Dr. Rosalyn Abbott is an assistant professor in Biomedical Engineering with a courtesy appointment in Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Abbott received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and her Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Vermont. She was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tufts University working under the supervision of Professor David Kaplan, where she developed adipose tissue engineered models. Her lab at CMU focuses on using tissue engineering to study metabolic dysregulation during the complex transition of obesity to insulin resistant type II diabetes.

Dr. Bruce Armitage is a professor in the department of Chemistry and Co-Director for Center for Nucleic Acid Science and Technology (CNAST). The unifying theme of the research conducted in his laboratory is molecular recognition, i.e. the ability of one molecule to bind to another with high affinity and selectivity, usually through an ensemble of weak interactions. Molecular recognition is the basis for most biological processes and is playing an increasingly important role in materials science and nanotechnology. Chemists are uniquely qualified to work in this area, given their expertise in studying and manipulating molecular-scale phenomena.

Dr. Jack Beuth is a professor in Mechanical Engineering and he is Faculty Co-Director in the Next Manufacturing Center. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard in 1992. He has been a member of the Carnegie Mellon faculty since that time. His research is in the areas of manufacturing, solid mechanics, and fracture mechanics, with over 75 publications across the areas of additive manufacturing, interfacial mechanics, and thin film mechanics. His current research includes modeling of additive manufacturing processes and micro-scale.

Dr. Joanne Beckwith is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan where she studied bacterial and fungal biofilms which are a common cause of medical device infections. She also worked as a manufacturing engineer at a company that makes paint pigment. Currently, she teaches Intro to Chemical Engineering, and the Chemical Engineering Lab courses. She is passionate about helping students understand the impact of chemical engineering has on our everyday lives and the wide range of job opportunities a degree in chemical engineering offers. When she is not teaching, you can find her going for a run or rock climbing.

Dr. Carla Bevins is an assistant teaching professor of Business Communications in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Dr. Bevins taught in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Kentucky (UK) and as a Visiting Educational Scholar at Qingdao Technological University. She earned her B.A. in English and Creative Writing with a concentration in Public Relations from Butler University and her Ph.D. in Communications from UK. She holds Graduate Certificates from the UK in Health Communications, Medical Behavioral Sciences, Statistics, and Distance Education. At CMU, Dr. Bevins mentors undergraduate and MBA students and teaches Business Communications, Business Presentations, and Interpersonal Managerial Communication.

Dr. DJ Brasier is an associate teaching professor of Biological Sciences specializing in neurobiology and Assistant Department Head for Graduate Affairs. He was trained in brain physiology and genetics at University of California San Diego and UC San Francisco. He has been teaching neuroscience at CMU since 2012 and involved in community outreach for many years. He is the Assistant Director for the M.S. in Computational Biology program as well as the advisor for the Sciences Teaching Club, NeuroSAC and the Nu Rho Psi Honor Society organizations at CMU.

Dr. Kris N. Dahl is an associate professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She joined Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 1998 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Her research uses rheological, biophysical, and optical techniques to understand the structure and organization of the cell nucleus. These studies are relevant to dissecting the molecular pathology of diseases caused by defects in nuclear structure.

Dr. Carrie Doonan is the Director of Undergraduate Laboratories and Teaching Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She studied at Chatham College (BS) and the University of Connecticut, (Ph.D) and began her teaching career at Carnegie Mellon University in 1993. Her primary area of focus involves the teaching and administration of a range of experimental laboratories in the department. She is responsible for writing and developing experimental units, training of junior faculty and teaching assistants and is actively involved in all aspects of the undergraduate program. Dr. Doonan has adapted many of her curricular innovations for use in K-12 outreach and has been invited to present this work at regional and national forums. She served as a Biotechnology Institute National Biotechnology Teacher-Leader in 2003 and 2005 and was awarded the Julius Ashkin Teaching Award in the Mellon College of Science in 2000. She was also awarded the Mark Gelfand Award for Service Learning and Outreach in 2011.

Dr. Lynley Doonan joined the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University as Special Faculty in 2018. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biological Sciences with teaching minor and her B.S. in Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been teaching introductory laboratory classes to expose students to a variety of basic biology laboratory techniques.

Dr. Emily Drill is an assistant teaching professor in Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.  She has been teaching laboratory courses at CMU since 2012, in a variety of topics including genetics, cell biology, developmental biology, and neuroscience.  She teaches high school students through summer programs including the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences; most recently, she worked with a group of students on a research project using CRISPR technology.

