New Faculty
Our faculty make us great, and we add to that strong team every year. Take a moment to get to know some of the newest Grainger Engineers and learn how they will uphold our committment to groundbreaking research and top tier education.
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Research Interests
- Digital and precision agriculture
- Agricultural automation and autonomy
- Controls and sensing for on- and off-highway machine systems
- Machine systems testing, modeling, and analysis
- Heavy-duty vehicle engines and powertrains
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Research Interests
- Interactive Computing
Physics
Research Interests
- Quantum Optics
- Atomic Physics
- Quantum Information Science
Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests
- Astrodynamics
- Planetary Defense
- Celestial Navigation
- Dynamical Systems
- Space Domain Awareness
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Asphalt binder rheology and chemistry
- Mechanics of viscoelastic materials
- Computational modeling of infrastructure materials
- Flexible pavement design, construction, and maintenance
- Pavement surface characteristics and treatments
- Asphalt applications in railroad trackbeds
- Artificial intelligence for infrastructure material engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Pedagogical development of faculty
- Additive manufacturing with cementitious materials
- Near peer mentoring in engineering education
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Atmospheric chemistry - climate interactions
- Air quality in a changing climate
- Biogeochemical cycling of toxic pollutants
- Global earth system modeling
- Air quality impacts of climate engineering and greenhouse gas removal
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Research Interests
- Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) and remote sensing
- Near-infrared (NIR) and Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy
- Deep hyperspectral image reconstruction and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)
- Organic compound-based nanozymes and portable biosensors for toxic molecule detection
- Real-time process monitoring in food and agricultural systems
Physics
Research Interests
- Scanning probe microscopy of quantum materials
- Topological materials
- Hybrid superconducting circuits
- Quantum information with superconducting qubits
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Research Interests
- Broadening Participation in Computing
- Computer Science Education
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests
- Minimally Empirical, Quantum-Based Reactive Interatomic Potentials
- Computational Heterogeneous Catalysis
- Molecular Simulations of Catalyst Environments
- Computational Modeling of Electroseparations
- Structure-Property Relationships of Low-Dimensional Materials
- Microkinetic Modeling
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Research Interests
- Engineering education
Physics
Research Interests
- Quantum networks and distributed quantum computing
- Open quantum systems
- Quantum optics
- Superconducting quantum circuits
- Quantum information processing
Bioengineering
Research Interests
- Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Educational technology
- Inclusive pedagogy
- Instructional laboratories
Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Research Interests
- Data and Information Systems
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Artificial Intelligence
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Optimized sensor placement for civil structures
- Structural dynamics
- Form-finding methods
- Machine learning and robotics for civil structures
- Damage mitigation and risk assessment in large-scale structures
- Adaptive and deployable structures
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Quantum Computing
- Human-Automated Vehicle Interactions
- Artificial Intelligence in Transportation
- Traffic Flow Theory
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Inference abd parameter estimation
- Multiscale modeling
- Uncertainty quantification
- Physics-informed machine learning
- Pore-scale multiphase flow and reactive transport
- Subsurface flow and transport
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests
- Sources and causes of air pollution health impacts and environmental inequity
- Policy-relevant strategies to reduce air pollution health burdens and health disparities
- Development of mechanistic and machine learning models of air pollution and its health effects
Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
Research Interests
- Operations research
- Optimization
- Network analysis and optimization
Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests
- Polymer Chemistry
- Stem Cell Therapy
- Metabolic Cell Labeling and Targeting
- Immunoengineering for Regenerative Medicine
- Cancer Immunotherapy
- Biomaterials
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Research Interests
- Reproducible research
- Experimental performance studies of algorithms
- Hhigh-performance computing
- Phylogenetic tree inference
- Bioinformatics
- Computer science education
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Research Interests
- AI for Systems and Security
- Code LLMs and Agents
- Software Engineering