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Wilkins Aquino
Anderson-Rupp Professor Of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Computational mechanics, finite element methods, computational inverse problems and their applications in engineering and biomedicine, scientific computing, computational acoustics and acoustics-structure interaction, coupled chemo-mechanics (e.g., electrochemistry-mechanics).

Gaurav Arya
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Molecular modeling, molecular simulations, statistical mechanics, coarse-graining, machine learning, polymer and colloidal physics, polymer-nanoparticle composites, chromatin biophysics, DNA nanotechnology, viral DNA packaging, single-molecule force spectroscopy, nanoscale...

Ana P. Barros
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Physics of water cycle processes in mountainous regions with a focus on cloud formation and precipitation; remote sensing of the environment using microwave and infrared sensors; long– range predictability and risk analysis of natural hazards; computational environmental...

Adrian Bejan
J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research Interests: Thermodynamics, applied physics, life & evolution in nature, constructal law.

Ravi Venkat Bellamkonda
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Engineered devices for brain tumor therapy; immunomodulation for peripheral and central nervous system repair; biomaterials; brain-machine interfaces.

Michael Howard Bergin
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Aerosols are generated by a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. I am interested in the processes that emit, transform and deposit particulate matter. A current focus of my research is how particles in the atmosphere directly modify the surface radiation balance of the...

Tyler K Bletsch
Assistant Professor Of The Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Software security, robotics, project-oriented education, and datacenter efficiency

Donald B. Bliss
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, acoustics, and structural dynamics

Volker Blum
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Computational predictions and understanding of new materials related to energy and electronics, as well as molecular structure and spectroscopies, based on the "first principles" of quantum mechanics. Much of this work is directly connected to ongoing developments of new...

Fred K. Boadu
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: How the engineering, environmental and petrophysical properties of porous media (soils, fractured rock, biological tissues) affect measurable geophysical responses, and subsequently develop methodologies by which these properties can be obtained from non-invasive geophysical...

John A. Board
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: High performance scientific computing and simulation, novel computer architectures, cluster computing and parallel processing; ubiquitous computing.

Mark Edward Borsuk
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Mathematical models for integrating scientific information on natural, technical, and social systems; Bayesian network modeling with regular application to environmental and human health regulation and decision making; novel approaches to climate change assessment, combining...

David J. Brady
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Photonics in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: DISP uses joint design of physical sampling and digital processing strategies to develop high performance sensor systems. DISP builds instruments for visible, infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray, millimeter wave, terahertz, acoustic and ion imaging and spectroscopy. DISP has made...

Andrew Bragg
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Fundamental and applied problems in fluid dynamics, especially turbulence, and its role in environmental systems.

Leila Bridgeman
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Robust and optimal control, linear matrix inequalities (LMIs), model predictive control (MPC), delayed systems, input-output stability, passivity.

L. Catherine Brinson
Sharon C. and Harold L. Yoh, III Professor
Research Interests: Study of advanced material systems and developing new methods to characterize and to model material behavior. Her lab’s research objective is to characterize and model advanced materials systems, at scales spanning the range of molecular interactions, micromechanical and...

Martin A. Brooke
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Analog, RF, and optoelectronic circuits. Sensor interface circuits. Deployable sensor systems

April S. Brown
John Cocke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt , Jr. School of Engineering

Kenneth R Brown
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum error correction, quantum control, quantum computer architecture, ion trap quantum computing, and the spectroscopy of sympathetically cooled molecular ions

Elizabeth K Bucholz
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Nenad Bursac
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Embryonic and adult stem cell therapies for heart and muscle disease; cardiac and skeletal muscle tissue engineering; cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias; genetic modifications of stem and somatic cells; micropatterning of proteins and hydrogels.
Robert Calderbank
Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Error control codes for quantum computing, wireless communication and the internet of things, coding theory for computer architecture, signal processing, machine learning

Lawrence Carin
James L. Meriam Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Applied statistics and machine learning

David Carlson
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Machine learning, predictive modeling, health data science, statistical neuroscience

Krishnendu Chakrabarty
William H. Younger Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Testing and design-for-testability of integrated circuits and systems (SOCs, 3D, manycore); microfluidic biochips and cyberphysical systems; resilient computing systems; enterprise system optimization and smart manufacturing

Nathaniel Chaney
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Hydrology, Earth system science, soil science, ecology, geomorphology, numerical modeling, high performance computing, machine learning, environmental data delivery and data assimilation.

