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 | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Aerospace Navigation, Satellite and Debris Group Tracking
Thomas Bone | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Direct Fusion Drive
Victoria Britcher
Frank Cianciarulo
Robotics Using Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
Ian DesJardin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Space Debris Detection Through Plasma Acoustic Techniques
Eric Frizzell | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Post-Impact Granular Dilation on Airless Bodies
Ray-Shimry Garatsa | LinkedIn | ORCID
Multibody Dynamics
Rose Gebhardt
Seyhan Gul
Computational Analysis of High-Speed Tiltrotor Whirl Flutter
Daniil Gribok
Charles Hanner
Ravi Lumba
Joshua Martin | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Autonomy, Controls, and Systems for Scientific Exploration of Extreme Environments
Samuel Maszkiewicz
Curtis Merrill
Sharan Nayak | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar | YouTube
Motion Planning of Autonomous Robotic Systems
Nathan O'Brien
Antonio Giovanni Schoneich | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Experimental Hypersonic Aerodynamics
Cole Sousa
Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition
Rachel Suitor | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Cooperative Control of Autonomous Underwater Sensor Networks
Logan Swaisgood
Edward Tocco
Grazchella Vicente | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Jacob Ward
Sarah Wielgosz
Nathan Witztum
Bioengineering
Shohini Banerjee
Amanda Bogseth | LinkedIn
In-vitro Modeling of Lymphatic Transport for Drug Delivery
Ken Brandon
Sean Carey | Lab Page | ORCID
Immune Engineering for Autoimmune Disease
Ariana Joy DeCastro | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Breast Cancer Metastasis, Mechanobiology, and the Cell Microenvironment
Camilla Edwards
Bailey Felix
Eugene Froimchuk | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar | Twitter
Engineering Immunotherapies for Autoimmune Disease and Cancer
Rebecca Hays
Anjana Hevaganinge
Romanus Hutchins | LinkedIn
Biomedical Imaging Using Brillouin Spectroscopy
Collin Inglut | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Photodynamic Therapy, Glioblastoma, Blood-brain Barrier, Pure-drug Nanoparticle
Courtney Johnson | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Immunoengineering Using Mechanobiology for Diabetic Tissue Engineered Therapies
Stephanie Kronstadt| LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Enhancing the Therapeutic Efficacy of Extracellular Vesicles
Daniel Levy | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Engineering Extracellular Vesicles for Regenerative Medicine
Barry Liang
Jacob McCright
Shannon McLoughlin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Multi-material Extrusion Bioprinting for Craniofacial Bone Tissue Regeneration
Kathryn McNaughton
Idrisa Rahman
Ann Ramirez | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Using Immunoengineering Techniques at Gut Mucosal Surfaces and Lymphatics
Sarah Robertson | LinkedIn | ORCID
Proteolysis-dependent Synaptic Plasticity in the Visual Cortex
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
Lauren Smith
Talia Solomon
Aaron Sorrin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Developing Delivery Strategies and Combination Treatments for Targeted Photodynamic Therapy
Michael Straker | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Ingestible Devices for Diagnosing GI Diseases
Briahnah Streeter
Jan Oliver Viyar
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 | Lab Page | ORCID
Mucin-based Hydrogels as Tools for Immune Modulation
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Martin Ahn
Robert Allsopp| Lab Page | ORCID | Google Scholar
Cellular Signaling from an Atomistic and Thermodynamic View
Leah Klein Borden | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Medical Applications of Chemical Engineering
Eric Carmona | Lab Page | Google Scholar | ResearchGate
Solid State Batteries and Electrochemical Engineering
Sichao Cheng | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Michael Danner | LinkedIn | ORCID
Materials for Energy Efficiency, Electrochemical Engineering, Nano-materials
Metecan Erdi | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Translational Biomaterials for High Impact In Vivo Applications
Richard Hoft | LinkedIn
Solid-State Batteries
Nathan Johnson | Lab Page
Simulation of All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries
Karl Larson | LinkedIn
Solid State Batteries
Joshua Little | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Investigating MXene Metallic Backbones and Their Electrical Properties
Wright Makambi | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Rational Design of Salivary Peptides
Ryan James Moore
Robert Morris
Shakiba Nikfarjam| Lab Page
Protein Biophysics
Funke Okunrinboye
Joseph Whitmore | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Thin Film Deposition
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Kristen Croft | LinkedIn
Stormwater Quality, Treatment and Remediation of PCBs and Heavy Metals
Constantinos Frantzis
Probabilistic Natural Hazard Assessment
Meigan McManus
Camila Proano
Arturo Ramirez
Amir Riyahi
Linda Waters | LinkedIn
Leveraging Federal Disaster Outlays to Achieve Sustainability Targets
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dimitris Amiridis
Erin Avllazagaj | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Malware Analysis and Big Data Mining
Joseph Brock | Lab Page
Integrated Nanophotonic Devices
Marilyn Duong | LinkedIn
Multi-Agent Control, Optimization, Wireless Sensor Networks
Alexander Einarsson
Charlie Fisher
Samuel Harper | Lab Page | Directory Page
Quantum Optics for Quantum Networking Applications
Brian Holt
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
Digital Circuit Obfuscation
