China

Paul Adams

Geography and the Environment, American Studies

Paul Adams' research focuses on physical and virtual aspects of sense of place, attention-capture and surveillance by digital media, people’s responses to attention-capture and surveillance, discourses on environmental risk and change, representations of climate adaptation and mitigation, and critical cartography.

Deji Akinwande

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Deji Akinwande's research focuses on 2D materials and nanotechnology, pioneering device innovations from lab towards applications. This manifests as translational nanotechnology from materials to devices to circuits, blurring the boundaries between chemistry, electronics, physics, materials science and mechanics.

Owen Anderson

Law

Owen Anderson is a scholar whose expertise is in oil and gas, particularly with regards to international petroleum law, transactions, and taxation. He has written extensively on water law and domestic and global petroleum law.

Eric Anslyn

Chemistry

Eric Anslyn's research focuses on physical organic and supramolecular chemistry. Anslyn utilizes mechanistic insights and knowledge of photophysics to devise sensing systems for real-life applications.

Indranil Bardhan

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Indranil Bardhan's research focuses on healthcare analytics and informatics, and economic impacts of information technology, and involves close collaboration with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Dell Medical School.

Thomas Bay

Plan II Honors Program

Thomas Bay is an author and syndicated columnist, professor, developmental aid advocate, radio commentator, retired reserve soldier, war game designer, consultant in organizational planning and training simulations.

Timothy Beach

Geography and the Environment, Environmental Science Institute, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Tim Beach's research interests include geoarchaeology, soils, climate change, wetlands, climate history, geomorphology, and paleoenvironments of the Maya world and Mediterranean. He has conducted field research in the Corn Belt of the U.S., Belize, Colombia, Germany, Guatemala, Iceland, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Syria, and Turkey.

Amit Bhasin

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Amit Bhasin’s research focuses on developing models that relate material properties to performance of asphalt binders and mixtures, including evaluating the impact of chemical modifiers, additives, and other agents, developing comprehensive models for undamaged behavior and damage evolution in asphalt binders and mixtures, and characterizing physical and chemical properties of asphalt binders and aggregates.

Daniel Breecker

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Daniel Breecker is interested in pursuing a process-based understanding of the critical zone with a focus on the formation of calcium carbonates in soils and caves and the stabilization of organic carbon in soils. His research goals include improving and developing paleoclimate proxies and better understanding changes in climate and the carbon cycle across a range of timescales.

Danelle Briscoe

Architecture

Danelle Briscoe has lectured, researched, and written extensively on the topic of Building Information Modeling for architectural and urban design.

Mark Budolfson

Geography and the Environment, Philosophy

Mark Budolfson integrates data and methods from multi-disciplines including population-level bioethics, public health, welfare economics, and empirical sciences. This work often involves quantitative policy analyses that represent socioeconomic and health inequalities, weigh competing values and objectives for society, and assess synergies and tradeoffs between goals related to health, equity, and sustainable development.

Elena Cáceres

Physics

Elena Cáceres is a theoretical physicist working in string theory and gravity. She has worked in different aspects of gauge/gravity duality, supergravity solutions and holography. Her work is focused on the relationship between quantum information theory, gravity, and spacetime.

Sung-Sheng Chang

Asian Studies, Comparative Literature

Sung-Sheng Chang's research focuses on Chinese literature and film, particularly works originating from Taiwan. She has written on literary culture and contemporary literature of Taiwan.

Zengjian Jeffrey Chen

Molecular Biosciences, Integrative Biology

Zengjian Jeffrey Chen's research aims to elucidate genetic and epigenetic mechanisms for polyploidy and heterosis and their impact on crop domestication and improvement. Chen is known for his pioneering work on defining genomic and epigenetic changes in plant hybrids and polyploids with an emphasis on linking gene expression variation with phenotypic traits using Arabidopsis, cotton and corn as experimental systems.

Wenhong Chen

Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, Journalism and Media

Wenhong Chen’s research examines how U.S. and Chinese artificial intelligence policies affect tech and media entrepreneurship. She is also interested in digital media technologies in multiethnic, entrepreneurial, and civic settings.

Jingyi Chen

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Jingyi Chen's research group focuses on the development of new satellites, and especially interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar techniques, for studying natural and induced seismicity, groundwater resources, natural disasters, and permafrost hydrology and carbon storage.

Sheena Chestnut Greitens

Public Affairs

Sheena Chestnut Greitens' research focuses on security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics & foreign policy.

Iris Chyi

Journalism and Media

Iris Chyi specializes in media economics and her work focuses on user demand for multi-platform newspapers. She has examined the viability of digital subscriptions and revealed the strong attachment to the print product among newspaper readers.

