ZHUMING BI has made distinctive contributions in advancing manufacturing theory, having proposed the new concepts digital triads and Internet of Digital Triad Things to represent the evolution of sustainable manufacturing in an extended-system life cycle.

This innovation has addressed the limitations of enterprise architecture (EA) in conventional manufacturing system theories. Enterprise architecture is commonly introduced to stabilize the organizations and simplify the interactions among system resources, though it sacrifices system flexibility and adaptability to certain content. Bi has established a scientific base by developing and implementing reconfigurable and dynamic EA to accommodate both short- and long-term changes in a sustainable way.

Bi has also made significant contributions in developing a number of enabling technologies with integrated hardware and software solutions for system reconfiguration. Bi proposed a new configuration design methodology for reconfigurable robotic systems and has developed several new machining systems, including Exechon machines and tripod-based machines. Exechon machines are among the most successful parallel machines in the manufacturing industry.

As a professor in the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University Fort Wayne, Bi’s research interests include digital manufacturing, Industry 4.0, mechatronics, human-machine interaction, Industrial Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, finite element analysis, and enterprise systems.

MARIO CRUCINI has made several important contributions to the field of international macroeconomics—his work has helped broaden our understanding of determinants of international business cycles, the dynamic interactions of nominal currency exchange rates and retail prices, the extent to which globalization has narrowed wage and price differences across nations, and the macroeconomic effects of tariff protection.

Crucini’s research interests include real exchange rates, the terms of trade, international business cycles, and the economic history of the interwar period. Combining theory and empirics, his work often involves the assembly of brand-new data to better address research questions and showcases a mix of statistical and applied econometric skills, ranging from reduced-form modeling to Bayesian simulation of dynamic structural models.

Due to his long-standing interest in the evolution of market prices and technological opportunities, his publications have frequently contributed to topics ranging from the international diffusion of the automobile at the turn of the 20th century to the relationship between county-level U.S. business cycles and fiscal stimulus during the Great Recession.

Crucini is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the managing director of the Center for International Price Research. He serves as a senior fellow at the Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute at the Federal Research Bank of Dallas and previously served as both editor and associate editor for several top general interest and field journals in economics. He currently serves as associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics.

In 2021, Crucini came to Purdue from Vanderbilt University, where he mentored and advised PhD and undergraduate students, served as director of the undergraduate honors program, and chaired 17 PhD dissertations.

JEFFREY GREELEY has contributed to the development of fundamental knowledge in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, and lithium-ion batteries. His efforts have significantly expanded the classes of catalytic systems that can be treated with density function theory and have led to the computationally based discovery of new catalytic materials.

Greeley’s research is broadly focused on enhancing society’s ability to meet critical energy and environmental challenges by understanding, predicting, and controlling the interactions of molecules with solid surfaces. He addresses these needs with a unique combination of detailed focus on surface thermodynamics and distillation of the essence of kinetics from microkinetic analysis and mechanistic reduction.

His work includes research problems with solutions that impact the frontiers of the field, development of new or significantly expanded atomic-level theory that matches the demands of the problem at hand, use of computational screening and other concepts to dramatically increase the scope of the solutions and identify targeted new materials, and close interaction with experimentalists in both materials development and analysis of detailed-reaction kinetics.

DAN JIAO is a world leader in the field of computational electromagnetics for designing and optimizing the coming generation of analog, digital, and mixed-signal integrated circuits and communication systems. Her work in fast electromagnetic solvers addresses fundamental problems that require a suite of complex tools, including time-domain and frequency-domain techniques as well as differential and integral equations.

Jiao was the first to achieve a full-wave solution for full-chip power grid analysis, deployed in Intel’s Pentium 4 power grid design. She created the first explicit time-domain method that is unconditionally stable, removing a long-lasting major bottleneck in time-domain analysis. She also invented a fast and accurate method for nonlinear signaling analysis, breaking the computational barrier for handling 10^195+ nonlinear simulations in feasible run time.

A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jiao has received multiple honors and awards for her contributions—contributions that have been published in nearly 100 journal papers, more than 200 conference papers and presentations, three book chapters, and two patents. Her work has been supported by both federal agencies and industry.

Jiao serves as associate head of resource planning and management in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously, she served as chair of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society’s Women in Engineering Program.

SIGNE KASTBERG is a valued mentor and an accomplished teacher. Her scholarship focuses on K–12 teaching practices of mathematics, K–12 mathematics teachers’ knowledge, and mathematics teacher education.

Kastberg studies children, prospective teachers, and teacher educators as learners. Her research interests include how teachers reason about mathematics as learners and how teacher-educator practice enables productive teacher learning.

Engaged in teacher education since the beginning of her academic career, Kastberg has authored 49 peer-reviewed papers that have been published in many of the top teacher-education journals, four books, and 13 book chapters. Her publications address various interdisciplinary issues, such as creativity, building learning communities, supporting struggling learners and students with disabilities, equity, and social justice.

Kastberg has redesigned several mathematics-methods courses in the College of Education and has also designed and delivered multi-year professional development projects for practicing teachers. She developed the Purdue Pen Pals program, which provides opportunities for Purdue students to engage in problem-solving activities with local elementary school children.

Beyond her teaching at Purdue, Kastberg partners in local and statewide professional-development efforts.

SHIHUAN KUANG has made several fundamental discoveries that have advanced the knowledge of muscle- and adipose-tissue development. These discoveries include determining the role Notch signaling plays in asymmetric division and cell-fate determination of skeletal muscle stem cells. His work on how inhibition of Notch signaling promotes the browning of white adipocytes and the amelioration of obesity and type 2 diabetes was a significant step forward in the understanding of fat cell development and plasticity. He has also contributed to the understanding of the common and distinct developmental origins of fat and muscle cells and the crosstalk between these cells that governs tissue homeostasis.

In translating the fundamental research, Kuang has collaborated with engineering experts to develop a nanoparticular drug-delivery system that explicitly targets Notch signaling in white adipose to overcome obesity in animal models. This knowledge and technology formed the foundation of the Purdue-based Adipo Therapeutics LLC, where Kuang serves as a scientific advisor.

Kuang has published more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and four U.S. patents that have, together, received over 12,000 citations. As a mentor, he has served on 52 graduate committees and has trained 13 postdoctoral fellows, six master’s students, 24 doctoral candidates, 21 undergraduate researchers, and 16 international scholars.

ZOLTAN NAGY has emerged as a global leader in advanced manufacturing technologies for pharmaceuticals. His research focuses on the development and application of process-systems engineering approaches and tools for engineered-product design and optimal-process operation, with applications in pharmaceutical, fine chemical, biotechnology, food, and agrochemical industries.

His research combines modeling, optimization, and advanced-control approaches with experimental investigations using modern measurement techniques to develop theoretically founded and practical methodologies for complex processes, with quantifiable system-performance improvements that can be supported in an industrial environment.

Nagy’s work uses process intensification, digital design, and quality-by-control concepts to help shift pharmaceutical processes from batch to continuous manufacturing mode. This produces great gains in productivity, security, sustainability, and cost, using quality-by-design to develop products with tailor-made properties and the processes to manufacture them. His work includes several pioneering innovations in the field of crystallization control, all of which are examples of the innovative use of computing and systems technologies in the field of particulate processing.

EVGENIY NARIMANOV is a world leader in the fields of nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics. His work in optical imaging and metamaterials has resulted in several new fields of optics research.

The concept of hyperbolic metamaterials, which Narimanov introduced and developed, has become a groundbreaking field with several thousand research papers published every year. He proposed the hyperlens—a practically feasible super-resolution imaging device. Narimanov also introduced the concept of the optical “black hole,” a metamaterial-based concentrator of light that was experimentally validated in 2010 and 2011. His other trailblazing concepts include novel microlasers and “stealth” communication systems.

Narimanov was a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, its most prestigious early-career research grant, and one of the inaugural virtual lab faculty fellows in the College of Engineering.

HALEY OLIVER is committed to food safety education, and her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, and researcher have been recognized with many awards at the college, university, and national levels.

Since joining the faculty of the Department of Food Science in 2010, Oliver has taught courses related to food safety, redesigned and developed new food safety courses, and built a multidisciplinary food safety training pipeline from primary education through graduate study. She has also devoted her efforts to international teaching and capacity building in Afghanistan and Nigeria.

