20 VCU Engineering faculty among world’s most-cited researchers in 2021, according to Stanford University study
Citation metrics — how often a scholar’s published work is cited by other researchers — are widely acknowledged as important measures of research impact.
A study from Elsevier BV, based at Stanford University, finds that 20 VCU College of Engineering professors are in the world’s top 2% of most-cited researchers in 2021.
All five of VCU Engineering’s departments are represented on Stanford’s list of highest-impact researchers within their respective fields for 2021.
“VCU Engineering is fortunate to have faculty whose research impacts not only their scientific colleagues worldwide, but also the development of knowledge and technology that will be the base for future innovations. This means that our students have the opportunity to learn from leaders in their fields and, in many cases, to work directly with this incredible cadre of educators to make a difference — to make it real,” said Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D., the Alice T. and William H. Goodwin, Jr. Dean of VCU Engineering.
VCU Engineering faculty in top 2% of world’s most-cited researchers by research field:
Research Field: Applied Physics
Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D.
Commonwealth Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Specialties: Spintronics, nanoelectronics, quantum devices
Reza Mohammadi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Specialties: Materials science and engineering, surface engineering, wetting phenomena
Hadis Morkoç, Ph.D.
Founders Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Specialties: Nitride semiconductor heterostructures and devices
Research Field: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
Alberto Cano, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director, Center for High Performance Computing
Department of Computer Science
Specialties: Machine learning, data mining, classification
Krzysztof “Krys” Cios, Ph.D., D.Sc., M.B.A.
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
Specialties: Data mining, machine learning, biomedical informatics
Bartosz Krawczyk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Specialties: Machine learning, data stream mining, big data
Research Field: Bioinformatics
Lukasz Kurgan, Ph.D.
Robert J. Mattauch Endowed Professor and Associate Chair
Department of Computer Science
Specialty: High-throughput structural bioinformatics of proteins and small RNAs
Research Field: Biomedical Engineering
Barbara D. Boyan, Ph.D.
Alice T. and William H. Goodwin, Jr. Dean
VCU College of Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Specialties: Musculoskeletal cell and tissue engineering, biomaterials
Henry J. Donahue, Ph.D.
Alice T. and William H. Goodwin, Jr. Professor and Distinguished Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Specialties: Bone, mechanobiology, regenerative medicine
Dean Krusienski, Ph.D.
Professor and Graduate Program Director
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Specialties: Neural signal processing, brain-computer interfaces, neuroprosthetic devices.
Worth Longest, Ph.D.
Louis S. and Ruth S. Harris Exceptional Scholar Professor
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Specialties: Respiratory drug delivery, particle engineering, inhaler design
Zvi Schwartz, D.M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Strategic Operations
VCU College of Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Specialties: Bone cartilage and mineralization, periodontal diseases etiology and treatment
Research Field: Chemical Engineering
Ram B. Gupta, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Faculty Research Development
VCU College of Engineering
Professor, Department of Chemical and Life Science Engineering
Specialties: Batteries, electrochemistry, sustainable energy
Research Field: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Milos Manic, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Director, VCU Cybersecurity CenterDepartment of Computer Science
Specialties: Cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection
Research Field: Materials
Wei-Ning Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Specialty: Aerosol-enabled technologies energy, the environment and human health
Research Field: Mechanical Engineering and Transports
Mohammad Gad-el-Hak, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus and Former Chair
Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering
Specialty: Fluid mechanics
Research Field: Networking and Telecommunications
Eyuphan Bulut, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Specialties: Wireless networks, mobile computing, social networks
Thang N. Dinh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Specialties: Security and optimization challenges in complex systems
Carol Fung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Specialties: Collaborative security in social networks, mobile systems, software defined networks
Ümit Özgür, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Specialties: Optical spectroscopy and photonic devices