Graduate students at Princeton Engineering learn to define creative, high-impact research projects and to pursue those projects with a combination of independent work and fruitful collaborations.
Each student’s story is different but a common motivation is the desire to harness science and technology to achieve a wide and positive impact. The students featured below reflect a small fraction of the diverse expertise and backgrounds that form the Princeton Engineering community.
Princeton Engineers
Caridad Estrada Cardona: On the impacts of natural disasters and improving pollution cleanup
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Juan M. Jiménez *07: Merging fluid mechanics and vascular biology to study disease
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Barry Zhang *94: Fiber optics for the future
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Jinyue (Jerry) Jiang: The role of water in decarbonization
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Christa Peters-Lidard *97: From soil sampling to leading NASA science
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Zhihua Wang *11: Pioneering studies on urban climate dynamics
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Valeria Saro-Cortes: Learning from a robotic model of flying fish
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Lillian Tay '86 *90: Design with an eye toward sustainability and cultural heritage
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Marcel Louis: Sports and music, and now fluid mechanics for health care
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Austin Fan: Tech for sustainable energy, and international networking
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Christina Kim: Mapping the human microbiome, and reviving the campus #OutinSTEM community
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Corey Toler-Franklin *11: Using computer vision to advance medicine and reconstruct lost history
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Allison Chen: Connecting computer vision with cognitive science
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José de Jesus Montaño Lopez: Designing yeasts to make cleaner fuels
Eric Lepowsky: Applying robotics to make nuclear inspections less invasive
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Chin-Tay Shih *75: Transforming Taiwan into an electronics powerhouse
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Jen-Tang (JT) Lu *17: Using AI to evaluate cancer drugs
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Evelyn Navarro Salazar: Creating new models for lung disease and development
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Maxine Perroni-Scharf *23: Fabricating art with algorithms
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Jay Famiglietti *92: Bringing everyone to the table to solve water challenges
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Hannah Wiswell: Studying bird flight to improve aircraft
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Camila Llerena-Olivera: Researching water quality in Peru and beyond
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David L. Evans *66: Championing diversity in higher education
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Ananya Chakravarti: Tackling 'Big Problems' through an interdisciplinary approach
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Francisco Sáenz: Studying liquid metals for nuclear fusion
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Isabel de Oliveira: Discovering the world of lightweight structures
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Susan Redmond: Exploring the origins of the universe through engineering
Felix Ackon: Adapting market models for renewable energy
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Anna Hancock: Probing bacterial behavior for medicine, the environment and more
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Wilson Ricks: Sustaining the energy of our future
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Jackie Ying *91: Pioneering nanotechnology for human health
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Lila Rodgers: 'Fearlessly' tackling challenges in quantum systems
Einara Zahn: Investigating exchanges between plants and the atmosphere
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Joanna Schneider: Building nanoparticles for clean water
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Meghan Booker: Making memory frameworks for robots
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Caroline Trippel *19: Evaluating security in hardware designs
Yair Shenfeld *20: Understanding optimal convex structures
Aleena Patel *21: Harnessing light for developmental biology
J. Clay Hamill Jr. *21: Optimizing thin-film solar cells
Noah Apthorpe '14 *20: Finding vulnerabilities in network privacy and security
