Summer Research Internships (SURI)
Summer Research Internships 2021
The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is offering summer research internships for qualified U.S. citizens and permanent residents not currently enrolled at ASU, as well as international students from international universities are invited to participate in the program . Participants will be connected with faculty members to pursue 8-week-long research projects from May 26th to July 23rd, 2021. Research will be available in-person and digitally.
Students across all branches of engineering are welcome to apply. Student between their junior and senior years of their undergraduate degree as well as those pursuing their masters degree, who are interested in earning a PhD, will be given highest consideration.
Domestic Students: Each selected participant will receive a $5,000 stipend. Housing for in-person research will be available at the Tooker House located at the Tempe campus. Cost of housing will be deducted from the stipend. Students participating in digital research will received the full stipend amount.
International Students: For selected participants, this will be a volunteer experience and will not come with a stipend. For students interested in in-person research, there will be a $3,000 cost to participate (which will including housing). For participants interested in digital research, there will be no cost to participate.
Applications for Summer 2021 will open up December 1st, 2020 and will be open until January 31st, 2021.
For any questions about the program or the application, please reach out to FSEgrad@asu.edu.
Broader horizons
A new research internship program is the nexus of university and industry collaboration to foster greater diversity in engineering.
SURI 2021 Internships
Faculty | Program/expertise area | Campus | Project | Student Type | Research Mode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Structural health monitoring, Composite materials, damage detection, Material modeling | Tempe campus | Fatigue test spectrum editing using wavelet transforms. Conduct fatigue tests and determine equivalent loading parameters for different spectra | Domestic Students | In-Person |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Structural health monitoring, Composite materials, damage detection, Material modeling | Tempe campus | Material behavior characterization for space-grade adhesive. Conduct mechanical tests, perform microstructural characterization, develop material model to capture mechanical response | Domestic Students | In-Person |
| Aditi Chattopadhyay | Structural health monitoring, Composite materials, damage detection, Material modeling | Tempe campus | Damage detection in aluminum alloys and carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites. Conduct fatigue tests and develop damage detection framework using sensors and data analysis techniques | Domestic Students | In-Person |
| Arunachala M. Kannan | Batteries, H2 Technologies, Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Process Engineering | Poly campus | Solid Electrolytes for All Solid State Li-Ion Batteries, Photoelectrochemical H2 Generation, Catalysts design and Development for PEMFC, Dye Sensitized Solar Cells, CO2 reduction to Fuel | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Aviral Shrivastava | Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, Accelerated computing | Tempe campus | Develop novel navigation algorithms of autonomous vehicles | Domestic Students | Digital |
| Bruno Azeredo | Manufacturing Engineering / Additive Manufacturing | Tempe campus | Metal 3D Printing and Nanotechnology (more information at https://azeredo.engineering.asu.edu/) | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Chris Muhich | Catalysis, renewable energy, water remediation computional chemistry | Tempe campus | Simulate reaction pathways over various catalysits | Domestic and International | In-Person and Digital |
| Darshan Karwat | Engineering design | Tempe, Poly campus | Develop tools for engineering design for social and environmental justice | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Darshan Karwat | Space propulsion | Tempe, Poly campus | Chemical contamination of celestial bodies | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Dhruv Bhate | Manufacturing Engineering / Additive Manufacturing, Microelectronics Packaging | Poly campus | Thermal management for microelectronics applications using metal 3D printing: heat spreaders, sinks and pipes | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Enrique Vivoni | Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering | Tempe campus | Watershed hydrology, environmental sensors, climate and land cover change, numerical modeling, data analysis | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Fengbo Ren | HPC, reconfigurable computing, machine perception | Tempe campus | 3D vision perception and frequency-domain learning | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Fengbo Ren | HPC, reconfigurable computing, machine perception | Tempe campus | Accelerator orchestration for heterogeneous high-performance computing | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Hao Yan | Spatio-temporal data analytics, process monitoring, quality improvement, sensor data analytics | Polytechnic campus | Multiple sensor data fusion for quality prediction in