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Nikhil Chandra Admal
Assistant Professor
Ronald J. Adrian
Professor Emeritus
Andrew G. Alleyne
Ralph & Catherine Fisher Professor
Marianne Alleyne
Assistant Professor
Gaurav Bahl
George B. Grim Professor
Arijit Banerjee
Associate Professor
Tamer Basar
Professor
Rashid Bashir
Professor
Armand Beaudoin, Jr
Research Professor; Professor Emeritus
Carolyn L. Beck
Professor
Joseph Bentsman
Professor
Richard B. Berlin, Jr
Adjunct Research Associate Professor
James L. Best
Professor
Rohit Bhargava
Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering
Daniel J. Bodony
Professor
Craig Bradshaw
Associate Professor; Executive Director, ACRC
Paul V. Braun
Professor
M. Quinn Brewster
Hermia G. Soo Professor; Director, M.Eng.ME Program
Richard Buckius
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Professor Emeritus
Clark W. Bullard
Research Professor; Professor Emeritus
David Cahill
Professor
Lili Cai
Assistant Professor
Kemal Celebi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Leonardo Chamorro
Professor
Marie Agathe Charpagne
Assistant Professor
Ioannis Chasiotis
Professor
Arthur M. Clausing
Professor Emeritus
Mickey Clemon
he/him/his
Teaching Assistant Professor
C. Ricardo Constante-Amores
he/him/his
Assistant Professor
Jiahuan Cui
Cristino Cusano
Professor Emeritus
Jonathan A. Dantzig
Professor Emeritus
Robert Harvey Dodds, Jr
Professor Emeritus
Geir Dullerud
he/him/his
W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor; Willett Faculty Scholar
Alison C. Dunn
she/her/hers
Craig Dutton
Professor
Gregory S. Elliott
Professor
Elif Ertekin
she/her/hers
Associate Professor; Andersen Faculty Scholar; Associate Head for Graduate Programs and Research; Director of Mechanics Programs
Randy H. Ewoldt
he/him/his
Alexander Rankin Professor
Nazanin Farjam
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
Jie Feng
Assistant Professor
Placid Ferreira
Tungchao Julia Lu Professor
Paul Fischer
Professor
Mattia Gazzola
Associate Professor; Charles Conrad Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Philippe Geubelle
he/him/his
Bliss Professor
Nick G. Glumac
Shao Lee Soo Professor; Cannon Faculty Scholar
Molly Hathaway Goldstein
Teaching Assistant Professor
Tom Golecki
Teaching Assistant Professor
Andres Goza
Assistant Professor
Robert B. Haber
Research Professor; Professor Emeritus
Varda Hagh
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Assistant Professor
Kellie Halloran
Teaching Assistant Professor
Bumsoo Han
he/him/his
Professor
Kris Hauser
Professor
Jiajun He
Teaching Assistant Professor
Sascha Hilgenfeldt
Professor; Willett Faculty Scholar
Naira Hovakimyan
she/her/hers
W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor; University Scholar; Schaller Faculty Scholar
Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler
Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor
Huan Hu
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Shelby Hutchens
Associate Professor
Anthony Jacobi
he/him/his
Department Head, Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor
Iwona M. Jasiuk
Professor; Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Blake Everett Johnson
Teaching Associate Professor; Director, Undergraduate Instructional Laboratories
Harley T. Johnson
Founder Professor; Executive Director and CEO of Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
Gabriel Juarez
Assistant Professor
Shiv Kapoor
he/him/his
Grayce Wicall Gauthier Chair Emeritus and Professor Emeritus
Paul J.A. Kenis
Elio Eliakim Tarika Endowed Chair, Professor
Mariana E. Kersh
she/her/hers
Associate Professor
Joohyung Kim
he/him/his
Associate Professor
Bill King
