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
Frank Cianciarulo
Robotics using Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
Andrew Ceruzzi | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Non-intrusive Aerodynamic Measurement Techniques & Ground Testing
Ian DesJardin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Space Debris Detection Through Plasma Acoustic Techniques
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 | LinkedIn | ORCID
Multibody Dynamics
Seyhan Gul
Computational Analysis of High-Speed Tiltrotor Whirl Flutter
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
Cole Sousa
Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition
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
Ashley Chapin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar | Personal Website
Bioengineering and Systems Development to Study the Gut-Brain-Axis
Ariana Joy DeCastro | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Breast Cancer Metastasis, Mechanobiology, and the Cell Microenvironment
Camilla Edwards
Eugene Froimchuk | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar | Twitter
Engineering Immunotherapies for Autoimmune Disease and Cancer
Brandon Gaitan | Lab Page | LinkedIn
Developing Optical-based Imaging Devices for Use During Surgery
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
Daniel Levy | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Engineering Extracellular Vesicles for Regenerative Medicine
Shannon McLoughlin | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Multi-material Extrusion Bioprinting for Craniofacial Bone Tissue Regeneration
Ann Ramirez | LinkedIn
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
Michael Straker | Lab Page | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Ingestible Devices for Diagnosing GI Diseases
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
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
Metecan Erdi | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Translational Biomaterials for High Impact In Vivo Applications
Richard Hoft | LinkedIn
Solid-State Batteries
Samuel Horlick | LinkedIn | Google Scholar
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
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
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
Taylor Motley
Linda Waters | LinkedIn
Leveraging Federal Disaster Outlays to Achieve Sustainability Targets
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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
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
Digital Circuit Obfuscation
Nicole Menkart | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID
Quantum Optics for Communication
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 | LinkedIn | ORCID
Mean-field Control of Consensus Dynamical Systems
Stefan Waczynski
Gina Wong
Materials Science & Engineering
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
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
Study of Ferroelectrics for Neuromorphic Devices
Aphrodite Strifas | LinkedIn
Process Optimization and Mechanical Properties Enhancement of HY Steels
Connor Turley | LinkedIn
Solid State Sodium Electrolytes
Richmond Wang | LinkedIn
Pulsed Laser Deposition of Oxide Functional Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Deng Yun Chen
Lautaro Cilenti | LinkedIn
Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamics
Parham Dehghani | Lab Page | ORCID
Combustion in Microgravity
Allen Garcia | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Natural Language Processing
Raquel Hakes Wetson-Dawkes | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Wildfire Dynamics and Risk
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
Kendyl Waddell | LinkedIn | ORCID
Combustion and Fire Protection
Amirhossein Yazdkhasti
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
Austin Lewis | Lab Page | LinkedIn | ORCID | Google Scholar
Causal-based Modeling for System Health Monitoring and Assessments of Complex Engineering Systems
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
Daniel Fernando Escobar (Ph.D. '20, Aerospace Engineering)
Dissertation: Fundamental Understanding of Helicopter Aeromechanics On Mars Through Chamber Testing and High-Fidelity Analysis
Tyler Sinotte (Ph.D. '20, Aerospace Engineering) | LinkedIn
Dissertation: A Strain-Based Experimental Methodology for Measuring Sectional Stiffness Properties of Composite Blades