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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.
Bayani Cardenas
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Bayani Cardenas' research group studies fundamental and applied hydrologic flow and transport phenomena. The group pursues basic knowledge on the role of water in many earth-surface processes, including conventional hydrologic and water quality monitoring, geophysical surveys, remote-sensing, analogue experiments, and mathematical modeling, to design solutions to environmental issues and society's water problems.
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.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens
Public Affairs
Sheena Chestnut Greitens' research focuses on security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics & foreign policy.
Janet Davis
American Studies, History
Janet Davis specializes in U.S. cultural and social history, popular culture, and social thought, with an extended interest in animal studies, women's and gender history, U.S. social movements, and modern South Asia.
James Gabrillo
Musicology & Ethnomusicology
James Gabrillo is a pop music researcher of global culture industries and digital technologies. His work examines the aesthetics and networks of musical multimedia in contemporary Manila.
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.
Lindsey Loera
Pharmacy
Lindsey Loera's research is related to substance use disorders, substance use and harm reduction.
Vijay Mahajan
Marketing
Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.
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.
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.