Julia Clarke

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Julia Clarke's research focuses on using phylogenetic methods and diverse data types to gain insight into the evolution of birds, avian flight and the co-option of the flight stroke for underwater diving. She is particularly interested in understanding shared patterns and potential causal factors in the evolution of living bird lineages.

Adam Clulow

History

Adam Clulow is a historian of early modern Asia. His work is concerned broadly with the transnational circulation of ideas, people, practices and commodities across East and Southeast Asia.

Donna De Cesare

Journalism and Media, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Donna De Cesare is an author, documentary photographer and educator known for covering the spread of U.S. gangs in Central America.

Ying Ding

Information, Medicine

Ying Ding's research interests include data-driven science, artificial intelligence in healthcare, semantic web, knowledge graph, data science, scholarly communication, and the application of web technologies.

John Doggett

Management

John Doggett's work focuses on global competition, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and energy.

Rex Du

Marketing

Rex Du's research areas include advertising, customer relationship management, marketing metrics, and marketing models.

Jason Duan

Marketing

Jason Duan's research areas include digital marketing, user generated content, spatial market, database marketing, retailing, Bayesian and nonparametric statistics, structural econometric models, dynamic models, spatio-temporal statistics, duration models, point processes, and event history analysis.

David Eaton

Public Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Geography and the Environment, Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, South Asia Institute, Jewish Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, IC2 Institute

David Eaton's research focuses on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution.

Ofodike Ezekoye

Mechanical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Ofodike Ezekoye is an expert in combustion and heat transfer in high temperature and reacting systems, such as combustion engines, furnaces, and structural fires. His research covers a range of applications from fundamentals of combustion systems to scientific support of the fire service in developing fire fighting tactics.

Toni Falbo

Educational Psychology, Sociology

Toni Falbo uses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address problems in education and health. She is an internationally recognized expert on only children, including their academic, social, emotional, and health outcomes. Falbo is also an expert on conducting cross-cultural research and research aimed at improving the education of ethnic minorities in the U.S.

Sergey Fomel

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sergey Fomel's research interests include computational and exploration geophysics, seismic imaging, wave propagation, seismic data analysis, inverse problems, and geophysical estimation.

James Galbraith

Public Affairs, Government

James Galbraith is an expert on macroeconomic policy, monetary policy, economic development policies, comparative economic policy and economic inequality.

Rui Gao

Information, Risk & Operations Management

Rui Gao’s main research studies data-driven decision-making under uncertainty and prescriptive data analytics. In particular, he develops a robust, scalable, and generalizable methodology for decision-making problems involving offline/online/observational data arising in the context of machine learning, risk management, and revenue management.

Kishore Gawande

Business, Government and Society

Kishore Gawande specializes in political economy of trade agreements, the firm in political economy, causes of internal conflict, and conflict and development.

Kenneth Gentle

Physics

Kenneth Gentle has been engaged in a variety of experiments on nonlinear plasma waves, weak plasma turbulence, strong plasma turbulence, and tokamak confinement physics. His research has concentrated on questions of particle and electron transport, perhaps the least understood of the transport channels as it does not seem to be diffusive -- the thermal flux is not proportional to the temperature gradient.

Benjamin Gregg

Government

Benjamin Gregg's research focuses on social and political theory, bioethics of human genetic engineering, politics of artificial intelligence, and human rights.

Ronny Hadani

Mathematics

Ronny Hadani's research interests include representation theory, theory of algebraic D-modules, and applications to harmonic analysis, signal processing, three dimensional cryo-electron microscopy and mathematical physics.

Xiaofen Hamilton

Curriculum and Instruction

Xiaofen Hamilton's research focuses are measurement and assessment in physical activity settings; fitness education and health-related fitness knowledge testing; healthy lifestyle promotion among university students; and technology in teaching physical education and physical activity promotion in college students.

Benjamin Hodges

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Benjamin Hodges' research focuses on water flow and transport behavior in lakes, rivers, estuaries, and across the urban landscape. Using advanced 1D, 2D, and 3D models, his research team and collaborators seek to understand these complex systems, where uncertainty and spatial and temporal variability of landscape, rainfall, runoff, wind, and sunshine all play roles in the flow behavior.

Brian Horton

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Institute for Geophysics, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Brian Horton's research focuses on sedimentary basin development and mountain building processes. He utilizes sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochronology, structural geology, and geochemistry to understand modern and ancient sedimentation, river drainage patterns, sediment provenance, and orogenesis.

Alex Huang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alex Huang is an expert of power semiconductor devices, power electronics, smart grid and renewable energy system.

