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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, papyrology, Greek, Egyptian, social and economic history, late antiquity

David H. Raulet

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cancer immunology, natural killer (NK) cells, T-cell development and function, pathogens, viruses, lymphocyte receptors, microorganisms, cancer cells, tumor immunity, immunotherapy of cancer

Judith P. Klinman

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

catalytic & regulatory mechanisms in enzyme-catalyzed reactions, kinetic, spectroscopic, stereochemical biological techniques, peptide- derived cofactors, nuclear tunneling & role of protein dynamics in catalysis, enzymatic activation of molecular oxygen

William F. Hanks

William F. Hanks

Dept of Anthropology

social and cultural anthropology, linguistics, shamanism, language, Yucatan Mexico, Maya culture

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

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, black hole, dark matter, cosmology, formation and evolution of galaxies, cosmic microwave background radiation

Hitoshi Murayama

Dept of Physics

physics, particle physics, the universe, fundamental constituents of matter, Higgs boson, anti-matter, neutrino oscillations, finite value of the cosmological constant, triple coincidence of energy densities

David Kirp

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, law, social policy, higher education policy, politics and policy, primary and secondary education policy, race and ethnicity, early childhood policy

Robert Dudley in the Panamanian rain forest

Dept of Integrative Biology

metabolism, biomechanics, butterflies, energetics, flight, gliding, hummingbirds, insects, paleophysiology

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Statistics

evolution, molecular evolution, population genetics, human variation, human genetics, phylogenetics, applied statistics, genetics, evolutionary processes, evolutionary biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

cell fate determination, chromosome architecture, developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computational optical imaging, light field cameras, metrology and inspection, phase retrieval, inverse problems in imaging, optical coherence theory, 3D imaging and display

Jesse Rothstein

Dept of Economics

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor economics, inequality, education policy, unemployment, tax policy, local public finance, teacher quality, segregation, economics of education, labor market, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, partnership research, higher education

Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting.

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists

Picture of Professsor Bacchetta

Paola Bacchetta

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil

Professor Lewis: A young smiling woman wearing glasses in a blue, collared shirt.

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles

Michael DeWeese

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Physics

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

Scott Saul

Dept of English

20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

sparse learning, integer programming, computational optimization, robust optimization, logistics

Kurt C. Organista

Kurt C. Organista

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, race/ethnicity, HIV prevention, social behavior

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

Jennifer Chayes

Jennifer Chayes

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

phase transitions in computer science, structural and dynamical properties of networks, graphons, machine learning, ethical decision making, climate change

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

Dawn Song

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

privacy, computer security, artificial intelligence