SUNFEST

Faculty and Areas of Research

Areas of Research

  • Micro and Nano Electromechanical Structures and Sensors
  • Nanotechnology and materials for Sensors
  • Robotics and Control oriented projects
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Sensors for Medical and Biomedical Applications
  • Optical and Vision Sensors

Program Faculty

  • Firooz Aflatouni (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Electronic and Photonic systems)
  • Paulo Arratia (Mechanical Engineering – Complex Fluids)
  • Lee Bassett (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Quantum Engineering)
  • Haim Bau (Mechanical Engineering – Microstructures)
  • Sue Ann Bidstrup-Allen (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – Polymers, Nanofabrication and Nanostructured Materials, Electronic Packaging and Interconnection, High Performance Energy Storage Devices)
  • Andre DeHon (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Physical implementation of computation)
  • Eric Detsi (Material Science and Engineering – 3D Nanomaterials)
  • Nader Engheta (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Optics, Polarization Imaging)
  • Deep Jariwala (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics, Low-dimensional Materials, Energy, Surfaces and Interfaces)
  • Michelle Johnson (Bioengineering and School of Medicine – Bio-inspired Robot Control)
  • Cherie Kagan (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Nanostructures and Materials)
  • Jennifer Lukes (Mechanical Engineering – Thermal, fluid, and mass transport phenomena at the nanoscale)
  • Rahul Mangharam (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Safe Autonomous Systems, Safe Medical Devices and Energy Systems)
  • Marc Miskin (Electrical and Systems Engineering – 2D materials, Micro/Nano machines, Atomic-scale Origami, Materials Design)
  • Troy Olsson (Electrical and Systems Engineering – MEMS, Integrated Circuits, Biomedical and IoT Microsystems)
  • George Pappas (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Control Systems, Robotics, Embedded Systems)
  • Alejandro Ribeiro (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Information and Decision Science, Networks)
  • Andrew Richardson (Neurosurgery)
  • Camillo J. Taylor (Computer and Information Science – Robotics and Imaging)
  • Kevin Turner (Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Materials Science and Engineering – Mechanics of Materials, Micro- and Nano-mechanics)
  • Jan Van der Spiegel (Electrical and Systems Engineering – Neural nets, microelectronics)
  • Flavia Vitale (Neurology)
  • Cynthia Sung (Mechanical Engineering – Nanorobots, Robogami)
  • Shu Yang, (Materials Science and Engineering – Nano-technology)
  • Mark Yim (Mechanical Engineering – Modular reconfigurable robots and locomotion, PolyBot)