20 VCU Engineering faculty among world’s most-cited researchers in 2021, according to Stanford University study

Engineering West Hall with Top 2 percent overlaid

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 Center
Department 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