People
Steering Committee
| Jiajun Xu, Ph.D. (Center PI & technical lead of research thrust 1) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering 202.274.5048 jiajun.xu@udc.edu | Hossain Azam, Ph.D. (Center Co-PI, technical lead of research thrust 3) Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering 202-274-6293 hossain.azam@udc.edu | Ji Chen, Ph.D. (Center Co-PI, technical lead of research thrust 4) Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 202.274.5039 ji.chen@udc.edu | Sasan Haghani, Ph.D. (Center Co-PI) Professor Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering | 
| Kate Klein, Ph.D. (Center Co-PI) Chair and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering 202.274.7131 kate.klein@udc.edu | Devdas Shetty, Ph.D. (Center Co-PI) Dean and Professor of Mechanical Engineering 202.274.5033 devdas.shetty@udc.edu | Lara Thompson, Ph.D. (Center Co-PI, technical lead of research thrust 4) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering | Pawan Tyagi, Ph.D. (Center Co-PI, technical lead of research thrust 2) Professor of Mechanical Engineering 202.274.6601 ptyagi@udc.edu | 
Affiliated Faculty Members
| Max Denis, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 202.274.5045 | max.denis@udc.edu | Nian Zhang, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 202.274.6615 | nzhang@udc.edu | Paul Cotae, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 202.274.6290 | pcotae@udc.edu | Tolessa Deksissa, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Water Resources Management 202.274.5273 |tdeksissa@udc.edu | 
| Anshu Arora, Ph.D. | Associate Professor – Department of Marketing 202.274.7039 | anshu.arora@udc.edu | Amit Arora, Ph.D. | Associate Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management 202.274.6265 | amit.arora@udc.edu | Sergey Ivanov, Ph.D. | Professor, Department of Management 202.274.6833 | sivanov@udc.edu | Xueqin Song, Ph.D | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Physics 202.274.7425 | xsong@udc.edu | 
| Alexandra Taraboletti, Ph.D | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry 202.274.6229 | alexandra.tarabolett@udc.edu | Udeochu Uche, Ph.D | Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry 202.274.5508 | uche.udeochu@udc.edu | Knight Mathilde, Ph.D | Associate Professor, Department of Biology (202)274-6486 | mathilde.knight@udc.edu | Dilek Ozlem, Ph.D | Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry 202.274.5589 | ozlem.dilek@udc.edu | 
Staff
| Mohammadmehdi Kabirnajafi, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar mohammadmehdi.kabirn@udc.edu | Fisseha L. Gebre, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Scholar fisseha.gebre@udc.edu | 
| Feiyang Bai Grant Coordinator feiyang.bai@udc.edu | Pablo Sanchez Guerrero Lab Engineer 202.274.5934 pablo.sanchezguerrer@udc.edu | 
Students
| Jana Catuche | Master Student Mechanical Engineering | Kelechi Iwuchukwu | Master Student Mechanical Engineering | Tanjee Afreen | Master Student Mechanical Engineering | Patrick Adegbaye | Master Student Mechanical Engineering | 
| Siva Surya Prakash Reddy Arikatla | Master Student Computer Science | Voss Harrigan | Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering | Chance Eden | Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering | Benjamin Weimer | Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering | 
| Juan Estevez Hernandez | Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering | Saqlain Webster | Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering | Hans Matthew Baes | Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering | Arnold Feutmba | Undergraduate Electrical Engineering | 
| Etochukwu Ofodile | Undergraduate Civil Engineering | Miles Haggerty | Associate UDC Community College | Nazharie Brandon | Undergraduate Chemistry | 

