Thermochemical and electrochemical energy conversion processes, solar driven thermochemical redox cycles for H2 and syngas production, defect chemistry and thermodynamics of nonstoichiometric oxides, solid oxide fuel cells, solid oxide membrane separations, reaction kinetics
Robotics, machine intelligence, autonomous mobile agents, embedded systems, digital design, controls.
Wireless communications, adaptive modulation and coding, multicast
signaling, multimedia transmission over wireless channels, channel-quality
estimation,
and spread-spectrum communications.
Complexity theory; geometric modeling and constraint solving; algorithms and discrete modeling.
Professor Spearot received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include: Computational mechanics and materials science (including atomistic simulations and phase-field modeling), behavior of defects in materials, nanostructured materials, linking between atomistic and continuum length scales, and method development for atomistic modeling.
Reconfigurable computing, FPGAs; synthesis, compilers, CAD; architecture; embedded systems