LUNA LU is a professor of civil engineering with a courtesy appointment in materials engineering. She has distinguished herself among leading scholars by bringing together civil engineering, materials science, and electrical engineering to develop multifunctional materials and devices for energy harvesting and infrastructure monitoring.

Lu’s recent innovation uses artificial intelligence-powered IoT sensors for in-situ testing and communication of concrete properties, which substantially reduces construction schedule delays and cost overruns while also reducing carbon footprint. This technology has been adopted by the Indiana Department of Transportation on several interstate projects, which led to pilot testing in nine states—California, Texas, Kansas, Tennessee, North Dakota, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, and Indiana. Her sensing technology was named an Infrastructure Game Changer by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2021 and a Next Big Thing in Tech by Fast Company in 2022.

Lu has published two books, six book chapters, and more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. She holds nine published and provisional patents and is the founding director of the Center for Intelligent Infrastructure at Purdue and the founder and chief science officer of Wavelogix. Lu previously held positions at Kiewit Corporation, Roger Williams University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

JIANXIN MA is an esteemed leader in the field of soybean genetics and genomics. He has been recognized for his work in gene discovery for germplasm enhancement, insights into soybean genome evolution and domestication, and the development of tools for genome innovation.

Ma is the primary inventor on three patents and patent applications. He has received international accolades for identifying novel genes in soybean plants that lead to broad-spectrum resistance to root and stem rot. During the Soy2022 conference, Ma was recognized by the Soybean Genomics Executive Committee with the Richard (Dick) Bernard Mid-Career Achievement Award.

Ma’s work has been supported by extramural grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture Service Center Agencies, United Soybean Board, North Central Soybean Research Program, Indiana Soybean Alliance, Dow AgroSciences, Corteva Agriscience, BASF, and Ag Alumni Seed. In addition to his work at Purdue, Ma serves as editor and associate editor of eight scientific journals, including the Plant Journal, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, and G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

JENNIFER RICHARDSON is a professor in the learning design and technology program in the College of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She played an instrumental role in developing Purdue’s first fully online master’s degree program in learning design and technology. This program was recently ranked No. 8 nationally by U.S. News and World Report. Richardson also led the design and development of Purdue Repository for online Teaching and Learning (PoRTAL), an open education resource repository of innovative teaching and design strategies.

For the past 25 years, Richardson has been teaching and conducting research in distance education, with a focus on evidence-based practices in online learning environments and preparing instructional designers. She researches strategies and designs for online teaching, social presence, learning gauges in online environments, and the Community of Inquiry framework.

Richardson is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy and has won numerous university teaching honors. She has copresented with over 75 graduate students at national and international conferences and published research with over 65 graduate students.

YOUNG-JUN SON is an internationally known scholar in the industrial engineering research community. He serves as the James J. Solberg Head of Industrial Engineering, working to further advance the school’s impact, recognition, and national and international standings through a strong commitment to discovery, learning, and engagement.

Son’s research focuses on the modeling and control of complex manufacturing and service enterprises. He has made fundamental research and practice contributions in simulation, shop-floor control, supply chain analysis and planning, and human-decision modeling.

Son has authored and coauthored more than 110 refereed journal papers and more than 100 conference papers. He is a fellow and the senior vice president of continuing education in the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. Son also serves as a department editor for the IISE Transactions journal, a member of the INFORMS Meetings Committee, and a board member of the Winter Simulation Conference.

Son previously worked as the department head of systems and industrial engineering at the University of Arizona. Under his leadership, the department saw an increased number of undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and staff. In addition, he helped make improvements in diversity, research expenditures, degree programs, awards and scholarships, and partnerships for online and global learning.

STEVEN STEINHUBL is a pioneer and leader in digital medicine and cardiovascular digital health. He is a professor of biomedical engineering and a member of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. Steinhubl has developed and led several landmark clinical trials that have led the cardiovascular medicine field to a deeper understanding of antithrombotic therapies and platelet function testing. For more than 20 years, these trials have formed the basis for clinical guidelines.

