Elizabeth Purdom Dept of Statistics computational biology, bioinformatics, statistics, data analysis, sequencing, cancer genomics
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
Dan Stamper-Kurn Dept of Physics atomic physics, the use of ultra-cold neutral atoms, studies of microscopic and macroscopic quantum phenomena, cavity quantum electrodynamics, Bose-Einstein condensation, precision and quantum measurement
Joel Moore Dept of Physics physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions
Sara McMains 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
Robert L. Taylor Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, finite element software
Peter Sudmant Dept of Integrative Biology genomics, genetics, computational biology, structural variation, RNA, diversity, aging, population genetics
Rikky Muller Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) integrated circuits, biosystems and computational biology, micro/nano electro mechanical systems
Steven Louie Dept of Physics nanoscience, nuclear magnetic resonance, semiconductors, metals, physics, fullerenes, nanotubes, condensed matter theory, surfaces, defects, nanostructure materials, clusters, many-electron effects in solids
Raymond Jeanloz Dept of Astronomy Dept of Earth and Planetary Science planetary geophysics, high-pressure physics, national and international security, science-based policy
George F. Smoot Dept of Physics cosmology, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, observing our galaxy, the cosmic background radiation, ground-based radio-telescope observations, balloon-borne instrumentation, satellite experiments, the NASA cosmic background
Frederic Theunissen Dept of Integrative Biology Dept of Neuroscience behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience
Shafi Goldwasser Division of Computer Science (EECS) cryptography, computational number theory, complexity theory, fault tolerant distributed computing, probabilistic proof systems, approximation algorithms, theory(THY)
Jonathan Wurtele Dept of Physics physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments
Celeste Kidd Dept of Psychology attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation
Ren Ng Division of Computer Science (EECS) imaging systems, computational photography, graphics, optics, computer vision, human vision, signal processing, artificial intelligence
Chunlei Liu Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) brain imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, remote neural modulation, biosystems and computational biology, signal processing
John Clarke Dept of Physics nuclear magnetic resonance, physics, noise limitations, applications of superconducting quantum interference devices, low-transition temperature, axion detectors, sensing of magnetically-tagged biomolecules, nondestructive evaluation
Emily Cooper School of Optometry 3D vision, depth perception, computational neuroscience, augmented and virtual reality, assistive technology
William Holzapfel Dept of Physics cosmology, physics, measurement and interpretation of anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, the universe, density of energy, baryonic matter in the universe, the degree angular scale interferometer, the arcminute cosmology bolometer array
Jennifer Listgarten Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational biology, protein engineering, statistical design of experiments, statistical machine learning, experimental design
David Bamman School of Information natural language processing, machine learning, digital humanities, computational social science, data science
Michael Crommie Dept of Physics physics, electronic properties of atomic-scale structures at surfaces, atomic-scale structures, morphology and dynamics of mesoscopic systems, atomic manipulation, visualizing low dimensional electronic behavior
David Foster Dept of Neuroscience behavioral neurophysiology of spatial learning and memory, hippocampus replay, computational models of reinforcement learning and navigationf