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

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.

Specialty/Research Focus: Computer Science Education (undergraduate and graduate); Introductory programming education; Assessment; Grading, and grading practices (with a focus on equitable grading); Neurodivergent learners in computer science

Research Topics: Resilient communities; Performance-based design; Fire engineering; Wildfire engineering; 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

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

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

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: Technical and Engineering Communication; Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

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: Mathematical modeling, optimization, systems engineering, process design, multi-scale modeling, techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, social justice, sustainable supply chains and systems, plastics recycling, waste management

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: Disaster Response Logistics, Freight Logistics, Supply Chain Optimization

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

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: 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

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

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