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Kathy Yelick in outdoor setting wearing fuscia-colored coat Katherine A. Yelick
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology
Picture of Professor Gray outside the physics department. Heather Gray
Dept of Physics
particle physics, machine learning, algorithms, quantum algorithms, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU)
Martin P. Head-Gordon Martin P. Head-Gordon
Dept of Chemistry
theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics
headshot of Sagar Karandikar Sagar Karandikar
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
computer architecture, hardware/software co-design, datacenters, accelerators, systems research, VLSI design
James Demmel James Demmel
Dept of Mathematics
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
computer science, scientific computing, numerical analysis, linear algebra
William Holzpfel William Holzapfel
Dept of Physics
cosmology, physics, measurement and interpretation of anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, the universe, density of energy, baryonic matter in the universe, the degree angular scale interferometer, the arcminute cosmology bolometer array
Alvin Cheung Alvin Cheung
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
program analysis, program synthesis, database application performance, big systems, big data, database management, database management systems, database design and construction, programming languages and compilers, programming languages
Eli Yablonovitch Eli Yablonovitch
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
optoelectronics, physical electronics, high speed optical communications, nanocavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and communication
Ming at a research conference Ming Gu
Dept of Mathematics
mathematics, scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, convex optimization
headshot of Van P. Carey Van P. Carey
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
John F. Canny John F. Canny
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
computer science, activity-based computing, livenotes, mechatronic devices, flexonics
Dimitrios Zekkos Dimitrios Zekkos
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills
Gerbrand Ceder Gerbrand Ceder
Dept of Materials Science and Engineering
energy storage, computational modeling, machine learning, autonomous laboratories
Steven E. Brenner Steven E. Brenner
Dept of Bioengineering
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology
molecular biology, computational biology, evolutionary biology, bioengineering, structural genomics, computational genomics, cellular activity, cellular functions, personal genomics
Benjamin Safdi Benjamin Safdi
Dept of Physics
astrophysics, particle physics
SHAOFAN LI Shaofan Li
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences, structural mechanics, computational mechanics, computational materials, computational mechanics and computational physics, finite element methods and meshfree particle methods, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, atomistic simulation and multiscale simulations, nonlinear continuum mechanics, soft matter mechanics, wave propagations, modeling and simulation of fracture, dislocations, modeling and simulation of material failures, nano-mechanics, bio-mechanics and bio-physics, cellular mechanics, micromechanics & composite materials, mechanics and physics of amorphous materials
NikitaZhivotovskiy Nikita Zhivotovskiy
Dept of Statistics
mathematical statistics, applied probability, statistical learning theory
Frederic Theunissen Frederic Theunissen
Dept of Integrative Biology
Dept of Neuroscience
behavior, cognition, brain, psychology, birdsong, vocal learning, audition, neurophysiology, speech perception, computational neuroscience, theoretical neuroscience
A photo of Trevor Keenan Trevor Keenan
Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management
global change, natural climate solutions, Dynamic Vegetation, carbon cycle, ecophysiology, land-atmosphere interactions, biogeochemistry, micrometeorology, remote sensing, mathematics and data science
Grace Gu Grace Gu
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Composites, additive manufacturing, in-situ monitoring and process control, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioinspired materials, generative AI for aerospace, soft robotics
Eric Betzig Eric Betzig
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology
Dept of Physics
imaging microscopy, biophysics
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