Nicholas Sitar Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering geotechnical earthquake engineering, wireless sensors, seismic slope stability, seismic earth pressure, rock erosion, groundwater remediation, numerical modeling of solid-fluid interaction, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering
Kranthi K. Mandadapu Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, biological membranes, active matter, glassy dynamics
Dimitrios Zekkos Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills
Jonathan D. Bray Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering earthquake engineering, geotechnical engineering, physical and numerical modeling, environmental geotechnics
Michael Gollner Dept of Mechanical Engineering combustion, fire dynamics, wildland fire, fluid mechanics
Lining Yao Dept of Mechanical Engineering sustainable design, morphing material mechanisms, ecology, sustainability
David J. Steigmann Dept of Mechanical Engineering finite elasticity, mechanics, continuum, shell theory, variational methods, stability, surface stress, capillary phenomena, mechanics of thin films
Robert L. Taylor Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, finite element software
Alexis T. Bell Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, heterogeneous catalysts, spectroscopic techniques, chemical reaction engineering
Alexander Katz Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, nanoengineering, catalytic imprinted silicas, catalysts in biological systems, catalysis, chemical sensing
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
Jack P. Moehle Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering earthquake engineering, structural engineering, reinforced concrete, performance-based earthquake engineering, high-rise buildings, lifeline systems, rehabilitation (retrofitting), laboratory testing
Shawn Shadden Dept of Mechanical Engineering cardiovascular biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, thrombosis, medical image processing, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, Lagrangian coherent structures, mathematical modeling
David Savage Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biochemistry, metabolism, photosynthetic systems, Systems and Synthetic Biology, protein engineering
Francesco Borrelli Dept of Mechanical Engineering automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control
Christopher E. Dames Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanostructured materials, thermal rectification, graphene, microscale heat transfer, nano scale heat transfer
Kevin Edward Healy Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Materials Science and Engineering bioengineering, biomaterials engineering, bioinspired materials, regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering, microphysiological systems, organs on a chip, drug screening and discovery
Matthew DeJong Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, infrastructure, soil/structure interaction, monitoring, heritage conservation, masonry structures
Lisa A. Pruitt Dept of Mechanical Engineering tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage
Jay D. Keasling Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, metabolic engineering of microorganisms, environmentally friendly synthesis, biodegradable and recyclable polymers, production of biofuels and bioproducts, natural products
Enrique Iglesia Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites
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
Tarek Zohdi Dept of Mechanical Engineering advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling
Claire Tomlin Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) electrical engineering, computer sciences, control, biosystems, control theory, intelligent systems, robotics, hybrid and embedded systems, biological cell networks