Rui Huang

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Rui Huang's areas of research include mechanics of hydrogels and soft materials, two-dimensional nanomaterials and thin films, and thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic devices and packaging.

Qixing Huang

Computer Science

Qixing Huang's research spans the fields of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. Huang is also interested in statistical data analysis, compressive sensing, low-rank matrix recovery, and large-scale optimization.

Alexander Huth

Computer Science, Neuroscience

Alexander Huth's research uses computational methods to model how the brain processes language and represents meaning. Huth is also interested in fMRI technology and data visualization.

Junfeng Jiao

Architecture

Junfeng Jiao focuses on smart city/urban informatics and understanding cities through AI and big data. Jiao has investigated 311 calls' spatial distribution, Uber's price surge, Airbnb's spatial clustering, E-scooters' origins, destinations, and routings, and bike sharing system planning. He coined term transit deserts and explored how urban environments affect people's access to grocery stores, transit facilities, and bicycle infrastructures.

Shardha Jogee

Astronomy

Shardha Jogee's research seeks to address central questions on the evolution of galaxies as a function of cosmic epoch, mass, and environment. These include how galaxies grow their stars, black holes, and dark matter halos across cosmic time and vastly different environments, the role played by theoretically predicted growth modes, and how galaxy clusters, some of the largest bound structures in the Universe, form.

Jerry Junkin

Music Conducting

Jerry Junkin is an enthusiastic advocate of public-school music education, having conducted All-State bands and festivals in 48 states and on five continents. Junkin spends his summers in residence at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan and appearing at music festivals around the world.

Zunlong Ke

Molecular Biosciences

Zunlong Ke's research aims to understand viral structure and function by dissecting key macromolecular complexes upon host-pathogen interactions. His lab uses cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-electron tomography for high-resolution structure determination of macromolecules. Ultimately, the lab aims to uncover molecular insights into cancer-causing viral diseases, providing a basis for antiviral therapy and vaccine development.

Orlando Kelm

Spanish & Portuguese, Marketing, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Orlando Kelm is a linguistics professional whose interests center on the use of language and culture for professional purposes, such as Business Spanish & Portuguese. Kelm's research focuses on the creation of instructional materials, including the use of innovative technologies in foreign language instruction.

Farkhad Khudyev

Music Conducting

Farkhad Khudyev is an international award-winning conductor and has worked with orchestras around the world.

Kara Kockelman

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Kara Kockelman's technical interests include integrated models of travel demand, vehicle ownership, land use, crash counts and severities, energy use, emissions, and trade. She also focuses on roadway design and pricing, urban systems simulations, urban planning, regional science and spatial econometrics, and connection between urban form and travel behaviors.

Robert Koons

Philosophy

Robert Koons specializes in philosophical logic and in the application of logic to long-standing philosophical problems, including metaphysics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion. He is working on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory and on arguments for classical theism.

Brian Korgel

Chemical Engineering, Energy Institute

Brian Korgel's research centers on the development of new methods for synthesizing nanostructured materials, fabricating devices based upon these materials, and studying their properties. The lab group focuses on investigating size-tunable material properties, and the rational self-assembly and fabrication of nanostructures with atomic detail. This research finds applications in microelectronics and photonics, spintronics, coatings, sensors and

Manish Kumar

Chemical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Manish Kumar's research group is interested in mimicking biological processes and materials at the molecular scale, particularly cell membrane components, to develop materials and processes that bring the specificity and functionality of biological molecules and processes to engineering scales.

Alan Kuperman

Public Affairs

Alan Kuperman's research focuses on ethnic conflict, peaceful conflict management, military intervention, national security, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Guoming Lai

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Guoming Lai's research interests include the interface between finance and marketing ops, operations management, and supply chain management.

Keji Lai

Physics

Keji Lai's group actively studies quantum materials with novel electrical, magnetic, and optical properties.

Chiu-Mi Lai

Asian Studies

Chiu-Mi Lai's research focuses on classical Chinese poetry and poetics, classical Chinese and medieval Chinese literature, literary theory, history of the Chinese writing system, pre-modern Chinese history, translation practices, history of food, medicine, and healing.

Yuliya Lanina

Design

Yuliya Lanina is a multimedia artist whose works exist at the intersection of visual, performing arts, and technological innovation, and explore social issues like gender perception, sexuality, loss, and motherhood. Her work has been exhibited and performed around the world.

Harvey Lederman

Philosophy

Harvey Lederman is a scholar of contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy. He has written on common knowledge, incomplete preferences, and the philosophy of the great Ming dynasty philosopher, Wang Yangming.

