Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: human-computer interaction, new interaction modes and techniques, implicit brain-computer interfaces, user interface software

Research/Areas of Interest: Environmental economics Development economics Microeconomics Sustainable development

Research/Areas of Interest: ACTFL OPI testing Translating (English into Arabic & vise versa) Consecutive Interpreting (English to Arabic & vise versa) Communicative Method Approach in teaching Arabic Online Education Online Arabic Language and Culture curriculum designed & development

Research/Areas of Interest: South Asia, the Muslim World

Research/Areas of Interest: Music, ritual, and trance; music and minoritized people; musics of North Africa, Sufism, and Islam; rhythmic theory; global jazz

Research/Areas of Interest: geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering, and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering

Research/Areas of Interest: Urban Analytics; Big Data Analytics; Urban Planning and Science; Spatial Data Science; Urban mobility;

Research/Areas of Interest: critical education studies, critical race feminisms, psychoanalysis and education, queer studies, poststructuralism, French theory, continental philosophy, critical theory (Frankfurt School), relational literacies, dialogue, deliberative controversy

Research/Areas of Interest: Adolescence and young adulthood; identity development; civic development and engagement; youth contribution; critical consciousness; quantitative methods (including mixture models such as latent class and latent profile analyses); positive youth development

Research/Areas of Interest: Synthetic Biology, Materials Chemistry, Chemical Biology. We envision a future in which engineered biological systems are integral to human prosperity. Engineering biology has the potential to improve many areas of modern society through new sustainable manufacturing practices, biomedical innovations that communicate with our bodies reciprocally, and responsible stewardship of our ecology. Toward these ideals, our group seeks to develop new ways that genetically engineered microbes can build and interface with their environments in ways that are prescribed by biotechnologists. A central area of investigation has been on the development of bacterial systems that produce protein nanofibers (i.e., "curli" fibers) as a scaffold for materials fabrication. We call this platform technology Biofilm Integrated Nanofiber Display (BIND), and have pursued its application in bioremediation, sustainable plastics alternatives, and gut-targeted therapeutics. We are also exploring the use of engineered bacteria to drive pH, color, and shape changes for materials, and the development of engineered living systems for highly parallelized biosensing.

Research/Areas of Interest: Recovery; addiction and substance use; adolescent and emerging adult development; community-engaged research; recovery high schools; differences in recovery outcomes; social and ecological contexts

Research/Areas of Interest: Mechanics of materials; effective properties of heterogeneous materials; microstructure-property relationships; applications to material science

Research/Areas of Interest: language pedagogy second language acquisition

Research/Areas of Interest: Neural basis of vocal communication

Research/Areas of Interest: biopolymer engineering, biomaterials, material science, tissue engineering, bioengineering, cellular agriculture

Research/Areas of Interest: programming languages, type systems, dynamic languages

Research/Areas of Interest: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Literature Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art History and Theory of the Novel History of Science Philosophy and Literature

Research/Areas of Interest: Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

Research/Areas of Interest: Fluid mechanics, flow in the human body, hemodynamics, aneurysms, heart development, flow in tumors, cardiac assist devices

Research/Areas of Interest: Material characterization, lithium-ion batteries, tissue biomechanics, and engineering education

Research/Areas of Interest: water systems analysis, urban water management, environmental justice and equity

Research/Areas of Interest: Performing arts in relation to mass atrocities (colonization, war, genocide, migration and diaspora); Music and dance in the formation of collective memory; Music and social justice; Soundscapes and the musical construction of place; Digital humanities and sound archives; Southeast Asian performing arts.

Research/Areas of Interest: Performance Studies; queer studies; South Asian studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Scientific Computing, Image Reconstruction and Restoration

Research/Areas of Interest: Ethics, Chinese philosophy

Research/Areas of Interest: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Research/Areas of Interest: Adaptation to climate change, water resources engineering, planning and management, integrated water resources management

Research/Areas of Interest: Exchange rates International capital movements Federal Reserve and central bank policies Macroeconomics Tariffs and international trade

Research/Areas of Interest: Adolescence and young adulthood; identity development; personality development; narrative identity; quantitative methods (including structural equation models)

Research/Areas of Interest: Hungtang Ko's research focuses on the collective organization of biological collectives and robot swarms in fluid environments. He conducts animal experiments, simulates agent-based models, and designs biomimetic robots to investigate the physical interaction among insect swarms and fish schools. Beyond his core research, his diverse research interests extend to traffic flow, animal biomechanics, and the physics of wok tossing. **Recruiting new PhD students for admission in Fall 2026**

Research/Areas of Interest: Geology and hydrology of arid lands, coastal environmental change, natural hazards

Research/Areas of Interest: Japanese Language

Research/Areas of Interest: design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging

Research/Areas of Interest: engineering education research, learning and engagement in the university classroom, development of disciplinary practices, instructional design and technology development, instructional practices, organizational change, social practice theory

Research/Areas of Interest: Infectious diseases, global health, One Health, schistosomiasis, water infrastructure

Research/Areas of Interest: Planetary Chemical Analysis & Astrobiology - Over the past several decades it has become increasingly clear that there may be multiple worlds in our solar system besides Earth that either once had or may still have environments capable of supporting microbial life as we know it. Our current NASA supported research is focused on two aspects of the search for life in our solar system: 1. In the search for past or present life on Mars, our goal is to understand how biologically-produced molecules (biomarkers) are altered when exposed to solar UV irradiation in the presence of oxychlorines and their intermediate products, and if the resulting "fragmentation" patterns can be used, in conjunction with Assembly Theory and AI, to identify the original biomarker and thus provide evidence for life on Mars. More at: https://planetary.chem.tufts.edu/MarsSim.html 2. We are developing microfluidic electroanalytical instrumentation, based on the Phoenix Mars lander Wet Chemistry Lab, to determine: (a) the habitability of the subsurface oceans of Saturn's moon Enceladus by analyzing the ejected ice particles collected by transits through the plumes. (b) the chemistry of the oxychlorines (oxidants) in the martian surface materials, both to understand their potential effects on potential microbial life, and their possible health effects on human explorers and habitats on Mars.

Research/Areas of Interest: biomechanics, applied mechanics, materials characterization, engineering education

Research/Areas of Interest: Clinical neuroscience

Research/Areas of Interest: medical device design and development