Jennifer Urban School of Law intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values
Quitzé Valenzuela-Stookey Dept of Economics Mechanism Design, matching and marketing design, industrial organization, bounded rationality
Mark van der Laan School of Public Health Dept of Statistics targeted learning, real-world data integration in RCTs, sequential adaptive designs, computational biology and genomics, censored data and survival analysis, medical research, inference in longitudinal studies
Robert Van Houweling Dept of Political Science Congress, political parties, voting behavior, spatial models of candidate competition, experimental methods
Sarah E. Vaughn Dept of Anthropology sociocultural anthropology, Science and Technology studies, environment, climate change, new materialism, historicism, theories of liberalism, Caribbean/Latin America
Niek Veldhuis Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform
Kai Vetter Dept of Nuclear Engineering nuclear physics, radiation detection, nuclear instrumentation, nuclear measurements, multi-sensor systems and data fusion, radiological resilience
Sofia Villas-Boas Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics economics, industrial organization and applied econometrics, agricultural & resource economics, consumer behavior and decision making
Yasmin Vobis Dept of Architecture architecture, design, construction, vernacular architecture, industrial and non-industrial building methods, sustainable construction
Steven Vogel Dept of Political Science political economy or comparative political economy, market governance, regulation, the Japanese model of capitalism, Japanese politics, political science
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu Dept of Mathematics operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory
Paul A. Vojta Dept of Mathematics mathematics, algebraic geometry, diophantine geometry, Nevanlinna theory, Arakelov theory
Sophie Volpp Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists
David Wagner Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) computer security, secure electronic voting, web security, mobile security, cellphone security
Marvalee H. Wake Dept of Integrative Biology development, evolution, systematics, amphibians, reproductive biology, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, fishes, reptiles, comparative analysis, biodiversity issues
Johan Walden Haas School of Business finance, asset pricing, investments, financial modeling, heavy-tailed risks, insurance
Joan Walker Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering behavioral modeling, discrete choice analysis, travel behavior
Reed Walker Dept of Economics Haas School of Business environmental economics, public economics, labor economics