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.

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.

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 nanographene in civil engineering materials

Guangshuai Han is a Ph.D. student from Purdue University. He received his bachelor ‘s degree from Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He is an interdisciplinary researcher dedicated to solving advanced materials and sensing issues in engineering using AI technology. His research focuses on a wide range of areas, including flexible electronic materials, molecular dynamics simulations, structural health monitoring, and AI-guided advanced material exploration and design.

B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Rui is a graduate student in Civil Engineering. His current research interest is focused on the performance of cementitious materials and the durability of concrete structures. M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, China B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Hohai University, China

Cihang is a graduate student in Civil Engineering. His current research interest is pavement materials engineering.

B. Sc. Civil Engineering, Chang'an University, China

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.

Roshan is a junior in civil engineering from Oahu, HI with an intended focus of transportation.

Alyssa is a junior studying Civil Engineering with a focus in Hydrology.

Sebastian is a freshman in First-Year Engineering, planning on majoring in civil engineering with an intended focus on structural design or strength.

Current Affiliation: Data scientist, Wavelogix

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.

Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University