PeopleCore Faculty
Ange-Therese Akono
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Biosystems and Health, Energy and Sustainability, AI and Design
Brenna Argall
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design
Oluwaseyi Balogun
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Biosystems and Health, Energy and Sustainability
Zdeněk Bažant
McCormick Institute Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Fracture/Damage Mechanics, Probabilistic Models, Poromechanics, Sustainability
Jian Cao
Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Director, Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation (NIMSI)
Research Areas: Advanced Manufacturing, Computational Engineering, AI and Design, Robotics and Autonomy
Wei Chen
Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design
Research Areas: AI and Design, Computational Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Micro/Nanoengineering
Yip-Wah Chung
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Advanced Manufacturing
J. Edward Colgate
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Haptics; surface haptics; human-machine interaction; perception; cobots
Jennifer Dunn
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Associate Director, Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience
Kornel Ehmann
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Advanced Manufacturing, AI and Design, Micro/Nanoengineering
Horacio Espinosa
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship
Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program
Director of the Institute for Cellular Engineering Technologies
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design, Computational Engineering
Steven Gard
Associate Professor of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
(and by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Elizabeth Gerber
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science
Professor of Communication Studies
Co-Director, Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design
Research Area: AI and Design
Sandip Ghosal
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Computational Engineering, Energy and Sustainability
Ping Guo
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Advanced Manufacturing, Micro/Nanoengineering, Robotics and Autonomy
Mitra Hartmann
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies for Biomedical Engineering
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design
Yonggang Huang
Jan and Marcia Achenbach Professorship in Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Research Areas: Computational Engineering, Biosystems and Health, Micro/Nanoengineering
Mark Johnson
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Ophthalmology
Research Areas: Biosystems and Health, Micro/Nanoengineering
Sinan Keten
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering
June and Donald Brewer Professor
Research Areas: Computational Engineering, Micro/Nanoengineering, AI and Design, Biosystems and Health
Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Center for Smart Structures and Materials
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Advanced Manufacturing, AI and Design, Computational Engineering
Manohar Kulkarni
Clinical Full Professor and Assistant Chairperson of Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate Program Chair; MS and BS/MS Program Director
Research Areas: Energy Optimal Control of Thermal Systems; Thermal Systems Design and Analyses; Energy Management; Energy and Sustainability
Victor Lefevre
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Computational Engineering, Micro/Nanoengineering
Seth Lichter
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Energy and Sustainability, Computational Engineering
Wing Liu
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Research Areas: Computational Engineering, AI and Design, Advanced Manufacturing
Richard Lueptow
Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Senior Associate Dean for Research
Research Areas: Energy and Sustainability, Micro/Nanoengineering
Kevin Lynch
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Center for Robotics and Biosystems
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design, Advanced Manufacturing
Malcolm MacIver
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design
Michael Miksis
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Computational Engineering, Biosystems and Health
Todd Murphey
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design
Julio Ottino
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor
Dean
Research Areas: Computational Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, AI and Design, Energy and Sustainability
Aaron Packman
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Areas: Energy and Sustainability, Biosystems and Health, Advanced Manufacturing
K.-C Kenneth Park
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Energy and Sustainability, Micro/Nanoengineering, Biosystems and Health, Advanced Manufacturing
Neelesh Patankar
Professor and Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Research Areas: Computational Engineering, Biosystems and Health, Energy and Sustainability, Micro/Nanoengineering
Michael Peshkin
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Breed Senior Professor of Design
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, AI and Design, Biosystems and Health
John Rogers
Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery (and by courtesy Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemistry)
Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics
Research Areas: Biosystems and Health, Micro/Nanoengineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Robotics and Autonomy
Michael Rubenstein
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, AI and Design, Advanced Manufacturing, Micro/Nanoengineering
John Rudnicki
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Energy and Sustainability, Computational Engineering
Cheng Sun
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Advanced Manufacturing, Micro/Nanoengineering, Biosystems and Health, AI and Design
Ryan Truby
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Robotics and Autonomy, Advanced Manufacturing, AI and Design, Biosystems and Health
Petia Vlahovska
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Micro/Nanoengineering, Biosystems and Health, Robotics and Autonomy, Advanced Manufacturing
Gregory Wagner
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Bette and Neison Harris Chair in Teaching Excellence
Director of Graduate Studies for Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Computational Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Biosystems and Health
Q. Jane Wang
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas: Energy and Sustainability, Computational Engineering, Micro/Nanoengineering, AI and Design