Princeton Engineers

In the course “Robotic and Autonomous Systems Lab,” known as Car Lab, Princeton juniors majoring in electrical and computer engineering work in small teams to create autonomous vehicles that carry out specialized tasks. Photo by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Each member of our community comes to Princeton Engineering with unique goals, passions, and life stories that fuel their learning, teaching, and research.

Read some of their stories below.

Celebrating our Community

  • Portrait of Simón Andres Gotera.

    Undergraduate

    Simón Andres Gotera: Building a robot for reforestation

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Ben Laufer.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Ben Laufer ’19: Improving accountability and trustworthiness in AI

    Read on Cornell Tech

  • Portrait of Lynn Loo.

    Faculty

    Lynn Loo: Moving decarbonization from lab to industry

    Read on GovInsider

  • Portrait of Margaret Martonosi.

    Faculty

    Margaret Martonosi on the National Science Foundation and the value of public service

  • Portrait of Jinyue (Jerry) Jiang.

    Graduate Student

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

    Read on Andlinger Center

  • Portrait of Vichi Jagannathan.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Vichi Jagannathan ’10: Innovation for healing, equity and justice

    Read in Forbes EQ

  • Portrait of Gina Arnau.

    Undergraduate

    Gina Arnau: A summer of spacecraft systems and exploring a new city

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Ben Eysenbach.

    Faculty

    Ben Eysenbach: Teaching robots to do complex tasks

    Read on Computer Science

  • Portrait of Christa Peters-Lidard.

    Graduate Alumni

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

    Read on Instagram

  • Anherutowa Calvo wearing safety glasses and a white coat in a laboratory.

    Undergraduate

    Anherutowa Calvo: Early experiences galvanize commitment to engineering solutions

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Mengdi Wang.

    Faculty

    Mengdi Wang: Using language models to decode disease

  • Portrait of Adam Lichtenstein.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Adam Lichtenstein ’95 *10: Tapping into the alumni community’s love for Princeton

    Read on Princeton University Alumni

  • Portrait of Manish Bhardwaj.

    Staff

    Manish Bhardwaj: Innovation as a moral undertaking

    Read on Keller Center

  • Portrait of Jerelle Joseph.

    Faculty

    Jerelle Joseph: Simulating droplets that drive life’s functions

  • Portrait of Zhihua Wang.

    Graduate Alumni

    Zhihua Wang *11: Pioneering studies on urban climate dynamics

    Read in ASU News

  • Portrait of Mason Rocca.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Mason Rocca ’00: Professional basketball player and cyclist with engineering roots

    Read in Princeton Alumni Weekly

  • Portrait of Parastoo Abtahi.

    Faculty

    Parastoo Abtahi: Building tech to ‘extend people’s abilities and augment their intelligence’

    Read on Computer Science

  • Portrait of Hungtang Ko.

    Postdoc

    Hungtang Ko: Delving into underwater collectives

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Juan Albanell ’15: Testing autonomous drones for a range of scenarios

    Read in Inside Unmanned Systems

  • Portrait of Craig Arnold.

    Faculty

    Craig Arnold: The three Bs of innovation

    Read in Haverford Magazine

  • Portrait of Victoria Muir.

    Postdoc

    Victoria Muir: Using biophysics to understand microbial communities

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Rebecca Portnoff.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Rebecca Portnoff ’12: Protecting children from AI exploitation

    Read in Princeton Alumni Weekly

  • Portrait of Jake Snell.

    Postdoc

    Jake Snell: Making deep learning models more adaptive and reliable

    Read on Princeton Correspondents on Undergraduate Research

  • Portrait of Aditya Sood.

    Faculty

    Aditya Sood: Probing ultrafast phenomena in materials

    Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • 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 Janet Blume.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Janet Blume ’82 on her introduction to engineering at Princeton

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Marcel Dall’Agnol.

    Faculty

    Marcel Dall’Agnol on theoretical computer science and ‘really cool math’

    Read on Computer Science

  • Portrait of Andrés Monroy-Hernández.

    Faculty

    Andrés Monroy-Hernández: Making technology work for workers and consumers in the gig economy

    Read in Princeton Alumni Weekly

  • Portrait of Emily de Jong.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Emily de Jong ’19: Creativity in climate modeling

    Listen on Science in Parellel

  • Portrait of Vinay Konuru.

    Undergraduate

    Vinay Konuru: Uniting the next generation of energy leaders

    Read on Andlinger Center

  • Portrait of Carolina Trenado Yuste.

    Postdoc

    Carolina Trenado Yuste: Combining computation and experiments to study cells’ 3D movements

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Lillian Tay.

    Graduate 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 Professor Claire Gmachl.

    Faculty

    Claire Gmachl: Laser transition is ‘a beautiful thing to watch’

    Read on Princeton Correspondents on Undergraduate Research

  • Portrait of student Sullivan Meyer in a laboratory.

    Undergraduate

    Sullivan Meyer: Bringing theory to life through electric racing

    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 Daniel Cohen.

    Faculty

    Daniel Cohen: Herding cells like sheepdogs herd sheep

    Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Portrait of Corey Toler-Franklin.

    Graduate Alumni

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

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Janice Kankolongo.

    Undergraduate

    Janice Kankolongo: Turning to chemistry as ‘a beacon of hope’

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Phil Chang.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Phil Chang ’15: Transforming basketball through data

    Read in Princeton Alumni Weekly

  • Portrait of Surya Mattu.

    Staff

    Surya Mattu: Jumpstarting the public imagination around algorithms

    Read on Princeton International

  • Portrait of professor Celeste Nelson.

    Faculty

    Celeste Nelson: Upending assumptions about developmental biology

    Read in Discovery: Research at Princeton

  • Portrait of Ankush Gola.

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Ankush Gola ’15: The confidence to pursue entrepreneurship

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of student Nathan Gage.

    Undergraduate

    Nathan Gage on curiosity, teamwork and electric racing

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Student Lilianna Gittoes.

    Undergraduate

    Lilianna Gittoes: Optimizing energy systems

    Read on Andlinger Center

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

    Graduate Student

    Allison Chen: Connecting computer vision with cognitive science

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of researcher with quantum computer.

    Faculty

    Andrew Houck: Quantum science is like looking at the world with new eyes

    Watch on Instagram

  • Undergraduate

    Sophia Colmenares: Simulating nanoparticles for precision medicine

    Read on Instagram

  • Faculty

    Amir Ali Ahmadi: Optimization as a way of thinking about the universe

    Read in Princeton Alumni Weekly

  • Postdoc

    Nathaniel Wei: Understanding atmospheric impacts on wind energy

    Read on Andlinger Center

  • Graduate Student

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

  • Postdoc

    Sara Kacmoli *23: Engineering lasers and imaging zebrafish development

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate

    Eshaan Govil: Pursuing leadership, from engineering autonomous vehicles to playing cricket

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Fei-Fei Li ’99: Asking audacious questions, and making AI a force for good

    Read in The Wall Street Journal

  • Faculty

    Iain McCulloch: A solar energy innovator takes the helm of Princeton’s Andlinger Center

  • Undergraduate

    Leena Memon: Solving real-world problems with math — and leading a community of women engineers

    Read on Instagram

  • Postdoc

    Alina Emeilianova: Exploring the intricate world of cellular processes

    Read on NJIT

  • Graduate Student

    Eric Lepowsky: Applying robotics to make nuclear inspections less invasive

    Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Graduate Alumni

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

    Read on BBC News

  • Undergraduate

    Evelyn Taliaferro: Digital electronics, STEM outreach, and academic exploration

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Lester Mackey ’07: Pioneering data science methods for medicine, climate and more

    Read/Watch on MacArthur Foundation

  • Postdoc

    Camilo Hernández: The power of small interactions

    Read on Instagram

  • Faculty

    Peter Henderson: Working at the intersection of machine learning and public policy

    Read on Center for Information Technology Policy

  • Graduate Alumni

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

    Read on Princeton Enterepreneurship Council

  • Undergraduate

    Sabrina Nicacio: Testing technologies for 3D-printed rocket turbines

    Read on Instagram

  • Postdoc

    Nusrat Molla: Understanding the social dynamics of the energy transition

    Read on Andlinger Center

  • Graduate Student

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

    Read on Instagram

  • Staff

    Peter Bogucki: Uncovering the ancient world, dig by dig

    Read more

  • Postdoc

    Camilo Jaramillo-Correa: Building a capsule to hold asteroid dust

    Read in Forbes

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Megan Ogawa ’23: Making connections through computer science, engineering and linguistics

    Watch on Princeton's YouTube channel

  • Undergraduate

    Vivek Kolli: Connecting students to opportunities through TigerResearch

    Read on Princeton Correspondents on Undergraduate Research

  • Faculty

    Wei Peng: Modeling the human dimensions of clean energy solutions

    Read on Andlinger Center

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Jose Yanez ’20 *22: Expanding possibilities for DACA students

    Read on Instagram

  • Graduate Alumni

    Maxine Perroni-Scharf *23: Fabricating art with algorithms

    Read/Watch on Computer Science

  • Faculty

    Pablo Debenedetti: Finding a ‘highly collegial intellectual home’ at Princeton

    Read in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B

  • Undergraduate

    Frida Ruiz: Bringing young people into environmentalism

    Read/Watch on In The Know

  • Graduate Alumni

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

    Read in ASU News

  • Undergraduate

    David Opong: A mindset beyond problem sets

    Read on Princeton University News

  • Graduate Student

    Hannah Wiswell: Studying bird flight to improve aircraft

    Read on Instagram

  • Faculty

    Alice Kogan: Fostering students’ creativity

    Read on Keller Center

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Anna Broome ’18: Using radar to peer beneath ice sheets

    Read on Instagram

  • Faculty

    Arvind Narayanan: Leading in a challenging time for tech

  • Graduate Student

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

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate

    Ruby Jacobs: Combining deep interests in art, design and STEM

    Read on Instagram

  • Graduate Alumni

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

    Read on Princeton University Alumni

  • Faculty

    Jesse Jenkins: Helping guide billions in climate spending

    Read in The Wall Street Journal

  • Graduate Student

    Ananya Chakravarti: Tackling ‘Big Problems’ through an interdisciplinary approach

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    John Dabiri ’01: Learning fluid dynamics from jellyfish

    Listen on Quanta Magazine's podcast "The Joy of Why"

  • Faculty

    Ryan Kingsbury: Advancing high-tech filters for water and energy needs

    Read on Andlinger Center

  • Graduate Student

    Francisco Sáenz: Studying liquid metals for nuclear fusion

    Read on Andlinger Center

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Donna Riley ’93: Taking risks and transforming engineering education

    Read in the Albuquerque Journal

  • Portrait of Ning Lin

    Faculty

    Professor Ning Lin *10: Calculating the compound risks of extreme weather

    Read in Princeton Alumni Weekly

  • Faculty

    Olga Russakovsky: Creating a positive future for AI

    Read on Princeton University Alumni

  • Undergraduate

    Darius Rudasingwa Ganza: Exploring new materials for carbon capture

    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

  • Staff

    Benedikt Lehnert: Bridging design and entrepreneurship

    Read on Keller Center

  • Undergraduate

    Reha Mathur: Parsing the complexity of biology to improve health care

    Read on Chemical & Biological Engineering

  • Graduate Student

    Felix Ackon: Adapting market models for renewable energy

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate

    Bryan Boyd: Seeing the engineering applications of physics

    Read on Instagram

  • Faculty

    Radhika Nagpal: Illuminating collective intelligence, expanding capabilities of robots

  • Portrait of Cato Laurencin

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Cato Laurencin ’80: Pioneering a tool kit for regenerative engineering

    Read in Chemical & Engineering News

  • Portrait of Alison Lee

    Undergraduate

    Alison Lee: Finding freedom and making the most of your time

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Aimy Wissa

    Faculty

    Aimy Wissa: Engineering solutions inspired by nature

    Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Graduate Student

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

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate Alumni

    Frances Arnold ’79: The importance of a foundational education

    Read on Instagram

  • Undergraduate

    Emerson Tiwang: Business, basketball and data-driven decisions

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Katie Baldwin.

    Undergraduate

    Katie Baldwin: Exploring music’s ‘STEM-like undercurrents’

    Read on Department of Music

  • Portrait of Wilson Ricks.

    Graduate Student

    Wilson Ricks: Sustaining the energy of our future

    Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Portrait of Jessica Leung.

    Faculty

    Jessica Leung: Teaching design with empathy at its core

    Read on Keller Center

  • Portrait of Siddhartha Jayanti

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Siddhartha Jayanti ’17: Overcoming linguistic barriers to broaden computer science access in India

    Read on MIT News

  • Portrait of student Michelle Ho

    Undergraduate

    Michelle Ho: Advancing robotics for space missions

    Read on Instagram

  • Professor Forrest Meggers in the laboratory

    Faculty

    Forrest Meggers: Saving energy while keeping comfortable in a “Cold Tube”

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Eddie Zhang

    Undergraduate

    Eddie Zhang: Pursuing water resources engineering — along with violin and piano

    Read on Department of Music

  • Portrait of Marian Croak

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Marian Croak ’77: Creating technologies “in service of humanity”

