New Faculty

Narayana Aluru and Srinivasa Salapaka joined M&IE in January. Aluru, who completed his PhD in civil and electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1995, had been a faculty member in the Department of General Engineering. His research focuses on the comuptational analysis and design aspects of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), micro/nano-fluidics, bio-MEMS and nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS).
Salapaka, who completed his PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2002, was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research is in the area of nano-, micro- and mesotechnology, and addresses such phenomena as nanopositioning, atomic force microscopy, and filtering of noisy chaotic time series.