University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Applied Research Institute

Our People

Leadership

Jennifer Bernhard
Director of Applied Research Institute
Magdi Naim Azer
Associate Director for Manufacturing Science
Jess Dalhaus
Assistant Director for Research
Omar Mohamed Elabd
Senior Software Engineer
Heather Rose Filippini
Principal Research Scientist
Nicole Johnson
Managing Director
Ann-Perry Witmer
Senior Research Scientist

Our People

Fitsum Abebe
Online Instructional Designer
Mohamed Aboukhatwa
Senior Research Scientist
Pamela Bedient
Office Administrator
Eliezer Colina Morles
he/him/his
Senior Research Engineer
David Ehrhardt
Senior Research Engineer
Maryam Eslami
she/her/hers
Staff Research Scientist
James Fallaw
he/him/his
Senior Software Engineer
Vikram Adithya Ganesh
he/him/his
Software Project Manager
Daniel Vincent Krogstad
Senior Research Scientist
Ana Lucic
Staff Research Scientist
Ngoc Nguyen
Staff Research Scientist
Michal Ondrejcek
Senior Software Engineer
Mary Pietrowicz
Senior Research Scientist
Alexandra Timmons
she/her/hers
Staff Research Engineer
John Wolff
Senior Software Engineer