UA Researchers

Note: This database is a list of faculty who welcome undergraduate students into their research projects. It is up to faculty to keep this list updated.
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Name	Department	Offering Research Opportunities?	Types of Opportunities	Prereqs	Research Location	End Date
Barry Ganapol	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Volunteer For Credit	Calculus	Tucson main campus
Hermann Fasel	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
Stuart Craig	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid	The lab performs high-speed/hypersonic wind tunnel experiments. No hard prerequisites, at least 1 year of undergrad preferred. Positions are competitive and the number of openings varies.	Tucson main campus
Jekan Thangavelautham	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
Kavan Hazeli	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer	None	Tucson main campus
Daniel Diaz Ordonez	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid For Credit	Physics Mathematics Matlab Advance writing skills	Tucson main campus
Jeffrey Jacobs	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
Christoph Hader	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Volunteer	None	Tucson main campus
Peiwen Li	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	Junior to Senior	Tucson main campus	08/2025
James Threadgill	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid	AME 220, 323, 331, 401 MATLAB, LabView, Solidworks, TecPlot	Tucson main campus
Majid Beidaghi	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Yes	Paid	Programming skills in Python. A background/interest in machine learning is preferred.	Tucson main campus
Kenneth Head	Systems and Industrial Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer	None	Tucson main campus
Alejandro Salado	Systems and Industrial Engineering	Yes	Volunteer For Credit	Coding VR environments for Occulus Quest (Unity)	Tucson main campus
Pratik Satam	Systems and Industrial Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer	None	Tucson main campus
Tomas Cerny	Systems and Industrial Engineering	Yes	Volunteer For Credit	Object-oriented design Ideally, knowledge of databases, javascript, code analysis, spring, cloud native	Tucson main campus
Yue Wang	Systems and Industrial Engineering	Yes	Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
Hao Xin	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
Eung Joo Lee	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
Walter Harris	Planetary Sciences	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
Amanda Mainzer	Planetary Sciences	Yes	Paid	None	Tucson main campus
Jessica Barnes	Planetary Sciences	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus	01/2025
Pierre Haenecour	Planetary Sciences	Yes	Paid Volunteer For Credit	None	Tucson main campus
John Holt	Planetary Sciences	Yes	Paid For Credit	Some familiarity with coding in Python and/or Geographic Information Systems	Tucson main campus
Tommi Koskinen	Planetary Sciences	Yes	Volunteer For Credit	Algebra, differential equations, computer programming	Tucson main campus
Erik Asphaug	Planetary Sciences	Yes	Paid	Vector calculus, two years of physics, proficiency in computer programming, demonstrated proficiency at writing	Tucson main campus

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