Meet the Team

Antje is the Assistant Vice Provost for Research and in this capacity, she supports the university’s research and technology commercialization enterprises. She directs WPI's research development services and assists in the administration and operations of centers and institutes, internal grant programs, and core instrumentation facilities.  She participates in the negotiation of major research contracts and coordinates corporate research strategy and support with the Academic and Corporate Engagement and the University Advancement divisions.     Prior to joining WPI ...

Sujatha P. Koduvayur manages the research development activities of the Institute by supporting, coordinating and expanding multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary and multi-center collaborative programs that enhance WPI’s research portfolio. Prior to her current role at WPI, Sujatha led the research development activities of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at the Penn State College of Medicine. She is a New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame inductee with a wide range of research interests spanning basic science to designing drug targets and adapting electronic ...

I work with Dr. Jean King, where our research is broadly focused on identifying and studying neurobehavioral mechanisms of mental and physical illness and developing and applying effective interventions.  Our current focus is a 9 million dollar NIH UG3/UH3 award to use machine learning to identify predictors of responders to mindfulness meditation based interventions for chronic low back pain using comprehensive biopsychosocial data, including Fitbit data.  This research initiative includes collaborators at Boston Medical Center and UMass Chan Medical School in addition to several WPI faculty. ...

Ellen Grant Piccioli is directing the engagement and expansion of WPIs Manufacturing USA multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional and multi-center collaborative programs, and the development of new initiatives in the area of manufacturing innovation and other industry research areas of interest. Prior to WPI, Ellen consulted in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) Program, and previously held leadership positions at Intel Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Ellen is a member of Cornell University’s ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Advisory ...

A certified proposal management professional (APMP), Priscilla is a purpose-driven professional helping researchers develop compliant and responsive proposals by providing proposal and graphics development services based on academic and industry best practices. Using her S2S proposal graphics development method, she help principal investigators (PIs) visually translate their research into easily understandable graphics for the general audience. Previous to WPI, Priscilla was a Business Partners Service Specialist at ForHealth Consulting at UMass Chan Medical School, and an Academic ...