Chuan-Hua Chen
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Research Interests: Experimental and theoretical research coupling physicochemical hydrodynamics with interfacial engineering

Yiran Chen
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Nonvolatile memory and storage systems, neuromorphic computing, and mobile applications.

Ashutosh Chilkoti
Alan L. Kaganov Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on biomolecular materials and biointerface science and emphasizes the development of applications that span the range from bioseparations, biosensors, biomaterials, and targeted drug delivery.

F. Hadley Cocks
Professor with Tenure in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: A wide variety of areas in materials science, including crystal growth, mechanical properties of kidney stones, lunar science, diffraction optics, materials for radiation detection, and radiation shielding.

Joel Collier
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: The design of biomaterials for a range of biomedical applications, with a focus on understanding and controlling adaptive immune responses. Most materials investigated are created from molecular assemblies- proteins, peptides or bioconjugates that self-organize into useful...

Leslie M. Collins
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Physics-based machine learning algorithms for big data, including developing remediation strategies for the hearing impaired and sensor-based algorithms for the detection of hazardous buried objects

Steven A. Cummer
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental electromagnetic problems related to geophysical remote sensing and engineered electromagnetic materials.

Mary "Missy" Cummings
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Human-unmanned vehicle interaction, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-systems engineering, public policy implications of unmanned vehicles, and the ethical and social impact of technology.

Stefano Curtarolo
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Nanoscale science of energy, computational materials science, nanotube growth characterization, alloy theory, superlubricity on quasicrystals, superconductivity in metal borides, genetic approaches to QM predictions of materials structures, materials for nuclear detection. His...

Shaundra Daily
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Human-centered design and engineering, affective computing, broadening participation in STEM, interaction design and evaluation for technology-rich learning environments

Ingrid Daubechies
James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Wavelet theory, signal processing, machine learning, computational geometry, time-frequency analysis

Olivier Delaire
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Olivier Delaire is an expert in the field of atomic dynamics in materials, with 15-plus years of experience in both experimental and computational studies of lattice dynamics (phonons).

Marc Deshusses
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Design, analysis and application of remediation, waste-to-energy and decentralized sanitation processes, including novel reactors and processes for air, water and solid wastes treatment.

John Everett Dolbow
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Modeling quasi-static and dynamic fracture of structural components, the evolution of interfaces with nonlinear constitutive laws, and developing models for stimulus-responsive hydrogels

Earl H. Dowell
William Holland Hall Professor
Research Interests: Aeroelasticity, acoustics, nonlinear dynamics, structural dynamics, and unsteady aerodynamics.

Jessilyn Dunn
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Use of large-scale biomedical datasets to model and guide personalized therapies

Richard B. Fair
Lord-Chandran Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Microfluidic systems for lab-on-a-chip applications based on electrowetting technology

Sina Farsiu
Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on medical imaging and image processing to improve the overall health and vision outcome of patients with ocular and neurological diseases (e.g., age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, Alzheimer, and ALS) through earlier and personalized therapy.

Paul J Fearis
Lecturing Fellow, Senior in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

P. Lee Ferguson
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Environmental analytical chemistry and applications of high resolution mass spectrometry to trace organic contaminant analysis, environmental fate and effects of carbon nanomaterials in the aquatic environment, proteomics in environmental toxicology, and mechanisms of...

Aaron D. Franklin
James L. and Elizabeth M. Vincent Associate Professor
Research Interests: Nanomaterials in electronic devices, nanofabrication, printed electronics and internet of things (IoT), biosensing

Linda Franzoni
Professor of the Practice
Research Interests: Acoustics of enclosures, underwater acoustics, structural dynamics and vibration.

Ken Gall
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Materials science, mechanical properties, metals and polymers. Specialties: Shape memory materials, biomaterials, 3D printing.

Henri P. Gavin
Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mitigation for building contents, nonlinear dynamics, system identification, optimal control with application to systems with controllable damping.

Michael E. Gehm
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Primarily computational and compressive sensing and measurement in all modalities (with special emphasis in Electromagnetic/Optical from RF to x-ray and all forms of Mass spectrometry), with side interests in optical physics, high-performance x-ray simulation, and rapid-...

Charles Gersbach
Rooney Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Gene therapy, genomics and epigenomics, biomolecular and cellular engineering, regenerative medicine, and synthetic biology.

