Erika Pliner
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3685
- Email: erika.pliner@utah.edu
- Office: 2341 MEK
- Website: https://nobl.mech.utah.edu/
Research Interests:
Biomechanics
Neuromechanics
Fall Prevention
Occupational Safety
Balance Control
Ergonomics

Yongzhi Qu
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3517
- Email: yongzhi.qu@utah.edu
- Office: 1343 MEK
Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence and dynamic systems,
AI – driven metrology,
Next-generation Digital Twins,
In-situ monitoring,
diagnostics and prognostics,
Autonomous manufacturing.
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Agastya Balantrapu
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 801-581-3932
- Email: agastya.balantrapu@utah.edu
- Office: 1341 MEK
Research Interests:
Experimental fluid dynamics,
High Reynolds number turbulence,
Quantitative flow visualization techniques,
Aero/Hydro acoustics,
Insect navigation algorithms in natural flows,
Passive scalar dispersion in atmospheric flows.

Shuaihang Pan
Assistant Professor
- Email: shuaihang.pan@utah.edu
- Office: 2339 MEK
Research interests:
Advanced manufacturing
Additive manufacturing
Metal and alloy design
Materials' degradation protection
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Amirhossein Arzani
Associate Professor
- Email: amir.arzani@sci.utah.edu
- Office: 3616 WEB
Research Interests:
Scientific machine learning
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Biofluid mechanics and transport
Dynamical systems
Cardiovascular biomechanics
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Alex Novoselov
Assistant Professor
- Phone: (801) 581-3810
- Email: alex.novoselov@utah.edu
- Office: 1342 MEK
Research Interests:
Energy
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Reacting Flows
Turbulence

Samira Shiri
Assistant Professor
- Email: samira.shiri@utah.edu
- Office: 1674 MEK
Research Interests:
High throughput experiments and data analysis
Underlying physics of active matter
Bioinspired materials and mechanism
Biophysics: forensic science
Edoardo Battaglia
Assistant Professor
- Email: edoardo.battaglia@utah.edu
- Office: 1350 MEK
- Website: https://hcharlab.mech.utah.edu/
Research interests:
Haptics
Grasping and Manipulation
Wearable sensing
User studies
Human-centered robot design
Human-robot interaction
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Todd Easton
Professor (Lecturer)
- Email: todd.easton@utah.edu
- Office: 2340 MEK
Research Interests:
Mathematical optimization
Mathematical decision making
Analytics
Systems engineering
Engineering education
Haohan Zhang
Assistant Professor
- Email: haohan.zhang@utah.edu
- Office: 2561 MEK
- Website: https://uwrl.mech.utah.edu/
Research Interests:
Design and Control of Wearable Robots
Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation
Physical Human-Robot Interaction
Sensorimotor and Biomechanics
Parallel Mechanisms