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Princeton Engineers: Graduate Students

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

Portrait of Megan Leftwich.

Alumni

Megan Leftwich *10: Learning about fluid dynamics from swimming sea lions

Listen on Science Friday

Alumni

Alec Gallimore *92: Pioneering electric propulsion

Read on Duke Research Blog

Alumni

Allan Chang *04: Clearing the path to everyday hydrogen power

Read on Princeton Materials Institute

Portrait of Akanksha Thawani.

Alumni

Akanksha Thawani *20: Illuminating 'the dark matter of the human genome'

Read in STAT

Portrait of Caridad Estrada Cardona in the laboratory.

Graduate Student

Caridad Estrada Cardona: On the impacts of natural disasters and improving pollution cleanup

Read on Instagram

Portrait of Juan M. Jiménez

Alumni

Juan M. Jiménez *07: Merging fluid mechanics and vascular biology to study disease

Read on Instagram

Portrait of Barry Zhang.

Alumni

Barry Zhang *94: Fiber optics for the future

Read in Laser Focus World

Portrait of Jinyue (Jerry) Jiang.

Graduate Student

Jinyue (Jerry) Jiang: The role of water in decarbonization

Read on Andlinger Center

Portrait of Christa Peters-Lidard.

Alumni

Christa Peters-Lidard *97: From soil sampling to leading NASA science

Read on Instagram

Portrait of Zhihua Wang.

Alumni

Zhihua Wang *11: Pioneering studies on urban climate dynamics

Read in ASU News

Portrait of Valeria Saro-Cortes.

Graduate Student

Valeria Saro-Cortes: Learning from a robotic model of flying fish

Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Portrait of Lillian Tay.

Alumni

Lillian Tay '86 *90: Design with an eye toward sustainability and cultural heritage

Read in Tatler Asia

Portrait of Marcel Louis.

Graduate Student

Marcel Louis: Sports and music, and now fluid mechanics for health care

Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Portrait of graduate student Austin Fan.

Graduate Student

Austin Fan: Tech for sustainable energy, and international networking

Read on Instagram

Portrait of Christina Kim.

Graduate Student

Christina Kim: Mapping the human microbiome, and reviving the campus #OutinSTEM community

Read on Instagram

Portrait of Corey Toler-Franklin.

Alumni

Corey Toler-Franklin *11: Using computer vision to advance medicine and reconstruct lost history

Read on Instagram

Portrait of graduate student Allison Chen on Princeton's campus.

Graduate Student

Allison Chen: Connecting computer vision with cognitive science

Read on Instagram

Graduate Student

José de Jesus Montaño Lopez: Designing yeasts to make cleaner fuels

Graduate Student

Eric Lepowsky: Applying robotics to make nuclear inspections less invasive

Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Alumni

Chin-Tay Shih *75: Transforming Taiwan into an electronics powerhouse

Read on BBC News

Alumni

Jen-Tang (JT) Lu *17: Using AI to evaluate cancer drugs

Read on Princeton Enterepreneurship Council

Graduate Student

Evelyn Navarro Salazar: Creating new models for lung disease and development

Read on Instagram

Alumni

Maxine Perroni-Scharf *23: Fabricating art with algorithms

Read/Watch on Computer Science

Alumni

Jay Famiglietti *92: Bringing everyone to the table to solve water challenges

Read in ASU News

Graduate Student

Hannah Wiswell: Studying bird flight to improve aircraft

Read on Instagram

Graduate Student

Camila Llerena-Olivera: Researching water quality in Peru and beyond

Read on Instagram

Alumni

David L. Evans *66: Championing diversity in higher education

Read on Princeton University Alumni

Graduate Student

Ananya Chakravarti: Tackling 'Big Problems' through an interdisciplinary approach

Read on Instagram

Graduate Student

Francisco Sáenz: Studying liquid metals for nuclear fusion

Read on Andlinger Center

Graduate Student

Isabel de Oliveira: Discovering the world of lightweight structures

Read on Instagram

Graduate student with open arms in the air, surrounded by equipment.

Graduate Student

Susan Redmond: Exploring the origins of the universe through engineering

Graduate Student

Felix Ackon: Adapting market models for renewable energy

Read on Instagram

Graduate Student

Anna Hancock: Probing bacterial behavior for medicine, the environment and more

Read on Instagram

Portrait of Wilson Ricks.

Graduate Student

Wilson Ricks: Sustaining the energy of our future

Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Portrait of Jackie Ying

Alumni

Jackie Ying *91: Pioneering nanotechnology for human health

Read on Chemical & Biological Engineering

Portrait of graduate student Lila Rodgers

Graduate Student

Lila Rodgers: 'Fearlessly' tackling challenges in quantum systems

Graduate student Einara Zahn

Graduate Student

Einara Zahn: Investigating exchanges between plants and the atmosphere

Read on Instagram

Graduate student Joanna Schneider working in the laboratory

Graduate Student

Joanna Schneider: Building nanoparticles for clean water

Read on Chemical & Biological Engineering

Portrait of graduate student Meghan Booker holding small robot

Graduate Student

Meghan Booker: Making memory frameworks for robots

Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Graduate student Caroline Trippel

Alumni

Caroline Trippel *19: Evaluating security in hardware designs

Graduate student Yair Shenfeld

Alumni

Yair Shenfeld *20: Understanding optimal convex structures

Graduate student Aleena Patel

Alumni

Aleena Patel *21: Harnessing light for developmental biology

Portrait of J. Clay Hamill Jr.

Alumni

J. Clay Hamill Jr. *21: Optimizing thin-film solar cells

Graduate student Noah Apthorpe speaking at panel discussion

Alumni

Noah Apthorpe '14 *20: Finding vulnerabilities in network privacy and security

Photo of graduate student Anastasia Bizyaeva, flanked by robots in the lab

Alumni

Anastasia Bizyaeva *22: Modeling group dynamics

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