India

Jacob Abraham

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jacob Abraham's research interests include very-large -scale integration design and test, formal verification, and fault-tolerant computing.

Jennifer Adair

Curriculum and Instruction

Jennifer Adair's work focuses on the connection between agency and discrimination in the learning experiences of young children and how we can engage young children in authentic learning experiences about race, community and their real lives.

Michelle Addington

Architecture

Michelle Addington's teaching, research, and professional work span across the disciplines of engineering and architecture with the overarching objective of determining strategic intersections between the optimal domains of physical phenomena with the practical domains of spatial, geo-political, economic, and cultural systems. Her primary areas of research are in sustainable buildings, energy systems, and advanced materials.

Ashish Agarwal

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Ashish Agarwal’s research interests focus on sponsored search, social media advertising, economics of app ecosystems, network analysis, online information and investment markets. 

Shiva Agarwal

Management

Shiva Agarwal's research interests include technology innovation, platforms and business ecosystems, strategic management, and entrepreneurship and corporate strategy.

Seema Agarwala

Molecular Biosciences

Seema Agarwala studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in neural tube closure using both in vivo and in vitro manipulations, high-resolution microscopy, real-time imaging and biochemical analyses. She also looks at how two discrete neural folds fuse with one another to form a closed and continuous neural tube, and the role of surrounding tissues (epidermal ectoderm, mesenchyme, notochord) in closing the neural tube.

Aditya Akella

Computer Science

Aditya Akella works on improving the performance, reliability, and correctness of cloud and internet infrastructure. His research straddles the boundary between computer networking and adjacent areas, such as operating systems, databases, and formal methods.

Maruthi Akella

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Maruthi Akella’s research encompasses control theoretic investigations and experimental validation of engineered dynamical systems, including autonomous space vehicles and mobile robots, flow-control systems for high-speed and hypersonic vehicles, miniature robots navigating inside GPS denied environments, uncertainty quantification, and cooperative control and collaborative sensing problems in swarm robots.

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai

Asian Studies

Manasicha Akepiyapornchai's primary area of research focuses on the intellectual history of South Asia (and Southeast Asia) during the medieval and early modern periods. She is specifically interested in studying the role of religion, philosophy, and multilingualism in religious and intellectual communities, particularly in South India.

Anupama Alareddy

Medicine

Anupama Alareddy is an expert on the intricacies of medication management and the life cycle of women with epilepsy.

Richard Albert

Government, Law

Richard Albert's research interests are constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law, with specific focus on constitutional reform, constitution-making, and comparative constitutionalism.

Marina Alexandrova

Slavic and Eurasian Studies

Marina Alexandrova's research interests include international modernism and avant-garde (1870s-1920s), Russian radical and revolutionary movements, spirituality in Imperial Russia, and, most recently, cultural and spiritual ties between Russia and the U.S.

Kamran Ali

Anthropology, Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies

Kamran Ali's research centers on issues of health, gender, and urban issues in Egypt, and on ethnicity, class politics, urban space, cinema, sexuality and popular culture in Pakistan.

Narayana Aluru

Mechanical Engineering

Narayana Aluru’s general area of research is computational nanotechnology. His group works on the development of multiscale methods combining quantum, atomistic, mesoscale and continuum scales, and application of multiscale methods to study physics of nanofluidics, bionanotechnology, nanomaterials/nanoelectromechanical systems, and soft matter.

Manuela Angelucci

Economics

Manuela Angelucci's research interests include the marriage market, mental health, social interactions and spillover effects, household behavior with financial market imperfections and migration.

Uttarayan Bagchi

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Uttarayan Bagchi's research interests include operations management, sequencing and scheduling, and management of quality.

Vaibhav Bahadur

Mechanical Engineering

Vaibhav Bahadur’s research covers the topics of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermal management and surface science with applications in energy, water, and environmental protection.

Chandrajit Bajaj

Computer Science

Chandrajit Bajaj's research is focussed on developing computer science and applied mathematics algorithms in geometric modeling, imaging data sciences, bioinformatics and data visualization.

