Chemical Engineering professor Wei Niu and Massimiliano Pierobon, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science & Engineering, examine a dish as PhD student Zahmeeth Sakkaff and graduate student Molly Lee work in the background in Niu’s Hamilton Hall lab. 2018. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication
Expanding research, outreach focused on WetComm
With a nearly $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Massimiliano Pierobon is expanding the university’s research and outreach focused on wet communication. The emerging field, coined WetComm, focuses on information transmission in biochemical environments and has potential applications in tissue re-engineering, cancer treatments and environmental improvement. Pierobon, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, will engage Husker undergraduates in his research, guiding them in developing WetComm applications. They will share their work with Lincoln East High School students, with the goal of encouraging them, particularly minorities and women, to pursue WetComm and programming biology fields in college.