Ralph A. Andersen Endowed Chair; Faculty at Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Richard E. Klein
Associate Professor Emeritus
Seid Koric
Research Professor; Technical Associate Director, NCSA
Philip T. Krein
Professor Emeritus
Herman Krier
Research Professor; Professor Emeritus
Girish Krishnan
Associate Professor
Waltraud M. Kriven
Professor
Peter Kurath
Research Professor; Professor Emeritus
John Lambros
Willett Professor in Engineering
Chia-Fon Lee
Professor
Timothy H. Lee
Lecturer
Tonghun Lee
Bei Tse Chao and May Chao Professor
Xiuling Li
Yingying Li
Assistant Professor
Callan Luetkemeyer
she/her/hers
Assistant Professor
Arif Masud
John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor
Moshe Matalon
he/him/his
Caterpillar Distinguished Professor
Kathryn Matlack
Associate Professor; Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar
Prashant Mehta
Professor
Glennys Mensing
Brian S. Mercer
he/him/his
Lecturer
Nenad Miljkovic
Founder Professor; Director, ACRC
Norman R. Miller
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ty A. Newell
Professor Emeritus
Luke Olson
Department Affiliate
Wee-Liat Ong
Adjunct Associate Professor
Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Professor
Francesco Panerai
Assistant Professor
Arne J. Pearlstein
Professor
Oleksiy Penkov
Adjunct Associate Professor
James W. Phillips
Professor Emeritus
Michael L. Philpott
Lecturer; Associate Professor Emeritus
John S. Popovics
Professor
Joao Ramos
Assistant Professor
Daniel N. Riahi
Professor Emeritus
John A. Rogers
Adjunct Professor
M Taher A. Saif
Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor
Srinivasa M. Salapaka
Professor
Theresa Ann Saxton-Fox
Assistant Professor
Huseyin Sehitoglu
Professor; John, Alice and Sarah Nyquist Chair
Jeff Shamma
Professor
Chenhui Shao
Ye Shi
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Craig Shultz
he/him/his
Assistant Professor
Sanjiv Sinha
Professor; Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs
Kyle Smith
Associate Professor
Darrell F. Socie
Lecturer; Professor Emeritus
Petros Sofronis
James W. Bayne Professor
Brian P. Somerday
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor
Nancy R. Sottos
Professor
Kelly Stephani
Associate Professor; Kritzer Faculty Fellow
Donald Scott Stewart
Research Professor; Shao Lee Soo Professor Emeritus
Jean-Charles Stinville
Assistant Professor
Dusan M. Stipanovic
Professor
Ann Sychterz
Assistant Professor
Ke Tang
Teaching Assistant Professor
Sameh Tawfick
Professor; Ralph A. Andersen Faculty Scholar
Brian G. Thomas
Research Professor; C. J. Gauthier Professor Emeritus
Daniel A. Tortorelli
George B. Grim Professor Emeritus
Charles L. Tucker, III
Research Professor; Alexander D. Rankin Professor Emeritus
Alex Vakakis
he/him/his
Donald Biggar Willett Professor
Arend van der Zande
Associate Professor
Surya Pratap Vanka
Professor Emeritus
Amy Wagoner Johnson
Professor; Andersen Faculty Scholar
John S. Walker
Professor Emeritus
Kevin E. Wandke
Teaching Assistant Professor
Ning Wang
he/him/his
Adjunct Professor
Sophie Wang
Research Associate Professor
Xinlei Wang
Professor
Matthew West
Professor; William H. Severns Faculty Scholar
Janelle Wharry
she/her/hers
Professor
Robert A. White
Professor Emeritus
Kevin Andrew Wise
Adjunct Lecturer
Siyi Xu
Assistant Professor
Liangjing Yang
Adjunct Associate Professor
Justin Yim
he/him/his
Assistant Professor
Cunjiang Yu
he/him/his
Founder Professor
Wenzhen Yuan
Assistant Professor
L. Winston Zhang
he/him/his
Adjunct Lecturer
X. Shelly Zhang
Assistant Professor; David C. Crawford Faculty Scholar
Yuanhui Zhang
Professor

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