Potential projects proposed by Purdue Engineering faculty

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

Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems

Computational spectroscopy and imaging for mHealth

Crowdsourcing-based Hybrid Knowledge Discovery: Application to Biomedical Data

Data-Driven Learning for Physical Layer Security and Curiosity-based Analysis of Anomalous Traffic for LTE Devices

Developing LiDAR-based Tools for Digital Forestry

Distributed Optimization and Statistics: An Unconsummated Marriage

Efficient and Adaptive High-quality Data Collection and Processing in Internet of Things

Fundamental Algorithms for App Based Taxi System

Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities

Truck Platooning in a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Environment

UAV-enabled emergency medicine delivery engineering

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

A Fundamental Theory for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots

Crowdsourcing-based Hybrid Knowledge Discovery: Application to Biomedical Data

Engineering Tools for Malaria Eradication

Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities

Data/Information/Computation

A Fundamental Theory for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots

Causal simulation of physiological systems

Computational spectroscopy and imaging for mHealth

Computer Vision-based Studies for Autonomous Condition Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Crowdsourcing-based Hybrid Knowledge Discovery: Application to Biomedical Data

Data-Driven Learning for Physical Layer Security and Curiosity-based Analysis of Anomalous Traffic for LTE Devices

Detection and Characterization of Precursors to Shear Failure

Developing LiDAR-based Tools for Digital Forestry

Development of Data-Driven Approaches to Forecasting Water Quality Impairment Risk

Distributed Optimization and Statistics: An Unconsummated Marriage

Efficient and Adaptive High-quality Data Collection and Processing in Internet of Things

Fundamental Algorithms for App Based Taxi System

MEERCat Purdue: A Cross-Disciplinary Post-Doc in the Mechanical Engineering Education Research Center at Purdue

Next generation ride-sharing with autonomous vehicles

Precision Small-light Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Localization and Navigation with Novel Sensing and Control

Reinforcement Learning and its applications

Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities

Tensor Networks for Machine Learning Applications

Truck Platooning in a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Environment

UAV-enabled emergency medicine delivery engineering

Using Machine Learning to Predict Damage Tolerance in Unstable Systems: a Case of Impacted Batteries and Exploding Materials

Micro-, Nano-, and Quantum Engineering

A flexible nanoelectrode net to investigate sub-cellular integration at the cortical surface

Accommodating Volume Changes in Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitectures Synthesized via Ammonia-Borane Reduction for Longer Life Li-ion Batteries

Designing Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskite Heterojunctions for Novel Optoelectronic Applications

Flow physics relevant to food science and biological engineering

Halide Perovskite - Polyelectrolyte Hybrid Materials for Next Generation Optoelectronics

Merging quantum photonics and spintronics with 2D materials

More Power, Fewer Explosions: Thermal Engineering for Safe Lithium Ion Batteries

Next Generation Sodium ion Batteries for Grid Storage

Novel spintronics and quantum devices based on high-Tc superconducting thin films

Photonic Frequency Bin Entanglement – Generation, Manipulation, and Algorithms

Soft Responsive Polymer Microrobots

Suppressing Lithium Dendrites in Li-S Batteries

Security and Privacy

Data-Driven Learning for Physical Layer Security and Curiosity-based Analysis of Anomalous Traffic for LTE Devices

Power, Energy, and the Environment

Accommodating Volume Changes in Three-Dimensional Nanoarchitectures Synthesized via Ammonia-Borane Reduction for Longer Life Li-ion Batteries

Continuous hydrogen generation system for PEM fuel cell vehicles using catalytic decomposition of hydrous hydrazine

Designing Two-Dimensional Halide Perovskite Heterojunctions for Novel Optoelectronic Applications

Developing LiDAR-based Tools for Digital Forestry

Dry Solid Lubricant with Significant (~90%) Friction and Wear Reduction

Efficient, Economical, and Environmentally Friendly Technology for Producing Rare Earth Elements

Enhanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts from Catalytic Conversion of Lignin by Methane Utilization

Halide Perovskite - Polyelectrolyte Hybrid Materials for Next Generation Optoelectronics

Hydraulic wind turbines: a more cost-effective solution for renewable energy generation

More Power, Fewer Explosions: Thermal Engineering for Safe Lithium Ion Batteries

Nanostructured Battery Cathodes by Field Assisted Sintering for Advanced Rechargeable Li-ion Batteries

Next Generation Sodium ion Batteries for Grid Storage

Novel Technologies for Converting Polyolefin Waste into Pristine Polymers or Clean Fuels for a Sustainable Future

Resilient Extraterrestrial Habitat Engineering (RETH)

Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities

Suppressing Lithium Dendrites in Li-S Batteries

Synthesis of novel high efficiency solar cell materials with surface nanostructuring to improve the light capturing efficiency

Using Machine Learning to Predict Damage Tolerance in Unstable Systems: a Case of Impacted Batteries and Exploding Materials

Engineering and Healthcare/Medicine/Biology

A Fundamental Theory for Dexterous Surgical Skills Transfer to Medical Robots

A flexible nanoelectrode net to investigate sub-cellular integration at the cortical surface

Biologically inspired head and eye protection materials and systems

Causal simulation of physiological systems

Computational spectroscopy and imaging for mHealth

Designing Next-Generation, Stretchable Bioelectronic Devices

Dynamics of multicomponent suspensions in viscoelastic fluids with application to biological separations

Effects of Hearing Impairment on Neural Encoding of Speech in Awake-Behaving Mammals

Engineering Tools for Malaria Eradication

Engineering Tools to Untangle Learning and Memory

Flow physics relevant to food science and biological engineering

Interaction of pore forming peptides with cell membrane

Machine learning for the design of elastic metamaterials

Mechanistics of Lithium Metal Electrodes for High-Performance Rechargeable Batteries

Metabolic engineering of plants for sustainable chemicals

Monitoring contamination in continuous manufacturing of biologics

Nanoengineered composites for damage detection and load monitoring of mechanical and aerospace systems

Neuronal networks in vivo: Science, Engineering and Health

Numerical approaches for prediction of cancer therapeutic efficacy

Soft Responsive Polymer Microrobots

Surgical Adhesives from the Seas: Biomimicry to Bond Tissues

Translational Nanomedicine for Abscopal Cancer Immunotherapy

UAV-enabled emergency medicine delivery engineering

Future Manufacturing

3D Printing of Architectured Materials using Martian and Lunar Soils (Regolith) for Extraterrestrial Habitats

Computations and Mechanics of Convex Interlocking

Developing LiDAR-based Tools for Digital Forestry

Efficient, Economical, and Environmentally Friendly Technology for Producing Rare Earth Elements

Mechanistics of Lithium Metal Electrodes for High-Performance Rechargeable Batteries

Modelling and simulation of microstructural evolution in Zr based Bulk Metallic Glass Matrix Composites (BMGMC) in Additive Manufacturing

Next Generation Sodium ion Batteries for Grid Storage

Novel Technologies for Converting Polyolefin Waste into Pristine Polymers or Clean Fuels for a Sustainable Future

Resilient Extraterrestrial Habitat Engineering (RETH)

Smart City, Infrastructure, Transportation

3D Printing of Architectured Materials using Martian and Lunar Soils (Regolith) for Extraterrestrial Habitats

Computer Vision-based Studies for Autonomous Condition Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Detection and Characterization of Precursors to Shear Failure

Efficient and Adaptive High-quality Data Collection and Processing in Internet of Things

Fundamental Algorithms for App Based Taxi System

Next generation ride-sharing with autonomous vehicles

Reinforcement Learning and its applications

Resilient Extraterrestrial Habitat Engineering (RETH)

Sociotechnical Systems to Enable Smart and Connected Energy-Aware Residential Communities

Truck Platooning in a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Environment

UAV-enabled emergency medicine delivery engineering