Alp Akcay
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PhD: Carnegie Mellon University, 2013
Research focus: Simulation-based optimization, digital twins, data analytics, predictive maintenance, semiconductor manufacturing and supply chains
Adam Caparco
DiPietro Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering
Jointly appointed: Chemistry and Chemical Biology
PhD: Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020
Research focus: Agricultural and environmental biotechnology; affiliate for the Institute for Plant-Human Interface
Lital Davidi
Assistant Professor Bioengineering
Jointly appointed: Biology
PhD: The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2014
Research focus: Phyto-molecular biotechnology, with a focus on biofuels, natural products, and extreme environment adaptation
Ivana Dimitrova
Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jointly appointed: Physics
PhD: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
Research focus: Quantum networking and quantum computing with atoms in optical tweezer arrays, cavity QED, many-body states
Seth Hutchinson
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jointly appointed: Khoury College of Computer Sciences
PhD: Purdue University, 1988
Research focus: Robotics: planning, sensing, control, human-robot interaction, bio-inspired robotics, multi-robot systems
Bryan James
Assistant Professor Chemical Engineering
PhD: University of Florida, 2021
Research focus: Fate, persistence, and toxicity of materials in the environment and the body to inform the design of functional, sustainable, and benign next-generation materials, products, and processes
Tugce Martagan
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
PhD: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015
Research focus: Stochastic modeling and optimization, Markov decision processes, and game theory with applications in the (bio)pharmaceutical industry
Aravind Nagulu
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD: Columbia University, 2021
Research focus: Analog/RF/millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems, analog computing, biomedical scanners, and hardware for large-scale quantum computing systems
Tiffany Nichols
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jointly appointed: History
PhD: Harvard University, 2022
JD: University of Virginia, 2008
Research focus: Siting and design of large-scale infrastructure; environmental management informed by law, policy, engineering, and science and technology studies
David Sherman
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jointly appointed: Physical Therapy, Movement, and Rehabilitation
PhD: University of Toledo, 2022
DPT: Boston University, 2014
Research focus: Movement neuroscience, sensorimotor physiology, clinical research, orthopedics, rehabilitation
Weiyan Shi
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jointly appointed: Khoury College of Computer Sciences
PhD: Columbia University, 2023
Research focus: Persuasive dialogues, dialogue systems, natural language processing, AI safety, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Gilbert Yang Ye
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
PhD: University of Florida, 2024
Research focus: Human-AI/robot teaming, automation and AI in engineering, training and assistive technology
Yuan Yuan
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
PhD: University of Virginia, 2019
Research focus: Optoelectronic devices, single-photon detection, silicon photonics, large-scale photonic integrated circuits for interconnects and computing
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