Jeffrey Glass
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Electronic materials and the associated devices/instruments improved by these materials, especially electrode applications in miniature mass spectrometry, energy conversion and storage and liquid waste disinfection for developing regions. Electrochemical measurements and...
Yiyang Gong
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Recording and understanding brain activity by developing novel combinations of optical microscopy and genetically encoded sensors. Using these technologies, we wish to dissect neural circuit function and investigate how neural activity drives complex behaviors.

Maria Gorlatova
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Architectures, algorithms, and protocols for emerging mobile pervasive systems and the Internet of Things. Our work crosses traditional discipline boundaries and requires thinking across multiple layers of system and protocol stacks. We are focusing on breaking the barriers for...

Warren M. Grill
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Neural engineering and neural prostheses and include design and testing of electrodes and stimulation techniques, the electrical properties of tissues and cells, and computational neuroscience with applications in restoration of bladder function, treatment of movement disorders...

Johann Guilleminot
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Computational mechanics, mechanics of heterogeneous materials, molecular dynamics simulations and atomistic-to-continuum coupling, stochastic solvers, statistical inverse problem and model validation, stochastic analysis, uncertainty quantification in science and engineering

Claudia K. Gunsch
Theodore Kennedy Associate Professor
Research Interests: Identifying genetic adaptation mechanisms resulting from anthropogenic contaminant exposure; developing biosensors capable of pathogen and contaminant detection in water and air; studying the impact of emerging contaminants on aquatic microbial ecology; and the development of...

Michael Richard Gustafson
Associate Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computational methods for image analysis and information extraction, discrete event simulations, curriculum development and deployment

Kenneth C. Hall
Julian Francis Abele Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Unsteady aerodynamics, structural dynamics, and aeroelasticity of turbomachinery and aerospace vehicles. Novel approaches to modeling complex physical phenomena using computational fluid dynamics. Optimization and sensitivity analysis. Fluid dynamics of animal propulsion.

Kris Hauser
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Robot motion planning and control, semiautonomous robots, and integrating perception and planning

Christine Hendren
Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Craig S. Henriquez
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Large-scale computing, heart modeling, and brain modeling.

Andrew Douglas Hilton
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computer architecture, specifically architectural support for security and energy-efficient performance

Brenton D. Hoffman
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on understanding, on a molecular level, how mechanical and chemical cues from the environment are detected, integrated, and manipulated by cells to dictate physiological and patho-physiological responses important in vascular biology.

Roarke Horstmeyer
Research Interests: New ways to capture and process biomedical images; development of microscopes, cameras and computer algorithms for a wide range of applications.

Nico Hotz
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Research Interests: Interfacial transport phenomena and thermodynamics in energy technology, including phenomena at the micro- and nanoscale. Thermodynamics aspects of photovoltaics, novel sustainable energy conversion technologies, and chemical reactions are an essential part of my research. My...

Laurens E. Howle
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Hydroelastic modeling of deformable structures, transport in thermal and chemical systems, experimental and computational fluid dynamics, nonlinear and complex systems, heat and mass transport in biological systems, stability of fluid motions, machine learning, data mining,...

Po-Chun Hsu
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science (beginning January 2019)
Research Interests: Smart multifunctional textiles, camouflage fabrics, stimuli-responsive polymer, wearable electronics, photon management, radiation heat transfer, solar desalination and water harvesting, electrochemical devices, electrospinning and fiber fabrication.

Heileen Hsu-Kim
Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Aquatic chemistry and geochemistry, trace element environmental chemistry, nanogeoscience, mercury biogeochemistry, water-particle surface processes.

Tony Jun Huang
William Bevan Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanical Science
Research Interests: Acoustofluidics, microfluidics, lab-on-a-chip, biomedical micro-electro-mechanical systems (BioMEMS), optofluidics, plasmofluidics.

Tomasz Hueckel
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Mechanics of materials, theoretical soil mechanics, rock mechanics, theory of plasticity, multi-physics processes in geomechanics, nuclear waste disposal, energy and environmental geomechanics.

Lisa Gresham Huettel
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Engineering education, pedagogy and curriculum development, applications of statistical signal processing

Joseph A. Izatt
Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Biophotonics and include coherence-based biomedical imaging and microscopy, novel technologies for ophthalmic imaging, and nanoscale studies of cellular morphology and dynamics.

William T. Joines
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Electromagnetic field and wave interactions with materials and structures

Nan Marie Jokerst
J. A. Jones Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering

Zbigniew J. Kabala
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Stochastic and deterministic theory of fluid flow and contaminant transport in saturated and unsaturated heterogeneous porous media, theory of related measurements, field and laboratory studies in subsurface hydrogeology, stochastic fields and processes, numerical and analytical...

