McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University
Faculty Directory
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FACULTY
RESEARCH AREA
Complex systems and geophysics
Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick School Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering
Propagation of mechanical disturbances in solids; ultrasonic methods for quantitative nondestructive evaluation. Mechanics of materials and structures and structural safety, with emphasis on the mechanics of fracture, damage and creep, size effects and scaling, probabilistic mechanics, nano-mechanics, and hygrothermal effects, and with applications to concrete, fiber composites, tough ceramics, rocks, soils, bone, snow and sea ice.
Complex networks in nature; system-level modeling of biological processes; study of innovation and creativity
Bio-artificial organ systems; cell delivery and transplantation; tissue engineering
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Director of Master of Engineering Management Program, Director of Undergraduate Programs for The Segal Design Institute
Statistical design of industrial and simulation experiments; engineering design and development; quality improvement and quality control; applied statistical methods
Statistical modeling and analysis of engineering systems; statistical learning and data mining; quality engineering and six sigma; manufacturing process diagnosis and control
June and Donald Brewer Junior Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Robotics, Signals and Systems, Machine Learning, Sensors, Machine and Human Interactions
Engineering applications in health care
metamaterials, plasmonics, nanophotonic devices, solid-state electronics, photovoltaics, nanofabrication
Optical imaging, Minimally invasive optical diagnosis and imaging of early cancer, Coherent backscattering spectroscopy for tissue diagnosis, Fractal organization of cells and tissues, Analysis of nano- and micro-architecture of living tissues using light scattering spectroscopy, Light scattering and propagation in random/turbid media.
Computational systems biology and complex regulatory networks.
Dynamical systems and control theory.
Applications to immunology, cancer, and circadian rhythms.
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Dynamic deformation and Waves, Nondestructive materials characterization
Deposition, structure, and properties of thin-film ceramic and semiconductor materials; solid oxide fuel cells
Numerical methods for partial differential equations; spectral methods; combustion; fluid dynamics; wave propagation
McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering
Mechanics of materials and structures and structural safety, with emphasis on the mechanics of fracture, damage and creep, size effects and scaling, impact, modeling, probabilistic mechanics, nano-mechanics, poromechanics and hygrothermal effects, and with applications to concrete, fiber composites, tough ceramics, rocks, soils, bone, snow and sea ice, bridges, tall buildings, aircraft, ships, nuclear structures.
Chair and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Director, Northwestern Synchroton Research Center
X-ray scattering; spectroscopy of interface structures
McCormick Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computation Mechanics and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computational mechanics; finite element and element-free Galerkin methods; multi-scale computational methods
Various aspects of resource allocation in wireless networks; traffic grooming in WDM based optical networks; traffic control in TCP/IP networks
Natural language processing; case-based reasoning; machine learning; human-computer interaction; educational software; computer vision
Biogeochemical transformations of carbon with an emphasis on process-oriented studies of the evolution and fate of organic matter in surficial environments
Architecture
Chair of Mechanical Engineering, Jerome B.Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Multiscale mechanics of advanced materials, including shape memory alloys, polymer nanocomposites, and biomaterials: synthesis, characterization and modeling
Multi-scale modeling of complex reacting systems; design of nano-structured catalysts; discovery of novel biochemical pathways; polymerization and depolymerization kinetics
Physics of complex systems; dynamics of human infections diseases; social dynamics and human transport; human mediated bio-invasion anomalous diffusion and fractional transport phenomena; stochastic processes on complex topologies; reaction-diffusion dynamics on networks
Polymer science; rheology; non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials with emphasis on the effects of non-mechanical perturbations; mechanics of unsaturated soils; theory of material stability and its application to geo-engineering problems.
Design, deployment and evaluation of large-scale distributed systems in both wide-area and mobile networks
Digital signal processing; median and related filtering
Microforming; surface texturing; sheet metal forming; composite sheet forming; instability analysis; laser processes
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Associate Dean of Undergraduate Engineering
Novel polymer solids; materials selection
Development of MRk-space sampling and image reconstruction strategies for acquisition of high spatial resolution time-resolved MR angiograms
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Materials Research Institute
Nanoscale materials design; synthesis; and device fabrication
Design optimization; design under uncertainty; multidisciplinary design optimization; simulation based design; design theory & methodology
Computer networking and large-scale distributed systems; network measurement, diagnosis, and security, as well as overlay and wireless networks
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Director of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics program; Charles Deering McCormick professor of teaching excellence
Numerical methods; scientific computations; motion of interfaces. Applications include bacterial biofilms, neurophysiology, crack propagation, and solidification.
