Javad Lavaei Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research control theory, optimization, power systems
Nika Haghtalab Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, machine learning, theoretical computer science, game theory and mechanism design
Carl Boettiger Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management theoretical ecology, stochastic processes, optimal control, decision theory, ecoinformatics, data science, tipping points
Wick Haxton Dept of Physics astrophysics, neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics, tests of symmetries and conservation laws in nuclear and particle and atomic physics, many-body theory, effective theories
Kannan Ramchandran Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) statistical and sparse signal processing, adversarial and distributed machine learning, coded computing, privacy and security, scalable distributed video-on-demand delivery, coding theory, communications, information theory, peer-to-peer networking, blockchains
Edgar Knobloch Dept of Physics astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems
Jennifer Chatman Haas School of Business innovation, leading change, leveraging organizational culture, leadership assessment, team diversity, narcissistic leaders
Laura C. Nelson Dept of Gender and Women's Studies gender and medicine and politics, breast cancer in South Korea, cultural impacts of ultra-low fertility, demographic undertow, structures on cultural temporality and anti-poverty policies in the U.S. and South Korea
Pheng Cheah Dept of Rhetoric world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought
Dora Zhang Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of English narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain, 20th and 21st century U.S., Asian American literature, affect theory, critical theory, philosophy and literature
Scott Saul Dept of English 20th and 21st century American literature, African American literature, cultural studies, drama, film
Shannon Steen Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies critical race theory, performance theory, American studies, U.S. histories of popular performance, U.S. urban development, globalization studies
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou Dept of Mathematics mathematics, probability theory, partial differential equations
Mariusz Wodzicki Dept of Mathematics algebra, Homological Algebra, analysis, mathematics, Non-commutative and algebraic geometry, K-theory, ballet studies, history of ballet
Thibaut Mastrolia Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research stochastic control, game theory, finance, optimization
Olga Holtz Dept of Mathematics numerical analysis, matrix and operator theory, approximation theory, wavelets and splines, orthogonal polynomials and special functions, analysis of algorithms and computational complexity
Leti Volpp School of Law citizenship, law and culture, identity (especially race and gender), immigration and migration, Asian American studies
Jennifer Johnson-Hanks Dept of Demography Dept of Sociology culture, population, social action, intentions, Africa, gender, fertility, marriage
Eric Naiman Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures sexuality, history, comparative literature, Slavic language, ideological poetics, history of medicine, Soviet culture, the gothic novel
Dorothy Hale Dept of English English literature, American literature, the novel, narrative theory, critical theory, Henry James, William Faulkner, the modern novel of consciousness