manufacturing sytems | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Jae-sun Seo | Circuit design, machine learning hardware design, neuromorphic computing | Tempe campus | Brain-inspired image processing software & hardware design | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Jean Andino | Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering /air pollution control and atmospheric chemistry | Tempe campus | Air pollutant control and reaction engineering, with links to sustainable infrastructure and environmental policy themes | Domestic Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Jeffrey Wishart | Connected and Automated Vehicles | Poly campus | Development of an evaluation methodology for operational safety of automated vehicles | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Jennifer Blain Christen | Bioelectronics and Sensors | Tempe campus | Machine learning based assessment of point of care diagnostics using smart phone imaging Project 2. Portable thermal control unit for point of need diagnostics Project 3. Pressure analysis for microfluidics valves to predict failure using machine learning | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Jennifer Blain Christen | Bioelectronics and Sensors | Tempe campus | Portable thermal control unit for point of need diagnostics | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Jennifer Blain Christen | Bioelectronics and Sensors | Tempe campus | Pressure analysis for microfluidics valves to predict failure using machine learning | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Jia Zou | Big Data management, applied AI in database systems, machine learning systems | Tempe campus | Integration of fast-evolving data using deep learning; Serving deep learning models in relational databases | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| John Brunhaver | Mixed Signal Circuits / VLSI-Design and Computer Architecture | Tempe campus | Continue development of a Verilog component library | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Julian Tao | Geotechnical Engineering and Bio-inspired Robotic | Tempe campus | We are interested in learning from nature and design smart and sustainable solutions for geotechnical engineering. For example, inspired by burrowing animals and growing tree roots, we are developing self-burrowing robots which can explore the subsurface and deploy sensing network. | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Julianne Holloway | Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering, Polymers, Regenerative Medicine | Tempe campus | Develop polymeric biomaterials to regenerate damaged tissues | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Kenan Song | Manufacturing Engineering / Additive Manufacturing | Poly campus | Polymer 3D printing, Fiber engineering, Coating technology, Composite science, Smart sensors and actuators | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Kirk Jalbert | Informatics; Social studies of science and technology; Social movements and environmental justice | Tempe campus | A national study of public engagements with oil and gas pipeline projects. In particular, on the use of data and data-producing technologies by advocacy groups in their interactions with industry, regulators, and each other | Domestic and International Students | Digital |
| Lalitha Sankar | Electrical Engineering/Data Science and ML | Tempe campus | New loss functions for learning, boosting,and federated learning | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Margaret Garcia | Water resources engineering & policy | Tempe campus | Regional water supply resiliance in the western US | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Matt Green | Chemical Engineering/ Polymers, Composites, Membrane Separations, Desalination, CO2 capture | Tempe campus | Synthesize polymers, fabricate membranes and composites, perform membrane separations | Domestic Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Meng Tao | Solar technologies | Tempe campus | National survey of waste solar panels | Domestic Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Patrick Phelan | Sustainable energy, Thermal engineering | Tempe campus | Sustainable cooling solutions; benchmarking industrial energy consumption; energy efficiency & policy; agricultural cold chain | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Pavan Turaga | Machine Learning, Media Arts | Tempe campus | Future of workplace wellness, new prototypes for indoor spaces, health and wellness | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Peter Lammers | Algae biotechnology and genetic engineering | Poly campus | Re-inventing wastewater treatment as a carbon foundry for renewable industrial commodities | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Ram Pendyala | Transportation systems engineering and analysis | Tempe campus | How will emerging mobility services and automated transportation systems impact transportation systems and movements of people and goods in cities? | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Ram Pendyala | Transportation systems engineering and analysis | Tempe campus | How will COVID-19 impact transportation systems and mobility patterns, and what are the effects on future transportation infrastructure including transit systems, bicycling, and walking? | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Saeed