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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

photo of Becky Staiger

School of Public Health

health policy and management, access to healthcare, health economics, medicaid, provider behavior, healthcare delivery

Michael (Miki) Lustig

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

medical imaging, MRI, compressed sensing

Photo of Steve Conolly circa 2018

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

instrumentation, medical imaging reconstruction, contrast, MRI, magnetic particle Imaging

Phillip Messersmith

Phillip Messersmith

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

adhesion, polymers, regenerative medicine, sustainable polymers, biomimetics, medical devices

Charles L Briggs

Charles L Briggs

Dept of Anthropology

social cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, folklore and performance, racialization, linguistic anthropology

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Dept of Anthropology

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

social and cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, critical gerontology, feminist and queer theory, Science and Technology studies

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

early modern Spain, colonial Latin America, plague literature, medical humanities, book history

James Robinson, Professor of Health Economics

School of Public Health

industrial policy in the life sciences, pharmaceutical pricing, regulation of medical devices, comparative health systems

Xin Guo

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

stochastic control and games, theory of machine learning and applications to medical and financial data analysis, applied probability and stochastic models

James Quail leaning over a park sign that reads "QUAIL"

James Q. Davies

19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism

Brian A. Barsky

Brian A. Barsky

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Optometry

computer science, geometric design and modeling, computer graphics, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation

Denise Herd

School of Public Health

public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

cardiovascular biomechanics, computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, thrombosis, medical image processing, dynamical systems, fluid dynamics, Lagrangian coherent structures, mathematical modeling

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, neuroscience, cognitive science, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine perception, image processing, artificial vision, medical image processing, information technology and humanities and social sciences

Dept of Anthropology

disability, Japan, disability studies, queer studies, LGBTQ communities, social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, community-engaged research / scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Mark van der Laan

Dept of Statistics

School of Public Health

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

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

medical imaging, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, low temperature biology, micro and nano bionic technologies, electrical impedance tomography, bio-electronics, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, bio-heat and mass transfer, electroporation light imaging

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Kevin Edward Healy

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

bioengineering, biomaterials engineering, bioinspired materials, regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering, microphysiological systems, organs on a chip, drug screening and discovery

Dan Nomura in lab setting with others in the background.

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

chemistry, molecular and cell biology, chemical biology, cancer, drug discovery, chemoproteomics, undruggable

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

Todd Olson

Dept of History of Art

early modern art

Eliza Brown

Dept of Sociology

economic sociology, gender and sexualities, medicine, reproduction, Science and Technology studies

John Efron 2025

John Efron

Dept of History

Cultural and social history of German Jewry