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The UH System has earned a No. 62 ranking — and No. 3 in Texas — on the National Academy of Inventors’ 2024 Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents List. Can’t Stop UH, Cullen Inventors

From advances in carbon capture to breakthroughs in medical imaging, the University of Houston System is driving innovation that is making an impact worldwide. That commitment to… Read More
Cullen College of Engineering Welcomes 13 New Faculty to its Ranks Cullen College of Engineering Welcomes 13 New Faculty to its Ranks

The Cullen College of Engineering is happy to announce the hiring of 13 new faculty members in a variety of departments and roles for the 2025–26 academic year. Personnel are… Read More
[Left to right] Ganesh Thakur, NAE, Distinguished Professor of Petroleum Engineering and the Director of UH Energy Industrial Partnerships, and George K. Wong, Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering and Graduate Studies Director, are lead PIs for four grants totaling more than $1 million from the Ocean Energy Safety Institute. Petroleum’s Thakur, Wong receive more than $1M for rigorous reservoir simulation, statistical analysis

A pair of professors in the Petroleum Engineering Department of the Cullen College of Engineering have received four Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI) grants totaling $1.1… Read More
Six adults stand in front of a red backdrop at the event. Four wear red shirts, one wears a black shirt, and one wears a blue shirt. A table with a black cover and stacks of paperwork stands in front of them. Cullen Faculty Represent at 2025 “Mayor’s Back to School & Health Fair”

Instructional Associate Professor and Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Undergraduate Program Director Yaping Wang, Associate Professor of ISE George Tan, Associate… Read More
Jian (Jason) Shi, associate professor of Engineering Technology and Electrical and Computer Engineering, receives a certificate of appreciation from Rommell Williams – the Senior Director of Workforce Development and Training for HAUL – for his work at two weeks of the 2025 summer camps. Cullen faculty members, HAUL host 2 successful summer camp weeks

An energy transition and AI usage summer camp hosted by faculty at the Cullen College of Engineering in collaboration with the Houston Area Urban League (HAUL) allowed 34… Read More
A group of students wearing white clean suits, face masks, shoe covers, and goggles stand in front of a projector screen in a classroom. Only their eyes are visible behind the clear goggles. NIIMBL eXperience at UH Promotes the Promise of Biomanufacturing Futures

The Cullen College of Engineering hosted 15 college freshman and sophomores from nine states, representing 14 different community and four-year colleges and universities, at UH’s… Read More
Led by Mim Rahimi, a professor at UH’s Cullen College of Engineering, a team has made two significant breakthroughs that could reduce the cost of capturing harmful emissions from power plants. UH Researchers Unveil Breakthrough in Carbon Capture

Sometimes less really is more — at least that is the case when it comes to improving carbon capture systems, according to a team of researchers at the University of Houston. Led… Read More
A headshot of Hyongki Lee, a man with short, dark hair and eyeglasses, in front of a blue background. He is wearing a dark suit, light shirt, and a blue tie. CEE’s Lee Seeks to Further Expand Flood Forecasting Framework

Kaspar J. Willam Professor Hyongki Lee’s satellite-driven inundation forecasting framework, Forecasting Inundation Extents using REOF (Rotated Empirical Orthogonal Function) (FIER… Read More
Manmohan Singh [pictured], a research assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has worked with Biomedical Engineering chairman Kirill Larin and two professors from the University of Western Australia to write a new review paper on the advantages and limitations of optical coherence elastography (OCE). Paper from BME’s Larin, Singh examines growth of non-invasive mechanical imaging technique

A new review paper published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers from the research group of Kirill Larin, Cullen Endowed Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering, highlights… Read More
Tianfu Wu, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston, is developing a method thanks to a $1 million Impact Award to send medication directly to the spleen where certain immune cells cause the disease known as lupus. BME's Wu Creates New Drug Delivery System to Tackle Lupus

With a $1 million Impact Award from the U.S. Department of Defense, Tianfu Wu, a University of Houston biomedical engineer, is developing a method to send medication directly to… Read More