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Dept of Architecture

indoor environment, thermal comfort, occupant surveys, building environmental control, ventilation, wind, architectural aerodynamics

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, physiology of adipogenesis, thermogenesis, lipogenesis and lipolysis

Hannah Stuart working with Laura Treers on a burrowing robot

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

robotics, dynamics, design-based research, exoskeleton systems, bioinspired robots, marine systems, dexterous manipulation, hands, grasping, Mechanism Design, human-robot interaction

Dept of Linguistics

morphology, syntax, semantics, California languages, Germanic languages, Inuit languages

Giovanni R. F. (John) Ferrari

Dept of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies

classics, ancient philosophy, Greek culture, ancient poetics and rhetoric

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

algorithms, fluid mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, atmospheric flows, convection, ocean flows, numerical analysis, wind energy, Bayesian optimization, neural networks, turbulence, planet formation, internal gravity waves, inertial waves, desalination, protoplanetary disks

film theory and history, digital media, aesthetics, critical theory, philosophy of history, technics, media theory and archaeology

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

School of Optometry

optometry, low vision, vision science, pattern vision, reading, cortical adaptation and plasticity

Joni Wallis

Dept of Neuroscience

prefrontal cortex, neurophysiology, executive control, decision making

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes

Matthew Shutzer in outdoor setting

Matthew Shutzer

Dept of History

environmental history, modern South Asia, energy history, Science and Technology studies, histories of development and decolonization, empire, political economy, comparative history, historical sociology, social theory

Ting Xu in lab looking at samples

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

Christian H. Borgs

Christian Borgs

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, probability theory, combinatorics, complex networks, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences

Photo of Jovan Scott Lewis

Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations

Daniel A. Farber

environmental law, constiutional law, freedom of speech

School of Social Welfare

child welfare, poverty

Panos N. Patatoukas

Panos N. Patatoukas

Haas School of Business

corporate financial reporting and financial statement analysis and corporate valuation, corporate sustainability measurement and disclosure and investing, cross-industry economic links and value creation along the supply chain, measurement of economic performance at the firm level and in the national accounts, nowcasting and forecasting economic performance using financial and alternative and non-financial data

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

multi-hazard risk analysis, reliability of critical infrastructure systems, climate adaptation and disaster resilience, structural engineering, extreme event modeling

Olga Matich

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

transcription regulation during cellular differentiation, gene expression control mechanism, biophysical rules of nuclear organization

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

Dept of Physics

physics, standard model of particle physics, symmetries of nature, the symmetry of the electroweak interaction, spacetime symmetries: weak scale supersymmetry, constrained theories for the quark and charged lepton masses, supersymmetric theory

Osagie K. Obasogie

Osagie K. Obasogie

School of Public Health

law, bioethics, reproductive and genetic technologies, race