Featured Inventors
Kent Chapman, Ph.D., Department of Biology
Dr. Chapman serves as Director of the Center for Plant Lipid Research and helps to coordinate diverse research activities focusing on basic and applied aspects of research in the regulation of plant lipid metabolism.
Scientists in the Center are seeking to understand through contemporary cellular, biochemical, and molecular genetic approaches how lipids influence the growth and development of plants. Their efforts also contribute to the discovery of new products and uses for plant derived lipids and their potential public benefit.
http://www.biol.unt.edu/~chapman
Pudur Jagadeeswaran, Ph.D., Department of Biology
Research in Dr. Jagadeeswaran’s lab focuses on the study of hemostasis and thrombosis; identification of hemostatic mutants using ENU mutagenesis; employment of mapping and positional cloning methods to identify novel hemostatic genes, the development of novel antithrombotic drugs for hemostatic disorders, and generating transgenic zebrafish using promoters for hemostatic genes.
www.biol.unt.edu/~jagadeeswaran
Tom Cundari, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry
Research in Dr. Cundari’s group falls under the broad area of computational inorganic and organometallic chemistry. A main emphasis of their work is the development, testing and application of improved computational techniques for the d- and f-block elements. Development and application of high-accuracy methods for modeling of transition metals. Application of theory to the rational design of metal-based catalysts, sensors, optics and materials. Chemistry of the copper- and zinc-triads. Multiple bonding involving the transition metals and heavier main group elements.
http://www.chem.unt.edu/faculty/cundari.htm
Jeffry A. Kelber, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry
Dr. Kebler heads the Surface Science Laboratory, focusing on the development of atomic level understanding and control of chemistry at surfaces and interfaces in various environments, including ultra-high vacuum (UHV), high pressure gas phase environments (up to atmospheric pressure), and in aqueous solution. This research has important applications in microelectronics fabrication, nanocatalysis, and corrosion.
http://www.chem.unt.edu/research/centers/ssl/index.html
Diana Mason, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry
The research focus of Dr. Mason’s group lies in the field of chemistry education specifically highlighting high school preparation for freshmen chemistry and the improvement of teaching general chemistry. Some of her group’s research projects include the study of various teaching and learning strategies for chemistry (including e-instruction) and in science teacher preparation.
http://www.chem.unt.edu/people/Mason.htm
Mohammad Omary, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry
Dr. Omary directs the UNT team that is pioneering research in the field of organic light-emitting diodes focusing in three major areas: (1) fundamental spectroscopic and structural studies of luminescent transition metal and lanthanide complexes, (2) molecular electronic devices, and (3) metal-organic framework for adsorption of hydrogen and other gases.
http://www.chem.unt.edu/research/home.html
Guido F. Verbeck, Ph.D., Department of Chemistry
Research at Dr. Verbeck’s lab focuses on novel instrument development in mass spectrometry and ion optical devices in the areas of preparative mass spectrometry, miniaturization, and sample collection. His research group utilizes these technologies to advance the fields of catalysis, new materials, and biochemistry.
http://www.chem.unt.edu/verbeck
Angela Wilson , Ph.D., Department of Chemistry
Dr. Wilson’s research group focuses on the development and understanding of computational chemistry methodology and the application of this methodology to examine interesting problems in a wide range of areas including materials science, transition metal chemistry, and environmental chemistry.
http://www.chem.unt.edu/wilsongroup/people/akwilson.htm
Zhibing Hu, Ph.D., Department of Physics
Dr. Hu’s research focus includes experimental soft condensed matter physics; polymer chemistry and physics; colloidal chemistry and physics; biomaterials chemistry, nanostructured materials, and hydrogel materials.
http://www.phys.unt.edu/faculty/Hu.htm
Rada Mihalcea, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Dr. Mihalcea heads the Language and Information Technologiesgroup, and their research focuses on lexical semantics (including: semantic similarity, word sense disambiguation, lexical substitution); graph-based algorithms for natural language processing (with applications to text summarization; word sense disambiguation, key phrase extraction, category assignment); multilingual natural language processing; parallel texts; multilingual sentiment and subjectivity analysis, and computational humor.
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~rada/research.html
Ram Dantu, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Research in the Network Security Lab headed by Dr. Dantu is focused on the study of problems and issues related to the next generation networks that will contain several forms of wireless devices the next generation services that include VoIP, multimedia on 3G wireless devices, and ubiquitous roaming of these wireless devices, and RFID readers/scanners.
http://www.cse.unt.edu/~rdantu/index.html
Raj Banerjee, Ph.D., Department of Material Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Banerjee serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Research Technology. His research group works in metals and hybrid materials based on metallic systems that are used in higher end strategic applications in aerospace, defense, microelectronics and biomedical fields.
http://www.mtse.unt.edu/AMM/index.html
Nandika A. D'Souza, Ph.D. Department of Material Sciences and Engineering
Research performed by Dr. D’Souza Polymer Mechanical and Rheology Laboratory is centered around the bulk and interfacial properties of heterogeneous materials. Recent and current research areas include: multifunctional composites, environmental friendly packaging, sensor textiles, biocomposites and magnetorheological fluid rheology. Her research group also works on use of functional nanoparticles coupled with functional matrices that enable gains in properties that may, on first glance, appear incongruent.
http://www.mtse.unt.edu/DSouza/Research.html
Tae-Youl Choi, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering
Dr. Choi heads the Laboratory of Small-Scale Instrumentation where his group conducts research on individual nanostructures, i.e. carbon nanotubes, nanowires, nanoparticles; nanosystems, i.e. sensors, photonic crystals; iltra-fast transport phenomena, i.e. femtosecond microscopy, and biosystems, i.e., cell death mechanisms, and DNA sensing.