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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Linguistics

language and thought, computational linguistics, semantic universals, lexical semantics

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics

Dept of Linguistics

morphology, syntax, semantics, California languages, Germanic languages, Inuit languages

Seth Yalcin

Dept of Philosophy

philosophy of language, cognitive science, semantics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic

a portrait photograph of peter jenks, smiling, wearing a crimson shirt.

Peter Jenks

Dept of Linguistics

syntax, semantics, morphology, linguistic theory, Thai, Southeast Asian languages, African languages

Amy Rose Deal portrait

Dept of Linguistics

meaning, grammar, endangered languages, Native American languages, semantics, syntax, word structure, language universals, language variation, Nez Perce language

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Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Statistics

language neuroscience, fMRI, semantic modeling, decoding/encoding models, computational neuroscience

Terrence Deacon

Terrence Deacon

Dept of Anthropology

neuroscience, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary biology, neurobiology, semiotics, primates, linguistic theory

Michael (Miki) Lustig

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

medical imaging, MRI, compressed sensing

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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

Dept of Spanish and Portuguese

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

Photo of Lawrence Cohen

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

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

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

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 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