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Stephen Collier Stephen Collier
Dept of City & Regional Planning
urban vulnerability and resilience, insurance and climate change, Soviet urban planning and post-Soviet urban and social welfare transformation, infrastructure and politics, neoliberalism and governmental rationality, emergency government in the United States
Sara McMains 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
Barbara Romanowicz Barbara Romanowicz
Dept of Earth and Planetary Science
earth & planetary science, deep earth structure & dynamics, earthquake processes & scaling laws, real time estimation of earthquake parameters, development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories, planetary seismology
Matthew Potts Matthew Potts
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
carbon removal, climate change mitigation, nature based climate solutions, forest management, biofuels, plantation agriculture, land use planning, land use policy, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, tropical ecology, environmental economics, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships
Kristina Hill Kristina Hill
Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning
landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching
Michael Crommie Michael Crommie
Dept of Physics
physics, electronic properties of atomic-scale structures at surfaces, atomic-scale structures, morphology and dynamics of mesoscopic systems, atomic manipulation, visualizing low dimensional electronic behavior
Nicholas Sitar Nicholas Sitar
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical earthquake engineering, wireless sensors, seismic slope stability, seismic earth pressure, rock erosion, groundwater remediation, numerical modeling of solid-fluid interaction, geotechnical engineering, geological engineering
William H. Miller William H. Miller
Dept of Chemistry
theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions
Matthew DeJong Matthew DeJong
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, infrastructure, soil/structure interaction, monitoring, heritage conservation, masonry structures
Alex Zettl Alex Zettl
Dept of Physics
physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)
Canandgown James W. Rector
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
geoarchaeology, geophysics, acoustics, Seismology, machine learning, energy, carbon capture and storage, oil and gas
Niloufar Salehi 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
William Jagust sitting in front of a monitor of brain images. William Jagust
Dept of Neuroscience
neuroscience, cognition, brain aging, dementia, imaging, Alzheimer's disease
Asta Mønsted standing in outside setting Asta Mønsted
Dept of Scandinavian
Greenlandic Inuit, archaeology, oral history, Arctic, indigenous knowledge, colonialism and globalization
Kwabena Bediako in lab Kwabena Bediako
Dept of Chemistry
inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, electrochemistry, quantum transport, optoelectronics, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures
Susana Chung Susana Chung
School of Optometry
optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity
Irfan Siddiqi Irfan Siddiqi
Dept of Physics
condensed matter physics, superconducting qubits, quantum limited amplifiers, quantum circuits
Eric Y. Ma Eric Yue Ma
Dept of Physics
atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and materials science
Avideh Zahkor Avideh Zakhor
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning
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