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Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

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

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning

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

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

cement chemistry, advanced characterization methods for cementitious materials, low-carbon concrete, supplementary cementitious materials, calcined clay technology, LCA of cement-based materials

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical biology, microbiology, natural product biosynthesis, enzyme discovery and characterization, drug discovery

Carlos Bustamante

Carlos Bustamante

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies, single molecule fluorescence microscopy, DNA-binding molecular motors, the scanning force microscope, prokaryotes

Enrique Iglesia

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites

Slawomir W. Hermanowicz

Slawomir W. Hermanowicz

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

water quality management, biofilms, membrane processes, water reuse, biological processes for water quality, physical sustainability

Costas Grigoropoulos

Costas P. Grigoropoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

heat transfer, laser materials processing, nano-manufacturing, energy systems and technology

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control

Oscar Dubon

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

magnetic, optical materials, processing, properties in electronic

Steven Piantadosi

Steven Piantadosi

Dept of Psychology

language acquisition, language processing

Dept of Statistics

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

N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Norma Cecilia Martinez-Gomez

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbial physiology, one-carbon metabolism, microbial molecular biology, bacteria, enzymes, enzyme activity, enzymology, enzyme kinetics, protein biochemistry, protein characterization

Dept of Statistics

statistics, empirical process, high-dimensional modeling, technology in education

Alane Suhr

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision, computational linguistics

Dept of Geography

China, geography, political economy of development in East Asia, the process of international economic restructuring, cultural and institutional configuration in the processes of Taiwanese direct investment, growth in Chinese cities, business networks

Liwei Lin in lab

Liwei Lin

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), design and manufacturing of microsensors, microactuators, development of micromachining processes, silicon surface/bulk micromachining, micromolding process

Jiyun Kang

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

physical metallurgy, manufacturing, autonomous metal processing, correlative microscopy

Alex Zettl

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter physics, fullerenes, condensed matter experiments, characterize novel materials with unusual electronic and magnetic ground states, low-dimensional and nanoscale structures, superconductors, giant magnetoresistance materials, nanotubes, graphene, boron nitride nanostructures, neural probes, NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems)

Borivoje Nikolic

Borivoje Nikolic

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

digital integrated circuits, VLSI implementation of communications, signal processing systems

Dept of Neuroscience

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

biosystems and computational biology, human-computer interaction, signal processing

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

biosystems and computational biology, artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems and design automation, human-computer interaction, signal processing, intelligent systems and robotics

Prof. Hannah Sande interacting with children during a research trip in Gnagbodougnoa, Côte d'Ivoire

Dept of Linguistics

phonology, phonological processes, morphology, Kru languages, West Africa, tone and prosody