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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

genetics, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, mechanisms of nervous system structure and function, drosophila mutants

Yang Dan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neuronal circuits, mammalian visual system, electrophysiological, imaging, prefrontal cortex, sleep

Alistair Sinclair

Dept of Statistics

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

algorithms, applied probability, statistics, random walks, Markov chains, computational applications of randomness, Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization

Jonathan Wurtele

Jonathan Wurtele

Dept of Physics

physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments

Christian H. Borgs

Christian Borgs

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, probability theory, combinatorics, complex networks, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences

Haas School of Business

housing price indices, real estate price dynamics, mortgage valuation models: prepayment and default, mortgage contract design, mortgage backed security trading and valuation, executive stock option valuation, energy efficient mortgage underwriting, climate risk

Haas School of Business

Accounting and Financial Disclosures, Economic Consequences of Regulatory Changes, Corporate Debt, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, The Information Content of Credit Rating Changes

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

neural basis of perception, neuroscience, neurobiology

Felix Owusu

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, criminal legal system

Richard Stanton

Richard Stanton

Haas School of Business

mortgage markets, prepayment modeling, valuation, hedging, term structure modeling valuation of derivative securities, application of non-parametric estimation techniques, pricing of derivatives

Goldman School of Public Policy

climate change regulation, public policy, economic organization, environmental markets, school finance, utility regulation, criminal justice

Joel Fajans

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, plasma processing, physics, basic plasma physics, non-neutral plasmas, basic plasma physics experiments, pure electron plasma traps, cyrogenic plasmas, plasma bifurcations, basic non-linear dynamics, autoresonance

Austin Roorda standing with an adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

Austin John Roorda

School of Optometry

adaptive optics, eye, vision, ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscope, ophthalmology

Don Moore

Haas School of Business

negotiation, judgment and decision making, Overconfidence, biases, forecasting

School of Education

Dept of Psychology

Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition, perceptual-cognitive interactions, intelligent tutoring systems, understandings of biological evolution, Reasoning, qualitative & quantitative thinking

Rowland Taylor in lab

School of Optometry

mammalian visual system, retinal function

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

agricultural and environmental and resource economics, public and regulatory policy, political economy, bargaining theory, futures markets, law and economics, industrial organization and antitrust analysis

Andy Martin in lab

Andy Martin

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

26S proteasome, Ubiquitin-Proteasome System, AAA+ ATPases, Molecular motor proteins

Dept of Geography

racial geographies, environmental justice, earth system science

Utqiagvik Alaska tundra sampling

Robert Rhew

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Dept of Geography

trace gases, biogeochemistry, stratospheric ozone depletion, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, atmospheric chemistry and composition, biogenic VOCs, terrestrial ecosystems, halocarbons, methyl halides, greenhouse gases

Christine Rosen

Christine Meisner Rosen

Haas School of Business

American business history, green business, corporate environmental strategy and management, social science perspectives on green chemistry, climate change, efforts to transition to a clean energy system, clean energy system, history of and current developments in business leadership to mitigate global environmental problems

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

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