Hong Kong

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.

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.

Maria Arredondo

Human Development and Family Sciences, Psychology

Maria Arredondo’s research focuses on understanding how infants, toddlers and school-age children acquire their language(s). She is especially interested in why some children can become proficient bilinguals, while others seem to struggle.

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.

Chandra Bhat

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Economics

Chandra Bhat is an expert in the area of travel demand modeling and travel behavior analysis. His methodological research interests and expertise are in the areas of econometric and mathematical modeling of consumer behavior, including discrete choice analysis, discrete-continuous econometric systems, and hazard duration models.

Saroj Bhattarai

Economics

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

Jonathan Chen

Textiles and Apparel, Texas Materials Institute

Jonathan Chen's research focuses are on development of bio-functional micron/nano cellulose fiber for apparel and medical textiles, production and evaluation of biobased nonwoven composites for automotive interiors, fabrication and characterization of activated carbon fiber and conductive fabrics for protective garments, water/air filtration, bio- and chemical-decontamination, noise absorption/insulation, energy storage, and wearable sensing.

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.

North Cooc

Special Education

North Cooc's research focuses on three main areas: 1) the role of schools and social institutions in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in academic and social outcomes; 2) the unequal opportunities of children with disabilities in navigating the special education system; and 3) the preparation of a diverse and culturally sustaining teacher workforce.

Deana Erdner

Marine Science

Deana Erdner's lab focuses on the genetics of bloom-forming algae, particularly toxic dinoflagellates.

Bertram Gawronski

Psychology

Bertram Gawronski’s research aims to understand social judgments and social behavior by identifying their underlying mental processes. His interests include moral judgment and decision-making, attitude formation and change, and effects of misinformation. In addition to these major themes, he is interested in basic questions of psychological measurement and meta-theoretical issues in the construction and evaluation of psychological theories.

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.

John Griffin

Finance

John Griffin's research areas include forensic finance, conflicts of interest, manipulation, credit ratings, crypto-currencies, international finance, institutional and individual investors, real estate, rational and behavioral pricing, and hedge funds.

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.

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.

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.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

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

Deirdre Mendez

Business, Government and Society

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

Douglas Morrice

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

David Schnyer

Psychology

David Schnyer's research is focused on the cognitive neuroscience of mental processes, particularly, the neural structures and computational algorithms that contribute to non-declarative memory, associative memory, metamemory and attention/cognitive control.

Clemens Sialm

Finance

Clemens Sialm's research interests are in the areas of investments, retirement savings, and taxation.

Bassam Sidiki

English, Asian American Studies, Humanities, Health and Medicine

Bassam Sidiki conducts research and teaching at the intersection of postcolonial studies, medical humanities, and disability studies. He also writes creative nonfiction and poetry.

Sharon Strover

Radio-Television-Film, Journalism and Media

Sharon Strover's research examines local and statewide networks and broadband services, such as the relationship between economic outcomes and investments in digital media programs in higher education and with social media. She also investigates the digital divide in terms of rural broadband and telecommunications infrastructure deployment related to economic development in these regions. She also works on issues with artificial intelligence.

Patrick Wong

Public Affairs

Pat Wong's areas of interest are social policy, family and child welfare, poverty issues, and housing and community development. His publications and government reports are in the areas of child support and welfare reform, Medicaid managed care, and coordination of social services.

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