Benjamin Leibowicz

Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering

Benjamin Leibowicz’s research interests are energy systems, energy and climate policy analysis, integrated assessment modeling, sustainable cities, technological change, and innovation. He approaches these topics from an interdisciplinary perspective and develops modeling frameworks that combine methods from optimization, economics, game theory, stochastic control, and general equilibrium.

Cha Li

Management

Cha Li's research interests include behavioral strategy, innovation, and industry-government relationships. Her works examine how innovation may be hindered by the behavioral constraints of individuals, and how such constraints can be alleviated through organization design or government interventions.

Xiaoqin Li

Physics

Elaine Li's research focuses on using laser spectroscopy methods to investigate new materials on the nanoscale or individual nanoparticles, quasiparticles, and collective excitations. 

Huaiyin Li

History, Asian Studies

Huaiyin Li's research examines modern Chinese history, contemporary Chinese economy, society, and politics, imperial China, gender and family, agrarian studies, Chinese culture and religions, and comparative studies of development and globalization.

Yang Li

Nursing

Yang Li's research is focused on the effects of lifetime trauma (i.e., adverse childhood experiences, intimate partner violence [IPV]) on women’s health and its potential biological pathways.

Elaine Li

Physics

Elaine Li's research focuses on using laser spectroscopy methods to investigate new materials on the nanoscale or individual nanoparticles, quasiparticles, and collective excitations.

Xiuling Li

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Xiuling Li's research focuses on nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices, using innovative epitaxial growth and nanofabrication approaches, including metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, metal-assisted chemical vapor deposition, and strain-induced self-rolled-up membrane, to address the ever-present needs to reduce the size, weight, power, and cost of microelectronic devices, among other applications.

Jessy Li

Linguistics

Jessy Li's research interests are in computational linguistics and natural language processing, specifically discourse and pragmatics, natural language generation, and computational social science.

Sensen Li

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sensen Li's research interests include radio frequency, millimeter-wave, and terahertz integrated antenna, circuit, and system designs for wireless communication and sensing applications.

Tse-min Lin

Government

Tse-Min Lin's teaching and research interests cover methodology, formal theory, American and comparative political behavior, mathematical methods, dynamics of the gender gap, congressional tenure, and Taiwanese politics.

Jung-Fu Lin

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Jung-Fu Lin's research focuses on understanding the nature of the Earth and planetary interiors as well as material sciences through direct examination of the properties of materials under high-pressure and high/low-temperature conditions. His research group often by conducts high pressure experiments using high-pressure diamond anvil cell techniques combined with in-house and synchrotron-based facilities.

Beili Liu

Art and Art History

Beili Liu is a visual artist who creates material-and-process driven, site-responsive installations. Liu’s sculptural environments resonate with the experience of migration and cultural memory and negotiate personal, cultural, and environmental concerns.

Zhanfei Liu

Marine Science

Zhanfei Liu's research interests include marine organic geochemistry and environmental analytical chemistry. Liu is primarily interested in the source, distribution and diagenesis of biogenic compounds in the ocean.

Yan Liu

Medicine

Yan Liu's research is focused on molecular aging and the common pathways of cancer and cardiovascular disease and their applications in the development of novel molecular biomarkers for early disease detection, prediction and prevention, as well as novel therapeutics in chemo-protection in the area of cardiovascular disease and cardio-oncology.

Yuanyue Liu

Mechanical Engineering

Yuanyue Liu is developing and apply atomistic modelling methods to understand, design and discover materials for electronics and energy applications. The current focuses are charge transport, electrochemistry, and 2D materials.

Chang Liu

Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Chang Liu's research interests includes the perception of speech and non-speech complex sounds for native and non-native listeners and normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners, speech intelligibility of non-native speakers, the auditory models for speech processing, the development of speech perception and speech production, and speech synthesis and recognition.

Min Liu

Curriculum and Instruction

Min Liu's teaching and research interests center on educational uses of new media and other emerging technologies, particularly the impact of such technologies on teaching and learning, and the design of new media enriched interactive learning environments for learners at all age levels.

Qiang Liu

Computer Science

Qiang Liu's research area is machine learning and statistics, with interests spreading over the pipeline of data collection (e.g., by crowdsourcing), learning, inference, decision making, and various applications using probabilistic modeling.

Hung-Wen Liu

Pharmacy

Hung-Wen (Ben) Liu's research focuses on the crossroads of chemistry and biology. His group researches three general areas with the focus aimed at the elucidation of the mechanisms of novel enzymatic reactions and the design of methods to control and/or regulate their functions.

