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Zakaria Al Balushi

Zakaria Al Balushi

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

electronics, magnetic and optical materials, quantum materials synthesis, optoelectronics

Zamansele Nsele standing in outdoor setting

Zamansele Nsele

Dept of History of Art

modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, the Middle East, theories of decolonization, visual culture, contemporary art

Rikky Muller standing in front of graphic of the brain

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

integrated circuits, biosystems and computational biology, micro/nano electro mechanical systems

Robert O. 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

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

quantum computation, hamiltonian complexity, analysis of algorithms, computer security

Mengjie Yu

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

physical electronics, artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, micro/nano electro mechanical systems

Joseph Orenstein in lab

Joseph Orenstein

Dept of Physics

optical properties of quantum materials, magnetism, superconductivity, spin transport

Stefania Pandolfo

Stefania Pandolfo

Dept of Anthropology

cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness

Masayoshi Tomizuka with two industrial robot arms.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

robotics, mechatronics, control systems theory, digital control, dynamic systems, mechanical vibrations, adaptive and optimal control, motion control

Sarah E. Vaughn

Dept of Anthropology

anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, Expertise, climate change, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America

Avishay Tal

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation

Dept of Ethnic Studies

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

Dorian Liepmann

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

bioengineering, mechanical engineering, bioMEMS, biosensors, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows

Alessandra Lanzara

Dept of Physics

materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Rhiannon Noel Welch

Rhiannon Noel Welch

Dept of Italian Studies

Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory

Dept of Physics

experimental study of quantum magnetism in nanostructures, condensed matter physics, materials science experimentation

Dept of Chemistry

single-molecule spectroscopy, quantum optics, colloidal semiconductor nanostructures, optoelectronics, bio-nanophotonics, materials chemistry

Juan David Rubio Restrepo

ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American Studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies

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

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

head shot of Grigory Tikhomirov

Grigory Tikhomirov

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

bioengineering, nanofabrication, nanorobotics, biosystems and computational biology, energy, integrated circuits, micro/nano electro mechanical systems, physical electronics

Kwabena Bediako in lab

Kwabena Bediako

Dept of Chemistry

inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, quantum transport, optoelectronics, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures

Picture of Professor Gray outside the physics department.

Dept of Physics

particle physics, machine learning, algorithms, quantum algorithms, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU)