Leadership
- Director—Nik Rokop, Coleman Foundation Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Director of Master of Technological Entrepreneurship program
- Associate Director—Tyler McQuality, Head Cross Country/Track and Field Coach, Adjunct Professor of Sports Business and Sports History
Core Faculty
The Center for Sports Innovation partners with numerous academic units across the university. Current faculty members who have committed to the Center and their respective areas of expertise include:
- Abhinav Bhushan—Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Chemical and biochemical measurements: inflammation and metabolic diseases - Britt Burton-Freeman—Professor, Food Science and Nutrition, Chair, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Director, Center for Nutrition Research
Nutrition, performance, diabetes - Ali Cinar—Hyosung S. R. Cho Endowed Chair in Engineering; Professor, Chemical Engineering; Director, Center for Diabetes Research and Education
Performance testing, diabetes, nutrition - Natacha DePaola—Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director, Illinois Tech Digital Medical Engineering and Technology Research and Education Center (IDMET)
Research physical mechanisms on cellular behavior, the development of new therapies, and the engineering of functional tissues - Jeremy Hajek—Industry Associate Professor, Information Technology and Management
Smart technology, AR/VR - Eun-Jeong Lee—Professor, Psychology
Co-existing disability and mental health issues, Positive psychology and wellness among people with chronic illness and disability - Arlen Moller—Associate Professor of Psychology
Performance, gaming, mental health, AR/VR - Georgia Papavasiliou—Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Chair of Undergraduate Affairs in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering, emulsions, hydrogels - Zach Pino—Associate Professor, Institute of Design
Designs feature modularity, sonic and optical effects, and kinetic mechanisms - Bo Rodda—Professor of Practice, Institute of Design, Faculty Director, Interprofessional Projects (IPRO) Labs, IPRO Program
IPRO Labs, design creativity, AR/VR - Priyanka Sharma—Associate Professor of Economics
Finance, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Applied Game Theory - Matthew Spenko—Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The Robotics Lab
Robotics, mechanical design, controls - Ankit Srivastava—Associate Professor, Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Soft robotics, digital twins of facilities, AR/VR - Fouad Teymour—S.C. Johnson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director of the Center for Complex Systems and Dynamics
Polymer engineering, nonlinear dynamics - Yan Yan—Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Computer vision, machine learning, bioinformatics, multimedia