
Rana Abdul-Aziz
Senior Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Modern Arabic Literature, High school Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, second language…
Senior Lecturer, International Literary and Cultural Studies
Research Interests:
Modern Arabic Literature, High school Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, second language acquisition, high school political science and philosophy instruction
Senior Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Modern Arabic Literature, High school Arabic pedagogy and curriculum design, second language…
Research Interests:
Scientific computing and numerical analysis: Efficient computational methods for complex fluids, plasma physics, electromagnetism and other physical applications.
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Scientific computing and numerical analysis: Efficient computational methods for complex fluids,…
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
data science, statistical signal processing, inverse problems, compressed sensing, information theory, convex optimization, machine learning, algorithms for geophysical signal processing, compressed sensing architectures and evaluation, video and image data acquisition and processing
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
data science, statistical signal processing, inverse problems, compressed sensing, information…
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Precision microwave, millimeter, terahertz, and submillimeter wave, far-infrared, and infrared wave measurement techniques and instrumentation; millimeter and submillimeter wave sources, detectors, and systems; solid, liquid, and gaseous state physics, spectroscopy, material characterization and studies, complex dielectric permittivity, and complex magnetic permeability measurements of dielectric and magnetic materials; and theoretical studies of polymeric, glassy, amorphous, and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown materials, ceramic, and semiconductor materials, thin films, liquids and fluids, electronic, biological, and magnetic materials.
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Precision microwave, millimeter, terahertz, and submillimeter wave, far-infrared, and infrared wave…
Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Research Interests:
Sustainability policy and planning; environmental and food justice; intercultural cities
Professor and Department Chair of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate
Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Sustainability policy and planning; environmental and food justice; intercultural cities
Research Interests:
Economic development in Africa, with a primary focus on the impact of information and information technology on development outcomes, particularly in the areas of agriculture, agricultural marketing and education; The relationship between shocks and agricultural food market performance; The determinants of agricultural technology adoption; Technology and educational outcomes
Professor of Development Economics
The Fletcher School
Economic development in Africa, with a primary focus on the impact of information and information…
Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests:
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, reinforcement learning.
Associate Teaching Professor
Computer Science
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, reinforcement learning.
Research Interests:
Intersections between historical/lived experience, music, and social values; music ethnography; compositional conventions and theories in Akan music; Akan heritage of tangible and intangible stool regalia; music and social change, and Popular music.
Professor and Department Chair of Music
Music
Intersections between historical/lived experience, music, and social values; music ethnography;…
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Engineering Education Outreach
Research Interests:
learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, design discourse, project-based learning
Research Assistant Professor
Center for Engineering Education Outreach
learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, design discourse, project-based…
Professor of the Practice, Gordon Institute
Research Interests:
The influences of strategy, organizational design and capital formation on prolonged enterprise performance
Professor of the Practice
Gordon Institute
The influences of strategy, organizational design and capital formation on prolonged enterprise…
Research Interests:
Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, the cultural Cold War, global communism, transnational history
Associate Professor
History
Modern Russia and Eastern Europe, the cultural Cold War, global communism, transnational history
Senior Lecturer, International Literary and Cultural Studies
Research Interests:
Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Russian film, literature, culture and language, Russian and Soviet Jewish cultural history
Senior Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Twentieth Century, Women Writers, Russian film, literature, culture and language, Russian and…
Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Interests:
membranes, polymer science, material science, separations, surface chemistry
Associate Professor and Steve and Kristen Remondi Fellow
Chemical and Biological Engineering
membranes, polymer science, material science, separations, surface chemistry
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Research Interests:
Condensed Matter Physics, Soft materials, Colloids, Liquid Crystals, Computational Physics, Physics Education
Soft matter physics is the study of matter that is all around us in everyday life: soaps, oil, foods, sand, foams, and biological matter. All of these are readily deformable at room temperature and combine properties of both fluids and solids. Despite their ubiquity, these materials are extremely complicated. Unlike simple fluids like water, they have rich internal structure; unlike crystalline solids they are typically not periodically ordered. Moreover, they exist in long-lived metastable states far from equilibrium and respond to stimuli such as applied electric and magnetic fields, temperature and pressure. My work seeks to understand how these materials respond to shape: how they self-organize on curved surfaces or in complex geometries and how this knowledge can be used both to sculpt desirable shapes at the microscopic scale and create shape changing systems like soft robots. We use high performance computing to simulate and predict these behaviors and work closely with experimentalists at Tufts and beyond.
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Condensed Matter Physics, Soft materials, Colloids, Liquid Crystals, Computational Physics, Physics…
Research Interests:
Fluid dynamics, turbulence, reduced modeling of complex systems, dynamical systems theory, chaotic mixing, microfluidics, electrohydrodynamics, manipulation and assembly of nanoscale particles in microfluidics, biofluids
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Fluid dynamics, turbulence, reduced modeling of complex systems, dynamical systems theory, chaotic…
Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Photon-counting imaging, wavefront sensing, low-light passive imaging.
Lecturer
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Photon-counting imaging, wavefront sensing, low-light passive imaging.