Ruochen Lu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ruochen Lu’s research focuses on developing chip-scale acoustic and electromagnetic components and microsystems for radio frequency applications. In addition, he works on ultrasonic transducers and multi-physics hybrid microsystems for signal processing, sensing, and computing applications.

Xiaobo Lü

Government

Xiaobo Lü's research centers on distributive politics of fiscal policies in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. He is particularly interested in the politics of fiscal extraction and its implications on state building and party building.

Yi Lu

Chemistry

Yi Lu’s research interests lie at the interface between chemistry and biology. Specific areas of interests include the design and engineering of functional metalloproteins, the understanding of DNA enzymes and their applications in environmental monitoring and medicine, and directed assembly of nanomaterials with controlled morphologies and its applications in imaging and medicine.

Yingda Lu

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Yingda Lu's research focuses on flow assurance issues that impair efficient hydrocarbon (oil, gas, CO2, and H2) pipeline transportations, tackling these complex problems via a multiscale approach by combining various experimental and advanced computational techniques at microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic scales. The overall goals are to enhance mechanistic understandings and developing versatile models to guide industrial practices.

Ji Ma

Public Affairs, Information

Ji Ma studies and teaches state-civil society relationships, knowledge production, and computational social science methods with an emphasis on nonprofits and philanthropy.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Matthew Malkowski

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Matthew Malkowski's research focuses on using sediment and the sedimentary record to study how mountain belts and ocean basins evolve in responses to external forces, such as climate, tectonics, sea level changes, and human impacts.

Lance Manuel

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Lance Manuel's research is related to uncertainty quantification associated with the safety of civil engineering, energy-generation and ocean systems. His work is being used to improve the design of wind turbines for complex inflow turbulence conditions and in enhanced the long-term reliability of deepwater floating structures. His work is also examining climate impacts on infrastructure systems and related hazard, risk, and resilience studies.

Susan Mays

Asian American Studies

Susan Mays' primary focus is economic and technological development in Asia, particularly China. Her interdisciplinary projects have addressed high technology sectors in China/East Asia, including global trade, investment, supply chains, business organization, and human capital.

Patrick McDonald

Government

Patrick McDonald researches and teaches on international relations theory, international political economy, and international security, with a particular focus on the economic causes of war and peace.

Deirdre Mendez

Business, Government and Society

Deirdre Mendez’s research interests lie in intercultural management, adaptation, and team building.

Leonard Moore

History

Leonard Moore researches Black power, the Civil Rights Movement, the history of the segregated South, and teaches courses on Black history and politics.

Douglas Morrice

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Douglas Morrice's research areas include computer simulation, operations management, healthcare management, and supply chain management.

Anton Nel

Music Performance

Anton Nel is a pianist and continues to tour internationally as recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. He has performed with some of the world's finest instrumentalists at festivals on four continents.

Mark O'Reilly

Special Education

Mark O'Reilly's research focuses on the functional assessment and treatment of severe challenging behavior and interventions to promote generalization and maintenance of skills with children with autism and developmental disabilities. He has a strong interest in working with culturally diverse populations and examining how behavioral interventions must adapt to be respectful and supportive of diversity.

David Pan

Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Pan's research is mainly focused cross-layer design for manufacturing, reliability, security, machine learning and hardware acceleration, design for analog/mixed signal designs and emerging technologies.

Thomas Pangle

Government

Thomas Pangle's research includes classical political philosophy, the 18th-century theoretical foundations of modern American constitutionalism and political culture, 19th- and 20th-century German political philosophy, post-modern political theory, the moral-philosophy basis of international relations, and the dialogue between political theology and political philosophy.

Raj Patel

Public Affairs, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Raj Patel is a research professor who studies the world food system and alternatives to it. He has testified about hunger and food sovereignty, and has written about food systems, economics, philosophy, politics, international development, and public health.

James Patton

Special Education

James Patton's areas of activity include transition assessment and planning, differentiating instruction for students with special needs, study skills instruction, needs of college students with learning-related challenges, and issues associated with individual with disabilities who encounter the criminal justice system.

Peng Peng

Special Education

Peng Peng's research aims to bridge cognitive psychology and special education. He is interested in embedding high-level cognitive skills training into academic instructions for children with severe learning difficulties. In particular, he has been working on projects to design instruction that can incorporate cognitive strategy, meta-cognition, and reading skills.

Nicholas Peppas

Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Modern Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, Pediatrics, Surgery, Medicine

Nikolaos Peppas' research blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering to generate next-generation systems and devices, including bio-microelectromechanical systems with enhanced applicability, reliability, functionality and longevity.

