Directory

Kathleen Abrahamson

Associate Professor Of Nursing

Email:kaabraha@purdue.edu

Research Area:
delivery of long term care services and supports; the nursing home workforce; nursing work; health care policy

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being
Future of Work

Mesut Akdere

Professor of Human Resource Development; Undergraduate and Graduate Program Lead, Human Resource Development; Director, Purdue HRD Virtual Lab; Director, Purdue HR Analytics Interactive Learning Lab; Director, Purdue Cyber Apprenticeship Program Leadership Academy; Faculty Fellow, Polytechnic Future Work & Learning Research Impact Area

Email:makdere@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Dr. Akdere’s research focuses on leadership development through simulated training in augmented reality and virtual reality platforms, workforce development in STEM fields, and human resource analytics in the age of big data.

Strategic Area
Defense
Security
Space
Health
Future of Work
Development

Dieudonne Baributsa

Associate Professor Of Entomology

Email:baributs@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
- Agricultural technology development/dissemination - Supply chain and commercialization of agricultural technologies - Information and Communication Technology (ICT) innovations - Technology scale-up

Strategic Area
Sustainability
Development

Shawn Bauldry

Associate Professor of Sociology

Email:sbauldry@purdue.edu
Twitter:@ShawnBauldry
Website:Website

Research Area:
health disparities, aging and the life course, applied statistics

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being

Carrie Berger

Interim Dean And Associate Dean For St

Email:carrieb@purdue.edu
Twitter:@CarrieABerger
Website:Website

Research Area:
I am devoted to the professional development of faculty so they may become leaders in their discipline and within the academy.

Strategic Area
Defense
Security
Well-being
Future of Work
Development
Peacebuilding

Kathryn Brownell

Associate Professor Of History

Email:brownell@purdue.edu
Twitter:@Kathryn.Brownell
Website:Website

Research Area:
Media and politics Political Culture The Presidency Public Engagement

Strategic Area
Well-being
Future of Work
Development

Richard Buckius

Professor Of Mechanical Engineering

Email:rbuckius@purdue.edu

Research Area:
Thermal Sciences

Strategic Area
Well-being
Future of Work
Sustainability

Darcy Bullock

Lyles Family Professor of Civil Engineering; Director Joint Transportation Research Program; Co-Chair Purdue Engineering Initiative in Autonomous and Connected Systems

Email:darcy@purdue.edu
Twitter:@darcybullock
Website:Website

Research Area:
Bullock is a Registered Professional Engineer in Indiana and has 30 years of experience in the industry working closely with airports, transportation agencies, the automotive industry and private sector partners. Bullock is currently leading several projects related to connected and autonomous vehicles and probe vehicle analytics.

Strategic Area
Sustainability
Development

Weinong Chen

Reilly Professor of AAE and MSE, Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Innovation

Email:wchen@purdue.edu

Research Area:
Experimental Impact Mechanics

Strategic Area
Defense
Space

Daniel Delaurentis

Professor Of Aeronautics And Astronautics; Director Of the Institute for Global Security And Defense Innovation

Email:ddelaure@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Theory and Methods • Novel Modeling & Simulation for the study of system-of-systems (SoS) and complex, integrated systems, especially in aerospace, transportation and defense • Network topology analysis and design; collaborative control and mechanism design for networked systems • Systems Engineering analytics, especially for SoS context and acquisition modeling • Robust design and optimization for aerospace systems and SoS, emphasizing treatment of multi-level uncertainty Applications • Aerospace Systems and Flight Vehicles, including revolutionary air vehicles and their concept of operations; space exploration architectures; autonomous air vehicles • Command, Control, and Battle Management architecting, including tracking architectures and sensor resource management • Multimodal transportation, network design and analysis, (civil and military; including policy and economics)

Strategic Area
Defense
Security
Space
Peacebuilding

Jeff Dukes

Professor; Belcher Chair for Environmental Sustainability

Email:jsdukes@purdue.edu
Twitter:@DukesJeff
Website:Website

Research Area:
Terrestrial ecosystem responses, terrestrial ecosystem feedbacks, invasive species, biodiversity, biofuels, climate change, ecology, invasive species

Strategic Area
Sustainability

Nathalie Duval-Couetil

Professor, Technology Leadership & Innovation; Associate Director, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship

Email:natduval@purdue.edu
Twitter:@natduval
Website:Website

Research Area:
Entrepreneurship Gender Issues Workforce Development

Strategic Area
Future of Work

Nadia Gkritza

Professor Of Civil Engineering And Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Email:nadia@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Transportation planning, economics and modeling; transportation energy and sustainability; highway safety; transportation electrification

Strategic Area
Sustainability

Nathan Hartman

Dauch Family Professor of Advanced Manufacturing; Head of Computer Graphics Technology

Email:nhartman@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Professor Hartman’s research areas focus on the process and methodology for creating model-based definitions; the use of the model-based definition in the product lifecycle; developing the model-based enterprise; geometry automation; and data standards, interoperability, and re-use; and digital transformation of the manufacturing enterprise.