David F. Katz
Nello L. Teer, Jr. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Methods for prophylaxis against STD's, emphasizing topical microbicides and contraception; biofluid mechanics; rheology and transport phenomena; biophysical aspects of mammalian sperm motility, sperm transport, and fertilization; and biomechanical functioning of the vitreous of...

Robert Kielb
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Research Interests: Unsteady aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, mistuning, damping, and probabilistic methods. Principal investigator on AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, and industry-funded research projects.

Jungsang Kim
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions, Quantum Information Science, Novel Photonic Devices, Application of Quantum Computers

Josiah D. Knight
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and dynamics

Jeffrey L. Krolik
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Physics-based and statistical signal processing, sensor array processing, radar and sonar systems, pervasive distributed processing

Benjamin C Lee
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computer architecture and systems, energy efficiency, performance modeling, and algorithmic economics for resource management; policy for environmentally sustainable information technology infrastructure

Xin Li
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Integrated circuits, signal processing and data analytics

Hai "Helen" Li
Clare Boothe Luce Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Brain-inspired computing systems and neuromorphic design, memory design and architecture based on conventional and emerging technologies, and device/circuit/architecture co-design for low power and high performance.

Natalia Litchinitser
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Nanophotonics; Photonic Metamaterials; Nonlinear Optics; Fiber Optics; Photonic Crystal Fibers

Qing Huo Liu
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Computational electromagnetics and acoustics; inverse problems, and their application in geophysics, nanophotonics, and biomedical imaging

Michael D Lynch
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Focused on genetically engineering microbes to shut off their growth circuits and turn on new pathways to produce different compounds—improving production of biofuels, pharmacological molecules and industrial chemicals.

Robert A. Malkin
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Research and development of medical equipment in the developing world.

Brian Mann
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Nonlinear dynamics and vibration utilizing analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Fundamental investigations of phenomenon and application areas where dynamical systems theory plays an important role.

Piotr E. Marszalek
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Investigating relationships between structural and mechanical properties of biopolymers (polysaccharides, DNA, proteins), at a single molecule level.

Iman Marvian
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum information and computation theory

Hisham Z. Massoud
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Ultrathin gate dielectrics for CMOS ULSI – the technology, physics, modeling, simulation, and characterization of ultrathin-oxide MOSFETs

Maiken Mikkelsen
James N. and Elizabeth H. Barton Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Quantum nanophotonics, plasmonics, light-matter interactions in artificially structured nanoscale materials, hybrid molecular-scale materials and spin phenomena in the solid state

David Mitzi
Simon Family Professor
Research Interests: Making emerging photovoltaic materials more effective, cost-efficient and competitive for the energy market.

Samira Musah
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), disease mechanisms, regenerative medicine, molecular and cellular basis of human kidney development and disease, organ engineering, patient-specific disease models, biomarkers, therapeutic discovery, tissue and organ transplantation,...

Barry S. Myers
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: An expert in head and neck impact injury biomechanics, Dr. Myers is interested in translational research innovation—overseeing programs to advance faculty research to market.

Joseph C. Nadeau
Professor of the Practice in Civil And Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and applied mechanics, micromechanics, composite materials, and probabilistic methods

David Needham
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Combining the fields of materials science with colloid and surface chemistry to focus on biological and other soft wet materials

Wanda Krassowska Neu
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Electroporation-mediated drug delivery and gene therapy; Control of cardiac arrhythmias using nonlinear dynamics

Kathryn Radabaugh Nightingale
Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Ultrasonic and elasticity imaging, specifically nonlinear propagation, acoustic streaming and radiation force; the intentional generation of these phenomena for the purpose of tissue characterization; finite element modeling of normal and diseased tissue when exposed to...

Loren W. Nolte
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Bayesian approach to signal detection, classification, estimation, tracking and decision and sensor fusion. Applications in ocean acoustics, and in medical imaging for cancer research.

Douglas Nowacek
Randolph K. Repass and Sally-Christine Rodgers University Associate Professor of Conservation Technology in Environment and Engineering
Research Interests: Link between acoustic and motor behavior in marine mammals, specifically, how they use sound in ecological processes. Development of tools for marine conservation research

Willie John Padilla
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Theoretical and experimental investigation of electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, and their application to imaging and sensing at microwave, terahertz, and infrared frequencies

Miroslav Pajic
Nortel Networks Assistant Professor in the Pratt School of Engineering
Research Interests: Design and analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPS), in particular, embedded systems, distributed/networked control systems, CPS security, and high-confidence medical systems

Mark L. Palmeri
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Ultrasonic imaging, specifically using acoustic radiation force to characterize the mechanical properties of tissue, and finite element analysis of soft tissue response to impulsive radiation force excitation. Other research interests include ultrasonic bioeffects and mechanical...

