Composite Materials and Structures, Additive Manufacturing of Polymer Composites and Metal Cellular Structures, High Temperature Composites, Smart Structures, Bio-composites, Composite Manufacturing, Experimental Characterization, Finite Element Analysis, and Process Modeling.

Aircraft structures, fracture mechanics, fatigue and failure analysis; micromechanics; composite materials and structures; process modeling of ceramic matrix composites; friction and wear of composites; and fracture of laminated glazing.

Micro/nanoscale thermodynamics and heat transfer, Dynamics of nanodroplets, nanobubbles, and nanoparticles, Structure-property relationship for materials and interfaces, and Computational modeling

Mechanical design, rigid-body and compliant mechanism design, high-performance machinery analysis and design, machine vibration and stability.

Kinematics, mechanical design and synthesis of mechanisms.

Advanced li-ion battery, beyond li-ion battery, energy storage system, renewable energy system, grid energy storage, nano, macro-mechanics of materials, self-assembly of nanoparticles, nanostructure, multiphysics, multiscale experiment and simulation.

Dynamics, vibrations, modeling and development of piezoactuators and transducers-mechatronics, mechanics of bone, structural dynamics, optimal design, acoustics, design and modeling of ultrasonic piezoelectric actuators and transducers, dynamic parameter estimation, and vibration mitigation

Optical materials and devices in nanophotonics and plasmonics; Physics and applications of optical metamaterials; Nanoscale optomechanics, optical nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS); Integrated optofluidic devices and optical sensors; Photon management for solar/thermal energy harvesting; Optical device micro-/nano-fabrication.