The Grainger College of Engineering
Center for Hypersonics & Entry Systems Studies (CHESS)

People

Leadership        Faculty        Research Staff        Student Staff         Alumni

Leadership

Tonghun Lee
Department Affiliate
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Francesco Panerai
Assistant Professor
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Faculty

Jeff Baur
Founder Professor of Aerospace Engineering
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Lawrence A. Bergman
Research Professor
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Huck Beng Chew
Professor, Associate Head and Director of Graduate Studies
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Fabien Evrard
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Assistant Professor
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Philippe Geubelle
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Bliss Professor and Executive Associate Dean
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Nick G. Glumac
Shao Lee Soo Professor; Cannon Faculty Scholar
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Kai A. James
Associate Professor
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Harley T. Johnson
Founder Professor; Executive Director and CEO of Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park
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Jessica Anne Krogstad
Associate Professor
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Nagi Mansour
Adjunct Research Professor
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Kathryn Matlack
Associate Professor; Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar
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Melkior Ornik
Assistant Professor
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Zachary R. Putnam
Adjunct Professor
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Nancy R. Sottos
Department Head, Swanlund Endowed Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor
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Alex Vakakis
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Donald Biggar Willett Professor
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Laura Villafane Roca
Assistant Professor
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Research Staff

Matthew Dick
Research Program Coordinator, CHESS
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Massimo Franco
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VST SCHOLAR
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Jason Meyers
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Senior Research Scientist, CHESS
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Alberto Padovan
POSTDOC RES ASSOC
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Sam Shanes
he/him/his
RES ENGR
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Student Staff

Victoria Arias
Graduate Student
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Henry Boesch
Graduate Student
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Anthony Chang
Graduate Student
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Conrad Delgado
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Graduate Student
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Asena Gelisli
Graduate Student
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Rachel Maria Hays
Graduate Student
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Kaan Kirmanoglu
Graduate Student
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Matt Konnik
POSTDOC RES ASSOC
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Sanjeev Kumar
Graduate Student
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Mridula Kuppa
Graduate Student
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CHERITH Lavisetty
Graduate Student
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Teddy Mansfield, II
he/him/his
Graduate Student
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Alessandro Meini
he/him/his
Graduate Student
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Azzurra Meo
she/her/hers
Graduate Student
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Jack Mills
Graduate Student
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Aakanksha Notey
Graduate Student
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Vishnu Oruganti
Graduate Student
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Cutler Phillippe
Graduate Student
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Paul Poovakulam
he/him/his
Graduate Student
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Andrea Scaboro
he/him/his
Graduate Student
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Abhyudaya Singh
he/him/his
Graduate Student
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Prathamesh Sirmalla
Graduate Student
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Henry Xavier Varona
he/him/his
Graduate Student
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Blaine Vollmer
Graduate Student
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Ivan Zanardi
Graduate Student
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Alumni

Name Company
Ali M. Soliman Lockheed Martin 
Andrea Alberti Postdoctoral Fellow
Robyn Macdonald CU Boulder
Amal Sahai Research Scientist at NASA ARC
Krishnan Swaminathan-Gopalan Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA ARC
Sharanya Subramaniam Intel Corp.
Tzu-Jung Pan TSMC (Taiwan)