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Professor Gangbing Song, Director of SMSL
Phone: 713-743-4525
Fax: 713-743-4503
Email: gsong@uh.edu
Faculty-in-charge, Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory

Education
B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Zhejiang University, 1989.
M.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Columbia University, 1991.
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering), Columbia University, 1995.

Experience
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 2008-
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston, 2002-2008
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, 1998-2002.
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1996-1998.
Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1995.

Research Interests
Smart materials and structures, Adaptive control, Robust control, Dynamics, Robotics, Friction Compensation

Professional and Honorary Societies
Member: ASME and AIAA.

Honors and Awards
Navy Special Act Award.

Visiting Professors

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Postdocs

	Dr. Haichang Gu
	Dr. Luyu Li
	Dr. Liu Min
	Dr. Huigang Xiao

Ph.D Students

	Claudio Olmi is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Houston. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the University of Houston. He specializes in System Integration of hybrid Mechanical and Electrical systems with focus on Software Programming, Analog and Digital Hardware Design, Internet Technologies for Remote Operations, Digital Controls, and NI LabVIEW Programming. Olmi worked in projects using Smart Materials applied to Civil and Mechanical Structures for in laboratory and remote operations from where he published 2 journal papers and several conference presentations. He is a student member of IEEE.
	Peng Li is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He specializes in Embedded System Design and Software Programming, Analog and Digital Hardware Design,
	Attila Kilikati

Masters Students

	Bosko Gajic completed his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics minor at the University of Houston in the Spring of 2008. He is currently pursuing a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston. His current focus is on implementing wireless sensor networks with smart materials and structures applications.
	Christiana Chang is currently a masters student studying mechanical engineering at the University of Houston. She received her bachelors degree in the same department in Spring 2008. Her current research topics focus on the use of carbon materials to the physical properties of composite and concrete systems. In addition to her studies, she is an avid photographer.
	Devendra Patil
	Michael Ho is currently a Mechanical Engineering MS student at the University of Houston. He received his BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Houston. His research focuses mainly on the application of smart materials, especially shape memory alloys, piezoceramics, and fiber bragg gratings, in medical devices.
	Mithun Singla

Undergraduates Students

	Oliver Rivera is currently pursuing the B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Houston, where his graduation is anticipated in December 2009. Ongoing research he is involved with includes discovering new uses for shape memory polymers, and testing creep and fatigue of shape memory alloy cable with the Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory at the University of Houston. He was actively involved with the University of Houston 2007 Formula SAE entry and is currently an officer of his student section of the Society of Women Engineers.
	Michael Fernandez
	Kevin Weaver
	Liu Pole
	Stevan Gajic

Alumni

Dr. Ning Ma
Dr. Vineet Sethi
Dr. Mubing Xu
Abhay Prasad
Badari Kotejoshyer
Bo Xie
Vishal Chaudhry
Juntao Fei
Amit Mantrow
Ahuja Mandeep
Z. Hu
K. Otero
R. Wongapiwatkul