Hong Qiao

Molecular Biosciences

Hong Qiao’s research focuses on chromatin remodeling and the establishment of the specificity of gene expression in response to hormones and stressors. Qiao's research combines aspects of genetic, genomic, proteomic, molecular, and biochemical approaches to curb the susceptibility of crops to certain stressors, allowing for higher yields during stress conditions to support profitable crops and feed the world's growing population.

Stephen Reese

Journalism and Media

Stephen Reese's research focuses on questions relating to press performance, including the sociology of news, media framing of public issues, and the globalization of journalism.

Pengyu Ren

Biomedical Engineering

Pengyu Ren's research is focused on understanding and engineering biomolecular systems for applications using computational modeling. Ren is interested in understanding the processes in chemistry and biology, such as molecular recognition and biomolecular structure-function relationship. The group is developing methods to simulate and predict molecular behavior, and to engineer novel molecules from small-molecule drugs to nanomaterials.

Néstor Rodríguez

Sociology

Nestor Rodriguez’s research focuses on Guatemalan migration, U.S. deportations to Mexico and Central America, the unauthorized migration of unaccompanied minors, evolving relations between Latinos and African Americans/Asian Americans, and ethical and human rights issues of border enforcement.

John Rumrich

English

John Rumrich focuses on Shakespeare, Milton, early modern English literature, and detective fiction.

Jaganath Sankaran

Public Affairs

Jaganath Sankaran's research focuses on the growing military and nuclear weapons capabilities of China and the counter military balancing undertaken by the United States, Japan, India and other states. In particular, he studies the impact of emerging technological advances on weapons systems deployed by these states.

Rosa Schnyer

Nursing

Rosa Schnyer is a doctor of Chinese Medicine and certified Functional Medicine practitioner. At The University of Texas at Austin, she teaches undergraduate students resilience, stress management and mindfulness skills.

Jonathan Sessler

Chemistry

Jonathan Sessler's research expertise is focused on organic chemistry, texaphyrin, expanded porphyrins, anion recognition, drug development, anti cancer agents, and the technical analyses of patents.

Zhenghui Sha

Mechanical Engineering

Zhenghui Sha’s research focuses on system science and design science as well as the intersection between these two areas. His goal is to build the decision-centric science foundation for complex systems engineering and design. Such a foundation will facilitate the integration within complex systems and amplify the data-driven power in engineering design and design research.

Li Shi

Mechanical Engineering

Li Shi's research efforts are focused on electronic and quantum materials for future-generation energy-efficient devices and quantum information technologies. The common theme of these multidisciplinary investigations is to understand and control the transport, conversion, and storage of heat, electricity, and magnetization from the macroscale down to the nanoscopic level of quantized energy excitations, including photons, phonons, electrons, and

Peter Stone

Computer Science

Peter Stone's research focuses on artificial intelligence with the goal to create autonomous agents that can learn to interact with other agents in a wide range of environments. His research contributions are in the areas of machine learning, autonomous agents and multiagent systems, and robotics. Application domains include robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, smart traffic management, general-purpose service robots, and autonomous vehicles.

Marie-Anne Suizzo

Educational Psychology

Marie-Anne Suizzo studies variations in parent-child relationships across cultures and ethnic groups. She examines how parent-child interactions and parenting practices shape adolescents' academic and social-emotional development. The outcomes she investigates include achievement motivation, school engagement, cultural beliefs and values, and social-emotional well-being.

Chenguang Sun

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Chenguang Sun's expertise is in petrology and geochemistry. He is interested in planetary-scale and grain-scale processes and their impacts on surface environments. His research is centered on deep volatile cycle, planetary differentiation and habitability, and thermal histories of planetary materials. To approach these problems, his group combines high-temperature laboratory experiments with petrological modeling and field observations.

Nan Sun

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nan Sun's research interests include analog, mixed-signal, and radio frequency-integrated circuits, miniature spin resonance systems, magnetic and image sensors, and micro-scale and nano-scale solid-state platforms to analyze biological systems for biotechnology and medicine.

Dixin Tang

Computer Science

Dixin Tang is generally interested in building systems for data-intensive applications. His research focus is on novel data system architectures in the cloud.

Devarajan Thirumalai

Chemistry, Physics

Devarajan Thirumalai’s group focuses on various problems in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, including investigating various aspects of the transition from liquid to amorphous state. Another area of research involves the theoretical study of polymer-colloid interactions. Research is also being carried out to understand the dynamics of protein folding.

Mauricio Viroli

Government

Maurizio Viroli's works examine the history of political thought, looking at the relationship between religion and politics, classical republicanism vs. neo-republicanism, political communication, and citizenship and civic education.

