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Ksenia Bravaya
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Focus: Challenging electronic structure phenomena in biomolecules and systems relevant for materials
Christopher Chen
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: How cells interact with their environment
Jerry Chen
Assistant Professor, Biology
Focus: How the brain assembles sensory information into abstract representations
Christine Cheng
Assistant Professor, Biology
Focus: Improving the ability to model brain diseases using a synthetic 3-D brain organoid
Stephanie Curenton
Associate Professor, Education Leadership & Policy Studies
Focus: Using applied developmental psychology to study classrooms and educational settings for young children
Wynter Duncanson
Assistant Dean, Outreach and Diversity, Engineering
Focus: Biomedical Engineering and STEM Diversity
Alina Ene
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Focus: Theoretical computer science and algorithms; optimization; theoretical machine learning
James Galagan
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Systems Biology of microbial organisms
Roscoe Giles
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Focus: Advanced computer architectures, Distributed and parallel computing, and Computational science
Stefan Hofmann
Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences; Director, Psychotherapy and Emotion Research Laboratory
Focus: Psychological treatments for anxiety disorders
Masha Kamenetska
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Focus: Single molecule nano-manipulation, how the intermolecular interface affects function in biological and man-made devices
Mo Khalil
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Synthetic biology; systems biology; genetic circuits; epigenetics; laboratory evolution; technology development & automation; yeast prions
Catherine Klapperich
Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Director, Precision Diagnostics Center
Focus: Disposable microfluidic diagnostics, molecular testing; diagnostics for CT-NG, HPV and other sexually transmitted diseases
Leonid Levin
Professor, Computer Science
Focus: Complex algorithms, information theory
Weining Lu
Associate Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Focus: Genetics of kidney development and congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract
Ann McKee
Professor, Neurology & Pathology
Focus: Neurodegenerative diseases, mild traumatic brain injury from contact sports and military service and its long-term consequences
Jerome Mertz
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Development and applications of novel optical microscopy techniques for biological imaging
Uday Pal
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Chemical thermodynamics; electrochemical systems
Siddharth Ramachandran
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Focus: Optical physics of guided waves, optical fibers
Steve Ramirez
Assistant Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Focus: Revealing the neural circuit mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval, and artificially modulating memories to combat maladaptive states
Sahar Sharifzadeh
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
Focus: Understanding the optoelectronic properties of materials
Cara Stepp
Associate Professor, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences; Director, Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering Lab
Focus: Using engineering tools to rehabilitate disordered sensorimotor functions of voice and speech
James Traniello
Professor, Biology
Focus: Behavior, ecology, and evolution of social insects
James Uden
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Focus: Latin literature and the transformation of ancient ideas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Emily Whiting
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Focus: Computational fabrication, architectural geometry, and computer aided design
Joyce Wong
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Focus: Development of biomaterials, cellular processes
Xin Zhang
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Focus: Metamaterials, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), novel micro-and nanotechnologies for power generation, energy conversion, photonic, optical, and biomedical applications
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