Directory

Kathleen Abrahamson

Professor Emerita Or Emeritus

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

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

Nathan Cheek

Assisstant Professor

Email:nncheek@purdue.edu
Twitter:@natecheek
Website:Website

Research Area:
poverty and economic inequality; sexual harassment and workplace discrimination; felony disenfranchisement and incarceration; prejudice and stereotypes; judgment and decision making; behavioral policy

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being
Future of Work

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

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

Jennifer Finders

Assistant Professor - Early Childhood

Email:jfinders@purdue.edu
Twitter:@JenniferFinders
Website:Website

Research Area:
Dr. Finders focuses on the role of early childhood education in promoting cognitive, behavioral, and social and emotional learning among children from diverse backgrounds. She is particularly interested in evaluating policies, programs, and practices that aim to increase access to high-quality early learning experiences and reduce educational disparities. Dr. Finders has received funding from the Office of Early Childhood and Out of School Learning within the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration to evaluate quality and curricula implementation within early care and education programs, as well as perform a needs assessment of the Birth-5 early learning system in Indiana. She also has funding from the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development to examine costs of operating a child care center in rural Indiana.

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being
Future of Work

Mahsa Ghasemi

Assistant Professor

Email:mahsa@purdue.edu
Website:Website

Research Area:
My research focuses on theoretical and foundational advancements enabling the design of competent, autonomous systems that co-exist with humans, empower them, and are socially, ethically, and economically beneficial. The research problems I am interested in include task-oriented knowledge acquisition and reasoning, online learning and control, human-robot interaction, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and socially and ethically beneficial autonomy.

Strategic Area
Well-being
Sustainability
Development

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

Neera Jain

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Email:neerajain@purdue.edu
Twitter:@NeeraJainPhD
Website:Website

Research Area:
My technical research areas and interests are predominantly human interaction with autonomy and autonomous systems (across a variety of applications, including manufacturing and transportation) and efficient and high-performing thermodynamic systems, with a particular emphasis on the control of thermal energy storage integrated with conventional energy systems in vehicles (ground, air, and space) as well as buildings. I am similarly interested in the policy and ethics questions surrounding these technologies, which include everything from how humans interact with autonomous systems (both in civilian and military settings) as well as climate change and other environmental policies that can impact, or are impacted by, increased electrification in buildings and vehicles.

Strategic Area
Defense
Space
Health
Future of Work
Sustainability

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

Ashima Krishna

Associate Clinical Professor

Email:krish191@purdue.edu
Twitter:https://twitter.com/ashimakrishna
Website:Website

Research Area:
Ashima Krishna is Clinical Associate Professor in the John Martinson Honors College. Prior to joining the Honors College, she was Associate Director of the Purdue Policy Research Institute and Assistant Professor of Practice in the Global Studies Program in Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts. She is an architect and historic preservation planner whose research spans the management of historic urban landscapes and adaptive reuse of religious historic structures and landscapes, with a particular focus on intersection with community development and equity issues and resulting policy challenges. Dr. Krishna has examined issues related to historic preservation planning and urban conservation in United States and India and continues to highlight the ways in which the historic built environment can be preserved, managed, and planned for. Her published work has been featured in Journal of Urbanism, Preservation Education and Research, Change Over Time, and Journal of American Planning Association among others. Her co-edited book Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India: Approaches and Challenges was published by Routledge in 2020.

Strategic Area
Health
Well-being
Sustainability
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

John Mulrow

Visiting Assistant Professor

Email:jmulrow@purdue.edu
Twitter:https://twitter.com/j_mulrow

Research Area:
Limits to growth and degrowth, decarbonization, electrification, environmental impact assessment, greenhouse gas footprinting, cyber-physical systems, life-cycle assessment, techno-environmental system dynamics, agent-based modeling, transportation demand modeling.

Strategic Area
Sustainability
Development

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

Zoe Nyssa

Assistant Professor

Email:znyssa@purdue.edu

Research Area:
I am an anthropologist and Science and Technology Studies scholar with a focus on expert cultures and technical decision making in the life and environmental sciences.

Strategic Area
Health
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

Sivaranjani Seetharaman

Assistant Professor

Email:sseetha@purdue.edu
Twitter:@siva_seethar
Website:Website

Research Area:
Control, machine learning, and optimization for cyber-physical-human systems, power and energy systems, transportation networks, and interdependent infrastructures.

Strategic Area
Sustainability

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

Lisa Snodgrass

Associate Professor, Educational Studies

Email:lsnodgra@purdue.edu
Twitter:@LisaLSnodgrass
Website:Website

Research Area:
Dr. Lambert Snodgrass’s research centers on the cultural dimensions of student, faculty, & staff experiences in PK-22 settings. Examining policy, systems and structures, she is predominantly interested in equity of access and cultural competence (ies) in the post-secondary institution, both domestically and internationally. She extends her focus in cultural competency to both engagement and service.

Strategic Area
Health
Future of Work
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

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

Norman and Jane Li Professorship in 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