Potential projects proposed by Purdue Engineering faculty

Project proposals are grouped by interdisciplinary area, and projects can appear under multiple areas.

Autonomous and Connected Systems

AI- Enabled Multi-modality Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure Safety

Catalyzing user and operator perceptions of shared mobility services towards a better transportation system utilization

Computational photography and machine learning

Counter-factual reasoning for large-scale Internet-based cloud services

Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning

Metamaterials for Unsupervised Mechanical Computation

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications

CISLunar (Space science and Engineering)

Autonomous Swarm Control and Space Situational Awareness in Cislunar Space

Development of Hybrid Propulsion Systems for Cislunar Exploration

Digital Risk Twins for Complex Engineering Systems

Mission Design enabled by Topological Extraction of Spatial Trajectory Flow Structures

Micro-, Nano-, and Quantum Engineering

Fluctuating Materials for Probabilistic Computing

Machine-Learning-Assisted Quantum Photonics: From Algorithms to Applications

Meta-Quantum: 2D Materials and Metastructures for Novel Quantum Systems

Mobile Microrobots for Biomedical Applications

Quantum Photonics Engineering with Interacting Photons

Separations of micro and nano particle suspensions in viscoelastic fluids

Smart and Agile Cyber Nanomanufacturing for Ubiquitous Human-Integrated Technologies

Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskites Plasmonics and Quantum Nanophotonics

Defense related projects (for US citizens only)

Crisis Advisor: Predictive and Analytical Computational Tools for Leadership in Military Combat and Civilian Catastrophes

Integrated, Scalable Design Prototyping Process to Improve the Specific Power Efficiency of Radars

Interfacial Mechanics in the Additive Manufacturing of Particle Suspensions

Modeling and characterization of ultra-high-temperature ceramic composites

Human-Machine/Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Human-Centered Design

Crisis Advisor: Predictive and Analytical Computational Tools for Leadership in Military Combat and Civilian Catastrophes

Metamaterials for Unsupervised Mechanical Computation

Smart and Agile Cyber Nanomanufacturing for Ubiquitous Human-Integrated Technologies

Power, Energy, and the Environment

Accelerated Prognostics for Energy Storage

Advanced Thermal Management of High-Power-Density Electric Machines for Carbon-Neutral Aviation

Catalyst design and applications at the interface of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

Catalyzing user and operator perceptions of shared mobility services towards a better transportation system utilization

Chalcogenides-based Perovskite Semiconductors for Solar Energy Harvesting

Development of novel turbine concepts merging experimental and computational tools

Digital Forestry for Indiana

Dry Solid Lubricant with Significant Friction and Wear Reduction

Extreme Material Challenges Facing Nuclear Fusion For Future Energy Production

Leveraging Synergies to Catalyze Co-Adoption of Dynamic EV Charging and Solar Energy

Mechanics of Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors

Mechanistics of Lithium Metal Electrodes for High-Performance Rechargeable Batteries

Retention and Workforce Preparation of Diverse Engineers

Rheology of concentrated particle suspensions

Data and Engineering Applications

AI- Enabled Multi-modality Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure Safety

Accelerated Prognostics for Energy Storage

Catalyzing user and operator perceptions of shared mobility services towards a better transportation system utilization

Computational photography and machine learning

Counter-factual reasoning for large-scale Internet-based cloud services

Deep-learning Enhanced Healthcare Modeling and Optimization

Development of novel turbine concepts merging experimental and computational tools

Digital Forestry for Indiana

Discovery and identification of novel PD gene targets via an integrated data science and engineering approach.

Enhancing Predictive Analytics Capability for Biomedical Systems Science and Engineering

Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning

Interrogating Immune-Microbiome Interactions in Colitis via Translational Systems Bioengineering

Leveraging Synergies to Catalyze Co-Adoption of Dynamic EV Charging and Solar Energy

Machine-Learning-Assisted Quantum Photonics: From Algorithms to Applications

Measuring viruses using Raman spectroscopy

Mechanics of Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors

Modeling and Control of Disease Spread in Multiplex Networks

Modeling and characterization of ultra-high-temperature ceramic composites

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications

Rheology of concentrated particle suspensions

Smart and Agile Cyber Nanomanufacturing for Ubiquitous Human-Integrated Technologies

Systems Bioengineering Approaches to Targeting Tumor Heterogeneity via Synthetic Lethality

The Multi-modal Connectomics of Neurodegeneration

Security and Privacy

Computational photography and machine learning

Crisis Advisor: Predictive and Analytical Computational Tools for Leadership in Military Combat and Civilian Catastrophes

Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning

Engineering-Medicine

Bone Hydration to Reduce Microcracking and Fracture Risk

Controlled-Release Nanomedicine for Enhanced Chemoradiation Therapy

Deep-learning Enhanced Healthcare Modeling and Optimization

Discovery and identification of novel PD gene targets via an integrated data science and engineering approach.

Engineer and manufacture off-the-shelf CAR-T and NK cells from human stem cells for immunotherapy

Enhancing Predictive Analytics Capability for Biomedical Systems Science and Engineering

Fluid mechanics of nanoparticles moving through leaky blood vasculature

Home-Based Portable Monitoring of Ophthalmological Diseases

Interrogating Immune-Microbiome Interactions in Colitis via Translational Systems Bioengineering

Machine learning of wound healing dynamics through the integration of mechanistic modeling and in vivo data

Measuring viruses using Raman spectroscopy

Metamaterials for Unsupervised Mechanical Computation

Mobile Microrobots for Biomedical Applications

Modeling and Control of Disease Spread in Multiplex Networks

Multiplexed Whole-Cell Pathogen Detection Devices: Beyond the Laboratory

Physics of lipid bilayer rupture from temperature, electric, and mechanical effects

Radical Approaches to Flexible and Stretchable Bioelectronic Devices

Rapid diagnostic test for cervical cancer detection in low-resource settings

Separations of micro and nano particle suspensions in viscoelastic fluids

The Multi-modal Connectomics of Neurodegeneration

Understand the neuroimmune basis of neurological diseases using an integrated approach of biological engineering and electrophysiology

Others

Computational photography and machine learning

Interrogating the whole-brain to understand neural processing of complex visual motion.

Plant synthetic biology for biofuel production

Predictive models for rheology of starch suspensions

Sensorimotor processing in the human brain: theory, computation, and experiment

Separations of micro and nano particle suspensions in viscoelastic fluids

Sustainable recycling methods for spent lithium-ion batteries

Future Manufacturing

Dry Solid Lubricant with Significant Friction and Wear Reduction

Mechanistics of Lithium Metal Electrodes for High-Performance Rechargeable Batteries

Modeling and characterization of ultra-high-temperature ceramic composites

Multiplexed Whole-Cell Pathogen Detection Devices: Beyond the Laboratory

Rheology of concentrated particle suspensions

Smart and Agile Cyber Nanomanufacturing for Ubiquitous Human-Integrated Technologies

Workforce Development for Future Manufacturing Materials in 3D Nanoprinting

Smart City, Infrastructure, Transportation

AI- Enabled Multi-modality Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure Safety

Catalyzing user and operator perceptions of shared mobility services towards a better transportation system utilization

Game Theory and Reinforcement Learning

Leveraging Synergies to Catalyze Co-Adoption of Dynamic EV Charging and Solar Energy

Modeling and Control of Disease Spread in Multiplex Networks

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: Theory and Applications