ABE Faculty and Staff Directory
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Brahim Abdelkebir
Visiting Scholar - Host: Bernie Engel
Bilal Ahmed
Post-Doc Research Associate - Host: Verma
R.P. Kingsly Ambrose
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering and University Faculty Scholar
Areas of Interest
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Agricultural Systems, Safety, and Health
Hassan Assaf
Graduate Research Assistant - Advisor: Andrea Vacca
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Mojhdeh Baghbanbashi
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Ristroph
Charles Baldwin
AgrAbility Special Populations Outreach Coordinator
Grace Baldwin Kan-Uge
Post Doc Research Associate
Andrew Balmos
Software/Data Engineer
+1 765 49-42545
Suzanne Barton
Maha Fluid Power Laboratory Administrative Assistant
Kathryn Best
Business Assistant
Ankita Bhatt
Visiting Scholar - Host: Simsek
Pankaj Bhatt
Post-Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Simsek
Pasquale Borriello
Visiting Scholar - Host: Vacca
Laura Bowling
Courtesy - Professor of Agronomy
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Vincent Bralts
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Scott Brand
Manager/Machine and Electrical Shop Facility, Building Deputy
Dennis Buckmaster
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Dean's Fellow for Digital Agriculture
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
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Osvaldo Campanella
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Guangli Cao
Visiting Scholar - Host: Andrea Vacca
Carla Carie
Senior Administrative Assistant, Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering
Natalie Carroll
Professor, Youth Development/Agricultural Education/Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
Teresa Carvajal
Areas of Interest
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
Cindra Chastain
AgrAbility, Veteran Outreach Coordinator
ABE 2041 N
Somali Chaterji
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
ABE 3041 L
Indrajeet Chaubey
Adjunct Professor - University of Connecticut, Dean of the College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources
Jingqiu Chen
Adjunct Faculty
ABE 2041 H
Yuan-Hsin Cheng
Post Doc - Advisor: Bill Field
ABE307
Keith Cherkauer
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Kari Clase
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
Carlos Corvalan
Courtesy - Associate Professor, Food Science
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Michelle (Micky) Creech
Manager, Purdue Student Soybean Innovation Competition Program and ASPIRE Internship Program
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Fernanda Da Cunha
Bioprocess Research Scientist
Sadegh Dabiri
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
Saniye Demir
Visiting Scholar - Host: Engel
Meng Deng
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
ABE 3041 J
Gnana Prasuna Desam
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate Research Assistant - Advisor: Ganesan Narsimhan
Vincent Duffy
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Industrial Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Agricultural Systems, Safety, and Health
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Shawn Ehlers
Assistant Clinical Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Agricultural Systems, Safety, and Health
Bernard Engel
Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture; Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Abigail Engelberth
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Environmental & Ecological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
Daniel Ess
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
+1 765 49-63977
John Evans
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
ABE 2041 J
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Jiajia Fang
Visiting Scholar - Host: Kingsly Ambrose
David Fassbender
Visiting Scholar
William Field
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Agricultural Systems, Safety, and Health
Tyler Finley
Facilities And Equipment Manager
ABE 1005C
Dennis Flanagan
Adjunct Professor, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
+1 765 49-47748
James Frankenberger
Adjunct Staff - USDA-ARS
Jane Frankenberger
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
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Jose Garcia Bravo
Courtesy - Associate Professor, Engineering Technology
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Allen Garner
Adjunct - Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
Austin Gbasouzor
Visiting Scholar - Host: Ileleji
Margaret Gitau
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Konstantina Gkritza
Professor, Civil Engineering / Agricultural & Biological Engineering
HAMP G167B
Rosineide Gomes Da Silva Cruz
Visiting Scholar - Host: Michael Ladisch
+1 573 529-3527
Antonio Jose Goncalves Da Cruz
Visiting Scholar - Host: Michael Ladisch
Samantha Greulach
Academic Advisor
