Alva Noë Dept of Philosophy cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins
Ula Y. Taylor Dept of African American Studies 20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism
Ali Javey Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter
Peter Bickel Dept of Statistics statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology
Francis Annan Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics development economics, microeconomic, digital financial markets
Bin Yu Dept of Statistics machine learning, trustworthy data science and AI, interdisciplinary research in biomedicine, neuroscience, climate science
Dan Stamper-Kurn Dept of Physics atomic physics, the use of ultra-cold neutral atoms, studies of microscopic and macroscopic quantum phenomena, cavity quantum electrodynamics, Bose-Einstein condensation, precision and quantum measurement
Saira Mohamed School of Law criminal law, international law, human rights, International Criminal Law
Steven Raphael Goldman School of Public Policy crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy
Anne Nesbet Dept of Film and Media Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures culture, film studies, Slavic languages, early Soviet culture, Sergei Eisenstein, silent film, Soviet film, GDR history, children's literature & Stalinism, the Soviet Union
Mary Comerio Dept of Architecture disaster recovery, housing impacts in disasters, loss modeling, performance based design
Armando Fox Division of Computer Science (EECS) online education, MOOC, blended learning, parallel programming, software engineering, Web development
Lee Fleming Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research commercializing breakthroughs, invention, innovation, patents, big data, ethics and technology, leadership
Christine Hastorf Dept of Anthropology anthropology, archaeology, paleoethnobotany/archaeobotany, ancient plant use, foodways, Andean South America, indigenous ontologies, agriculture
Patrick Hsu Dept of Bioengineering generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science
Alessandra Lanzara Dept of Physics materials science, ultrafast science, quantum materials, sustainable materials, topological phases of matter
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
Ramon Weber Dept of Architecture computational design, sustainability, structural modeling, generative design, embodied carbon
Michael Pollan School of Journalism agriculture, environment, obesity, science, nutrition, journalism, food, cooking, gardening
Robert P. Merges School of Law antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts
Saul Perlmutter Dept of Physics cosmology, dark energy, physics, astrophysics experiments, observational astrophysics, supernovae, accelerating universe
Zi Qiang Qiu Dept of Physics experimental study of quantum magnetism in nanostructures, condensed matter physics, materials science experimentation