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Simo Mäkiharju in lab setting

Simo Mäkiharju

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport

Carlos F. Daganzo

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

logistics, networks, urban transportation, traffic flow

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

mechanical engineering, use of machine learning to develop high performance energy conversion and thermal management technologies, micro-to-nanoscale modeling of the thermophysics of multiphase systems, waste plastic transport in environmental watersheds, waste plastic recycling

Fotini Chow

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental fluid mechanics, wind energy applications, clouds, large-eddy simulation, turbulence modeling, atmospheric boundary layer flow, flow over complex terrain, wildfire smoke transport, methane emissions, urban dispersion modeling, urban air quality

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

data mining, integer programming, discrete optimization, network flow techniques, clustering, image segmentation, machine vision, pattern recognition

Maria Laura Delle Monache

Maria Laura Delle Monache

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

control, transportation, traffic flow theory and control, nonlinear partial differential equations, mathematical modeling, mixed autonomy transportation

J. W. Evans

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

production of materials, particularly fluid flow, reaction kinetics, mass transport, electrochemical, electromagnetic phenomena governing processes for producing materials, metals, storing energy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

hydrogeology, fluid mechanics, geomorphology, earth & planetary science, geological processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, dynamics of suspensions, flow & transport in porous materials, percolation theory

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Dean Toste

Dept of Chemistry

organometallic chemistry, organic, development of new synthetic methods, enantioselective catalysts, strategies for the synthesis of natural products, synthesis of complex molecules, formation of carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds, olefins, Supramolecular Chemistry, redox flow batteries, medicinal chemistry, bioconjugation, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, biomass, fluorination

Dhammika Dharmapala

corporate finance and securities regulation, law and economics, tax law and policy

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

Dorian Liepmann

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

bioengineering, mechanical engineering, bioMEMS, biosensors, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics, valvular heart disease, cardiac flows, arterial flows

Katrin Wehrheim

Katrin Wehrheim

Dept of Mathematics

low-dimensional topology, symplectic topology, geometry/topology

Katherine Newman

Dept of Sociology

Goldman School of Public Policy

low wage labor markets, social mobility, inequality

Alexis Kaminski in outdoor setting

Alexis Kaminski

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fluid dynamics, stratified flows, upper-ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, mixing, internal waves, shear instabilities

Michael Hutchings

Michael Hutchings

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, symplectic geometry, contact geometry, low dimensional topology, dynamics

Ian Agol

Dept of Mathematics

topology of 3-manifolds, interaction hyperbolic geometry, low-dimensional topology

Stuart Bale

Dept of Physics

experimental space physics, plasma astrophysics, solar physics, low frequency radio astronomy

Katerina Linos in outside setting

international law, comparative law, European Union law, employment law, migration law

Dept of Integrative Biology

freshwater ecology, food webs, trophic dynamics, northern California rivers, watersheds

privacy, information privacy law, data protection law, law and technology

Ali Javey sitting in lab with equipment in background

Ali Javey

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter

Daniel A. Farber

environmental law, constiutional law, freedom of speech

James A. Sethian

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods