Academic Faculty


Cyrus K. Aidun Professor Mechanical Engineering Phone (404) 894-6645 or (404) 894-5308 cyrus.aidun@me.gatech.edu	Ph.D., Clarkson University, 1985 Fundamentals of coating systems, hydrodynamic instability, computational fluid dynamics.

Sujit Banerjee Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Phone (404) 894-9709 sujit.banerjee@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., Concordia University, 1974 Analytical, environmental and organic chemistry.

John Cairney Associate Professor Biology Phone (404) 894-1079 john.cairney@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., University of Dundee (Scotland), 1986 Plant molecular biology, gene expression, plant development.

Yulin Deng Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Phone (404) 894-5759 yulin.deng@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., Manchester University, 1992 Wet-end chemistry, colloid and surface chemistry, and polymer synthetic chemistry.

Howard (Jeff) L. Empie Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Phone (404) 894-9704 jeff.empie@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1969 Black liquor recovery and smelt crystallization.

James Frederick Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Director, IPST at Georgia Tech Phone (404) 894-2082 jim.frederick@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., University of Maine, 1973 Sustainable Process Technology and Kraft Chemical Recovery.

David I. Orloff Professor Mechanical Engineering Phone (404) 894-6649 david.orloff@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., Drexel University, 1974 Heat transfer, combustion, web forming and consolidation.

Timothy Patterson Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering Phone (404) 894-4797 tim.patterson@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D. Georgia Tech, 1991 Mechanics of materials, pressing, heating and drying, transport processes.

Gerald S. Pullman Professor Biology Phone (404) 894-5307 gerald.pullman@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., University of California-Davis, 1979 Plant cell and tissue culture, clonal propagation through in vitro techniques, somatic embryogenesis of conifers, fundamentals of natural embryo development, forest plant pathology, paper microbiology.

Arthur J. Ragauskas Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Phone (404) 894-9701 art.ragauskas@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 1984 Lignocellulosic chemistry, Biofinery, Biomass to Biomaterials, Biofuels, Biochemicals and Biopower

Preet M. Singh Associate Professor Materials Science Phone (404) 894-6641 preet.singh@ipst.gatech.edu	Ph.D., University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1989 Corrosion, environment sensitive fracture (stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, hydrogen embrittlement), mechanical properties of materials, failure analysis.