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Name	Title	Areas of Concentration	Department	Additional Affiliations
Alfred V. Aho	Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science	Compilers, programming languages, software engineering, algorithms, quantum computing, Computer Science	Computer Science
Peter K. Allen	Professor of Computer Science	Robotics, Computer Vision, 3D Modeling, Computer Science	Computer Science
Dimitris Anastassiou	Charles Batchelor Professor in Electrical Engineering	Computational systems biology; Inference of biological mechanisms in cancer; Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Gerard A. Ateshian	Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering	Biomechanics and Mechanics of Materials, Control, Design, and Manufacturing; Cartilage mechanics, biotribology, and tissue engineering, diarthrodial joint mechanics, soft tissue mechanics, computer-assisted surgery, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering.	Mechanical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
William E. Bailey	Associate Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Nanoscale magnetic films and heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Guillaume Bal	Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics	Applied mathematics, wave propagation in random media and applications to time reversal, inverse problems with applications to medical imaging and earth science, Applied Mathematics	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Scott A. Banta	Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering	Protein and metabolic engineering, Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Katayun Barmak	Philips Electronics Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Processing and structure (crystal structure and microstructure) relationships to electrical and magnetic properties of metal films; developing transmission electron microscopy automated orientation imaging techniques that can be applied to the study of nanostructured materials; use of differential scanning calorimetry for the study solid state reactions and phase transformations in thin films.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Peter Belhumeur	Professor of Computer Science	Computer Vision, Biometrics, Face Regognition, Computational Photography, Computer Graphics, Biological Species Identification, Computer Science	Computer Science
Steven M. Bellovin	Professor of Computer Science	Internet security, computer security, privacy, information technology policy, Computer Science	Computer Science
Keren Bergman	Professor of Electrical Engineering	Optical networking and communications: fiber optic networks, optical interconnects from chip-scale to data centers and high performance computing systems, photonic networks-on-chip, silicon nanophotonics	Electrical Engineering
Raimondo Betti	Professor of Civil Engineering	Structural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Dynamic Control of Structure, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Daniel Bienstock	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Combinatorial optimization and integer programming, parallel computing, applications to telecommunications , Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Simon Billinge	Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Nanoscale structure-property relationships in functional nanomaterials studied using novel x-ray and neutron scattering techniques coupled with advanced computing; solving the nanostructure problem	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Jose Blanchet	Assisant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Applied probability, Computational finance, MCMC, Queueing theory, Rare-event analysis, Simulation methodology, and Risk theory.	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Allen H. Boozer	Professor of Applied Physics	Plasma theory, theory of magnetic confinement for fusion energy, nonlinear dynamics, Applied Physics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Mark A. Cane	G. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	climate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, impacts of climate on society, El Niño forecasting	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Adam Cannon	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Machine learning, statistical pattern recognition, Computer Science education	Computer Science
Luca Carloni	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Computer-Aided Design, Embedded Systems, Multi-Core Platform Architectures, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computer Science	Computer Science
Marco J. Castaldi	Assistant Professor of Earth and Environ-mental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines)	Enhanced combustion processes; catalytic reactor design; integrated systems for energy materials; fuels optimization, Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Augustin Chaintreau	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Mobile Computing, Social Network Applications, Networked Algorithms, computer science	Computer Science
Siu-Wai Chan	Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Nanoparticles, electronic ceramics, grain boundaries and interfaces, oxide thin films, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Kartik Chandran	Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering	Environmental Biotechnology, Environmental Nanotechnology, Environmental Microbiology, Public Health Microbiology, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Bioenergetics (Microbial fuel cells and biofuels), Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Shih-Fu Chang	Richard DIcker Professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Video Analysis and Search, Multimedia, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Xi Chen	Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering	Nanotechnology, biotechnology, energy/environment, and computation. more detail: Mechanobiology and molecular biomechanics, Novel nanoporous energy absorption and harvesting materials, Nanomechanics of nanostructures, Nanoindentation theory and experiment, Mechanical self-assembly, Multi-phase solid-fluid interactions, Multi-scale computational mechanics, and Mechanics of thin films and small material structures, Civil Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Xi Chen	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Algorithmic Game Theory And Economics, Complexity Theory, computer science	Computer Science
C.K. Chu	Professor Emeritus	applied mathematics	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Maria Chudnovsky	Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Graph theory and Combinatorial optimization, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Edward G. Coffman Jr.	Professor Emeritus	Analysis of Algorithms, Scheduling and Packing Theory, Network Performance Analysis, Stochastic Models, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Andrew J. Cole	Assistant Professor of Applied Physics	Applied Physics	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Michael Collins	Vikram S. Pandit Professor in Computer Science	Machine learning	Computer Science
Patricia J. Culligan	Professor of Civil Engineering	Groundwater flow and contaminant transport; centrifuge modeling, urban environments and sustainability, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Gautam Dasgupta	Professor of Civil Engineering	Continuum mechanics, Waves in random media, High accuracy finite and boundary elements, Shape analysis in life science applications, Symbolic Computation and Computer Mathematics, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
George Deodatis	The Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil Engineering	Probabilistic mechanics, reliability and safety analysis of structures, risk assessment and risk management of civil infrastructure systems, earthquake engineering, hazards analysis, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Emanuel Derman	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Financial theory, financial engineering, derivatives valuation, volatility, risk management, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Paul Diament	Professor of Electrical Engineering	Micro devices and Physical Principles: Electromagnetics, microwaves, antennas, optics, fiber optics, stochastic processes in financial economics, applied mathematics, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Paul F. Duby	Professor of Mineral Engineering	Electrochemical and hydrometallurgical processes; corrosion of metals; water chemistry; mineral waste treatment and recovery, Mineral Engineering, Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Vincent Duchêne	Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics	Applied mathematics	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Christopher J. Durning	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Molecular design and modification of material surfaces, biophysics and soft matter physics, Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Stephen A. Edwards	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Embedded systems, domain-specific languages, compilers, hardware-software codesign, computer-aided design, Computer Science	Computer Science
Dan Ellis	Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering	Audio signal processing and classification, models of auditory processing, speech recognition, Music information retrieval, machine learning, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Dirk R. Englund	Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics	Quantum optics in photonic nanostructures; photonic crystal optoelectronic devices and networks; quantum information and metrology; nonlinear optics; electron and nuclear spin-dynamics in solid state systems; electrical engineering	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Steven K. Feiner	Professor of Computer Science	Computer graphics and user interfaces, augmented reality and virtual environments, mobile and wearable computing, knowledge-based design of graphics and multimedia, computer games, information visualization, hypermedia, Computer Science	Computer Science
Jacob Fish	Robert A. W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor in Civil Engineering	Multiscale Science and Engineering with applications to aerospace, automotive industry, civil engineering, biological and material sciences	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
George Flynn	Thomas Alva Edison Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical Engineering	Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of absorbates: self assembly processes at interfacial layers; investigations of subsurface environmental problems; nanoscale studies of molecular electronics; materials research on nanoparticles	Chemical Engineering
Morton B. Friedman	Professor of Civil Engineering	Mathematics, System Analysis, Parallel Processing Algorithms, Probability and Statistics, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Vasilis M. Fthenakis	Senior Research Scientist	Air pollution, fluid dynamics, two-phase flow modeling, atmospheric dispersion, sustainable energy, life cycle analysis, process safety, recycling, hydrometallurgical separation processes, Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Guillermo Gallego	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Inventory control, yield management, production planning, scheduling, semi-conductor manufacturing, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Roxana Geambasu	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Distributed Systems, The Web, Security And Privacy, Operating Systems, Databases	Computer Science
Pierre Gentine	Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering	applied mathematics, land-atmosphere interactions, soil-vegetation-transfer-atmosphere models, applications of stochastic processes to hydrology and atmospheric boundary-layer, stochastic rainfall and soil moisture, data-assimilation (filtering) of remote sensing measurements to estimate land-surface variables, applied mathematics	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Donald Goldfarb	Interim Dean and the Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Algorithms for linear, quadratic, and nonlinear programming, network flows, large sparse systems, telecommunications applications, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Vineet Goyal	Assistant Professor	development of tractable approaches for dynamic optimization problems under uncertainty and their applications in electricity markets, revenue management and supply-chain and inventory management	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Luis Gravano	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Databases, Information Retrieval, Web Search, computer science	Computer Science
Eitan Grinspun	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Computer graphics and scientific computing, computational mechanics, mathematical foundations of graphics, discrete differential geometry, computer science	Computer Science
Jonathan L. Gross	Professor of Computer Science	Computational aspects of topological graph theory and knot theory, enumerative analysis, and combinatorial models. Applications to network layouts on higher-order surfaces and to interactive computer-graphics of weaves and links, Computer Science	Computer Science
X. Edward Guo	Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Bone mechanics, bone adaptation to mechanical loads and its cellular/molecular mechanisms, computational modeling of biological tissues, cellular biomechanics, imaging analysis of bone microstructure, micropatterning of cells, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Martin Haugh	Lecturer in Discipline	Quantitative finance, Monte-Carlo simulation, supply chain management and dynamic programming, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Xuedong He	Assistant Professor	Behavioral finance, portfolio choice and stochastic control, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Tony Heinz	David M. Rickey Professor of Optical Communications (Electrical Engineering) and Professor of Physics (Arts and Sciences)	Nanoscale materials and their properties, light/matter interactions, and photonics; Micro devices and Physical Principles, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Henry Hess	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Engineering at the molecular scale, in particular the design of active nanosystems incorporating biomolecular motors, the study of active self-assembly, and the investigation of protein-resistant polymer coatings	Biomedical Engineering
Irving Herman	Professor of Applied Physics	nanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials, laser diagnostics of thin film processing, mechanical properties of nanomaterials	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Andreas H. Hielscher	Professor of Biomedical & Electrical Engineering and Radiology Director, Biophotonics & Optical Radiology Laboratory	Medical Imaging, Biomedical Optics, Tomographic Image reconstruction, medical instrumentation, image processing, Biomedical Engineering.	Biomedical Engineering
Elizabeth M. C. Hillman	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engin-eering and of Radiology (Health Sciences)	2D and 3D optical imaging, development and application of new optical imaging technologies, microscopy and spectroscopy, in vivo function and physiology, brain, cardiac and dermal and molecular imaging, Biomedical Engineering.	Biomedical Engineering
Julia Hirschberg	Professor of Computer Science	Natural language processing, Computer Science	Computer Science
James C. Hone	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering	MEMS and Nanotechnology, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Hayden Huang	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering	General responses of cells to physical stimuli, mechanotransduction, cell mechanical properties and adhesion, with focus on cardiovasculature. Development of instrumentation and new techniques for probing cells, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Clark T. Hung	Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Effects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on musculoskeletal cells related to cellular and tissue engineering, Biomedical Engineering.	Biomedical Engineering
James S. Im	Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Laser-induced crystallization of thin films, phase transformations and nucleation in condensed systems, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Materials Science.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Garud Iyengar	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Information Theory, Convex Optimization, Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Robust Optimization, Networks, Mechanism Design, Portfolio selection, Revenue Management, Empirical Finance, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Christopher R. Jacobs	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Understanding the molecular mechanisms that allow cells of the skeletal system to sense and respond to mechanical stimulation, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Tony Jebara	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Machine Learning, Vision, graphs, Spatio-Temporal Modeling, Computer Science	Computer Science
Pedrag R. Jelenkovic	Professor of Electrical Engineering	Networking and Communications: mathematical foundations of communication networks with emphasis on emerging services and traffic paradigms, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Jingyue Ju	Professor of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacology	Genomics Science and Engineering, Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Soulaymane Kachani	Professor of Professional Practice	Dynamic pricing and revenue optimization, logistics and supply chain management, transportation network management, game theory, variational inequalities and equilibrium problems, Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Gail E. Kaiser	Professor of Computer Science	Social software engineering, collaborative work, privacy and security, software reliability, self-managing systems, parallel and distributed systems, Web technologies, information management, and software development environments and tools	Computer Science
Lance C. Kam	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Micro- and nano-scale engineering of biological systems, Cell signaling, Neuroscience, Immunology, NanoMedicine, Cell membrane biophysics, Microscopy in cellular and molecular bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
John R. Kender	Professor of Computer Science	Computer vision; video understanding; visual user interfaces, medical image processing, artificial intelligence, Computer Science	Computer Science
Angelos D. Keromytis	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Computer and Network Security, Computer Science	Computer Science
Philip Kim	Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics (Arts and Sciences)	experimental condensed matter physics, physical properties and applications of nanoscale low-dimensional materials; quantum thermal transport phenomena in 1-dimensional nanoscaled materials, mesoscopic thermoelectricity and thermoelectric applications of nanoscale materials, quantum transport in novel 2-dimensional materials, mesoscopic electron transport and thermodynamic processes for sensors and electric devices	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Martha Kim	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Computer Architecture, Hardware Systems, Hardware/Software Interaction and Parallel Hardware and Software Systems, Computer Science	Computer Science
Peter Kinget	Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering	Design of analog, mixed signal and RF integrated circuits in nano-scale CMOS for CyberPhysical Systems	Electrical Engineering
Jeffrey T. Koberstein	Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering	Molecular design and modification of material surfaces, biophysics and soft matter physics, Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Elisa E. Konofagou	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Ultrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and image processing, soft tissue mechanics, wave propagation, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
S. G. Steven Kou	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Derivatives, Investment, Financial Engineering; Mathematical and computational finance, simulation, queueing theory, mathematical statistics, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Harish Krishnaswamy	Assistant Professor	Theory and design of silicon-based radio-frequency (RF) and millimeter-wave integrated circuits and systems	Electrical Engineering
Sanat K. Kumar	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Biophysics and soft matter physics, Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Aaron M. Kyle	Lecturer in Discipline	Engineering Education and Laboratory Development, Biomedical Signal Processing and Acoustics, Electromagnetic Field-Induced Tissue Growth and Repair	Biomedical Engineering
Ionnis Kymissis	Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering	Thin film semiconductors, Organic semiconductors, Displays, Sensors, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Jeffrey W. Kysar	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Biomechanics and Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Klaus S. Lackner	Department Chair and the Maurice Ewing and T. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics (Earth and Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines)	Carbon management; alternative fuels and energy management; fluid mechanics and transport processes; applied physics; carbon capture, including air capture; sequestration, including mineralization and sub-seabed storage; carbon electrochemistry; zero-emission cement kilns; scale; geophysics, Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Andrew F. Laine	Department Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Radiology (Health Sciences)	Mathematical analysis and quantification of medical images, signal and image processing, computer-aided diagnosis, Biomedical Engineering.	Biomedical Engineering
Upmanu Lall	Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and Civil Engineering	Hydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; natural hazards, water systems, and risk management; water technologies for developing countries; Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Aurel A. Lazar	Professor of Electrical Engineering	In silico: neural encoding in and systems identification of sensory systems, principles of spike processing and massively parallel neural computation. In vivo: the olfactory system of the Drosophila, the nature of odor signal processing in the antennal lobe of the fruit fly.	Electrical Engineering
Edward F. Leonard	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Blood-material interactions, immunophysics, modeling intracellular signaling; biophysics and soft matter physics; Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Tim Siu-Tang Leung	Assistant Provessor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	stochastic modeling and optimal control problems in finance, with an emphasis on employee stock options and credit risk	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jung-Chi Liao	Assistant Professor	Molecular motors, which are ubiquitous protein nanomachines that convert chemical energy (e.g. ATP hydrolysis) into mechanical work to perform diverse functions, such as gene replication, cell division, cell migration, axonal transport, and many other functions, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Qiao Lin	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering	MEMS and Nanotechnology, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Hoe I. Ling	Professor of Civil Engineering	Geotechnical Engineering, Geosynthetics, Centrifuge Modeling, Soil Behavior, Seismic Performance of Earth Structures, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Richard W. Longman	Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering	Control, Design, and Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Helen H. Lu	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Interface tissue engineering and the formulation of complex tissue systems, stratified scaffold design and multi-scale models to evaluate heterotypic cellular interactions, development of polymer-ceramic composite biomaterials for orthopaedic and dental applications, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Tal Malkin	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Cryptography, complexity theory, security, randomized algorithms, Computer Science	Computer Science
Jeremy J. Mao	Edwin S. Robinson Professor of Dentistry and Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Dental Medicine	Stem cells and multi-lineage differentiation pathways. Tissue engineering via cell delivery and growth factor approaches. Mechanobiology of skeletal structures: cells and cellular mechanics. Cell labeling and cell tracking in tissue regeneration by nanoparticles, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Chris Marianetti	Assistant Professor	predicting materials properties from first-principles computations; materials with energy related applications; density-functional theory; dynamical mean-field theory; transition-metal oxides; actinides, energy storage and conversion materials	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Thomas C. Marshall	Professor Emeritus	Accelerator concepts, relativistic beams and radiation, free-electron lasers, Applied Physics and Applied Math.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Michael E. Mauel	Professor of Applied Physics	plasma physics, waves & instabilities, fusion & equilibrium control; space physics; plasma processing, international energy policy	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Nicholas Maxemchuk	Professor of Electrical Engineering	Networks -- network routing, flow control, and media access, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Kathleen R. McKeown	Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science	Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Summarization and Question Answering, Multimedia Systems, Digital Libraries, Computer Science	Computer Science
V. Faye McNeill	Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering	Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution, Aerosols, Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Christian Meyer	Professor of Civil Engineering	Structural Analysis and Design, Earthquake Engineering, Concrete Structures, Concrete Technology, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Vishal Misra	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Networking, Modeling and Performance Evaluation, Information Theory, Computer Science	Computer Science
Vijay Modi	Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Energy, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat/Mass Transfer, MEMS and Nanotechnology, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Barclay Morrison III	Vice Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Traumatic brain injury, injury biomechanics, brain constitutive properties, neural engineering, neural prosthetics, genomics, mechano transduction, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Van C. Mow	Stanley Dicker Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Orthopedic Engineering (Orthopedic Surgery, Health Sciences)	Soft tissue biomechanics (including articular cartilage, meniscus and intervertebral disc), biomechanics of osteoarthritis, cell-matrix interactions, mechano-signal transduction, and functional tissue engineering, Biomedical Engineering.	Biomedical Engineering
Kristin Myers	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Soft Tissue Biomechanics (Reproductive and Ocular Tissue), mechanical engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Arvind Narayanaswamy	Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Nanoscale thermal transport, energy conversion, nanoscale radiative transfer, electromagnetic wave propagation, Casimir and van der Waals forces, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Gerald A. Navratil	Thomas Alva Edison Professor of Applied Physics	Plasma physics, plasma diagnostics, fusion energy science, Applied Physics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Shree K. Nayar	T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science	Computer Vision, Computational Imaging, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Human-Computer Interfaces, Computer Science	Computer Science
Jason Nieh	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Operating systems, distributed systems, mobile computing, cloud computing, thin-client computing, performance evaluation, computer science	Computer Science
Steven M. Nowick	Professor of Computer Science	Asynchronous and mixed timing circuits, computer-aided digital design, low-power and high-performance digital systems, Computer Science	Computer Science
Ismail Cevdet Noyan	Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Characterization and modeling of mechanical and micromechanical deformation; residual stress analysis and nondestructive testing; x-ray and neutron diffraction, microdiffraction analysis, materials science, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Ben O'Shaughnessy	Professor of Chemical Engineering	Cellular biophysics, cell division (cytokinesis), cell migration, viruses and mechanisms of infection, membrane fusion in cell trafficking and secretion, cellular forces and force transduction, Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering
Mariana Olvera-Cravioto	Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Applied probability, stochastic processes, stochastic recursions and ranking algorithms, queueing theory, heavy-tailed phenomena	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Vanessa Ortiz	Assistant Professor in Engineering	Multi-scale modeling, with applications to biological macromolecules and biomaterials, as well as the stability and dynamics of self assembled supra-molecular structures	Chemical Engineering
Richard Osgood, Jr.	Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics	Micro devices and Physical Principles: Lasers and Optical Physics and Devices, Surface Physics and Chemistry, Materials Science of Complex Oxides and Semiconductors; Electrical Engineering; Applied Physics	Electrical Engineering	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Ah-Hyung Alissa Park	Lenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science and Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Engineering	Carbon sequestration; Clean fossil energy conversion systems; Alternative energy production; Particle technology; Electrostatic tomography; Multiphase flow systems; Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Itsik Pe'er	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Computational biology, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Computer Science	Computer Science
Feniosky A. Peña-Mora	Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics	Information technology support for collaboration in preparedness, response and recovery during disasters involving critical physical infrastructures; change management, conflict resolution, sustainable construction, visualization, augmented reality, and processes integration during the design and development of large-scale civil engineering systems.	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics	Computer Science
Aron Pinczuk	Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics (Arts and Sciences)	Spectroscopy of semiconductors and insulators, quantum structures and interfaces, electrons in systems of reduced dimensions, electron quantum fluids, Applied Physics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Lorenzo M. Polvani	Professor of Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences)	Atmospheric and climate dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical methods for weather and climate modeling, planetary atmospheres	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Kenneth A. Ross	Professor of Computer Science	Database systems, query processing and optimization, architecture-sensitive software, genetics, Computer Science	Computer Science
Dan Rubenstein	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Neworking and Communications: performance evaluation of networked systems, peer-to-peer overlay networking, and network security, low-power networking, computer science	Computer Science
Paul Sajda	Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Neurocomputational modeling and neuroengineering, pattern recognition, adaptive processing for biomedical image and signal analysis, Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Engineering
Peter Schlosser	Vinton Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences)	Water movement and its variability in natural systems; ocean/atmosphere gas exchange; paleotemperature reconstructions; anthropogenic impact on natural systems; Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Christopher H. Scholz	Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Experimental and theoretical rock mechanics, especially friction, fracture, hydraulic transport properties, nonlinear systems, mechanics of earthquakes and faulting, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Henning Schulzrinne	Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering	Computer networks, multimedia systems, mobile and wireless systems, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, Computer Science	Computer Science	Electrical Engineering
Amiya K. Sen	Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied Physics	Plasma physics, fluctuations and anomalous transport in plasmas, control of plasma instabilities; Micro devices and Physical Principles, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Mingoo Seok	Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering	Low power VLSI circuit, architecture and system design and methodology; Variation tolerant circuit and system design techniques; Power conversion circuit and system design; Cross-layer hardware design for emerging cyber physical system, ubiquitous computing, and biomedical applications	Electrical Engineering
Rocco A. Servedio	Associate Professor of Computer Science	Computational Learning Theory, Computational Complexity Theory, Randomized Algorithms, Machine Learning, Quantum Computation, Cryptography, Combinatorics, Computer Science	Computer Science
Simha Sethumadhavan	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Computer Architecture, Hardware Security, Computer Science.	Computer Science
Jay Sethuraman	Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Scheduling theory, discrete optimation, fair allocation, applied probability, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Tiffany Shaw	Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics and of Earth and Environmental Sciences	Earth and Environmental Science	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Ken Shepard	Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering	Integrated circuits and systems, Systems Biology : active CMOS microarray technology, asynchronous digital signal processors; Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Samuel K. Sia	Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Tissue formation and cell-cell signaling in controlled 2D and 3D microenvironments, molecular design for controlling cell-material interactions, MEMS devices for improving the health of people in developing countries, Biomedical Engineering.	Biomedical Engineering
Karl Sigman	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Stochastic modeling, applied probability,queueing theory, stochastic networks, point processes, insurance risk, and economics, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Andrew W. Smyth	Associate Professor of Civil Engineering	Structural Mechanics with special emphasis on system identification problems and their potential application in the assessment and control of structures, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Adam H. Sobel	Associate Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences)	atmospheric science, geophysical fluid dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate dynamics	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Ponisseril Somasundaran	LaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral Engineering	Surface and colloid science; nanoparticles, biosurfaces, and biosensors; enhanced oil and coal recovery; polymer / surfactant / protein interactions; arsenic remediation; Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Marc W. Spiegelman	Associate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences) and of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics	Coupled fluid/solid mechanics, reactive fluid flow, solid earth & magma dynamics, scientific computation/modeling, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Clifford Stein	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, scheduling, network algorithms, green computing, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Computer Science
Salvatore J. Stolfo	Professor of Computer Science	Computer Security and Privacy, Intrusion Detection Systems, Parallel Computing, AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science	Computer Science
Elon Terrell	Assistant Professor	Thermal-fluid sciences, energy, and tribology (the study of friction, lubrication, and wear), Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
Rene B. Testa	Professor of Civil Engineering	Structural Materials, Fatigue, Fracture, Field Testing, Failure Analysis, Damage Mechanics, Civil Engineering.	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Nicholas J. Themelis	Stanley-Thompson Professor of Chemical Metallurgy (Earth and Environmental Engineering, Henry Krumb School of Mines)	Transport phenomena in thermal plasma spraying, energy, and material recovery from solid wastes; cogeneration of electricity and heat; industrial ecology, Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Joseph F. Traub	Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science	Quantum computing, information-based complexity, financial computation, Computer Science	Computer Science
Van-Anh Truong	Assistant Professor	capacity planning, inventory theory, supply-chain management, separation methods for stochastic dynamic programming, approximation algorithms, and learning-based optimization, especially in the context of high-dimensional problems	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Yannis Tsividis	Batchelor Memorial Professor of Electrical Engineering	Analog and mixed-signal VLSI circuits and signal processing, Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Nicholas J. Turro	William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry	Spectroscopic methods for the elucidation of the structure and dynamics of adsorbed molecules; investigation of nanoparticles for catalysis for pollution control, Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Nicholas J. Turro	William P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Environmental Engineering and Materials Science	employment of spectroscopic and photochemical methods to characterize the structure of molecules absorbed at the interfaces of polymer systems and nanoparticles	Chemical Engineering
Rimas Vaicaitis	Renwick Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering	Random Vibrations, Structural Dynamics, Structural Acoustics, Fatigue, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Latha Venkataraman	Assistant Professor of Applied Physics	Single molecule transport, single molecule force spectroscopy, electron transport in nanowires, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, Applied Physics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Venkat Venkatasubramanian	Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering	risk analysis and management in complex engineered systems, cyberinfrastructure and “big data” analytics for molecular products design and discovery, and complex adaptive teleological systems	Chemical Engineering
Francesco A. Volpe	Assistant Professor of Applied Physics	applied physics	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic	Professor of Biomedical Engineering	Tissue engineering, human stem cells (adult and embryonic), advanced bioreactors, biophysical regulation of cell function and tissue development, Biomedical Engineering.	Biomedical Engineering
Haim Waisman	Assistant Professor	Computational Solid Mechanics, Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, Composite Materials, Shear band formation due to impact and blast loads, Extended Finite Element and Levelset methods, Multiscale and Multigrid methods, atomistic simulations, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Wen I. Wang	Thayer Lindsley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics	Heterogeneous materials integration, quantum semiconductor optoelectronics, photovoltaics, molecular beam epitaxy, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics	Electrical Engineering	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Xiadong Wang	Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering	Signal and information processing, Systems biology: statistical signal processing for genomics and proteomics; Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Anthony C. Webster	Lecturer in the Discipline of Finance	technology and construction economics	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Michael I. Weinstein	Professor of Applied Mathematics	Applied mathematics, partial differential equations, dynamical systems, waves in nonlinear, inhomogeneous & random media; multi-scale phenomena, applications to nonlinear optics, quantum systems and fluid dynamics, Applied Mathematics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Alan C. West	Samuel Ruben-Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry	Electrochemical Engineering, electrolysis, cell design, batteries, fuel cells, electrodeposition and surface finishing, electrochemical sensors	Chemical Engineering
Ward Whitt	Wai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Operations research, Probability models, Probability models in operations research, Queueing systems, Performance analysis, Performance analysis of telecommunication systems, Performance analysis of computer systems, Performance analysis of service systems, Performance analysis of manufacturing systems, Customer contact centers, Call center models, Simulation methodology, Numerical transform inversion, Diffusion Process approximations, Stochastic processes, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Chris H. Wiggins	Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics	Applied mathematics, mathematical biology, biopolymer dynamics, soft condensed matter, genetic networks and network inference, machine learning, Applied Mathematics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Chee Wei Wong	Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Solid-State Physics: Nanotechnology, Optics, Photonics, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Quantum Information Sciences, Quantum Dots, Energy, Nanostructures, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
John Wright	Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering	Developing tools for robustly recovering low-dimensional structure from non-ideal (corrupted, incomplete) high-dimensional observations, and apply them to solve problems in computer vision and signal processing	Electrical Engineering
Cheng Shie Wuu	Associate Professor of Clinical Radiation Oncology (in Public Health, Environmental Health Sciences, and Applied Physics)	Microdosimetry, biophysical modeling, dosimetry of brachytherapy, gel dosimetry, second cancers induced by radiotherapy, Applied Mathematics.	Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Junfeng Yang	Assistant Professor of Computer Science	Operating systems, software reliability, security, storage systems, Computer Science	Computer Science
Mihalis Yannakakis	Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science	Algorithms, complexity theory, combinatorial optimization, databases, testing and verification, Computer Science	Computer Science
Y. Lawrence Yao	Professor of Mechanical Engineering	Laser materials processing, Nontraditional manufacturing, Robotics in industry and health care, Mechanical Engineering	Mechanical Engineering
David Yao	Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Stochastic models, queueing networks, supply chains, financial engineering, systems and control, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research	Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Tuncel M. Yegulalp	Professor of Mining	Mineral economics; systems analysis; extreme value statistics applications; zero-emission power plant modeling and design; CO2 sequestration; Earth and Environmental Engineering	Earth and Environmental Engineering
Yechiam Yemini	Professor of Computer Science	Computer networks, Computer Science	Computer Science
Huiming Yin	Assistant Professor	Sustainable Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Modern Building Materials, Solid Mechanics, Micromechanics, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Civil Engineering	Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Charles Zukowski	Professor of Electrical Engineering	Integrated circuits and systems, Systems Biology : hardware for simulation of gene regulatory networks; Electrical Engineering	Electrical Engineering
Gil Zussman	Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering	Wireless and mobile networks and systems, network algorithms, network resilience, cross-layer design, energy efficient networking, performance evaluation	Electrical Engineering

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