Global Impact Initiative Hires

Senior Faculty

Name	Start Date	Lead College	Lead Department	Previous Institution	Research Area
Alessio, Adam	10/1/18	Human Med, Engineering	CMSE, Radiology, BME	University of Washington	Methods that lead to defined metrics in clinical imagine and low dose imaging for children; IntEngineeringated medical diagnostics; Tomographic image reconstruction; Hybrid machine learning algorithms; Kinetic data analysis; Application of AI to healthcare delivery
Banzhaf, Wolfgang (Koza Chair)	8/16/16	Engineering	Computer Science & Engr.	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Bio-inspired computing, Evolutionary Computation
Chen, Honglei	8/16/16	Human Med	Epidemiology & Biostatistics (EL)	NIEHS	Environment and genetic risk factors for Parkinson's disease; Prodromal neurdegeneration;
Crosson, Sean	6/15/19	Natural Science	Microbiology & Molecular Genetics (EL)	University of Chicago	Microbiol Pathology
Deng, Yiming	8/16/16	Engineering	Electrical & Comp. Engr.	UC-Denver	Non Destructive Evaluation
Dorgan, John (Lamp Chair)	1/1/17	Engineering	Chemical Engr. & Materials Science	Colorado School of Mines	Polymeric materials and composites
Drewlo, Sascha	5/15/17	Human Med	OB/GYN & Reproductive Biology (GR)	Wayne State University	OB/GYN-Placental Insufficiency at Molecular Level; Intervention Strategies (in-utero)
Fan, Qi Hua	8/16/16	Engineering	Electrical & Comp. Engr. (Fraunhofer)	South Dakota State Univ	Nanostructured electronic materials, thin film semiconductors
Gondro, Cedric	8/16/17	Ag & Nat Resources	Animal Science	University of New England, Australia	Quantitative and computational animal genomics; Research focused on improving accuracy of genomic prediction in livestock populations using sequence data
Gordon, Marcia	8/16/17	Human Med	Trans. Sci. & Molecular Medicine (GR)	University of South Florida	Alzheimer's disease
Grant, Darren	8/16/18	Natural Science	Physics & Astronomy	University of Alberta	Particle Astrophysics
Haddad, Nick	8/16/17	Ag & Nat Resources	KBS	NC State University	Landscape ecology, plant insect interactions
Han, Ming	1/1/18	Engineering	Electrical & Comp. Engr.	Univ. Nebraska Lincoln	Non Destructive Evaluation
Henebry, Geoffrey	8/16/19	Social Science	Geography	South Dakota State Univerisy	Remote sensing and land use change in Central Asia
Jiang, Jiming	8/16/17	Natural Science	Plant Biology	University of Wisconsin	Plant gene expression and regulation induced by environmental stresses, including heat, cold, and drought; Epigenetics
Lee, Dean	8/16/17	Natural Science,FRIB	Physics & Astronomy	NC State University	Theoretical Nuclear Physics
MacKeigan, Jeff	8/16/17	Human Med	OB/GYN & Reproductive Biology (GR)	Van Andel Institute	Autophagy; Cancer metabolism; Tuberous sclerosis complex; Chemoresistance; Mitochondria; Kinases, phosphatases
Mahmoudi, Morteza	7/1/19	Human Med	Radiology	Harvard/Dana Farber	Cancer and cardiac nanotechnology
Missmer, Stacey	8/16/16	Human Med	OB/GYN & Reproductive Biology (GR)	Harvard/MGH	OB/GYN-Reproductive Health - Endometriosis; Uterine Fibroids; Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology; Endogenous Hormones and Breast Cancer
Moore, Anna	1/1/18	Human Med	Radiology (EL)	Harvard/MGH	Precision health program, Image-guided cancer therapy; Imaging and theraputic studies in diabetes
Morgan, Dave	8/16/17	Human Med	Trans. Sci. & Molecular Medicine (GR)	University of South Florida	Alzheimer's disease; Aging Brain; Neuroinflammation; Animal Models; Neurochemistry
Murillo, Michael	9/1/16	Engineering	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	LANL	Plasmas, strongly coupled systems, Corilated matter and Cellar Atomoton modeling of desease (CDC)
Pyeon, Dohun	6/1/18	Human Med	Microbiology & Molecular Genetics (EL)	University of Colorado	Tumor Virology, Cancer Immunology, Cancer Genomics
Roy, David	10/15/18	Social Science	Geography	South Dakota State University	Development of remote sensing and advanced computing methods to intEngineeringate/fuse satellite sensor data to map and characterize terrestrial global change, big satellite data processing, and the causes and consequences of land cover and land use change.
