TLI - Key Persons


Abdennour Abbas

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( 3 Years ), Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering

Adam Pagel

Job Titles:
  • Director

Adam Thoreen

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Flight Deck Engineer

Alena Talkachova

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Biomedical Engineering

Alex Kamenev

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Alexander McLeod

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( 2 Years ), Astronomy and Physics

Allen M. Goldman

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Allison Hubel - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Director
  • Director, Honeywell / H.W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership

Allison Schaeffer


Allison Small

Job Titles:
  • Civil Service, Computer Science & Engineering

Alptekin Aksan

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Ambreen Athar

Job Titles:
  • Regulatory Operations Manager EMEA Region, Boston Scientific

Amy Gunter

Job Titles:
  • Director

Andreas Stein

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Andrena Seawood

Job Titles:
  • Staff, CSE Office

Andrew G. Alleyne

Job Titles:
  • CSE Dean
  • Mechanical Engineering

Angela Froistad

Job Titles:
  • Director

Ann Tran

Job Titles:
  • Polymer Characterization & Processing Facility Manager

Asheesh Shukla


Barbara Fugate

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Chief Security Officer, United Bankers' Bank

Becky Wyatt

Job Titles:
  • MRSEC Managing Director

Ben Brubaker

Job Titles:
  • Head

Benjamin Y.H. Liu

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • TSI Applied Technology Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Bernardo Cockburn

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Beth Stadler


Bill Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Civil, Environmental, and Geo - Engineering

Bradley J. Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Brandon Rose

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Manager, LISI Medical

Brenda Ogle

Job Titles:
  • Head

Brett Rosiejka

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Lab Manager, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Brooke Barnhart

Job Titles:
  • Student Services Coordinator

Bryce Crawford Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

C. Daniel Frisbie

Job Titles:
  • Head

Caitlin Knight

Job Titles:
  • Staff, Mathematics

Cara Santelli

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( 3 Years ), Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Faculty, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Cari Dutcher

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

Cathy French

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Civil, Environmental, and Geo - Engineering

Chad L. Myers

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering

Char Psihos

Job Titles:
  • P & a, Civil, Environmental, and Geo - Engineering

Chris Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Global Laboratory Platform Director for Optically Clear Adhesives in the Display Materials and Systems Division, 3M

Chris Fruzyna

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Faculty Affairs

Christine Berkesch

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mathematics

Christopher Cramer

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Christopher Hogan

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Christopher Mairs

Job Titles:
  • Cybersecurity Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories

Christy Haynes

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Chemistry

Claudia Scarlata

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Colleen Guest

Job Titles:
  • CSE Alumni

Courtney Billing

Job Titles:
  • Communications and Events Specialist

Courtney Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Craig Forsyth

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Cynthia Cattell

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Dak Aldrich


Damian Damiani

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator ( MOT )

Dan McDonald


Daniel Williams

Job Titles:
  • Finance / Accounting

David Blank


David Du

Job Titles:
  • US West Telecommunications Chair

David Favero

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mathematics

David J. Flannigan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( 1 Year ), Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
  • Faculty, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

David Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Land Grant Chair

David Pappone

Job Titles:
  • Chief Finance and Operations Officer

David Y.H. Pui

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Demoz Gebre-Egziabher

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Director of the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium / Research
Professor Gebre-Egziabher's area of research is in navigation, guidance and control of aerospace vehicles. A particular focus of his research is the application of estimation theory to the development of algorithms and design methodologies to optimally fuse the information from multiple sensors and systems. One of the challenges encountered when dealing with problems for aerospace applications or other safety and liability critical operations is being able to precisely quantify (in statistical terms) the level of reliability of the algorithms and systems. Example of the engineering application of his work are in the developmental attitude determination systems for satellites, high accuracy navigation of aircraft and evaluation operations of small autonomous aerial vehicles in the national airspace system.

Dennis A. Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Accountant, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Donald G. Truhlar

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Donna Whitney

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Earth and Environmental Science

Doreen Leopold

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Douglas N. Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Dr. Cecilia Teeuwen

Job Titles:
  • Propulsion Engineering

Dr. Debra Olejniczak

Job Titles:
  • Dept Manager for System Architecture, Performance and Algorithms / Northrop Grumman

Dr. Vibhor Bageshwar

Job Titles:
  • Advanced Technology

Dr. Vivek Saxena - Founder, Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Managing Director

Duan Nykamp

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mathematics

E. Dan Dahlberg

Job Titles:
  • Department
  • Physics and Astronomy

Edgar Arriaga

Job Titles:
  • Council Chair

Edwin T. Layton

Job Titles:
  • History of Science and Technology

Emad Ebbini

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Eman Ramadan

Job Titles:
  • Staff, Computer Science and Engineering

Emil Pfender

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Emmanuel DeTournay

Job Titles:
  • Foreign Member

Ephraim M. Sparrow

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Eric Munson

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Eric W. Kaler

Job Titles:
  • Chemical Engineering and Materials Science / 2012

Erik Mundahl

Job Titles:
  • Director

Ernst Eckert

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Erwin A. Kelen

Job Titles:
  • Endowed Chair

Evan Skillman

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Physics and Astronomy

Frank S. Bates

Job Titles:
  • Chemical Engineering and Materials Science / 2010
  • Chemical Engineering and Materials Science / 2017
  • Chemical Engineering and Materials Science / 2018

Gary Davis - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

George Barany

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

George T. Piercy

Job Titles:
  • Leadership Chair in Chemical Engineering & Materials Science

Georgios Giannakis

Job Titles:
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering / 2019

Hans F. Weinberger

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Homayoon Kazerooni

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Hua Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Head

Hung-wen Liu

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

I.M. Kolthoff

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Ian Tonks

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

J. Ilja Siepmann

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Jake Roth

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Industrial Systems and Engineering ( 2024 )

James J. Renier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Management of Technology
  • Chairman of Medical Device Innovation
  • Chairman of Security Technologies

James Leger

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

James Van de Ven

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

Jasmine Foo

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Jean-Philippe Richard

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Industrial Systems and Engineering
  • Full Professor ( 2 Years ), Industrial Systems and Engineering

Jeff Calder

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Jeffrey Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Jeffrey Tithof

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( 1 Year ), Mechanical Engineering

Jeffrey Yost

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Research Associates Inc Chair

Jennifer Alexander

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Jessica Lamb

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( 3 Years ), Chemistry

Jiali Gao

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Jialiang Li

Job Titles:
  • Full Professor ( 3 Years ), Civil, Environmental, and Geo - Engineering

Jiarong Hong

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Joachim Mueller

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Joachim V. Heberlein

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

John Bischof

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Joseph Konstan


JS Braun

JS Braun/Braun Intertec Professorship in Science & Technology (visiting profs)

Julianna Abel

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Justin Miedema

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Justin Revenaugh

Job Titles:
  • Head

Kacey Gregerson

Job Titles:
  • Payroll

Kale Hedstrom

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Lab Coordinator / Scientist, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Karin Musier-Forsyth

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Keith A. Olive

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Kelly Deutschman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Student Services

Kenneth J. Heller

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Kenneth Leopold

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Kenneth Whitby

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Keshab K. Parhi

Job Titles:
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering / 2020
  • Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kevin Smith

Job Titles:
  • Director

Kim Stelson

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Kristopher McNeill

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Kurt J. Niederluecke

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer, Shareholder

Kyoko Yoshida

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor ( 3 Years ), Biomedical Engineering

Kyra Barbot

Job Titles:
  • Admissions Counselor

Larry Miller

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Laura Gagliardi

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Lawrence Markus

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

LE Scriven

Job Titles:
  • LE Scriven Chair

Leroy M Fingerson

Job Titles:
  • TSI Incorporated Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Li Wang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor ( 2 Years ), Mathematics

Lindsay Glesener

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Lisa Wissbaum

Job Titles:
  • Purchasing

Lizzy Crist

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering ( 2023 )

Loren Terveen

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering

Louis H. Pignolet

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Lucy Fortson

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Physics and Astronomy

Lynn Walker

Job Titles:
  • LE Scriven Chair

Mac Whalen

Job Titles:
  • Staff Aerodynamics Engineer

Magdalene Miranda

Job Titles:
  • Information Technology Research & Development

Marc A. Hillmyer

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Marc Skjervem

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Marcus Keel

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Maria Gini

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering

Mark Borrello

Job Titles:
  • Director

Mark D. Distefano

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Martin Greven

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Marvin Marshak

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Mats Heimdahl

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Department Head and Professor, UMN Computer Science Department

Matthew Vatter

Job Titles:
  • Operations Executive, Accelerate 2 Compliance

Maury Bramson

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Megan Earnest

Job Titles:
  • Director

Mehmet Akcakaya

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Meredith Storrie

Job Titles:
  • Director of Cybersecurity Operations and Governance, Risk, and Compliance ( GRC ), NVent

Michael Coughlin

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Michael McAlpine

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mechanical Engineering ( Cover for Sabbatical )
  • Kuhrmeyer Family Chair in Mechanical Engineering

Michael Popham

Job Titles:
  • Content Creation Specialist

Michael Ward

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Michelle Chu

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Michelle May

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff

Mihai Marasteanu - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Mikhail Shifman

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Molly Schmitz

Job Titles:
  • Principal Accountant, Purchasing and Payroll Specialist, and Graduate Program Coordinator, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Morgan Conley

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Mostafa Kaveh

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nicolai Vladimirovich Krylov

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Ognjen Ilic

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Paige Novak

Job Titles:
  • Head

Pat Dillon

Job Titles:
  • Founder and President, MNSBIR, Inc., Chair of TLI Advisory Board

Patria Lawton

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies, ST & MDI Faculty, W.R. Sweatt Chair in Technology Leadership Education

Patrick Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Paul A. Crowell

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Physics and Astronomy

Paul Dauenhauer

Job Titles:
  • Zsolt Rumy Innovation Chair in CEMS

Paul Gassman

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Paul Markfort

Job Titles:
  • Part - Time Systems Administrator, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Perry Leo

Job Titles:
  • Head

Peter Bruggeman

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Peter Kang

Job Titles:
  • George & Orpha Gibson Chair in Hydrogeology

Peter Olver

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mathematics

Phil Buhlmann

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Chemistry

Phil Engen


Prodromos Daoutidis

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

R. Lee Penn

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Rafael Fernandes

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Randall Victora

Job Titles:
  • Centennial Chair in Electrical Engineering

Randy Victora

Job Titles:
  • Head

Ray Muno


Raymond Hozalski

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Civil, Environmental, and Geo - Engineering

Renee Frontiera

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Rhonda Zurn

Job Titles:
  • Director

Richard Goldstein

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Richard Hsung

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Richard Jordan

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Rob McIntosh

Job Titles:
  • Electronic Communications Manager

Robert F. Hartmann - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Roberta Humphreys

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Rocio Duarte

Job Titles:
  • Digital Marketing Specialist

Rollie H. Dohrn Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Chief Engineer, Guided Projectiles

Russell Holmes

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Russell J. Penrose

Job Titles:
  • Fellow in Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics

Ryan Elliott

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics
  • Full Professor ( 3 Years ), Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

Ryan Mahutga

Job Titles:
  • Postdoc, Biomedical Engineering

Sachin Sapatnekar

Job Titles:
  • Robert & Marjorie Henle Chair in Electrical Engineering

Samira Azarin

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Samuel G. Ordway

Job Titles:
  • Chairman in Mathematics

Sanford P. Bordeau

Job Titles:
  • Chairman in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sarah Feingold

Job Titles:
  • MRSEC Education and Outreach Director

Sarah Holewa

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources

Satish Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Scott Rychnovsky

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Sebastian Alfonzo

Job Titles:
  • Information Technology

Sebastian Behrens

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Civil, Environmental, and Geo - Engineering

Shashi Shekar

Job Titles:
  • Full Professor ( 1 Year ), Computer Science and Engineering

Shaul Hanany

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Shawn Hubert


Shuzhong Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Interim Head

Steen Fjalstad

Job Titles:
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection, Midwest Reliability Organization

Stephan Guy

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering

Stephanie Falch

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Program Coordinator ( MDI and ST )

Stephanie Pedersen

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Center for Programmable Energy Catalysis

Steven Kass

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry
  • Faculty, Chemistry

Stuti Arora

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student, Computer Science & Engineering ( 2023 )

Stéphane Clermont

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support

Subbiah Ramalingam

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Suhasa Kodandaramaiah

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Susan Jones

Job Titles:
  • History of Science and Technology

Susan Mantell

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Mechanical Engineering

T. Andrew Taton

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

Tariq Samad - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Theodore W. Bennett - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Theresa Reineke - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chemistry

Thomas Allen Gregory

Job Titles:
  • Chairman in Physical Chemistry

Thomas Hoye

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry
  • Faculty, Chemistry

Thomas Jones

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Physics and Astronomy

Tian-Jun Li

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Tianhong Cui

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mechanical Engineering

Tim Kowalewski

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Timothy Lapara

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Civil, Environmental, and Geo - Engineering

Timothy P. Lodge - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chemistry / Chemical Engineering
  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Tony Low

Job Titles:
  • Full Professor ( Sub 1 Year ), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Uwe Kortshagen

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering

Vera Pospelova

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Victor Barocas

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean

Victor Reiner

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Victoria Interrante

Job Titles:
  • Faculty, Computer Science and Engineering

Vincentine Hermes - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Vipin Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Chairman or Professorship

Vuk Mandic

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Walter Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Student Administrative Assistant

Wayne Gladfelter

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry
  • Faculty, Chemistry

Will Northrop

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineering

Willard Miller

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

William B. Tolman

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

William C. K. Pomerantz

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

William Lipscomb

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry

William Norris

Job Titles:
  • Land Grant Chair in Large Scale Computing

Xiang Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies, Chemical Engineering / Research
  • Professor
  • Support

Yoichiro Mori

Job Titles:
  • Mathematics

Yong-Zhong Qian

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Yuichi Kubota

Job Titles:
  • Physics and Astronomy

Zhi-Li Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Qwest Chair

Zsolt Rumy

Job Titles:
  • Zsolt Rumy Innovation Chair in CEMS