Dr. Ioannis Gkioulekas is an assistant professor at the Robotics Institute, where he has been since 2017. Before that, he was a PhD student at Harvard University, and even before that an undergrad student at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He works on computational imaging, which can be broadly described as coming up with systems that combine imaging (optics, sensors, illumination) and computation (physics-based modeling and rendering, inverse algorithms, learning) in innovative, unexpected, and meaningful ways. Problems he is interested in, include imaging around walls or through skin, material acquisition, differentiable rendering, and the integration of physics-based simulation, learning, and optics. He is also more broadly interested in computer vision and computer graphics. His work has received the Best Paper Award at CVPR 2019, the NSF CAREER Award and the Sloan Research Fellowship.

Dr. Noelia Grande Gutiérrez is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon  University. Her research lies at the intersection of computational engineering and cardiovascular  medicine. Her research group, the Biomedical Flows Simulations & Multiscale Modeling  (BioSiMM) Lab, develops and applies computational methods to analyze blood flow in a patient-specific way. These models aim to provide data that would help understand cardiovascular disease and contribute to more personalized patient care. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2019. She obtained an M.S. in Engineering Sciences from the University of California, San Diego, an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Barcelona, and her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid.

Dr. Yisong Guo is an associate professor in the Chemistry Department. Dr. Guo received his B.S. in Material Science and Engineering from Fudan University in China, and Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from University of California-Davis. His research group at CMU is working on an interdisciplinary field where efforts from biochemists, synthetic chemists, physicists, and spectroscopists are joined together to understand the mechanisms of chemical transformations catalyzed by enzymes. The chemical principles discovered through his research will help improve the technologies needed to make the transition to a sustainable energy future and enrich scientific knowledge in fighting disease.

Dr. Veronica Hinman is the department head in the Biological Sciences Department and the Dr. Fredrick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences. Growing up in Australia, she spent time exploring the sea near her home, camping and fishing with her family. This has given her a lifelong fascination with nature, specifically, life in the oceans. Dr. Hinman earned her bachelors and PhD degrees at the University of Queensland in Australia, specializing in Molecular Marine Biology. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech. Her research uses several marine organisms (e.g sea stars and sea urchins) to understand how diversity evolves and understand some of the fascinating properties that these animals have, including the ability to completely regenerate their arms. She teaches a class on the Evolution and History of Life for freshmen at CMU.

Dr. B. Reeja Jayan is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and holds courtesy appointments in Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering departments at CMU. She received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), working with Professor Arumugam Manthiram. She was subsequently a Postdoctoral Associate in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working under the supervision of Professor Karen Gleason. Her multidisciplinary research group at CMU explores novel design strategies for organic (polymers, small molecules), inorganic (metals, semiconductors, insulators), and organic-inorganic hybrid materials for applications in energy and sustainability. Her work has resulted in 18 peer-reviewed journal publications and filing of 4 patent applications. She is a recipient of the Cockrell School of Engineering Student Leadership Award from UT-Austin, a doctoral fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and the H.H. The Maharaja of Cochin Endowment Prize from the University of Kerala, India.

Dr. Coty Jen is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at CMU. She joined the department in fall 2018 and is member of the Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies. Her research focuses on how nanoparticles form and grow in the atmosphere and ultimately impact the environment. In addition, her group designs and builds instruments capable of measuring the composition of 1 nm particles formed from manmade pollution and biogenic emissions. Her previous research examined the millions of organic compounds emitted during wildfires and how these compounds impact human health and air quality. Dr. Jen completed her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, M.S. in Chemical Engineering at University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, and postdoc in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Amanda Krause is an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining CMU, she was an assistant professor of MSE at the University of Florida from 2019 to 2022. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech, and her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Brown University. Her research focus is engineering ceramic interfaces and microstructures for improving properties.

Dr. Oliver Kroemer is an assistant professor at the CMU Robotics Institute. His research interests are in machine learning and robotics, with a focus on learning for grasping and manipulation. Before joining CMU, Oliver was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California. He received his Masters and Bachelor’s degrees in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2008, and he defended his PhD thesis at the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt in 2014.

Amber LaPeruta has been a part-time lecturer at CMU since 2021. She earned her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in Molecular Biology and Genetics and her B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stevenson University where she minored in Mathematics and Chemistry. She has been teaching Evolution at CMU and introductory laboratory classes at Pitt which allow students to learn basic biology lab techniques while contributing to authentic research projects.

Dr.  Carmel Majidi is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and has courtesy appointments in Biomedical Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering and the Robotics Institute. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory (2009- 2011) and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (2007-2009). His experience in solid mechanics and microfabrication is the foundation of his current research in the emerging fields of soft robotics and active multifunctional materials.

