Presidential Frontier Faculty Members

Faculty Name Focus Area
Aaryani Tipirneni-Sajja Healthcare Innovations through Accessible Healthcare and Disease Control (Medical Imaging and AI)
Abigail Beck Sustainable Communities and Infrastructure Thrust Supporting the Sustainable Infrastructure Smart Cities Aspire Institute (SISCAI)
Arthur Fernandes Applied Epidemiology
Barak Abraham Schmookler Experimental Nuclear Physics
Ben Xu Sustainable Energy and Security
Biresh Joarder Applied Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing
Bin Liu Translational Immunology
Brett Welch Biostatistician in Communication, Education, and/or Healthcare
Carlee Purdum Environmental Sociology with a Focus on Environmental Health and Climate-Related Disasters
Chinonso Anozie Clean Energy and Carbon Capture and Management
Chorong Park User Experience and User Interaction (UX/UI) Design
Chris Battaglia Automation and Materials for Building; Smart Cities
Dalia Munenzon Sustainable Communities and Infrastructure Thrust
Elham Morshedzadeh Accessible Healthcare Thrust: Supporting Automation and Materials for Medical Devices and Prosthetics
Fanfei Meng Pharmaceutics
Feng Yan Artificial Intelligence
Hussein Nassar Aerospace Engineering
Hyeongseon Jeon Statistics and Data Science
Jacob Gilbert Smith Applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large-Scale Machine Learning (ML)
Jiaxuan Li Subsurface Imaging, Fracture Mechanics, and/or Fluid-Rock Interactions for Geological Carbon Storage, Geothermal Resources, and Critical Metals in Crustal Fluids
Jianyi Yang Applied Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Jinchao Ni Privacy and Security in Healthcare
Jinping Hu Planetary Science
Jingyi Luan Experimental Development and Characterization of Quantum Materials
Johannes Klausmann Sustainable Energy and the Energy Transition
Josephine Hinds Minority Health and Health Disparities
Justin Valentine Gilbert Sustainable Communities and Infrastructure
Kunxiaojia Yuan Coastal Resiliency
Leonora Kaldaras Artificial Intelligence, Teaching, and Learning
Mahbub Hossain Accessible Healthcare & Disease Control
Mingjian Wen Applied Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing
Michal Papaj Quantum Materials
Muhao Chen Aerospace Engineering
Neema Langa Sociology of Health
Nikolas Guggenberger Cyber Security & Data Protection
Peizhu Qian Affective Computing and Human-Centered AI
Ran An Healthcare Innovations: Accessible Healthcare, Disease Control, and Drug Discovery & Development
Rita Margaret Julien Tax Law & Energy Transition
Samuel Arenberg Public Health and Health Policy
Seoung Hoon Park Sensorimotor Function and Associated Disorders
Shubham Akshat Accessible Healthcare & Disease Control
Sri Bala Gorugantu Sustainable Energy and Chemicals (Energy Transition)
Steffan Hitzemann Sustainable Energy and Security
Thomas Hanigan Synthetic Medicinal Chemistry
Tiansheng Wang Pharmacoepidemiology
Tyler Varisco Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes and Policy
Vinod Kumar Biomanufacturing for Health and Environmental Enhancement
Vivek Kumar Digital Health Diagnostics and Monitoring
Xin Jiang Energy Transition Innovations
Yabo Niu Statistics, Applied Probability, and Data Science in Population Health
Yibo Fan Translational Research
Youtong Zheng Climate Dynamics and Modeling
Zhengwei Li Healthcare Innovations through Accessible Healthcare, Disease Control, and Drug Discovery and Development
Zhuo Tan Healthcare Innovations through Accessible Healthcare and Disease Control (Public and Population Health)