Research Faculty

Future Work and Learning

As applied problem solvers, we develop and apply innovative training and learning approaches that empower people to fulfill an active role in society through education, participation, engagement, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Each faculty member on our research team brings unique industry experience and far-reaching academic collaborations from a wide range of disciplines, including:

Computational Thinking & Cyberlearning
STEM Education Research
Design

User Experience
Organization and Leadership
Workforce Development

Vetria Byrd

Assistant Professor, CGT
Co-Lead

Data visualization, visualization of heterogeneous data, higher order thinking, visualization capacity building

Luciana de Cresce El Debs

Assistant Professor, CMT
Co-Lead

Design and construction integration and education, teamwork and collaboration in AEC industry, offsite construction

Mesut Akdere

Professor, TLI & Director, Purdue HRD VR Lab

Human resources, STEM workforce development, simulated training (virtual augmented, and mixed reality), and organization development and change

Paul Asunda

Associate Professor, TLI

Integrated STEM education, career and college success; assessment and transfer of learning; and Professional development practices across the professional continuum

Frederick Berry

Professor, SOET

Capstone education, STEM education, power systems

Lisa Bosman

Assistant Professor, TLI

entrepreneurially-minded learning

Farid Breidi

Assistant Professor, SOET

Digital Fluid Power Systems, Mechanical Design, Modeling and Simulation, and STEM Education

Soowon Chang

Assistant Professor, CM

Smart and Sustainable Buildings and Human-Urban-Building Interaction

Yunfeng Chen

Assistant Professor, CMT

Automation, Robotics, and Ergonomics in Construction and Transportation

Hazar Nicholas Dib

Associate Professor, CMT

Design, Development and Validation of innovative educational tools and technologies. Interactive Virtual Learning Environment

Nathalie Duval-Couetil

Professor, TLI & Director, Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Entrepreneurship education, technology commercialization, professional development, program evaluation, gender and diversity.

Adel El-Shahat

Assistant Professor, SOET

Energy Systems such as Electric vehicle charging systems, Renewable energy systems, and Smart nano & micro-grids

Nandhini Giri

Assistant Professor, CGT

Design Expertise, Entertainment Graphics Industry Practices, Sustainable & Enjoyable Experiences

Yi Gao

Associate Professor, SATT

Air Transportation, Airline Management

Kyubyung "Kyu" Kang

Assistant Professor, SCMT

Smart Infrastructure and Asset Management, Digital Crowdsourcing Data, Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

Dominic Kao

Assistant Professor, CIT

Human-computer interaction, STEM education, games, virtual/augmented reality

Umit Karabiyik

Assistant Professor, CIT

Data analytics, Data-driven decision making, Mathematical and statistical modeling

Julius Keller

Assistant Professor, SATT

General aviation human factors, safety programs, flight training and education

Jin Kocsis

Assistant Professor, CIT

Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Security, Resilient Networking

Derek Larson

Assistant Professor, CGT

Documentary Animation, VR

Tianyi Li

Assistant Professor, CIT

new technologies to support complex sensemaking, specifically, through designing and developing systems for computer-supported cooperative work and human-AI interaction

Anne M Lucietto

Associate Professor, SOET

Renewable/sustainable STEM education, energy

Alejandra Magana

W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence, CIT

Cyberlearning in STEM; Model-based reasoning through modeling and simulation; Computational thinking; Computational cognitive apprenticeships; Teamwork pedagogy; Online learning in STEM; Embodied cognition.

Claudio Martani

Assistant Professor, SCMT

Future-ready design, sensing and responding built environment, flexible and resilient infrastructure, uncertainty modelling and scenario simulations.