Faculty

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Hoda Koushyar

Assistant Teaching Professor
Mechanical Engineering
biomechanics, applied mechanics, materials characterization, engineering education
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Janet Krevolin

Professor of the Practice
Biomedical Engineering
medical device design and development
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Joshua Kritzer

Professor
Chemistry
Bioorganic, Biophysical, & Chemical Biology. Peptides and their mimetics can target protein surfaces in ways small molecules rarely do, making peptide libraries attractive for screening for nontraditional modes of action. The Kritzer research group takes advantage of peptide and peptidomimetic libraries to bypass many of the disadvantages of small molecule screening. They also explore how modifications such as substitution of peptide bonds with isosteres, amide N-methylation, and head-to-tail cyclization affect the activities, specificities, and bioavailabilities of functional peptides. By combining powerful techniques from organic synthesis, biophysical chemistry, molecular biology and genetics, they are developing new molecules and new strategies to attack cancer, inflammation, and autoimmune diseases.
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Sergiy Kryatov

Teaching Professor
Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry. Kinetics and mechanism of oxygen and hydrogen peroxide activation by metal complexes.
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Daniel Kuchma

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures
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Krishna Kumar

Robinson Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
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?
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Sunil Kumar

President, Tufts University and Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
President's Office
Performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks, Optimization methods and control theory
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Gina Kuperberg

Dennett Stibel Professor of Cognitive Science
Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience, Language (semantics), Clinical cognitive neuroscience
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Edward Kutsoati

Associate Professor
Economics
Applied Microeconomics
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Angela Lai

Assistant Teaching Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Medical Device Design, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Education, Thrombosis, Blood-material Interactions
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Jonathan Lamontagne

Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
water resources, decision making under uncertainty, hydrologic statistics, integrated global change assessment
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Susan Landau

Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy
Computer Science
Cybersecurity policy, Privacy, Communications Surveillance
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Yingjie Lao

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
trusted AI, hardware security, electronic design automation, VLSI architectures for machine learning and emerging cryptographic systems, and AI for healthcare and biomedical applications.
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Ron Lasser

Professor of the Practice
Electrical and Computer Engineering
digital image processing, computer animation, swarm robotics, innovation, engineering method & design
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Melinda Latour

Associate Professor
Music
Expertise: Musicology; Research interests: 16th and 17th c. Music; the Cultural History of Philosophy; Stoicism and Neostoicism; Skepticism; Tone and Timbre; Global Music History
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Elisabeth Leake

Associate Professor of History
The Fletcher School
Global history; decolonization; Cold War; South Asia; borderlands; international relations and global governance; internationalisms; transnational anti-colonialism
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Kyongbum Lee

Karol Family Professor and Dean of Engineering
Tufts University School of Engineering
metabolic engineering, tissue engineering, systems biology
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Seulip Lee

Norbert Wiener Fellow
Mathematics
Scientific computing and numerical analysis: Efficient and robust multiphysics simulations with computational fluid dynamics
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Tonhi Lee

Assistant Professor
English
literature and drama of the English Renaissance; post-Reformation public culture; conversion; citizenship; migration and empire; classical reception; world literature; phenomenology of theater
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Frank Lehman

Associate Professor
Music
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.
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Gary Leisk

Teaching Professor
Mechanical Engineering
machine design, nondestructive testing
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Robert Lemke-Oliver

Associate Professor
Mathematics
Number theory
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Stacy Lennon

Part-time Senior Lecturer
Gordon Institute
Negotiation, conflict management and resolution.
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Richard Lerner

Professor and Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
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
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Tama Leventhal

Professor and Department Chair of Child Study & Human Development
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Neighborhood and community context; housing context; family context; poverty and socioeconomic status; social policy; adolescence; immigrant young children
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Graham Leverick

Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
electrochemical energy storage and conversion, batteries, electrolytes
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Michael Levin

Vannevar Bush Professor
Biology
Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems
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Peter Levine

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs
Tisch College
Political Theory, American Politics, Civic Studies
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Nancy Levy-Konesky

Teaching Professor
Romance Studies
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
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Chunmei Li

Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
biomaterials for hard tissue regeneration, biophysical control of macrophage polarization
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Jinyu Li

Teaching Professor
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Chinese Language, Chinese Syntax and Language Teaching Pedagogy
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Sauro Liberatore

Kingsbury Fellow and Research Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Samuel Liggero

Professor of the Practice
Gordon Institute
New product development, technology strategy and innovation, digital imaging, technology trends, innovation.
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Brian Lilienthal

Associate Teaching Professor
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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Dave Lillethun

Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science
computer science education, distributed systems, operating systems, networked systems, software development, secure systems and networking
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James Limbrunner

Professor of the Practice
Civil and Environmental Engineering
hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM
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Yu-Shan Lin

Professor and Department Chair of Chemistry
Chemistry
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.
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Joseph Litvak

Harriet H. Fay Professor of Literature
English
Victorian Literature Criticism and Theory Comedy Film and Cultural Studies
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Liping Liu

Associate Professor
Computer Science
Machine Learning, Data Science, Deep Learning, Generative Models, Time Series, Graph Learning
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Marco Lo Presti

Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering