The Notre Dame College of Engineering welcomes 13 new members to the faculty this fall.
“We are pleased to welcome these talented and vibrant researchers, teachers and practitioners,” said Patricia Culligan, Matthew H. McCloskey Dean of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. “They bring expertise that not only enriches our departments and programs, but also fosters collaborations, initiatives and discoveries, all while ensuring an exceptional educational experience for our students.”
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Jingcheng Ma
Assistant Professor
Interfacial thermofluids phenomena for biomedical, environmental, and energy applications
Seunghyun Moon
Assistant Research Professor
Micro/nano fabrications, sensor devices, thin films, and polymer engineering, aiming for material development and sensor innovation
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jennifer Ehren
Associate Teaching Professor
First Year Engineering Program (Engineering Design and Engineering Computing) as well as Junior and Senior Chemical Engineering Unit Operations Laboratory Experiments
Rev. Bryan D. Paulsen, S. J.
Assistant Professor
Develops organic mixed ionic-electronic conductor (OMIEC) materials and devices for bioelectronic and energy applications
Brett Savoie
Coyle Mission Collegiate Professor of Engineering
The interface of machine learning with chemistry and materials science; the development of new computational methods to predict and optimize materials’ properties to avoid costly synthesis and characterization
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Kirstin Sockwell
Assistant Research Professor
Developing new actinide chemistry with an emphasis on the nuclear fuel cycle and actinide separation
Computer Science and Engineering
Erin Chambers
Snyder Family Mission Collegiate Professor of Computer Science; Concurrent Professor, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Computational topology and geometry, shape analysis, topological data analysis, low dimensional topology, combinatorics and combinatorial algorithms
Aarthy Nagarajan
Melchor Visiting Assistant Professor
Advancing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) to develop reliable, non-invasive systems for effectively interpreting neural signals
Daniel Rehberg
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Building upon game engine architecture and computer graphics to enhance experiences and capabilities of virtual worlds
William Theisen
Assistant Teaching Professor
Understanding and combatting the spread of online misinformation via social media channels
Electrical Engineering
Ranjan Singh
Professor
Innovating terahertz photonic, electronic, spintronic, and orbitronic devices with quantum, topological, and semiconductor materials to create disruptive on-chip solutions for the future 6G to XG wireless communications, solid state displays, and quantum sensors
Zhi Zheng
Assistant Professor
Human-machine interaction (HMI), specifically, the fundamental mechanisms and applications of HMI in the contexts of developmental disabilities, aging, and substance use
Office of the Dean of Engineering
Joseph Lyon
Assistant Teaching Professor; Coordinator for the College of Engineering’s First-Year Program
Engineering education, focusing on the effective teaching of modeling, simulation, and computer programming in first-year and undergraduate contexts
— Karla Cruise, Notre Dame Engineering