Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Program

Bernard Aldrich
• Program: Computational Science & Engineering
• Research Interest: Affective Computing   
• Hometown: Jackson, MS

Chinazor Azubike           
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Renewable Energy, Resource Economics, Ag-Economics, GIS              
• Hometown: Nashville, TN

Nyteisha Bookert           
• Program: Computer Science       
• Research Interest: Computer Science Education, Cyber Security, Human-Centered Computing             
• Hometown: Columbia, SC

James Brown    
• Program: Computer Science       
• Research Interest: Securing IoT Operating Systems with Artificial Immune System (AIS) based Intrusion Detection Systems         
• Hometown: Chesapeake, VA

Kendall Dawkins             
• Program: Nanoengineering        
• Research Interest: Novel III-V Semiconductor Nanowires and Optoelectronic Devices Applications             
• Hometown: Winston Salem, NC

Jeannette Delva-Wiley  
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Environmental impact of proteins, focusing on protein activity when exposed to different compounds inducing glutathionylation, phosphorylation, and other processes   
• Hometown: Boston, MA

Brian Dowtin    
• Program: Computer Science       
• Research Interest: Software/Hardware Ethics         
• Hometown: Greensboro, NC

Mizpha Fernander         
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Conducting Immunology studies using a kidney disease model             
•  Hometown: Charlotte, NC

Jeremy Flood    
• Program: Applied Science & Technology - Data Science and Analytics            
• Research Interest: Principal Component Analyses and Big Data Analytics            
• Hometown: Summerville, SC

Janica Gordon  
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Hometown: Marrero, LA

Joseph Graves  
• Program: Applied Science & Technology - Data Science and Analytics            
• Research Interest: Food landscape and food insecurity using data visualization and statistical inferencing       
• Hometown: Greensboro, NC

William Gray     
• Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering      
• Research Interest: Distributed Remote Sensing     
• Hometown: Chicago, IL

Laquaundra Hampton   
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Cellular Signaling          
• Hometown: Cheverly, MD

Joshua Hayes    
• Program: Applied Science & Technology - Bioscience             
• Research Interest: Neuroscience             
• Hometown: Richmond, VA

James Headen  
• Program: Computational Science & Engineering
• Research Interest: Epidemic Modeling, Network and transportation modeling             
• Hometown: Wilmington NC

Taylor Hogue    
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Duckweed Bioremediation of Xenobiotics in a Model Laboratory Greywater System
• Hometown: New York, NY

Brett Hunter     
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Improvement of Forecasting of Natural, Climatic, Economic, Financial, Social, etc., phenomena Based on Analyzing Large Data Sets     
• Hometown: New Rochelle, NY

Markiesha James           
• Program: Applied Science & Technology - Atmospheric, Enviro, Energy Science      
• Research Interest: Biomass & Bioenergy          
• Hometown: Jackson, MS

Sean Johnson   
• Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering      
• Research Interest: Semiconductor nanomaterials, nanowires devices and applications             
• Hometown: Harrisburg, PA

Shaun Little       
• Program: Computational Science & Engineering
• Research Interest: Bias in image analysis, data mining, machine learning and data visualization     
• Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Janelle Mason  
• Program: Computer Science       
• Research Interest: Cyberidentity, cybersecurity, biometrics, data science and machine learning
• Hometown: Charlottesville, VA

Mackenzie Matthews    
• Program: Mechanical Engineering          
• Research Interest: Reducing the Effects of Disturbances Using Robust Control for Robot Systems             
• Hometown: Lithonia, GA

Terra McKee     
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Energy & Environmental Systems in Education:  Opportunities, Practices and Visualization or Data Science & Analytics: Methodologies for Geospatial Statitstics and Visualizations using Community Level Data            
• Hometown: Lexington, NC

Melodee Montgomery 
• Program: Computational Science & Engineering             
• Research Interest: Biometrics, Touch Data, Behavioral Biometrics             
• Hometown: Belleville, NJ

Benjamin Morrow         
• Program: Industrial & Systems Engineering             
• Research Interest: Big Data Analytics and Stochastic Modeling              
• Hometown: Mebane, NC 

Kashenya Pearson         
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Developing a doxorubicin-resistant triple negative breast cancer cell line       
• Hometown: Florence, SC

Derrick Perry    
• Program: Computational Science & Engineering
• Research Interest: Developing Docking Based Approaches for Multi-Domain Protein Structure Prediction      
• Hometown: Raleigh, NC

Angelique Phifer            
• Program: Applied Science & Technology - Data Science and Analytics    
• Hometown: Buford, GA

Nigel Pugh         
• Program: Computational Science & Engineering
• Research Interest: Predictive Analytics , Machine Learning              
• Hometown: Ahoskie, NC

Jessica Rawles  
• Program: Mechanical Engineering          
• Research Interest: Aerospace, Additive Manufacturing or Metallurgic Manufacturing
• Hometown: Richmond, VA

David Richmond             
• Program: Industrial & Systems Engineering             
• Research Interest: Data and Analytical Sciences, Operations Research , and Applied Graph Theory         
• Hometown: Marietta, GA

Justin Riley        
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Global Model Forecasting, the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Tropical Cyclone development    
• Hometown: Durham, NC

Janelle Robinson            
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Fungal Biotechnology  
• Hometown: Chesterfield, VA

RaSheka Robinson         
• Program: Industrial & Systems Engineering             
• Research Interest: Supply Chain and Logistics     
• Hometown: Richmond, VA

Tenesha Robinson         
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: IT Governance and Control       
• Hometown: Wilmington NC

Myles Ross        
• Program: Mechanical Engineering          
• Research Interest: Hypersonic Flight Control Using Plasma Actuators           
• Hometown: Yorktown, VA

Brittany Sanders            
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Bacteria Use two-component response system (TCRS) for environmental adaptation         
• Hometown: Washington, DC

Alex Sumner     
• Program: Computer Science       
• Research Interest: Cyber Security             
• Hometown: Raleigh, NC

Khiry Sutton      
• Program: Applied Science & Technology
• Research Interest: Sustainable Biomaterials            
• Hometown: Winston Salem, NC

Shunafrica White
• Program: Mechanical Engineering          
• Research Interest: ACL injuries and sports biomechanics  
• Hometown: Atlanta, GA

Christopher Whitfield   
• Program: Computer Science       
• Research Interest: IBM Blockchain based on hyperledger Fabric
• Hometown: Williamston, NC

Katelyn Williams            
• Program: Industrial & Systems Engineering             
• Research Interest: Human Movement and Performance with the goal of improving Rehabilitation, Human-Machine Interaction and Security             
• Hometown: Christiana, DE

Sade Wilson-Davenport            
• Program: Computational Science & Engineering      
• Research Interest: Evolutionary Dynamics of Post Translational Modification in S cereris             
• Hometown: Newark, DE