ORE has 8 departmental faculty members. All faculty members are graduate faculty with the UH Graduate Division and are responsible for instruction, research, and administration within the department. To administer the department, faculty serve rotational terms as ORE Department Chair, Associate Chair, and Graduate Chair.
Jump to: Kwok Fai Cheung (Graduate Chair), Bruce Howe, Deniz Gedikli, Zhenhua Huang (Department Chair), Mike Krieg, Eva-Marie Nosal, Justin E. Stopa, Yoshiki Yamazaki
Kwok Fai Cheung, PhD, PE
Professor and Graduate Chair
808-956-3485
cheung@hawaii.edu
Coastal and offshore engineering, marine hydrodynamics, computational methods, water wave mechanics, coastal flood hazards
Deniz Gedikli, PhD
Assistant Professor
808-956-5894
egedikli@hawaii.edu
Offshore marine structures, Experimental hydrodynamics and fluid-structure interactions, Structural dynamics, Dynamical systems and development of multivariate analysis methods, Data science and nonlinear time series analysis
Bruce Howe, PhD
Research Professor
808-956-0466
bhowe@hawaii.edu
Ocean acoustics including tomography and ambient sound, ocean observing sensor webs including fixed (e.g., cabled) and mobile platforms (e.g., gliders and profilers), navigation, and communications
Zhenhua Huang, PhD
Professor and Department Chair
808-956-8100
zhenhua@hawaii.edu
Marine energy, hydrodynamics of ocean waves, coastal and ocean engineering, coastal sediment transport, coral reef hydrodynamics, tsunami hazard mitigation
Mike Krieg, PhD
Assistant Professor
808-956-6386
kriegmw@hawaii.edu
Marine robots, biomimicry analysis, unconventional propulsion, hydrodynamic modeling, autonomous systems and control, distributed fluid sensing, coupled autonomous systems.
Eva-Marie Nosal, PhD
Associate Professor
808-956-7686
nosal@hawaii.edu
Passive acoustic monitoring methods, ocean ambient noise, sediment acoustics, bioacoustics, signal processing, inverse methods DCLDE2020
Justin E. Stopa, PhD
Associate Professor
808-956-6818
stopa@hawaii.edu
Marine forecasting / hindcasting, data analysis applications in geophysical datasets, oceanic remote sensing, spectral wave models, wind and wave climate
Yoshiki Yamazaki, PhD
Assistant Researcher
808-956-7634
yoshikiy@hawaii.edu
Tsunami numerical model development, tsunami generation and earthquake rupture mechanism, coastal flood hazard mitigation