JEFFREY DICK has established himself as a current and future leader in electrochemistry. He developed innovative electrochemical measurement strategies to study the rates of chemical enzymatic reactions in miniscule volumes, including individual cells.

Dick has won several national awards, including the Forbes “30 Under 30” distinction, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award, Royce W. Murray Young Investigator Award, the Pittcon Achievement Award, and the Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist.

Dick’s peer-reviewed papers have been published in multiple journals, including Nature Communications, Analytical Chemistry, ACS Nano, Chemical Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded research grants totaling over $5.8 million to fund this work.

Dick previously served as an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  

DAVID GILL is a leading global researcher in experimental economics and uses game theory to study human behavior, namely individual choice and strategic thinking. Colleagues have called Gill “unusually broad” for his work performing both laboratory and field experiments—making contributions to economic theory and applying sophisticated econometric techniques to analyze his laboratory and observational data.

Gill has been instrumental to the way behavioral economists and game theorists view the role of individual characteristics with regard to explaining behavior in strategic environments. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Economic Journal.

Gill also serves on the editorial board of the Oxford Economic Papers and previously served as associate editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

JANINE DUNCAN is a thought leader in the field of family and consumer sciences (FCS). As cocreator of the Critical Science Academy for the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, she facilitates the exploration and application of the FCS critical science approach to positively impact the agency of individual, family, and community efforts toward an improved quality of life.

Duncan is a leader in in K–12 education, professional organizations, and community-focused programs. In 2021, she was recognized for her work with the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Leader Award.

Duncan serves on the International Federation for Home Economics as the vice president for the region of the Americas and served as the cochair of the 2022 World Congress. Her collaborations have helped advance FCS education and have led to a better understanding of the role of FCS in advancing equity.

CAROLIN FRUEH is an internationally recognized expert in the field of aeronautics and astronautics, specifically space-domain awareness. Her work involves detecting, tracking, and characterizing active space assets and space debris—including studying high area-to-mass ratio objects by providing information independent of owner operators.

Frueh has made significant contributions to the Cislunar Initiative and is among the first to explore space domain awareness in the cislunar region between Earth, the moon, and beyond. Her research showed that Earth and its orbits are not immune from collisions with unattended space debris left in cislunar space. In 2022, she was a keynote speaker at the third International Academy of Astronautics Conference on Space Situational Awareness. Frueh pioneered robust light-curve inversion techniques.

Frueh serves as associate editor of the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences and is a member on the publications committee for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

ISAAC HARRIS is known for his theoretical contributions to inverse problems for partial differential equations. More specifically, he is an expert in the subarea of transmission eigenvalues.

According to his peers, Harris’s work is “cutting edge” and has a substantial impact on the mathematical field. He was among the first to study the transmission eigenvalues in a periodic material and calculate them through homogenization. He has also been studying the application of new sampling algorithms and inverse spectral methods—research that has been partially funded by a National Science Foundation grant.

He is mentoring a postdoctoral researcher and three graduate students and is in high demand as a speaker for meetings, conferences, seminars, and colloquia. In 2016, he was awarded a U.S. Junior Oberwolfach Fellowship.

 

JOSEPH JEWELL has contributed significantly to the field of hypersonic aerodynamics, making him an invaluable asset to Purdue University. He focuses on bridging the gap between ground-based aerodynamic experiments and the external aerodynamics of hypersonic flight. Jewell has taken new types of optical and high-speed aerodynamic measurements under low-disturbance flow in the Boeing/AFOSR Mach-6 Quiet Tunnel, improving comparisons between simulations and wind-tunnel testing.

Jewell was instrumental in facilitating the donation of the HYPULSE reflected shock/expansion tunnel to Purdue’s new Hypersonics and Applied Research Facility (HARF). He will lead basic research activities in HARF’s Mach 8 quiet wind tunnel.

Jewell currently serves on the advisory council for the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue University and leads two task teams for NATO international hypersonics working groups. He is also a member of the Defense Science Study Group, a program sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and directed by the Institute for Defense Analyses.

STEPHEN LINDEMANN is an internationally recognized leader in basic and applied research of the gut microbiome. He focuses on the use of molecular microbial ecology techniques to understand how microbes compete for and cooperate in the degradation of complex substrates.

His research explores how interactions between beneficial microbes exclude pathogenic organisms and modulate inflammation in the colon. With his gut microbiome research program, Lindemann aims to improve the nutritive potential of foods for both humans and animals and prevent chronic diseases.

Beyond the human food and health industries, Lindemann has also contributed to the livestock food and animal health and production industries. He was awarded the 2022 Young Scientist Research Award from the Cereals and Grains Association.

LIN NAN is nationally recognized as one of the top scholars in analytical accounting. According to Brigham Young University’s accounting research rankings, she has been globally ranked among the top 10 analytical authors in all topics every year since 2019.

Nan is well known for her research on accounting regulations affecting banks’ lending behaviors, the combined effect of earnings management and hedging, and financial reporting issues in noncontractual settings. In her research, Nan uses key institutional characteristics as a starting point for an in-depth analysis of economic agents’ decision-making and displays the impact of accounting disclosures on operational efficiency and social welfare.

Nan won the Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award in 2014 and the Outstanding Management Accounting Paper Award from the American Accounting Association in 2009.

SHAOSHUAI MOU is a pioneer in advancing control theories with classical techniques in optimization, networks, and learning to address fundamental challenges in autonomous systems. He developed new solutions to inverse optimal control theories for objective learning, an end-to-end learning framework for adaptive autonomy, a series of distributed algorithms for computation, optimization and reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems, techniques to enhance resilience for distributed algorithms, and algorithms for human-autonomy teaming.

At Purdue, Mou is codirector of the Institute for Control, Optimization, and Networks (ICON), member on the Institute for Physical Artificial Intelligence steering committee, and interim cochair of the Autonomous and Connected Systems initiative. He received the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor in 2019.

Mou has received funding for his research from government agencies—Army Research Office, Air Force Research Laboratory, National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Education, and Department of Transportation—and major organizations—Northrop Grumman, Rolls-Royce, and Saab. He is a colead for the $13 million tsunami project from Office of Naval Research.

PHILIP PARÉ has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of networked spreading processes. He has developed novel models and algorithms that incorporate control-theoretic, nonlinear dynamics, and graph-theoretic approaches to better understand how to control the spread of epidemics through networked populations.

In 2023, Paré received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, which awarded him $513,500 in funding to support his innovative research for five years. He is involved in the Institute for Control, Optimization and Networks, the Integrative Data Science Initiative, and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.

Paré is a strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and serves as a member of the Project for Inclusion in ECE (PIECE) Committee. He is the inaugural Societal Impact Fellow and a Teaching for Tomorrow Fellow.