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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dawn Song standing, framed by windows with large buildings in the background.

Dawn Song

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

privacy, computer security, artificial intelligence

Evan R. Williams

Evan R. Williams

Dept of Chemistry

spectroscopy, molecular structure and dynamics, analytical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, structure and reactivity of biomolecules and biomolecule/water interactions, mass spectrometry, separations, protein conformation, protein and DNA sequencing

Fei Xu

Dept of Psychology

cognitive development, language development, learning mechanisms, statistical learning and statistical inference, conceptual development, developmental psychology, word learning, physical reasoning, social cognition in infants and children, learning in infants and young children, computational models of cognitive development, cognitive development and AI models, psychology and philosophy

John Battles pointing out changes in forest composition during a field trip at Blodgett Forest Research Station.

John J. Battles

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

forest ecology, sustainability, ecosystem dynamics, disturbance ecology, tree demography, carbon ecology and storage, Sierra Nevada, northern forest

Dept of Physics

physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, unified description of nature, string theory, quantum properties of black holes, the geometry of spacetime, covariant entropy bound, cosmological constant

Michael DeWeese

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

machine learning, computation, systems neuroscience, auditory cortex, neural coding, statistical mechanics

School of Education

mathematical cognition, design-based research, mixed-media design for mathematics learning environments, embodied interaction

Haas School of Business

ecommerce, contracts and procurement, economics of organization, game theory, theory of the firm and industrial organization

Maximilian Auffhammer

Maximilian Auffhammer

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

climate change, social cost of carbon, econometrics, air pollution, environmental economics, energy economics, species conservation

Barbara Romanowicz

Barbara Romanowicz

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science, deep earth structure & dynamics, earthquake processes & scaling laws, real time estimation of earthquake parameters, development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories, planetary seismology

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

School of Education

biostatistics, educational statistics, latent variable models, missing data methods, multilevel models, generalized linear latent and mixed models, hierarchical models, longitudinal data, Item response models, structural equation models

Brian A. Barsky

Brian A. Barsky

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Optometry

computer science, geometric design and modeling, computer graphics, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation

Dan Nomura in lab setting with others in the background.

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemistry, molecular and cell biology, chemical biology, cancer, drug discovery, chemoproteomics, undruggable

Working with cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire

David Zilberman

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

marketing, biotechnology, water, risk management, biofuels, natural resources, agricultural and environmental policy, the economics of innovation

Alan H. Schoenfeld

Alan H. Schoenfeld

School of Education

thinking, teaching, learning, productive learning environments, professional development, mathematics education, modeling thinking and decision making

Dept of Statistics

fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence

Junqiao Wu holding a wafer with his reflection

Junqiao Wu

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

semiconductors, nanotechnology, energy materials, condensed matter physics and materials science

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

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

Prof. Liang Dai

Liang Dai

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, physical cosmology

Alessandra Lanzara

Dept of Physics

materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

nuclear science data, nuclear engineering, experimental nuclear physics, isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear science, nuclear weapons

Alanna Schepartz

Alanna Schepartz

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemical biology, synthetic biology, organic chemistry, biophysics

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

John Coates in lab with equipment in background

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

Precision fermentation, Bioprocess scale-up, environmental microbiology, Industrial bioprocesses, sustainability, carbon sequestration, Bioremediation, alternative energy production, biogeochemistry

Ziqi Wang

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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