Tian Guo
Research Associate, National Soil Erosion Laboratory
Barry Gutwein
Adjunct Assistant Professor
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Benjamin Hancock
Web Developer, Senior
ABE 3041 N
Yvonne Hardebeck
Senior Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Stanley Harlow
Manager, Digital Systems / Instructor
Denise Heath
AgrAbility Clerk
Albert Heber
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
ABE 3038
Logan Heusinger
Undergraduate Teaching Lab Manager
Larry Huggins
Professor Emeritus
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Klein Ileleji
Professor, Extension Engineer
Areas of Interest
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Joseph Irudayaraj
Adjunct Professor - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Jian Jin
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
ABE 3022 *LeafSpec LLC is the ONLY company with the exclusive license from Purdue OTC to commercialize Purdue's handheld leaf-imaging technologies. LeafSpec LLC, Purdue University, and Dr. Jin's lab do NOT have any current relationship with the external company Leaf Tech Ag, and we are NOT responsible for any claims they made about their product.*
David Johnson
Laboratory Technician, Maha Fluid Power Laboratory
Don Jones
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Paul Jones
Manager, National AgrAbility Project
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Mohamed Kamel
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Verma
Upinder Kaur
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Kevin Keener
Adjunct - Professor, Director, Iowa State University Research Centers
Lyndon Kelley
Irrigation Educator
269-467-5511
Xiaoxi Kou
Visiting Scholar - Host: Kingsly Ambrose
James Krogmeier
Courtesy - Professor of ECE and Associate Dean of Facilities and Operations, College of Engineering
+1 765 49-43530
Weronika Kruszelnicka
Visiting Scholar - Host: Kingsly Ambrose
Gary Krutz
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
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Michael Ladisch
Distinguished Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Director, Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Danielle Lay
Nsf Fellowship
Amanda Limiac
Undergraduate Teaching Lab Manager
ABE 3041 H
Junli Liu
Post Doc Research Associate
Stanley Livingston
Adjunct Staff - USDA-ARS
John Lumkes
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Assistant Dean & Associate Director, Office of Academic Programs
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
Heng Lyu
Visiting Scholar - Host: Bernie Engel
ABE 2041 K
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Dirk Maier
Adjunct - Iowa State University
Michael Manning
National AgrAbility Project
Murali Kannan Maruthamuthu
Post Doc - Advisor: Mohit Verma
ABE 3031 G
Luigi Mastromauo
Visiting Scholar - Host: Andrea Vacca
Sara McMillan
Adjunct - Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Iowa State University
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
Scott Mcafee
Technician, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
+1 765 49-48696
Venkatesh Merwade
Courtesy - Civil Engineering and Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Chandrani Mishra
Visiting Scholar - Host: Kari Clase
Rachel Mithoefer
Business Manager, ABE/Food Science
+1 765 491-0221
Rabi Mohtar
Adjunct - Texas A&M University
Nathan Mosier
Department Head, Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Indiana Soybean Board Professor in Soybean Utilization; Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
Rachel Munds
Visiting Scholar - Host: Verma
Sangeetharani Munusamy
Visiting Scholar - Host: Dharmendra Saraswat
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Francesco Napolitano
Visiting Scholar - Host: Andrea Vacca
Ganesan Narsimhan
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
Bilgehan Nas
Visiting Scholar - Host: Simsek
+1 463 273-5674
Brittany Newell
Courtesy - Associate Professor, School of Engineering Technology
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Machine Systems Engineering
Jiqin Ni
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- Agricultural Systems, Safety, and Health
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Junyi Niu
Visiting Scholar - Host: Engel
Juliet Norton
Post Doc - Advisor: Ankita Raturi
Mahmoud Nour
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Field
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Martin Okos
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering/Biochemistry, and Food Process Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
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Gopal Palla
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Verma
Feng Pan
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Engel
ABE 2041 G
Rebecca Peer
Administrative Assistant to the Department Head
D. Marshall Porterfield
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
Caitlin Proctor
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Ecological & Environmental Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
ABE 3041 M
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Kyungyeon Ra
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Verma
Eswar Rajasekaran
Visiting Scholar - Host: Saraswat
Ankita Raturi
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
ABE 3041 K
Raghavendra Reddy Reddy Reddy
Visiting Scholar - Host: Vacca
Benjamin Reinhart
Temporary Project Assistant - Temporar
765-496-6331
Dongyang Ren
Visiting Scholar - Host: Bernie Engel
ABE 2041 I
Jenna Rickus
Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning; Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
+1 765 49-40615
Kurt Ristroph
Assistant Professor Of Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
ABE 2020
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Hanae Sakata
Project Manager, Ag Online/Digital Agriculture
Nancy Sanders
Adjunct Staff - USDA-ARS
Shangyuan Sang
Visiting Scholar - Host: Ganesan Narsimhan
Karthik Sankaranarayanan
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
ABE 2041F
Dharmendra Saraswat
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Brenda Schroeder
Director Of Undergraduate Programs
+1 765 49-43060
Annalisa Sciancalepore
Graduate Research Assistant - Advisor: Andrea Vacca
Lizhi Shang
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
Kepner
Edward Sheldon
AgrAbility Job Coach and Engagement
Halis Simsek
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
Shweta Singh
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering and Ecological & Environmental Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
ABE 3041 D
Laurie Snyder
Senior Academic Advisor
Kevin Solomon
Adjunct - Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Mary Speer
Program Manager, Biotechnology Innovation & Regulatory Sciences (BIRS)
R. Mack Strickland
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Richard Stroshine
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Robert Stwalley
Clinical Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
Kulamullaparambath Sudheer
Adjunct Professor
Hartono Sumali
Adjunct - Sandia National Laboratories
505/844-7918
Stephen Swain
AgrAbility, Rural Rehabilitation Specialist
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Bernard Tao
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural & Biological Engineering/Food Science
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
ABE 2020
Daniel Taylor
Assistant to the Department Head
Chanda Nkholoma Tembo
Visiting Scholar - Host: Engel
Lauren Terruso
Operations Manager, Biotechnology Innovation & Regulatory Sciences (BIRS) Center
ABE 2016
Sonal Thengane
Visiting Scholar - Host: Shweta Singh
Roger Tormoehlen
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Agricultural Systems, Safety, and Health
George Tsao
Courtesy - Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering
+1 765 49-44068
Shoobhangi Tyagi
Visiting Scholar - Host: Dharmendra Saraswat
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David Umulis
Dane A. Miller Head and Professor, Biomedical Engineering/Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
MJIS 3001
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Andrea Vacca
Maha Fluid Power Faculty Chair; Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering/Mechanical Engineering (joint)
Areas of Interest
- Machine Systems Engineering
Mohit Verma
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Areas of Interest
- Biological Engineering
- Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
- Data Science and Digital Agriculture
ABE 3016
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Wan Wardatul Amani Wan Salim
Post Doc - Advisor: D. Marshall Porterfield
Birck Nanotechnology Center
Shuyuan Wang
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Engel
+1 765 775-8373
Mark Ward
Professor Of Statistics
HILL C129
Alex Marcel Watanabe
Visiting Scholar - Host: Engel
Carol Weaver
Lead Administrative Assistant, Alumni/Development/Communications
Xiaoyan Wei
Visiting Scholar - Host: Bernie Engel
Xing Wei
Post Doc Research Assistant - Advisor: Jin
Mark Williams
Adjunct - National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory
Areas of Interest
- Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
Payton Wilson
Account Clerk
Xiaoyu Wu
Post Doc - Advisor: Ganesan Narsimhan
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Eduardo Ximenes
Adjunct - Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering, Bioprocess Research Scientist
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Elif Yakamercan
Visiting Scholar - Host: Simsek
Peng Yan
Visiting Scholar - Host: Ji-Qin Ni
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Federico Zappaterra
Graduate Research Assistant - Advisor: Andrea Vacca
Fan Zhang
Visiting Scholar - Host: Ji-Qin Ni
Jinnuo Zhang
Post Doctoral Research Associate - Advisor: Jin
Shen Zhang
Graduate Research Assistant - Advisor: Nathan Mosier
ABE 2041 Y
Yakun Zhang
Visiting Scholar - Host: Vacca
Yumeng Zhao
Post Doc Research Associate - Advisor: Ambrose
Nikki Zimmerman
Graduate Program Administrator