Research Interests:
Music and technology, sound studies, Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, turn of the century Paris and Vienna, and Weimar Berlin
Austin Fletcher Professor of Music and Dean of University College
Music
Music and technology, sound studies, Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, turn of the century…
Research Interests:
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
Professor
Philosophy
Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
Assistant Professor, Psychology
Research Interests:
Perception
Stibel Family Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science
Psychology
Perception
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics, Macro-labor, Macroeconometrics
Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies
Research Interests:
20th-Century Italian Poetry; Italian Women Writers; Italian Literature of the Holocaust; Political Ideology in Italian Literature
Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
20th-Century Italian Poetry; Italian Women Writers; Italian Literature of the Holocaust; Political…
Research Interests:
Armenia and Cross-Cultural World
Early Modern Europe
Professor and Darakjian Jafarian Chair of Armenian History
History
Armenia and Cross-Cultural World Early Modern Europe
Research Interests:
Chronic Pain, Virtual Reality, Musculoskeletal Health, Ergonomics
Nancy Baker's research focuses on ways to mitigate musculoskeletal pain, so people with chronic pain can increase their participation in everyday life. She focuses on three pain mitigation pathways: 1) workstation ergonomics to address work environment properties that propagate pain; 2) improving care delivery in CTS; and 3) virtual reality (VR) as a therapeutic medium for pain.
Baker's research is eclectic and uses a variety of tools and techniques to answer her research questions. A new area for her, her current research examines how to implement VR into clinical practice. Here pilot work has looked at what types and dosages of VR are most effective, how different diagnoses, such as chronic back pain or osteoarthritis, respond to VR, and she has partnered with rehabilitation centers to trial different implementation practices. So far, her research consistently demonstrates that VR has a significant effect on pain and that it can be feasibly done by practicing therapists. Some results found a carryover of effect past the immediate VR session. Baker is also working with colleagues to examine new paradigms in carpal tunnel treatment and is completing a trial looking at dosage for standing desk use.
Associate Professor
Occupational Therapy
Chronic Pain, Virtual Reality, Musculoskeletal Health, Ergonomics Nancy Baker's research…
Research Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:
regulation, environment and pathology of megakarocytes to platelets
Research Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
regulation, environment and pathology of megakarocytes to platelets
Lecturer, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Research Interests:
Natural Hazards, hazard mitigation, historical earthquakes and tsunamis
Lecturer
Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Natural Hazards, hazard mitigation, historical earthquakes and tsunamis
Research Interests:
Group Theory & Practice; Functional Group Model; Occupational Therapy Fieldwork, Mentoring
My current and ongoing scholarship focus is on development of an instrument to measure outcomes of group leader training related to common leader behaviors. I continue to participate in research projects regarding occupational therapy fieldwork and community based program evaluation.
Lecturer
Occupational Therapy
Group Theory & Practice; Functional Group Model; Occupational Therapy Fieldwork, Mentoring My…
Professor of the Practice, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Professor of the Practice
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests:
privacy-preserving analytics, federated databases, differential privacy, private data sharing, secure
computation, database performance, data science, trustworthy database systems
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
privacy-preserving analytics, federated databases, differential privacy, private data sharing,…
Research Interests:
Feminism, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Philosophical Method, Philosophy and Film
Professor
Philosophy
Feminism, Existentialism and Phenomenology, Philosophical Method, Philosophy and Film
Research Interests:
Ethics, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Kant, Wittgenstein, Ordinary Language Philosophy
Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy
Philosophy
Ethics, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Kant, Wittgenstein, Ordinary Language Philosophy
Distinguished Senior Lecturer, Education
Research Interests:
Linda's research interests include developing effective partnerships between higher education and public schools, training teachers to teach in urban settings, and integrating technology into classroom teaching. Her articles and book reviews have been published in Childhood Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, The Newslink, Helping Young Children Learn, and Massachusetts Department of Education publications.
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Education
Linda's research interests include developing effective partnerships between higher education…
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Research Interests:
Experimental High Energy Physics
My research focuses on the discovery of new fundamental particles of nature, as well as on the understanding of the behavior of the known particles. To do this, I participate in the ATLAS experiment, one of the two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. My work currently consists in analyzing data in order to:
Perform precision measurements leading to a better understanding of the strong interaction within the QCD theoretical framework;
Search for new physics in events involving large amount of missing energy, typical signature of new particles that interact very weakly with normal matter such as dark matter candidate;
Develop and estimate the performance of the ATLAS trigger system. This last aspect of my work also involves software development and a participation in the detector operation. I'm focusing my efforts on the Missing Energy trigger.
The Standard Model of particle physics, despite being very successful, cannot be the end of the story. It contains a certain number of theoretical dissatisfactions. Of all the possibilities, I believe that dark matter is one of our best guess. Its existence is based on experimental facts, and the mass scale of dark matter particles, in the case where it is the right explanation, should be accessible at the LHC. Its existence would be inferred by the observation of missing energy in subset of all collected events. Looking for excesses of events involving large amount of missing energy over expectations is a promising way to look for dark matter at the LHC. My approach is to carry such search by performing precision measurements of Standard Model quantities, to optimize the sensitivity of the analysis to such new particles.
