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Reza Abedi

Reza Abedi

Associate Professor, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
Homogenization, upscaling, random media, statistical volume element, brittle fracture, dynamic fracture, discontinuous Galerkin, elastodynamics, electromagnetics

Steve Abel

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Computation, simulation, theory, cell biology, immunology, intracellular transport, synthetic biology, systems biology, biomembrane, cytoskeleton, nanoparticle, biophysics, machine learning

Rigoberto Advincula

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Computation, simulation, theory, cell biology, immunology, intracellular transport, synthetic biology, systems biology, biomembrane, cytoskeleton, nanoparticle, biophysics, machine learning

Mashid Ahmadi

Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Automated synthesis, materials discovery, causal methods, bayesian optimization

Belinda Akpa

Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Systems biology, mathematical modeling, generative molecular design, computational biomedicine, agent-based modeling, drug discovery, quantitative systems pharmacology
Sayan Banerjee

Sayan Banerjee

Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Theoretical chemistry, artificial intelligence/machine learning, catalysis, electrochemistry, quantum materials
Cristian Batista

Cristian Batista

Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Theoretical physics, strongly interacting electron systems, many-body systems, quantum materials

Sandra Bogetic

Assistant Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear reaction physics; modeling & simulation; isotope production; security, safeguard and nonproliferation; nuclear reactor design; nuclear medicine
Aaron Buss

Aaron Buss

Associate Professor, Psychology
Executive function, cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience, computational neuroscience
Rui Cao

Rui Cao

Assistant Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
Cognitive algorithms; Memory Optimization; Machine Learning; Cognitive Models
JiaJia Chen

Jiajia Chen

Assistant Professor, Food Science
Food processing, multiphysics modeling, machine learning, food safety, decarbonization, microwave processing, radio frequency processing, cultivated meat production
Brett Compton

Brett Compton

Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical properties, additive manufacturing, hybrid materials and structures, high temperature materials, impact phenomena

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