Experts for media from Purdue University
Hypersonic and space vehicles
Jonathon Poggie: Hypersonics
Hypersonic flight: Researching innovations for flight speeds faster than Mach 5 for national security and space flight
Space and planetary sciences
Carolin Frueh: Space debris
Space junk: Preventing a posed threat from broken spacecraft
Briony Horgan: Space Exploration
Mars: Helping guide the mission strategy and scientific investigation of the Perseverance rover
Danny Milisavljevic: Astronomy
Deeper look into the stars: Working with the world’s most powerful space telescope to reconstruct stellar explosions.
Michelle Thompson: Space weathering
Moon rocks: Analyzing how rocks change from exposure to space and extrapolating geologic histories for extraplanetary bodies.
Cybersecurity
Hany Abdel-Khalik: Critical infrastructure cybersecurity
Systems security: Nuclear reactors, electric grids, manufacturing facilities
Santiago Torres-Arias: Cybersecurity attacks, including ransomware
Supply chain security: Halting software attacks on computer systems
Secure Microelectronics
Peter Bermel: Microchip shortage and future workforce development in microelectronics, including semiconductors.
Brain-Inspired Computing: Engineering Innovation
Shriram Ramanathan: Hardware for brain-inspired computing
Materials engineering: How to build artificial intelligence directly into hardware
Smart Cities: Engineering Innovation
Luna Lu: Concrete road repair
“Smart” infrastructure: Enabling concrete-paved highways and bridges to prevent and repair their own damage
Consumer Devices: Engineering Innovation
Charlie Hu: Smartphone energy efficiency
App development: Designing apps that drain less battery life
Biomedical Engineering
Chi Hwan Lee: Remote health monitoring and electronic stickers
Platform technologies: Developing specialized sensors to improve health care monitoring and medication delivery
Young Kim: Anticounterfeiting technology for medications and high-profile items
Counterfeit medications and alcohol: Using cyberphysical watermarks to discourage counterfeiting
David Umulis: AI and Biology
Artificial intelligence: A cell’s organization to change structure for defending and repairing tissue
Health
Health and Data Science
Majid Kazemian: Data science and biochemistry
Cells and science: Using data science to disrupt biochemical pathways to combat viruses and disease
Health and Drug Discovery
Phil Low: Innovation in Medicine
Combating deadly sickness: Developing and repurposing drugs to help defeat disease
Science Innovation
Roshi Nateghi: Effects of climate on electric grids
Predictive modeling: Climate change impact on electricity and water use
Jon Wilker: Adhesives
Chemistry and materials engineering: Testing and creating new sustainable synthetic and biomimetic adhesives inspired by ocean creatures
Yulia Pushkar: Artificial photosynthesis
Storing energy: Solution to power society more efficiently
