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- Sharvi Ghoghale '25 (MS)
- Computer Science
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94% of WPI master’s degree recipients and 93% of PhD recipients* are employed or continuing their studies.
*Class of 2023
- Prathamesh Mehta '24 (MS)
- Robotics Engineering
Faculty Research
WPI faculty research is funded by elite grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), US Department of Defense, US Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and many more. Our faculty's major breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, clean energy, robotics, and all other fields will continue to shape the future.
Grad Student Research
WPI graduate students play an essential role in a large and thriving research community, contributing to faculty research projects, leading research institutions, and partner organizations worldwide. Thanks to interdisciplinary collaboration, our graduate students are able to attack complex problems from all angles, making them highly sought after by employers.
Labs & Facilities
The state-of-the-art research equipment and facilities at WPI are on par with some of the most famous research universities in the world. Available for internal and external use, our technology includes instrumentation for materials analysis, micro- and nanofabrication, microscopy, metrology, photonics, medical imaging, biomechanics, and more.
Corporate Partners
WPI’s emphasis on applied research means faculty and grad students engage in work alongside corporate partners that can translate into products, services, or other intellectual property. These industry leaders can leverage the expertise of our faculty and students, use our high-tech instrumentation, and even license our technologies to make their next breakthrough.
The Innovation Studio
Team up with peers from other disciplines and let your imagination run wild. This open space invites students of all backgrounds to create, model, and test new ideas and use state-of-the-art equipment, including rapid prototype 3-D printers.
Business Development Lab
The Business Development Lab acts as a cutting-edge incubator, propelling startups from concept to commercialization. Accelerate the development of your start-up, enhance your entrepreneurial expertise, and launch the next disruptive STEM venture.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship
WPI’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center is where you’ll find support through skill-based workshops, mentorship, innovation challenges, networking opportunities, hands-on projects, funding, and more.
Famous Inventions From WPI
Students, faculty, and alumni of WPI have changed the world with inventions ranging from lithium-ion battery recycling to liquid-fueled rockets to concrete that heals its own cracks. What will your innovation be?
- Lydia Tonani-Penha '23
- PhD Candidate
- Mechanical Engineering
World-Class Faculty & Staff
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Dr. Don Gelosh is Director of Systems Engineering Programs for the Institute’s Corporate and Professional Education (CPE) division. In this role, Dr. Gelosh works closely with WPI’s faculty in the development of systems engineering programs. Dr. Gelosh also works with an external Systems Engineering Advisory Council and fosters partnerships among WPI and companies and organizations involved in the systems engineering field. Dr.
Professor Hall-Phillips' research focuses on studying general consumer behavior, with specific interest in topics related to value, engagement, and loyalty in the areas of user experience and entrepreneurship. An additional research focus is on discovering how social media influences consumption in online and offline environments. Hall-Phillips leads the Social Media Analytics Lab (SMAL) at The Business School which allows students the opportunity explore how social media affects community connections and how it can be responsibly harnessed across a variety of areas from mental health to consumer behavior.
Professor Rangwala's research interests include problems related to industrial fire and explosions. He has worked on topics such as deflagration of combustible dust clouds, ignition behavior of combustible dust layers, in-situ burning of oil, spread of an oil slick in channels, velocity measuring techniques in fire induced flows, and flame propagation and burning rate behavior of condensed fuel surfaces.
Professor Rundensteiner's research focuses on how to make use of data and information in an effective manner, towards achieving goals in business, scientific discovery, and digital health. With the inter-connectivity of the internet, the availability of computing power, and big data everywhere, access to the right piece of information at the right moment, fused together from numerous information sources, is at the core of critical capabilities that she has been developing. Her work includes developing big data, machine learning and data visualization technologies to discover and explore important insights in massive data sets and real-time data streams in applications from fraud detection, digital health, emergency management, business intelligence, to event analytics.
Professor Shue's expertise lies in network security. He focuses on using system and network measurements to understand what is happening on a network to protect traditional computers and IoT devices. He also build systems that can detect and prevent attacks to keep organizations and regular Internet users secure. He can speak about all these topics and his research about vulnerabilities in and attacks on multi-factor authentication. Professor Shue has provided analysis for media organizations including NPR and The Associated Press on the July 2024 global technology outage stemming from a defective CrowdStrike software update.
