Clark Doctoral Fellows Program

The Clark Doctoral Fellows Program supports high-performing engineering Ph.D. students at the A. James Clark School of Engineering. The program was created as part of Building Together, the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation’s $219.5 million investment in the University of Maryland announced October 2017.

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Ph.D. student Justin Pearson has wanted to be an astronaut for as long as he can remember. His Clark Doctoral Fellowship is helping him move towards that goal.

The Clark Doctoral Fellows Program substantially increases the A. James Clark School of Engineering’s number of graduate fellows, supporting 30 first-year doctoral students each year as an impetus for research in strategic and vital areas. These fellows have the potential to become tomorrow’s leaders and innovators, launching technology companies and spearheading lifesaving advances to improve society.

Students selected for this distinguished program will participate in networking receptions, seminars, and other events in support of their academic and professional development. Each Clark Doctoral Fellow receives a travel stipend and works under the guidance of a Clark faculty mentor, selected from some of the Clark School's most highly qualified and successful doctoral advisors.

Eligibility

Must be admitted to a full-time Ph.D. degree program in engineering (includes current M.S. students who have been admitted to the Ph.D. program)
Must be a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S. or its territories

No additional application is required for student applying to Ph.D. programs in the Clark School of Engineering. Each graduate program will nominate applicants that they determine are excellent candidates for the program.

This program will fund the tuition and living stipend of Fellows for their first academic year at the University of Maryland. The first-year award is renewable for three additional fiscal years using departmental resources.

More Information

More information about each program and how to apply can be found at the following links:

Current Clark Doctoral Fellows

Aerospace Engineering

Melissa Adams
Frank Cianciarulo
Andrew Ceruzzi | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Non-intrusive Aerodynamic Measurement Techniques & Ground Testing
Ian DesJardin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Computational Simulations of the Plasma Signature Produced by Orbital Debris
Emily Fisler | LinkedIn
Advanced Lithium Sulfur Batteries for Electric VTOL Aircraft
Eric Frizzell | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Post-Impact Granular Dilation on Airless Bodies
Ray-Shimry Garatsa
Daniil Gribok
Mithuun Kanapathipillai | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Advanced Laser Diagnostics Applications in Hypersonic Engines
Ravi Lumba
Samuel Maszkiewicz
Curtis Merrill
Sharan Nayak | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar | YouTube
Motion Planning of Autonomous Robotic Systems
Antonio Giovanni Schoneich | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Experimental Hypersonic Aerodynamics
Tyler Sinotte | LinkedIn
Experimental Measurements of the Stiffness Properties of Composite Rotor Blades
Cole Sousa
Rachel Suitor | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Cooperative Control of Autonomous Underwater Sensor Networks
James Sutherland | LinkedIn
Blade Design and Testing for High-Speed Tiltrotors
Grazchella Vicente | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Nathan Witztum

Bioengineering

Louis Born
Ariana Joy DeCastro | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Breast Cancer Metastasis, Mechanobiology, and the Cell Mircroenvironment
Camilla Edwards
Eugene Froimchuk | LinkedIn
Brandon Gaitan | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Developing Optical-based Imaging Devices for Use During Surgery
Anjana Hevaganinge
Romanus Hutchins
Courtney Johnson | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Immunoengineering Using Mechanobiology for Diabetic Tissue Engineered Therapies
Daniel Levy | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Manipulating Stem Cell-derived Extracellular Vesicles for Regenerative Medicine
Shannon McLoughlin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
3D Printing for Bone Tissue Engineering
Ann Ramirez | LinkedIn
Using Immunoengineering Techniques at Gut Mucosal Surfaces and Lymphatics
Sarah Robertson
Justin Schumacher
James Shamul | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Micro- and Nanotechnology for Central Nervous System Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Development
Caitlyn Singam
Ian Smith
Michael Straker | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Cancer Diagnosis and Therapeutics
Sally Wang | Lab Page | Google Scholar
Synthetic Biology, Cell to Cell Communication, Electrogenetics
Callie Weber | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Sex Differences in Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells
Sydney Yang

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Kristen Croft | LinkedIn
Stormwater Quality, Treatment and Remediation of PCBs and Heavy Metals
Constantinos Frantzis
Probabilistic Natural Hazard Assessment
Taylor Motley
Linda Waters | LinkedIn
Environmental and Systems Engineering with an Emphasis on Societal Impacts

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Erin Avllazagaj
Joseph Brock | Lab Page
Integrated Nanophotonic Devices
Marilyn Duong | LinkedIn
Multi-Agent Control, Optimization, Wireless Sensor Networks
Samuel Harper | Lab Page | Directory Page
Quantum Optics for Quantum Networking Applications
Brendan Jordan
Fabrication and Characterization of 2-D heterostructures
Hunter Kippen | LinkedIn
Post Quantum Cryptography
Zachary McBride Lazri
Application of Signal Processing and Machine Learning to Health Problems
Isaac McDaniel
Nicole Menkart | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Photonics and Optics Research for Communication and Sensor Systems
Erfaun Noorani
Robust-resilient-adaptive Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Mahshid Noorani
Michael Pedowitz | Lab Page | ORCID
Deposition of Thin film Oxides on Graphene Heterostructures
Ariana Spalter
Amoolya Tirumalai
Stefan Waczynski
Gina Wong

Materials Science & Engineering

Gillian Boyce
Kayla Callaway | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Thomas Farinha
Daniela Fontecha | LinkedIn
ALD Process Development of Ionic Materials, Thin Film Sodium Solid-state Batteries
Steven Guerin
Michael Hinshelwood
Dylan J. Kirsch | Lab Page | Directory Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Sputter Deposition, Transport Property Measurements, Energy Storage & Conversion Materials
Madeline Morales | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Characterization of Carbon-metal Matrix Composites
Ramsay Nuwayhid
Jonathan O'Neill | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Transport Simulations for Solid-State Battery Optimization
Justin Pearson
Aphrodite Strifas | LinkedIn
Process Optimization and Mechanical Properties Enhancement of HY Steels
Connor Turley | LinkedIn
Solid State Sodium Elecctrolytes
Richmond Wang | LinkedIn
Pulsed Laser Deposition of Oxide Functional Materials

Mechanical Engineering

Deng Yun Chen
Lautaro Cilenti
Experimental and Computational Stochastic Dynamics of High Dimensional Nonlinear Systems
Parham Dehghani
Raquel Hakes Wetson-Dawkes
Ellery William Klein
Samuel Lee | LinkedIn
Experimental Fluid Structural Interaction
Charles Meehan | LinkedIn
Decision Making for Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Tasks
Janel Niska | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Enhanced Tube Heat Transfer
Connor O'Ryan
Kendyl Waddell | LinkedIn | ORCID
Combustion and Fire Protection
Amirhossein Yazdkhasti
Olivia Young

Reliability Engineering

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