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 reach out to faculty to discuss your interests and the possibility of working together before listing them on your FURI or MORE application.
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…
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Using machine learning for chip design, sustainable computing, machine learning acceleration, reconfigurable computing.
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
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…
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Computer vision, artificial intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, autonomous systems, motion capture systems.
ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
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…
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
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,…
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
My research is in Electronic Design Automation, an area that develops software to design chips. I apply AI techniques to design chips to lower the barriers to entry.
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
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.
Use technology to improve engineering training and education. Specifically, augment the physical, cognitive, and social performance of humans through the use of emerging technologies (VR/AR, AI). This work covers two…
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Advanced metal-air battery research; water electrolysis for hydrogen fuel production.
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
My team’s research focuses on understanding hydrology in a changing environment (particularly floods and droughts), assessing the robustness of infrastructure to change, and developing tools and strategies to enhance infrastructure…
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Machine learning based robotics; safe control design for autonomous systems; data-based control design
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
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…
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
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School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
Adjacent segment disease (ASD) remains a significant and poorly understood complication of lumbar spinal fusion surgery. This project aims to develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) model informed by clinical…
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
3D Printable Mirror Design and Analysis; Multi-material structure 3D Reconstruction via machine vision assisted spectroscopy; 6 DOF Compact Interferometer Development.
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
I build AI that actually understands tables, charts, maps, and diagrams—not just text. By pairing large language models with tools like SQL and GIS, I make answers checkable, transparent, and…
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Analyzing mobile apps for security and privacy; machine learning and inference attacks on data privacy; developing visualization tools to teach data privacy. Some level of competency in the following areas…
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
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Engineering, The Polytechnic School
Jiang’s group focuses on process intensification of meso-solid transition, realizing simple but scalable precision for material production and resource recovery, bridging smart materials, clean energy systems, and future medicine.
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Sustainable polymers, plastic recycling, and nanoporous covalent organic frameworks for separations and water harvesting applications.
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Agriculture and food systems, food security, resilience, sustainability, equity.
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Our lab is conducting research projects in machine learning for remote sensing, algorithmic bias, and machine learning theory.
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
My group designs and studies new materials (e.g., membranes, sorbents) for water purification and resource recovery. Our work combines water chemistry, polymer science, and engineering design. Researchers will gain hands-on…
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Semiconductor device modeling and simulation.
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Solar cell fabrication, bio-inspired material design, 3D printing process development and optimization.
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
My research interests are in AI + robotics, surgical robotics, and medical devices, with the overarching goal of intelligent healthcare and autonomous surgery. My work covers robotic perception, motion planning,…
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
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ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
I am interested in artificial intelligence, robotics, and computer science education-focused research topics.
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
In addition to their other research interest, Mink investigates how to improve scaleable cybersecurity education. See also: Lab Website and Personal Website
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
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….
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Machine learning, graphical models, agentic AI, data visualization.
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
My research focuses on integrating blockchain technology with sustainable systems to ensure transparency, security, and efficiency in resource management. I aim to design decentralized architectures that optimize energy consumption while…
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
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Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology
We are conducting research on using microbiological systems to remove and recover metals from wastewater associated with mining, ore processing, and recycling. The work involved laboratory-based experiments using bench-scale reactors….
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
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…
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
My research centers on human-centered AI for healthcare, creating mobile, wearable, and passive sensing technologies to automate health diagnosis, monitoring, and timely interventions. A significant focus of my work is…
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Soil restoration post-wildfire events, erosion control using microbial- and/or fungi-mediated approaches, development and characterization of fungi mycelium-based biomaterials and composites.
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Designing inference and generative models to ensure high accuracy and performance across classes, groups, and sets.
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Our lab bridges polymer design, processing, and engineering to develop materials systems for supporting sustainable technologies, such as water purification, carbon capture, and advanced sensing. Ongoing research projects in the…
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
Development of diagnostics and therapeutics for neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases using biomaterials systems.
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
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School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
We are developing smart burrowing robots that can autonomously burrow into the ground, sense their environment, and characterize soil properties. This research involves design, rapid prototyping, laboratory experiments using a…
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
My research focuses on developing robotic technologies for environmental remediation and ecological stewardship. I am particularly interested in tackling challenges like rough-terrain navigation, robotic excavation for decontamination, and using advanced…
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Electromagnetics, antenna engineering, and microwave circuits; 5/6G wireless communication systems; remote sensing of biomarkers; radar sensing and imaging; programmable electromagnetic surfaces.
ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
Software verification and validation.
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Composites and metamaterials for mechanical and aerospace applications, drones and other autonomous vehicles, thermal management of semiconductors, modeling the response of structural materials.
ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
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School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
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…
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
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)…
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
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,…
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
Resilience in Internet of Things and Future Generation Networks; Quantum Networks; Wireless Networks.
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Thermal management of electronics, heat transfer, phase change materials, wearable and implantable bio-devices.
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
Our current research focuses on advanced manufacturing of polymers and fiber-reinforced composites, with an emphasis on rapid, energy-efficient fabrication methods. We integrate knowledge from materials science, mechanics, automation, and robotics…
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Water resources management, climate change, sustainability, remote sensing, renewable energy.
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
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School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
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.
Engineering, The Polytechnic School
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ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
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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.
Information Technology, The Polytechnic School
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Human Systems Engineering, The Polytechnic School
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Engineering, The Polytechnic School
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
ENGR Academic & Student Affrs
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
School of Manufacturing Systems and Networks
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