Predictions using quantum chromodynamics (QCD) implies many approximations, assumptions or simplifications at various levels. These could lead to large systematic uncertainties on various Standard Model predictions, possibly leading to significant limits in our sensitivity to new phenomena. My research try to determine which of the simplifications and approximations are acceptable at the level of precision needed for a new physics discovery. To this end, I investigate events that contain a vector boson and jets, as they are sensitive to such physics and yet provide a clean enough environment to allow for high precision measurements. These are also the most important background to a wide range of new physics signature.
As a side, I am also interested in the philosophy of physics, focusing on epistemological aspects of experiments and simulations as used in High Energy Physics.
Associate Professor
Physics & Astronomy
Experimental High Energy Physics My research focuses on the discovery of new fundamental particles…
Associate Professor, Classical Studies
Research Interests:
Greek religion, Greek epigraphy, Medieval Latin, Digital Humanities
Associate Professor
Classical Studies
Greek religion, Greek epigraphy, Medieval Latin, Digital Humanities
Research Interests:
Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Science; Activity Performance and Participation of Children, Youth and Young Adults with Disabilities; Measurement and Intervention Development and Testing
The ultimate aim of my research is to promote activity performance and participation of children, youth, and young adults with disabilities across the lifespan. I am particularly interested in assessment and intervention approaches that identify and build upon what individuals already know and do to manage their daily life routines and participate in meaningful activities. I have developed a number of measures as primary author such as the Child and Adolescent Scale of Participation (CASP) and as co-author such as the Participation and Environment Measure for Children and Youth (PEM-CY). My most recent project (Social participation And Navigation or SPAN) involves the development and testing of an app-based coaching intervention to promote social participation of teenagers and transition-age young adults with acquired brain injuries and other conditions. (See personal website for current and past work and resources).
Professor
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation Science; Activity Performance and Participation of Children,…
Assistant Teaching Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Interests:
Engineering education, embedded systems, camera systems and computational photography
Assistant Teaching Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Engineering education, embedded systems, camera systems and computational photography
Research Interests:
Organic Synthesis, Carbohydrate Chemistry, Synthetic Methodology, Bioorganic Chemistry. Complex carbohydrates play critical roles in a number of biological processes including, protein folding, cellular adhesion and signaling. Despite their importance, very little is understood about the molecular basis of their activity. This is largely due to the fact that the only source of pure oligosaccharides is tedious multi-step synthesis, which can take months or even years to compete. Our research is focused on developing methodologies, based on asymmetric catalysis, to streamline complex oligosaccharide synthesis. Ultimately such methods will aid in the rapid and routine preparation of oligosaccharides for biophysical studies and drug discovery.
Professor
Chemistry
Organic Synthesis, Carbohydrate Chemistry, Synthetic Methodology, Bioorganic Chemistry. Complex…
Affiliate, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Research Interests:
learning technologies
Affiliate
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
learning technologies
Senior Lecturer, Romance Studies
Research Interests:
Hispanic Linguistics, Language change, Heritage Language Teaching
Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
Hispanic Linguistics, Language change, Heritage Language Teaching
Research Interests:
Applied and Theoretical Economic Models and Empirics
Professor and Department Chair of Economics
Economics
Applied and Theoretical Economic Models and Empirics
Senior Lecturer and Director of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Civic Studies
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests:
cardiovascular tissue engineering, dynamic tissue mechanics and visualization, computational modeling, myocardial infarction, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, cardiogenesis
Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
cardiovascular tissue engineering, dynamic tissue mechanics and visualization, computational…
Professor, The Fletcher School
Research Interests:
-Agricultural development
-Economic growth
-Political economy
-Development economics, particularly food and agricultural policy, growth, and political economy
Professor of International Economics
The Fletcher School
-Agricultural development -Economic growth -Political economy -Development economics, particularly…
Associate Professor, Sociology
Research Interests:
Feminist analyses of childhood and masculinity; African American politics and intellectual history; Du Boisian Sociology.
Associate Professor
Sociology
Feminist analyses of childhood and masculinity; African American politics and intellectual history…
Research Interests:
Applied dynamical systems, applied probability theory, kinetic theory, agent-based modeling, mathematical models of the economy, theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, complex systems science, quantum computation
Current research emphasis is on mathematical models of economics in general, and agent-based models of wealth distributions in particular. The group's work has shed new light on the tendency of wealth to concentrate, and has discovered new results for upward mobility, wealth autocorrelation, and the flux of agents and wealth. The group's mathematical description of the phenomenon of oligarchy has also shed new light on functional analysis in general and distribution theory in particular.
Secondary projects include new directions in lattice Boltzmann and lattice-gas models of fluid dynamics, kinetic theory, and quantum computation.
Professor
Mathematics
Applied dynamical systems, applied probability theory, kinetic theory, agent-based modeling,…