Anant Balakrishnan

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Anant Balakrishnan's research focuses on developing effective optimization models and methods to support planning and managerial decision-making for operations, supply chains, logistics, and telecommunications.

Sanjay Banerjee

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sanjay Banerjee conducts researchat the intersection of electrical engineering, solid-state devices and nanomaterials, utilizing micro and nanofabrication techniques, along with material growth & synthesis and computational techniques to design novel electronic and spintronic devices with applications in logic, memory, photovoltaics and on-chip electronics.

Indranil Bardhan

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Indranil Bardhan's research focuses on healthcare analytics and informatics, and economic impacts of information technology, and involves close collaboration with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Dell Medical School.

Anitesh Barua

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Anitesh Barua's research interests include unstructured data analytics, mobile apps, cryptocurrency and blockchain, open source innovation, measuring business value of information technology, analyzing strategic information technology investments, and economics of information systems.

Srinivas Bettadpur

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Geological Sciences

Srinivas Bettadpur’s research centers on studying the dynamics of Earth from space, using radiometric and laser measurements along with sophisticated models for the orbital motion of artificial satellite. He focuses on design and architecture of space missions; the analysis of space geodetic data; and the interpretation of the results.

Amit Bhasin

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Amit Bhasin’s research focuses on developing models that relate material properties to performance of asphalt binders and mixtures, including evaluating the impact of chemical modifiers, additives, and other agents, developing comprehensive models for undamaged behavior and damage evolution in asphalt binders and mixtures, and characterizing physical and chemical properties of asphalt binders and aggregates.

Venkataraman Bhaskar

Economics

Venkataraman Bhaskar's research interests include dynamic games and contracts, economics of marriage and family, industrial organization, and development economics.

Chandra Bhat

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Economics

Chandra Bhat is an expert in the area of travel demand modeling and travel behavior analysis. His methodological research interests and expertise are in the areas of econometric and mathematical modeling of consumer behavior, including discrete choice analysis, discrete-continuous econometric systems, and hazard duration models.

Saroj Bhattarai

Economics

Saroj Bhattarai's research interests include monetary and fiscal policy, international macroeconomics and finance, and time series econometrics.

Darlene Bhavnani

Medicine

Darlene Bhavnani's research interests include conducting research on infectious disease transmission, strengthening health and surveillance systems and the design and evaluation of public health interventions.

Joydeep Biswas

Computer Science

Joydeep Biswas' research areas include perception, planning, and failure recovery for autonomous mobile robots. These topics support his goal of having such robots deployed in real world human environments, performing assistive tasks accurately and robustly on demand, over deployments spanning years.

Raghavendra Bollapragada

Mechanical Engineering

Raghavendra Bollapragada’s research interests are in nonlinear optimization and its applications for machine learning.

Laura Bright

Advertising & Public Relations

Laura Bright's research focuses on social media addiction and fatigue, big data and analytics, personalized advertising and digital privacy.

Mark Budolfson

Geography and the Environment, Philosophy

Mark Budolfson integrates data and methods from multi-disciplines including population-level bioethics, public health, welfare economics, and empirical sciences. This work often involves quantitative policy analyses that represent socioeconomic and health inequalities, weigh competing values and objectives for society, and assess synergies and tradeoffs between goals related to health, equity, and sustainable development.

David Cannatella

Integrative Biology

David Cannatella's research focuses on the higher-level phylogeny of amphibians, biodiversity of neotropical frogs, signal evolution in frog mating calls, behavioral ecology of poison frogs, and relationship of bioinformatics and systematics. Cannatella also studies the systematics and evolution of salamanders, birds and bird fossils, and in the past, lizards and snakes.

Elizabeth Catlos

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Elizabeth Catlos focuses on developing and applying petrochemical and geochemical techniques to the study of lithosphere dynamics and models for heat, mass, and fluid flow along major fault systems. She is interested in applying new approaches in mineral equilibria to estimate environmental conditions during dynamic recrystallization. She specializes in accessory mineral geochronology and developing techniques for isotopic microanalysis.

Deepayan Chakrabarti

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Deepayan Chakrabarti works on a broad range of problems in machine learning and data mining, particularly focusing on mining large graphs and social networks, computational advertising, recommendation systems, and web search and information retrieval.