Wilson, Angela	2/10/16	Natural Science	Chemistry	Uiversity of North Texas	Quantum dynamics of spin transitions, modeling of quantum coherence and beats in molecular systems
Zinn, Kurt	8/23/17	Human Med	Radiology (EL/IQ)	University of Alabama Birmingham	Development of molecular imaging approaches for cancer diagnosis, treatment monitoring, and threapy

Junior Faculty

Name	Start Date	Lead College	Lead Department	Previous Institution	Research Area
Aguirre, Aitor	3/1/18	Engineering	BME	University of California - San Diego	Stem cells, reprogramming & cardiovascular regeneration (precision medicine)
Baryshev, Sergey	8/16/17	Engineering	Electrical & Comp. Engr.	Euclid TechLabs	Diamond-based electron sources for linear accelerators and novel time-resolved microscopy concepts
Bazavov, Alexei	8/16/16	Natural Science	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	University of Iowa	Lattice Field Theory-LQCD
Boddeti, Vishnu	8/16/16	Engineering	Computer Science & Engr.	Carnegie Mellon University	Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Biometrics
Bopardikar, Shanauk	8/16/18	Engineering	ECE, Mobility	United Technologies Research Center	Mobility, scalable computation and optimization, cyber-physical security and autonomous motion planning and control
Chen, Bin	4/1/18	Human Med	Peds & Human Dev (GR)	UCSF	Big Data and AI for cancer therapeutic discovery
Cheng, Shiwang	8/16/17	Engineering	Chemical Engr. & Materials Science	Oak Ridge Natl Lab	Mechanics of polymer nanocomposites
Childs, Kevin	4/1/17	Natural Science	Plant Biology	MSU	Plant Genomics
Chitwood, Dan	1/1/18	Ag & Nat Resources	Horticulture	Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO)	Quantitative and Computational Plant Science, Computational Data Scientist/Plant Phenotyping - using X-ray Computed Tomography for non-destructive sampling, plant morphological and topological data analysis to create mathematical models to quantify and analyze morphological data altering the way plant scientists think about phenotyping.
Cho, Young-Hyun	8/16/17	MUSIC	Piano Performance	University of Texas Arlington
Chung, Haseung	8/16/17	Engineering	Mechnical Engr.	University of Michigan	Advanced Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing
Cocker, Tyler	1/1/18	Natural Science	Physics & Astronomy	University of Regensburg, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics	Ultrafast physics in single molecules and nanomaterials using techniques that combine femtosecond terahertz technology with atomic scale microscopy
Felton, Julia	10/1/17	Human Med	Peds & Human Dev (Flint)	U of Maryland-College Park	Adolescent Health, evidence-based intervention to reduce adolescent substance use, behavioral activation
Ferrier, Robert	8/16/18	Engineering	Chemical Engr. & Materials Science	University of Texas	Polymer chemistry/physics for energy, water, and health
Garratt, Elias	8/16/17	Engineering	Chemical Engr. & Materials Science (Fraunhofer)	NIST	Structure/property relations in electronic materials
Hickey, David	8/16/19	Engineering	CHEMS. Organic electronics	University of Utah	Electrocatalysis/electrochemistry for batteries
Hintze, Arend	8/15/15	Natural Science	IntEngineeringative Biology	MSU	Evolution of natural and artificial intelligence.
