Affiliates

Below is the list of our current Affiliates from across the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. Affiliates are listed alphabetically by last name and their names are hyperlinked to their research website.

In addition, our Affiliates can also be viewed by how their research expertise fits within the Research Theme areas and the cross-cutting Physiological States or System and Data Acquisition and Analytics approaches.

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List of All Affiliates

Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD
Director & Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology & Community Health
Assistant Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk, PhD
Associate Professor
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Ying Bao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Business Administration
Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior
Information Sciences
Charles Blatti, PhD
Research Scientist
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Kelly Bost, PhD
Professor
Human Development & Family Studies
Nick Burd, PhD
Associate Professor
Kinesiology & Community Health
Colleen Bushell, MFA
Associate Director & Associate Prof Research
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Hong Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Chung-Yi Chiu, PhD
Associate Professor
Kinesiology & Community Health
Soyoung Choi, PhD, RN
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology & Community Health
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Human Development & Family Studies
Director, Family Resiliency Center
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Animal Sciences
Ahmed Elbanna, PhD
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Jodi Flaws, PhD
Professor
Comparative Biosciences
Christopher Gaulke, PhD
Assistant Professor
Pathobiology
Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Professor
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Diego Hernandez-Saavedra, PhD
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology & Community Health
Krystal Hodge, PhD
Assistant Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Hannah Holscher, PhD, RD
Associate Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Makoto Inoue, PhD
Assistant Professor
Comparative Biosciences
Maria Jaromin, MS, MBA
Assistant Director for Healthcare Research
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Daniel Katz, PhD
Chief Scientist & Research Associate Professor
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Naiman Khan, PhD, RD
Associate Professor
Kinesiology & Community Health
Halil Kilicoglu, PhD
Associate Professor
Information Sciences
Volodymyr Kindratenko, DSc
Assistant Director & Adjunct Associate Prof
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Metabolomics & Proteomics
Biotechnology Center
Fan Lam, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Ryan Larsen, PhD
Research Scientist
Animal Sciences
Nu-Chu Liang, PhD
Associate Professor
Psychology
Brett Loman, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor
Animal Sciences
Ting Lu, PhD
Professor
Bioengineering
Zeynep Madak-Erdogan, PhD
Associate Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Anthropology
Sheena Martenies, PhD
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology and Community Health
Bioengineering
Human Development & Family Studies
School of Art and Design
Nancy McElwain, PhD
Research Professor
Human Development & Family Studies
Daniel McKim, PhD
Assistant Professor
Animal Sciences
Wenyan Mei, PhD
Assistant Professor
Comparative Biosciences
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Unnati Narang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Business Administration
Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Food Science & Human Nutrition
M. Yanina Pepino, PhD
Associate Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Minakshi Raj, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology & Community Health
Jason Ridlon, PhD
Associate Professor
Animal Sciences
Pablo Robles-Granda, PhD
Teaching Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Shannon Sirk, PhD
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Landscape Architecture & Office of the Provost
Animal Sciences
Leona Yi-Fan Su, PhD
Assistant Professor
Advertising
Margarita Teran-Garcia, MD, PhD
Assistant Dean & Research Assistant Professor
Illinois Extension
Damir Torrico, PhD
Assistant Professor
Food Science & Human Nutrition
Lav Varshney, PhD
Associate Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Bo Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Comparative Biosciences
Shulei Wang, PhD
Assistant Professor
Statistics
Jeff Woods, PhD
Professor
Kinesiology and Community Health
Jaya Yodh, PhD
Teaching Professor
Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Ruoqi Yu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Statistics
Computer Science
Yang Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ruoqing Zhu, PhD
Associate Professor
Statistics
Christopher Zwilling, PhD
Research Scientist
Psychology