Women Faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Topics: Prediction of geoenvironmental impacts of production/injection operations; enhancement of hydrocarbon, geothermal and aquifer storage recover operations; ground surface deformations due to deep production/injection operations and the effect on offshore piles; and tunneling

Research Topics: Computational fluid dynamics; building energy utilization and renewable/alternative energy; turbulent multiphase and reacting flows

Research Topics: Engineering design; sustainability; design and optimization

Research Topics: Cognitive engineering; human factors in health care; human decision-making

Research Topics: Applied cryptography; information security; privacy-preserving computation and outsourcing

Research Topics: Physical ergonomics; biomechanics of obesity; aging and human work capacity; occupational safety and health

Research Topics: Human-Machine Interactions, Cognitive Engineering, Driver Behavior and Safety, Human Factors in Healthcare

Research Topics: Materials

Research Topics: Organic nitrogen chemistry in both engineered and natural environmental systems.

Research Topics: Resilient communities; Reliability analysis; Performance-based design; Cascading multi-hazard analysis; fire engineering; and earthquake engineering

Research Topics: Materials design and innovation; technology transfer cycle optimization; nanostructured magnetic materials and spin-electronic devices; data storage; random access memories; access and participation in STEM

Research Topics: Data mining; machine learning

Research Topics: Big healthcare data; medical imaging informatics; computer vision; machine learning

Research Topics: Bioengineering; materials

Research Topics: Transportation modeling; applied operations research

Research Topics: Heterogeneous catalysis; nanoparticle synthesis and surface science, and the application of such catalysts to environmental processes

Research Topics: Chemical imaging through atom probe tomography

Research Topics: Bioengineering; fluids and thermal sciences

Research Topics: Operations research and analytics, Energy resilience and sustainability, Climate change impact assessment, Risk analysis and uncertainty modeling, Economic impact assessment, Disaster risk reduction, Growth econometrics and disaster impacts, Risk-informed decision analysis

Research Topics: Tribology; soft mechanics; surface and interfacial forces; atomic force microscopy

Research Topics: Reinforced/Prestressed concrete highway bridges and buildings; Low-damage seismic systems

Research Topics: Improvement of water quality; Microbial pollution; Bacterial contamination of coastal waters; Microbiology

Research Topics: Information extraction; information retrieval; multimedia information retrieval; text mining

Research Topics: Molecularly engineered materials; self-assembly; interfacial phenomena; controlled crystallization; biomimetics

Research Topics: Informatics and high performance computing for materials design and manufacturing

Research Topics: Cancer theranostics; biosensors; cancer biomarkers

Research Topics: Nanomaterials and nanostructures for energy storage and conversion

Research Topics: Power electronics; microgrid control and protection; high voltage dc transmission, high voltage engineering

Research Topics: Compressed sensing; magnetic resonance imaging; image reconstruction

Research Topics: Bioinformatics; data mining; multimedia database systems

Research Topics: Iterative learning control; high precision control; nonlinear/robust control with applications to robotics; autonomous systems; manufacturing

Research Topics: Insulation coordination; energy systems; mobility platforms; nano-dielectrics

Specialty/Research Focus: STEM Communications, Writing Pedagogy

Research Topics: Performance evaluation and resource management for communication networks; traffic engineering and provisioning of quality of service in different types of wireless networks ranging from mobile cellular systems to Dynamic Spectrum Access networks.

Research Topics: Health information technology; health systems; process modeling and improvement; production systems

Specialty/Research Focus: Effectiveness of pre-college computing education; Introductory programming education (CS1/CS2); Broadening participation in computing and gaming; Assessment in computing education; History of computing, computing education, and computer games

Specialty/Research Focus: STEM Communications

Specialty/Research Focus: Theoretical and Computational Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Size-dependent Continuum Mechancs, Micro/Nano Mechanics, MEMS/NEMS Devices, Biomechanics, Multiphysics phenomena, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Boundary Element Method

Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering – bioimaging and image processing

Research Topics: Soil-bentonite hydraulic barriers; soil mechanics

Research Topics: Teaching of undergraduate laboratories

Specialty/Research Focus: Composition, Feminist and Critical Pedagogy, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Visual Culture Studies/Visual Rhetoric

Specialty/Research Focus: Introductory Engineering, Leadership in Engineering, Engineering Education

Research Topics: Innovation aspects of energy and environment; energy policy; CCS techno-economic evaluation; analysis of legal and regulatory frameworks; policy and financial instruments

Specialty/Research Focus: Technical Communication, Digital Rhetoric, and Sports Rhetoric

Research Topics: Cloud computing; computer architecture; data-intensive computing; parallel processing

Specialty/Research Focus: Robust Vibration Control, Optimization, Estimation of Dynamic Systems, Data Assimilation and Bayesian Inference, Robust Convex Approximation Theory; Life-Cycle Cost Modeling, Aggregate Demand, Supply Chain Optimization, Tradespace Exploration, Industrial Internet, Integrated Circuit Optimization

Research Topics: STEM education; social justice; social problems; sociology of education, race & ethnic relations, social networks & social capital; qualitative research methods; social media

Research Topics: Mechanical design and optimization using biomechanics-based applications to rehabilitative and assistive devices

Research Topics: Transportation systems engineering

Research Topics: Nonuniform multimodal data representation and analysis; data fusion; computer engineering outreach and education