Spotlights
Somil Bansal
Assistant Professor
I want to put robots in every home in America …
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Christine Baker
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I grew up in Renton, Washington, near Puget Sound, which is a beautiful part of the Pacific …
Read Christine Baker's story for September 03, 2024
Alicia Sheares
Assistant Professor
Management Science and Engineering
I grew up about 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County, where we were a Black family in …
Read Alicia Sheares's story for February 27, 2024
Sanmi Koyejo
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
I’m interested in thinking about artificial intelligence in a rigorous way …
Read Sanmi Koyejo's story for November 09, 2023
Iro Armeni
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
As a kid I would go to construction sites with my dad, a civil engineer, and he’d show me plans …
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Barbara Simpson
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I call myself an accidental engineer …
Read Barbara Simpson's story for January 12, 2023
Khalid Osman
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Life has taken me on a long journey …
Read Khalid Osman's story for November 29, 2022
Michaëlle Mayalu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
My dad was my first introduction to the field of engineering …
Read Michaëlle Mayalu's story for September 22, 2022
Matthew Edwards
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I’m interested in the ability of high-powered lasers, with their extremely bright light, to help …
Read Matthew Edwards's story for August 25, 2022
Srabanti Chowdhury
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
I’m an associate professor of electrical engineering and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute …
Read Srabanti Chowdhury's story for March 23, 2022
Juan Rivas Davila
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
I’ve always been interested in physics and engineering, and growing up in Mexico a good friend and …
Read Juan Rivas Davila's story for February 14, 2022
Xiaolin Zheng
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Two of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years are the importance of taking advantage of …
Read Xiaolin Zheng's story for November 09, 2021
Renee Zhao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I study soft composites and soft robotic systems for use in minimally invasive biomedical devices …
Read Renee Zhao's story for October 12, 2021
Ovijit Chaudhuri
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: As an undergraduate I was passionate about math and physics, and I knew I wanted to …
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Sarah Fletcher
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always wanted to find solutions to problems that were really going to help …
Read Sarah Fletcher's story for February 04, 2021
Wendy Gu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always liked research. I really became interested in both engineering and …
Read Wendy Gu's story for February 04, 2021
Joseph DeSimone
Professor of Translational Medicine and of
Chemical Engineering
As a chemical engineer, I’ve worked on a lot of projects that seem totally different on the …
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Haeyoung Noh
Associate Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
As an engineer, I work on a concept called ‘structure as a sensor.’ …
Read Haeyoung Noh's story for October 04, 2020
Grace Gao
Assistant Professor
Aeronautics and Astronautics
I’ve always had a lot of different interests. As a kid, I was very into math, science, engineering …
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Monther Abu-Remaileh
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
I study the biochemistry of an organelle called the lysosome. It’s sort of like the “garbage …
Read Monther Abu-Remaileh's story for July 04, 2020
Danielle Mai
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
I’m a biopolymer engineer, which means I tinker with molecules that are the building materials of …
Read Danielle Mai's story for May 04, 2020
Monroe Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I see “problems” less as impassable obstacles and more as things that can be …
Read Monroe Kennedy's story for February 04, 2020