Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: Inorganic Chemistry. Kinetics and mechanism of oxygen and hydrogen peroxide activation by metal complexes.

Research/Areas of Interest: design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures

Research/Areas of Interest: Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology The research interests of the Kumar laboratory are centered on the (1) use of chemistry to design molecules to interrogate and illuminate fundamental mechanisms in biology, or be used as therapeutics; and (2) use of biology to "evolve" and "select" molecules that can perform chemistry in non-biological and medicinal settings. These are some questions we are trying to answer: (i) Is it possible to design and mimic natural proteins and other biological macromolecules by use of building blocks that nature does not use – and whether such constructs can be endowed with properties that are not found in biology?; (ii) How did the first enzymes arise in the imagined Darwin's pond – is there a way to recreate this scenario and in the process develop a fundamentally new method to create enzymes?; (iii) Biology uses phase separation, that is, clustering of different compounds in confined locations – a process that is key in orchestrating the daily activities of a cell – can we find methods that can predictably dictate where molecules are located in a given environment and thereby direct the phenotype that is generated?; (iv) Can we rationally design small molecules and peptides that can function against antibiotic resistant bacteria that are threatening the most basic tenet of modern medicine?

Research/Areas of Interest: Performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks, Optimization methods and control theory

Research/Areas of Interest: Cognitive Neuroscience, Language (semantics), Clinical cognitive neuroscience

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied Microeconomics

Research/Areas of Interest: Medical Device Design, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Education, Thrombosis, Blood-material Interactions

Research/Areas of Interest: Activity promotion, behavior change, rehabilitation technology, and neurorehabilitation

Research/Areas of Interest: • Hydrologic Extremes • Water Resources in a Changing World • Energy Systems Modeling • Robust Adaptive Planning

Research/Areas of Interest: Cybersecurity policy, Privacy, Communications Surveillance

Research/Areas of Interest: trusted AI, hardware security, electronic design automation, VLSI architectures for machine learning and emerging cryptographic systems, and AI for healthcare and biomedical applications.

Research/Areas of Interest: digital image processing, computer animation, swarm robotics, innovation, engineering method & design

Research/Areas of Interest: Expertise: Musicology; Research interests: 16th and 17th c. Music; the Cultural History of Philosophy; Stoicism and Neostoicism; Skepticism; Tone and Timbre; Global Music History

Research/Areas of Interest: Global history; decolonization; Cold War; South Asia; borderlands; international relations and global governance; internationalisms; transnational anti-colonialism

Research/Areas of Interest: metabolic engineering, tissue engineering, systems biology

Research/Areas of Interest: Scientific computing and numerical analysis: Efficient and robust multiphysics simulations with computational fluid dynamics

Research/Areas of Interest: literature and drama of the English Renaissance; post-Reformation public culture; conversion; citizenship; migration and empire; classical reception; world literature; phenomenology of theater

Research/Areas of Interest: Film music, chromaticism, Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century art music, ambient music, John Williams, Hans Zimmer, transformation theory, neo-Riemannian theory, the symphony, and music aesthetics.

Research/Areas of Interest: machine design, nondestructive testing

Research/Areas of Interest: Negotiation, conflict management and resolution.

Research/Areas of Interest: The application of developmental science across the life span; developmental systems theory; personality and social development in adolescence; developmental methodology; programs and policies for children, youth, and families; university-community collaboration and outreach scholarship. Developmental Science

Research/Areas of Interest: Neighborhood and community context; housing context; family context; poverty and socioeconomic status; social policy; adolescence; immigrant young children

Research/Areas of Interest: electrochemical energy storage and conversion, batteries, electrolytes

Research/Areas of Interest: Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems

Research/Areas of Interest: Political Theory, American Politics, Civic Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Foreign language methodology; Second language acquisition; Immersion techniques; Curriculum and instruction: university/high school/middle school with an emphasis on interdisciplinary curriculum development, content-based learning, technology/video in the classroom, cooperative learning, blended and distance learning; Experiential learning/Community and service learning; Caribbean literature and culture with an emphasis on Puerto Rico

Research/Areas of Interest: biomaterials for hard tissue regeneration, biophysical control of macrophage polarization

Research/Areas of Interest: New product development, technology strategy and innovation, digital imaging, technology trends, innovation.

Research/Areas of Interest: computer science education, distributed systems, operating systems, networked systems, software development, secure systems and networking

Research/Areas of Interest: hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM

Research/Areas of Interest: Theoretical and Computational Biophysical Chemistry. The YSL Group aims to elucidate the structures and functions of biomolecules by integrating the power of advanced computations with the elegance of chemical theory. Our focus is to develop and apply computational methodology to significant biological problems that are difficult to address experimentally. Two major research projects in the YSL Group are (1) to understand and design cyclic peptides with desired conformations to modulate protein–protein interactions and (2) to elucidate the structural and functional roles of post-translational modifications and non-natural amino acids on protein folding.

Research/Areas of Interest: Victorian Literature Criticism and Theory Comedy Film and Cultural Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning, Generative Models, Time Series, Graph Learning

Research/Areas of Interest: • Solidarity economy movements and economic democracy • Community land trusts • Popular education, social movements, community organizing • Community and climate resilience.

Research/Areas of Interest: Quantum Information, Quantum Simulation, Adiabatic Quantum Computation, Computational Physics Quantum information faces three basic questions. Firstly, what are quantum computers good for? Secondly, how do we build one? Thirdly, what will quantum information contribute if technological obstacles to constructing a large scale quantum computer prove insuperable? The first question is the search for problems which quantum computers can solve more easily than classical computers. The second is an investigation of which physical systems one could use to build a quantum computer. The third leads to the search for spinoffs in classical computation, and the question of where the classical/quantum boundary lies. I am interested in all three questions.

Research/Areas of Interest: Scientific machine learning: physics-informed ML, representation learning, generative modeling, interpretability; Complex systems: nonlinear dynamics, chaos, interacting quantum systems, materials science, fluid turbulence Website: https://petery.lu

Research/Areas of Interest: Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine, Drug Delivery

Research/Areas of Interest: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century British Fiction, especially James Joyce and Virginia Woolf; Literary Theory: semiotics, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, phenomenology; Media studies and the history of the book; Roland Barthes; Proust