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NOTE: Courses listed in previous catalogs with “CM” as the prefix and the same course number as below are considered to be the SAME COURSE.

Faculty

S. C. Roberts, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Cornell University. Cellular engineering, plant cell culture, biotechnology, metabolic pathway engineering
C. M. Bailey-Hytholt, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Brown University. Biomaterials, drug and gene delivery, lipid-based systems, diagnostics, biointerfaces, prenatal and women’s health
T. A. Camesano, Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies; Ph.D., Penn­syl­vania State University. Bacterial

Faculty

A. Mattson, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Northwestern University; metal-free catalyst design, methodology development, complex molecule synthesis.
J. M. Argüello, Professor; Ph.D., Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina; transmembrane ion transport, metal-ATPases structure-function, bacterial metal homeostasis, role os metals in bacterial pathogenesis.
S. C. Burdette, Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; synthesis of fluorescent sensors for iron, photoactive chelators for delivery of metal ions in cells, applications of azobenzene derivatives with

Faculty

C. M. Eggleston, Professor & Department Head; Ph.D., Stanford University; natural solid materials and their interaction with our environment, focusing on the fundamental processes of adsorption, dissolution/growth, electron transfer, and catalysis.
L. Abu-Lail, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute; unit operations of chemical engineering, water treatment, hydraulics, environmental organic chemistry.   
L. D. Albano, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; performance-based design of buildings, design and behavior of

Faculty

C. A. Shue, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2009. Computer networking, security, distributed systems.
E. O. Agu, Harold L. Jurist ('61) and Heather E. Jurist Dean's Professor; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2001. Computer graphics, wireless networking, mobile computing and mobile health.
M. Ahrens, Assistant Teaching Professor; Ph.D., Tufts University, 2022. Programming languages and CS education.
R. Ahsan, Assistant Teaching Professor; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2019. Pattern mining, data mining, data visualization.
T. Andrews, Instructor

Faculty

E. A. Rundensteiner, The William Smith Dean's Professor, Computer Science and Program Head, Data Science Program. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1992. Big data systems, big data analytics, visual analytics, machine learning/deep learning, health analytics, AI and fairness.
F. Emdad, Teaching Professor, Data Science Program. Ph.D., Colorado State University, 2007. Business analytics, computational and applied mathematics.
T. Ghoshal, Assistant Teaching Professor, Data Science Program. Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 2020. Feature Engineering, Deep Learning, and Natural

Faculty and Research Interests

D. R. Brown, Professor and Department Head; Ph.D., Cornell University. Signal processing, synchronization, control systems, inference, and wireless networks.
M. M. Asheghan, Assistant Teaching Professor, PhD. University of Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. Robust control, statistical shape analysis, complex networks' synchronization, chaotic systems, convex optimization, soft robotics, machine mearning. 
S. V. Bhada, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Alabama at Huntsville. Modeling and Analysis of Policy Content and Systems Engineering.
E. A. Clancy, Professor

Faculty

A. Simeoni, Professor and Department Head, Ph.D., University of Corsica; modeling, simulation and experiments of wildfires, heat and mass transfer, fire fighting and land management.
N. A. Dembsey, Professor; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Fire properties of materials and protective clothing via bench-top scale experimentation; compartment fire dynamics via residential scale experimentation, evaluation, development and validation of compartment fire models, performance fire codes, engineering design tools, and engineering forensic tools.
K. A. Notarianni, Associate

Faculty

E. O. Agu, Professor; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, 2001. Computer graphics, wireless networking, and mobile computing.
S. Barton, Associate Professor; Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2012. Human-robot interaction in music composition and performance, design of robotic musical instruments, music perception and cognition, audio production.
S. Bhada, Assistant Professor, Systems Engineering; Ph.D., University of Alabama. Modeling based systems engineering (MBSE), engineering education and team mental models.
F. J. Chery, Assistant Teaching Professor; M.F.A., FullSail University

New fields of research and study that combine traditional fields in innovative ways are constantly evolving. In response to this, WPI encourages the formation of interdisciplinary graduate programs to meet new professional needs or the special interests of particular students.

Individually Designed Ph.D. Degrees

Students who have been admitted to a Ph.D. program at WPI may design their own interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in consultation with faculty members relevant to the proposed project.

Individually designed Ph.D. degrees are initiated by a student with the support of groups of at least