Spotlights
Christine Baker
Assistant Professor
I grew up in Renton, Washington, near Puget Sound, which is a beautiful part of the Pacific …
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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 …
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Sanmi Koyejo
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
I’m interested in thinking about artificial intelligence in a rigorous way …
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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 …
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Khalid Osman
Assistant Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Life has taken me on a long journey …
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Michaëlle Mayalu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
My dad was my first introduction to the field of engineering …
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Matthew Edwards
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I’m interested in the ability of high-powered lasers, with their extremely bright light, to help …
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Srabanti Chowdhury
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
I’m an associate professor of electrical engineering and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute …
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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 …
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Xiaolin Zheng
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Two of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over the years are the importance of taking advantage of …
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Renee Zhao
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
I study soft composites and soft robotic systems for use in minimally invasive biomedical devices …
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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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Wendy Gu
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always liked research. I really became interested in both engineering and …
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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 …
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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.’ …
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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 …
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Danielle Mai
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
I’m a biopolymer engineer, which means I tinker with molecules that are the building materials of …
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Monroe Kennedy
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I see “problems” less as impassable obstacles and more as things that can be …
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Jian Qin
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
My job is to help people to understand how common polymeric materials, like plastics and silly …
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