Research Faculty 

Mehran Armand, Research Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery (School of Medicine)

Dani Barker, Lecturer

William Blake, Adjunct Professor

Michael Boyle, Lecturer

Dillon Capalongo, Assistant Research Engineer

Chris Crowley, Adjunct Assistant Professor

David Danielson, Associate Research Scientist

Tom Dragone, Adjunct Professor

Khalid El-Awady, Adjunct Research Scientist

Yejun Gu, Assistant Research Scientist
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Tihomir Hristov, Fellow-by-Courtesy
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Iulian Iordachita, Research Professor
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Syed Ali Jalali, Assistant Research Professor
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Sung Hoon Kang, Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Bio-inspired engineering, Mechanics of materials and structure, Architected materials

Kuangwen Hsieh, Associate Research Professor

Jesse Ko, Assistant Research Scientist (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Sixuan Li, Assistant Research Scientist

Jiacai Lu, Fellow-By-Courtesy

Xiaofeng Liu, Adjunct Associate Professor

Edwin Malkiel, Adjunct Associate Research Scientist

Rigen Mo, Assistant Research Professor

Hasan Giray Oral, Associate Research Scientist

Satish Rao, Associate Research Scientist

Jung-Hee Seo, Associate Research Professor

Jian Sheng, Adjunct Professor

Christopher Stiles, Assistant Research Professor (Applied Physics Laboratory)
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Markus Sudmanns, Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist

Swati Tanwar, Assistant Research Scientist

Gianna Valentino, Adjunct Assistant Professor

David Van Wie, Research Professor (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Peng Zheng, Associate Research Professor

Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers

Fall 2025

Dani Barker

  • 530.254 Manufacturing Engineering

Rich Bauernschub

  • 530.403 Engineering Design Project I

Michael Boyle (APL)

  • 530.430 Applied Finite Element Analysis

Tom Dragone

  • EN.530.418 / EN.530.619 Aerospace Structures

Jin Seob Kim

  • 530.424/624 Dynamics of Robots and Spacecraft
  • 530.641 Statistical Learning for Engineers
  • 530.646 Robot Devices, Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control (RDKDC)

Alissa Burkholder Murphy

  • 660.345 Multidisciplinary Engineering Design

Jung-Hee Seo

530.483 Applied Computational Modeling in Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer

Dan Stoianovici 

  • 530.414 Computer Aided Design (two sections)

Spring 2026

Dani Barker

  • 530.254 Manufacturing Engineering

Rich Bauernschub

  • 530.404 Engineering Design Project II

Jin Seob Kim

  • 530.646 Robot Devices, Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control (RDKDC) (tentative)
  • 530.663 Robot Motion Planning
  • 530.692 Flexible Robotic System Modeling

Simon Leonard (Computer Science)

  • 530.707 Robot Systems Programming

Alissa Burkholder Murphy (Center for Leadership Education)

  • 660.346 Multidisciplinary Engineering Design