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School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Jennifer Chayes

Jennifer Chayes

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graphons, machine learning, ethical decision making, climate change

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, computation

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Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

School of Public Health

Precision Medicine, causal inference, adaptive experiment, machine learning and artificial intelligence

Steven P. Segal

School of Social Welfare

psychiatry, methodology, social welfare, mental health and social policy

Heather Haveman

Heather Haveman

Dept of Sociology

Haas School of Business

organizations, economic sociology, entrepreneurship, China, careers and social mobility, gender, social history

Molly Van Houweling

Molly Van Houweling

intellectual property, technology policy

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Murat Arcak

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

control, intelligent systems and robotics, Cyber-Physical Systems, networks, transportation, applications of system theory to aerospace problems, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control

Steven Kahn

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, optical astrophysics

Maya L. Petersen

School of Public Health

Computational Precision Health Program

causal inference, precision health, targeted learning, HIV, global health, pandemics

Matthew B. Francis

Matthew B. Francis

Dept of Chemistry

materials chemistry, drug delivery, organic chemistry, Protein modification, artificial photosynthesis, water purification

Marvalee H. Wake

Dept of Integrative Biology

development, evolution, systematics, amphibians, reproductive biology, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, fishes, reptiles, comparative analysis, biodiversity issues

Prasad Raghavendra in outdoor setting

Prasad Raghavendra

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), optimization, complexity theory, approximation algorithms

Dept of Economics

Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water

Ayduk while giving a colloquium at Clark Kerr campus.

Ozlem Ayduk

Dept of Psychology

emotion regulation, social-cognition in interpersonal relationships, self-control, violence, developmental psychology, psychology, depression

Ziqi Wang

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

structural engineering, mechanics and materials, structural reliability, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification

Franziska Weber

Franziska Weber

Dept of Mathematics

applied mathematics, mathematical analysis, numerical analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations

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Oliver O'Reilly

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

continuum mechanics, vibrations, dynamics

Costas J. Spanos

Costas J. Spanos

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

integrated circuits, solid-state devices, sensors, semiconductor manufacturing, energy efficiency, smart buildings

Michael (Miki) Lustig

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

medical imaging, MRI, compressed sensing

School of Optometry

optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity

Ian Holmes

Dept of Bioengineering

computational biology, molecular evolution, computational genomics, Systems and Synthetic Biology