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.
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.
Andrew Blumberg's research interests include algebraic topology, geometric data analysis (with focus on cancer genomics and evolutionary biology), and outsourced verifiable computation.
Germanic Studies, Linguistics, Linguistics Research Center
Hans C. Boas' main research revolves around the relationship between syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, and the structure of the lexicon, which he approaches from a contrastive perspective (English/German). The theoretical frameworks he works with are primarily Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics with a strong bias towards corpus-based research methods.
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.
Charles Carson is a musicologist whose interests are African-American/American expressive cultures, popular music, jazz, film music, and music and culture.
Penelope Davies specializes in the architectural history of ancient Rome. She has published numerous articles and essays in scholarly publications about Roman art and architecture.
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Tyler Dick's research interests include railway mainline, yard and terminal capacity, railroad network operations and performance resiliency, operations potential of railway traffic control systems, railway energy efficiency and alternative energy locomotives, train operations and self-propelled autonomous railcars, predictive analytics for operations and maintenance planning, and safety of rail operations and hazardous materials transportation.
Katrin Erk's research focuses on computational linguistics, especially semantics. Her work is on distributed, flexible approaches to describing word meaning, and on integrating them with representations at the sentence or discourse level. She also studies narrative schemas, the ways in which they influence word meaning, and the inferences that they afford.
Juliana Felkner's research interests include the role of the built environment in addressing some of society's greatest challenges through the efficient use of land, construction materials and energy. The tall building serves as an application for her research on integrating design and technology to improve urban conditions, building performance, and human comfort.
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.
Shiv Ganesh studies communication and collective organizing in the context of globalization and digital technologies. His work spans critical-institutional and poststructural approaches to communication, and is currently comprised of two strands; studies of technological transformations in collective action; and studies of dialogue, conflict and social change.
Geography and the Environment, Anthropology, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Thomas Garrison’s research interests include remote sensing, Maya civilization, landscape archaeology, Mesoamerican archaeology, and geographic information systems.
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's research focuses on social and political theory, bioethics of human genetic engineering, politics of artificial intelligence, and human rights.
Maria Gualdani's research interests include nonlinear partial differential equations, existence and qualitative analysis, kinetic theory, and mean field games.
Patrick Heimbach is a computational oceanographer, climate scientist, and hobby glaciologist. His main research interest is understanding the general circulation of the ocean, the dynamics of the marine (and marine-terminating) cryosphere, and their role in the global climate system.
Noah Isenberg's areas of expertise include media studies, criticism and history of the film industry, identity and representation in film, classical Hollywood film, independent cinema, Weimar cinema (German cinema), and émigrés in Hollywood.
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.
Connor Jerzak looks at political methodology and causal inferences along with the global development of artificial intelligence and other substantive applications.
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’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.
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.
Elaine Li's research focuses on using laser spectroscopy methods to investigate new materials on the nanoscale or individual nanoparticles, quasiparticles, and collective excitations.
Marie Monfils' research focuses on investigating post-consolidation manipulations that can persistently attenuate fear memories, isolating the factors that underlie social transmission of information, and assessing individual differences and their impact on fear attenuation.
Jeannette Okur's research interests lie in the fields of comparative literature, literary translation, and film studies. Her research explores the relationships between perpetrators and victims of political violence in transnational novels by Turkish and Iraqi-Kurdish writers in exile.
Robert Olwell's research and teaching interests are focused on the 18th-century British-Atlantic World and the early American South. Particular subjects of interest are slavery, abolition, the American Revolution, and the British-American Empire.
Thomas Palaima has written and taught extensively on the subjects of ancient writing systems, the reconstruction of ancient culture, decipherment theory, Greek language, war and violence, ancient religion and rituals, song as a means of communicating social criticism, and intertextuality.
Sam Payne’s research focuses on the development and application of combinatorial methods in algebraic geometry, especially through connections to tropical geometry and nonarchimedean analytic spaces. This includes techniques to give new insights into the topology of moduli spaces of curves and cohomology of mapping class groups.
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.
Sharmila Rudrappa teaches and researches on issues related to gender, race, and labor. Her specific interests are on reproductive markets in the U.S. and India.
Jason Shumake’s primary research interest is building models from longitudinal data sets to classify and predict behavior and responses to interventions. He is particularly interested in using statistical and machine learning algorithms to search for novel combinations of genetic, neural, and behavioral features that predict treatment response.
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.
Takashi Tanaka’s research focus is on efficient and reliable real-time decision-making algorithms for autonomous robots and humans. He specializes in stochastic and non-stochastic optimal control, robust control, distributed and networked control, optimization, and game theory. His recent research activities explore the interface between control theory and information theory.
Lynn Wilkinson specializes in Scandinavian and comparative literature along with Scandinavian drama and film, focusing on themes of modernism, narrative traditions, gender, and literary and cultural theory.
Partnerships
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm School of Economics
Stockholm University
Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT)
