Yuan Cao Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) physical electronics, micro/nano electro mechanical systems, physics
Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey Dept of Economics Mechanism Design, matching and marketing design, industrial organization, bounded rationality
John W. Morris, Jr Dept of Materials Science and Engineering structural materials, computational materials, the limits of strength, deformation mechanisms, non-destructive testing with SQUID microscopy, mechanisms of grain refinement in high strength steels, lead-free solders for microelectronics
Christopher E. Dames Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanostructured materials, thermal rectification, graphene, microscale heat transfer, nano scale heat transfer
Van P. Carey Dept of Mechanical Engineering mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling
Kunxin Luo Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology signal transduction pathways, mechanisms controlling the receptor kinases, regulation of mammary epithelial cell differentiation, breast carcinogenesis
Claudia P. Ostertag Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering energy, environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, structural engineering, mechanics and materials
Liwei Lin Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), design and manufacturing of microsensors, microactuators, development of micromachining processes, silicon surface/bulk micromachining, micromolding process
Philip Marcus Dept of Mechanical Engineering algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks
Elçin Ünal Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development
Jon Wilkening Dept of Mathematics applied mathematics, numerical analysis, computational solid and fluid mechanics
Evan Variano Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering fluid mechanics, turbulence, wetlands, imaging, plankton, sediment transport
Per-Olof Persson Dept of Mathematics applied mathematics, numerical methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics
Michael Frenklach Dept of Mechanical Engineering chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation
Mark Tanouye Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants
Robert G. Bergman Dept of Chemistry organic and inorganic chemistry: synthesis and reaction mechanisms, organotransition metal compounds, homogeneous catalysis
Jay T. Groves Dept of Chemistry physical chemistry, intracellular signal transduction mechanisms, physical chemistry of cell membranes, single molecule imaging, stochastic processes
Ziqi Wang Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering structural engineering, mechanics and materials, structural reliability, earthquake engineering, uncertainty quantification
Nika Haghtalab Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, machine learning, theoretical computer science, game theory and mechanism design
Mengjie Yu Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) physical electronics, artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, micro/nano electro mechanical systems
Maciej Zworski Dept of Mathematics mathematics, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, mathematical aspects of quantum mechanics, scattering theory, microlocal analysis
Lydia Sohn Dept of Mechanical Engineering micro-nano engineering, bioengineering, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, microfluidics and nanofluidics, bioanalytical separations and disease diagnostics, stem cells, cancer
Kurt M. Cuffey Dept of Earth and Planetary Science Dept of Geography continuum mechanics, climate, geomorphology, glaciers, glaciology, climate history, stable isotopes, geographical thought
Gerald Westheimer Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Neuroscience neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation
Raphael Bousso 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