Faculty Mentors

NOTICE: The following list of current and previous LSAMP faculty mentors is provided to assist in locating a faculty mentor. However, all Purdue faculty are eligible to participate as a mentor for LSAMP. You may request to work with any research faculty at Purdue.

Agriculture

Agricultural Science

• Dr. Paul Collodi - pcollodi@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/ansc/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=pcollodi

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

• Dr. Jenna Rickus - rickus@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=7235

• Dr. Joseph Irudayaraj - josephi@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=33001 

• Dr. Klein Ileleji - ileleji@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/~biomass/KEI.htm

• Dr. Bernard Engel - engelb@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=1608

• Dr. Rabi Mohtar - mohtar@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=1679

• Robert Stwalley - rms3@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=7402

Agronomy

• Dr. Phillip Owens - prowens@purdue.edu

  • https://www.agry.purdue.edu/staffbio/owens/owens.asp 

 

Animal Sciences

• Dr. Patricia "Scottie" Hester - phester@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/ansc/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=phester

• Dr. Mark Russell - mrussell@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/ansc/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mrussell

• Dr. Rod Allrich - rallrich@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/ansc/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=rallrich

 

Forestry and Natural Resources

• Dr. Reuben Goforth  - rgoforth@purdue.edu

  • https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/goforth/

  • http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rgoforth/

Engineering

Aeronautics and Astronautics

• Dr. Vikas Tomar - tomar@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=55699

• Dr. Li Qiao - lqiao@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=39640

• Dr. Karen Marais - kmarais@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=50933

• Dr. Alina Alexeenko - alexeenk@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=23887

• Dr. Stephen Heister - heister@ecn.purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/people/ptProfile?resource_id=1326

 

Biomedical Engineering

• Dr. David Thompson - thompsde@purdue.edu

  • https://www.chem.purdue.edu/activity/public/profile/chem/davethom

 

Chemical Engineering

• Dr. Michael T. Harris - mtharris@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/people/ptProfile?id=11129

• Dr. Julie Liu - julieliu@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/people/ptProfile?id=43169

• Dr. David S. Corti - dscorti@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/people/ptProfile?id=11551

 

Civil Engineering

• Dr. Robert Connor - rconnor@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/ptProfile?resource_id=9003

• Dr. Dulcy Abraham - dulcy@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/CEM/people/Personal/Abraham

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Dr. Venkataramanan Balakrishnan - ragu@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/~ragu/

 

Engineering Education

• Dr. Carla Zoltowski - cbz@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/Engr/People/ptProfile?resource_id=2874

• Dr. Senay Purzer- senay@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/People/profile?resource_id=46138

 

Industrial Engineering

• Dr. Steve Landry- slandry@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/people/steven.j.landry.1

Materials Engineering

• Dr. John Blendell - blendell@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/people/ptProfile?id=11080

• Dr. Jeffrey Youngblood - jpyoungb@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/people/Faculty/jpyoungb

 

Mechanical Engineering

• Dr. Eric Nauman - enauman@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?id=12186

• Dr. Carl Wassgren - wassgren@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/~wassgren/research/index.html

• Dr. Kai M. Li - mmkmli@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?id=25901

• Dr. Thomas Siegmund - siegmund@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/People/ptProfile?id=12303

• Dr. Fu Zhao - fzhao@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/~fzhao/

• Dr. Jong Hyun Choi - jchoi@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/~jchoi/

• Dr. Steven Frankel - frankel.steven@gmail.com

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/CFDLAB/

 

Nuclear Engineering

• Dr. Shripad Revankar - shripad@purdue.edu

  • https://engineering.purdue.edu/~shripad/

 

Sciences

Biochemistry

• Dr. James Clemens - jclemens@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/biochem/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=jclemens&intDirDeptID=9

• Dr. Mark Hall - mchall@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/biochem/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mchall&intDirDeptID=9

• Dr. Scott Briggs - sdbriggs@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/biochem/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=sdbriggs&intDirDeptID=9

• Dr. Joseph P. Ogas - ogas@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/biochem/Pages/profile.aspx?strAlias=ogas 

• Dr. Frederick Gimble - fgimble@purdue.edu

  • https://ag.purdue.edu/biochem/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=fgimble&intDirDeptID=9

 

Biological Sciences

• Dr. Nancy Pelaez - npelaez@purdue.edu

  • https://www.bio.purdue.edu/People/faculty_dm/directory.php?refID=378

• Dr. Claudio Aguilar- claudio@purdue.edu

  • https://www.bio.purdue.edu/People/faculty_dm/directory.php?refID=184

  • https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruben_Aguilar2

 

• Dr. Ignacio Camarillo - ignacio@purdue.edu

  • https://www.bio.purdue.edu/People/faculty_dm/directory.php?refID=160

• Dr. Jason Lanman - jlanman@purdue.edu

  • https://purdueproteins.wordpress.com/speakers-2/lanman/

• Dr. Daniel Suter - dsuter@purdue.edu

  • http://suterlab.bio.purdue.edu/people.html

• Dr. Henry Chang - hcchang@purdue.edu

  • https://www.bio.purdue.edu/People/faculty_dm/directory.php?refID=180

• Dr. Kerry Rabenold - rabenold@purdue.edu

  • https://www.bio.purdue.edu/People/faculty_dm/directory.php?refID=34

• Dr. Esteban Fernandez-Juricic - efernan@purdue.edu

  • http://estebanfj.bio.purdue.edu/

• Dr. Jeffrey Lucas - jlucas@purdue.edu

  • https://lucaslabpurdue.weebly.com/ 

 

Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology

• Dr. Kavita Shah - kavitashah@purdue.edu

  • http://www.chem.purdue.edu/shah/

 

Chemistry

• Dr. Minou Bina - bina@purdue.edu

  • http://www.chem.purdue.edu/bina/

• Dr. Robert G. Cooks - cooks@purdue.edu

  • http://aston.chem.purdue.edu/

• Dr. Chittaranjan Das - cdas@purdue.edu

  • https://www.chem.purdue.edu/das/assets/

• Dr. Jonathan Wilker - wilker@purdue.edu

  • https://www.chem.purdue.edu/wilker/

 

Comparative Pathobiology

• Dr. Roman Pogranichniy - mp@purdue.edu

  • https://www.vet.purdue.edu/directory/person.php?id=85

• Dr. Sulma Mohammed - mohammes@purdue.edu

  • https://www.vet.purdue.edu/directory/person.php?id=83

• Dr. Guangjun Zhang - gjzhang@purdue.edu

  • https://vet.purdue.edu/directory/person.php?id=222

 

Computer Science

• Dr. Suresh Jagannathan - suresh@purdue.edu

  • https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/suresh/

• Dr. Aditya Mathur - apm@purdue.edu.edu

  • https://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/apm/

• Dr. Voicu Popescu - vpopescu@purdue.edu

  • https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/popescu/

• Dr. Sabre Kais - kais@purdue.edu

  • http://www.chem.purdue.edu/kais/

 

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

• Dr. Timothy Filley - filley@purdue.edu

  • http://www.eaps.purdue.edu/filley/ 

 

Nutrition Science

• Dr. James Fleet - fleet@purdue.edu

  • http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/nutr/directory/faculty/fleet_james.html

• Dr. Heather Eicher- Miller - heicherm@purdue.edu

  • http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/nutr/directory/faculty/eicher-miller_heather.html

 

Human Development and Family Studies

• Dr. Sharon Christ - sharon-christ@purdue.edu

  • http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/hdfs/directory/faculty/christ_sharon.html

• Dr. Zoe Taylor  - zetaylor@purdue.edu

  • https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/hdfs/directory/faculty/taylor_zoe.html

• Dr. Blake Jones - blakejones@purdue.edu

• Dr. Cleveland Shields - cgshields@purdue.edu

  • http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/hdfs/directory/faculty/shields_cleveland.html

 

Industrial and Physical Pharmacy

• Dr. Lynne Taylor - lstaylor@purdue.edu

  • http://www.ipph.purdue.edu/faculty/?uid=ltaylor

• Dr. Yoon Yeo - yyeo@purdue.edu

  • http://www.ipph.purdue.edu/faculty/?uid=yyeo

 

Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

• Dr. Tony Hazbun - thazbun@purdue.edu

  • http://www.mcmp.purdue.edu/faculty/?uid=hazbun

• Dr. Chang-Deng Hu - hu1@purdue.edu

  • http://people.pharmacy.purdue.edu/~hu1/

 

Psychological Sciences

• Dr. Edward Fox - foxe@purdue.edu

  • https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/directory/faculty/Fox_Edward.html

• Dr. David Rollock - rollock@purdue.edu   

  • https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/directory/faculty/Rollock_David.html

 

• Dr. George Hollich - ghollich@purdue.edu

  • https://ghollich.wordpress.com/

• Dr. Amy Brewster - abrewst@purdue.edu

  • https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/directory/faculty/Brewster_Amy.html

 

Mathematics

• Dr. Edray Goins - egoins@purdue.edu

  • https://www.math.purdue.edu/people/bio/egoins/home

• Dr. Laszlo Lempert - lempert@purdue.edu

  • https://www.math.purdue.edu/~lempert/

 

Statistics

• Dr. Mark Ward - mdw@purdue.edu

  • http://www.stat.purdue.edu/~mdw/

Veterinary Clinical Sciences

• Dr. Laurent Couetil - couetil@purdue.edu

  • http://vet.purdue.edu/directory/person.php?id=12

  • https://vet.purdue.edu/discovery/couetil/index.php

 

Technology

Building Construction Management

• Dr. Daphene Koch - cryd@purdue.edu

 

Computer and Information Technology

• Dr. Alka Harriger - harrigea@purdue.edu

  • https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/harrigea

• Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu - mihaela@purdue.edu

  • https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/mihaela

 

Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology

• Dr. Jeffrey Evans - jje@purdue.edu

  • http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~evans6/

• Dr. Helen McNally - mcnally@purdue.edu

  • https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/mcnallyh

• Dr. Rajeswari "Raji" Sundararajan - raji@purdue.edu

  • https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/rsundara

• Dr. Suranjan Panigrahi - spanigr@purdue.edu

  • https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/spanigr

• Dr. James "Mike" Jacob - jacobm@purdue.edu

  • https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/jacobm

 

Industrial Technology

• Dr. Chad Laux - claux@purdue.edu

  • https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/profile/claux

Mechanical Engineering Technology

• Dr. Richard M. French - rmfrench@purdue.edu

  • http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~rmfrench/

Organizational Leadership and Supervision

• Dr. Lisa Ncube - lncube@purdue.edu

Technology Leadership and Innovation

• Dr. Kari Clase - kclase@purdue.edu

  • https://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/birs/about-us/Clase_Bio.php