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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

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

Perceval Assogba

Assistant Professor, Natural Resources
Linear regression, non-linear regression, time series, machine learning

Ahmedullah Aziz

Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
VLSI & nanoelectronics, emerging memory devices & beyond CMOS technologies, hardware security, cryogenic circuits & quantum computing hardware, AI & neuromorphic hardware
Kevin Bai.

Hua (Kevin) Bai

Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Battery state of health, battery end of life, power electronics converters.

Michel Ballings

Associate Professor, Business Analytics and Statistics
Deep learning, reinforcement learning, machine learning
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

Tom Berg

Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Models based systems engineering, complex systems, systems theory, virtual health, decision support systems, simulation, modeling, machine learning, data integration
Theodora Bourni

Theodora Bourni

Associate Professor, Mathematics
Differential geometry, geometric analysis, geometric measure theory, PDEs
Hamparsum Bozdogan

Hamparsum Bozdogan

Professor, Business Analytics and Statistics
AI, applied statistics, computational statistics, data mining, deep learning, healthcare analytics, high-dimensional modeling, machine learning, predictive analytics

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