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In these pages you will learn about the fascinating research endeavors that each of our faculty members is undertaking. Whether their specialty is in cloud computing, global health, sustainable energy, graphene, nanoscience, or robotics, Columbia Engineering faculty are at the cusp of making breakthroughs that will have a major impact on the way we live our lives today and tomorrow.

Faculty research profiles are listed below in alphabetical order.

Alfred V. Aho | Computer Science  Creating Reliable Programs from Unreliable Programmers	Henry Hess | Biomedical Engineering  Building Tiny, Muscle-Like Engines	Richard M. Osgood, Jr. | Biomedical Engineering Looking at Light
Peter Allen | Computer Science  Building Disposable Surgical Robots	Andreas H. Hielscher | Biomedical Engineering Imaging Diseases in New Light	Ben O’Shaughnessy | Chemical Engineering  Figuring Out How Viruses Invade Cells
Dimitris Anastassiou | Electrical Engineering Finding the Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders	Elizabeth M. C. Hillman | Biomedical Engineering  Unlocking the Brain’s Secrets	Ah-Hyung (Alissa) Park | Earth and Environmental Engineering Capturing Carbon for Sustainable Energy
Gerard A. Ateshian | Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering  Trying to Grow Strong Cartilage	Julia Hirschberg | Computer Science Recognizing the Melody of Speech	Itsik Pe'er | Computer Science Discoverng the Origins of Diabetes
William E. Bailey | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Putting a New Spin On the Science of Electronics	James C. Hone | Mechanical Engineering Reprogramming Cells to Boost Immunity	Feniosky Peña-Mora | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Improving Large-Scale Disaster Response
Guillaume Bal | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Sharpening Images Through Mathematics	Hayden Huang | Biomedical Engineering Under How Heart Cells Work	Aron Pinczuk | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Creating Nanoscale Devices
Scott Banta | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics  Delivering Drugs Faster	Clark T. Hung | Biomedical Engineering Cushioning the Blow of Joint Pain	Lorenzo Polvani | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Re-evaluating the Ozone Layer
Katayun Barmak | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics  Transforming Materials for Engineered Systems	James Im | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Finding the Fundamentals of Silicon for Advanced Electronics	Kenneth Ross | Computer Science Processing Parallel Insight
Peter N. Belhumeur | Computer Science Turning a New Leaf on Face Recognition	Garud Iyengar | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Deciphering the Mysteries of Microbial Communications	Dan Rubenstein | Computer Science Networking Your Wallet, Credit Card, and Keys
Steven Bellovin | Computer Science  Protecting Privacy in Complex Systems	Christopher R. Jacobs | Biomedical Engineering  Combating Bone Loss	Paul Sajda | Biomedical Engineering Capturing the "Aha!" Moment
Keren Bergman | Electrical Engineering Battling Internet Gridlock with Light	Tony Jebara | Computer Science Finding Patterns in a Complex World	Peter Schlosser | Earth and Environmental Engineering Sustaining the Environment
Raimono Betti | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics  Assessing Damage in Aging Instrastructure	Pedrag Jelenkovic | Electrical Engineering Unwinding Heavy Tails	Henning G. Schulzrinne | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Sensing Our Connected World
Daniel Bienstock | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and APAM Short-Circuiting Blackouts	Jingyue Ju | Chemical Engineering Creating Personalized DNA Chips for Everybody	Amiya Sen | Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Harnessing Fusion: The Ultimate Green Energy
Simon Billinge | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Characterizing Nanoparticles for Fuel Cells	Soulaymane Kachani | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Understanding the Dynamics Behind Pricing	Mingoo Seok| Electrical Engineering Improving Human Health with Low-Power Cyber Physical Systems
Jose Blanchet | Computer Science Understanding How Black Swans Evolve	Gail Kaiser | Computer Science Testing What Cannot be Tested	Rocco Servedio | Computer Science Playing "20 Questions" with Geometry
Allen Boozer | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Shaping Magnetic Fusion	Lance C. Kam | Biomedical Engineering Engineering the Body’s Defenses	Simha Sethumadhavan | Computer Science Designing Secure Hardware
Mark Cane | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics  Predicting El Niño	John Kender | Computer Science Indexing Videos Automatically	Jay Sethuraman | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Finding a Fairer Way to Admit Students
Luca Carloni | Computer Science Networking Chips	Angelos Keromytis | Computer Science Protecting Computers After the Barbarians are Inside the Gates	Kenneth L. Shepard | Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Integrating Biology in a Chip
