1) Lacy White — Biomedical Engineering (Graduate Program Coordinator)

2) Dr. Daniel Knopf is a professor of Mathematics and the associate dean for graduate education at the University of Texas at Austin. As a geometric analyst, he primarily studies geometric heat flows and has published extensively in the field, co-authoring many books and articles on the Ricci Flow. As an outstanding member of the UT faculty, he has received many teaching and research awards such as the Graduate School Diversity Mentoring Fellowship and the Frank E. Gerth III Faculty Fellowship. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999 and his research interests include Geometric analysis, Differential geometry, and Geometric partial differential equations. He is a member of the Geometry research group in the UT-Austin Department of Mathematics and also interacts with UT’s research groups in Partial Differential Equations and Topology. His website is: https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/dan...

3) Dr. Adam Klivans (Computer Science) — Dr. Klivans is a professor of computer science and recipient of the NSF Career Award. Prior to joining the faculty of UT, Dr. Klivans was research professor at UC-Berkeley and earned his PhD from MIT in 2002. His research interests lie in machine learning and theoretical computer science, in particular, Learning Theory, Computational Complexity, Pseudorandomness, Limit Theorems, and Gaussian Space. He also serves on the editorial board for the Theory of Computing and Machine Learning Journal. His personal teaching and research website: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~klivans/

4) Dr. Maria Juenger (Civil Engineering) (also Graduate Student Advisor for Civil Engineering) — Dr. Maria Juenger is Professor, Graduate Advisor, and John A. Focht Centennial Teaching Fellow in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been since 2002.  Dr. Juenger received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Duke University and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University.  After completing her Ph.D., she was a postdoctoral researcher in Civil Engineering at the University at California, Berkeley. Dr. Juenger’s teaching and research focus on materials used in civil engineering applications.  She primarily examines chemical issues in cement-based materials; these include phase formation in cement clinkering, hydration chemistry of portland cement, calcium sulfoaluminate cement, and supplementary cementitious materials, and chemical deterioration processes in concrete.  In 2005 she received a Faculty Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. Her publications can be found here: https://www.researchgate.net/scient...

5) Dr. Lydia Contreras (Chemical Engineering) — Dr. Contreras is associate professor of chemical engineering and holds the Dean’s Chair in Engineering Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin. Her lab’s research combines biomolecular engineering, genetic studies and computational modeling to understand molecular features that lead to the specific recognition and interaction of RNAs and proteins. Her team under her direction applies fundamental concepts that emerge from experimental (and computational) work to develop novel applications that could beneficially impact human health and biotechnology. Overall research interests include: * RNA-protein interactions, RNA-protein folding * Novel molecular tools for intracellular studies of RNA-metabolism * Molecular engineering for new cellular behaviors * Diagnostics for RNA-related diseases * Molecular mechanisms of stress-responses. Her lab’s website is: https://sites.utexas.edu/contrerasl.... A video interview with Dr. Contreras on ABC news: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/l...

6) Dr. Moriba Jah (Aerospace Engineering) — Dr. Moriba Jah is a world-recognized subject matter expert in astrodynamics-based Space Domain Awareness sciences and technologies with 75+ publications in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and symposia. Dr. Jah joined the UT Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in 2017. His research interests are in non-gravitational astrodynamics and advanced/non-linear multi-sensor/object tracking, prediction, and information fusion. His expertise is in space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization, as well as spacecraft navigation. He received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder specializing in astrodynamics and statistical orbit determination. Prior to joining the faculty at UT Austin, Dr. Jah was the Director of the University of Arizona’s Space Object Behavioral Sciences with applications to Space Domain Awareness, Space Protection, Space Traffic Monitoring, and Space Debris research to name a few. Preceding that, Dr. Jah was the lead for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Advanced Sciences and Technology Research Institute for Astronautics (ASTRIA) and a Principal Investigator for Detect/Track/Id/Characterize Program at AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate. Before joining AFRL in 2007, he was a spacecraft navigator for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA, serving on Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express (joint mission with ESA), Mars Exploration Rovers, Hayabusa (joint mission with JAXA), and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Visit his website:  https://sites.utexas.edu/moriba/. Article on Dr. Jah from Lift magazine:  https://lift.erau.edu/space-junkie/  Check out a TED Talk by Dr. Jah in April 2019: https://www.ted.com/talks/moriba_ja...