Jun Wang

Medicine, Communication Sciences and Disorders

Jun Wang's research is interdisciplinary with a focus on assistive technologies including silent speech interface to assist the communication of laryngectomees, motor speech disorder due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and neural speech decoding for brain-computer interfaces. Advanced computational techniques including machine learning are heavily used in these projects.

Yaguo Wang

Mechanical Engineering

Yaguo Wang's research focuses on the study of ultrafast carrier dynamics and micro/nano-scale heat transfer in nanomaterials with optical spectroscopy. Her research addresses many fundamental problems encountered in a wide variety of disciplines: thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, gas fuel generation, quantum-cascade lasers, etc.

Junmin Wang

Mechanical Engineering

Junmin Wang's research interests include control, modeling, estimation, optimization, and diagnosis of dynamical systems, especially for engine, powertrain, aftertreatment, hybrid, flexible fuel, alternative / renewable energy, energy storage, electrified and conventional ground vehicle, autonomous vehicle, intelligent transportation, smart and sustainable mobility, human-centric automation, cyber-physical, and mechatronic systems.

Huiliang Wang

Biomedical Engineering

Huiliang Wang’s research focuses on the development of new tools to modulate and record neural activity from targeted neuronal populations using minimally-invasive methods. Wang’s goal is to develop clinical neural interfacing therapies with the power and specificity afforded by optogenetics methods, using materials and electronic devices that are clinically translatable.

Luke Waring

Asian Studies

Luke Waring's research centers on early Chinese literature and cultural history (1250 BCE-220 CE), with a focus on manuscripts, epigraphy, material culture, and philology. Waring's work is highly interdisciplinary, encompassing literature, history, religion, art history, and archaeology.

Jamie Warner

Mechanical Engineering

Jamie Warner's research focuses on the next generation of nanostructured materials with unique properties that will impact electronic, opto-electronic, and energy applications. The core foundation of his research is on the atomic level structure and dynamics of nanomaterials realized through state-of-the-art aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy.

Xuexin Wei

Neuroscience, Psychology

Xuexin Wei's research aims to understand how brain/neurons generate adaptive and intelligent behavior.

Jacqueline Woolley

Psychology

Jacqueline Wooley’s research addresses two basic aspects of children's cognitive development: their beliefs about the nature of reality, and their understanding of mental states and processes. The goal of her research is to investigate how children make reality status judgments when they encounter novel information.

Mindy Xiaolan

Finance

Mindy Xiaolan conducts research at the intersection between macroeconomics and finance. Specifically, she works on macro finance, equilibrium asset pricing, dynamic contracting, dynamic corporate theory, labor and finance.

Bo Xie

Nursing, Information

Bo Xie reflects her interdisciplinary training in medicine, psychology, and science & technology studies. She focuses on health informatics interventions that can promote older adults’ use of information and communication technologies for health information and decision-making that may have important implications for patient-provider relationships and health outcomes.

Ying Xu

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Ying Xu's technical interests include emissions of semivolatile organic compounds from polymeric materials and their interaction with airborne particles and interior surfaces.

Haiqing Xu

Economics

Haiqing Xu's research interests have focused on identification and estimation in nonseparable models with discrete endogeneous variables and on large discrete games with asymmetric information. The former applies to policy evaluation and the structural industrial organization, and the latter to social interactions.

Kun Yang

Pharmacy

Kun Yang's research group utilizes a combination of techniques including biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, organic synthesis and mass spectrometry to study DNA-protein cross-link, a type of extremely cytotoxic and mutagenic DNA damage.

Zong-Liang Yang

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Zong-Liang Yang's research focuses on understanding and modeling of land-atmosphere exchanges of energy, mass, and momentum, quantifying land-climate interaction & feedback strengths, and exploring important applications of societal relevance such as prediction of hydrological extremes (floods and droughts).

Jin Yang

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Jin Yang’s research interests include developing analytical tools and experimental techniques to study viscoelastic materials behavior, dynamic instabilities and material failure under extreme loading conditions. His work also focuses on leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and data-driven methods to keep improving 2D and 3D full-field deformation measurement and other material characterization experimental techniques.

Li Yang

Asian Studies

Li Yang's research interests include Chinese language instruction, contemporary Chinese cinema and the Chinese film industry, East Asian cinema, and Chinese popular culture.

Song Yi

Biomedical Engineering, Medicine

Song Yi’s research is at the interface of human disease biology and informatics in the modern era of personalized precision medicine. His lab combines computational and experimental expertise to build a quantitative understanding of genetic/epigenetic variation and signaling network perturbation in disease.

