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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Ernesto Dal Bó

Haas School of Business

applied microeconomic theory, political economy, corruption and influence, collective decision-making, coercion, quality of politicians, state capabilities

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

Professor Xiao-Jun Zhang

Haas School of Business

security valuation, financial statement analysis, accounting theory, corporate disclosure, auditing, international accounting, machine learning and asset pricing

Kris D. Gutiérrez

Kris D. Gutiérrez

School of Education

designed learning environments, Cultural dimensions of learning, language and literacy learning for dual language learners, biliteracy, new media literacies, the social organization of learning, ethnographic methodology and qualitative approaches to inquiry, design experiment/social design experiments, education of Latino, immigrant, migrant youth, urban education, teacher learning, educational and language policy

Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre

Dept of Geography

geospatial representation, political economy, critical environments, social mapping, political ecology, historical and political geography, environmental history, indigenous/campesino ontologies and epistemologies, Latin American geographies, videography

contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel

Masayoshi Tomizuka with two industrial robot arms.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

robotics, mechatronics, control systems theory, digital control, dynamic systems, mechanical vibrations, adaptive and optimal control, motion control

David Steigmann

David J. Steigmann

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

finite elasticity, mechanics, continuum, shell theory, variational methods, stability, surface stress, capillary phenomena, mechanics of thin films

Jake Kosek

Dept of Geography

cultural politics of nature and difference, cultural geography, Science and Technology studies, critical race theory, critical cartography, biopolitics, human and the non-human, environmental politics

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, nuclear magnetic resonance, semiconductors, metals, physics, fullerenes, nanotubes, condensed matter theory, surfaces, defects, nanostructure materials, clusters, many-electron effects in solids

Marvin L. Cohen

Marvin L. Cohen

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities

Dept of English

English, 19th century American literature, 17th and 18th century American literature, African American literature, Herman Melville, race in American culture, literature and history, discourse and ideology, word and image studies, close reading

Dept of Statistics

fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence

Dora Silva Santana

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Black trans studies, Black queer and trans feminist theory, global south epistemologies, Black poets, visual culture - media - and technology

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

Jimmy A. McGuire

Jimmy A. McGuire

Dept of Integrative Biology

historical biogeography, evolutionary biology, Southeast Asia, population genetics, hummingbirds, functional morphology, vertebrate systematics, phylogenetic analysis, life history evolution, Bayesian methods, Southeast Asian flying lizards

Dept of Geography

climate change, endangered species, rangelands, political ecology, pastoralism, ranching, environmental history, suburbanization, human-environment interactions, environmental geography, range science and management, Southwestern US, scale, community-based conservation

Dept of Comparative Literature

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature

Image of a white disabled woman in her forties. She is speaking into a microphone giving a presentation. Image is of Sunaura Taylor.

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

disability studies, disability crip theory, ableism, animal studies, animal ethics, multispecies justice, environmental humanities, ecofeminism, environmental justice

Photo in office

Murat Arcak

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

control, intelligent systems and robotics, Cyber-Physical Systems, networks, transportation, applications of system theory to aerospace problems, Systems and Synthetic Biology

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

William Lester, Jr.

William A. Lester, Jr.

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation

Raka Ray in outdoor setting

Raka Ray

Dept of Sociology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

feminist theory, gender, masculinity, middle-class, social movements, South and Southeast Asian studies, relations between dominant subaltern groups in India, women¹s movements in India

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

computational optical imaging, light field cameras, metrology and inspection, phase retrieval, inverse problems in imaging, optical coherence theory, 3D imaging and display