Faculty

Research Interests: Chinese Language, Chinese Syntax and Language Teaching Pedagogy

Research Interests: New product development, technology strategy and innovation, digital imaging, technology trends, innovation.

Research Interests: computer science education, distributed systems, operating systems, networked systems, software development, secure systems and networking

Research Interests: hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM

Research Interests: 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 Interests: State health policy, consumer engagement in health care choices, Medicaid policy, health policy synthesis

Research Interests: Victorian Literature Criticism and Theory Comedy Film and Cultural Studies

Research Interests: Data Science, Machine Learning, Bayesian Methods, Deep Learning, Graph

Research Interests: Environmental justice; solidarity and new economy; community organizing

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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 Interests: Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine, Drug Delivery

Research Interests: 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

Research Interests: Bioanalytical and Materials Chemistry. The Mace group applies a multidisciplinary approach—combining aspects of chemistry, materials science, biophysics, and engineering—to study the properties of interfaces, develop new materials, and solve outstanding problems in global health. Immiscible Systems. When mixed, many solutions of polymers, surfactants, and salts form immiscible phases. We are interested in characterizing the properties of the interfaces between immiscible liquid phases and applying immiscible systems to the study of complex mixtures. We are particularly interested in those immiscible systems that share water as a common solvent. Paper Diagnostics. Successful implementation of point-of-care diagnostics has the potential to affect the global management of diseases. Paper is an attractive platform with which to develop assays designed specifically for the developing world because the infrastructure required to develop them is minimal and the materials needed to manufacture them are inexpensive. We will develop new materials that can enable biochemical assays that are not currently possible using paper alone.

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Social Cognition

Research Interests: Classical tradition and reception; linguistics; ancient drama; ancient mathematics; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit language and literature

Research Interests: Secondary language acquisition

Research Interests: Ultrasound imaging, photoacoustic imaging, multi-modality imaging, image-guided surgery and therapeutics, nano drug delivery systems

Research Interests: African Diaspora; Modern Caribbean; Modern South Asia; Transnational Studies; Critical Race and Colonialism Studies; Postcolonial Theory

Research Interests: Experimental high energy physics, elementary particle interactions, neutrino oscillations, neutrino-nucleus interactions, baryon instability searches. Design and execution of experimental measurements that reveal or constrain the existence of new elementary particles, that delineate the properties of known elementary particles, and that quantify the interactions and symmetries that govern fundamental energy systems of the subatomic realm.

Research Interests: Finance

Research Interests: Middle East and Inner Asia

Research Interests: Armenian and Byzantine art and architecture

Research Interests: Astronomy; galaxy formation and evolution; extra-galactic surveys; active galactic nuclei; near-infrared astronomy Understanding how galaxies form and evolve means understanding how the tiny differences in the distribution of matter inferred from the cosmic microwave background radiation grew and evolved into the galaxies we see today. The working hypothesis is that galaxies form under the influence of gravity, and galaxy formation can be seen as a two-step process. First, the gravity of dark matter causes the tiny seeds in the matter distribution to grow bigger with time. As they grow more massive, the gravitational attraction becomes stronger, making it easier for these structures to attract additional matter. As the dark matter structures grow, they pull in also the gas, made of hydrogen and helium, which is the primary ingredient for the formation of stars, and hence for the formation of the stellar content of galaxies. The formation of the stellar content inside these dark matter structures involves many physical processes that are much more complicated and quite poorly understood from a theoretical perspective. These physical processes include, for example, how gas cools and collapses to form stars, the process of star formation itself, merging of galaxies, feedback from star formation and from active super-massive black holes. My research activity in the past decade has focused on understanding how galaxies formed after the Big Bang, and how their properties (e.g., the stellar mass, the level of star formation activity, the morphology and structural parameters, the level of activity of the hosted super-massive black hole, etc.) have changed as a function of cosmic time. Since we cannot follow the same galaxy evolving in time, we need to connect the galaxies we observe at a certain redshift (i.e. a certain snapshot in time) to those we observe at a smaller redshift (i.e., at a later time in cosmic history) in order to infer how the properties of galaxies have actually changed and what physical mechanisms are responsible for these changes. The better we understand the galaxy properties at a certain time and the more finely in time we can probe the cosmic history, the easier it becomes to connect galaxies' populations seen at different snapshots in time, linking progenitors and descendants across cosmic time. Ultimately, my research aims at understanding what galaxy population seen at one epoch will evolve into at a later epoch, and what physical processes are responsible for the inferred changes in the galaxies' properties. In order to do this, I have adopted two different but complementary approaches. The first approach consists of statistical studies of the galaxy populations at different cosmic times; the second approach consists of detailed studies of individual galaxies to robustly derive their properties.

Research Interests: Health outcomes measurement development, work disability, productive aging, health policy

Research Interests: American architecture history, global architecture history, post-colonial studies, materiality

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Economics and policy analysis for agriculture, food and nutrition

Research Interests: solidification processes, thermal manufacturing, machine design, materials science

Research Interests: Colonial Latin American Studies, Latin American and Spanish Poetry, Andean Studies, Film Studies, Endangered Languages

Research Interests: Modern East Africa

Research Interests: History of museums, exhibitions, and collecting; history of art history; Early Modern European art and theory

Research Interests: Composition and new music pedagogy; intermedia collaboration involving composing and performing; solo and chamber music composition, performance and recording; writing new music for young and non-professional performers; music applications for visual art and science; advocacy of new and overlooked composers through research and performance

Research Interests: Political Economy, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Research Interests: Public Economics, Health Economics, Labor Economics, and Applied Microeconomics

Research Interests: Molecular Development (Organogenesis: Development, Remodeling, Regeneration)

Research Interests: Development Policy, with an emphasis on Africa