Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: functional languages, compilers for embedded systems, program analysis and optimization, embedded domain-specific languages

Research/Areas of Interest: Control of locomotion and the neural processes that organize sensory and motor information

Research/Areas of Interest: Algebraic geometry, topology, and differential geometry

Research/Areas of Interest: film theory, philosophy and aesthetics of film, avant-garde film, film and modernism

Research/Areas of Interest: Biomechanics and Neural Control of Locomotion

Research/Areas of Interest: stem cell and tissue engineering, optogenetics, diabetes

Research/Areas of Interest: Industrial and Urban U.S., Immigration

Research/Areas of Interest: Population genetics, evolution, ecology, computational biology

Research/Areas of Interest: Emotion and Emotion Regulation

Research/Areas of Interest: Physical and Surface Chemistry. The Utz group studies how molecules react on surfaces. Reactions at the gas-surface interface are highly dynamical events. Large-scale atomic and vibrational motions transform reactants into products on sub-ps and Å scales. The experiments probe ultrafast nuclear motion and energy flow dynamics that underlie heterogeneous catalysis and chemical vapor deposition. The goal is to to better model existing processes and direct the rational design of new catalytic materials and deposition techniques. The experiments use vibrational- and rotational-state selective laser excitation of molecules in a supersonic molecular beam to provide precise control over the energetics and orientation of the gas-phase reagent as it approaches the surface. Reaction probability and product identity is then quantified as a function of the reagent's energetic configuration. These experiments have shown that the vibrational state of the incident molecule can have a profound effect on reaction probability, and suggest that energy redisribution within the reaction complex is not complete prior to reaction and that the competing kinetics of energy redistribution and reaction might be manipulated to control the outcome of a reaction. This has been subsequently confirmed by exerting bond-elective control over a heterogeneously catalyzed reaction.

Research/Areas of Interest: - Resilient and equitable infrastructure - Impacts of extreme events (e.g., drought, flood, wildfire) in a changing climate on infrastructure and communities - Climate adaptation of infrastructure - Slopes, dams, and levees - Unsaturated soil mechanics - Multi-physics (e.g., hydro-mechanical, thermo-hydro-mechanical) processes in soils - Analytical and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering

Research/Areas of Interest: Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology, Protein Engineering, Antibody Engineering, Drug Discovery, Genetic Code Expansion, Noncanonical Amino Acids, Tumor Microenvironment.

Research/Areas of Interest: Interaction of light with matter, physics of nanostructures and interfaces, metamaterials, material science, plasmonics, and surfactants, semiconductor photonics and electronics, epitaxial crystal growth, materials and devices for energy and infrared applications.

Research/Areas of Interest: Petrology and Mineralogy

Research/Areas of Interest: applied mathematics and mechanics for geophysical and engineering problems

Research/Areas of Interest: Theoretical cosmology I do research on cosmic inflation, dark energy, cosmic strings and monopoles, quantum cosmology, and the multiverse.

Research/Areas of Interest: computer security and privacy, secure development, security professionals, human-computer interaction, mobile security

Research/Areas of Interest: wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, 5G/6G systems and techniques, energy-efficient communications, machine learning techniques, applied convex optimization

Research/Areas of Interest: Hyperbolic manifolds and orbifolds, low-dimensional topology, group actions

Research/Areas of Interest: Chinese Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Social linguistics, Curriculum design

Research/Areas of Interest: Chinese Language, Chinese characters, second language acquisition and pedagogy, and application of technology in language learning and instruction

Research/Areas of Interest: Chinese orthography and the Chinese reading process, utilizing approaches applied within a transactional socio-psycholinguistic framework that includes eye movement research and miscue analysis.

Research/Areas of Interest: Applied Cognition

Research/Areas of Interest: Education, race, ethnicity, immigration, Asian Americans, culture, inequality, qualitative methods

Research/Areas of Interest: Cinema and Moving Image Studies, Cinema History and Aesthetics, Visual Culture Studies

Research/Areas of Interest: Market strategy and development, business planning, entrepreneurship.

Research/Areas of Interest: Behavioral Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Stress & Addiction

Research/Areas of Interest: learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, classroom discourse, engineering knowledge construction

Research/Areas of Interest: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) fabrication, modeling, and testing. Particularly acoustic MEMS (microphones, ultrasound), and aerodynamic measurement technologies (skin friction sensors, aeroacoustic sensors). Acoustics, vibrations, dynamics and controls. Electromechanical systems including robotics. Finite element methods and system modeling. Electronics for measurement. Mechanical measurements.

Research/Areas of Interest: Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Meta-ethics, Aesthetics

Research/Areas of Interest: Professional communication, fieldwork education, professional development of emerging occupational therapists, interprofessional collaboration, complex medical pediatric occupational therapy, community-based practice

Research/Areas of Interest: human factors

Research/Areas of Interest: Seventeenth to twenty-first century German literature in its European context; Literature and the Environment, Discourses of Sustainability; Literary and Cultural Theory, Theories of Reading; Intersections of Literature, Science, and Philosophy; Media Studies, Aesthetics of the Human Voice; Post-dramatic Theater; History of Germanistik in the United States 1933-1945

Research/Areas of Interest: Land use planning; local government law; natural resources policy

Research/Areas of Interest: Ecology and evolution of microbial communities

Research/Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-century American literature and culture Affect and emotion Politics of New Materialisms Sex, gender, sexuality Critical Theory Democracy, bureaucracy, populism

Research/Areas of Interest: My current focus is on measuring the properties of the neutrino, one of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model. We know a few things about the neutrino: it has a very small mass, has no electric charge, comes in three types — or flavors — and interacts only via the weak force and gravity. However, there are many things we do not know. What is the exact mass of the neutrino? And how does it get its mass? Are the three we know about the only kinds that exist? Answers to these questions impact not only our understanding of the fundamental laws of matter but also have consequences for our understanding of how the universe evolved. These and many other questions make the neutrino a fascinating particle. However, as mentioned above, neutrinos interact only via the weak force. They interact so rarely that, at the energies, we typically work with, neutrinos can pass through light-years long block of lead without striking it. This makes neutrino experiments challenging as we need to build massive, building-sized detectors which are instrumented with relatively, low-cost sensors. However, the challenge is often fun, as we are often forced to apply the newest technologies in both hardware and software to design and complete our experiments.