Christine Parlour Haas School of Business Market Design, banking, FinTech, payment systems, clearing and settlement, DeFi, decentralized finance, market microstructure
Sabeeha Merchant Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology chloroplast, photosynthesis, algae, trace metals, genomics, synthetic biology, designer lipids, Chlamydomonas, Auxenochlorella, Dunaliella
Timothy T. Brown School of Public Health Health insurance benefit design, chronic pain, public health services and systems, mental health economics, dental economics, social capital, econometrics
Jun-Chau Chien Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) biosensors, bioelectronics, microfluidics, molecular engineering, analog, RF/mm-wave, mixed-signal circuits, microsystems design, multi-physics, silicon photonics
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
Thad Dunning Dept of Political Science political economy, ethnic politics, comparative clientelism in developing countries, research design, causal inference, statistical methods, multi-method research
Ganesh Iyer Haas School of Business competitive marketing strategy, internet strategy and e-commerce, information design, distribution channels, advertising and communication, bounded rationality
Alexei Efros Division of Computer Science (EECS) computer vision, computer graphics, computational photography, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Cecilia Hyunjung Mo Dept of Political Science Goldman School of Public Policy inequality, immigration, human trafficking, political behavior, voting and elections, political socialization, research design and empirical methods
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
John Huelsenbeck Dept of Integrative Biology computational biology, evolutionary biology, phylogenetics
Zachary Lamb Dept of City & Regional Planning urban spatial politics, ecological design, environmental hazards of climate change, Affordable housing, shared equity housing, manufactured housing, adaptation to flooding
Per F. Peterson Dept of Nuclear Engineering nuclear engineering, heat and mass transfer, reactor thermal hydraulics, nuclear reactor design, radioactive waste, nuclear materials management
Liwei Lin Dept of Mechanical Engineering nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), design and manufacturing of microsensors, microactuators, development of micromachining processes, silicon surface/bulk micromachining, micromolding process
Ian Holmes Dept of Bioengineering computational biology, molecular evolution, computational genomics, Systems and Synthetic Biology
Avideh Zakhor Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Alane Suhr Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, computational linguistics
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
Julia Fawcett Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies performance history/historiography, British performance 1650-1800, British literature 1650-1800, disability, gender, social geography, set design
Meng C. Lin School of Optometry contact lenses, vision, clinical trials (phase I - Phase IV), clinical trial designs, tear film, biomedical devices, ocular surface
Jeffrey R. Long Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Chemistry inorganic and materials chemistry, synthesis of inorganic molecules and higher dimensional solids, precise tailoring of chemical and physical properties, gas storage, molecular separations and catalysis in porous materials, magnetic and conductive materials
James A. Sethian Dept of Mathematics mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods
Niloufar Salehi Division of Computer Science (EECS) School of Information computer-mediated communication, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, social justice research