Francesco Borrelli Dept of Mechanical Engineering automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control
Tina Sacks School of Social Welfare racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality
Kevin Weiner Dept of Neuroscience Dept of Psychology visual perception, face processing, comparative neuroanatomy, development, translational applications for patient populations
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
Poulomi Saha Dept of English Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults
Cybelle Fox Dept of Sociology historical sociology, American welfare state, race and ethnic relations, immigration policy
Lonnie Snowden School of Social Welfare mental health, social welfare, race/ethnicity, organization of health services
Russell Robinson School of Law anti discrimination law, race and sexuality, law and psychology, constitutional law, media and entertainment law
Daniel Klein 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
Travis J. Bristol Dept of African American Studies School of Education race and gender, urban schooling, organizational contexts of teachers' work, educational equity, African American students in schools
Rucker Johnson Goldman School of Public Policy labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy
David Montejano Dept of Ethnic Studies social change, historical sociology, political sociology, community studies, race & ethnic relations
Rhiannon Noel Welch Dept of Italian Studies Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory
Leti Volpp School of Law citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies
Desmond Jagmohan Dept of Political Science history of political thought, American political thought, African American political thought, race and American political development
Michael Mascarenhas Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management environmental justice, critical race theory, Post-colonial theory, Science and Technology studies
Stephanie Zonszein Dept of Political Science immigrant integration, intergroup relations, causal inference, race and ethnic politics, political behavior
Lisa Garcia Bedolla School of Education Dept of Political Science politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships
Matthew Welch Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biology, cell motility, the role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens
Lawrence Hall Dept of Physics physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory
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
Koushik Sen Division of Computer Science (EECS) computer science, programming systems, software engineering, programming languages, computational logic, software testing, verification, model checking, runtime monitoring, performance evaluation
James Grantham Turner Dept of English gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art
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