Virginia M. Ayres earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from Purdue University, and two B.A.s in Physics and in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Ayres is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. Her research interests are in nanobiology and nanoelectronics and scanning probe microscopies. Dr. Ayres is the recipient of two NASA Faculty Fellowship Awards, two NSF Outstanding Performance Awards, and two international awards from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science and from Tokyo Institute of Technology for research and education in Japan. (Full CV) (w/oPDF)
Lalita Udpa received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University in 1986. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. Dr. Udpa works primarily in the broad areas of Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE), Signal Processing and biomedical applications. Her research interests include computational electromagnetics, development of solution techniques for inverse problems in NDE, multi-sensor data fusion and image processing techniques for the analysis of NDE and biomedical images. Dr. Udpa is a member of IEEE, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi. (Site Link)
Qian Chen received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Central South University, Changsha, China, in 1998 and 2001. She is currently a Research Assistant working toward her Ph.D. at the Michigan State University, East Lansing. Her research interests include Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy, nano-bioengineering, image processing and computer vision. (Co-advised with Professor Lalita Udpa) (Full Resume)
Yuan Fan (M'04) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China, in 1998 and 2001. He is currently a Research Assistant working towards his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing. His research interests include Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy, nano-bioengineering, image processing, pattern recognition and data fusion. (Co-advised with Professor Lalita Udpa) (Full Resume)
Benjamin W. Jacobs received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. He is currently a Research Assistant working towards his Ph.D. in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing with an additional major in German Studies (B.A. degree). He is a NASA Graduate Research Student Program award recipient. His research interests include fundamental radiation interactions and resiliency in novel nanomaterials and nanoelectronics. (Full Resume)
Shiva Arun Kumar received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai, India in 2004. He is currently a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University working towards an M.S. degree. His research interests include Signal Processing, Image Processing and Data Fusion with emphasis on VLSI Design and Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy. (Major professor, Lalita Udpa) (Full Resume) (w/oPDF)
Kaylee McElroy received her B.S. degree in Physics from Brigham Young University in 2006. She is currently a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University working towards an M.S. degree. Her research interests include scanning probe microscopy and the fabrication and characterization of nanomaterials and nanoelectronics. (Full Resume) (w/oPDF)
