University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Neal Kitchen

Chief operating officer

HydroPeptide

Rick Schwerdtfeger

Program director

National Science Foundation

Juan Santiago

Engineering professor

Stanford University

Gala Wind

Research scientist

Joined NASA in 2002

Ritu Raman

Forbes’ 30 under 30

MIT postdoctoral fellow

Kevin Howard

Principal research scientist 

Dow Chemical Company

Omar Kazi

Director, Pfizer

Global Sterile Injectables

Angel Rivera

Research microbiologist

CDC

John Rogers

Bioelectronics pioneer

Held Swanlund chair at UI

Steve Bachrach

Organic chemist

Monmouth science dean

Brian Berg

Medical science liaison

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals

Peter Dorhout

Vice president/research

Kansas State University

Mike VanBlaricum

Research engineer

‘14 Lou Liay Spirit Award

Karl Hess

Swanlund professor emeritus

Beckman Institute

Rajiv Shah

Data scientist

DataRobot

Ashley Llorens

Chief, Intelligent Systems Center

Johns Hopkins University

John Andrews

Population biologist

Lincoln Park Zoo

Mark Hersam

Won 2014 ‘Genius’ grant

Northwestern professor

Mark Zediker

Laser technology pioneer

CEO, NUBURU

Guy Padbury

Senior VP, Merck

Preclinical Development

Yu Ru

Staff data scientist

GE, China

Thyaga Nandagopal

Program director

National Science Foundation

Chinonye Nnakwe

Molecular biologist

National Science Foundation

Brock Siegel

Managing director

BioInfleXion Point Partners