Mentors on this list have indicated willingness to host a SURF Fellow for Summer 2025. Click on their name to read more about their research areas and potential projects.
The mentors for SURF 2026 will be published in late January.
When submitting an application with a mentor on this list, select that you want to matched with a mentor on this list. Applicants will then be asked to indicate their preferred mentors in their applications, and include motivation for their selection.
Note: Potential mentors are not limited to this list. Applicants can apply with any Rice mentor who will provide support in a summer research project. Applicants applying with a mentor not on this list must receive mentor approval prior to submitting an application.
Engineering
- Dr. Raudel Avila Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Guha Balakrishnan Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Diana Barr (Drs. George Lu & Richard Bouchard) Bioengineering
- Cesar Andres Cardenas Alvarado Statistics
- Ruidi Chang (Dr. Hanjie Chen) Computer Science
- Dr. Elyse Chase Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Hanjie Chen Computer Science
- Katherine Chen (Dr. Kevin McHugh) Bioengineering
- Mingshi Chen (Dr. Joseph Young) Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Matt Cheung (Drs. Ashok Veeraraghavan & Guha Balakrishnan) Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Chunyuan Deng (Dr. Hanjie Chen) Computer Science
- Hossein Gazmeh (Dr. Xinwu Qian) Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Bezawit Getachew Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Viraj Ghosh (Dr. Julea Vlassakis) Bioengineering
- Dr. Daniel Harrington Bioengineering
- Dr. Shengxi Huang Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Dr. Yuxuan Huang WaTER Institute
- Sarah Jimenez (Drs. Camila Hochman-Mendez & Jane Grande-Allen) Bioengineering
- Dr. Scott Keene Materials Science & NanoEngineering
- Dr. Shane King Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Edward Knightly Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Dr. Yong Lin Kong Mechanical Engineering
- Thomas Kutcher (Dr. Nicole Provenza) Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Dr. Xinjie Lan Statistics
- Dr. Alyssa LaPole Computational Applied Mathematics & Operations Research
- Dr. Wanze Li Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Beatriz Mayol Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Dr. Larissa Novelino Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Juyoung Oh Materials Science & NanoEngineering
- Dr. Tirthak Patel Computer Science
- Lauren Peterson (Dr. Momona Yamagami) Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Dr. Daniel Preston Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Xinwu Qian Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Dr. Vanessa Sanchez Mechanical Engineering
- Jake Schladenhauffen (Dr. Omid Veiseh) Bioengineering
- Dr. Rebecca Schreib Computer Science
- Dr. Juliane Sempionatto Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering
- Dr. John Seymour Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Dr. Lauren Stadler Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Yiran Sun (Dr. Osama R. Mawlawi) Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Dr. Christina Tringides Materials Science & NanoEngineering
- Madelyn Whitaker (Dr. Pedro Alvarez) Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
- Dr. Denizhan Yavas Mechanical Engineering
- Dr. Zhongyuan Zhao Electrical & Computer Engineering
Humanities
- Dr. Natasha Bowdoin Art
- Dr. Judith Brunton Religion
- Sophie Randolph Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Dr. Lora Wildenthal History, Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality
- Dr. Fay Yarbrough History
Jones School of Business
- Dr. Jung Youn Lee Marketing
- Dr. Mallika Pung Finance
Natural Sciences
- Dr. Darin Acosta Physics & Astronomy
- Dr. Kushal Bagchi Chemistry
- Dr. Sahar Bakhshian Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
- Dr. Zachary Ball Chemistry
- Maryam Faghihi (Dr. Scott Egan) BioSciences
- Dr. Andre Izidoro Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
- Dr. Matthew Jones Chemistry
- Dr. Sven Kranz BioSciences
- Dr. Wei Li Physics & Astronomy
- Wesley Leung (Dr. Julea Vlassakis) Applied Physics
- Dr. Edison Liang Physics & Astronomy
- Dr. Yuan Ma Chemistry
- Dr. Jared Marx-Kuo Mathematics
- Dr. Marcos de Moraes BioSciences
- Dr. Quanbing Mou Chemistry
- Dr. Guido Pagano Physics & Astronomy
- Dr. Amanda Perkins-Ball Kinesiology
- Dr. Volker Rudolf BioSciences
- Dr. Julia Saltz BioSciences
- Katie West (Dr. Julia Saltz) BioSciences
- Dr. Noemi Vergopolan Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
- Dr. Pablo Yepes Physics & Astronomy
- Dr. Samantha Yruegas Chemistry
Social Sciences
- Dr. Corey Abramson Sociology
- Dr. Kirsten Adam Psychological Sciences
- Dr. Dogus Aktan Political Science
- Dr. Brielle Bryan Sociology
- Dr. Marc Dudey Economics
- Dr. Hossam Elsherbiny Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication
- Dr. Kenneth Evans Baker Institute
- Dr. Ilana Gershon Anthropology
- Dr. Victoria Massie Anthropology
- Kimberly Minda Global Affairs
- Dr. Tianjun Sun Psychological Sciences
- Dr. Tori Thomas Kinder Institute