Faculty Experts Portal

Tim Kiska, Ph.D.

Professor of Communications

[email protected]

Teaching Areas: Communication, Journalism and Media Production

Research Areas: Journalism, Media, Politics / Political Science

Barbara D. Klein, Ph.D.

Professor, Information Systems Management

[email protected] 313-593-5268

Teaching Areas: MBA, MS-Information Systems

Research Areas: Information Quality

James Knight, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering

[email protected]

Research Areas: Experiential Learning in Manufacturing, Experiment Design

Sridhar Lakshmanan, Ph.D

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

[email protected] 313-593-5516

Teaching Areas: Electrical Engineering

Research Areas: Game Design, Machine Learning, Optimization, and Intelligent Systems, Wearable Sensors

Ben Q. Li, Ph.D.

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

[email protected] 313-593-5465

Teaching Areas: Mechanical Engineering

Research Areas: Automotive Engineering, Heat Mass Transfer in Energy Technology

Hafiz Malik, Ph.D.

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

[email protected] 313-593-5677

Teaching Areas: Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Electrical Engineering

Research Areas: Computing and Networks, Cybersecurity, Data Management, Data Science, Machine Learning, Optimization, and Intelligent Systems, Operations Research and Decision Science, Robotics, Wearable Sensors

Ilir Miteza, Ph.D.

Professor of Economics, Economics and Computation Program Advisor

[email protected]

Teaching Areas: Economics and Computation, Economics

Research Areas: International / Global Economics

Yi Lu Murphey, Ph.D.

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

[email protected] 313-593-5290

Teaching Areas: Computer Engineering

Research Areas: Automotive Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Optimization, and Intelligent Systems, Robotics

Peter Oelkers, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and Biochemistry

[email protected] 313-583-6579

Teaching Areas: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences

Research Areas: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology

Deborah Smith Pollard, Ph.D.

Professor of English Literature and Humanities

[email protected]

Teaching Areas: African & African American Studies, English, Humanities

Research Areas: African American Literature, Contemporary Gospel Music

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‘You see how integrated we are globally’

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