Ashley Wolf School of Public Health Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions
Lisa Wymore Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies dance, choreography, Multi-Media Performance, Dance Theater
Omar M. Yaghi Dept of Chemistry Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air
Katherine A. Yelick Division of Computer Science (EECS) high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology
Ahmet Yildiz Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules
Nasser Zakariya Dept of Rhetoric science and narrative and documentary, history and philosophy of mathematics and physics
Avideh Zakhor Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Dimitrios Zekkos Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills