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Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
dmabrams( at )northwestern.edu
Complex systems; nonlinear dynamics; coupled oscillators; dynamics on networks; mathematical models of social systems; mathematical geoscience
Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick School Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering
Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick School Professor Emeritus
achenbach( at )northwestern.edu
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.
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
amaral( at )northwestern.edu
Complex networks in nature; system-level modeling of biological processes; study of innovation and creativity
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
g-ameer( at )northwestern.edu
Bio-artificial organ systems; cell delivery and transplantation; tissue engineering
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
Director of Undergraduate Programs for the Segal Design Institute
ankenman( at )northwestern.edu
Statistical design of industrial and simulation experiments; engineering design and development; quality improvement and quality control; applied statistical methods
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
apley( at )northwestern.edu
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
brenna.argall( at )northwestern.edu
Robotics; machine learning; machine and human interactions; applications to rehabilitation.
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
armbruster( at )northwestern.edu
Engineering applications in health care
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
aydin( at )northwestern.edu
Metamaterials; plasmonics; nanophotonic devices; solid-state electronics; photovoltaics; nanofabrication
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Walter Dill Scott Professor
v-backman( at )northwestern.edu
Biophotonic; nanoscale imaging; optical and molecular technologies for cancer research and diagnosis; biophysics of cellular nanostructure and nanoenvironment; cancer biomarkers
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
n-bagheri( at )northwestern.edu
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
o-balogun( at )northwestern.edu
Ultrasonic Near Field Optical Microscopy;
Optical Sensors;
Nondestructive Materials Characterization;
Dynamic Deformation of Materials;
Nanomechanical Resonators;
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
s-barnett( at )northwestern.edu
Deposition, structure, and properties of thin-film ceramic and semiconductor materials; solid oxide fuel cells
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
a-bayliss( at )northwestern.edu
Numerical methods for partial differential equations; spectral methods; combustion; fluid dynamics; wave propagation
McCormick Institute Professor, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering
z-bazant( at )northwestern.edu
Mechanics of materials and structures and structural safety, with emphasis on the mechanics of fracture, damage mechanics, size effects and scaling, probabilistic mechanics, nano-mechanics, concrete creep and hygrothermal effects, structural stability and finite strain continuum mechanics; applied to concrete, fiber composites, soft-in-shear (sandwich) structures, tough ceramics, rocks, soils, rigid foams, bone, snow and sea ice. Structural applications: Concrete structures (bridges, tall buildings, dams, nuclear reactor structures), large ship hulls, automobile crashworthiness, thin films.
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Physics and Astronomy
Co-Director, Northwestern Synchroton Research Center
Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
bedzyk( at )northwestern.edu
X-ray scattering; spectroscopy of interface structures
McCormick Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computation Mechanics and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
tedbelytschko( at )northwestern.edu
Computational mechanics; finite element and element-free Galerkin methods; multi-scale computational methods
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
rberry( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Various aspects of resource allocation in wireless networks; traffic grooming in WDM based optical networks; traffic control in TCP/IP networks
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
l-birnbaum( at )northwestern.edu
Natural language processing; case-based reasoning; machine learning; human-computer interaction; educational software; computer vision
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences
n-blair( at )northwestern.edu
Biogeochemical transformations of carbon with an emphasis on process-oriented studies of the evolution and fate of organic matter in surficial environments
Richard C. Halpern/Rise International Distinguished Architect in Residence
Clinical Professor
lbooth( at )boothhansen.com
Architecture
Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Jerome B. Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
cbrinson( at )northwestern.edu
Multiscale mechanics of advanced materials, including shape memory alloys, polymer nanocomposites, and biomaterials: synthesis, characterization and modeling
Chair and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor
broadbelt( at )northwestern.edu
Multi-scale modeling of complex reacting systems; design of nano-structured catalysts; discovery of novel biochemical pathways; polymerization and depolymerization kinetics
Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
brockmann( at )northwestern.edu
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
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
w-burghardt( at )northwestern.edu
Polymer science; rheology; non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
Assistant Chair and Lecturer
dburton( at )northwestern.edu
Responsible for coordination and oversight of numerous educational and outreach aspects of the department. Activities include: development of focused MS tracks within ME and coordinated with other departments; support and coordination of education and outreach components of large research initiatives; overseeing and coordinating outreach, including industrial relationships and educational partnerships; management of departmental visibility, including brochures and web presence; undergraduate and graduate advising and curriculum assistance; and alumni tracking and development.
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
g-buscarnera( at )northwestern.edu
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
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
fabianb( at )northwestern.edu
Design, deployment, and evaluation of large-scale distributed systems in both wide-area and mobile networks
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
butz( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Digital signal processing; median and related filtering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering
jcao( at )northwestern.edu
Microforming; surface texturing; sheet metal forming; composite sheet forming; instability analysis; laser processes
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Engineering
s-carr( at )northwestern.edu
Novel polymer solids; materials selection
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
t-carroll( at )northwestern.edu
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
r-chang( at )northwestern.edu
Nanoscale materials design; synthesis; and device fabrication
Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design and Professor of Mechanical Engineering
weichen( at )northwestern.edu
Design optimization; design under uncertainty; multidisciplinary design optimization; simulation based design; design theory and methodology
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ychen( at )northwestern.edu
Computer network security, measurement and diagnosis for large scale networks and distributed systems
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
chopp( at )northwestern.edu
Numerical methods; scientific computations; motion of interfaces. Applications include bacterial biofilms; neurophysiology; crack propagation; and solidification, among others.
Assistant Chair of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Clinical Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
karen-chou( at )northwestern.edu
Structural reliability and safety; structural health monitoring; engineering education; development of engineering learning tools
John G. Searle Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
a-choudhary( at )northwestern.edu
High-performance computing; data intensive computing; scalable data mining; computer architecture; high-performance I/O systems and software
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
ywchung( at )northwestern.edu
Surface science, tribology, design and characterization of hard coatings and thing films, and alloy development
Clinical Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
mark-clark( at )northwestern.edu
Mechanics of coagulation/flocculation and membranes in drinking water treatment
Assistant Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering
jennifer-cole( at )northwestern.edu
Engineering education research; analytical and computational skills in capstone design
Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Senior Professor in Design
colgate( at )northwestern.edu
Robotics; human-machine interaction; haptic interface; cobots
Clinical Professor of Technology Industry Management and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
j-conleya( at )northwestern.edu
Strategic use of intangible assets and intellectual properties to build and sustain competitive advantage
Jane & William White Professor of Behavioral Sciences
nosh( at )northwestern.edu
Social and knowledge networks; theories, statistical and computational methods
Clinical Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
d-corr( at )northwestern.edu
Structural engineering and mechanics; structural sensing and diagnostics; failure analysis and forensic engineering; performance of civil engineering materials; stochastic methods and structural reliability
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Junior Professor in Computer Science
oliver.cossairt( at )northwestern.edu
Optics; image processing; computer vision; computational imaging and displays; and computer graphics
Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering
b-crist( at )northwestern.edu
Polymer solids and blends
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
g-cusatis( at )northwestern.edu
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
imdaniel( at )northwestern.edu
Processing; characterization; micromechanics; fracture; fatigue; dynamic behavior; environmental effects; damage mechanics; nondestructive evaluation; life prediction
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
sdavis( at )northwestern.edu
Theoretical fluid mechanics; hydrodynamic stability and interfacial phenomena; material science; thin films and crystal growth; asymptotic and variational methods
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
pdinda( at )northwestern.edu
Resource management and prediction for distributed computing and distributive interactive applications; peer-to-peer systems
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
William A. Patterson Junior Professor
dolira( at )northwestern.edu
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
Associate Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
c-dowding( at )northwestern.edu
Construction vibrations; time domain reflectometry technology; subsurface exploration decisions
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
d-downey( at )northwestern.edu
Information extraction; machine learning; data mining
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Abraham Harris Professor
Director, Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization (NUANCE) Center
v-dravid( at )northwestern.edu
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)
dunand( at )northwestern.edu
Processing, structure, and properties of metallic alloys, composites, and foams
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
pdc( at )northwestern.edu
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
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
k-ehmann( at )northwestern.edu
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
Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program
espinosa( at )northwestern.edu
Micro-electro-mechanical systems; nano-electro-mechanical systems; thin films and MEMS materials; mechanics of biomaterials; dynamic failure of advanced materials
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
k-faber( at )northwestern.edu
Multifunctional ceramics; ceramic composites; and coatings
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
robby( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Programming languages; PDEs, contracts, and tools to help semantics engineers
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering in Service
Technological Institute Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering in Service
Member of the Graduate Faculty
m-fine412( at )northwestern.edu
Alloy design and development; Alloys strengthened by nano precipitates
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
r-finno( at )northwestern.edu
Combining theory and practice to reconcile full-scale field performance with analytical and numerical predictions
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
forbus( at )northwestern.edu
Qualitative reasoning; spatial reasoning; analogical reasoning and learning; learning from natural language; inference engine design
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
4er( at )northwestern.edu
Algebraic modeling languages; detection and transformation of optimization problem types; optimization cyberinfrastructures
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy
ajf328( at )northwestern.edu
Theoretical/computational condensed matter physics and materials science
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
freeman( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
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
jf-gaillard( at )northwestern.edu
Environmental geochemistry: metal speciation and biogeochemical cycling of metals and metalloids
Clinical Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Clinical Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering
d-gatchell( at )northwestern.edu
Engineering design
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Allen K. and Johnnie Cordell Breed Junior Professor of Design
egerber( at )northwestern.edu
Design and innovation; human-computer interaction; crowdsourcing; motivation
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
s-ghosal( at )northwestern.edu
Fluid mechanics; micro-scale flows near changed interfaces; mathematical biology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
m-glucksberg( at )northwestern.edu
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
k-gray( at )northwestern.edu
Catalysis; environmental chemistry; treatment technology
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
mgrayson( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Magnetotransport; quantum Hall effect; semiconductor quantum devices; amorphous oxide semiconductors; novel thermoelectric materials
Kenneth Burgess Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Director of Non-Equilibrium Energy Research Center (NERC)
grzybor( at )northwestern.edu
Complex dissipative systems; theory of non-equilibrium self-organization; self-assembly
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
dguo( at )northwestern.edu
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
Associate Director, Master of Project Management
a-hadavi( at )northwestern.edu
Life cycle analysis; productivity improvement; labor motivational techniques; construction cost engineering; infrastructure rehabilitation; construction methods and innovations; international construction
Henry Isabelle Dever Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ahaddad( at )ece.northwestern.edu
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
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
hammond( at )infolab.northwestern.edu
Creating systems for education, performance support, and entertainment that exploit principles of cognitive science and artificial intelligence
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
nikos( at )northwestern.edu
Parallel computer architecture, memory systems, runtime environments, optical interconnects, elastic fidelity computing, design for dark silicon, data-oriented software architectures
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
hartline( at )northwestern.edu
Theoretical computer science; game theory; economics; design and analysis of auction mechanisms and pricing algorithms
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
m-hartmann( at )northwestern.edu
Sensorimotor integration; robots as tools for studying neuroscience; sensory acquisition behaviors; neuroethology
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
gbh305( at )northwestern.edu
Decision analysis, utility and preference modeling; medical decision analysis; cost-effectiveness analysis of medical treatment decisions; normative expert systems
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
henschen( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Web-based programming systems for automated code generation, especially for sensor network nodes; universal access in human computer interaction; graphical interfaces for programming; automated reasoning and applications to heterogeneous databases.
Clinical Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of the Master of Product Development Program
w-herbst( at )northwestern.edu
Product development and marketing
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Bette and Neison Harris Chair in Teaching Excellence
m-hersam( at )northwestern.edu
Nanoelectronics; nanophotonics; sensors; alternative energy; catalysis; semiconductors; carbon nanotubes; graphene; organic and biological functionalization; nanolithography; scanning probe microscopy
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
sth( at )northwestern.edu
Nano-photonics; optical communications; photonics integration; organic photonics; photonic materials research; heterogeneous photonics; ultrafast nonlinear photonics; micro-optics; device simulation; quantum optics
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
mh( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Mobile, wireless, and multiuser communications; adaptive signal processing; network resource allocation
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Education and Social Policy
michael-horn( at )northwestern.edu
Human-computer interaction; use of emerging technologies in learning settings
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ian( at )northwestern.edu
Control systems for autonomous agents; modeling and simulation of emotion, personality, and social behavior for virtual characters for games and interactive narrative
Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in Materials and Manufacturing
jiaxing-huang( at )northwestern.edu
Synthesis, assembly, and properties of metal nanoparticles, organic nanowires, and graphene-based materials
Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
y-huang( at )northwestern.edu
Mechanics of materials and structures; fracture mechanics; composite materials; micromechanics; atomistic-based continuum mechanics; mechanics of stretchable electronics
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
nickle( at )northwestern.edu
Algorithmic game theory; auction design; e-commerce structure; formation and design of social networks approximation algorithms; network design and clustering
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
s-iravani( at )northwestern.edu
Applications of stochastic processes and queuing theory in the design and control of manufacturing, service operations systems and supply chains
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
m-jewett( at )northwestern.edu
Synthetic biology; cell-free biology; biotechnology; artificial cells; systems biology; metabolic engineering
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
d-joester( at )northwestern.edu
Bio-mineralization; (reverse) engineering biological composite materials synthesis
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
m-johnson2( at )northwestern.edu
Ocular biomechanics; biofluids and transport; transport through connective tissues; glaucoma; chaos and diffusion
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
rjoseph( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Computer architecture, microprocessor design for reliability and variability tolerance, power-aware computing
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
kao( at )northwestern.edu
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
kath( at )northwestern.edu
Computational neuroscience; fiber optics; wave propagation; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems
AT&T Research Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
aggk( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Multimedia signal processing; multimedia communications; computer vision; pattern recognition; DNA signal processing
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
l-keer( at )northwestern.edu
Engineering mechanics; tribology
Clinical Professor of Biomedical Engineering
kels( at )northwestern.edu
Medical instrumentation; biosensors; kinetics of antibody and DNA binding reactions in solution and on solid phases; pharmacokinetics; optimization of drug administration
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
s-keten( at )northwestern.edu
Atomistic and multi-scale modeling and simulation; mechanics and dynamics of organic, biological and bioinspired materials.
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Director of Master of Science in Analytics Program
d-klabjan( at )northwestern.edu
Analytics; business intelligence; smart grid; transportation; supply chain management; optimization
Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
kk( at )northwestern.edu
Computational neuroscience
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director of Center of Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention
s-krishnaswamy( at )northwestern.edu
Multifunctional materials and systems and intelligent structural health management of safety-critical structures
Stanley F. Pepper Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
rjkrizek( at )northwestern.edu
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
kumarp( at )northwestern.edu
Quantum communications and computing; nonlinear and quantum optics; fiberoptic communications; all-optical networks
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
hkung( at )northwestern.edu
Catalysis; novel materials; sustainability; renewable energy; environmental chemistry; reaction engineering
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
akuzma( at )cs.northwestern.edu
Computer networking with emphasis on design, measurements, analysis, denial of service resiliency, and prototype implementation of protocols and algorithms for the Internet
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
lauhon( at )northwestern.edu
Synthesis and nanoscale characterization of low-dimensional materials
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
cclee( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
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
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
j-leonard( at )northwestern.edu
Synthetic biology; cellular and protein engineering; gene therapy; systems biology; immunology; cancer
Pentair-Nugent Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
leonardi( at )northwestern.edu
Organization studies; communication studies; technology studies
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
s-lichter( at )northwestern.edu
Fluid dynamics; Hamiltonian systems; protein folding
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
linw( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Computer vision; pattern recognition; neural networks; computer graphics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
linehan( at )northwestern.edu
Medical device innovation process; health technology assessment; FDA regulation of medical devices
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
vlinetsky( at )northwestern.edu
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
r-linsenmeier( at )northwestern.edu
Microenvironment of the mammalian retina, including oxygen and pH regulation, in health and disease; engineering education research
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering
changliu( at )northwestern.edu
Micro-fabrication technology; nanofabrication; bio-inspired sensors; smart integrated systems
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
sliu( at )northwestern.edu
Cardiovascular regenerative engineering; hepatic cell mobilization in response to myocardial ischemia; hepatic cell mediation of cardioprotection; pattern formation of vascular smooth muscle cells
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering
w-liu( at )northwestern.edu
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
r-lueptow( at )northwestern.edu
Granular flows; fluid mixing; granular mixing and segregation; Taylor-Couette flows; chaos; reverse osmosis and filtration.
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Associate Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
luijten( at )northwestern.edu
Computational statistical mechanics of complex fluids; electrostatically driven self-assembly phenomena; phase behavior and kinetics of colloidal suspensions and polymeric systems; Monte Carlo algorithms
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
kmlynch( at )northwestern.edu
Motion planning and control for robotic manipulation and under-actuated systems; decentralized control of multi-robot systems; physical human-robot interaction
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
maciver( at )northwestern.edu
Neurobiology of sensorimotor integration; biomechanics; bio-inspired robotics
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation
masmah( at )northwestern.edu
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
mmarasco( at )northwestern.edu
Fostering innovation via entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; growing a company with little or no capital
Research Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lecturer of Civil and Environmental Engineering
l-marcelino( at )northwestern.edu
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)
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology
mmarkl( at )northwestern.edu
Cardiovascular diseases; cardiovascular imaging; radiology
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
l-marks( at )northwestern.edu
Nanoparticles; nanotribology; surface science; transmission electron microscopy; electron crystallography
Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
t-marks( at )northwestern.edu
Hard and soft electronic and photonic materials
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
eric.masanet( at )northwestern.edu
Energy technology systems; product life-cycle systems; multi-scale and techno-economic models of industrial energy and resource systems
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
t-mason( at )northwestern.edu
Electroceramics, ceramics for energy-conversion, nanoceramics
John Evans Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Mechanical Engineering
b-matkowsky( at )northwestern.edu
Asymptotic and perturbation methods; bifurcation and stability; nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; combustion; stochastic dynamical systems
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
mehrotra( at )iems.northwestern.edu
Stochastic and discrete optimization algorithms; decision under uncertainty; healthcare systems; portfolio optimization
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Lisa Wissner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Chair
g-memik( at )northwestern.edu
Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, and Mobile Computing
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
f-memik( at )northwestern.edu
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
Erastus Otis Haven Professor
philm( at )northwestern.edu
Biomimetic/bioinspired materials; bio-interfaces and antifouling polymers; nanoscience/nanotechnology
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
miksis( at )northwestern.edu
Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics; materials science and biology, especially free boundary problems, multiphase flows, and stability theory; asymptotic and perturbation methods; computational methods
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
wmmiller( at )northwestern.edu
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
chadnano( at )northwestern.edu
Developing methods for controlling the architecture of molecules and materials on the nano scale and utilizing such structures in the development of analytical tools
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
hmohseni( at )northwestern.edu
Single photon detectors; electro-optical modulators; photonic integrated circuits; nanophotonics; novel optoelectronic devices; novel infrared detectors
Henry Wade Rogers Professor in Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology
milan.mrksich( at )northwestern.edu
Biomaterials and interfaces; cell adhesion and migration; electroactive interfaces; physical organic chemistry of interfacial reactions; bio-inspired nanostructured materials; biochips
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
t-murphey( at )northwestern.edu
Modeling and control of complex mechanical and biological systems
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
w-murray( at )northwestern.edu
Biomechanics as a framework for investigating how we move and control our arms and hands
Chair of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
nelsonb( at )northwestern.edu
Stochastic modeling and analysis; design and analysis of simulation experiments; queuing; financial risk measurement
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
y-nie( at )northwestern.edu
Network optimization; traffic flow theory; traffic simulation
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
nocedal( at )ece.northwestern.edu
Optimization; scientific computing; software; applications of optimization in computer-aided design, finance, atmospheric sciences, classification, and medical imaging; parallel computing
Emeritus Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Segal Design Institute
Design strategy: how designers and design thinking can help drive both incremental and radical innovation within the company
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
j-notestein( at )northwestern.edu
Multifunctional materials and catalysts; molecularly structured surfaces; energy
Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
todom( at )northwestern.edu
Nanofabrication, plasmonic materials and characterization, nano-lasers, bioimaging.
Assistant Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Senior Lecturer of Biomedical Engineering
s-olds( at )northwestern.edu
Bioengineering education
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
weo( at )northwestern.edu
Reaction-diffusion processes; anomalous diffusion; fluid mechanics; shear localization; bifurcation theory; integral equations; singular perturbations; mathematical finance
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
g-olson( at )northwestern.edu
Dynamic multilevel structure; systems design of materials
Lawyer Taylor Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering (MRSEC)
m-olvera( at )northwestern.edu
Polymer theory; phase transformations; poly-electrolytes
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering
Dean
jm-ottino( at )northwestern.edu
Complex systems; dynamics of granular matter, mixing and segregation processes
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
a-packman( at )northwestern.edu
Environmental and Microbial Transport Processes
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
pappas( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Image and video quality and compression; image and video analysis; content-based retrieval; perceptual models formultimedia processing; model-based halftoning; tactile and multimodal interfaces.
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
pardo( at )northwestern.edu
Search engines for music databases; machine accompaniment of human musicians; separation of sound sources in a stereo mix
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
n-patankar( at )northwestern.edu
Fast and efficient algorithms for fully resolved simulation of immersed bodies in fluids
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
e-perreault( at )northwestern.edu
Multi-joint control of movement and posture in able-bodied individuals and individuals with neuromotor pathologies
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
ohad.perry( at )northwestern.edu
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
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
peshkin( at )northwestern.edu
Robotics; surface haptics; human-machine interface; rehab robotics; sensors and actuators
Senior Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Lab
Director, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Lab
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
petford.long( at )anl.gov
Understanding the behavior of magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic oxide nanostructures, and in particular determining the role that interfaces play in controlling this behavior
Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
j-qu( at )northwestern.edu
Mechanics of materials; micromechanics; fracture mechanics; reliability of microelectronics packaging; wave propagation and nondestructive evaluation
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
marahimi( at )northwestern.edu
Analytics; system infrastructure design and operations, large scale software projects, and IT policy and management
Morrison Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) Materials Science and Engineering
ratner( at )northwestern.edu
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
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
razeghi( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
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
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
h-riecke( at )northwestern.edu
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
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
c-riesbeck( at )northwestern.edu
Case-based reasoning; memory-based language understanding; intelligent interfaces for knowledge acquisition and teaching
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
jwrudn( at )northwestern.edu
Inelastic behavior and failure of solids, especially geomaterials; coupling of deformation with pore fluid diffusion
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Fluid dynamics; statistical physics; geophysics
Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
sahakian( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Cardiac electrophysiology (especially atrial fibrillation and its treatment by automatic implanted devices); diagnostic instrumentation for medical and aerospace applications
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
peters( at )ece.northwestern.edu
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
j-schofer( at )northwestern.edu
Planning and management of transportation systems; provision and use of data and information to support effective decision making and evaluation of systems, plans, and projects
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
d-seidman( at )northwestern.edu
High-temperature structural metallic alloys; phase transformations in metallic alloys; atomic-scale interfacial phenomena in metals and semiconductors; silicidation reactions; three-dimensional atom-probetomography and field-ion microscopy
Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
ramille-shah( at )northwestern.edu
Processing and characterization of novel biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Walter P. Murphy Emeritus Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
s-shah( at )northwestern.edu
Connecting microscopic behavior to structural response of concrete
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
shahriar( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
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
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
l-shea( at )northwestern.edu
Regenerative medicine; biomaterials; gene therapy; drug delivery; systems biology; cell transplantation; spinal cord; diabetes; infertility; cancer
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
k-shull( at )northwestern.edu
Polymer surfaces and interfaces; micromechanics of soft materials
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
m-silber( at )northwestern.edu
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
ksmilowitz( at )northwestern.edu
Period vehicle routing problem with service choice; multi-resource routing problems; inventory and routing problems in food distribution; last mile distribution in humanitarian relief
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
snurr( at )northwestern.edu
Molecular modeling; development of new materials; diffusion in nanoporous materials; adsorption; catalysis; membrane separations; energy storage
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
s-sohrab( at )northwestern.edu
Combustion; thermodynamics; fluid mechanics; statistical mechanics; quantum mechanics; gas dynamics; applied mathematics
Assistant Chair of Materials Science and Engineering
Senior Lecturer of Materials Science and Engineering
kstair( at )northwestern.edu
Engineering education; laboratory exercises in materials science; technical writing
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
j-staum( at )northwestern.edu
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
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine
s-stupp( at )northwestern.edu
Self-assembly; supramolecular materials; synthesis of new materials; nanotechnology; solar energy materials; biomaterials for regenerative medicine
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
c-sun( at )northwestern.edu
Scalable 3D nano-fabrication of integrated nano-systems
Christina Enroth-Cugell Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and (by courtesy) Chemical and Biological Engineering
igalsz( at )northwestern.edu
Protein adsorption and biocompatible materials; lipid layers and model cell membranes; drug delivery systems; ligand-receptor binding and responsive materials
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
taflove( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) computational solution techniques for Maxwell's equations, with science and engineering applications from ultra-low frequencies to visible light; advanced biophotonics techniques for detection of early-stage human cancers of the colon, pancreas, and lung.
Senior Associate Dean for Planning and Graduate Studies
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
atamhane( at )northwestern.edu
Multiple comparison procedures with applications to multiple endpoints and dose findings in clinical trials; design of experiments; clustering
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
c-thompson( at )northwestern.edu
Field research methods; systems engineering; systems project management
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence
j-torkelson( at )northwestern.edu
Dynamics; films; polymerization; phase behavior of polymers
Assistant Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Senior Lecturer of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
g-trajcevski( at )northwestern.edu
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
m-tresch( at )northwestern.edu
Neuro-physiological substrates of motor coordination; synchronization in spinal cord function; causation of behaviors through the combination of muscle synergies
Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
j-troy( at )northwestern.edu
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
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
j-tumblin( at )northwestern.edu
Computational photography and 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
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
k-tyo( at )northwestern.edu
Synthetic biology; metabolic engineering; microbial engineering; systems biology; resource-poor healthcare delivery; biofuels
Professor of Chemistry
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
vanduyne( at )northwestern.edu
Physical, Analytical, Energy Related, Biophysical, Bio-analytical, Catalysis, Energy and Environmental, Nanoscience, Materials
Chair of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
v-volpert( at )northwestern.edu
Nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation; bifurcation and stability; traveling waves in reaction-diffusion systems; combustion; frontal polymerization
Frank C. Engelhart Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
p-voorhees( at )northwestern.edu
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
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
andreas.waechter( at )northwestern.edu
Large-scale nonlinear continuous optimization; mixed-inter nonlinear optimization; open source software implementation; application of optimization algorithms to industrial and scientific problems
Vice President for Research
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
jwalsh( at )northwestern.edu
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
qwang( at )northwestern.edu
Contact and interfacial mechanics; tribology; tribological design of mechanical systems
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
yun-wang( at )northwestern.edu
Environmental/medical microbiology and aquatic chemistry
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emeritus of Materials Science and Engineering
Member of the Graduate Faculty
j-weertman2( at )northwestern.edu
Dislocation theory; mechanical properties of metals
Walter P. Murphy Professor Emerita of Materials Science and Engineering
Member of the Graduate Faculty
jrweertman( at )northwestern.edu
Mechanical behavior and characterization of advanced materials, especially nanostructured metals
Clinical Associate Professor
Director of Master of Engineering Management Program
Associate Director of Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
m-werwath( at )northwestern.edu
Geographically distributed teams; leadership; organizational development and complex systems theory; chaos theory
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
b-wessels( at )northwestern.edu
Electronic and photonic materials; oxide thin films; spintronic III-IV semiconductors
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
white( at )northwestern.edu
Behavior-based leadership; industrial psychology/organizational behavior; engineering entrepreneurship
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Education and Social Policy
uri( at )northwestern.edu
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 of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Assistant Chair of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
jill.wilson( at )northwestern.edu
Integer programming and combinatorial optimization, study of operations research education
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
c-wolverton( at )northwestern.edu
Energy materials and atomic-scale computational materials science
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
chwu( at )ece.northwestern.edu
Bio-mimicking muscle damping control; autonomous robotics; assembly/disassembly automation; product life evaluation
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Molecular and Cellular Biology
t-wu( at )northwestern.edu
Structural and functional relations of proteins and DNA, especially those pertaining to immuno-globulins and related proteins
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
yingwu( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
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
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
you( at )northwestern.edu
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
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Physics
yuen( at )eecs.northwestern.edu
Quantum optics; new quantum devices; physical and quantum cryptography
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
hfzhang( at )northwestern.edu
Biomedical optics: photoacoustic microscopy; multimodal imaging; photon-tissue interaction; retinal imaging; diabetic retinopathy; retinal aging
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
haizhou( at )northwestern.edu
Algorithm design; formal methods and their applications to VLSI CAD; security