Christine K. Payne
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms by which cells interact with materials, specifically nanoparticles and conducting polymers, with applications in nanomedicine and environmental exposure

Henry Petroski
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering
Research Interests: Structural engineering; design; interrelationship between success and failure in design; nature of invention; history of engineering and technology.

Henry Pfister
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Information theory, communications, probabilistic graphical models, machine learning, and deep neural networks

Nimmi Ramanujam
Robert W. Carr, Jr., Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Innovating on optical strategies to peer into the biological landscape of thick tissues. Technologies being developed in her lab leverage principles of optical spectroscopy, optical sectioning microscopy, and molecular imaging. Her research group is developing and applying these...

Amanda Randles
Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Research Interests: Biomedical simulation and high-performance computing

Galen Reeves
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Information theory, high-dimensional statistical inference, statistical signal processing, compressed sensing, machine learning

William M. Reichert
Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Biosensors, protein mediated cell adhesion, and wound healing.

Eric S Richardson
Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering

Michael Rubinstein
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Polymer theory and computer simulations

Cynthia D. Rudin
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Research Interests: Machine learning, interpretability and transparency of predictive models, causal inference, energy, criminal justice, healthcare

Sophia Santillan
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Engineering education, nonlinear systems, structural mechanics and numerical methods.

Guillermo Sapiro
James B. Duke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Image and video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, computational vision, biomedical imaging, brain imaging, cryo-tomography of viruses, computational tools in cryo-tomography, computational tools in early diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, differential geometry and...

Ann Saterbak
Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Innovations in undergraduate engineering education, particularly new pedagogical methods that broaden students’ problem solving skills and design thinking.

David E. Schaad
Professor of the Practice of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Sustainable engineering, community development, water and wastewater treatment design, stormwater retention/detention and treatment design, hazardous waste remediation, urban hydrology, constructed wetland and stream restoration design, ecological stabilization, sustainable...

Guglielmo Scovazzi
Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Finite element methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics, multiphase porous media flows, computational methods for fluid and solid materials under extreme load conditions, turbulent flow computations, instability phenomena.
Tatiana Segura
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: The design of biomaterials to promote endogenous repair and reducing inflammation through the design of the geometry of the material, and delivering genes, proteins and drugs.

Edward J. Shaughnessy
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Analytical, experimental, and computational studies of flow problems arising in biology, medicine, and biotechnology as well as in more traditional mechanical engineering applications.

Xiling Shen
Hawkins Family Associate Professor
Research Interests: Metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming of cancer metastasis, stem cell and organoid technology, microbiome-host-disease interaction, humanized immune cancer models, intravital imaging, CRISPR/dCAS9 epigenetic screening, and peripheral neuromodulation.

Walter Neal Simmons
Gendell Family Associate Professor of the Practice

Rebecca Simmons
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science

David R. Smith
James B. Duke Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Theory, simulation and demonstration of novel electromagnetic metamaterials across the spectrum, from microwave through optical. Applications of metamaterials for antennas and imaging devices, with a focus on security imaging and satellite imaging. General studies on advanced...
Marc A. Sommer
W. H. Gardner, Jr. Associate Professor
Research Interests: Neuronal circuits of the brain, including recording from single neurons and studying the effects of inactivating or stimulating well-defined brain areas. His goals are to understand how individual areas process signals and how multiple areas interact to cause cognition and...

Daniel J. Sorin
Addy Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Computer architecture, designing microarchitectures so that they are easier to verify, improving computer system fault tolerance, developing memory systems for multicore processors, and designing special-purpose accelerators

Adrienne Stiff-Roberts
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Thin-film deposition, MAPLE, hybrid perovskites, hybrid nanocomposites, organic thin films

Michael Raphael Tadross
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Our goal is to bridge the gap between the study of brain as a computational device and the search for novel neuropathological treatments. We develop technologies to manipulate molecules, cells, and synapses in the brain, and deploy these reagents in mouse models of disease.

