Women Faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Topics: Cardiopulmonary physiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Metabolism; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Research Lab; Signal Transduction; Vascular Medicine

Specialty/Research Focus: STEM Communications, Writing Pedagogy

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

Research Topics: Intermodal freight transportation, optimal investment allocation, intermodal investor competition, freight demand modeling, self-driving tracks, travel behavior, human factors in transportation engineering, driver cognition, sustainable transportation and self-driving cars

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

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

Research Interests: Dynamics and control of space tethers and large flexible space structures, active debris removal, collision detection and avoidance, spacecraft dynamics

Research Topics: Data driven healthcare and decision making; precision health solutions; health disparities; aging and cognitive decline

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 Interests: Multidisciplinary research and teaching that are focused on materials science and engineering, particularly multifunctional structural materials (with functions including self-sensing, self-powering and vibration damping), electromagnetic shielding materials, and thermal interface materials (for microelectronic cooling). Other topics include three-dimensional printing, dielectric conductors and interface-derived viscoelasticity.

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

Research Topics: Computer vision; machine learning; multimodal data analytics; pattern recognition; large-scale visual search and mining; big data analytics

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

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

Research Topics: computational science and engineering; applied mathematics; mathematical biology; multiscale modeling; physiology; pharmacology; toxicology; kidney; bone; cancer; lung; pharmacokinetics; immunotherapy; drug delivery; tissue damage; porous materials; extracellular matrix; kinetics; transport; numerical methods

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

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

Research Interests: Cellular mechanosensitivity; cell-cell and cell-ECM interaction; traumatic brain injury (TBI); microfluidic devices and live-cell imaging

Research Topics: Soil-bentonite hydraulic barriers; soil mechanics

Research Topics: Transportation modeling; applied operations research

Research Interests: Rehabilitation robotics; prosthetic devices; cable-actuated mechanisms; intelligent wheelchairs for children with special needs

Research Topics: Teaching of undergraduate laboratories

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

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

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

Research Interests: Multiscale modeling from atom to continuum, computational mechanics and high performance computing, with applications to nano-/bio-/energy systems

Research Topics: Quality Management, Project Management, Lean Systems Engineering and Engineering Education. Overall, my research interests lie in identifying, articulating, and integrating engineering and management principles for developing effective product development and continuous improvement deployment frameworks for successful and sustained performance excellence.

Research Topics: Digital pedagogy; inclusive online learning; user experience; social media and the woman question; 20th Century post-modern Russian literature; travel narratives.

Research Topics: Chemical imaging through atom probe tomography

Research Interests: Biomedical engineering; hemodynamics and vascular biomechanics; advanced laser flow diagnostics; computational fluid dynamics

Research Topics: Molecular dynamics simulation; computational biophysics; statistical thermodynamics; lipid membrane modeling; protein-lipid interactions

Research Topics: Strategies for intervening in mundane injustices, particularly within public-facing technical communication and equity and inclusion efforts in the academy

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: Human behavior modeling; sign language understanding; probabilistic modeling

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

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

Research Topics: Sustainable urban freight transportation, supply chain optimization, and humanitarian/disaster response logistics

Specialty/Research Focus: Cultures of wellbeing, institutional diversity, faculty advancement, equity and inclusion assessment, Data Science teaching and learning, social responsibility, social justice

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

Research Interests: 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

Specialty/Research Focus: Engineering design process and methods, undergraduate conceptual knowledge in engineering science courses, Learning Assistant programs, women and girls in engineering programs, epistemology, epistemological framing, productive disciplinary engagement, student discourse, and responsive teaching

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

Specialty/Research Focus: Material characterization; terahertz spectroscopy; and metrology

Research Topics: Transportation systems engineering

Research Topics: Computer engineering outreach and education, data fusion, digital and embedded systems

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

Specialty/Research Focus: Power electronics; microgrid control and protection; high voltage dc transmission, high voltage engineering

Research Topics: Environmental pathogen persistence and disinfection; Environmental surveillance of pathogens; Environmental exposure and human diseases

Specialty/Research Focus: Compressed sensing; magnetic resonance imaging; image reconstruction

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

Specialty/Research Focus: Insulation coordination; energy systems; mobility platforms; nano-dielectrics