Strategic Area
Defense
Future of Work
Sustainability

Tom Hertel

Distinguished Professor Of Agricultural Economics

Email:hertel@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Global food and environmental security, climate change, international trade, poverty mitigation

Strategic Area
Sustainability
Development

Sarah Hubbard

Associate Professor of Aviation Technology

Email:smhubbar@purdue.edu

Research Area:
Dr. Hubbard conducts research to support safe and efficient airport and transportation operations. Her research portfolio includes projects supporting the integration of new technology and sustainability into airport and transportation activities, as well as the protection of vulnerable system users. Dr. Hubbard serves on the Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee (REDAC) for Airports to support the research activities of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Dr. Hubbard also serves on AV060 (Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay) and AV095 (New Users of Shared Airspace), both Standing Committees of the Transportation Research Board, which is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Hubbard is a licensed civil engineer.

Strategic Area
Security
Space
Sustainability
Development

Jessica Huber

Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Email:jhuber@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Parkinson disease Care for elders Healthcare access Telemedicine

Strategic Area
Health

Dwaine Jengelley

Clinical Assistant Professor in the Honors College

Email:djengell@purdue.edu
Twitter:@jengs12
Website:Website

Research Area:
Dwaine Jengelley is a political scientist in the Honors College at Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA. His research interests include media and terrorism, the factors that influence how journalists report the news, and media coverage of race. His work has been published in journals such Terrorism and Political Violence and Politics Groups and Identities.

Strategic Area
Security
Development

Chad Laux

Associate Professor Of Computer and Information Technology

Email:claux@purdue.edu
Twitter:@chadx

Research Area:
Dr. Chad Laux in an international expert in Lean Six Sigma applications in industrial, higher education, and food security. An operational excellence strategy, LSS changes the way organizations operate to meet strategic goals. Through engagement, Dr. Laux focuses on improving organizing environments (corporate, not-for-profit, higher education) to meet strategic goals by maintain his disciplinary foundation in the LSS strategy.

Strategic Area
Security
Well-being
Sustainability

Seungyeon Lee

Associate Professor, Brian Lamb School of Communication

Email:lee3476@purdue.edu

Research Area:
My research focuses on the evolution of communication, knowledge, and collaboration networks and its implications for individual well-being and community resilience. My ongoing projects examine the evolution of creative interaction and social ties in project teams; social support and social networks among people and organizations in disaster recovery and resilience; and the determinants and outcomes of network multiplexity.

Strategic Area
Well-being
Sustainability
Development

Zhao Ma

Professor Forestry And Natural Resources

Email:zhaoma@purdue.edu
Twitter:@zhaoma_purdue
Website:Website

Research Area:
My research program is centered on one overarching question: How do individuals and organizations make natural resource decisions in the context of social-ecological change? I consider natural resource decisions broadly to include management, utilization, conservation, preservation, as well as no action. I examine natural resource decision making processes at multiple scales in multiple contexts, with a particular focus on how individuals and organizations make natural resource decisions in response to various ecological, climatic, social, economic, political, and cultural changes and how various natural resource decisions subsequently impact individuals, households, communities, organizations, and landscapes.

Strategic Area
Sustainability
Development

Sorin Matei

Associate Dean For Research And Graduate Education, College of Liberal Arts; Professor, Brian Lamb School of Communication

Email:smatei@purdue.edu
Twitter:@ithinkblog
Website:Website

Research Area:
military analytics, communication technologies, big data, AI ethics, VR, digital humanities, spatial statistics

Strategic Area
Defense
Security
Space

James McCann

Professor Political Science

Email:mccannj@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
My primary research interests are in the areas of civic engagement; political campaigns and elections; immigration; and survey design and methodology.

Strategic Area
Well-being
Development
Peacebuilding

Carolyn Mccormick

Assistant Professor Of Human Development and Family Science

Email:Carolyn-McCormick@purdue.edu
Twitter:@cebmccormick
Website:Website

Research Area:
Dr. McCormick’s research aims to improve developmental outcomes for individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders by understanding and improving lived experiences of children and families. Her research to date had included three primary areas: investigating physiological and behavioral markers of symptoms that can be used as objective indicators, assessing issues related to service access and usage in the community, and extending the application of early intervention across populations and contexts.

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being

Kevin Mumford

Associate Professor Of Economics; Kozuch Director, Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE)

Email:mumford@purdue.edu
Twitter:@KJMumford
Website:Website

Strategic Area
Future of Work
Sustainability

Sunil Prabhakar

Department Head and Professor of Computer Science

Email:sunil@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Database systems. Current research focuses on developing causal databases, novel databases for handling uncertain data, and solutions that ensure authenticity, integrity and privacy for outsourced databases including cloud databases. In earlier work developed solutions for scalability and efficiency for moving objects and sensor databases, digital rights management for databases through digital watermarking, and ensuring correctness over private databases.

Strategic Area
Security
Health
Sustainability

Victoria Prowse

Magner Term Chair and Associate Professor of Economics

Email:vprowse@purdue.edu
Twitter:@victoriaprowse
Website:Website

Research Area:
My research explores how cognitive skills and preferences affect effort provision, learning, and life outcomes including educational attainment, labor supply, retirement, and inequality. I am also interested in understanding how interventions and public policies shape important life outcomes.

