AIST Member Chapter and Material Advantage Student Chapter Local Contacts

Australia Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Len Woods

Birmingham Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Ken Orndoff

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham — Amber Genau

  • University of Alabama – Nilesh Kumar​

Brazil Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Ronaldo Santos Sampaio

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais – Guiherme Silva

  • Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais — Roberto Parreiras Tavares

  • Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto — Paulo Santos Assis

Detroit Member Chapter

Secretary: Roger Kalinowsky

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Michigan State University — Andre Lee

  • Michigan Technological University – Paul Sanders

  • University of Michigan — Ashwin Shahani

European Member Chapter

Secretary:  Jernej Pretnar

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Aalto University – Espoo — Mari Lundström

India Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Bimalendu Mukhopadhyay

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Anna University — Chennai — Sudha Jayaprakasam

  • Cummins College of Engineering for Women — Nagpur — Yogesh Dandekar

  • D. Y. Patil College of Engineering — Vinod Hiwase

  • Godavari College of Engineering — Jalgaon — Vogesh Vanjari

  • Government Polytechnic — Nagpur — Vanshree Humney

  • Indian Institute of Technology — Bombay — Deepoo Kumar

  • Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur — Kantesh Balani

  • National Institute of Technology Rourkela — Archana Mallik

  • National Institute of Technology Trichy — Karthik Vaduganathan

  • Pune Vidhyarthi Griha’s College of Engineering  — Sanket Chikshe

  • RV College of Engineering  — Bengaluru  — Ramesh Sharma

  • S.J.C. Institute of Technology — R. Ranganatha

  • Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College — A. Thiagarajan

  • Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering — D. Ananthapadmanaban

  • SRM Institute of Sciene & Technology — Kattankulathur — A. Vinoth

  • Vellore Institute of Technology — Bhopal — Balaguru Sethuraman

Korea Member Chapter

Chair: Sun Cheer Sheen

Middle East North Africa (MENA) Member Chapter

Secretary: Ahmed Mansour

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Dawood University of Engineering & Technology – Karachi — Sadam Ali Khichi

  • Institute of Space Technology — Muhammad Abdul Basit

  • King Abdulaziz University - Rabigh — Faisal Abnisa

  • National University of Sciences and Technology— Usman Liaqat

  • Suez University – Dr. Adel Mohamed Amer

  • Yangbu Industrial College — Mohammad Alyoubi

Mexico Member Chapter

Secretary: Jorge Fernandez

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia — Hector Javier Vergara Hernandez

  • Instituto Tecnologico de Saltillo — Oswaldo Burciaga – Diaz 

  • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico — Bernardo Hernández-Morales

  • Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon — Edgar Omar Garcia Sanchez

  • Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila — Rumualdo Servin Castañeda

Midwest Member Chapter

Secretary: Kurt Schmiegel

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Iowa State University — Sid Pathak

  • Bradley University — Iqbal Shareef

  • Illinois Institute of Technology — Leon Shaw

  • Northwestern University — Kathleen Stair

  • Purdue University Northwest — Chenn Zhou

  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities — David Poersche

  • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology – Michael West

  • University of Wisconsin – Madison — John Perepezko

  • University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee — Benjamin Church

Northeastern Ohio Member Chapter

Secretary: Larry Marks

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Akron — Jennifer Lillard

  • Case Western Reserve University — Mark DeGuire

  • Cleveland State University — Tushar Borkar

  • The Ohio State University — Enam Chowdhury

  • Pennsylvania State University – Behrend — Paul Lynch

Northern Member Chapter

Secretary: Cameron Mitchell

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Alberta — John Nychka

  • University of British Columbia — Edouard Asselin

  • McGill University — Nathaniel Quitoriano

  • McMaster University — Neslihan Dogan

  • Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) — C. Ravi Ravindran

  • University of Toronto — Kinnor Chattopadhyay

  • Alfred University — Steven Tidrow

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Mr. Rahmi Ozisik

Northern Pacific Member Chapter

Secretary: Adrian Deneys

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Boise State University — Kimo Wilson

  • California State, Sacramento — Troy Topping

  • University of California-Davis — Susan Gentry

  • University of Idaho — Mark Roll

  • Montana Tech of The University of Montana — K.V. Sudhakar

  • University of Nevada Reno — Yufeng Zheng

  • San Jose State University — Ozgur Keles

  • University of Utah — Jeffrey Bates

  • Washington State University — Scott Beckman

  • University of Washington — Lucien Brush

Ohio Valley Member Chapter

Secretary: Mark Shircliff

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Purdue University – Michael Titus

  • Trine University — Darryl Webber

  • University of Kentucky – Dr. Jonathan Pham

Philadelphia Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Jose de Jesus

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Connecticut — Lesley Frame

  • Boston University — Soumendra Basu

  • Northeastern University — Teiichi Ando

  • New Jersey Institute of Technology — Veljko Samardzic

  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Jianyu Liang

  • University of Maryland at College Park — Isabel Lloyd

  • Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey – Professor Ryan Sills

  • Columbia University — Siu-Wai Chan

  • Drexel University — Richard Knight

  • Lehigh University — Laura Moyer

Pittsburgh Member Chapter

Secretary: Claudia Leal

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Carnegie Mellon University — Bryan Webler

  • The Pennsylvania State University — R. Allen Kimel

  • University of Pittsburgh – Markus Chmielus​

  • Robert Morris University — Priya Manohar

  • West Virginia University — Ed Sabolsky

Southeast Member Chapter

Secretary: Michael Hutson

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University Of Central Florida — Raj Vaidyanathan

  • Florida International University — Arvind Agarwal

  • University Of Florida — Victoria Miller

  • Georgia Institute of Technology — Preet Singh

  • North Carolina State University – Wenpri Gao

  • University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez — Oscar Marcelo Suarez

  • Clemson University – Professor Jianhua (Joshua) Tong​

  • University of Tennessee — Claudia Rawn

  • University of Virginia — Ji Ma

  • Virginia Tech — Alan Druschitz

Southern California Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: John Marsh

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Arizona State University — Shahriar Anwar

  • University of Arizona — David Poirier

  • California State Polytechnic University Pomona — Vilupanur Ravi

  • California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo — Ryan Smith

  • University Of California-Irvine — Martha Mecartney

  • University Of California-Riverside — Suveen Mathaudhu

Southwest Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Sabra Serino

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Colorado School of Mines — Gerald “Jerry” Bourne

  • New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology — Thomas “David” Burleigh

  • University of Houston — Kenneth White

  • University of North Texas — Jincheng Du

  • Rice University — Hanyu Zhu

  • Texas A&M University — Ankit Srivastava

  • University of Texas at Arlington — Choong-Un Kim

  • University of Texas at Austin — Eric Taleff

  • University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley — Marcos Villarreal

St. Louis Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Eric Woodside

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Jessica Krogstad

  • Missouri University of Science and Technology – Kelley Wilkerson

General Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology – Dhaka — Hossain Rashed
Northeastern University – CHINA — Cong Wang
Wuhan University of Technology — Fei Chen
San Francisco de Quito University — Krutskaya Yépez
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez — Oscar Marcelo Suárez
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember — Sungging Pintowantoro
National Engineering University – UNI — Jorge Alfonso Ugarte Diaz