Mulalo Doyoyo - Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Room: Mason 415
Phone: 404/894-2773
mulalo.doyoyo@ce.gatech.edu
Research Interests & Bio
Mulalo Doyoyo - Assistant Professor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ultralight and ‘green’ materials, structures, and systems; micro-assembled structures, including lattice materials; development of lightweight materials with non-equilibrium microstructures.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Professor Doyoyo investigates and develops lightweight materials, structures, and systems to meet key demands of modern and future societies.The difficulty or delay in developing workable transformative technologies to ameliorate human livelihood conditions in highly-diverse societies translates perfectly to the problem of resource inhomogeneity across the globe. In the context of Professor Doyoyo's research on lightweight technologies, efforts are being made to finding solutions for the realization of renewable energy and low-carbon economies. It turns out that lightweight technologies are emerging as non-negligible enablers of proof of concepts in both the transportation and construction industries (e.g. fuel cells, biochemical engines, novel construction materials, and the like). At the same time, transitional technologies cannot be developed successfully under situations where safety, cost, performance, and impacts on health and the environment are sacrificed. For example, we want to construct vehicles that are not only strong, lightweight, and energy-efficient, but also those that operate on engines or systems that produce low emissions or none at all. However, the necessary super-strong or super-efficient ultralight materials and processes might result in major losses at all levels of development. Do the negative effects of lightweight technologies on the already scarce resources override their benefits? Perhaps it makes sense that some of the major rewards of this type of thinking or approach to research by modern engineers could lead to the invention and proliferation of marketable, green, high-quality, and globally-diffusive products that have the potential to break the cycle of destitution for human beings by strengthening existing firms and forming new ones. As a result of these issues, Professor Doyoyo and his team conduct research in the field of lightweight technologies within the bounds of social consciousness and responsibility.
Professor Doyoyo was born in the Republic of South Africa. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and received graduate and postgraduate training at Brown University and MIT respectively. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he worked for MIT. Professor Doyoyo is a Fellow of The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London, UK). His research profile may be viewed here.