Stacy L. Tantum
Bell-Rhodes Associate Professor of the Practice of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Signal detection and estimation theory, statistical signal processing, pattern recognition and machine learning, remote sensing, matched-field processing, and ocean acoustics

Vahid Tarokh
Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Representation, modeling, inference and prediction from data

Gregg E. Trahey
Robert Plonsey Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Medical ultrasound, image guided surgery, adaptive imaging, imaging of tissue's mechanical properties, and radiation force imaging.

Kishor S. Trivedi
Hudson Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Markov models, Fault trees, Stochastic Petri nets, Reliability Modeling, Availability Modeling, Performability modeling, Survivability modeling, Cyber Security, Software reliability, Software Fault Tolerance, Software Aging and Rejuvenation

George A. Truskey
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Cardiovascular tissue engineering, mechanisms of atherogenesis, cell adhesion, and cell biomechanics.

Shyni Varghese
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science and Orthopaedics
Research Interests: Musculoskeletal tissue repair, disease biophysics and organ-on-a-chip technology

Manolis Veveakis
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Geomechanics, theoretical and applied mechanics, and thermodynamics, with emphasis in multiphysical modelling of plasticity of solids, solid-fluid interactions, friction laws and rheology of geomaterials

Lawrence N. Virgin
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Study of the behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems, including the investigation of the fundamental nature of nonlinear systems based on a mathematical description of their underlying equations of motion and the application of recent results from nonlinear dynamical systems...

Jonathan Viventi
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Using flexible electronics to create new technology for interfacing with the brain at high resolution over large areas. These new tools can help diagnose and treat neurological disorders such as epilepsy, and help improve the performance of brain machine interfaces.

Tuan Vo-Dinh
R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Biophotonics, laser-excited luminescence spectroscopy, room temperature phosphorimetry, synchronous luminescence spectroscopy, surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, field environmental instrumentation, fiberoptics sensors, nanosensors, biosensors and biochips for the protection...

Olaf T. Von Ramm
Thomas Lord Professor of Engineering in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering
Research Interests: Diagnostic ultrasound imaging systems, IR imaging, medical instrumentation and their new applications.

Adam P. Wax
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Optical spectroscopy for early cancer detection, novel microscopy and interferometry techniques.

Jennifer L West
Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Biomaterials, nanotechnology and tissue engineering that involves the synthesis, development, and application of novel biofunctional materials, and the use of biomaterials and engineering approaches to study biological problems.

Mark Wiesner
James B. Duke Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Membrane processes, nanostructured materials, transport and fate of nanomaterials in the environment, colloidal and interfacial processes, and environmental systems analysis

Patrick D. Wolf
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Advanced instrumentation for diagnosis and treatment of electrophysiological problems. This research covers two primary organ systems: the heart and the brain. In the heart, Dr. Wolf is developing an image guided ablation system for treatment of arrhythmias. In the brain, he is...

Junjie Yao
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) technologies, and translating PAT advances into diagnostic and therapeutic applications, especially in functional brain imaging and early cancer theranostics.

Benjamin Yellen
Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Development of single cell analysis tools using magnetic circuits, and multiparticle assembly of colloidal crystals

Lingchong You
Paul Ruffin Scarborough Associate Professor of Engineering
Research Interests: Computational systems biology & synthetic biology, including mathematical modeling of cellular networks; mechanisms of information processing by gene networks; design, modeling and construction of robust gene networks for applications in engineering and medicine.

Rabih Younes
Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests: Wearable computing, activity recognition, context awareness, machine learning, engineering education, and Middle Eastern politics

Fan Yuan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: Drug and gene delivery, mechanisms of molecular transport in cells and tissues, and tumor pathophysiology.

Stefan Zauscher
Sternberg Family Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Research Interests: Nano-mechanical and nano-tribological characterization (elasticity, friction, adhesion) of materials including organic thin films; self-assembled monolayers, polymeric gels, and cellulosics; Fabrication of polymeric nanostructures by scanning probe lithography; Colloidal probe...

Michail Zavlanos
Mary Milus Yoh and Harold L. Yoh, Jr. Associate Professor
Research Interests: Networked control systems, distributed control and optimization, hybrid control, with applications to robotic, sensor, communication, and biomolecular networks.

Pei Zhong
Professor in the Department of Mechanical Enginnering and Materials Science
Research Interests: Ultrasound-targeted gene delivery and activation; Synergistic combination of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and immunotherapy for cancer treatment; Innovations in shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) technology; and Mechanics and bioeffects of acoustic cavitation.