Steinhubl’s research interests include personal sensor technologies, artificial intelligence and machine learning in health care, precision communications and return of value in digital health technologies, virtual-first care, and digital health technologies in addressing health inequities. He has over 75,000 citations from approximately 300 peer-reviewed publications.

Steinhubl’s contributions in his field have resulted in several honors, including being elected as a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association. He was the founding editor in chief of the Nature Portfolio journal npj Digital Medicine and is the founding director of digital medicine at Scripps Research Translational Institute. Steinhubl also serves part time as the chief medical officer at physIQ, a health-care data analytics startup.

ALEJANDRO STRACHAN is a leader in computational materials science. His research has made significant contributions to multiscale materials modeling and theory and their combination with data science to simulate the materials’ behaviors.

Strachan’s research interests include energetic materials, metallic alloys for high-temperature applications, devices for nanoelectronics and energy, and polymers and their composites. He pioneered the study of the coupling between mechanics and chemistry at extreme conditions, and his work resulted in a better understanding of the ignition of energetic materials. He serves as the deputy director of nanoHUB, an open platform for online simulations and data that serves more than 20,000 users annually from around the world.

Through their work at nanoHUB, Strachan and his collaborators were awarded an R&D 100 Award, a prestigious honor typically awarded to Fortune 500 companies and national labs for the most revolutionary developments in science and technology. He has written more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles. Strachan previously held a position at the California Institute of Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

GANESH SUBBARAYAN is a professor of mechanical engineering and an international leader in the field of thermomechanical reliability for electronic packaging. He uses numerical, analytical, and experimental methods to assess the reliability of packaging for microelectronic components. Subbarayan serves as the principal investigator and codirector of the inaugural Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Center for Heterogeneous Integration Research in Packaging, designed to improve functionality in advanced microchips to achieve higher performance and lower cost.

Subbarayan is a recognized author and graduate mentor who has received funding from leading organizations in advanced electronics packaging research to support his work. Because of his contributions to the field, Subbarayan has won multiple awards and fellowships in the principal professional societies for both mechanical and electrical engineering. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Subbarayan previously served as editor in chief for the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging journal.

Subbarayan previously served as the associate head for graduate studies for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. He has also held positions at IBM and the University of Colorado Boulder and held a visiting appointment at the National University of Singapore.

HONG TAN is known internationally as a leading expert in haptics, focusing on haptic human-machine interfaces and haptic perception. Along with Charlotte M. Reed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tan coinvented the TActile Phonemic Sleeve, which is the first system that demonstrates the learning of any English vocabulary words through the skin alone. She has received multiple best paper awards at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) World Haptics Conference, and in 2020, she received a best paper award for an article detailing the design approach of the sleeve.

Tan has been sought out by the world’s largest tech companies. She previously worked as a senior researcher and research manager for Microsoft Research Asia and as a lead scientist for Google. Her haptics technology has been used for Samsung smartphones and the Google Pixel phones. Tan has been a consultant for Google, Facebook, and Exos. She also serves as the associate head of faculty mentorship and recognition in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Tan has mentored undergraduate students on 65 projects, resulting in 23 papers with undergraduate student coauthors. She is one of four inaugural faculty liaisons, providing support and resources to other faculty members at Purdue. In addition to her university roles, Tan is also the founding chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Haptics, and she led the committee to create a new journal, IEEE Transactions on Haptics.

YOON YEO is the associate department head of industrial and molecular pharmaceutics. She is also an internationally recognized researcher and thought leader who focuses on drug-delivery technologies and clinical translation to treat cancer and chronic diseases.

Yeo’s lab is interested in immunomodulatory formulations for cancer immunotherapy and anti-inflammatory applications, intracellular delivery of gene therapeutics and peptide antibiotics, new methods of delivering anticancer drugs, and long-acting drug delivery systems. She holds 11 patents, has authored more than 124 peer-reviewed articles, and has been an invited lecturer at more than 146 national and international societies and universities.

Yeo is a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the Controlled Release Society. She also serves as one of two deputy editors in chief for the Journal of Controlled Release and is a standing member of the National Institutes of Health’s Innovations in Nanosystems and Nanotechnology study section. Yeo previously held a position at Samyang Corporation.