William A. Lester, Jr. Dept of Chemistry theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation
Luyi Yang Haas School of Business service operations, economics of queues, Business Model Innovation, Operations-Marketing Interface, digital marketplace, Sustainable Operations
Francesco Borrelli Dept of Mechanical Engineering automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control
Steven Vogel Dept of Political Science political economy or comparative political economy, market governance, regulation, the Japanese model of capitalism, Japanese politics, political science
Cesunica Ivey Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering atmospheric modeling, exposure monitoring, environmental justice applications, community resilience, climate adaptation and disaster resilience
Nicholas Sitar Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering geotechnical earthquake engineering, wireless sensors, seismic slope stability, seismic earth pressure, rock erosion, groundwater remediation, numerical modeling of solid-fluid interaction, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering
Alistair Sinclair Dept of Statistics Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) algorithms, applied probability, statistics, random walks, Markov chains, computational applications of randomness, Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization
Alexander von Rospatt Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies ritual studies, Nepalese studies, Buddhist traditions of South Asia, doctrinal history, Newar Buddhism, art
Ali Mesbah Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering model predictive control, learning-based control, low-temperature plasma processing, machine learning and control for plasmas, semiconductor manufacturing
Daniel Klein Division of Computer Science (EECS) unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction
Damon Young Dept of Film and Media Dept of French film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory
Giovanni R. F. (John) Ferrari Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies classics, ancient philosophy, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric
Franco Zunino Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials
Lawrence Hall Dept of Physics physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
Koushik Sen Division of Computer Science (EECS) computer science, programming systems, software engineering, programming languages, computational logic, software testing, verification, model checking, runtime monitoring, performance evaluation
Ronald Rael Dept of Architecture Dept of Art Practice 3D printed buildings, additive manufacturing, earth architecture, mud, artificial intelligence, U.S.-Mexico border wall, arid landscapes, ranching, acequias, alipne deserts, ceramics, rural architecture, ruralism, animation, digital modeling, furry buildings, unnatural materials, rasquachetecture
Sharad Chari Dept of Geography geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean
Nancy Wallace Haas School of Business housing price indices, real estate price dynamics, mortgage valuation models: prepayment and default, mortgage contract design, mortgage backed security trading and valuation, executive stock option valuation, energy efficient mortgage underwriting, climate risk
Oliver John Dept of Psychology research methods, personality, measurement, emotion regulation, personality structure, personality development, traits, Big Five model, individual differences, emotion expression, self-concept, accuracy, bias, self-knowledge, personality assessment
Robert Harley Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, motor vehicle emissions, ozone, sustainable transportation, air quality, emission inventory, photochemical air quality modeling
Matthew Welch Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens
Gail S. Brager Dept of Architecture architecture, high-performance buildings, energy use, indoor environmental quality, post-occupancy evaluation, comfort and adaptation in buildings, natural ventilation and mixed mode