Professor, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Director, Sustainable Transportation Systems Research Group

Purdue Campus Director, NSF ASPIRE Engineering Research Center (ERC)

Presidential Fellow for Energy Transitions

Michel Boudart Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering

Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Director, Laboratory of Renewal Resources Engineering

Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering

Founding Director, Energy and Transport Sciences Laboratory (ETSL)

Director, CARES: Center for Advances in Resilient Energy Storage

Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer, III Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor and Fehsenfeld Family Head of Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Laboratory for Sustainable Manufacturing

NIPSCO Distinguished Professor of Engineering Simulation

Director, Center for Innovation through Visualization and Simulation (CIVS)

Director, Steel Manufacturing Simulation and Visualization Consortium (SMSVC)

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

computational and experimental studies of rarefied gas flow phenomena occurring in both high-altitude flight such as smallsat propulsion, spacecraft contamination, plume interactions, high-altitude aerothermodynamics; and in emerging technologies such as micro-electro-mechanical systems for space communications and micropropulsion and in vacuum manufacturing processes; broadening applications of rarefied gas dynamics; developing fast computational algorithms and solvers for the deterministic, as opposed to the stochastic DSMC, solution of rarefied flow problems

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

power systems, electric machines, power electronics, electrified transportation

School of Engineering Education

Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, biomaterial, multiphase flows, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, microfluidics, complex fluids, soft matter

Mechanical Engineering

renewable energy materials (physics-based energy yield predictions, sustainable PV and energy storage materials, recycling); electro-optical-thermo-mechanical reliability (in-situ and in-operando accelerated stress tests); heterogeneous integration and advanced packaging; harsh environment electronics integration (high temperature Pb-free solders and nano-thermal interfaces)

Mechanical Engineering

modeling and analysis of thermal systems; heat pumping, air conditioning and refrigeration technologies; high performance buildings; refrigerant and lubricant properties

Mechanical Engineering

thermal physics, heat moving energy; spectroscopy, "seeing" energy with light; nanophotonics, pushing light to see more; 2D materials, creating functionality by losing dimension

School of Engineering Education

engineering workforce development; student professional formation; curricular and cultural change in engineering education

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

photovoltaics, thermal physics, switches

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

School of Industrial Engineering

digital-industrial strategy, business and financial models, resilient and sustainable manufacturing and supply chains, production systems, operations management, enterprise systems, smart manufacturing, industry 4.0, AIoT, digital transformation, digital twins, energy transition and transportation, innovation commercialization and go-to-market @scale

Nuclear Engineering

nuclear power system, energy storage, advanced reactor technology

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

modeling, analysis, and control of thermal systems

Mechanical Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

School of Industrial Engineering

sustainable and equitable infrastructure development, risk-based life cycle assessment, agent-based modeling, prospective environmental assessment of emerging technologies and systems, transformative transportation technologies, sustainable consumption, energy policy

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electrical devices for power applications (Silicon Carbide)

Mechanical Engineering

modeling; experiments and simulations of turbulent boundary layers: role of initial conditions and bio-inspired micro-surfaces on evolution of velocity/thermal fields; importance of turbulence and complex topography on wind energy; integration of renewable with water and thermal storage; translational research focus on renewable energy and society; wall interaction (e.g., bio-inspired micro surfaces) in respiratory flows; big data in turbulence, renewable energy and biomedical engineering; energy and social equality

Nuclear Engineering

digital I&C, autonomous system, AI/ML, quantum sensing, cyber security

Mechanical Engineering

experimental fluid dynamics, development of flow diagnostic techniques, flow dynamics in stratified environment, turbulent flow measurements and modeling

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

quantum physics, quantum behavior in new states of matter, quantum devices in energy

Mechanical Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

identify interactions and design spaces at the intersection of energy technologies, economics, and decision-making process to minimize the cost of transitioning to new, decarbonized energy systems

