Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester, MA·Private
6 labs on PI Pages. It spends $72M a year on research and awards 69 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 8,009: 5,756 undergraduates, 2,253 graduate
- Postdocs
- 33
- Faculty
- 444 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Jagan Srinivasan
Neuroscience
Define how NLP-3 neuropeptides drive hermaphrodite avoidance of the pheromone ascaroside-8 in C. elegans, using CRISPR mutants, rescue with synthetic peptides, and quantitative behavioral assays.
Christopher Larsen
Mathematics & Statistics
Prove that equilibrium states exist satisfying a new variational principle for fracture, one that isolates crack propagation and remains compatible with all applied forces, including body loads such as gravity.
Tian Guo
Computer Science·Early-career
Design QCloud, a quantum cloud framework with job placement, job scheduling and network scheduling algorithms built on models of quantum circuits, gates and remote gates executed across networked machines.
Cagdas Onal
Engineering
Develop a modular, origami-inspired continuum robot arm (CoBRA) with customizable design algorithms, so the arm can be tailored to specific assistive tasks in homes and healthcare settings.
Jeannine Coburn
Biomedical Engineering·Early-career
Generate optically transparent insoluble exopolysaccharides from Komagataeibacter bacteria and characterize them from the molecular to the bulk scale for use as see-through wound dressings.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.