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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

School of Optometry

optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity

Todd Hickey

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

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

Dept of Psychology

attention, curiosity, learning, computational modeling, cognitive development, machine learning, belief formation

Dept of Physics

condensed matter theory, Materials Physics, nanoscience, physical chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Transport, Hard-Soft Interfaces, Complex Oxides, renewable energy, energy conversion

Richmond Sarpong

Richmond Sarpong

Dept of Chemistry

organic and organometallic chemistry

Diliana Angelova

Diliana Angelova

Dept of History

Dept of History of Art

late antique art, Byzantine art, gender, representations of Roman imperial power, the emperor Constantine, the Virgin Mary, Roman art and visual culture, ancient Mediterranean cities, textiles, ivories, mythology in Byzantine art, romantic love in antiquity and the middle ages

Donna Jones

Dept of English

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography

Steven Kahn

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, cosmology, optical astrophysics

Photo of Jennifer Ahern

School of Public Health

mental health, epidemiology, social epidemiology, population health, neighborhood characteristics and health, methodological issues and novel methodological applications in social, traumatic events, substance use, behavioral health, birth outcomes and maternal health

G. Cristina Mora

G. Cristina Mora

Dept of Sociology

classification, organizations, race and ethnicity, Latino Migration

Prof. Liang Dai

Liang Dai

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, physical cosmology

Christopher Walters

Christopher Walters

Dept of Economics

labor economics, applied econometrics, economics of education

Carlos F. Daganzo

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

logistics, networks, urban transportation, traffic flow

Maurice Obstfeld

Maurice Obstfeld

Dept of Economics

economics, monetary and fiscal remedies for deflation, open-market purchases in a liquidity trap, exchange rates, monetary policy, international finance, open-economy macroeconomics, macroeconomic history

Kameshwar Poolla

Kameshwar Poolla

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

modeling, control, estimation, smart grids, renewable energy, electricity markets, transportation networks, integrated circuit design and manufacturing

Goldman School of Public Policy

political economy, local politics, political economy or comparative political economy, local public finance, bureaucracy

Ryan Tibshirani giving a whiteboard talk

Ryan Tibshirani

Dept of Statistics

statistical computing, applications in public health, high-dimensional data analysis, nonparametric inference, artificial intelligence, machine learning

William H. Miller

William H. Miller

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Dept of History

slavery, African-American History, Women's History, Women and the Law, Slavery and the Law

Carole S. Hickman

Dept of Integrative Biology

systematics, evolutionary paleobiology, morphology, molluscs, macroevolutionary trends and patterns, Cenozoic Era, fossil record, evolutionary history and structure

Robert S. Zucker

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

synaptic transmission, cellular neurophysiology: synaptic biophysics, properties of neural circuits, photolysis, vital dyes of vesicle membrane, electrophysiological techniques, neuromodulator

Dylan Penningroth

Dylan Penningroth

Dept of History

African American history, U.S. socio-legal history

Daniel Siefman in outside setting

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

neutronics, criticality safety, nuclear data validation, machine learning, neutron noise, reactor dosimetry

Timothy Tangherlini

Timothy Tangherlini

Dept of Scandinavian

School of Information

folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials