Department Faculty – Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering

ORE has 9 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 and Graduate Chair.

Jump to: Kwok Fai Cheung, Bruce Howe, Deniz Gedikli, Zhenhua Huang (Department Chair), Mike Krieg, Eva-Marie Nosal (Graduate Chair), Camille Pagniello, Justin E. Stopa, Yoshiki Yamazaki

Kwok Fai Cheung, PhD, PE

Professor
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

Associate 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

Professor and Graduate Chair
808-956-7686
nosal@hawaii.edu

Passive acoustic monitoring methods, ocean ambient noise, sediment acoustics, bioacoustics, signal processing, inverse methods

Camille Pagniello, PhD

Assistant Professor
858-284-9251
cpagniel@hawaii.edu

Ocean instrumentation, passive acoustic monitoring, movement ecology, oceanography, conservation technology, marine bioacoustics, sensors, signal processing, data science, oceanographic engineering

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