Faculty

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Greses Pérez

McDonnell Family Assistant Professor of Engineering Education
Civil and Environmental Engineering
cognition and learning sciences, science education, engineering education, diversity and identity, technology and education, language and cognition, multicompetence
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Monica Pessina

Lecturer
Occupational Therapy
Design and analysis of outcome based studies in the acute care setting, and the quantitative analysis of hand function after injury.
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Juan Pestana

Professor of the Practice
Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical, geotechnical earthquake engineering, soil behavior, soil property characterization
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Samantha Petti

Assistant Professor
Mathematics
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Shelly Peyton

Visiting Professor
Biomedical Engineering
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Doris Pfaffinger

Senior Lecturer
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Second Language Pedagogy/ Teaching, German short film, 20th and 21st century literature and culture
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Joanne Phillips

Associate Professor
Classical Studies
Greek and Latin Languages, Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine, Lucretius
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Ellen Pinderhughes

Professor
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Families and children in challenging circumstances; parenting and family functioning among diverse families; ethnic-racial socialization processes; cultural and contextual influences; child and youth outcomes; adoption and foster care
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Sarah Pinto

Professor and Department Chair of Anthropology
Anthropology
I am interested in histories and cultures of medicine, especially as they pertain to gender, kinship, caste, law, and everyday intimacies, with a regional focus on South Asia. I am also interested in the ways knowledge about bodies and minds moves across time and place, and how, in such movements, colonial, anti-colonial, and postcolonial scientific imaginations seed critical genealogies, often counterintuitively. In the diverse ways people make use of medicine and science, I am drawn to the forms of creativity, imagination, and ethical world-making that emerge in the interstices of authority and power. My research has considered childbirth, infant mortality, and birth-work in Uttar Pradesh, India, noting the way reproductive health interventions reiterate caste and the marginalization of Dalit women; women's movement through psychiatric care settings in urban north India and the intersections of kinship dissolutions with crisis and care; and histories of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in South Asia as they pertain to women's lives and gendered diagnoses, notably "hysteria" and its avatars.
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Silas Pinto

Professor of the Practice and Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Leadership Program
DEIJ Leadership
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Kishore Pochampally

Part-time Senior Lecturer
Gordon Institute
Quantitative studies, operations and project management, business statistics and analytics, reliability analysis, supply chain design, design of experiments, six sigma.
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Vladimir Podolskii

Associate Professor
Computer Science
Computational complexity, logical foundations of computer science, tropical geometry
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Kathleen Pollakowski

Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
20th Century Spanish Peninsular Literature: Generation of 98, post-Civil War, historical memory, women authors
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Vincent Pollina

Associate Professor
Romance Studies
Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian Literature
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Merredith Portsmore

Research Associate Professor
Center for Engineering Education Outreach
K-12 engineering education, outreach development, learning through teaching
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Martha Pott

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study & Human Development
Personal and social development; biological & evolutionary roots of human development Biological and evolutionary substrates of human development; the role of eye-contact in social development.
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Shameka Powell

Associate Professor
Education
Educational Equity, Teacher Education, Critical Race Theory, Social Context of Schooling, Urban Schooling, Multicultural Education
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Peter Probst

Professor
History of Art and Architecture
Museum and Heritage Studies, African Arts, Institutional Theories, Value and Valuation, Historiography
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David Proctor

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
History
Late Antique & Medieval Western Europe, Byzantium, Southeastern Europe, Papal-Imperial relations
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Alexander Queen

Senior Lecturer
Psychology
Clinical Psychology, Anxiety and Depressive Disorders
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Eric Quinto

Robinson Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
Tomography is an inverse problem, and the goal of tomography is to map the interior structure of objects using indirect data such as from X-rays. Integral geometry is the mathematics of averaging over curves and surfaces, and it is the pure math behind many problems in tomography. Integral geometry combines geometric intuition, harmonic analysis, and microlocal analysis (the analysis of singularities and what Fourier integral operators do to them). I have proven support theorems and properties of transforms integrating over hyperplanes, circles and spheres in Euclidean space and manifolds. Because of the mentorship of Tufts physics professor and tomography pioneer, Allan Cormack (Tufts' only Nobel Laureate) I developed X-ray tomography algorithms for the nondestructive evaluation of large objects such as rocket bodies, and this motivated my research in limited data tomography In limited data tomography problems, some tomographic data are missing. I developed a paradigm to describe which features of the object will be visible from limited tomographic data and which will be invisible (or difficult to reconstruct). I proved the paradigm using microlocal analysis. Often artifacts are added to tomographic reconstructions from limited data, and colleagues and I recently used microlocal analysis to prove the cause of these added artifacts and to predict where they will occur. Collaborators and I have developed local algorithms for electron microscopy, emission tomography, Radar, Sonar, and ultrasound. In each case we use microlocal analysis to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the problem and to refine and improve the algorithms.
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Elizabeth Race

Associate Professor
Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Srijith Rajeev

Research Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Multi-modal data.
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C. Ramsburg

Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
multiphase flow and transport in porous media, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid equilibria, sols and emulsions, surfactants and interfaces, mass transfer, biotransformation, emerging contaminants
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Alisha Rankin

Professor
History
Early Modern Europe, the History of Science and Medicine, Women's History, the History of the Body and Sexuality
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Shishir Paramathma Rao

Research Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
artificial intelligence, computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, image processing
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Kamran Rastegar

Professor and Chair of the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora
International Literary and Cultural Studies
Comparative literature, film studies, modern Arabic literature, modern Persian literature, memory studies, postcolonial studies
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Ryan Redmond

Senior Lecturer
Education
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Michael Reed

Professor
Biology
Avian ecology and conservation biology
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Jessica Remedios

Associate Professor
Psychology
Social Cognition
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Anne-Christine Rice

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
French cinema, second language pedagogy, French history
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James Rice

Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History and Department Chair of History
History
Early American, Native American, and Environmental History
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Daniel Richards

Professor
Economics
Industrial organization, merger analysis
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Jason Rife

Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
navigation, safety-critical transportation systems, state estimation, human-robot interaction
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Maria Rincon Calero

Senior Lecturer
Romance Studies
Spanish Language and Literature Foreign Language Pedagogy
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Brian Roach

Senior Research Associate
Global Development & Environment Institute
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Cynthia Robinson

Senior Lecturer and Director of Museum Studies
Museum Studies
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Kevin Rocheron

Lecturer
Romance Studies
Comparative constitutional law
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Chris Rogers

John R. Beaver Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Education, Human Robot Interaction, Mechanical Engineering, Music Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
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Michael Romero

Professor
Biology
Stress Physiology and Field Endocrinology