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NameTitleArea of ConcentrationDepartmentAdditional Affiliations
Alfred V. AhoLawrence Gussman Professor of Computer ScienceCompilers, programming languages, software engineering, algorithms, quantum computing, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Peter AllenProfessor of Computer ScienceRobotics, Computer Vision, 3D Modeling, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Dimitris AnastassiouProfessor of Electrical EngineeringSignal and information processing; systems biology: genetic and signaling networks, reverse engineering, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Gerard A. AteshianProfessor of Mechanical Engineering and of Biomedical EngineeringBiomechanics 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 EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Daniel AttingerAssistant Professor of Mechanical EngineeringEnergy, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat/Mass Transfer, MEMS and Nanotechnology, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
William E. BaileyAssociate Professor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsNanoscale magnetic films and heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics, Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Guillaume BalAssociate Professor of Applied MathematicsApplied mathematics, wave propagation in random media and applications to time reversal, inverse problems with applications to medical imaging and earth science, Applied MathematicsApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Scott A. BantaAssociate Professor of Chemical EngineeringProtein and metabolic engineering, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Peter BelhumeurProfessor of Computer ScienceComputer Vision, Biometrics, Face Regognition, Computational Photography, Computer Graphics, Biological Species Identification, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Steven M. BellovinProfessor of Computer ScienceInternet security, computer security, privacy, information technology policy, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Keren BergmanProfessor of Electrical EngineeringNetworking and Communications: fiber optic networks, photonic packet switching and interconnects for high performance computing, optical soliton pulse sources, and ultrafast switching, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Raimondo BettiProfessor of Civil EngineeringStructural Dynamics, Earthquake Engineering, Soil-Structure Interaction, Dynamic Control of Structure, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Daniel BienstockProfessor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchCombinatorial optimization and integer programming, parallel computing, applications to telecommunications , Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations ResearchApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Simon BillingeProfessor of Materials Science and Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsNanoscale structure-property relationships in functional nanomaterials studied using novel x-ray and neutron scattering techniques coupled with advanced computing; solving the nanostructure problemApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Allen H. BoozerProfessor of Applied PhysicsPlasma theory, theory of magnetic confinement for fusion energy, nonlinear dynamics, Applied Physics. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Mark BordenAssistant Professor of Chemical EngineeringMicrobubbles, Bio-Colloids, Bio-Materials, Bio-Interfaces, Langmuir Monolayers, Lipid and Biopolymer Membranes Applied Research: Molecular Imaging, Targeted Therapy, Drug and Gene Delivery, Industrial Processes, Natural Systems, Cosmetics, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Paul Wesley Brandt-RaufProfessor of Environmental Health Sciences and Earth and Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental carcinogenesis; protein chemistry; molecular epidemiology; ethics; Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Truman R. BrownPercy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Radiology (Health Sciences)Research in MR imaging and spectroscopy; Bayesian signal analysis; Biomedical Engineering.Biomedical Engineering
Mark A. CaneG. Unger Vetlesen Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematicsclimate dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, impacts of climate on society, El Niño forecastingApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Adam CannonAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceMachine learning, statistical pattern recognition, Computer Science educationComputer Science
Luca CarloniAssistant Professor of Computer Science Computer-Aided Design, Embedded Systems, Multi-Core Platform Architectures, Cyber-Physical Systems, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Marco J. CastaldiAssistant 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 EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Rui CastroAssistant ProfessorSignal processing, learning theory and non-parametric statistics, Computer ScienceElectrical Engineering
Siu-Wai ChanProfessor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsNanoparticles, electronic ceramics, grain boundaries and interfaces, oxide thin films, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Kartik ChandranAssistant Professor of Earth and Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental Biotechnology, Environmental Nanotechnology, Environmental Microbiology, Public Health Microbiology, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Bioenergetics (Microbial fuel cells and biofuels), Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Shih-Fu ChangProfessor of Electrical EngineeringVideo Analysis and Search, Multimedia, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Xi ChenAssistant Professor of Civil EngineeringNanotechnology, 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 EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Nicola ChiaraAssistant Professor of Civil EngineeringAsset Management, Infrastructure Project Finance, Project Management for Engineering and Construction, Risk and Decision Analysis, Stochastic Modeling and Optimization of Infrastructure Systems, Civil Engineering.Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
