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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

Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background.

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

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

Diliana Angelova

Diliana Angelova

Dept of History

Dept of History of Art

late antique art, Byzantine art, gender, representations of Roman imperial power, the emperor Constantine, the Virgin Mary, Roman art and visual culture, ancient Mediterranean cities, textiles, ivories, mythology in Byzantine art, romantic love in antiquity and the middle ages

William Lester, Jr.

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

Thomas Schutzius

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanoscale transport phenomena, micro/nanofabrication techniques, interfacial optical methods, thermodynamic and interfacial modeling

Miryam Sas in outdoor environment

Miryam Sas

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of Film and Media

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

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

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear astrophysics, experimental nuclear physics, homeland security, neutrinos

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Michelle Wilkerson

Michelle Wilkerson

School of Education

K-12 math and science education, science education, mathematics education, computing education, design-based research, computers in K-12 education, data literacy, data science education

Dept of Integrative Biology

hormones and behavior, neuroendocrinology of reproduction

Edward C. Morse

Edward C. Morse

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

applied plasma physics: fusion technology: microwaves, experimental investigation of RF plasma heating, experimental studies of compact toroids spectral method for magnetohydrodynamic stability

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

amino acids, determinants of protein structure and folding, biophysical, structural and computational techniques, translocation, protein synthesis

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

School of Education

language, culture, society, literacy, literacy learning of urban youth, African American students in schools, writing development, effective teaching, learning strategies in multicultural urban schools and communities, studies of race - class - and gender, Leaders for Equity and Democracy EdD - LEAD

Stuart Russell in outdoor environment

Stuart J. Russell

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biochemistry, enzymology, synthetic biology, biophysics

Dept of Physics

experimental condensed matter physics

Brooks Abel

Dept of Chemistry

Polymer Chemistry, organic chemistry, stereoselective catalysis, polymer recycling

Mia Fuller standing in outdoor setting

Mia Fuller

Dept of Italian Studies

anthropology, Italy, fascism, urban design, architecture, Italian colonialism

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology

Cortez in front of installation

Iggy Cortez

Dept of Film and Media

world cinema, contemporary art, global cities, aesthetic theory, global cinema, transnationalism and diaspora, night, cinema, Indie Film, screen performance, acting, asian art, asian-american art, asian diasporic culture, psychoanalysis, affect theory

Niyogi checking plants in the Oxford Tract greenhouse. Photo credit: Mathew Burciaga.

Krishna K. Niyogi

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

genetics, plant and microbial biology, algae, photosynthesis, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, carbon sequestration

Massimiliano Fratoni

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear reactor design, fuel cycle analysis, fusion reactors, nuclear power, nuclear engineering, nuclear reactor physics, nuclear reactor safety