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Kaushik Sengupta

    Faculty

    Kaushik Sengupta: Rethinking how we move data across the airwaves

  • Portrait of Arielle Rivera

    Undergraduate

    Arielle Rivera: Lighting Puerto Rico’s energy future

  • Portrait of Ludovic Tangpi

    Faculty

    Ludovic Tangpi: Casting new models of uncertainty for a changing world

  • Portrait of Jackie Ying

    Graduate Alumni

    Jackie Ying *91: Pioneering nanotechnology for human health

    Read on Chemical & Biological Engineering

  • Portrait of student Karla Soto Cuevas

    Undergraduate

    Karla Soto Cuevas: Finding community as a first-gen student

    Read on Instagram

  • Photo of Robert Long with his four children

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Robert Long ’79: Nurturing others is the best investment

    Read on 3BL CSRwire/Kimberly-Clark

  • Portrait of graduate student Lila Rodgers

    Graduate Student

    Lila Rodgers: ‘Fearlessly’ tackling challenges in quantum systems

  • Portrait of Ruth Fong

    Faculty

    Ruth Fong: Teaching the creativity of computer science

    Read on Computer Science

  • Portrait of student Emilio Cano Renteria

    Undergraduate

    Emilio Cano Renteria: Exploring fission as a source of clean energy

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of postdoctoral researcher Sofia Quinodoz

    Postdoc

    Sofia Quinodoz: Pursuing mysteries within living cells

  • Portrait of Tubagus Aryandi Gunawan

    Postdoc

    Tubagus Aryandi Gunawan: Sizing up carbon capture technologies

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of researcher Adji Bousso Dieng

    Faculty

    Adji Bousso Dieng: Computing as empowerment

  • Michal Kozlowski

    Undergraduate

    Michal Kozlowski: Joining the next agricultural revolution

    Read on Chemical & Biological Engineering

  • Graduate student Einara Zahn

    Graduate Student

    Einara Zahn: Investigating exchanges between plants and the atmosphere

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Princeton alumna Katy Milkman

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Katy Milkman ’04: Tackling tough goals with ‘temptation bundling’

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of student Kevin Tong

    Undergraduate

    Kevin Tong: Designing CubeSats and space infrastructure

    Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Portrait of postdoctoral researcher Lucia Stein-Montalvo

    Postdoc

    Lucia Stein-Montalvo: Bringing shape-shifting structures to architectural scales

    Read on Instagram

  • Portrait of Jaime Fernández Fisac

    Faculty

    Assistant Professor Jaime Fernández Fisac: Equipping students for modern robotics

    Watch video on Electrical & Computer Engineering

  • Portrait of H. Vincent Poor

    Faculty

    Professor H. Vincent Poor *77: ‘Technical visionary’ of wireless communications

  • Portrait of student Archika Dogra

    Undergraduate

    Archika Dogra: Finding a voice in computer science

    Read on Instagram

  • Student Eleni Retzepis with 3D printer

    Undergraduate

    Eleni Retzepis: Testing bridge designs in the Makerspace

    Read on Princeton University Library

  • Portrait of postdoctoral scholar Hongbo Zhao

    Postdoc

    Hongbo Zhao: Collaborating at the frontier of biophysics and engineering

    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

  • Photo of alumnus Bryton Shang

    Undergraduate Alumni

    Bryton Shang ’12: Teaching the world a better way to fish

    Read on Princeton University Alumni

  • Portrait of graduate student Meghan Booker holding small robot

    Graduate Student

    Meghan Booker: Making memory frameworks for robots

    Read on Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

  • Portrait of Professor Brian Kernighan

    Faculty

    Professor Brian Kernighan *69: “Hello, World!” and the genesis of Unix

    Read on Instagram

  • Graduate student Caroline Trippel

    Graduate Alumni

    Caroline Trippel *19: Evaluating security in hardware designs

  • Graduate student Yair Shenfeld

    Graduate Alumni

    Yair Shenfeld *20: Understanding optimal convex structures

  • Graduate student Aleena Patel

    Graduate Alumni

    Aleena Patel *21: Harnessing light for developmental biology

  • Portrait of J. Clay Hamill Jr.

    Graduate Alumni

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

  • Graduate student Noah Apthorpe speaking at panel discussion

    Graduate Alumni

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

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

    Graduate Alumni

    Anastasia Bizyaeva *22: Modeling group dynamics