Several presenters at the Forge Expo gather around a poster discussing the research at hand.

Student research mentors

Faculty mentors for the FURI, MORE and GSCP programs guide students while gaining valuable ground on key research projects.

Ready to mentor

The following Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering faculty members are looking for students to participate in undergraduate and graduate research projects. Be sure to check out their profiles for the specific subject areas they are interested in exploring.

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Ruben Acuna

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEducation
My core interest is improving learning in programming courses through automated assessment tools (AATs). Developing AATs is a challenging problem that centers on feedback generation, often using assessment information extracted…
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Aman Arora

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREEnergyFURISustainability
Current research focus: using machine learning for chip design, sustainable computing, machine learning acceleration, reconfigurable computing.
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Zachariah Berkson

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Interests:

FURIMOREEnergySustainability
The Berkson Lab at ASU focuses on cutting-edge research bridging chemical engineering, materials science, and inorganic chemistry. Current focus areas include understanding and designing functional interfaces of heterogeneous catalysts, nanostructured…
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Bharatesh Chakravarthi

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREDataSustainability
Current research spans: computer vision, artificial intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, autonomous systems, motion capture systems.
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Maria Elena Chavez Echeagaray

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

Interests:

FURIEducation
My research includes studies where we can learn how the experience for a user/customer/learner can be improved. This goes from learning how the interaction between an user/customer/learner and graphical user…
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Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREFURI
In the rising of artificial intelligence (AI), the new computing configurations on the basis of non-volatile memory attracts considerable attentions to create the new computing paradigms. Among the emerging memories,…
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Gennaro De Luca

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEducation
My research currently focuses on quantum computing, especially quantum machine learning (quantum generative models, quantum variational classifiers, etc.) and applications of classical AI to quantum computing.
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Zhaoyang (Frank) Fan

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREEnergy
Current research focus: advanced metal-air battery research; water electrolysis for hydrogen fuel production.
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Nakul Gopalan

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEducationHealthFURISustainability
I am a roboticist specifically interested in robot learning and planning. Along with robot learning problems, I work on some water sustainability projects, some medical machine learning-based projects, and some…
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Paul Grogan

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREData
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Xiangyu Guo

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

Interests:

FURIMOREFURISustainability
Current research spans: 3D Printable Mirror Design and Analysis; Multi-material structure 3D Reconstruction via machine vision assisted spectroscopy; 6 DOF Compact Interferometer Development.
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Julianne Holloway

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Interests:

FURIMOREHealth
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Kailong Jin

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Interests:

FURIMORESustainability
Current research focus: sustainable polymers, plastic recycling, and nanoporous covalent organic frameworks for separations and water harvesting applications.
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Deniz Karakoc

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREDataSustainability
Current research focus: agriculture and food systems, food security, resilience, sustainability, equity.
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Saurav Kumar

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Interests:

FURIMOREDataSustainability
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Kexin Li

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREFURI
Current research focus: semiconductor device modeling and simulation.
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Cindy (Xiangjia) Li

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Interests:

FURIMOREEnergyFURISustainability
Current research focus: solar cell fabrication, bio-inspired material design, 3D printing process development and optimization.
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Huan Liu

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIData
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Ryan Meuth

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

Interests:

FURIDataEducation
I am interested in artificial intelligence, robotics, and computer science education-focused research topics.
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Jaron Mink

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEducationSecurity
In addition to his other research interest, Mink investigates how to improve scaleable cybersecurity education. See also: Lab Website and Personal Website
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Ozgur Ozmen

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMORESecurity
My research is centered around enhancing the security and privacy of emerging computing platforms and their interactions with physical surroundings through systems design, formal methods, machine learning, and applied cryptography….
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Rong Pan

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEducation
Current research focus: machine learning, graphical models, agentic AI, data visualization.
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Mike Ranjram

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREEnergy
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Nicholas Rolston

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEnergyFURISustainability
Our group’s research goals are to develop next-generation energy and semiconductor technologies and to ensure that they are fit for manufacturability and durability. We study the connection between material degradation…
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Emmanuel Salifu

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Interests:

FURIMORESustainability
Current research focus: soil restoration post-wildfire events, erosion control using microbial- and/or fungi-mediated approaches, development and characterization of fungi mycelium-based biomaterials and composites.
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Sarah Stabenfeldt

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREHealth
Current research focus: development of diagnostics and therapeutics for neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases using biomaterials systems.
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Jiefeng Sun

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Interests:

FURIMOREDataHealthSecurity
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Georgios Trichopoulos

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREDataHealthSecurityFURI
Current areas of research: electromagnetics, antenna engineering, and microwave circuits; 5/6G wireless communication systems; remote sensing of biomarkers; radar sensing and imaging; programmable electromagnetic surfaces.
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Liping Wang

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Interests:

FURIMOREEnergyFURISustainability
Dr. Wang’s research group focuses on radiative energy transfer, including, but not limited to, characterizations of optical and infrared properties (using spectrometers, monochromators, lasers, etc.), lab tests of energy conversion…
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Meng Wu

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEnergySecuritySustainability
Current research spans: 1) Energy decarbonization under climate change: reliability, resilience, stability, economics; 2) Operation, control, and modeling of carbon-neutral power systems with DERs, utility-scale renewables, and energy storage; 3)…
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Tianfang Xu

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Interests:

FURIMOREDataSustainability
Recent projects include machine learning-based modeling of groundwater availability and quality at regional scales, heat and carbon mitigation by urban greening, deep learning modeling of snow dominated mountainous karst watersheds,…
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Guoliang Xue

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

Interests:

FURISecurity
Research areas: Resilience in Internet of Things and Future Generation Networks; Quantum Networks; Wireless Networks.
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Ruijie Zeng

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Interests:

FURIMOREDataSustainability
Current research focus: water resources management, climate change, sustainability, remote sensing, renewable energy.
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Jeff Zhang

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Interests:

FURIMOREData
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Wenlong Zhang

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

Interests:

FURIMOREDataHealthFURISustainability
We work on robotics, control systems, and artificial intelligence. In particular, we have ongoing projects on soft robotics, aerial robots, manufacturing robots, and human-robot interactions.
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Junfeng Zhao

Engineering, The Polytechnic School

Interests:

FURIMOREDataEnergySustainability
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Haolin Zhu

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

Interests:

FURIEducation

Mentors from the current expo

The Spring 2025 expo features 209 projects mentored by 107 dedicated faculty mentors from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Our faculty member profile pages each contain a list of the projects and students they have mentored over the last several years. Students seeking to understand which faculty mentor might be right for their research interests should consider browsing these lists as a part of their application preparation process.

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Adil Ahmad

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Terry Alford

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Christian Arenz

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Aman Arora

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Daniel Aukes

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Ajay Bansal

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Chitta Baral

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Alicia Baumann

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Jennifer Blain

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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David Brafman

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Bharatesh Chakravarthi

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Michael Clough

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Peter Crozier

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Werner Dahm

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Anca Delgado

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Deana Delp

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Shuguang Deng

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Heather Emady

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Ahmed Ewaisha

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Seyedmohammadreza Faghih Imani

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Houqiang Fu

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Margaret Garcia

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Sergio Garcia Segura

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Nakul Gopalan

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Michael Goryll

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Matthew Green

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Paul Grogan

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Zhicheng Guo

Engineering, The Polytechnic School

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Sandeep Gupta

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Julianne Holloway

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Keng Hsu

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Huei-Ping Huang

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Yoon Hwa

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Leslie Hwang

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Suren Jayasuriya

School of Arts Media and Engineering

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Heejin Jeong

Human Systems Engineering, The Polytechnic School

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Wanxin Jin

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Wonmo Kang

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Mohamed Kasbaoui

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Hokeun Kim

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Beomjin Kwon

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Klaus Lackner

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Leila Ladani

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Heewook Lee

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Hyunglae Lee

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Kookjin Lee

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Kexin Li

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Cindy (Xiangjia) Li

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Jerry Lin

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Huan Liu

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Leixin Ma

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Michael Machas

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Adwith Malpe

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Ryan Meuth

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Christopher Muhich

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Jitendran Muthuswamy

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Narayanan Neithalath

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Qiong Nian

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Hasan Ozer

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Ozgur Ozmen

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Dorsa Parviz

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Gokul Pathikonda

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Patrick Phelan

Fulton Schools of Engineering

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Vincent Pizziconi

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Christopher Plaisier

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Minglei Qu

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Jagannathan Rajagopalan

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Mike Ranjram

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Andrea Richa

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Nicholas Rolston

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Konrad Rykaczewski

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Emmanuel Salifu

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Sydney Schaefer

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Hasti Seifi

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Ransalu Senanayake

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Bing Si

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Anoop Singh

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Joana Sipe

School of Integrated Engineering

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SungMin Sohn

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Siddharth Srivastava

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Sarah Stabenfeldt

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Eric Stribling

Interplanetary Initiative

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Jiefeng Sun

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Dajiang Suo

Engineering, The Polytechnic School

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Seth Ariel Tongay

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Georgios Trichopoulos

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Ayca Tuzmen

ENGR Academic & Student Affrs

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Brent Vernon

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Kuei-Chun (Mark) Wang

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Liping Wang

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Robert Wang

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Shaopeng Wang

Biodesign Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors

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Chao Wang (Assoc Prof)

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

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Jessica Weaver

School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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Hua Wei

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Sui Yang

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Tianyu Yang

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Jordan Yaron

School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

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Ruijie Zeng

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

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Wenlong Zhang

School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks

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Junfeng Zhao

Engineering, The Polytechnic School

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Ben Zhou

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence

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Jia Zou

School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence