Fotini Chow Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering environmental fluid mechanics, wind energy applications, clouds, large-eddy simulation, turbulence modeling, atmospheric boundary layer flow, flow over complex terrain, wildfire smoke transport, methane emissions, urban dispersion modeling, urban air quality
Rachel Carlson Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management marine ecology, land-sea connectivity, coastal resilience, geospatial data, ocean policy and governance, social-ecological dynamics, coral reef, California current system
Christopher E. Dames Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanostructured materials, thermal rectification, graphene, microscale heat transfer, nano scale heat transfer
Michael Frenklach Dept of Mechanical Engineering chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation
Lydia Sohn Dept of Mechanical Engineering micro-nano engineering, bioengineering, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, microfluidics and nanofluidics, bioanalytical separations and disease diagnostics, stem cells, cancer
Pradeep Chhibber Dept of Political Science political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
Grace Gu Dept of Mechanical Engineering Composites, additive manufacturing, in-situ monitoring and process control, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioinspired materials
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
Negar Mehr Dept of Mechanical Engineering robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, game theory, machine learning
Grace D O'Connell Dept of Mechanical Engineering biomechanics, tissue engineering, intervertebral disc, cartilage
Lisa A. Pruitt Dept of Mechanical Engineering tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage
Rosemary G. Gillespie Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management systematics, insect biology, evolution and conservation biology, spiders, oceanic islands
Sara McMains 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
Alexis Kaminski Dept of Mechanical Engineering fluid dynamics, stratified flows, upper-ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, mixing, internal waves, shear instabilities
Claudio Hail Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanophotonics, nanoengineered optical materials, micro/nano manufacturing
Tony M. Keaveny Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering biomechanics of bone, orthopaedic biomechanics, design of artificial joints, osteoporosis, finite element modeling, clinical biomechanics
Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering molecular cell biomechanics, bacterial communities / microbiomes, deep learning for biology and medicine
Lining Yao Dept of Mechanical Engineering sustainable design, morphing material mechanisms, ecology, sustainability
Simo Mäkiharju Dept of Mechanical Engineering experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport
Thomas Schutzius Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanoscale transport phenomena, micro/nanofabrication techniques, interfacial optical methods, thermodynamic and interfacial modeling
Carlos Fernandez-Pello Dept of Mechanical Engineering fire, combustion, flammability of materials, wildland fire spotting, wildland fire propagation, ignition and fire spread, smoldering and flaming, self heating and ignition, small scale energy generation