John F. Canny Division of Computer Science (EECS) computer science, activity-based computing, livenotes, mechatronic devices, flexonics
Karl van Bibber Dept of Nuclear Engineering Particle Astrophysics, experimental nuclear physics, Accelerator Technology and Neutron Sources
Jake Kosek Dept of Geography cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics
Mark Haiman Dept of Mathematics mathematics, algebraic geometry, algebra, combinatorics, diagonal coinvariants, Hilbert schemes
Lilla Balint Dept of German contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel
Gary Karpen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases
Ann Swidler Dept of Sociology religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research
Marcia C. Linn School of Education artificial intelligence, technology, learning, mathematics, science, education, science teaching, gender equity, design of learning environments
Anne Nesbet Dept of Film and Media Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures culture, film studies, Slavic languages, early Soviet culture, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film, GDR history, children's literature & Stalinism, the Soviet Union
Sara McMains Dept of Mechanical Engineering geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Ali Javey Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter
Aarti Sethi Dept of Anthropology agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography
Sunaura Taylor Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management disability studies, disability crip theory, ableism, animal studies, animal ethics, multispecies justice, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, environmental justice
Neyran Turan Dept of Architecture architectural design and climate change, planetary imagination and architectural design, climate futures, architecture and the Anthropocene, architectural construction and climate change, low-carbon architectural construction, hempcrete construction, bio-materials and design
Tolani Britton School of Education social research methods, higher education policy, economics of higher education
Robert Birgeneau Dept of Physics Goldman School of Public Policy physics, phase transition behavior of novel states of matter
Jennifer Anne LaFleur School of Journalism Data journalism, investigative journalism, disability, inequality, criminal justice
Marti Hearst Division of Computer Science (EECS) School of Information information visualization, web search, search user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, empirical computational linguistics, natural language processing, online education
Amy Herr Dept of Bioengineering microfluidics, bioanalytical separations, diagnostics, electrokinetic transport, engineering design
Mary Comerio Dept of Architecture disaster recovery, housing impacts in disasters, loss modeling, performance based design
Georjana Barnes Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biochemistry, genetics, cancer, biology, microtubule cytoskeleton, cell cycle controls, cellular imaging