Dr. Deanna Matthews is an associate department head for Undergraduate Affairs, associate teaching professor in Engineering and Public Policy (EPP), and Education Director and researcher in the Green Design Institute (GDI). In her role in EPP, she oversees the undergraduate programs. In the GDI, an interdisciplinary research center that focuses on the intersection of environmental and economic issues, her research centers on the development and deployment of the Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment tool, examining energy life cycles of new products, corporate environmental management, and educating general populations about energy-environment issues. As Education Director, she oversees education and outreach initiatives for the GDI. She is the coordinator and instructor of outreach programs to K-12 students and teachers in school settings and informal educational events. She received her B.S.E. in Civil Engineering from Duke University (1994) and her M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (2001) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from CMU.

Dr. Natalie McGuier is an assistant teaching professor in Biological Sciences. She has been a laboratory instructor since 2016 teaching a variety of labs and topics including experimental genetics, modern biology, brewing science, phage genomics, and course-based undergraduate research experience courses. Through these courses she has worked with first-years, non-majors, and upperclassmen biology majors. She has also worked with high school students through the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Sciences teaching neuroscience electives and leading group research projects.

Dr. Srinivasa Narasimhan is a courtesy professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an associate professor in the Robotics Institute. His research focuses on the physics of computer vision and computer graphics. His projects highlight three main aspects of his research - the mathematical modeling of the interactions of light with materials and the atmosphere; the design of novel cameras with higher resolution in space, color and intensity; and the development of algorithms for rendering and interpreting scene appearance. The research is motivated by applications in a wide range of fields including robotics, digital entertainment, remote sensing and underwater imaging.

Dr. Sneha Narra received a Master of Science in computational mechanics, and a Master of Science and doctorate in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). After receiving her doctorate, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Next Manufacturing Center at CMU. She then served as an assistant professor in the materials and manufacturing program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, before joining CMU as an assistant professor in fall of 2021. Dr. Narra’s additive manufacturing process design research lies at the intersection of process modeling including numerical, analytical, and semi-analytical methods, processing experiments, materials characterization, and data-driven analysis. As an instructor, Narra’s goal is to help her students learn effectively in a comfortable environment and spark interest in them to explore outside the classroom. To meet this goal, she adopts a teaching philosophy that builds on creating an inclusive learning environment, active participation from students, learning through real-world examples and demonstrations, and assessment techniques optimized for long-term retention and exploration. Outside the classroom, Narra is passionate about mentoring women in engineering. Specifically, she participates in outreach activities, educates students about professional development opportunities, and provides opportunities to conduct research in interdisciplinary topics

Dr. Matt O’Toole is an Assistant Professor with the Robotics Institute and Computer Science Department at CMU. Before moving to Pittsburgh, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. His research interest is in computational photography, a topic that lies at the intersection computer graphics and computer vision. He is also a member of the CMU Computational Imaging group (https://imaging.cs.cmu.edu/), whose research goal is to develop the next generation of camera and display technologies. 

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Professor Linda Peteanu has been a teacher and researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University for almost 30 years. She has taught several laboratory and lecture courses in physical and analytical chemistry and has hosted numerous undergraduate researchers in her laboratory. In her research she uses microscopy-based techniques to characterize molecules used in photovoltaics and light emitting diodes. She has been actively engaged in science outreach to K-12 students and to the general public though the Phipps Conservatory “Meet a Scientist” program. She is passionate about engaging students in science and research projects at a young age.

Dr. Yoosuf Picard was an associate research professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University when he taught a Gelfand Outreach summer class.  He has a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.  Prof. Picard researches nanoscale materials using advanced electron microscopy methods. He also serves as a judge for regional and national science fairs.

Dr. Aswin Sankaranarayanan is a professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Maryland, College Park where he was awarded the distinguished dissertation fellowship for his thesis work by the ECE department in 2009. His research deals with understanding the interaction of light with materials, devising theories and imaging architectures to capture these interactions, and developing a deeper understanding of the world around us based on these interactions. His research identifies low-dimensional models for high-dimensional visual signals using both physics-based and learning-based formulates and develop imaging architectures and algorithms that exploit these low-dimensional models for efficient sensing and inference.

Dr. Gizelle A. Sherwood is currently an Associate Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her Ph.D. in 2008 where her research focused on the effects of aggregation on the photo-physics of oligomers related to MEH- PPV and CN-PPV. She primarily lectures Modern Chemistry, the sophomore year Analytical Chemistry labs as well as a Cosmetic Chemistry course. She is passionate about engaging students in discussion of the application of Chemistry to everyday life and has been involved in several outreach programs working with both the Boy Scouts of America and the Leonard Gelfand Center. 