Nicole Menkart | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Quantum Optics for Communication
Erfaun Noorani
Robust-resilient-adaptive Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Mahshid Noorani
Oslan Ozbay
Michael Pedowitz | Lab Page | ORCID
Deposition of Thin film Oxides on Graphene Heterostructures
Nathaniel Renegar
Jazzmin Robinson | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Optoelectronic Analog Processing
Ariana Spalter
Amoolya Tirumalai | LinkedIn | ORCID
Mean-field Control of Consensus Dynamical Systems
Stefan Waczynski
Viviane Zurdo Costa | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Materials Science & Engineering
Felix Adams | LinkedIn
Computational Materials Science, Autonomous Experimentation
Gillian Boyce
Kayla Callaway | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Transmission Electron Microscopy
Sabrina M. Curtis | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Smart Materials, Shape Memory Alloys, Stretchable Electronics, Energy Harvesting, Energy Storage
Thomas Farinha | ORCID
Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Topological Semimetal Cd3As2
Rebecca Fedderwitz
Daniela Fontecha | LinkedIn
ALD Process Development of Ionic Materials, Thin Film Sodium Solid-state Batteries
Samuel Freed
Patricia Gonzales
Steven Guerin
Rachel Hegab
Michael Hinshelwood
John Hoerauf | Lab Page
Neuromorphic Computing Materials Development
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
Jessica Patel
Justin Pearson
Study of Ferroelectrics for Neuromorphic Devices
William Schubert | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Solid State Batteries
Arefpour Seyed
Aphrodite Strifas | LinkedIn
Process Optimization and Mechanical Properties Enhancement of HY Steels
Richmond Wang | LinkedIn
Pulsed Laser Deposition of Oxide Functional Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Kieran Barvenik
Arko Chatterjee
Deng Yun Chen
Lautaro Cilenti | LinkedIn
Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamics
Adira Colton | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Nano-scale 3D Printing for Biomedical Applications
Allen Garcia | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Natural Language Processing
Nathan Hoffman
Anthony Jones
Elizabeth Jordan | LinkedIn | ORCID
Optimization and Decision Support Systems
Ellery William Klein
Heat Exchanger Design and Testing
Samuel Lee | LinkedIn
Experimental Fluid-Structure Interaction
Charles Meehan | LinkedIn
Decision Making for Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Tasks
Janel Niska | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Enhanced Tube Heat Transfer
Connor O'Ryan | Lab Page
Using Language Processing to Extract Information from Domain Specific Text
Kathryn Pacheco
Jesse Parreira
Kendyl Waddell | LinkedIn | ORCID
Combustion and Fire Protection
Michael Xu
Olivia Young | Lab Page | ORCID | Google Scholar
Additive Manufacturing for Microfluidics Applications
Reliability Engineering
Lance Curtis
Use of Entropy to Predict Welded Joint Failure Under Corrosion Fatigue
Camille Levine | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Improving the Causal Foundations for Human Reliability Analysis in Nuclear Power Applications
Vincent Paglioni | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Dependency for Human Reliability Analysis in Nuclear Power
Joy Shen | LinkedIn
Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Flooding of Multi-unit Nuclear Reactor Sites
Clark Doctoral Fellows Alumni
Louis Born (Ph.D. '21, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Formulation and Delivery of Enhanced Extracellular Vesicles for Wound Repair
Andrew Ceruzzi (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Development of Two-point Focused Laser Differential Interferometry for Applications in High-speed Wind Tunnels
Ashley Chapin (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Serotonin Sensor-integrated In Vitro Systems as Research Tools to Address the Gut Brain Axis
Parham Dehghani (Ph.D. '22, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Burning Emulations of Condensed Phase Fuels Aboard the International Space Station
Daniel Fernando Escobar (Ph.D. '20, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Fundamental Understanding of Helicopter Aeromechanics On Mars Through Chamber Testing and High-Fidelity Analysis
Emily Fisler (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Comprehensive Study and Fundamental Understanding of Lithium Sulfur Batteries for eVTOL
Brandon Gaitan (Ph.D. '22, Bioengineering)
Dissertation: Development of Fluorescent Imaging Methods and Systems to Determine Photodynamic Potential and Inform Cancer Treatment Efficacy
Raquel Hakes Wetson-Dawkes (Ph.D. '21, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Studies of Inclined Flame Instabilities and the Relationship Between Wildland Fire Exposure and Structure Destruction
Samuel Horlick (Ph.D. '21, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering)
Dissertation: Tuning the Structure and Chemistry of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Electrodes for High Performance and Stable Operation
Mithuun Kanapathipillai (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Scramjet Combustor Mode Transition by Controlling Fuel Injection Distribution
Austin Drisko Lewis (Ph.D. '22, Reliability Engineering)
Dissertation: Dynamic Bayesian Network Data Updating Approaches for Enabling Causal Prognostics and Health Management of Complex Engineering Systems
Tyler Sinotte (Ph.D. '20, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: A Strain-Based Experimental Methodology for Measuring Sectional Stiffness Properties of Composite Blades
James Sutherland (Ph.D. '22, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Development and Whirl Flutter Testing of Swept-Tip Tiltrotor Blades
Amirhossein Yazdkhasti (Ph.D. '22, Mechanical Engineering)
Dissertation: Passive and Active Graded-index Acoustic Metamaterials: Spatial and Frequency Domain Multiplexing