Oliver is director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development and jointly managed by Purdue University and Cornell University. Under her direction, the lab leverages extensive experience in international food safety research and education. The lab is also responsible for a portfolio of food-safety and capacity-development projects designed to increase awareness of food safety; enhance capacity to conduct food safety research; develop policies to enable conditions for food safety research, translation, and practice; and accelerate translational-research technologies and practices for households, communities, and the food industry in Asia and Africa.

IRITH POMERANZ is a world leader in the field of testing and diagnosis of integrated circuits. Electronic chip manufacturing processes result in hardware defects that can prevent chips—and the many systems that include them—from operating correctly. Preventing defective chips from ending up in systems requires extensive testing that can add significant costs to the overall system. Pomeranz has conducted extensive research that has resulted in new approaches and algorithms that dramatically improve test quality and lower costs.

A recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Young Investigator Award, Pomeranz has received multiple best paper awards in leading conferences in her field. She has published more than 250 journal papers and more than 300 conference papers.

Pomeranz teaches several courses for undergraduate and graduate students. She developed and taught a course on digital logic synthesis for senior undergraduate and graduate students as well as an online version of a core computer engineering graduate course on computational models and methods. Additionally, her collaboration with Siemens Industry Software allows her graduate students to benefit from training in an industrial environment.

AMY REIBMAN is a world leader in the fields of image and video processing and transport over wireless communication systems. Her work in digital video compression and streaming has been groundbreaking, particularly for wireless systems. Reibman pioneered a number of methods that allow effective transmission of images and videos over channels where data can be easily lost, including the multiple-description technique.

Reibman has made significant contributions in the area of video-quality assessment. In 2004, she introduced the first method to assess quality loss due to packet loss through a transmission network. Her work has been supported by both federal agencies and industry.

Reibman has published 44 journal papers, 121 conference papers, one edited book, and more than 60 patents. She served as a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2008 to 2009.

Reibman serves as the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s associate head of faculty mentorship and recognition. She has also served as the chair of the IEEE Fellow Committee and as a member of the IEEE Awards Committee. She served as the associate editor for the peer-reviewed journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and as a guest editor for several special issues in leading journals.

PAVLOS VLACHOS is a leading expert in experimental fluid mechanics with an emphasis on interdisciplinary measurement science—especially at the intersection of mechanics with biological, biomedical, and clinical systems. His research addresses translational and clinical research leading to technologies that reach medical practice as well as measurement and data science in physical systems.

Vlachos has made scientific and engineering contributions to the quantification of uncertainty in complex measurement systems. His discoveries and innovations have led to new understanding and technologies for heart failure, cardiovascular diseases, and tissue biotransport with applications to oncology, drug delivery, and injection biomechanics. He has also made discoveries on how animals and microorganisms interact with their fluid environments. Vlachos’s research helped launch Purdue’s partnership with Eli Lilly on injectable biopharmaceuticals, and his collaborative leadership is making an impact in the area of drug delivery for monoclonal antibodies.

Since being named director of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, Vlachos has made health-care equity a central priority and has focused activities toward translation, implementation, and impact at the health-care system and population levels.

MELINDA ZOOK is a specialist in the history of political thought, religion, and women in early modern Britain. She teaches courses on English and medieval history as well as on topics that include Shakespeare’s kings, great books and the search for meaning, and the history of toleration.

As director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program through Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts, Zook teaches a course on Transformative Texts: Communication and Critical Thinking. Designed for all undergraduate students, Cornerstone is a 15–credit hour certificate program that offers classes that are complementary to a student’s area of study and fosters the creative thinking that makes good business and industry leaders.

The articles Zook has published cover radical politics, martyrdom, political poetry, women, religion, and teaching. Her book Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in late Stuart England was published by Penn State Press in 1999 with a paperback edition in 2009. In 2013, she published Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660–1714 through Palgrave MacMillan and was awarded Best Book on Gender for 2013 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

Zook is the coeditor of Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World (2004), Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural World of Early Modern Women (2014), and Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy (2018).