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Dr. Gloria Silva is an Associate Teaching Professor in Chemistry. Gloria received her B.S. in Organic Chemistry and Pharmacist degrees from the National University of Cordoba (UNC), Argentina. At UNC she was an Assistant Professor with tenure and a Researcher of the Argentinean Research Council. She performed research in Bioactive Natural Products from plants. Gloria and her family moved to Pittsburgh in 2002 and she has been at CMU since. She was involved in research in the field of Bioorganic Chemistry and has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses since 2008. Her courses have a main focus on Organic Chemistry and courses that teach concepts at the interface between Biology and Chemistry including a course on Food Science.

Dr. Dimitrios Skarlatos is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research bridges computer architecture and operating systems focusing on performance, security, and scalability. He has received several awards for his research including the 2021 ACM SIGARCH & IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation award, an ASPLOS Best Paper award, two MICRO Top Picks in Computer Architecture, and two MICRO Top Picks Honorable Mentions. He earned his PhD and MS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BSc from the Technical University of Crete in Greece.

Dr. Raja Sooriamurthi is a teaching professor in the Information Systems Program in Dietrich College. With his academic training in Artificial Intelligence, he teaches a range of classes in the general space of using data for decision making (Database Design and Development, Intelligent Decision Support Systems, Big Data and Analytics, Practical Data Science). Along with colleagues, he also works in the pedagogical area of puzzle-based learning and has co-authored the book Guide to Teaching Puzzle-based Learning. 

Dr. Rebecca Taylor is an associate professor in Mechanical Engineering and holds a courtesy appointments in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Engineering. She received her B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. During her doctoral research she worked with Professor Beth Pruitt developing microscale force sensors for studying the mechanics of stem-cell derived heart muscle cells. She was subsequently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, working under the supervision of Professor James Spudich. She is the director of the Microsystems and Mechanobiology Lab and her research team uses micro- and nanoscale structures as sensors and actuators for investigating the mechanics of cellular and molecular biosystems.

Dr. Parth Vaishnav was an assistant research professor in Engineering and Public Policy. His research is aimed at understanding how new technologies can be deployed to solve society’s problems, particularly in the areas of energy and the environment. He teaches a course on Climate Science and Adaptation and runs the U.S. Association of Energy Economics’ annual case competition.

Dr. Matthew Walker is an associate professor in Physics. He studies the astrophysical properties of dark matter. In his work as an observational astronomer, he uses some of the world’s largest optical telescopes, including the 6.5-meter Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, the 6.5-meter MMT at Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, and the 8.2-meter Very Large Telescope at Cerro Paranal in Chile. He is a member of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV collaboration.

Dr. Jerry Wang is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Chemical Engineering (by courtesy) and Mechanical Engineering (by courtesy), at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his BS in 2013 from Yale University (Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Physics), SM in 2015 from MIT (Mechanical Engineering), and PhD in 2019 from MIT (Mechanical Engineering and Computation). He performed postdoctoral research at MIT in chemical Engineering. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of the Provost’s Inclusive Teaching Fellowship at CMU, was the 2020 recipient of the Frederick A. Howes Scholar Award in Computational Science and the 2016 MIT Graduate Teaching Award in the School of Engineering and is an alumnus of the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and the Tau Beta Pi Graduate Fellowship. Wang directs the Mechanics of Materials via Molecular and Multiscale Methods Laboratory (M5 Lab) at CMU, which focuses on computational micro- and nanoscale mechanics of fluids, soft matter, and active matter, with applications in Civil and Environmental Engineering across the nexus of water, energy, sustainable materials, and urban livability.

Dr. Conrad Zapanta is a teaching professor in Biomedical Engineering. His research interests are in developing medical devices to treat cardiovascular disease, focusing on the areas of cardiac assist devices and prosthetic heart valves. He is an active member in the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Biomedical Engineering Society. His teaching responsibilities are Biomedical Engineering Laboratory and Design. He oversees the undergraduate curriculum and undergraduate student advising.

Dr. Xu Zhang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2019. He received his PhD and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor’s degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Before joining CMU, he worked as an Argonne Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory from 2018 to 2019. His research lab at CMU focuses on the development of next generation semiconductors, especially atom-precise 2D materials, to enable new paradigms of electronic and photonic devices and their system-level integration. Xu Zhang is a recipient of the MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (2022), Enrico Fermi Fellow (2018) and MIT Global Fellow (2014).