2025 Postdoctoral Cohort Mentors
AI Mentors
Camille Avestruz
Assistant Professor, Physics, LSA
Joyce Chai
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
Jiasi Chen
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
August (Gus) Evrard
Professor, Physics and Astronomy, LSA
Danny Forger
Professor, Mathematics, LSA Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics Center for Systems Biology
Bryan R. Goldsmith
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Alex Gorodetsky
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Xun Huan
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Ambuj Tewari
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering
Lei Ying
Professor, EECS, College of Engineering
Kai Zhu
Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Science Mentors
Omar Jamil Ahmed
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Patricia Alves-Oliveira
Assistant Professor of Robotics, College of Engineering
Saif Benjaafar
Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Charles Brooks
Professor, Chemistry and Biophysics, College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Vladimir Dvorkin
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
Vikram Gavini
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Oleg Gnedin
Professor, Astronomy
Anne McNeil
Carol A Fierke Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Professor of Environment, Program in the Environment, School for Environment and Sustainability and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Brendon Watson
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Medicine and Informatics, Michigan Neuroscience Institute
2024 Postdoctoral Cohort Mentors
AI Mentors
Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly
Assistant Professor (effective fall 2023), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Yang Chen
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA
Alfred Hero
Professor, EECS, College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Statistics, LSA
Kayvan Najarian
Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Emergency Medicine
Samet Oymak
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Alexander Rodríguez
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vijay Subramanian
Associate Professor, EECS, College of Engineering
Jonathan Terhorst
Assistant Professor, Statistics
Xinyu Wang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Ji Zhu
Professor, Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering
Science Mentors
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti
Research Faculty, CLaSP
Gideon Bradburd
Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Lia Corrales
Assistant Professor, Astronomy
William Currie
Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Engagement, School for Environment and Sustainability
Brian Kiedrowski
Associate Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering
Aaron A. King
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Sabine Loos
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Venkat Viswanathan
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Yafeng Yin
Professor, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2023 Postdoctoral Cohort Mentors
AI Mentors
Camille Avestruz
Assistant Professor, Physics, LSA
Yang Chen
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA
David Fouhey
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, College of Engineering
Bryan R. Goldsmith
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Xun Huan
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Majdi Radaideh
Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, College of Engineering
Katie Skinner
Assistant Professor, Robotics, College of Engineering
Ambuj Tewari
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering
Yixin Wang
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA
Science Mentors
Mark Burns
Professor, Chemical Engineering
Bryan R. Goldsmith
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Brendan Kochunas
Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
Hsing-Wen (Edward) Lin
Research Computer Specialist, LSA Physics
Anne McNeil
Carol A Fierke Collegiate Professor of Chemistry, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of Chemistry, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Professor of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Professor of Environment, Program in the Environment, School for Environment and Sustainability and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Sally Oey
Arthur F. Thurneau Professor, Astronomy
Dimitra Panagou
Associate Professor, Robotics
Brian Weeks
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Luis Zaman
Assistant Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Complex Systems
Kai Zhu
Associate Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
2022 Postdoctoral Cohort Mentors
AI Mentors
Ambuj Tewari
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA EECS, College of Engineering
Gongjun Xu
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA
Science Mentors
Hui Deng
Professor, Physics
Paul Zimmerman
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, LSA
Former Schmidt Postdoctoral Mentors
Camille Avestruz
Assistant Professor, Physics, LSA
Eunshin Byon
Associate Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of EngineeringCivil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
Neil Carter
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Yang Chen
Assistant Professor, Statistics, LSA
Jeff Fessler
Professor, EECS, College of Engineering Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering Radiology, Michigan Medicine
Yuanfang Guan
Assistant Professor, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Michigan Medicine Internal Medicine, Nephrology
Xun Huan
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
Sean Johnson
Assistant Professor and LSA Collegiate Fellow, Department of Astronomy, LSA
Nicholas Kotov
Professor, Chemical Sciences and Engineering
P.C. Ku
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sabine Loos
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Qing Qu
Assistant Professor, EECS, College of Engineering
Dan Rabosky
Professor and Curator, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Venkat Raman
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
Sabina Tomkins
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Derek Van Berkel
Assistant Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability
Lu Wang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, EECS
2025 African Faculty Fellows’ Hosts
Tayo Fabusuyi
Assistant Research Scientist, Transportation Research Institute
Bryan R. Goldsmith
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering
Dani Jones
Associate Research Scientist, School for Environment and Sustainability
Mark Moldwin
Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Director Academic Program, Undergraduate Education, College of Engineering and Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Rackham Graduate School
2024 Michigan Data Science Mentors
Amy Cohn
Professor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, College of Engineering Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI)
Anhong Guo
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
David Jurgens
Assistant Professor, School of Information
Mariel Lavieri
Associate Professor, Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Industrial and Operations Engineering
Lu Wang
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, EECS