Gady Agam
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, deep learning.
Abhinav Bhushan
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: To develop mathematical models that can help connect experimental data to large public datasets to uncover undiscovered insights.
Kevin Cassel
Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics.
Wei Chen
Associate Professor, Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Computational materials science.
Maggie Cheng
Professor, Applied Mathematics
Research Interests: Graph learning and graph signal processing. In particular, we develop deep neural network models for graphs and study the expressive power of graph neural networks.
Fred J. Hickernell
Vice Provost for Research
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Research Interests: Computational Mathematics and Statistics. Particularly, establishing numerical error and computational complexity bounds for Monte Carlo and quasi-Monte Carlo methods.
Lulu Kang
Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
Research Interests: Data Science and Operations Research. Specifically, creating new theories and methodologies in Statistical Learning/Machine Learning, Statistical Design of Experiments, Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Statistical Modeling, Approximate Inference, and Optimization. I am passionate about and have been working on various interdisciplinary research topics that apply data science in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, chemistry, material sciences, health care, social science, etc.
Mahesh Krishnamurthy
Academic Director, Kaplan Institute
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Power electronic control and grid integration of renewable energy systems. Multi-physics design and optimization of electric machines. Power electronic control of energy storage systems. Fast charging of Li-ion batteries.
Shuwang Li
Professor, Applied Mathematics
Research Interests: Computational and applied mathematics, in particular, multi-physics problems in physical and biological sciences. Research focus is on the development of accurate and efficient numerical methods for solving differential or integral equations, as well as reliable mathematical models with moving boundaries or interfaces with applications to problems in material sciences, biology and fluid dynamics.
Xiaofan Li
Professor, Applied Mathematics
Research Interests: To develop and analyze numerical algorithms for discovering how and why certain things behave the way they are, including the transport of ions in ion channels, macroscopic properties of systems governed by stochastic differential equations, the properties of emulsion or particulate flow in fluid mechanics and the coarsening process in materials science.
Yuanbing Mao
Professor and Chair, Chemistry
Research Interests: Design of advanced nanomaterials, especially the development of facile and reliable synthesis methods for complex metal oxide nanomaterials, the investigation of their novel properties, and the exploration of their application potentials in the areas of optoelectronics, energy conversion, and sustainability.
Nick Miller
Assistant Professor, Biology
Research Interests: My lab studies the evolution of herbivorous insects using a mixture of population genetics and genomics. Our research mainly focuses on species that are pests of agriculture. We study these organisms both as convenient systems to ask basic questions about arthropod evolution, and because their adaptation to pest management methods presents an ongoing challenge to sustainable food production.
David Minh
Associate Professor, Chemistry
Research Interests: Chemical biology, the interactions between small molecules and biological macromolecules. My group develops and apply new computational methods that may be helpful for structure-based drug design. Much, but not all, of our effort is based on implicit ligand theory (ILT), a theoretical framework for binding free energies that I derived in 2012. Most binding free energy calculations involve computationally expensive molecular simulations of flexible binding partners. I showed that, in theory, equally good results may be achieved by computing free energies between flexible ligands and multiple rigid receptor configurations.
Sohail Murad
Professor and Chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research Interests: Computer molecular modeling of membrane based separation systems. We have worked on membrane based desalination, gas separations, pervaporation as well as chiral based separations of drug enantiomers. For all these studies we have use non-equilibrium molecular dyanmics.
Ankit Srivastava
Associate Professor, Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
Research Interests: Computational mechanics, optimization, wave propagation, phononics, and metamaterials.