Marco J. Castaldi | Earth and Environmental Engineering  Trying to Grow Strong Cartilage	Martha Kim | Computer Science Accelerating Processing's Family Van	Samuel K. Sia | Biomedical Engineering Streamlining Blood Testing
Augustin Chaintreau | Computer Science Scaling Up the Mobile Social Internet	Peter Kinget | Electrical Engineering Connecting Bits to Life	Karl Sigman | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Predicting the Probability of Congestion
Siu-Wai Chan | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Sharpening Images Through Mathematics	Jeffrey T. Koberstein | Chemical Engineering Delivering Drugs to the Right Place	Andrew W. Smyth | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Monitoring Structural Health with Sensor Data Fusion
Kartik Chandran | Earth and Environmental Engineering Repairing the Microbial Nitrogen Cycle	Elisa E. Konofagou | Biomedical Engineering Treating Tumors Without Radiation	Adam H. Sobel | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Modeling Monsoons
Shih-Fu Chang | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Developing Next-Generation Visual Search Engines	Steven S. G. Kou | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Linking Domino Theories to Real-World Pricing	Ponisseril Somasundaran | Earth and Environmental Engineering Fostering New Ways to "Green"
Jingguang Chen | Computer Science	Harish Krishnaswamy | Electrical Engineering Pushing the Performance of Silicon-Based Systems	Marc Spiegelman | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Studying Earth's Mantle and Crust
Xi Chen | Computer Science BUsing Game Theory to Study the Internet and E-Commerce	Sanat Kumar | Chemical Engineering Storing Energy More Efficiently	Clifford S. Stein | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Estimating Solutions to Difficult Problems
Xi Chen | Earth and Environmental Engineering  Harvesting Energy Via Nanomechanics	Ioannis (John) Kymissis | Electrical Engineering Producing Organic Photovoltaics	Salvatore J. Stolfo | Computer Science Using Anomolies to Defend Against Insiders
Maria Chudnovsky | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Exploring the Structure of Abstract Graphs	Jeffrey Kysar | Mechanical Engineering Analyzing Materials Under Extreme Conditions	Elon Terrell | Mechanical Engineering Keeping Wind Turbines Turning
Andrew Cole | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Spinning Between Theory and Experiment	Klaus Lackner | Earth and Environmental Engineering Creating Artificial Trees	Rene B. Testa | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Maintaining Aging Urban Infrastructure
Michael Collins | Computer Science A Man of Many Words	Andrew Laine | Biomedical Engineering  Analyzing 3-D Ultrasound Images of the Heart	Joseph F. Traub | Computer Science Computing Quantum Potential
Patricia Culligan | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics  Greening Instrastructure	Upmanu Lall | Earth and Environmental Engineering Solving the Global Water Crisis	Van-Anh Truong | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Strategies for a Smarter Health Care System
Gautam Dasgupta | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics  Relating Forces to Real-World Systems	Aurel A. Lazar | Electrical Engineering  Understanding How Flies' Brains Identify Odors	Yannis Tsividis | Electrical Engineering Creating New Circuits for Interfacing the Computer to the Physical World
George Deodatis | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Quantifying Uncertainty in Infrastructure Studies	Edward F. Leonard | Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Developing an Artificial Kidney	Vladimir Vapnik | Computer Science Unlocking a Complex World Mathematically
Emanual Derman | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research  Understanding When Models Behave Badly	Tim Siu-Tang Leung | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Designing Ways to Account for Forseeable Financial Risk	Latha Venkataraman | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Building Single-Molecule Circuits
Paul Diament | Electrical Engineering Employing Electromagnetics to Treat Malaria	Jung-Chi Liao | Mechanical Engineering Seeing Proteins at Work	Venkat Venkatasubramainian | Chemical Engineering Understanding Self-Organization, Emergence, and Complexity
Paul Duby | Earth and Environmental Engineering Driving Efficiency and Sustainability into Materials Processing and Energy	Qiao Lin | Mechanical Engineering Monitoring Glucose Without Pinpricks	Francesco Volpe | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Working Towards Net Fusion Energy
Vincent Duchêne | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics  Mathematically Modeling the Behavior of the Ocean	Hoe Ling | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Stabilizing the Slippery Slope	Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic | Biomedical Engineering Fixing Bones and Hearts
Christopher J. Durning | Chemical Engineering Using Nanomaterials to Filter Clean Drinking Water	Richard Longman | Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Making Robots Learn	Haim Waisman | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Keeping Structures Sound
Stephen A. Edwards | Computer Science  Testing and Correcting Embedded Processors	Helen H. Lu | Biomedical Engineering Repairing Torn Ligaments	Wen I. Wang | Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics  Using Optoelectronics for Chemical and Environmental Sensing
Daniel P. Ellis | Electrical Engineering Delving into the Science of Listening	Tal Malkin | Computer Science Securing the Lock After the Key is Stolen	Xiadong Wang | Electrical Engineering  Devising a Design Framework for Next-Generation Wireless Technology
Dirk Englund | Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Assessing Damage in Aging Instrastructure	Chris A. Marianetti | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Predicting Behavior of Materials	Michael Weinstein | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Predicting Waves Mathematically
Steven Feiner | Computer Science Augmenting Reality	Michael E. Mauel | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Containing Hot Plasma for Fusion	Alan C. West | Chemical Engineering Applying Electrochemical Technologies for Sustainable Energy
Maria Q. Feng | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics	Kathleen R. McKeown | Computer Science Summarizing the News (Automatically)	Ward Whitt | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Unraveling the Mysteries of Congestion
Jacob Fish | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics  Pushing the Limits of Multiscale Science and Engineering	V. Faye McNeill | Chemical Engineering  Understanding Brown Carbon	Chris H. Wiggins | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Finding the Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders
Christine Fleming | Electrical Engineering  Keeping an Eye on the Heart	Christian Meyer | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Making Concrete "Green"	Chee Wei Wong | Mechanical Engineering  Controlling Light with Nanostructures
Guillermo M. Gallego | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Engineering Services (Before They Perish)	Vishal Misra | Computer Science Boosting Profits with Peer-to-Peer Networks	John Wright | Electrical Engineering Bringing Order to High-Dimensional Datasets
Roxana Geambasu | Computer Science  Increasing Control Over Cloud and Mobile Data	Vijay Modi | Mechanical Engineering Engineering in the Developing World	Junfeng Yang | Computer Science Weaving More Reliable Software
Pierre Gentine | Earth and Environmental Engineering Predicting Drought and Floods	Barclay Morrison III | Biomedical Engineering Preventing Traumatic Brain Injury	Mihalis Yannakakis | Computer Science and Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Calculating What is Possible
Donald Goldfarb | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research  Finding a Way Around Too Much Data	Van C. Mow | Biomedical Engineering Reconstructing Cartilage	David Yao | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Optimizing Networked Resources
Vineet Goyal | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Studying Decision Making in the Face of Uncertainty	Kristin Myers | Mechanical Engineering Investigating the Mechanical Behavior of Soft Tissues	Y. Lawrence Yao | Mechanical Engineering Detecting "Dirty Bomb" Radiation
Luis Gravano | Computer Science Supercharging Search Engines	Arvind Narayanaswamy | Mechanical Engineering  Tailoring Thermal Transport	Tuncel M. Yegulalp | Earth and Environmental Engineering Going to Extremes
Eitan Grinspun | Computer Science Predicting the Motion of Materials	Gerald Navratil | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Stabilizing Plasma for Fusion Energy	Yechiam Yemini | Computer Science Turning Students Into Entrepreneurs
Jonathan Gross | Computer Science Untying Knots with Mathematics	Shree K. Nayer | Computer Science Picturing the World in New Ways	Huiming Yin | Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Raising the Roof
X. Edward Guo | Biomedical Engineering  Predicting Bone Strength, Preventing Osteoporosis	Jason Nieh | Computer Science Delivering Desktop Computing from the Cloud	Changxi Zheng | Computer Science Are We Hearing This For Real?
Xuedong He | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Modeling the Irrational	Steven Nowick | Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Marching Without a Beat	Charles Zukowski | Electrical Engineering Plugging the Leak in Circuit Efficiency
Tony F. Heinz | Electrical Engineering Collecting Solar Energy with Nanomaterials	Mariana Olvera-Cravioto | Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Searching for a Heavy Tail	Gil Zussman | Biomedical Engineering Improving the Efficiency and Resiliency of Wireless Networks
Irving Herman | Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics Tuning Nanomaterials for a Better World	Vanessa Ortiz | Chemical Engineering Using Physics and Engineering to Understand Biological Phenomena