 2019 to April 2021, he worked as a Senior Research Engineer at Conextt Inc., South Korea. His research interests include the design, implementation, and optimization of post-quantum cryptography, homomorphic encryption, and error correction codes in software and hardware. He has been building high-secure fingerprint authentication system using ring-LWE cryptography, post-quantum cryptography-based video encryption systems, and hardware architectures for post-quantum cryptoprocessors. |