C.K. ChuProfessor Emeritusapplied mathematicsApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Maria ChudnovskyAssociate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchGraph theory and Combinatorial optimization, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Edward G. Coffman Jr.Professor of Electrical EngineeringAnalysis of Algorithms, Scheduling and Packing Theory, Network Performance Analysis, Stochastic Models, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Rama ContAssociate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchFinancial Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Applied Probability/ Stochastic Modeling, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Kevin D. CostaAssociate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringCardiac cell and tissue biomechanics, constitutive modeling, finite element methods, atomic force microscopy, Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Patricia J. CulliganProfessor of Civil EngineeringGroundwater flow and contaminant transport; centrifuge modeling, urban environments and sustainability, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Gautam DasguptaProfessor of Civil EngineeringContinuum mechanics, Waves in random media, High accuracy finite and boundary elements, Shape analysis in life science applications, Symbolic Computation and Computer Mathematics, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
George DeodatisThe Santiago and Robertina Calatrava Family Professor of Civil EngineeringProbabilistic mechanics, reliability and safety analysis of structures, risk assessment and risk management of civil infrastructure systems, earthquake engineering, hazards analysis, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Emanuel DermanProfessor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchFinancial theory, financial engineering, derivatives valuation, volatility, risk management, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Paul DiamentProfessor of Electrical EngineeringMicro devices and Physical Principles: Electromagnetics, microwaves, antennas, optics, fiber optics, stochastic processes in financial economics, applied mathematics, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Paul F. DubyProfessor of Mineral EngineeringElectrochemical and hydrometallurgical processes; corrosion of metals; water chemistry; mineral waste treatment and recovery, Mineral Engineering, Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Christopher J. DurningProfessor of Chemical EngineeringMolecular design and modification of material surfaces, biophysics and soft matter physics, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Stephen A. EdwardsAssociate Professor of Computer ScienceEmbedded systems, domain-specific languages, compilers, hardware-software codesign, computer-aided design, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Dan EllisAssociate Professor of Electrical EngineeringAudio signal processing and classification, models of auditory processing, speech recognition, Music information retrieval, machine learning, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Steven K. FeinerProfessor of Computer ScienceComputer 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 ScienceComputer Science
George FlynnThomas Alva Edison Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical EngineeringScanning Tunneling Microscopy of absorbates: self assembly processes at interfacial layers; investigations of subsurface environmental problems; nanoscale studies of molecular electronics; materials research on nanoparticlesChemical Engineering
Morton B. FriedmanProfessor of Civil EngineeringMathematics, System Analysis, Parallel Processing Algorithms, Probability and Statistics, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Vasilis M. FthenakisSenior Research ScientistAir pollution, fluid dynamics, two-phase flow modeling, atmospheric dispersion, sustainable energy, life cycle analysis, process safety, recycling, hydrometallurgical separation processes, Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Guillermo GallegoProfessor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchInventory control, yield management, production planning, scheduling, semi-conductor manufacturing, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Pierre GentineAssistant Professor of Applied Mathematicsapplied 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 mathematicsApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Donald GoldfarbAlexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchAlgorithms for linear, quadratic, and nonlinear programming, network flows, large sparse systems, telecommunications applications, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Gavin GongAssistant Professor of Earth and Environ-mental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines)Hydroclimatology; landsurface-atmosphere interaction over continental scales; snow hydrology; water resource management, Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Luis GravanoAssociate Professor of Computer ScienceDatabases, Information Retrieval, Web Search, computer scienceComputer Science
Eitan GrinspunAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceComputer graphics and scientific computing, computational mechanics, mathematical foundations of graphics, discrete differential geometry, computer scienceComputer Science
Jonathan L. GrossProfessor of Computer ScienceComputational 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 ScienceComputer Science
X. Edward GuoProfessor of Biomedical EngineeringBone 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 EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Martin HaughLecturerQuantitative finance, Monte-Carlo simulation, supply chain management and dynamic programming, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Tony HeinzDavid 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 EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Irving HermanProfessor of Applied Physicsnanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials, laser diagnostics of thin film processing, mechanical properties of nanomaterialsApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Andreas H. HielscherAssociate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and of Radiology (Health Sciences)Medical Imaging, Biomedical Optics, Tomographic Image reconstruction, medical instrumentation, image processing, Biomedical Engineering.Biomedical Engineering
Elizabeth M. C. HillmanAssistant 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 HirschbergProfessor of Computer ScienceNatural language processing, Computer ScienceComputer Science
James C. HoneAssistant Professor of Mechanical EngineeringMEMS and Nanotechnology, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Hayden HuangAssistant Professor of Biomedical EngineeringGeneral 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 EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Clark T. HungAssociate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringEffects of physical, mechanical, and chemical stimuli on musculoskeletal cells related to cellular and tissue engineering, Biomedical Engineering.Biomedical Engineering
James S. ImProfessor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsLaser-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 IyengarAssociate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchInformation Theory, Convex Optimization, Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, Robust Optimization, Networks, Mechanism Design, Portfolio selection, Revenue Management, Empirical Finance, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Christopher R. JacobsAssociate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringUnderstanding the molecular mechanisms that allow cells of the skeletal system to sense and respond to mechanical stimulation, Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Tony JebaraAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceMachine Learning, Vision, graphs, Spactio-Temporal Modeling, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Pedrag R. JelenkovicAssociate Professor of Electrical EngineeringNetworking and Communications: mathematical foundations of communication networks with emphasis on emerging services and traffic paradigms, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Jingyue JuProfessor of Chemical EngineeringGenomics engineering, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Soulaymane KachaniAssistant Professor of Operations ResearchDynamic pricing and revenue optimization, logistics and supply chain management, transportation network management, game theory, variational inequalities and equilibrium problems, Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Gail E. KaiserProfessor of Computer ScienceSoftware testing, collaborative work, computer and network security, parallel and distributed systems, self-managing systems, Web technologies, information managemen, software development environments and tools, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Lance C. KamAssistant Professor of Biomedical EngineeringMicro- and nano-scale engineering of biological systems, Cell signaling, Neuroscience, Immunology, NanoMedicine, Cell membrane biophysics, Microscopy in cellular and molecular bioengineering, Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
John KenderProfessor of Computer ScienceComputer vision; video understanding; visual user interfaces, medical image processing, artificial intelligence, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Angelos D. KeromytisAssociate Professor of Computer ScienceComputer and Network Security, Computer ScienceComputer Science
David E. KeyesFu Foundation Professor of Applied MathematicsApplied and computational mathematics for PDEs, computational science, parallel numerical algorithms, parallel performance analysis, PDE-constrained optimization, Applied Mathematics. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Martha KimAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceComputer Architecture, Hardware Systems, Hardware/Software Interaction and Parallel Hardware and Software Systems, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Philip KimProfessor 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 devicesApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Peter KingetAssociate Professor of Electrical EngineeringDesign of analog and RF integrated circuits in nano-scale CMOS, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Jeffrey T. KobersteinPercy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Chemical EngineeringMolecular design and modification of material surfaces, biophysics and soft matter physics, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Elisa E. KonofagouAssistant Professor of Biomedical EngineeringUltrasonics (imaging and therapy), elasticity imaging, signal and image processing, soft tissue mechanics, wave propagation, Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
S. G. Steven KouAssociate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchDerivatives, Investment, Financial Engineering; Mathematical and computational finance, simulation, queueing theory, mathematical statistics, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Nakhil KrishnanAssistant Professor of Earth & Environmental EngineeringReducing the environmental impacts of industrial activity, Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Harish KrishnaswamyAssistant Professor High-quality passive elements, high-frequency oscillators and intregrated RF and MM-wave phased array tranceivers, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Sanat K. KumarProfessor of Chemical EngineeringBiophysics and soft matter physics, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Ionnis KymissisAssistant Professor of Electrical EngineeringThin film semiconductors, Organic semiconductors, Displays, Sensors, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Jeffrey W. KysarAssociate Professor of Mechanical EngineeringBiomechanics and Mechanics of Materials, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Klaus S. LacknerMaurice 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 EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Andrew F. LaineProfessor 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 LallAlan and Carol Silberstein Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and Civil EngineeringHydroclimatology, nonlinear dynamics, and applied statistics; natural hazards, water systems, and risk management; water technologies for developing countries; Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Aurel A. LazarProfessor of Electrical EngineeringNetworking and Communications: networking games, programmable networks, and building resilient networks; Sytems biology: time encoding and representation, spike processing, cortical microcircuit architectures; Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Edward F. LeonardProfessor of Chemical EngineeringBlood-material interactions, immunophysics, modeling intracellular signaling; biophysics and soft matter physics; Chemical Engineering, Biomedical EngineeringChemical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Jung-Chi LiaoAssistant ProfessorMolecular 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 EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Qiao LinAssistant Professor of Mechanical EngineeringMEMS and Nanotechnology, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Hoe E. LingProfessor of Civil EngineeringGeotechnical Engineering, Geosynthetics, Centrifuge Modeling, Soil Behavior, Seismic Performance of Earth Structures, Civil Engineering and Engineering MechanicsCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Richard W. LongmanProfessor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil EngineeringControl, Design, and Manufacturing, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Helen H. LuAssociate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringInterface 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 EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Tal MalkinAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceCryptography, complexity theory, security, randomized algorithms, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Jeremy J. MaoAssociate Professor of Orthodontics (Health Sciences) and Associate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringStem 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 EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Chris MarianettiAssistant Professorpredicting 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 materialsApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Thomas C. MarshallProfessor EmeritusAccelerator concepts, relativistic beams and radiation, free-electron lasers, Applied Physics and Applied Math.Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Michael E. MauelProfessor of Applied Physicsplasma physics, waves & instabilities, fusion & equilibrium control; space physics; plasma processing, international energy policyApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Nicholas MaxemchukProfessor of Electrical EngineeringNetworks -- network routing, flow control, and media access, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Jack McGourtyAssociate DeanEngineering Design, Technology Management, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Community-Based Learning, Multisource AssessmentDean's Office
Kathy McKeownHenry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer ScienceArtificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Summarization and Question Answering, Multimedia Systems, Digital Libraries, Computer ScienceComputer Science
V. Faye McNeillAssistant Professor of Chemical EngineeringAtmospheric Chemistry, Air Pollution, Aerosols, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Christian MeyerProfessor of Civil EngineeringStructural Analysis and Design, Earthquake Engineering, Concrete Structures, Concrete Technology, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Vishal MisraAssociate Professor of Computer ScienceNetworking, Modeling and Performance Evaluation, Information Theory, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Vijay ModiProfessor of Mechanical EngineeringEnergy, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat/Mass Transfer, MEMS and Nanotechnology, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Barclay Morrison IIIAssistant Professor of Biomedical EngineeringTraumatic brain injury, injury biomechanics, brain constitutive properties, neural engineering, neural prosthetics, genomics, mechano transduction, Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Van C. MowStanley 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
Arvind NarayanaswamyAssistant Professor of Mechanical EngineeringNanoscale thermal transport, energy conversion, nanoscale radiative transfer, electromagnetic wave propagation, Casimir and van der Waals forces, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Gerald A. NavratilThomas Alva Edison Professor of Applied PhysicsPlasma physics, plasma diagnostics, fusion energy science, Applied Physics. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Shree K. NayarT. C. Chang Professor of Computer ScienceComputer Vision, Computational Imgagin, Computer Graphics, Robotics, Human-Computer Interfaces, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Gertrude NeumarkHowe Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsMaterial science and physics of semiconductors with emphasis on optical and electrical properties of wide bandgap semiconductors and light emitting devices., Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Jason NiehAssociate Professor of Computer ScienceOperating systems, distributed systems, mobile computing, thin-client computing, performance evaluation, computer scienceComputer Science
Stephen A. NowickProfessor of Computer ScienceAsynchronous and mixed timing circuits, computer-aided digital design, low-power and high-performance digital systems, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Ismail Cevdet NoyanProfessor of Materials Science (Henry Krumb School of Mines) and of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsCharacterization 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'ShaughnessyProfessor of Chemical EngineeringCellular biophysics, cell division (cytokinesis), cell migration, viruses and mechanisms of infection, membrane fusion in cell trafficking and secretion, cellular forces and force transduction, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Mariana Olvera-CraviotoAssistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchApplied probability ,stochastic systems, queueing theory, heavy-tailed distributions, simulation, inventory control, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Richard Osgood, Jr.Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied PhysicsMicro devices and Physical Principles: Lasers and Optical Physics and Devices, Surface Physics and Chemistry, Materials Science of Complex Oxides and Semiconductors; Electrical Engineering; Applied PhysicsElectrical EngineeringApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Ah-Hyung Alissa ParkLenfest Junior Professor in Applied Climate Science and Assistant Professor of Earth & Environmental EngineeringCarbon sequestration; Clean fossil energy conversion systems; Alternative energy production; Particle technology; Electrostatic tomography; Multiphase flow systems; Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Itsik Pe'erAssistant Professor of Computer ScienceComputational biology, Genetics, Bioinformatics, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Thomas S. PedersenAssociate Professor of Applied Physicsplasma physics, magnetic confinement, fusion energy, plasma turbulence, non-neutral plasmas, positron-electron plasmasApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Aron PinczukProfessor 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. PolvaniProfessor 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 Mathematics, Earth and Environmental Sciences.Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Kenneth A. RossProfessor of Computer ScienceDatabase systems, query processing and optimization, architecture-sensitive software, genetics, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Dan RubensteinAssociate Professor of Electrical EngineeringNeworking and Communications: performance evaluation of networked systems, peer-to-peer overlay networking, and network security, low-power networking, computer scienceComputer Science
Paul SajdaAssociate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringNeurocomputational modeling and neuroengineering, pattern recognition, adaptive processing for biomedical image and signal analysis, Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering
Peter SchlosserVinton 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 EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Christopher H. ScholzProfessor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences) and of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsExperimental 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 SchulzrinneProfessor of Computer Science and of Electrical EngineeringComputer networks, multimedia systems, mobile and wireless systems, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Amiya K. SenProfessor of Electrical Engineering and of Applied PhysicsPlasma physics, fluctuations and anomalous transport in plasmas, control of plasma instabilities; Micro devices and Physical Principles, Electrical EngineeringElectrical EngineeringApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Rocco A. ServedioAssociate Professor of Computer ScienceComputational Learning Theory, Computational Complexity Theory, Randomized Algorithms, Machine Learning, Quantum Computation, Cryptography, Combinatorics, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Simha SethumadhavanAssistant ProfessorComputer Architecture, Hardware Security, Computer Science.Computer Science
Jay SethuramanAssociate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchScheduling theory, discrete optimation, fair allocation, applied probability, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Nina C. ShapleyAssistant Professor of Chemical EngineeringCell motility, motor molecules, integrin-cytoskeleton interactions, Biomedical EngineeringBiomedical Engineering
Ken ShepardAssociate Professor of Electrical EngineeringIntegrated circuits and systems, Systems Biology : active CMOS microarray technology, asynchronous digital signal processors; Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Samuel K. SiaAssistant Professor of Biomedical EngineeringTissue 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 SigmanProfessor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchStochastic modeling, applied probability,queueing theory, stochastic networks, point processes, insurance risk, and economics, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Nabil SimaanAssistant Professor of Mechanical EngineeringAdvanced robotics and computer-integrated surgical systems, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Andrew W. SmythAssociate Professor of Civil EngineeringStructural Mechanics with special emphasis on system identification problems and their potential application in the assessment and control of structures, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Adam H. SobelAssociate Professor of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics and of Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences)atmospheric science, geophysical fluid dynamics, tropical meteorology, climate dynamicsApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Ponisseril SomasundaranLaVon Duddleson Krumb Professor of Mineral EngineeringSurface and colloid science; nanoparticles, biosurfaces, and biosensors; enhanced oil and coal recovery; polymer / surfactant / protein interactions; arsenic remediation; Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Marc W. SpiegelmanAssociate Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences (Arts and Sciences) and of Applied Physics and Applied MathematicsCoupled fluid/solid mechanics, reactive fluid flow, solid earth & magma dynamics, scientific computation/modeling, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Clifford SteinProfessor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchDesign and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, scheduling, network algorithms, computational biology, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations ResearchComputer Science
Salvatore J. StolfoProfessor of Computer ScienceComputer Security and Privacy, Intrusion Detection Systems, Parallel Computing, AI, Machine Learning, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Horst StormerProfessor of Physics (Arts and Sciences) and of Applied PhysicsSemiconductors, electronic transport, lower-dimensional physics, Applied Physics. Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
John E. TaylorAssistant Professor of Civil EngineeringDigital Fabrication Technologies and Processes, Global Project Network Dynamics, Global Virtual Teams, Project Network Boundary Objects, Project Network Simulation, Robust Project Network Design, Technology Implementation in Project Networks, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Elon TerrellAssistant ProfessorThermal-fluid sciences, energy, and tribology (the study of friction, lubrication, and wear), Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Rene B. TestaProfessor of Civil EngineeringStructural Materials, Fatigue, Fracture, Field Testing, Failure Analysis, Damage Mechanics, Civil Engineering.Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Nicholas J. ThemelisStanley-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 EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Joseph E. TraubEdwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer ScienceQuantum computing, information-based complexity, financial computation, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Yannis TsividisBatchelor Memorial Professor of Electrical EngineeringAnalog and mixed-signal VLSI circuits and signal processing, Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Nicholas J. TurroWilliam P. Schweitzer Professor of ChemistrySpectroscopic methods for the elucidation of the structure and dynamics of adsorbed molecules; investigation of nanoparticles for catalysis for pollution control, Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Nicholas J. TurroWilliam P. Schweitzer Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Environmental Engineering and Materials Scienceemployment of spectroscopic and photochemical methods to characterize the structure of molecules absorbed at the interfaces of polymer systems and nanoparticlesChemical Engineering
Rimas VaicaitisRenwick Professor of Civil EngineeringRandom Vibrations, Structural Dynamics, Structural Acoustics, Fatigue, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Latha VenkataramanAssistant Professor of Applied PhysicsSingle molecule transport, single molecule force spectroscopy, electron transport in nanowires, scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, Applied Physics.Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Gordana Vunjak-NovakovicProfessor of Biomedical EngineeringTissue engineering, human stem cells (adult and embryonic), advanced bioreactors, biophysical regulation of cell function and tissue development, Biomedical Engineering.Biomedical Engineering
Haim WaismanAssistant 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 EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Wen I. WangThayer Lindsley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Applied PhysicsMicrodevices and physical principles; ultrahigh speed electronics, heterogeneous materials integration, and semiconductor optoelectronics, including lasers and photodetectors; Heterostructure devices and physics, materials properties, molecular beam epitaxy, Electrical Engineering, Applied PhysicsElectrical EngineeringApplied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Xiadong WangAssociate Professor of Electrical EngineeringSignal and information processing, Systems biology: statistical signal processing for genomics and proteomics; Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Michael I. WeinsteinProfessor of Applied MathematicsApplied 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. WestProfessor of Chemical EngineeringInterfacial engineering and electrochemistry, Chemical EngineeringChemical Engineering
Ward WhittWai T. Chang Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchOperations 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 ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Chris H. WigginsAssociate Professor of Applied MathematicsApplied mathematics, mathematical biology, biopolymer dynamics, soft condensed matter, genetic networks and network inference, machine learning, Applied Mathematics.Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Chee Wei WongAssistant Professor of Mechanical EngineeringSolid-State Physics: Nanotechnology, Optics, Photonics, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Quantum Information Sciences, Quantum Dots, Energy, Nanostructures, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
Henryk WozniakowskiProfessor of Computer ScienceComputational complexity, information-based complexity, quantum computing, algorithmic analysis, numerical mathematics, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Cheng Shie WuuAssociate 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
Xuedong HeAssistant ProfessorBehavioral finance, portfolio choice and stochastic control, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Junfeng YangAssistant ProfessorOperating systems, software reliability, security, storage systems, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Mihalis YannakakisPercy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer ScienceAlgorithms, complexity theory, combinatorial optimization, databases, testing and verification, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Y. Lawrence YaoProfessor of Mechanical EngineeringLaser materials processing, Nontraditional manufacturing, Robotics in industry and health care, Mechanical EngineeringMechanical Engineering
David YaoProfessor of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchStochastic models, queueing networks, supply chains, financial engineering, systems and control, Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchIndustrial Engineering and Operations Research
Tuncel M. YegulalpProfessor of MiningMineral economics; systems analysis; extreme value statistics applications; zero-emission power plant modeling and design; CO2 sequestration; Earth and Environmental EngineeringEarth and Environmental Engineering
Yechiam YeminiProfessor of Computer ScienceComputer networks, Computer ScienceComputer Science
Huiming YinAssistant ProfessorSustainable Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Earthquake Engineering, Modern Building Materials, Solid Mechanics, Micromechanics, Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Civil EngineeringCivil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Charles ZukowskiProfessor of Electrical EngineeringIntegrated circuits and systems, Systems Biology : hardware for simulation of gene regulatory networks; Electrical EngineeringElectrical Engineering