Grace Gu Dept of Mechanical Engineering Composites, additive manufacturing, in-situ monitoring and process control, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioinspired materials, generative AI for aerospace, soft robotics
Hayden Taylor Dept of Mechanical Engineering manufacturing, microfabrication, nanofabrication, semiconductor manufacturing, computational mechanics, nanoimprint lithography
Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng Dept of Materials Science and Engineering additive manufacturing, metamaterials, robotics, antenna, artificial intelligence
Jiyun Kang Dept of Materials Science and Engineering physical metallurgy, manufacturing, autonomous metal processing, correlative microscopy
Sara McMains Dept of Mechanical Engineering geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, deep learning
Tarek Zohdi Dept of Mechanical Engineering advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling
Claudio Hail Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanophotonics, nanoengineered optical materials, micro/nano manufacturing
Robert Ritchie Dept of Materials Science and Engineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering structural materials, mechanical behavior in biomaterials, creep, fatigue and fracture of advanced metals, intermetallics, ceramics
Maria Paz Gutierrez Dept of Architecture biomass, natural waste composites and additive manufacturing, flood resilience
Costas P. Grigoropoulos Dept of Mechanical Engineering heat transfer, laser materials processing, nano-manufacturing, energy systems and technology
Adam Arkin Dept of Bioengineering Systems and Synthetic Biology, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, Biomanufacturing, Biomedicine, Bioremediation, space, green and sustainable manufacturing, infectious disease, Biological Data Science
Francesco Borrelli Dept of Mechanical Engineering automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control
Liwei Lin Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), design and manufacturing of microsensors, microactuators, development of micromachining processes, silicon surface/bulk micromachining, micromolding process
Dara O'Rourke Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management globalization, sustainability, labor and environmental policy, supply chains, consumers, information-based regulation, environmental justice, sustainability transitions, disruptive innovation
Rhonda Righter Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research stochastic systems, service operations, scheduling and load balancing, telecommunications, computer and internet communications
Katherine Newman Dept of Sociology Goldman School of Public Policy low wage labor markets, social mobility, inequality