Qian Yin

Biomedical Engineering

Qian Yin's research lies at the interface of engineering and immunology, employing a biomaterials-centric approach to elucidate key mechanisms for potentiating or diversifying the immune responses, and to precisely modulate the immune system for creating new immunotherapies against cancer and infectious diseases.

Guihua Yu

Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Guihua Yu's researches design and synthesis of functional nano-architectured materials, like organic and hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, understanding of their chemical and physical properties, and development of large-scale assembly and integration methodologies to enable important applications in energy, environment and sustainability, e.g. fast-charging batteries, electrocatalysis, solar water purification, critical mineral recovery.

Chen Yu

Psychology

Chen Yu’s research interests include development and learning, language acquisition, perception and action, visual attention, social interaction, computer vision, and machine learning.

Jing Zhai

History

Jing Zhai's scholarly interests encompass a wide array of subjects, such as the provincialization of socialist culture, everyday life studies, the history of gender and sexuality, the history of children and childhood, cultural history, and social history in the context of China.

Ming Zhang

Architecture

Ming Zhang’s research and teaching interests include urban and regional planning (transportation), the built environment-travel behavior relationship, GIS applications, and planning/transportation issues in developing countries.

Feng Zhang

Pharmacy

Feng Zhang's research interests include formulation, processing, and characterization of melt-extruded long-acting implants; investigation of process-induced transformation of active pharmaceutical ingredients during twin-screw continuous granulation; and simulation and modeling of melt extrusion for preparing amorphous solid dispersions to enhance bioavailability of drugs.

Yan Zhang

Information

Yan Zhang's research centers on consumer health information needs and information search behavior, with a focus on their evaluation of the quality and credibility of online health information and the impact of contextual factors (e.g., tasks) on search behaviors. Zhang is also interested in designing user-centered information interventions to help users more effectively access high-quality online health information.

Zhanmin Zhang

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Zhanmin Zhang's research interests include analysis and simulation of large-scale infrastructure systems with focus on interdependencies, robust maintenance policies, optimal resource allocations, and innovative financing mechanisms for infrastructure systems, application of advanced information technologies for infrastructure systems, and resilient infrastructure systems for smart cities.

Wuyang Zhao

Accounting

Wuyang Zhao's research explores the roles of short-sellers and financial analysts in capital markets. His current teaching interests focus primarily on financial statement analysis.

Bo Zhao

Biomedical Engineering, Medicine

Bo Zhao's research focuses on computational imaging and medical imaging, with an emphasis on the modality of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. Specifically, he focuses on developing novel mathematical models, computational algorithms, and data acquisition schemes to address inverse problems in MR imaging.

Rhonghou Zheng

Accounting

Rhonghou Zheng's research areas include corporate governance, executive compensation, strategic decision-making, and voluntary disclosure.

Yuebing Zheng

Mechanical Engineering

Yuebing Zheng's research group innovates optical nanotechnologies for health, manufacturing, energy, national security and data revolution.

Kent Zheng

Chemical Engineering

Kent Zheng's research aims to understand and control electrochemical synthesis of crystalline materials for energy and sustainability. His group's research encompasses various areas, including next-generation batteries, atomically-precise additive manufacturing, exotic quantum phases, and the fundamental electrochemistry that underpins their realization.

Mingyuan Zhou

Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Statistics and Data Science

Mingyuan Zhou’s research lies at the intersection of Bayesian statistics and machine learning. His research interests include statistical theory and methods, generative models, deep learning, reinforcement learning, statistical inference for big data, and Bayesian nonparametrics. His work focuses on advancing both statistical inference with deep learning and deep learning with probabilistic methods.

Yuanjin Zhou

Social Work

Yuanjin Zhou’s research focuses on using mixed methods to better understand caregivers’ experiences in managing health and well-being for both older adults living with dementia and themselves, and how multi-level factors and mechanisms impact their experiences of aging, health/illness, disability, and caregiving.

Lei Zhou

Mechanical Engineering

Lei Zhou’s research centers on the design and control of precision mechatronic systems for applications such as manufacturing equipment, scientific instruments, and robots. She has conducted research in topics including precision motion control, actuators for satellite attitude control, high-torque direct-drive electric machines, magnetic suspensions and bearingless motors, and precision motion systems for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Hao Zhu

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hao Zhu's research interests are power grid resilience, machine learning for power systems, renewable integration, cyber-physical systems, and real-time decision making.

Yuke Zhu

Computer Science

Yuke Zhu's research goal is to build intelligent algorithms for robots and embodied agents that reason about and interact with the real world. His research lies at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning with a focus on developing methods and mechanisms of perception and control to achieve general-purpose robot autonomy.

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