AIST Member Chapter and Material Advantage Student Chapter Local Contacts

Australia Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Len Woods

Birmingham Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Jacob Lewis

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

• • University of Alabama at Birmingham — Amber Genau

  • University of Alabama — Luke Brewer

Brazil Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Ronaldo Santos Sampaio

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Instituto Federal de Minas Gerais - Ouro Branco — Vicente Trindade Braz Finho

  • 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 — Walter Milligan

  • University of Michigan — Ashwin Shahani

European Member Chapter

Secretary:  Jernej Pretnar

India Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Bimalendu Mukhopadhyay

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Indian Institute of Technology – Kanpur — Kantesh Balani

  • National Institute of Technology Rourkela — Archana Mallik

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

Korea Member Chapter

Chair: Sun Cheer Sheen

Mexico Member Chapter

Secretary: Edgar González

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia — Hector Javier Vergara Hernandez

  • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico — Bernardo Hernández-Morales

  • Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila — Rumualdo Servin Castañeda

Midwest Member Chapter

Secretary: Mario Munguia

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Iowa State University — Scott Chumbley

  • 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 — Grant Crawford

  • University of Wisconsin – Madison — John Perepezko

  • University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee — Benjamin Church

Northeastern Ohio Member Chapter

Secretary: Donald Salsbury

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Akron — Rajeev Gupta

  • Case Western Reserve University — Mark DeGuire

  • Cleveland State University — Tushar Borkar

  • The Ohio State University — Stephen Niezgoda

  • 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

  • Ryerson University — C. Ravi Ravindran

  • University of Toronto — Kinnor Chattopadhyay

  • Alfred University — Steven Tidrow

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Daniel Lewis

Northwest Member Chapter

Secretary: Patrick Jablonski

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Boise State University — Amy Moll

  • University of Idaho — Mark Roll

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

  • Washington State University — Colin Merriman

  • University of Washington — Lucien Brush

Ohio Valley Member Chapter

Secretary: Mark Shircliff

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Purdue University — John Howarter

  • Trine University — Darryl Webber

  • University of Kentucky — Thomas “John” Balk

Philadelphia Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Jose de Jesus

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Connecticut — Avinash Dongare

  • University of Delaware — Darrin Pochan

  • Boston University — Soumendra Basu

  • Northeastern University — Teiichi Ando

  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — Jianyu Liang

  • University of Maryland at College Park — Isabel Lloyd

  • Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey — M. John Matthewson

  • Columbia University — Siu-Wai Chan

  • Drexel University — Richard Knight

  • Lehigh University — Laura Moyer

Pittsburgh Member Chapter

Secretary: Robert Conley

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • Carnegie Mellon University — Bryan Webler

  • The Pennsylvania State University — Amy Robinson

  • University of Pittsburgh — Tevis Jacobs

  • Robert Morris University — Priya Manohar

  • West Virginia University — Ed Sabolsky

San Francisco Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Adrian Deneys

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of California-Davis — Susan Gentry

  • San Jose State University — Richard Chung

  • University of Nevada Reno —Siddhartha Pathak

  • University of Utah — Krista Carlson

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 — Gerhard Fuchs

  • Georgia Institute of Technology — Preet Singh

  • North Carolina State University — Victoria Miller

  • University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez — Oscar Marcelo Suarez

  • Clemson University — Fei Peng

  • University of Tennessee — Claudia Rawn

  • Virginia Tech — Alan Druschitz

Southern California Member Chapter

Secretary-Treasurer: Stephen Bunch

• 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 — Kip Findley

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

  • University of Houston — Kenneth White

  • University of North Texas — Jincheng Du

  • Rice University — Peter Loos

  • 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: Steve Pappas

• Student Chapters and Faculty Advisors

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — Jessica Krogstad

  • Missouri University of Science & Technology — Ron O’Malley

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 — Marco Francisco Leon Dunia
Suez University — Marwa Abbas
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember — Sungging Pintowantoro
Dawood University of Engineering & Technology – Karachi — Asif Shah
National University of Sciences and Technology— Umair Manzoor
National Engineering University – UNI — Mery Gomez-Marroquin
King Abdulaziz University - Rabigh — Ali Bahadar
Yangbu Industrial College — Mohammad Alyoubi