Hoffmann, Hanne	3/1/18	Ag & Nat Resources	Animal Science	UC San Diego	RDSP, research focus on molecular pathways and brain circuitry adapting behavior and reproduction. Emphasis on circadian rhythms
Hsu, Polly	1/1/18	Natural Science	Biochem & Molecular Bio	Duke	Molecular biology and genetics of plant responses to biotic and abiotic stress
Huang, Wen	7/17/17	Ag & Nat Resources	Animal Science	N.C. State University	Quantitative and computational animal genomics; research focus on Understanding variation in quantitative traits
Jin, Xiangshu	8/15/15	Natural Science	Biochem & Molecular Bio	Columbia	Crystallographer, Structural Biology
Johnson-Lawrence, Vicki	3/1/17	Human Med	Family Medicine (Flint)	U of Michigan-Flint	Health Equity; Multilevel social determinants of multimorbidity; Intersection of social determinants, complex stressors, and resilience; Community engaged research; Social epidemiology
Josephs, Emily	1/1/19	Natural Science	Plant Biology	UC Davis	Computational methods of population genomics on a genome-wide scale to understand the evolutionary forces that impact quantitative traits in plants (i.e. measurable phenotypes resulting from the combined actions of multiple genes in response to specific environmental conditions.)
Karunakaran, Shiv	8/16/17	Natural Science	Math (PRIME)	Washington State University	Mathematical Education
Kim, Kelly	3/1/20	Natural Science	BMB, Cryo-EM	Rockefeller University	Structural Biology, Cryo-EM of membrane proteins
Kopper, Claudio	8/16/18	Natural Science	Physics and Astronomy, IceCube	Univ. Alberta	Particle Astrophysics
Krishnan, Arjun	1/1/17	Natural Science	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	Princeton University	Data science, network theory of genomics and complex diseases
Li, Zhaojian	8/16/17	Engineering	Mechnical Engr.	University of Michigan	Controls, Connected Vehicles, Machine Learning
Lin, Huey-Wen	8/16/16	Natural Science	Physics & Astronomy	Lawrence Berkeley Livermore Lab	Lattice Field Theory-LQCD
Lundquist, Peter	8/16/18	Natural Science	BMB, Plant Resiliance Institute	Noble Research Institute	The role of chloroplasts and lipid-protein particles (plastoglobules) in plant responses to abiotic and biotic stress.
Maghrebi, Mohammad	1/1/17	Natural Science	Physics & Astronomy	Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland	Theoretical statistical physics and quantum field theories
Munch, Elizabeth	8/16/17	Natural Science	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	SUNY Stony Brook	Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Niederhuth, Chad	1/1/18	Natural Science	Plant Biology	University of Georgia	Comparative genomics and molecular evolution approaches to gain insight into the relationship between changes in the epigenome (e.g. DNA methylation patterns) and phenotypic variation among closely related non-model plant species
Orlando, Benjamin	8/19/2020	Natural Science	Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Hauptman-Woodward Institute, SUNY at Buffalo	Cryo-electron Microscopy
Petrasch, Jeorg	8/16/18	Engineering	Chemical Engr. & Materials Science, Energy materials	ETH Zurich	Renewable energy and sustainability
Prokop, Jeremy	2/1/18	Human Med	Peds & Human Dev (GR)	Hudson Alpha	Genetic mechanisms of disease with particular interest in rare and undiagnosed diseases
Quinn, Robert	8/16/18	Natural Science	Biochem & Molecular Bio (EL)	UC San Diego	Studies how metabolites from the microbiome shape our health and disease and specifically how changes in the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung microbiome cause disease in patients
Rouachad, Hatem	8/16/20	Ag & Nat Resources	Plant , soil and Microbial Sciences	French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Montpellier	Plant Resilience Institute, research focused on Molecular mechanisms underlying how plants create nutrient signals to modulate growth, traits enhancing resource use efficiency, particularly for phosphorous, a global limited resource