Indrani Chatterjee

History, Asian Studies

Indrani Chatterjee's research focuses on intellectual and economic histories of the Indian subcontinent. She is interested in the ways in which wealth travelled between and within monastic lineages in the past. Chatterjee has worked on the ways in which monastic governmentality was forgotten in Indian historiography by the early decades of the 20th-century, and has revisited the costs of such forgetting to women's wealth in eastern India.

Swarat Chaudhuri

Computer Science

Swarat Chaudhuri's research vision is to build a new generation of AI systems that are designed from the ground up with the goals of reliability, transparency, and security. He seeks to realize this vision through a synthesis of ideas from programming languages, formal methods, and machine learning.

Shuchi Chawla

Computer Science

Shuchi Chawla is a theoretical computer scientist specializing in the areas of algorithm design, and economics and computation.

Vijay Chidambaram

Computer Science

Vijay Chidambaram's research aims to build the next generation of storage systems that have higher performance and stronger reliability. His group builds both storage systems and the tools needed to develop such systems rigorously, such as testing frameworks. His group’s work involves innovation both at the data-structure level and at the systems level.

Diane Coffey

Sociology

Diane Coffey is a social demographer who studies health in India. One area of her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of poor population health resulting from India's exceptionally poor maternal nutrition. Another area of research finds consequences of poor sanitation in developing countries for early life health, including for mortality, height, and anemia. She has also studied the causes of open defecation in rural India.

Jason Cons

Anthropology

Jason Cons works on borders in South Asia, climate and agrarian change, and rural development. He has conducted research in Bangladesh on a range of issues including: climate security, disputed territory along the border, the impacts of shrimp aquaculture in coastal areas, and the politics of development. He is exploring the ways that imaginations of future climate change are shaping the delta and the India-Bangladesh border in the present.

Stephen Courter

Management

Stephen Courter's areas of interest include corporate diversification, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, and venture capital.

Donald Davis

Asian Studies

Donald Davis' primary research concerns the interaction of law and religion in medieval India. He looks at historical evidence for law and legal practice in inscriptions, temple archives, and other dated documents as a way to contextualize the law in earlier periods of Indian history.

Janet Davis

American Studies, History

Janet Davis specializes in U.S. cultural and social history, popular culture, and social thought, with an extended interest in animal studies, women's and gender history, U.S. social movements, and modern South Asia.

Ashish Deshpande

Mechanical Engineering

Ashish Deshpande's research enables the design and building of robots for rehabilitation, prosthetics, and assistive applications. His goals are to gain a deeper understanding of human motor control and underlying mechanisms of motor recovery; to design robots that work with humans in various environments; and to develop wearable robots for recovery, entertainment, and improvement in patients' quality of life.

Inderjit Dhillon

Computer Science, Mathematics

Inderjit Dhillon’s research centers on computational linear algebra, data mining and bioinformatics with an emphasis on exploring core problems in these areas to obtain novel algorithms that preserve the underlying problem structure. Specific areas of interest include: clustering of high-dimensional data, low-dimensional approximations that preserve sparsity and non-negativity, and fast algorithms for eigenvalue problems.

Ananth Dodabalapur

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ananth Dodabalapur’s recent research includes organic and inorganic thin-film transistors, 2D materials device physics and device chemistry, chemical sensors, photovoltaics and thin-film circuits.

John Doggett

Management

John Doggett's work focuses on global competition, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and energy.

David Eaton

Public Affairs, Middle Eastern Studies, Integrative Biology, Geography and the Environment, Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia Institute, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Public Health, Institute for Innovation

David Eaton's research focuses on sustainable development in international river basins, evaluation of energy and water conservation programs, and prevention of pollution.

Oliver Freiberger

Asian Studies, Religious Studies

Oliver Freiberger's research interests include the history of Buddhism in South Asia, asceticism, religious boundary-making, and comparison in the study of religion.

Shiv Ganesh

Communication Studies

Shiv Ganesh studies communication and collective organizing in the context of globalization and digital technologies. His work spans critical-institutional and poststructural approaches to communication, and is currently comprised of two strands; studies of technological transformations in collective action; and studies of dialogue, conflict and social change.

Vijay Garg

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vijay Garg is a pioneer in the area of distributed computing and discrete event systems. His main contributions are in the areas of global predicate detection, distributed debugging, distributed simulation, fault-tolerance, distributed algorithms and supervisory control of discrete event systems.

Joydeep Ghosh

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information, Risk and Operations Management, Computer Science, Medicine

Joydeep Ghosh's research interests lie primarily in data mining and web mining, predictive modeling and predictive analytics, machine learning approaches such as adaptive multi-learner systems, and their applications to a wide variety of complex real-world problems.

Lalitha Gopalan

Radio-Television-Film, Asian Studies

Lalitha Gopalan's interests are in the areas of film theory, feminist film theory, contemporary world cinemas, Indian cinema, genre films, and experimental film and video.

Benjamin Gregg

Government

Benjamin Gregg's research focuses on social and political theory, bioethics of human genetic engineering, politics of artificial intelligence, and human rights.

Sumit Guha

History, Asian Studies

Sumit Guha is a historian with many international and interdisciplinary interests, including the history of health and disease in Britain and South Asia.

Diwakar Gupta

Information, Risk & Operations Management

Diwakar Gupta's research interests include healthcare, operations research, supply chain management, and transportation.

Patricia Hamilton-Solum

Nursing

Patricia Hamilton-Solum's research interests are in perinatal nursing, interdisciplinary lactation support and community perinatal education, International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant related research, and marginalized populations.

Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz

Chemical Engineering

Lea Hildebrant Ruiz's research focuses on better understanding the formation, transformation, and properties of gas and particle-phase pollutants, helping to develop effective policy aimed at mitigating pollutant concentrations and their adverse effects.

Akbar Hyder

Asian Studies

Akbar Hyder’s primary research interests lie in South Asian aesthetics, particularly those related to Urdu literature and mystical Muslim traditions. Hyder is also leading a team of language instructors in setting up interagency language roundtable-based assessment tools for Urdu.

Vishwanath Iyer

Molecular Biosciences

Vishwanath Iyer's research interests inlcude understanding how gene expression is regulated across a eukaryotic genome, in normal cells and in disease.

Gary Jacobsohn

Government

Gary Jacobsohn's interests and work lies at the intersection of constitutional theory and comparative constitutionalism. His work is also focused on the question of constitutional change.

Derek Jinks

Law

Derek Jinks' interests include public international law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, and criminal law.

Lizy John

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lizy John’s research is in the areas of computer architecture, multicore processors, memory systems, performance evaluation and benchmarking, workload characterization, and reconfigurable computing.

Elizabeth Keating

Anthropology

Elizabeth Keating is a linguistic anthropologist who studies culture and communication. Her research focuses on cultural aspects of communication, cross cultural communication, and narrative. Her research projects include investigations into power sharing, hierarchy, visual language, inter-generational narrative, and the role of technology in language practices. Her books include Words Matter: Communicating Effectively in the New Global Office.

Urooj Khan

Accounting

Urooj Khan’s research examines issues related to financial institutions, financial crises, debt contracting, regulatory enforcement and accounting standard setting. His research has been published in leading accounting and economics journals.

Meeta Kothare

Finance, Public Affairs

Meeta Kothare's research interests include social innovation and the use of financial tools for social impact. Her areas of expertise include impact investing, impact measurement, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise.

Jaydeep Kulkarni

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jaydeep Kulkarni's research is focused on machine learning hardware accelerators, in-memory computing, emerging nano-devices, heterogeneous and 3D integrated circuits, hardware security, and cryogenic computing.

Krishna Kumar

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Krishna Kumar's computational geomechanics research group develops open source numerical tools and methods to solve complex geomechanics problems, such as multi-scale modeling of natural hazards, landslides, earthquakes, debris flows, etc.

Pawan Kumar

Astronomy

Pawan Kumar is an astronomist whose expertise lies in the fields of gamma-ray bursts; helioseismology; binary stars; tidal interaction; accretion disks; and cosmology.