Zeinolabedinzadeh | Circuits and Systems | Tempe campus | High frequency RF and photonic integrated circuit design for communication | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Shuguang Deng | Biomass conversion and carbon capture | Tempe campus | Chemical upcycling of discarded plastics, conversion of biomass, carbon capture and conversion | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Steven Ayer | Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Building Information Modeling, Construction Education | Tempe campus | Development of AR and VR environments to support construction education | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Teresa Wu | Medical Imaging | Tempe campus | Imaging processing, imaging analytics, imaging biomarker identification for disease diagnosis, treatment assessment | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Thomas Czerniawski | Computer Vision and Digital Modeling of the Built Environment | Tempe campus | Students will use laser scanning and photogrammetry to digitize the built environment. Digital representations will be processed to provide insights to builders and stewards of infrastructure. Students will learning about the sensors used to collect visual data, the tools used to fuse data into unified digital representations, and the computer vision algorithms available to perform automated analysis. | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Vikram Kodibagkar | Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Tempe campus | Contrast agent development, MRI data processing and analysis | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Visar Berisha | Digital health | Tempe campus | Developing algorithms for extracting clinical information from online data (e.g. speech, videos, pictures). We are interested in understanding the feasibility and implications of gleaning PHI data from online data streams. | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Wenlong Zhang | Robotics and autonomous systems; Dynamic systems and control; Human-robot interaction | Poly campus | Develop and evaluate wearable and soft robots for human assistance and augmentation; control and motion planning of intelligent autonomous vehicles | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Yalin Wang | Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Machine learning | Tempe campus | Development of neuroimaging methods for preclinical Alzheimer's disease research | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Yan Chen | Automated driving; autonomous vehicles; vehicle dynamics & control; mobile robots; electric vehicles; | Poly campus | Dynamics and control of single and multiple connected and automated vehicles | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Yezhou 'YZ' Yang | Vision and Language; Robot Perception; Manipulation Actions; Visual Reasoning; Visual Navigation | Tempe campus | Safety metric evaluation from existing traffic cameras; Indoor robotic object search; Visual question answering and video captioning | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Zachary Holman | Solar, semiconductors | Tempe campus | Photovoltaic cell and module design, fabrication, and testing | Domestic Students | In-Person |
| Jit Muthuswamy | Neural interfaces | Tempe campus | Neural interfaces for central and peripheral nervous system, modulation of neural function using electrical and sound energies | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Adolfo Escobedo | Node.js/database programming and/or operations research | Tempe campus | Development of crowd sourcing activities and aggregation models for extracting crowd wisdom | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Adolfo Escobedo | Node.js/database programming and/or operations research | Tempe campus | Development of human--subject studies and aggregation models for assessing the existence of multiple coexisting collective truths | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Dijiang Huang | Cybersecurity, intelligent and adaptive security, IoT security | Tempe campus | Develop security solutions based on software defined networking, ML/AI based detection and assessment models, edge cloud computing | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Heather Emady | powder technology, powder wetting, granular heat transfer | Tempe campus | Perform wet granulation experiments and analysis to understand droplet-powder interactions | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Suren Jayasuriya | Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Imaging and Photography, Computer Graphics | Tempe campus | Physics-based Machine Learning including light transport, image/video relighting, and imaging through scattering media | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Suren Jayasuriya | Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Imaging and Photography, Computer Graphics | Tempe campus | Energy-efficient Object tracking with Machine Learning and FPGAs | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Suren Jayasuriya | Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Imaging and Photography, Computer Graphics | Tempe campus | Machine Learning for CT Image Reconstruction and Medical Imaging | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Suren Jayasuriya | Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Computational Imaging and