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being
Future of Work

Anatoli Rapoport

Professor Curriculum And Instruction

Email:rapoport@purdue.edu
Twitter:@anatolirapoport

Research Area:
Global and international education, citizenship, global citizenship, teacher education, Russia and post-Soviet countries.

Strategic Area
Sustainability
Development

Kali Rubaii

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Email:jrubaii@purdue.edu

Research Area:
Specialization: critical security studies, ecologies of war, death and temporality, anthropology of material things, spatial politics, forensic ethnography, corporate accountability, health justice, Middle East. Dr. Rubaii is a cultural anthropologist who studies the materiality of structural violence, especially ecological arrangements between living and nonliving things. Her most recent project explores the ecological impacts of less-than-lethal counterinsurgency in Iraq and how displaced Anbari farmers in Iraq survive war-made landscapes designed to preclude possibilities for organized resistance. Her next ethnographic project approaches the corporate-military enterprise of cement production in post-invasion Iraq, and how the cement industry enforces global regimes of race, class, and extraction.

Strategic Area
Security
Health
Well-being
Peacebuilding

Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar

Associate Professor Of Computer and Information Technology

Email:kspellar@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Dr. Seigfried-Spellar’s primary research area of interest is the personality characteristics and socio-legal factors associated with cyberdeviant and criminal behavior, including child sexual exploitation offenses, cyberbullying, and trolling. Dr. Seigfried-Spellar also examines the psychological wellbeing of law enforcement and digital forensic examiners exposed to disturbing media (e.g., child sexual exploitation material).

Strategic Area
Security
Well-being

Gerald Shively

Associate Dean and Director, International Programs in Agriculture; Professor, Agricultural Economics

Email:shivelyg@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Working with a worldwide network of colleagues, I have conducted research on a range of topics related to poverty, food security, nutrition, economic development and the environment in developing regions of the world. My goal is to help inform policies to make global food production more environmentally sustainable. I study the interactions between poverty and environmental degradation to help eliminate both.

Strategic Area
Sustainability
Development

Eugene Spafford

Professor and Emeritus Executive Director of CERIAS

Email:spaf@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
cyber security, privacy, cyber crime, national and international policy related to those topics

Strategic Area
Defense
Security
Well-being
Peacebuilding

Mangala Subramaniam

Professor and Butler Chair and Director

Email:mangala@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
My research is in the broad areas of social inequality and social movements. More recently, I have begun to focus on higher education. Topics I study include: gender and its intersections with race, caste, and class; state power, development and globalization, social movements (including transnational movements). Special interest on India/South Asia. Much of my work adopts a global focus and draws attention to the ways in which disadvantaged groups, particularly in the non-western world, engage in daily resistances and collective protests to demand rights. As the Butler Chair and Director of the Butler Center, I pursue research in the area of higher education that is focused on leadership, inclusive excellence, and faculty satisfaction.

Strategic Area
Health
Sustainability
Development

Louis Tay

William C. Byham Associate Professor in Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Email:tessa@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
As an I-O psychologist embedded within the broader field of psychology, my goal is to programmatically pursue cross-disciplinary lines of inquiry in methodology (i.e., measurement, continuum specification, latent class modeling, Big Data / data science) and well-being (i.e., societal well-being, wellness programs, work - leisure [e.g., arts/humanities activities] interface). My goal is to contribute more broadly beyond I-O psychology to enhance measurement/methodology research for psychology and develop science-based well-being programs/policies at organizational and societal levels.

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being
Future of Work

Nien-Hwa Wang

Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor of Chemical Engineering

Email:nwang@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
Converting plastic waste into useful products; producing high purity rare earth elements from waste magnets, minerals, and other sources.

Strategic Area
Sustainability

Fenggang Yang

Professor Of Sociology

Email:fyang@purdue.edu
Twitter:@FenggangYang
Website:Website

Research Area:
sociology of religion, religious freedom, human rights

Strategic Area
Well-being
Development

Yuehwern Yih

Academic Director of LASER PULSE; Associate Director of Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering; Professor of Industrial Engineering

Email:yih@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
My core research is system modeling and decision making for complex system/operation design, monitoring, and evaluation. By analyzing the dynamics of system behaviors and dependencies among individual agents within the systems, we may develop a policy (evidence-based practice) to manage such system and mitigate its risks. Applications of this concept include manufacturing, warehouses, supply chains, water treatment system for mission to Mars, riot prediction, humanitarian aids, healthcare engineering, as well as addressing global development challenges.

Strategic Area
Health
Sustainability
Development

George Zhou

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Ecological Engineering

Email:zhizhou@purdue.edu
Twitter:@Environ_Biotech
Website:Website

Research Area:
My research centers on environmental microbiology and spans biological wastewater treatment, antibiotic resistance, innovative biofuel production, cost-effective wastewater treatment, and disinfection technologies.

Strategic Area
Health
Sustainability