Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Water Diplomacy, Principled Pragmatism, Data Driven Decision Making, Climate and Health, Remote Sensing, Flood Forecasting

Research/Areas of Interest: stem cells, neural tissue engineering, organoids, disease modeling, spinal cord injury, biomanufacturing

Research/Areas of Interest: The psychology of mathematical thinking, teachers' and students' understanding and use of inscriptions, multiplicative reasoning, applications of psychometric modeling for assessment and research in mathematics education.

Research/Areas of Interest: polar oceanography & ocean-ice interactions

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

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)

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: recovery; addiction; substance use; adolescence and emerging adults; community engaged research; recovery high schools; health equity; social 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 History of Science History and Theory of the Novel Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics 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: Optimization and Control, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, Decentralized Algorithms

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: World capital markets Exchange rate management Foreign direct investment Consequences of international capital controls Effects of international factors on United States labor market

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 - In the search for life in our solar system over the past several decades, it has become increasingly clear that there may be multiple worlds besides Earth that either once had or may still have environments capable of supporting microbial life as we know it. Our current research is focused on two aspects of this search: (1) In the search for life on Mars, one key question is; how are biologically-produced molecules (biomarkers) altered when exposed to solar ultraviolet radiation in the presence of oxychlorines and their intermediate formation products? To help answer this question we are investigating the "fragmentation" patterns of such altered biogenic compounds which could then be used to identify the original biomarker and thus provide evidence for life on Mars. (2) We are developing in-situ analytical instrumentation that is designed to unambiguously detect microbial life and determine the habitability of planetary environments that may be present at the surface or subsurface of Mars, and the oceans of icy-worlds such as Saturn's moon Enceladus or Jupiter's moon Europa.

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