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College of Engineering Adds Six New Faculty Members

The University of Texas at Arlington‘s College of Engineering has recruited six new faculty members this fall, each recognized for outstanding their research and teaching abilities. Their addition is the result of the college’s mandate to provide its students with an exceptional learning and research experience.

Alan Bowling is an assistant professor in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department. Dr. Bowling received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He comes to UT Arlington from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Notre Dame. His research focuses on agility in legged locomotion, cable-driven robots, and biomechanics. He has an NSF CAREER Award, funding research for the agility of legged locomotion project and intelligent prosthetics. He will be teaching a Introduction to Robotics course this fall.

Darin Brezeale is a senior lecturer and graduate advisor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering in 1992, an MS in Computer Science Engineering in 1999, an MA in Economics in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering in 2007, all from the University of Texas at Arlington. He has a variety of academic interests, including artificial intelligence, math and statistics.

Christoph Csallner is an assistant professor in the Computer Science & Engineering Department. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is an expert in software engineering. Dr. Csallner has received two ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Awards and has worked on software engineering issues for Google and Microsoft Research.

Daejong Kim is an assistant professor in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department. He received his Ph.D. from UT Austin. Dr. Kim comes to UT Arlington from Texas A&M University, where he had funded research for thermal and rotodynamic stability of advanced gas-lubricated bearings for oil-free micro-turbomachinery; computational and experimental investigation of the optimization of 3-D blower blades for high pressure steam turbines; and the design, fabrication and testing of mesoscale gas bearings applicable to palm-sized turbomachinery. He will be teaching a Thermodynamics course this fall.

Luca Massa is an assistant professor in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department. He received his Ph.D. from Mississippi State University and has been a visiting professor at Clemson University the past two years. Dr. Massa’s areas of expertise include aerospace propulsion, high performance computing, and chemically reacting, compressible flow simulations. He will be teaching an Air-Breathing Engine Propulsion course this fall.

Mario Romero-Ortega is an assistant professor in the Bioengineering Department. He received his Ph.D. from Tulane University. Dr. Romero-Ortega currently holds several positions at the UT Southwestern Medical Center: He is an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the Department of Neurology, and the assistant director of research in the Plastic Surgery Department. In addition, Dr. Romero-Ortega is the director of the Regenerative Neurobiology Division at the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the UT Southwestern Medical School’s Department of Anesthesiology, the Center for Developmental Biology, and the Kent Waldrup Foundation Center for Basic Research on Nerve Growth and Regeneration.