Mel Y Chen Dept of Gender and Women's Studies queer and feminist theory, disability theory, critical animal studies, materiality studies, cultural politics of race and sexuality and ability and immigration, critical linguistics, paradigms of inter and transdisciplinarity
James O'Brien Division of Computer Science/EECS School of Optometry computer graphics, fluid dynamics, computer simulation, physically based animation, finite element simulation, human perception, image forensics, video forensics, computer animation, special effects for film, video game technology, motion capture.
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
Miryam Sas Dept of Comparative Literature 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
Jonathan Shewchuk Division of Electrical Engineering/EECS scientific computing, computational geometry (especially mesh generation, numerical robustness, and surface reconstruction), numerical methods, machine learning, physically-based animation
Jeffrey Skoller Dept of Film and Media film history, theory and practice of documentary, avant-garde film, film as art, activist media, Third Cinema., film/video production
Timothy Tangherlini Dept of Scandinavian folklore; Danish culture; Danish cinema; Danish literature; 19th and 20th century Scandinavian literature and culture; digital humanities; culture analytics; machine learning; networks; Korean culture