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

optimization and design methods for aerospace systems; systems of systems; design under uncertainty; environmental impact of aviation

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

electric vehicles, power management of flight systems

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Design Methods: mathematical modeling and decision-support frameworks for the design of system-of systems, especially those for which air vehicles are a main element; approaches for robust design of autonomous systems and collectives/swarms; Aerospace Systems and Flight Vehicles: sizing/synthesis algorithms for design and performance estimation of revolutionary flight vehicles; exploration of advanced aerial mobility (AAM) designs and concept of operations; aircraft flight stability and control, especially as an integral part of conceptual design

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

sustainable bioproducts, including biofuels

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

transportation planning, economics and modeling; transportation energy and sustainability; highway safety; transportation electrification

Mechanical Engineering

laser-absorption spectroscopy, laser-induced fluorescence, and IR imaging sensors for gas temperature, pressure, velocity, and chemical species; molecular spectroscopy, photophysics, and energy transfer in gases; energetic materials (e.g., explosives and propellants) detection and combustion; combustion and propulsion systems (small and large scale); biomedical sensing

Mechanical Engineering

sustainable energy and environment, combustion and turbulent reacting flows, combustion and heat transfer in materials, biomedical flows and heat transfer, global policy research

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

watershed hydrology; stochastic and statistical hydrology; spatial variability; modeling surface and subsurface water movement; fate and transport of contaminants; machine learning applications in hydrology

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

thermal sciences as applied to HVAC&R systems and equipment

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

control, control for large scale systems

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

bituminous materials and mixture design, pavement design, non-destructive pavement testing, pavement materials including aggregates and soil, pavement management, pavement failure investigation

Materials Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Materials Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

water treatment, fate and transport of chemical contaminants, inorganic and organic environmental chemistry, groundwater and soil remediation, sustainability, and industrial ecology

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

air pollution management and control, transportation noise problems, environmental occupational safety and health

Mechanical Engineering

dynamic modeling and optimal control; model predictive control; decentralized control; thermodynamics-based optimization; entropy generation minimization; exergy analysis; integrated energy management and storage in distributed energy systems, building systems

School of Engineering Education

School of Industrial Engineering

Materials Engineering

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

net zero energy buildings, carbon emissions from buildings

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

statistical learning and optimization with applications in power grids, big data analytics, and wireless communications

Nuclear Engineering

reactor thermal-hydraulics and safety; two-phase flow experiment and modeling; multiphase CFD and systems analysis code

Mechanical Engineering

building electrification, flexibility, and efficiency; integrating flexible loads, energy storage, and distributed solar into power grids; optimization and control under uncertainty; energy policy

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

computational design of aerospace systems; multidisciplinary design optimization; surrogate-based modeling and optimization; uncertainty quantification; machine learning; multifidelity methods

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

naturally nanostructured materials; energy, water, and wearable technology; manufacturing

Mechanical Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

sustainable manufacturing, environmental life cycle assessment, mechanics of multilayered systems, adhesion in paints and coatings, lightweighting strategies for transportation, industrial decarbonization

School of Industrial Engineering

Nuclear Engineering

advanced manufacturing for nuclear applications, nuclear materials

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

thermoelectric and piezoelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting and sensing, crystal growth of oxides for optoelectrical devices, and multifunctional nanocomposites/building materials

Mechanical Engineering

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

rocket propulsion, hypersonics, cyberphysical integration, complex flow physics, high-performance computing

Mechanical Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

bio-inspired designs; surface engineering and multifunctional materials; convergent manufacturing for industry 5.0: hybrid manufacturing processes, heterogeneous materials, and bio-inspired designs; systems integration, productization, and production; heavy-duty machines: machining, lubrication, and corrosion; heterogeneous and hierarchical integration (mechanical-electrical-optical and nano-micro-meso-macro); precision agricultural and food: cellular agriculture, vertical farming, micro-production, and resilience; frugal engineering, social innovations, and social equity; manufacturing in space