Photography, Computer Graphics | Tempe campus | Machine Learning for Synthetic Aperture Sonar | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Sydney Schaefer | Clinical neurorehabilitation, non-invasive brain stimulation, motor performance | Tempe campus | Human subjects research: testing for placebo effects in non-invasive brain stimulation | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Samantha Brunhaver | Engineering education, design education | Poly campus | Qualitative analysis of interviews with engineering managers about the adaptive mindsets and behaviors required for professional engineering practice | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Samantha Brunhaver | Engineering education, design education | Poly campus | Quantitative analysis of the personal and course-related factors that influence the course-level persistence of online undergraduate engineering students. | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| Taylor Weiss | Environmental and Resource Management/Algal bioengineering (microbiology, cell biology, biochemistry, biophsyics, remote sensing, large-scale cultivation, bioproducts, biofuels) | Poly campus | Isolation and genetic identification of algal pathogens from large-scale ponds | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Taylor Weiss | Environmental and Resource Management/Algal bioengineering (microbiology, cell biology, biochemistry, biophsyics, remote sensing, large-scale cultivation, bioproducts, biofuels) | Poly campus | Remote sensor data assembly and interpretation | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Brent Vernon | Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue reconstruction | Tempe campus | Synthesis and characterization of polymers to be used as tissue scaffolding | Domestic and International Students | In-Person |
| Brent Vernon | Biomaterials, drug delivery, tissue reconstruction | Tempe campus | Modeling and simulation of drug release from microparticles and experimental validation of results. | Domestic and International Students | In-Person and Digital |
| K. Selcuk Candan | Big data, data management, data analysis | Tempe campus | There are multiple projects on building energy, disasters, epidemics, childhood brain trauma. | Domestic and International Students | Digital |
| Pedro Peralta | Deformation and fracture of materials, dynamic loading, high temperature material behavior, behavior of materials under high pressures, mechanics of polymers | Tempe campus | Development of mechanical testing techniques to monitor creep behavior of new metallic alloys at high temperatures, microstructural characterization of metallic materials before and after high temperature testing using optical and electron microscopy, evolution of fatigue damage under multiaxial loading, finite element analysis of high pressure testing apparatus to determine stress state and analysis of synchrotron x-ray diffraction data based on that stress state. | Domestic and International Students | Data analysis and modeling can be done fully remotely. Testing and characterization requires an in-person component. |
| Rebecca Muenich | Environmental engineering, watershed management, water quality modeling, ecosystem service quantification, agricultural landscape management, remote sensing and GIS | Tempe campus | Multiple project opportunities using GIS, remote sensing, and data analysis to improve water quality models and quantify landscape changes. | Domestic and international students | In-Person and Digital |
| Cesar Torres | Environmental Biotechnology, Bioenergy, Microbial electrochemistry, Microscopy. | Tempe Campus | Growth and imaging of bacteria capable of producing electrical currents. Develop methods for imaging microbial components using cryo-electron tomography. | Domestic and international students | In-Person and Digital |
| Kerry Hamilton | Environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, pathogens, risk analysis, human health, decision analysis, antibiotic resistance, Legionnaires' disease | Tempe Campus | Quantifying the impacts of antibiotic resistance determinants in the environment. | Domestic and international students | In-Person and Digital |
| Kerry Hamilton | Environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, pathogens, risk analysis, human health, decision analysis, antibiotic resistance, Legionnaires' disease | Tempe Campus | Modeling pathogen growth in water systems. | Domestic and international students | In-Person and Digital |
| Kerry Hamilton | Environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, pathogens, risk analysis, human health, decision analysis, antibiotic resistance, Legionnaires' disease | Tempe Campus | Lab work on quantifying antibiotic resistance and pathogen genes with qPCR in environmental samples. | Domestic and international students | In-Person and Digital |
| Ahmed Alkhateeb | Wireless/Computer Vision/Machine Learning | Tempe campus | Use deep learning and computer vision to build 6G wireless communication and sensing systems | Domestic and international students | In-Person and Digital |
Increasing diversity in engineering
A summer research pilot between Intel, ASU and Florida A&M University encourages Black engineering students to pursue research, advanced degrees and tech careers.
Share your research with a broader audience
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