University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Center for Hypersonics & Entry Systems Studies
CHESS

People

Leadership        Faculty        Research Staff        Graduate Students        Alumni

Leadership

Tonghun Lee
Department Affiliate
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Francesco Panerai
Assistant Professor
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Kelly Stephani
Department Affiliate
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Faculty

Huck Beng Chew
Associate Professor
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Philippe Geubelle
he/him/his
Bliss Professor
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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; Associate Dean for Research, The Grainger College of Engineering
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Jessica Anne Krogstad
Associate Professor
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Nagi Mansour
Adjunct Research Professor
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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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Sameh Tawfick
Associate Professor; Ralph A. Andersen Faculty Scholar
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Laura Villafane Roca
Assistant Professor
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Research Staff

Lorenzo Capponi
POSTDOC RES ASSOC
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Trey Oldham
POSTDOC RES ASSOC
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Graduate Students

Victoria Arias
Graduate Student
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Fabian Stefan Dettenrieder
he/him/his
Graduate Student
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Collin Foster
Graduate Student
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Kaan Kirmanoglu
Graduate Student
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Matt Konnik
Graduate Student
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Vishnu Oruganti
Graduate Student
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Arman Tekinalp
Graduate Student
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Henry Xavier Varona
Graduate Student
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Alumni

Name Company
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)