Publications

Selected publications — 46 total (33 from UTA), including work cited by the IPCC. For the complete, current list see Google Scholar and ORCID.

2026 (in press / accepted)

Commodities — Critical mineral flows in the battery supply chain
Megawatts to Zettaflops: data center electricity demand and the grid (in review)
IISE Annual Conference (7): systems engineering for defense energy; Morris screening for ReEDS; policy-driven supply chains; DOE chemical extraction; green building; 3R-BET battery evaluation; black mass 3D printing
ASEE: Engineering for One Planet institutionalization, year two; RFID data center economics; survey instrument piloting

Energies — Extended-range EV analysis
Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports — Climate and trade policy for risk management in energy and supply chain modeling
Logistics — Centralized vs. decentralized reverse supply chains for black mass
Sustainability — Reenergizing legacy fossil infrastructure: evaluating geothermal potential (tribal lands, HUBZones, orphaned wells)
Energies — Black mass production and processing
IISE Annual Conference (4): Lego lean assembly; rural solar degradation; Texas power system evolution; MILP shrimp supply chain
ASEE (2): EOP first year; college research experience to K-12
arXiv — Sustainable multi-modal transport

Energies — Lithium supply chain optimization
Frontiers in Reproductive Health — Dating app use and sexual activity among young adults
IISE — Multi-source biofuel supply chain network design
IEOM — Green building surrogate optimization
ASEE (2): Training teachers in design of experiments; DACE K-12
IEEE — Climate adaptation and grid modernization

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition — Designing multi-phased CO₂ capture and storage infrastructure deployments (SimCCS)
Energy Systems and Decisions — Food-energy-water systems

Frontiers in Future Transportation — COVID-19 therapeutics supply chain optimization
Sustainable Cities and Society — Co-optimization and community: maximizing the benefits of distributed electricity and water technologies
IISE — Multi-system optimization
IEEE GHTC — Community solar
TEPRI reports (3): When the Lone Star Froze Over; Lived Experiences of Winter Storm Uri; Renewable Thermal Technologies

Transportation Research Part D (2019) — Contributions of shared autonomous vehicles to climate change mitigation
Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2014) — Dynamics of carbon nanotube topological defect growth
Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2011) — Effect of metal substrate on carbon nanotubes
ACEEE (2020) — Pathways for distributed energy resources (TEPRI)
IISE (2020) — Decomposition techniques illustrating the utility of distributed energy resources
SECC white paper (2021) — Racial disparities among lower-income energy consumers