Faculty Experts

Rakesh Agrawal, Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering
Expertise: Sustainable food, energy and water systems; solar panels for food production; bioenergy development

Saurabh Bagchi, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Wireless networks, secure and private contact tracing

Ernest R. (“Chip”) Blatchley III, Lee A. Rieth Professor in Environmental Engineering
Expertise: Water quality, including disease spread in swimming pool water

Brandon Boor, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, and Environmental and Ecological Engineering (by courtesy)
Expertise: Indoor air quality; human exposure assessment; airborne nanoparticles; bioaerosols (fungi, bacteria, pollen, allergens); air quality in occupational workplaces

Darcy Bullock, Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy)
Expertise: Autonomous and connected systems, particularly transportation infrastructure systems

Miko Cakmak, Reilly Professor of Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Using 3D printers to manufacture medical supplies

Luciano Castillo, Kenninger Professor of Renewable Energy and Power Systems in Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Modeling, experiments and simulations of turbulent boundary layers; big data in turbulence, renewable energy and biomedical engineering

Qingyan Chen, James G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Spread of viruses through ventilation systems in passenger vehicles and how to track them

Mung Chiang, Dean of the College of Engineering, John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, Roscoe H. George Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Optimization of networks, Fog networking and IoT, online social networks

Jennifer DeBoer, assistant professor of Engineering Education; assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy)
Expertise: Online teaching

Kerrie Douglas, assistant professor of Engineering Education
Expertise: Online learning, particularly involving STEM courses

Shirley Dyke, professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering
Expertise: Resilient, intelligent autonomous habitats

David Ebert, Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Visual analytics

John Howarter, associate professor of Materials Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Expertise: Undergraduate engineering research, including experiential and online learning

Neera Jain, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Advanced automation, human-machine interaction

Young Kim, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Biophotonics and biomedical optics; whole-body disinfection

Tamara Kinzer-Ursem, Marta E. Gross Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Coronavirus/infectious disease testing development

Nan Kong, associate professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Computational modeling of disease and disease management, improved healthcare planning and delivery

Tillmann Kubis, research assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Self-disinfecting surfaces

Jacqueline Linnes, assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Coronavirus/infectious disease testing development

David J. Love, Nick Trbovich Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: 5G technology

Luna Lu, ACPA professor of Civil Engineering, and professor of Materials Engineering (by courtesy)
Expertise: Development of thermoelectric sensor to detect viruses like SARS-CoV-2

Yung-Hsiang Lu, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Mobile and cloud computing, energy-efficient computing, image and video processing

Ajay Malshe, R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Nanomanufacturing, bio-inspired systems, high-density electronic packaging and entrepreneurship

Saeed Mohammadi, professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Chip development to help detect viruses

Roshi Nateghi, assistant professor of Industrial Engineering and Environmental Ecological Engineering
Expertise: Resiliency during crises, Disaster and infrastructure impact

Eric Nauman, professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Biomechanics, neuroscience, mild traumatic brain injury in youth athletics

Shimon Nof, professor of Industrial Engineering
Expertise: Production engineering and cyber technology; production and service system resilience

Philip Paré, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Effects of transportation on COVID-19 spread; mathematical modeling, estimation, and analysis of epidemics spreading on networks

Marshall Porterfield, professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Expertise: How astronauts cope with isolation

Caitlin Proctor, Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow; Materials Engineering, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Civil Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Water quality

Rahim Rahimi, assistant professor of Materials Engineering
Expertise: Antibacterial metal surfaces

Ankita Raturi, assistant professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Expertise: Agricultural informatics; resilience in food and agricultural systems

Karthik Ramani, Donald W. Feddersen Distinguished Professor in Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy); Professor of Educational Studies, College of Education (by courtesy)
Expertise: Augmented reality for online learning

Jeffrey Rhoads, professor of Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Online teaching

Donna Riley, Kamyar Haghighi Head of the School of Engineering Education
Expertise: Remote learning

J. Paul Robinson, professor of Biomedical Engineering; SVM Professor of Cytomics in Purdue’s College of Veterinary Medicine
Expertise: Pathogen detection via lasers

Michael Sangid, Elmer F. Bruhn Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Professor of Materials Engineering
Expertise: Virtual labs

Cagri Savran, professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Computer Engineering
Expertise: Vaccine development

Joe Sinfield, professor of Civil Engineering
Expertise: Innovation science

Lia Stanciu, associate head and professor of Materials Engineering
Expertise: Coronavirus testing development

Ramaswamy Subramanian, professor of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Interdisciplinary life sciences research; testing novel coronavirus drug treatments

Mohit Verma, assistant professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Coronavirus/infectious disease testing development

Andrew Whelton, associate professor of Civil Engineering and Environmental and Ecological Engineering
Expertise: Water quality

Yuehwern Yih, professor of Industrial Engineering
Expertise: Disaster reaction

Jeffrey Youngblood, professor of Materials Engineering
Expertise: Sustainable materials

Purdue Engineering Initiative in Autonomous and Connected Systems
Expertise: Transportation infrastructure during COVID-19, IT infrastructure during COVID-19

Purdue Engineering Initiative in Innovation and Making
Expertise: Innovation science for corporations in the face of COVID response

Engineering-Medicine Partnership, Purdue College of Engineering and Indiana University School of Medicine
Expertise: Pandemic response