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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) today announced that 20 full-time faculty members have been promoted in academic rank or awarded tenure. All promotions take effect July 1, 2023.

“It’s a pleasure to congratulate these educators and scholars, all of whom have provided excellent teaching and advising for our students while making significant contributions in research and creative scholarship in, and often outside, their academic disciplines,” said Arthur Heinricher, interim senior vice president and provost. “Our entire community takes pride in the many ways that these faculty have blended teaching and research to help transform the lives of our students and the communities where we work around the world.”

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Andrew Teixeira

Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering

Andrew is a classically trained chemical engineer with with specialties in the fields of chemical reaction engineering and materials science. He received his B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2009, and continued to pursue his Ph.D. with Professor Dauenhauer at the Univ [...]

Carlo Pinciroli

Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator, Robotics Engineering

The focus of my research is designing innovative tools for swarm robotics. I am developing Buzz, a programming language specifically designed for real-world robot swarms. During my Ph.D., I have designed ARGoS, which is currently the fastest general-purpose robot simulator in the [...]

Craig Shue

Professor & Department Head, Computer Science

I am interested in computer networking and security. Given the significance of the Internet in our economy and society, I am interested in improvements and studies that can have a real-world impact. My recent work has focused on how to make both enterprise and residential network [...]

David Medich

Professor, Physics

I perform experimental and computational (Monte Carlo) research in the field of applied nuclear physics with a focus on Medical and Health Physics. Presently my research group is investigating: 1) developing a unique technique to enable ultrahigh-resolution in-vivo functional ima [...]

Daniel DiMassa

Associate Professor,

Humanities and Arts - HUA

I am an associate professor of German and co-director of WPI’s Berlin Project Center. My research centers on questions at the intersection of literature, religion, aesthetics, and politics, especially between the late eighteenth century and the present. In general, I'm interest [...]

Elizabeth Lingo

Associate Professor, The Business School

How do leaders work across disciplines, organizations, cultures, and networks to co-create and implement novel solutions, sustainable human-centered change, and entrepreneurial ventures? Over the past twenty years, this question has motivated Elizabeth Long Lingo’s research, inn [...]

Fangfang Wang

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

My research centers on quantitative analysis of dependent data, and my current interests include time series analysis, spatial statistics, spatial econometrics, and financial econometrics. My work involves both statistical and econometric methodology development and empirical st [...]

Ingrid Shockey

Teaching Professor,

Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS

Ingrid Shockey is an environmental sociologist whose work concerns natural literacy and the interplay of human-wilderness relationships. These domains include topics in biodiversity loss, climate change perceptions, and our sense of place and identity with respect to the landscap [...]

Jeannine Coburn

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

The overall objectives of my research are to develop clinically translatable tissue regeneration and drug delivery strategies, and three-dimensional, in vitro human disease models using biologically-derived biomaterials. We will utilize techniques from engineering, chemistry and [...]

Kun-Ta Wu

Associate Professor, Physics

Dr. Wu is an active researcher with a focus on soft matter and biophysics, which is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses physics, biology, and engineering. His work centers on the study of active fluids, which are a class of soft materials that comprise self-propelling par [...]

Laureen Elgert

Professor,

Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS

I joined WPI in 2011 as a scholar and teacher with training in public health, environmental policy, and international development studies. My research and teaching interests focused on the environment-development nexus, where tensions between sustainability and livelihoods often [...]

Min Wu

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

My research has explored a wide range of biophysical processes using both continuum and discrete cell approaches, including tip growth, wound closure, morphogenesis in epithelial tissues of Drosophila pupae and C. elegans embryos, biofilm growth, fibrous encapsulation, tumor grow [...]

Nikhil Karanjgaokar

Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering

Prior to joining the faculty at WPI in August 2015, I worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at California Institute of Technology. My research at Caltech focused on the development of a Granular Element Method (GEM) based force visualizat [...]

Nima Rahbar

White Family Distinguished Professor & Department Head, Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Oleg Pavlov

Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies

Professor Pavlov earned a BS degree in Physics/Computer Science and a PhD in Economics from University of Southern California and an MBA from Cornell University. He has taught at WPI since 2002. He has been to many universities in the US, Russia and Western Europe, but he thinks [...]

Robert Walls

Associate Professor, Computer Science, Program Director, Cybersecurity, Computer Science

My research focuses on systems security and performance. Consequently, my projects often lie at the intersection of software and hardware. Some of my projects include developing compiler-based defenses for embedded microcontrollers, providing security and privacy for deep l [...]

Sarah Riddick

Associate Professor,

Humanities and Arts - HUA

Sarah Riddick researches and teaches about digital rhetoric, writing, and media; popular culture; and rhetorical theory and research methods. Her work appears in Rhetoric Review, Media & Communication, and Computers and Composition, among other journals and edited collections [...]

Tian Guo

Associate Professor, Computer Science

I am a system researcher by training and am particularly passionate about designing systems mechanisms and policies to handle trade-offs in cost, performance, and efficiency for emerging applications. Since joining WPI, my group’s research has focused on improving system support [...]

Ulkuhan Guler

Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

My research interests lie in the broad area of circuits and systems, and my primary area of interest is analog/mixed signal integrated circuits. More specifically, I am interested in the circuit design of sensing interfaces and energy harvesting and wireless power transmission sy [...]