Research Faculty

Erika Barcelos

Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Develops geospatial predictive models and geospatial data science tools to study climate and environmental related phenomena and their impacts in nature. Develop data management and data integration frameworks for data and metadata to enable FAIRification.

Pawan Tripathi

Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Develop data analysis techniques, tools, and pipelines for high dimensional datasets in materials science such as synchrotron XRD, XCT, and advanced manufacturing to reveal insights, and correlations and improve predictive modeling leveraging deep learning, artificial intelligence, and statistical methods.

Materials Data Science, Advanced Manufacturing, Synchrotron Data Analysis, Image Processing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Uncertainty Quantification, Atomistic Simulation

Chung-Fu Cheng

Research Assistant Professor, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
My research interest focuses on developing polymers with unique mechanical properties and understanding their process-structure-property relationships.

Hoda Amani Hamedani

Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Develops multifunctional materials and flexible nanostructured platforms for electrochemical and biomedical devices, localized drug delivery, neural interfacing, and electrochemical sensing; studies nanomaterials evolution/interactions in controlled (liquid) environments using in-situ characterization techniques

Janet Gbur

Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Grant McCallum

Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
The development of peripheral nerve interfaces, low-noise neural recording systems, and implantable biotelemetry devices.

Alberto Costa

Research Assistant Professor, Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Jun Kojima

Research Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Advance optical diagnostics and thermal fluids science for aero-propulsion and low-gravity exploration researches

Amita Vaidya

Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering