UB welcomes 12 new engineering and applied sciences faculty

Research Interests: Network Neuroscience and Complex Systems.

Research Topics: Functional hybrid materials, optoelectronics, opto-spintronics, clean energy, CO₂ capture and conversion, high-energy detector, crystal superlattice, operando characterization

Research Topics: Geohazard modeling and risk assessment for distributed infrastructure systems; Non-ergodic ground motion modeling; Surface fault rupture hazard; Ground motion synthesis; Shallow crustal amplification; Modeling of liquefaction and landslide hazards

Research Topics: Construction and Project Management; Sustainable development frameworks; Sustainable infrastructure planning and performance; Engineering education and pedagogy

Research Topics: Approximate counting; combinatorial optimization; convex optimization; spectral graph theory; statistical physics; and randomized algorithms

Research Topics: Software development; programming languages; software engineering; human-computer interaction

Specialty/Research Focus: Power system analysis, Smart grid, Situational awareness, Optimization, Detection, State estimation, Simulation

Specialty/Research Focus: 20th and 21st Century Fiction, Speculative and Science Fiction, Science/STEM in Literature, Native American Literatures, Ecocriticism, Urban Theory, Architecture

Research Interests: Combining data science and machine learning with materials physics and surface chemistry to design materials for chemical transformation and energy technologies

Research Interests: Atomistic modeling; scientific machine learning; computational physics; high performance computing; modeling of intermediate temperature ionic liquids, high temperature oxides