David Bates Dept of Rhetoric artificial intelligence, enlightenment, early Modern European intellectual history, 20th century European and American intellectual history, history and theory of media and technology, history of political thought
Helen Bateup Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology molecular and cellular neuroscience, neurodevelopmental disorders, autism, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease
Diana Bautista Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Neuroscience ion channels, sensory physiology, chemosensation, touch, thermosensation, somatosensory system, itch
Alexandre Bayen Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) control, optimization, machine learning, Applications: transportation; mobile sensing ; connected health
Tracy Becker Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering advanced structural systems, structural dynamics, structural design, earthquake engineering, isolation and other high performance systems, use of novel materials in design
Gašper Beguš Dept of Linguistics computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics
Matteo Benetton Haas School of Business regulation in lending markets, competition in lending markets, household finance, mortgage product design, housing markets, mortgage markets
Adam Benkato Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Old and Middle Iranian languages, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Arabic dialectology, sociolinguistics, philology, Libyan Studies, archives
Lee Bernstein Dept of Nuclear Engineering nuclear science data, nuclear engineering, experimental nuclear physics, isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, nuclear science, nuclear weapons
Jill Berrick School of Social Welfare family policy, child and family poverty, child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, Child welfare services
Stephen Best Dept of English film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture
Eric Betzig Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics Dept of Neuroscience imaging microscopy, biophysics
Eric Biber School of Law environmental law, natural resources law, energy law, land-use law, federal Indian law, administrative law, property
Peter Bickel Dept of Statistics statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology
Benjamin Blackman Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology
Déborah A. Blocker Dept of French Early modern French and Italian literature, history and culture, Comparative literature cultural studies, Social and political history of literature, aesthetics, philology, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Archival Studies
Irene Bloemraad Dept of Sociology immigration, social movements, political sociology, multiculturalism, race & ethnicity, Canada, non-profit organizations, research methods
Benjamin Blonder Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management climate change, science education
Joshua Blumenstock School of Information machine learning, development economics, poverty and public policy, inequality and crisis
Shannon Boettcher Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Chemistry electrochemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, hydrogen generation, electrolysis, batteries, membrane science
Carl Boettiger Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management theoretical ecology, stochastic processes, optimal control, decision theory, ecoinformatics, data science, tipping points
David B. Bogy Dept of Mechanical Engineering fluid mechanics, mechanics in computer technology, tribology in hard-disk drives, laser measurement systems, numerical simulations, static and dynamic problems in solid mechanics