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

safety and risk analysis; systems engineering education; financial modeling of engineering systems; environmental impacts of technology

Mechanical Engineering

transport phenomena in multi-scale, heterogeneous materials and systems, fundamentals of nanoscale thermal transport, heat transfer in natural and synthetic fiber systems, thermofluids interactions, multi-physics metrology design, electronics cooling and thermal management

Materials Engineering

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

decarbonization through electrification; process systems engineering; process synthesis and design; process intensification and optimization; renewable and sustainable energy

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

metabolic engineering of plant phenylpropanoid metabolism, metabolic flux analysis of photosynthetic organisms, metabolic engineering of algae for the production of biodiesel

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electrical devices for power applications (Silicon Carbide)

Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, multiphase flows, monte carlo methods, kinetic theory of granular flows, heat transfer in granular media, rarefied gas dynamics

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

biofuels production from cellulosics and lipids

Mechanical Engineering

boiling, condensation, two-phase flow, high heat flux, thermal management systems, cryogenic systems space vehicles, lunar and martian environments, microgravity, experiments on international space station, electronic cooling

Mechanical Engineering

energy storage and conversion (batteries, fuel cells), mesoscale physics and stochastics, reactive transport, materials, processing, and microstructure interactions

Mechanical Engineering

gas turbine combustion, internal combustion engines, laser-based spectroscopy

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

anaerobic digestion and biogas production

School of Engineering Education

Mechanical Engineering

scalable micro and nanomanufacturing; thermal management; energy conversion, transfer and storage

Mechanical Engineering

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

turbomachinery, turbines, measurement techniques, experimental turbomachinery, air-breathing propulsion

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

mathematical modeling of dynamic networked systems, control, stability

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electric machines, power electronics, electrified transportation

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

aerospace propulsion systems; rocket engine combustors; liquid propellant injection systems; hypergolic propellants; high pressure and hydrogen storage systems

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

foundation engineering, ground engineering, recyclable materials, soil behavior and durability of materials

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

sustainable aviation; pre-chamber jet ignition for combustion engines; propulsion technology for drones and UAVs; hydrogen and alternative fuels

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

control and optimization, statistical learning, market design, and their applications to power systems, transportation systems, and cyber-physical systems

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

green building technology innovation, sustainable buildings, and energy efficient building energy systems

Nuclear Engineering

hydrogen generation, nuclear thermal-hydraulics

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

catalysis, energy transition

Mechanical Engineering

simulations of nanoscale thermal transport; machine learning, optimization, and high throughput design; thermal management in electronics, space, and battery applications; transport phenomena in additive manufacturing; nanomaterials and devices for sustainable energy

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

geomechanics, foundation engineering, computational mechanics, constitutive modeling and offshore and energy engineering

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

large eddy and direct simulations, turbulent combustion, thermoacoustics, non-linear acoustics, heat-and-mass transfer, physical oceanography and limnology, numerical methods for complex geometries

School of Industrial Engineering

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

geomatics, lidar, digital twin, building models

Mechanical Engineering

model-based system and control design of commercial vehicle power trains, connected and automated commercial vehicles, internal combustion engine and after-treatment system design and controls, flexible valve actuation in diesel and natural gas engines

Mechanical Engineering

laser additive manufacturing, ultrafast laser matter interaction, laser welding, laser assisted machining, laser shock peening, multi-physics, multi-scale modeling, micro-nano manufacturing

Mechanical Engineering

solid mechanics, multiscale and multiphysics modeling, design of engineering material systems, fracture and fatigue, microarchitectured materials, biomechanics of soft and hard tissues

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

waste water treatment, algal production for lipids

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

sensing in civil and geoenvironmental engineering; innovation and business management

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

life cycle assessment for integrated, sustainable manufacturing systems

School of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Propulsion: rockets, gas turbines, sc/ramjets, rotating detonation engines; Combustion: detonation, turbulent combustion; Fluid mechanics: turbulence, acoustics, gas dynamics, multiphase flows; Laser diagnostics and data science: methodology development, cross-platform verification and validation

Mechanical Engineering

multiphase combustion, particularly related to propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics; nanoscale composite energetic materials; advanced energetic materials; microscale combustion

School of Industrial Engineering

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

electric machines, power electronics, electrified transportation

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

dynamics, control, estimation in distributed systems

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

two-phase flows and heat transfer, high-heat-flux thermal management systems for several applications, e.g., outer space missions, electric vehicles, ultra-fast charging systems, electronics cooling, avionics, nuclear reactors, metal manufacturing, superconductors, data centers, etc., gravitational effects, experiments onboard the International Space Station (ISS), two-phase flow instabilities, fluid-structure interactions and non-Newtonian fluids in biological systems

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Materials Engineering

rapid discovery and development of high temperature structural materials; solute interactions with crystalline defects; thermodynamic modeling and experimental validation of high temperature oxidation

Materials Engineering

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

high performance buildings, solar energy applications in buildings, building energy modeling and simulation

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

large-scale network modeling of transportation-energy scenarios with high-resolution data

Mechanical Engineering

Agricultural & Biological Engineering

modeling and simulation of hydraulic systems, modeling and testing of pumps and motors for fluid power applications, hydraulic valves modeling and testing, reduction of noise emissions in fluid power systems

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

seismic and fire behavior, analysis, and design of steel-concrete composite structures; repair and retrofit of deterioration and damaged infrastructure

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

sustainable materials; concrete with recycled aggregates, concrete with biomass ashes, geopolymers, photocatalytic concrete

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

digital twin; autonomous driving; human-autonomy teaming

Mechanical Engineering

desalination and water treatment, water-food-energy nexus, thermofluids, nanotechnology, membrane science

Mechanical Engineering

heat transfer in advanced semiconductor interconnects and packaging, electronic cooling and efficient thermal packaging materials, thermal/mechanical simulation and characterization, materials, processing and architecture development for semiconductor packaging, MEMS fabrication for extreme heat flux microfluidic cooling, advanced semiconductor nanoscale 3D interconnections, novel photonics and quantum packaging technologies, reliability modeling and characterization

Mechanical Engineering

electronics cooling and packaging, phase-change transport phenomena, microscale and nanoscale surface engineering for enhanced thermal transport, energy efficiency in thermal systems, transport in porous materials, microscale diagnostics and sensing

Nuclear Engineering

nuclear materials for advanced reactor concepts, radiation damage/corrosion in reactor applications

Mechanical Engineering

Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

heat transfer, particularly nano-scale and ultrafast heat transfer; ultrafast laser materials processing and diagnostics; nano-optics and laser-based nano-lithography

Nuclear Engineering

reactor physics, core design for advanced reactors

Materials Engineering

polymer surface modification; using polymer self-assembly for the construction of nanostructures; design of biocompatible polymeric materials

Mechanical Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

environment friendly design and life cycle engineering, applications of bio-based materials in manufacturing, fast and low-cost detection of pathogenic microorganisms, biomass thermo-chemical upgrading for liquid and gaseous fuel

Mechanical Engineering

deformation, stress, plasticity, fracture; multiscale modeling, first-principles, molecular dynamics simulations, and finite element modeling; in-situ experiments; mechanics of redox active materials - Li-ion batteries, Na-ion batteries, all-solid-state batteries; mechanics of polymeric materials - organic electrochromics, superelastic organic semiconductors

Purdue University Northwest

Mechanical Engineering

Lyles School of Civil Engineering

Environmental and Ecological Engineering

environmental microbiology and the application of biotechnologies in engineering systems

Mechanical Engineering

advanced heat pumping/heat engine technologies and their equipment, positive displacement compressors and expanders, high performance buildings, thermal management systems