Sahasrabudhe, Himanshu	8/16/17	Engineering	Mechnical Engr.	Washington State University	Advanced Manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing, Materials Synthesis and Characterization
Schmidt, Jens	1/1/18	Human Med	OB/GYN & Reproductive Biology (EL/IQ)	U of Colorado	cell biological and biophysical approaches to explain how human cells maintain their genomic integrity, which is an important barrier for cancer formation
Sen, Aritro	8/16/17	Ag & Nat Resources	Animal Science	University of Rochester	Research focused on basic cellular and molecular mechanisms related to women's health and fertility
Stravoksy, Rita	8/16/17	Ag & Nat Resources	Food Science & Human Nutrition	University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign	Lipids, nutrition and health; research focus on maternal determinants of fetal development and offspring health with emphasis on maternal diet and toxic chemicals
Sun, Liangliang	8/16/16	Natural Science	Chemistry	Notre Dame	Analytical Chemistry/Proteomics
Tai, Wei-Che	8/16/18	Engineering	ME, Automotive	University of Washington	Vehicle Dynamics, rotor dynamics, energy harvesting
TerAvest, Michaela	8/15/15	Natural Science	Biochem & Molecular Bio	Berkeley	Synthetic Biology
Thompson, Addie	1/8/18	Ag & Nat Resources	Plant, Soil & Microbial Sciences	Ph.D. - Univ. of Minnesota, Post-doc - Purdue	Quantitative and computational plant genomics, research focus on maize genetics and genomics and understanding drought stress
Tu, Guan-Hua	8/16/16	Engineering	Computer Science & Engr.	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Computer and Network Security, Wireless and Mobile Network
VanBuren, Robert	8/16/16	Ag & Nat Resources	Horticulture	Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, MO)	Quantitative and Computational Plant Science hire: molecular genetics of drought tolerance / crop water-use efficiency
von Manteuffel, Andreas	8/16/16	Natural Science	Physics & Astronomy	Institut fur Physik (THEP) Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitat	Computational science, high energy physics, and/or nuclear physics
Wang, Jianrong	1/1/17	Natural Science	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	MIT	Data Science-innovative statistical models and machine learning algorithms to tackle challenges in functional genomics, epigenetics, regulatory networks and human disease
Wang, Rongrong	8/16/17	Natural Science	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	UBC University of British Columbia	Harmonic analyses and computational mathematics in compressed sensing, Sigma Delta quantization, frame theory, convex optimization, sapars signal recovery.
Wang, Yuan	3/1/17	Ag & Nat Resources	Animal Science	E. China Normal University	Research focus on male fertility and spermatagonial stem cell biology
Williams, Michael	8/16/19	Human Med	Pediatrics, Autism	Dartmouth	Role of Autism Spectrum Disorder candidate genes in neuronal development
Yang, Yang	5/15/17	Natural Science	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	Purdue	Inverse problems involving partial differential equations, analysis and differential geometry for analysis and applied mathematics, including medical imaging, geophysical imaging, and mathematical physics.
Yu, Hui-Chia	7/10/17	Engineering	Comp. Math, Science, Engr.	University of Michigan	Energy materials - modeling.
Zhang, Peng	8/16/16	Engineering	Electrical & Comp. Engr.	U of Michigan-Ann Arbor	Vacuum nanoelectronic devices, accelerator technology, high power radiation sources
Zhou, Jiayu	8/15/15	Engineering	Computer Science & Engr.	Arizona State University	Machine learning and artificial intelligence
Zimmermann, Tom	8/16/17	Engineering	Electrical & Comp. Engr. (Fraunhofer)	Fraunhofer (Biohybrid Systems Unit)	Nanotechnology and diamond NEMS-biosensor solutions in biomedical diagnostics, automation of biotechnologies processes and food analysis diamond high-power THz systems

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