The Grainger College of Engineering
Applied Research Institute

Our People

Leadership

R. Mohan Sankaran
Interim 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

Our People

Fitsum Abebe
Staff Research Scientist
Mohamed Aboukhatwa
Senior Research Scientist
Eliezer Colina Morles
he/him/his
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
Naiad Khan
he/him/his
Senior Software Engineer
Daniel Vincent Krogstad
Principal Research Scientist
Manish Kumar
Staff Research Scientist
Ana Lucic
Staff Research Scientist
Ngoc Nguyen
Staff Research Scientist
Michal Ondrejcek
Senior Software Engineer
MaryEllen Kathleen Simpson
Office Support Specialist
Alexandra Timmons
she/her/hers
Staff Research Engineer
Yu-Min Wang
she/her/hers
Postdoctoral Researcher
Yiran Zhu
she/her/hers
Staff Software Engineer