Ting Xu Dept of Chemistry Dept of Materials Science and Engineering polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles
Omar M. Yaghi Dept of Chemistry Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air.
Adam Yala Computational Precision Health Program Dept of Statistics Division of Computer Science (EECS) artificial intelligence, health
Seth Yalcin Dept of Philosophy philosophy of language, cognitive science, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic
Liesl Yamaguchi Dept of French poetics, linguistics, literary theory, 19th century literature, modern poetry
Peidong Yang Dept of Chemistry materials chemistry, solid state chemistry, nanoscience, energy science, semiconductor nanowires, Nanophotonics, artificial photosynthesis, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis.
Candace Yano Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Haas School of Business supply chain management, service systems management, production-quality interface issues, marketing-production interface issues
Lining Yao Dept of Mechanical Engineering sustainable design, morphing material mechanisms, ecology, sustainability
Katherine A. Yelick Division of Computer Science (EECS) high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology
Michelle Young School of Education educational leadership, policy analysis, critical theory, educational equity
Bin Yu Dept of Statistics machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, and climate science.
Alexei Yurchak Dept of Anthropology social and political theory, communism and post-communism, language philosophy, the image, the body, avant-garde artistic experiments, science studies, ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society
Matei Zaharia Division of Computer Science (EECS) operating systems & networking, artificial intelligence, database management systems
Nasser Zakariya Dept of Rhetoric science and narrative and documentary, history and philosophy of mathematics and physics
Avideh Zakhor Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Hannah Zeavin Dept of History history of human sciences, history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, media theory
Xueyin (Snow) Zhang Dept of Philosophy Bayesian epistemology, decision theory, philosophy of probability, Chinese philosophy
Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng Dept of Materials Science and Engineering additive manufacturing, metamaterials, robotics, antenna, artificial intelligence
Tarek Zohdi Dept of Mathematics advanced manufacturing, 3D printing systems, fire propagation and control, UAVs and swarms, ballistic fabric shielding, food-system modeling, pandemic modeling
Stephanie Zonszein Dept of Political Science immigrant integration, intergroup relations, causal inference, race and ethnic politics, political behavior
Michael W. Zuerch Dept of Chemistry collective phenomena in material, chemical material dynamics in surfaces and interfaces, symmetry-broken states and their emergence in condensed-phase systems, dynamical properties in artificial and correlated superlattices, ultrafast spectroscopy from THz to X-rays