Structural reliability and safety, structural health monitoring, engineering education, development of engineering learning tools
High-performance computing; data intensive computing; scalable data mining; computer architecture; high-performance I/O systems and software
Surface science, tribology, design and characterization of coatings and alloys
Mechanics of coagulation/flocculation and membranes in drinking water treatment
Engineering education research; Analytical and computational skills in capstone design
Robotics; human-machine interaction; haptic interface; cobots
Clinical Professor of Technology Industry Management and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Strategic use of intangible assets and intellectual properties to build and sustain competitive advantage
Social and knowledge networks; theories, statistical and computational methods
Structural engineering and mechanics, structural sensing and diagnostics, failure analysis and forensic engineering, performance of civil engineering materials, stochastic methods and structural reliability
Mechanics of Infrastructure Materials and Constitutive Modeling of Concrete and Cementitious Composites
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Director of the Center for Intelligent Processing of Composites
Processing; characterization; micromechanics; fracture; fatigue; dynamic behavior; environmental effects; damage mechanics; nondestructive evaluation; life prediction
Theoretical fluid mechanics; hydrodynamic stability and interfacial phenomena; material science; thin films and crystal growth; asymptotic and variational methods
Resource management and prediction for distributed computing and distributive interactive applications; peer-to-peer systems
Operations Research with emphasis on large scale and computationally demanding dynamic programming problems, optimal path finding in
evolving systems, and effective planning under limited information.Applications include problems in humanitarian logistics, optimum vessel performance in evolving nonlinear wavefields, and autonomous navigation for amphibious vehicles.
Construction vibrations; time domain reflectometry technology; subsurface exploration decisions
Information extraction; machine learning; data mining
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center
Understanding and manipulating complex atomic and nanoscale features and phenomena
James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Director, Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN)
Processing, structure and properties of metallic alloys, composites and foams
Transportation infrastructure management; modeling and analysis of production control systems; stochastic and adaptive control; statistics and economics
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Micro/meso-scale manufacturing; precision engineering; machine tool dynamics and control; material removal processes; automation and robotics
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship and Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program
Micro-electro-mechanical systems; nano-electro-mechanical systems; thin films and MEMS materials; mechanics of biomaterials; dynamic failure of advanced materials
Multifunctional ceramics, ceramic composites, and coatings
Programming languages; PDEs, contracts, and tools to help semantics engineers
Walter P. Murphy and Technological Institute Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering in Service and Member of the Graduate Faculty
Alloy design and development; Alloys strengthened by nano precipitates
Combining theory and practice to reconcile full-scale field performance with analytical and numerical predictions
Qualitative reasoning; spatial reasoning; analogical reasoning and learning; learning from natural language; inference engine design
Theoretical computer science, specifically computational complexity; formulate and relate models of computation; explore effects of computationally bounded agents in a variety of economics models
Algebraic modeling languages; detection and transformation of optimization problem types; optimization cyberinfrastructures
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Theoretical/computational condensed matter physics and materials science
Nonlinear control theory; robust control and optimal control; nonlinear system theory; control and estimation for multi-agent systems
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Earth and Planetary Sciences
Environmental Geochemistry: Metal Speciation and Biogeochemical Cycling of Metals and Metalloids
Design and innovation work practices
Fluid mechanics; micro-scale flows near changed interfaces
Pulmonary mechanics and lung liquid transport; blood pressure and flow in the retinal circulation; noninvasive sensing of blood flow and analytes
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Catalysis; environmental chemistry; treatment technology.
Electron valleys; hole spins; thermo-electrics; quantum hall edges
K. Burgess Professor of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Systems Engineering Director of the DoE Non-equilibrium Research Center (NERC)
Complex dissipative systems; theory of non-equilibrium self-organization; self-assembly
Capacity and optimal design of mobile ad hoc networks; fundamental relationships of information theory and estimation theory; the application of statistical physics and random matrix theory in communication problems
Clinical Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Associate Director, Master of Project Management
Life Cycle Analysis, Productivity Improvement, Labor Motivational Techniques, Construction Cost Engineering, Infrastructure Rehabilitation, Construction Methods and Innovations, International Construction.
Stochastic hybrid systems; channel allocation for multiple services digital networks; estimation, detection, and filtering of hybrid and nonlinear systems; applications to communications networks and manufacturing control; singular perturbation theory
Creating systems for education, performance support, and entertainment that exploit principles of cognitive science and artificial intelligence
Computer engineering and systems
Theoretical computer science; game theory; economics; design and analysis of auction mechanisms and pricing algorithms
Neurobiology and biomechanics of active sensing behaviors
Decision analysis, utility and preference modeling; medical decision analysis; cost-effectiveness analysis of medical treatment decisions; normative expert systems
Automated reasoning/first-order logic; deductive databases; distributed heterogenous databases; visual interfaces for program development
Clinical Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Master of Product Development Program
Product Development and marketing
Nanoelectronics; nanophotonics; sensors; alternative energy; catalysis; semiconductors; carbon nanotubes; graphene; organic and biological functionalization; nanolithography; scanning probe microscopy
Active substrates for the study of cellular gene program response to nanoscale stimuli; protein-functionalized membranes; nanoscale medicine
Nano-photonics; optical communications; photonics integration; organic photonics; photonic materials research; heterogeneous photonics; ultrafast nonlinear photonics; micro-optics; device simulation; quantum optics
Mobile, wireless, and multiuser communications; adaptive signal processing; network resource allocation
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Education and Social Policy
Human-computer interaction, use of emerging technologies in learning settings
Control systems for autonomous agents; modeling and simulation of emotion, personality, and social behavior for virtual characters for games and interactive narrative
Synthesis, assembly and properties of metal nanoparticles, organic nanowires and graphene based materials
Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of materials and structures; fracture mechanics; composite materials; micromechanics; atomistic-based continuum mechanics; mechanics of stretchable electronics
Algorithmic game theory; auction design; e-commerce structure; formation and design of social networks approximation algorithms; network design and clustering
Applications of stochastic processes and queuing theory in the design and control of manufacturing, service operations systems and supply chains.
Synthetic biology, cell-free biology, biotechnology, artificial cells, systems biology, metabolic engineering
Bio-mineralization; (reverse) engineering biological composite materials synthesis
Cellular mechanics and the hydrodynamics of glaucoma; the role of lipids in age-related macular degeneration; transport through connective tissues; esophageal transport; chaos and diffusion.
Computer architecture; microprocessor design for reliability and variability tolerance; system software for multicore (CMP) architectures; power-aware computing
Application, design, analysis, and implementation of discrete algorithms and combinatorial optimization
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics; Co-Director of Institute on Complex Systems
Computational neuroscience; fiber optics; wave propagation; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems
Multimedia signal processing; multimedia communications; computer vision; pattern recognition; DNA signal processing
Walter P. Murphy Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Engineering mechanics, tribology
Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, microbial engineering, systems biology, resource-poor healthcare delivery, biofuels
Medical instrumentation; biosensors; kinetics of antibody and DNA binding reactions in solution and on solid phases; pharmacokinetics; optimization of drug administration
Atomistic and multi-scale modeling and simulation, mechanics and dynamics of organic, biological and bioinspired materials.
Analytics, business intelligence, smart grid, transportation, supply chain management, optimization
Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Computational neuroscience
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Director of Center of Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention
Intelligent structural health management of safety critical structures
Injectability; mechanical properties of grouted sands; disposal of waste slurries; soil-structure interaction; engineering behavior of dredged materials; dynamic response of soils
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Physics; AT&T Professor of Information Technology; Director of Center for Photonic Communication and Computing
Quantum communications and computing; nonlinear and quantum optics; fiberoptic communications; all-optical networks
Catalysis; novel materials; sustainability; renewable energy; environmental chemistry; reaction engineering
Computer networking with emphasis on design, measurements, analysis, denial of service resiliency, and prototype implementation of protocols and algorithms for the Internet
Synthesis and nanoscale characterization of low-dimensional materials
Statistical signal processing; wireless data network protocol design; network modeling and performance evaluation; packet scheduling and QoS control; process scheduling; computer algorithm design and complexity analysis; automated document recognition; robust speaker verification
Synthetic biology, cellular and protein engineering, gene therapy, systems biology, immunology, cancer
Organization studies; communication studies; technology studies
Fluid dynamics; Hamiltonian systems; protein folding
Computer vision; pattern recognition; neural networks; computer graphics
Medical device innovation process, health technology assessment, FDA regulation of medical devices
Financial engineering; credit risk modeling; pricing and hedging of barrier and look-back options; modeling the term structure of interest rates
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neurobiology, and Ophthalmology; Director of Northwestern Center for Engineering Education Research
Microenvironment of the mammalian retina, including oxygen and pH regulation, in health and disease; engineering education research.
Micro-fabrication technology; nanofabrication; bio-inspired sensors; smart integrated systems
Cardiovascular regenerative engineering; hepatic cell mobilization in response to myocardial ischemia; hepatic cell mediation of cardioprotection; pattern formation of vascular smooth muscle cells
Computational nanotechnology; multi-scale analysis and design; modeling of MEMS and NEMS devices; computational biology; reproducing kernel particle and wavelets methods
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Co-Director of Master of Program Development program; Senior Associate Dean for Research
Experimental fluid mechanics and applications
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Computational statistical mechanics of complex fluids; electrostatically driven self-assembly phenomena; phase behavior and kinetics of colloidal suspensions and polymeric systems; Monte Carlo algorithms
Motion planning and control for robotic manipulation and under-actuated systems; decentralized control of multi-robot systems; physical human-robot interaction
Robotic models and large-scale simulations of animal behavior, mechanics, and
sensory function. Robotic electrosense and bio-inspired propulsion systems. Neural
circuits and sensory processing for natural behaviors. Evolution.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation
Multimodal transportation systems analysis; planning and operations; dynamic network modeling and optimization; transit network planning and design; user behavior and telematics; telecommunication-transportation interactions; large-scale human infrastructure systems; real-time operation of logistics and distribution systems
Clinical Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Fostering innovation via entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; growing a company with little or no capital
Effects of global climate change in the dynamics of biological partnerships involving microbes; in particular reef-forming corals and their associated algae. Light scattering and propagation in coral tissue and skeleton. Characterization of microbes at the cell and genetic level. Characterization of the symbiotic relationship and of its limitations (i.e., coral bleaching when corals undergo thermal stress).
Cardiovascular Diseases; Cardiovascular Imaging; Radiology
Nanoparticles, Nanotribology, Surface Science, Transmission Electron Microscopy and Electron Crystallography
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
Hard and soft electronic and photonic materials
Energy Technology Systems, Product Life-Cycle Systems, Multi-Scale and Techno-Economic Models of Industrial Energy and Resource Systems
Electroceramics, ceramics for energy-conversion, nanoceramics
John Evans Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering
Asymptotic and perturbation methods; bifurcation and stability; nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; combustion; stochastic dynamical systems
Stochastic and discrete optimization algorithms; decision under uncertainty; healthcare systems; portfolio optimization
Incorporating holistic effects into the computer architecture design process; application-specific processors; physical-aware architecture
Thermal-aware synthesis; automated design of thermal sensor infrastructures for complex systems; reconfigurable architectures and synthesis tools; synthesis for reconfigurable streaming processors
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Biomimetic/bioinspired materials; bio-interfaces and antifouling polymers; nanoscience/nanotechnology
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics; materials science and biology, especially free boundary problems, multiphase flows, and stability theory; asymptotic and perturbation methods; computational methods
Cell and tissue culture applications in biotechnology and medicine
George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the nano scale and utilizing such structures in the development of analytical tools
Single photon detectors; electro-optical modulators; photonic integrated circuits; nanophotonics; novel optoelectronic devices; novel infrared detectors
Modeling and control of complex mechanisms
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Biomechanics as a framework for investigating how we move and control our arms and hands
Stochastic modeling and analysis; design and analysis of simulation experiments; queuing; financial risk measurement
Network optimization; traffic flow theory; traffic simulation
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences; Director of Computational Science Institute
Optimization; scientific computing; software; applications of optimization in computer-aided design, finance, atmospheric sciences, classification, and medical imaging; parallel computing
Multifunctional materials and catalysts; molecularly structured surfaces; energy
Nanoscale patterning combined with chemical synthesis; plasmonic materials and their optical properties
Bioengineering education
Reaction-diffusion processes; anomalous diffusion; fluid mechanics; shear localization; bifurcation theory; integral equations; singular perturbations; mathematical finance
Dynamic multilevel structure; systems design of materials
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Polymer theory; phase transformations; poly-electrolytes
Dean, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Complex systems; dynamics of granular matter, mixing and segregation processes
Environmental and microbial transport processes
Image and video compression; perceptual models for image processing; image and video analysis; audio-visual speech processing; model-based half-toning; color reproduction
Search engines for music databases; machine accompaniment of human musicians; separation of sound sources in a stereo mix
Fast and efficient algorithms for fully resolved simulation of immersed bodies in fluids
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Multi-joint control of movement and posture in able-bodied individuals and individuals with neuromotor pathologies
Stochastic systems and applied probability,performance analysis and control of queuing networks arising in service and manufacturing systems, applications of queuing theory in control and design of call centers, inventory with pricing control.
Robotics; cobots; novel sensors and actuators, human-human and human-machine interaction; rehabilitation robotics
Senior Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Understanding the behavior of magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic oxide nanostructures, and in particular determining the role that interfaces play in controlling this behavior
Mechanics of materials; Micromechanics; Fracture mechanics; Reliability of microelectronics packaging; Wave propagation and nondestructive evaluation.
Modeling of energy capture and storage systems; electron transfer and molecular electronics; dynamics of polymer electrolyte transport; self-consistent field models for coupled vibration reaction dynamics; meanfield models for extended systems; photonics in nanoscale systems; energetics of DNA/protein binding
High-power quantum cascade lasers; type-II superlattice infrared photo-detectors; quantum dot photo-detectors; UV and visible lasers; LEDs; photo-detectors; avalanche diodes; quantum well infrared photo-detectors
Spatially extended dynamical systems; bifurcation theory with symmetry; complex patterns; spatiotemporal chaos; dynamics of neuronal networks with heterogeneous connectivity; information processing by neuronal networks in the olfactory bulb and the retina; adaptive neural networks
Case-based reasoning; memory-based language understanding; intelligent interfaces for knowledge acquisition and teaching
Inelastic behavior and failure of solids, especially geomaterials; coupling of deformation with pore fluid diffusion
Fluid dynamics; statistical physics; geophysics
Cardiac electrophysiology (especially atrial fibrillation and its treatment by automatic implanted devices); diagnostic instrumentation for medical and aerospace applications
Physical database design; parallel I/O systems; distributed and federated database systems; web caching and replication; data mining; mobile computing
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Director of the Infrastructure Technology Institute
Planning and management of transportation systems; provision and use of data and information for effective decision making and evaluation of systems, plans, and projects
High-temperature structural metallic alloys; phase transformations in metallic alloys; atomic-scale interfacial phenomena in metals andsemiconductors; silicidation reactions; three-dimensional atom-probetomography and field-ion microscopy.
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
Processing and characterization of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Connecting microscopic behavior to structural response of concrete
Nanotechnologies at atomic level; quantum memory; quantum computing; quantum communication; atom-interferometric nanolithography; atomic gyroscopes; high density optical data storage; data buffers using slow light; super-parallel database search engines; high-efficiency optical phase conjugation
Tissue engineering; drug delivery; gene therapy
Polymer surfaces and interfaces; micromechanics of soft materials
Dynamical systems and their applications; group theoretic methods in bifurcation theory; symmetry-breaking bifurcations and pattern-forming instabilities
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Junior William A. Patterson Chair in Transportation
Period vehicle routing problem with service choice; multi-resource routing problems; inventory and routing problems in food distribution; last mile distribution in humanitarian relief
Molecular modeling; development of new materials; diffusion in nanoporous materials; adsorption; catalysis; membrane separations; energy storage
Combustion, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics; scale-invariant forms of conservation equations in reactive fields
Engineering education, laboratory exercises in materials science, technical writing
Financial engineering; computer simulation applied to problems of risk management or pricing derivative securities; efficient algorithms for risk management
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, and Medicine Director, Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine
Biomaterials; nanoscience, synthesis & devices; materials properties and characterization
Scalable 3D Nano-fabrication of Integrated Nano-systems
Christina Enroth-Cugell Chair and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering; Professor of Chemistry; Professor of Medicine
Protein adsorption and biocompatible materials; lipid layers and model cell membranes; drug delivery systems; ligand-receptor binding and responsive materials
Bette and Neison Harris Chair in Teaching Excellence and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) techniques and applications visible light ultra-microscopy and high-density optical storage; optical scattering by biological to detect early stage colon, pancreatic, and lung cancer
Multiple comparison procedures with applications to multiple endpoints and dose findings in clinical trials; design of experiments; clustering
Field research methods; systems engineering; systems project management
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Dynamics; films; polymerization; phase behavior of polymers
Mobile data management and moving objects databases; data management in sensor networks; reactive behavior in dynamic and distributed environments
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Neuro-physiological substrates of motor coordination; synchronization in spinal cord function; causation of behaviors through the combination of muscle synergies
Processing and analysis of images by the mammalian visual system; functional circuitry of the retina; signal theory applied to visual physiology; light adaptation; neural coding; visual prostheses; electrode technology for neural recording and stimulation
Computational photography & illumination; computer vision and interactive computer graphics; high dynamic range (HDR) images and image processing; digital archives of visual appearance for museum collections; human visual perception
Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; bifurcation and stability; traveling waves in reaction-diffusion systems; combustion; frontal polymerization
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations: solid oxide fuel cells, nanowire growth processes, measurement and analysis of materials microstructure in three-dimensions, and phase field models for interfacial evolution.
Large-scale nonlinear continuous optimization, mixed-inter nonlinear optimization, open source software implementation, application of optimization algorithms to industrial and scientific problems
Optical stimulation of nervous tissue; polarization based imaging; surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy (SERS) for quantification of analytes
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
Contact and Interfacial Mechanics, Tribology, and Tribological Design of Mechanical Systems.
Environmental/Medical Microbiology and Aquatic Chemistry
Dislocation theory; mechanical properties of metals
Mechanical behavior and characterization of advanced materials,
especially nanostructured metals
Geographically distributed teams, leadership, organizational development and complex systems theory, chaos theory
Electronic and Photonic Materials, Oxide Thin Films, Spintronic III-IV Semiconductors
Behavior-based leadership; industrial psychology/organizational behavior; engineering entrepreneurship
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Education and Social Policy
Modeling and representational infrastructure software; developing tools that enable users to simulate, explore and make sense of complex systems; developing new multi-agent modeling languages
Clinical Associate Professor and Assistant Chair of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization as well as the study of Operations Research Education
Energy materials and atomic-scale computational materials science.
Bio-mimicking muscle damping control; autonomous robotics; assembly/disassembly automation; product life evaluation
Structural and functional relations of proteins and DNA, especially those pertaining to immuno-globulins and related proteins
Computer vision; visual motion tracking/capturing/recognition; statistical learning and pattern recognition; vision-based interaction, image/video analysis and understanding; multimedia processing, management and data analysis; biomedical image processing and medical applications
Process systems engineering; Analysis, design and optimization of renewable energy systems; sustainable process design and synthesis; planning and scheduling; supply chain management; computational modeling and optimization of complex systems
Quantum optics; new quantum devices; quantum cryptography; new computers based on optical technologies
Biomedical optics: photoacoustic microscopy, multimodal imaging, photon-tissue interaction, retinal imaging, diabetic retinopathy, retinal aging.
Algorithm design; formal methods and their applications to VLSI CAD; security
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