College of Engineering and Applied Science adds new faculty

CEAS welcomes four new faculty members in January

The University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) welcomed four new faculty members for the start of the spring semester in January 2021. With the faculty additions, CEAS expanded UC’s research and educational reach in a variety of cutting-edge fields.

John Ash

John Ash

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management

Research/Teaching Interests: traffic safety; traffic operations; traffic monitoring; connected vehicles; intelligent transportation systems

Dinc Erdeniz

Dinc Erdeniz 

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research/Teaching Interests: high temperature alloys; shape memory alloys; porous metals; mechanical behavior; solidification processing; additive manufacturing

Nitin Fnu

Fnu Nitin

Associate Professor-Educator, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research/Teaching Interests: distributed blockchain technology; interconnection networks-architecture; fault-tolerance and reliability; multiprocessor systems-on-chip; networks-on-chip; systems-on-chip; networks-in-packages; algorithms; theory of computation and parallel; distributed and grid computing

Tingting Yu

Tingting Yu

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Research/Teaching Interests: software engineering; software testing; program analysis, software debugging and fault localization, mining software repositories; software evolution and maintenance.

Featured image at top: Engineering Research Center viewed from Lindner Hall's rooftop garden. Photo/John Martini/UC.

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