Rhonda Righter Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research modeling, optimization, stochastic systems, systems with uncertainty, service operations, scheduling and load balancing, telecommunications, computer and internet communications
Filipa Rijo-Ferreira School of Public Health molecular parasitology, mosquito vector biology in malaria infection, host-parasite interactions, host circadian rhythms, immunology, metabolism
Dylan John Riley Dept of Sociology political sociology, comparative historical sociology, social theory
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
James Robinson School of Public Health health policy and management, health services and policy analysis
Russell Robinson School of Law anti discrimination law, race and sexuality, law and psychology, constitutional law, media and entertainment law
George Roderick Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management global change, environmental science, sustainability, biodiversity, invasive species, population genomics
Hector Rodriguez School of Public Health health care management, organizations, team science, patient-reported outcome measures, patient engagement, health disparities, implementation science, performance management
Juana María Rodríguez Dept of Ethnic Studies race and sexual politics, LGBTQ communities, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, women of color feminisms, queer activism in the Americas, transgender studies, sex work
Gérard Roland Dept of Economics Dept of Political Science Institutions and development, culture and economics, political institutions and economic outcomes, European Parliament and European institutions, reforms in China/North Korea/Eastern Europe
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
David Romps Dept of Earth and Planetary Science climate, atmosphere, atmospheric science, weather, clouds, fluid dynamics
Austin John Roorda School of Optometry adaptive optics, eye, vision, ophthalmoscopy, scanning laser ophthalmoscope, ophthalmology
Andrea Roth School of Law forensic science, criminal procedure, criminal law, DNA, evidence law, criminal justice
Jesse Rothstein Dept of Economics Goldman School of Public Policy labor economics, inequality, education policy, unemployment, tax policy, local public finance, teacher quality, segregation, economics of education, labor market, public impact research/scholarship, research practice partnership, partnership research
Jaijeet Roychowdhury Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems and design automation, computer architecture & engineering
Yoram Rubin Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering risk assessment, hydrogeology, contaminant transport, geostatistics
Juan David Rubio Restrepo Dept of Music ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American Studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies
Stuart J. Russell Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning
Sayeef Salahuddin Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) physical electronics, design and modeling and analysis, energy, scientific computing
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
Pamela Samuelson School of Law School of Information public policy, intellectual property law, new information technologies, traditional legal regimes, information management, copyright, software protection and cyberlaw
Miryam Sas Dept of Film and Media 20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies
S. Shankar Sastry Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Mechanical Engineering Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) embedded and cyberphysical systems, artificial intelligence, AR/VR, computer science, robotics, arial robots, cybersecurity, cyber defense, homeland defense, nonholonomic systems, control of hybrid systems, sensor networks, interactive visualization, robotic telesurgery, rapid prototyping
AnnaLee Saxenian School of Information innovation, information management, entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, regional economic development, high skilled immigration, Asian development