Principal Investigator
Na (Luna) Lu
Vice President For Industry Partnerships and Reilly Professor of Lyles School of Civil Engineering with courtesy appointment in the school of Materials Engineering
Luna, the Reilly Professor in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the School of Materials Engineering. Luna is also the founding director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure (CII) at Purdue University.
She leads an interdisciplinary research group that works on novel nanomaterials and devices for energy harvesting and sensing applications. Luna has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications; 2 books, 6 book chapters, 1 patent, and 7 provisional patents. Her research work has been featured in many national and regional media. She has won several scientific awards, including the 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. She has also transferred few technologies from her research lab into engineering applications and formed companies based on her innovations.
When she is not working, Luna likes to play LEGO with her daughter. She also enjoys reading biographies of tech leaders, playing piano and hiking in the woods.
She leads an interdisciplinary research group that works on novel nanomaterials and devices for energy harvesting and sensing applications. Luna has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications; 2 books, 6 book chapters, 1 patent, and 7 provisional patents. Her research work has been featured in many national and regional media. She has won several scientific awards, including the 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award. She has also transferred few technologies from her research lab into engineering applications and formed companies based on her innovations.
When she is not working, Luna likes to play LEGO with her daughter. She also enjoys reading biographies of tech leaders, playing piano and hiking in the woods.
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Faculty
Yining Feng
Research Assistant Professor
Yining is a Research Assistant Professor at the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering. Her research area focuses on flexible sensors for biological and environmental related applications. Yining received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Purdue University.
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Post-doctoral researcher
Rui He
Post-doctoral researcher
Rui is a post-doctoral researcher in Civil Engineering. His current research interest is focused on the performance of cementitious materials and the durability of concrete structures. Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Purdue University; M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, China; B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Hohai University, China.
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Graduate Students
Debasmita Baidya
Graduate Research Assistant
Debasmita is a Graduate Student in Civil Engineering. Her current research interest includes development and characterization of piezoelectric nanocomposites for civil engineering sensing applications. She pursued her Bachelor of Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering from Jadavpur University, India.
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Yutao Bi
Graduate Research Assistant
Yutao Bi is a Ph.D. student from Purdue University. He received his master's degree from Xiangtan University, China. His current research interests is the application of piezoelectrical sensors in civil engineering materials.
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Mehrdad Razmara
Graduate Research Assistant
Mehrdad is a graduate student in Civil Engineering with a research focus on concrete durability and the performance of supplementary cementitious materials. He earned his BSc and MSc degrees in Civil and Structural Engineering from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. During his studies, he has explored a range of topics, including prototyping innovative apparatuses to measure the properties of self-consolidating concrete, assessing the properties of ultra-high-performance fiber-reinforced concrete, modeling and optimizing concrete containing recycled aggregates, and developing an image processing algorithm to evaluate the stability of self-consolidating concrete.
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Jookyeung Sung
Graduate Research Assistant
Jookyeung is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He completed his undergraduate studies at Sangmyung University in South Korea and earned his master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research focuses on exploring new Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) and investigating their physical and chemical properties to enhance the durability and sustainability of concrete
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Undergraduate Students
Gabriel Alonso Bazalar
Gabriel is a junior studying Electrical Engineering with a focus on circuit design and embedded systems. He is passionate about autonomous systems, hardware design, and the integration of analog and digital technologies for innovative applications.
Xiangrui Kong
Xiangrui Kong is a junior majoring in Electrical Engineering, focusing on semiconductors and automatic control. He is working on piezoelectric sensor development and application in civil engineering.
Alyssa Launi
Under Graduate Research Assistant - St
Alyssa is a junior studying Civil Engineering with a focus in Hydrology.
Sebastian Mendoza
Under Graduate Research Assistant - St
Sebastian is a freshman in First-Year Engineering, planning on majoring in civil engineering with an intended focus on structural design or materials.
lan Enrique Otero
Ian is a sophomore studying in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Construction Engineering
Shivani Venkata Pemaraj
Shivani Is a sophomore studying Civil Engineering with a concentration in Architectural Engineering.
Elle Quin Roberts
Elle is a sophomore studying Civil Engineering with a concentration in materials engineering
Alumni
Adlan Amran
Student Service - Ce
Romita Biswas
Current Affiliation: Purdue University
Aaron Bukowski
Current Affiliation: PhD in Physics, University of Texas at Dallas
Fei Cao
Current Affiliation: Hohai University, China
Luisa Estefania Catano Echavarria
UREP-C Program Visiting Scientist
Ting-Fung (Jack) Chung
Current Affiliation: Postdoc Scientist, UC Berkeley
Aline Elquist
Current Affiliation: Indiana University, School of Medicine
Yingning Fan
Ce Ugra- Student Service
Ehsan Ghafari
Current Affiliation: Research Assistant Professor, Washington State University
Seyedali Ghahari
Current Affiliation: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Purdue University
Guangshuai Han
Current Affiliation: Post-doc; Johns Hopkins University
Cihang Huang
Current Affiliation: Research engineer; Beyond Engineering
Zhihao Kong
Current Affiliation: Data scientist, Wavelogix
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Bahadir Kucukgok
Current Affiliation: Postdoc Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Harrison Kuszmaul
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Harrison is a sophomore undergraduate student in civil engineering. He is currently helping research ground penetrating radar and its ability to measure the water to cement ratio using the dielectric constant. He also helps measure the material properties of concrete with certain additives.
Eu Jin Lee
Current affiliation: Purdue University
Yao Liu
Current Affiliation: Guangxi University, China
Marek Mroziewski
Current affiliation: Purdue University
Christine Neudeck
Current Affiliation: Materials and Process Engineer, Butler Aerospace and Defense
Romika R. Kotian
Current Affiliation: Graduate Structural Engineer, JPS Consulting Engineers
Enrique Silva
Civil Undergrad Researcher - Student S
Yen-Fang Su
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University