Finland

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.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Uttarayan Bagchi

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Uttarayan Bagchi's research interests include operations management, sequencing and scheduling, and management of quality.

Doris Baker

Curriculum and Instruction, Special Education

Doris Baker's research interest is to develop and test interventions that improve the outcomes of English learners using evidence-based practices and technology. She is also interested in the development of formative assessments that can measure student academic growth, the examination of the effect of parental support on their children’s academic outcomes, and the enhancement of teacher pedagogical practices and content knowledge.

Jean Barrera

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Jean Barrera is a working musician who also teaches the music and history of Conjunto music. He has performed around the world and is the innovator of the first National Reso-phonic Bajo Sexto.

Saroj Bhattarai

Economics

Saroj Bhattarai's research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, international macroeconomics and finance, and time series econometrics.

Nathaniel Brickens

Music Performance, Music Education

Nathaniel Brickens is an internationally acclaimed trombone player and educator. He has traveled and performed both national and internationally as a free-lance trombonist, as conductor of the UT Trombone Choir, and as a music educator.

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.

Paulo Ferreira

Mechanical Engineering

Paulo Ferreira's research is focused on the study of the atomic structure and defect behavior of nanomaterials, used for alternative energy technologies, through in-situ and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy techniques. Ferreira is interested in understanding the relationships between the structure and the properties of nanomaterials, and the underlying mechanisms of structural and property changes induced by crystalline defects.

Edgar Gómez-Cruz

Information, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Edgar Gómez-Cruz has published widely on several topics relating to digital and algorithmic culture in top journals, particularly in the areas of material visual practices, digital ethnography, and critical approaches to digital technologies. His research focuses on the datafication and automation of everyday life in the Latin America, using a decolonizing approach.

Sonia Gonzalez

Public Health

Sonia Gonzalez's research focuses on bridging the health and tech worlds with digital health applied research grounded in equity.

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima

Psychology, Medicine, Pharmacy

Francisco Gonzalez-Lima's lab focuses on the mission to prevent neurocognitive and emotional disorders, understand the underlying brain mechanisms, and advance innovative non-invasive treatments. Areas of research interest include transcranial infrared brain stimulation, near infrared spectroscopy, neurocognitive enhancement, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase, dementia, bipolar disorder and neurotherapeutics.

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.

Eric Hirst

Accounting

Eric Hirst's research and teaching interests include financial accounting, investor and auditor judgment, and decision theory.

Alex Huang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

Richard Huntley

Music Performance

Richard Huntley is a professor of percussion whose research includes Afro-Cuban folkloric and Lucumi music and batá drumming.

Sirkka Jarvenpaa

Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Business, Technology, and Law

Sirkka Jarvenpaa's research and teaching interests include global innovation management, inter-organizational and inter-personal collaborations and innovations in fast-paced and technologically advanced data and knowledge environments with regulatory and policy implications.

Smyth Johansson

Germanic Studies

Smyth Johansson's research interests lie within language and culture, Scandinavian Studies, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition. Johansson is especially interested in mind, brain and education research and how it translates into instructional design, as well as the intersection of language instruction, autonomous learning and technology.

Patricia Johansson

Germanic Studies

Patricia Johansson’s research interests lie within language and culture, Scandinavian Studies, language pedagogy, and second language acquisition. Johansson is especially interested in mind, brain and education research and how it translates into instructional design, as well as the intersection of language instruction, autonomous learning and technology.

Daniel Koehler

Architecture

Daniel Koehler's research focuses on the urban implications of distributive technologies, which are being designed by means of sets, data, interfaces and their architecture.

Michael Krische

Chemistry

Michael Krische's research lies at the interface of enantioselective catalysis, natural product total synthesis and chemical biology. His laboratory has developed a broad, new family of stereo- and site-selective C-C couplings that merge the characteristics of catalytic hydrogenation and carbonyl addition.

Min Kyung Lee

Information

Min Kyung Lee's research investigates the societal implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and how to design AI to be fairer, participatory, and a tool for social good.

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.

Risto Miikkulainen

Computer Science, Neuroscience

Risto Miikkulainen’s research focuses on biologically-inspired computation such as neural networks and evolutionary computation. His goal is to understand biological information processing and to develop intelligent artificial systems that learn and adapt by observing and interacting with the environment.

Ehud Ronn

Finance

Ehud Ronn's research and teaching interests focus on the valuation of energy commodity-contingent securities.

Samantha Santacruz

Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Samantha Santacruz focuses on the engineering advancement of neuroprosthetics and their therapeutic application to a growing range of neurological disorders. The lab investigates neuroscientific questions related to understanding how neural patterns or states are learned, as well as how to manipulate these processes.

Sandro Sessarego

Spanish & Portuguese, African and African Diaspora Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies

Sandro Sessarego works in contact linguistics, sociolinguistics and syntax. He studies Afro-Latino Vernaculars of the Americas (ALVA), languages in Latin America developed from contact of African languages, Spanish and Portuguese in colonial times. His research aims at examining the status of unofficial languages to understand how language policy impact minority groups, with a focus on speakers of ALVA, creoles, indigenous languages, etc.

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