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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.
Lucy Atkinson
Advertising & Public Relations
Lucy Atkinson's research looks at communication in the context of sustainability and the environment. She focuses on the ways message components (like visual elements, argument frames, source factors) in environmental communication campaigns influence environmental attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.
Chih-Hao Chang
Mechanical Engineering
Chih-Hao Chang's research focuses on nanomanufacturing and the design and fabrication of 2D/3D multifunctional nanostructures with novel physical properties. His research group have demonstrated engineered nanostructures such as self-cleaning anti-glare glass, light-weight ultra-stiff nanolattice material with near-unity refractive index, stretchable transparent conductors, and responsive materials with dynamic iridescence.
Lynn Crismon
Pharmacy
Lynn Crismon's research, scholarship, and practice have focused on the development and evaluation of strategies to improve the pharmacotherapy and health outcomes of adults and children with severe mental disorders.
Michele Deitch
Public Affairs, Law
Michele Deitch specializes in independent oversight of correctional facilities, prison and jail conditions, managing youth in custody and juveniles in the adult criminal justice system.
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.
Dragan Djurdjanovic
Mechanical Engineering
Dragan Djurdjanovic's research interests include advanced quality and process control in multistage manufacturing systems, intelligent proactive maintenance techniques and applications of advanced data analytics in biomedical engineering.
Ananth Dodabalapur
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ananth Dodabalapur’s recent research includes organic and inorganic thin-film transistors, 2D materials device physics and device chemistry, chemical sensors, photovoltaics and thin-film circuits.
John Doggett
Management
John Doggett's work focuses on global competition, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and energy.
Jeanne Freeland-Graves
Nutritional Sciences, Human Ecology
Jeanne Freeland-Graves focuses on genetic relationships of obesity with cardiovascular risk factors, liver function markers, and insulin resistance. She has explored the nutritional, environmental and psychological and social influences on weight retention in minority, low-income women after childbirth, as well as the biological and behavioral responses of both mothers and their children to nutrition and physical activity interventions.
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.
Diwakar Gupta
Information, Risk & Operations Management
Diwakar Gupta's research interests include healthcare, operations research, supply chain management, and transportation.
Geraldine Heng
English
Geraldine Heng’s research focuses on literary, cultural, and social encounters between worlds, and webs of exchange and negotiation between communities and cultures, particularly when transacted through issues of gender, race, sexuality, class, and religion. Heng is especially interested in medieval Europe’s discoveries and rediscoveries of Asia and Africa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
John Kuo
Neurosurgery
John Kuo is an internationally known neurosurgeon-scientist who specializes in brain tumors. His work has been instrumental to advance the care of brain and spine patients, partnering with clinical and research colleagues in neuroscience, cancer and other areas to leverage technology and bioscience advances on campus.
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.
Amy Liu
Government
Amy Liu's research interests focuses on ethnic politics, language policies, and migration politics, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.
Nanshu Lu
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Nanshu Lu's research pursues and integrates knowledge of mechanics, materials, and electronics to achieve robust and functionally superior bio-integrated/bio-memetic soft electronics. Some works from her group include wearable e-tattoos for mobile sensing cardiovascular health and mental stress, soft e-skins for robots to gain human-skin-like tactile perception, and analytical modeling on the mechanics of stretchable electronics and 2D materials.
Vijay Mahajan
Marketing
Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.
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.
Deirdre Mendez
Business, Government and Society
Deirdre Mendez’s research interests lie in intercultural management, adaptation, and team building.
Zoltan Nagy
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Zoltan Nagy's research interests are in smart buildings and cities, renewable energy systems, control systems for zero emission building operation, machine learning and artificial intelligence for the built environment, complex fenestration systems, and the influence of building occupants on energy performance.
Eric Nordquist
Information
Eric Nordquist's group works on a variety of projects focused on healthcare and their design, including mobile and desktop applications, augmented reality, and virtual reality, to optimize for usability and human-computer interaction.
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.
Surya Santoso
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Surya Santoso's research lies in the broad area of power systems analysis, electric power quality, distributed energy resource integration, and time-domain modeling and simulation of electrical systems.
Sata Sathasivan
Molecular Biosciences
Sata Sathasivan's research includes generating biofuels from algae, understanding their defense mechanisms, and studying efficient water use systems such as modular hydroponics in urban farming.
Michael Sturley
Law
Michael Sturley's expertise is in maritime law (admiralty) and Supreme Court practice. Additionally, he specializes in property and commercial law.
Puay Toh
Management
Puay Toh studies technology strategy, focusing on issues of competition and innovation, value appropriation within ecosystems, standard setting, research & development organization, resource allocation and other technology-related strategies.
Sharon Vaughn
Special Education
Sharon Vaughn investigates effective interventions for students with reading difficulties and students who are English language learners.
Aruhn Venkat
Accounting
Aruhn Venkat's research primarily focuses on the effects of bank taxes and the effects of tax avoidance.
Di Wang
Government
Di Wang works on international poltiical economy particularly with a focus on sovereign wealth funds and foreign direct divestments.
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.
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