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Kenichi Soga headshot Kenichi Soga
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
infrastructure sensing, infrastructure modeling, performance-based design, underground structures, energy geotechnics, geomechanics
Lisa Pruitt Lisa A. Pruitt
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage
Steven E. Brenner Steven E. Brenner
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
Philip Marcus Philip Marcus
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks
M. Reza Alam M. Reza Alam
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy
headshot of Fotini Chow 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
Slawomir W. Hermanowicz Slawomir W. Hermanowicz
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
water quality management, biofilms, membrane processes, water reuse, biological processes for water quality, physical sustainability
Cesunica Ivey Cesunica Ivey
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
atmospheric modeling, exposure monitoring, environmental justice applications, community resilience, climate adaptation and disaster resilience
Tarek I. Zohdi Tarek Zohdi
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling
headshot of Kara Nelson Kara L. Nelson
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
wastewater based epidemiology, water and wastewater treatment, water reuse, detection and inactivation of pathogens in water and sludge, appropriate technologies
Dr. Ünal in the lab Elçin Ünal
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
gametogenesis, biology of aging, gene regulation, genetics, genomics and development
Arpad Horvath Arpad Horvath
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
life cycle assessment, LCA, sustainability, green design, buildings, transportation, water, construction, biofuels, energy, environmental management, infrastructure systems
Robert O. Ritchie Robert Ritchie
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
structural materials, mechanical behavior in biomaterials, creep, fatigue and fracture of advanced metals, intermetallics, ceramics
Panayiotis Papadopoulos Panayiotis Papadopoulos
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, contact mechanics, computational plasticity, materials modeling, solid mechanics, applied mathematics, dynamics of pseudo-rigid bodies
headshot of Michael Frenklach 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
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
headshot of Peter Hosemann Peter Hosemann
Dept of Nuclear Engineering
microscopy, nanomaterials, Nuclear materials, material science, radiation damage, corrosion in liquid metals, materials development, materials under extremes, nuclear applications, ion beam microscopy, nanoscale mechanical testing
Avideh Zahkor Avideh Zakhor
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Borivoje Nikolic Borivoje Nikolic
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
digital integrated circuits, VLSI implementation of communications, signal processing systems
Ken Goldberg in front of a projection of robotic arm Ken Goldberg
Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
robotics, art, social media, new media, automation
David Auslander David M. Auslander
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
control systems, simulation, mechatronics, real time software, energy management, satellite attitude control, demand response, machine control
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli sitting with hand extended in front of diagram. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
Cyber-Physical Systems, System design, Electronic Design Systems, embedded system design, control, integrated circuits, theory, Machine learning applications to Energy Efficient Building and Health
Baoxia Mi in CEE Davis Hall Baoxia Mi
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
membrane separation, desalination, water purification, solar evaporation, wastewater reuse, environmental applications of nanomaterials
Jennifer Doudna holding an model of CRISPR. Jennifer A. Doudna
Dept of Chemistry
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
RNA machines, hepatitis C virus, RNA interference, ribosomes, x-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
headshot of Christopher Dames Christopher E. Dames
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
nanostructured materials, thermal rectification, graphene, microscale heat transfer, nano scale heat transfer
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