Manish Kumar

Chemical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Manish Kumar's research group is interested in mimicking biological processes and materials at the molecular scale, particularly cell membrane components, to develop materials and processes that bring the specificity and functionality of biological molecules and processes to engineering scales.

Shanti Kumar

Radio-Television-Film, Asian Studies

Shanti Kumar teaches courses on global media with a focus on media and popular culture, global media and cultural studies, media and cultural hybridity, and postcolonial cinema. He has extensive experience in journalism, advertising and multimedia industries in India, having worked as an editor, reporter, scriptwriter and multimedia designer.

Alan Kuperman

Public Affairs

Alan Kuperman's research focuses on ethnic conflict, peaceful conflict management, military intervention, national security, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Melanie Lamotte

History, French and Italian

Melanie Lamotte is a historian of race, colonialism, and slavery in the early modern period. Her work focuses on the French colonial world, with an emphasis on Guadeloupe in the Caribbean, French Louisiana, Senegal, India and Isle Bourbon, in the South-West Indian Ocean.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Matthew Malkowski

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Matthew Malkowski's research focuses on using sediment and the sedimentary record to study how mountain belts and ocean basins evolve in responses to external forces, such as climate, tectonics, sea level changes, and human impacts.

Madhavi Mallapragada

Radio-Television-Film, Asian Studies

Madhavi Mallapragada's research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of cultural studies of race and ethnicity in media, Asian Americans in media, online cultures, immigration and transnationalism, and media industries.

Lance Manuel

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Lance Manuel’s research is related to uncertainty quantification associated with the safety of civil engineering, energy-generation and ocean systems. His work is being used to improve the design of wind turbines for complex inflow turbulence conditions and in enhanced the long-term reliability of deepwater floating structures. His work is also examining climate impacts on infrastructure systems and related hazard, risk, and resilience studies.

Luis Martins

Management

Luis Martin's research areas include: diversity, managerial group and organization decision making, organizational change and redesign, organizational identification processes, organizational innovation, and virtual communities.

Risto Miikkulainen

Computer Science, Neuroscience

Risto Miikkulainen’s research focuses on biologically-inspired computation such as neural networks and evolutionary computation. His goal is to understand biological information processing and to develop intelligent artificial systems that learn and adapt by observing and interacting with the environment.

Shyamal Mitra

Computer Science

Shyamal Mitra's research interests are in the fields of artificial language processing, natural intelligence algorithms, and comological visualization.

Kishore Mohanty

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Kishore Mohanty's research focuses on transport of simple and complex fluids in complex micro-structured materials for applications in energy, environment and biotechnology.

Ahmed Azfar Moin

Religious Studies, History

Ahmed Moin studies the history of the pre-modern Islamic world from comparative perspectives with a focus on concepts and practices of sovereignty. One of his projects focuses on ritual violence and kingship in late medieval and early modern world. Moin teaches courses on religious transformations in the early modern Islamic world, rituals and practice of sovereignty in Islam, and theory and method in the study of religion.

Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay

Pharmacy

Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay's research focus is to understand the mechanisms of, and develop treatments for, incurable human diseases. His lab focuses on two major projects. The first is gene-environment interactions in parkinsonism and the second is Shiga toxin-induced diseases.

Kumar Muthuraman

Information, Risk, and Operations Management

Kumar Muthuraman’s research focuses on decision making under uncertainty. Application areas of interest to him are quantitative finance, operations management and health care.

Vallath Nandukumar

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vallath Nandukumar's research areas including architecture, computer systems, and embedded systems; integrated circuits and systems; and software engineering and systems.

Dev Niyogi

Earth and Planetary Sciences, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Dev Niyogi's research contributes to understanding and developing solutions for climate extremes, particularly the urban and agricultural landscapes, and developing synthesis studies, and capacity building activities internationally.

Devangi Parikh

Computer Science

Devangi Parikh's research and teaching interests focus on the application of algorithms and matrices in order to achieve scalable speedups and high performance when solving problems that are computationally intense.

Paola Passalacqua

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Paola Passalacqua's research interests lie at the intersection of water resources engineering, hydrologic sciences, and geomorphology. Her goal is to advance the understanding of how topographic patterns arise, evolve, and interact with climate and ecosystems, in order to improve predictions of the response of the Earth-surface to disturbance and change, to develop sustainable management solutions.

Rajeev Patel

Public Affairs

Rajeev Patel is a research professor who studies the world food system and alternatives to it. He has testified about hunger and food sovereignty, and has written about food systems, economics, philosophy, politics, international development, and public health.

Keshav Pingali

Computer Science

Keshav Pingali works in programming languages and compiler technology for program understanding, optimization, and parallelization. His research interests focus on methodologies and tools for programming multicore processors, with a focus on irregular applications from domains like graphics, social networks, and data mining.

Kavita Radhakrishnan

Nursing

Kavita Radhakrishnan's research applies current and emerging technologies such as telemonitoring, connected sensors, and digital gaming in order to resolve clinical nursing research problems such as heart failure self-management. She has also applied a game-based intervention to motivate end-of-life planning among South Asian Indians with the goal to develop affordable and scalable health interventions that enable "aging in place."

Raj Raghunathan

Marketing

Raj Raghunathan’s work juxtaposes theories from psychology, behavioral sciences, decision theory and marketing to document and explain interrelationships between affect and consumption behavior.

Varun Rai

Public Affairs, Mechanical Engineering

Varun Rai's focus on interdisciplinary and integrative research in engineering and policy ensures that insights from his research are rooted in underlying technical realties. Rai's research has concentrated on: incentive policies and rates of technological diffusion for carbon capture and storage; performance and behavior of oil companies; and strategies for engaging developing countries in global climate change policy.

Laxminarayan Raja

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Laxminarayan Raja's research focuses on low-temperature glow discharge plasmas. He employs both computational modeling and experimental approaches for fundamental studies of plasmas and their applications.

Dalpat Rajpurohit

Asian Studies

Dalpat Rajpurohit is a scholar of early Hindi literature with interests in the devotional, monastic and court cultures of early modern India.

Vijaya Ramachandran

Computer Science

Vijaya Ramachandran's research interests are in theoretical computer science in the areas of algorithm design and analysis, data structures, graph theory and algorithms, and parallel computation.

Ram Rangnathan

Management

Ram Rangnathan's research focuses on firms’ strategies in settings of technological change, looking at both factors that affect firms’ responses during technological change and factors that enable them to control the evolution of technologies.

Ramesh Rao

Finance

Ramesh Rao is interested in the areas of asset pricing, informational asymmetry, corporate finance, and the interface between finance and marketing operations.

Raghunath Rao

Marketing

Raghunath Rao's research interests include behavioral decision theory, industrial organization, information economics, and marketing models.

Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Krishnaswa Ravi-Chandar’s research interests lie in the general area of mechanical behavior of solids with a particular emphasis on high strain rate fracture behavior, areas of dynamic fracture, inelastic behavior of polymers and composites, and wave propagation in shape memory alloys.

Sharmila Rudrappa

Sociology

Sharmila Rudrappa teaches and researches on issues related to gender, race, and labor. Her specific interests are on reproductive markets in the U.S. and India.

Abhay Samant

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abhay Samant's research interests lie in the areas of machine learning, wireless communications, and cognitive cyberphysical systems.

Devleena Samanta

Chemistry

Devleena Samanta's research focuses on the design, synthesis, and study of size-confined materials, with an emphasis on utilizing these materials to address challenges in biology and medicine.

Sujay Sanghavi

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sujay Sanghavi's research interests lie at the intersection of two central challenges in modern systems: large-scale networking and high-dimensional data analysis, with a focus on algorithm design and evaluation.

Jaganath Sankaran

Public Affairs

Jaganath Sankaran's research focuses on the growing military and nuclear weapons capabilities of China and the counter military balancing undertaken by the United States, Japan, India and other states. In particular, he studies the impact of emerging technological advances on weapons systems deployed by these states.

Mrinal Sen

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Mrinal Sen is a specialist on seismic wave propagation, including anisotropy, geophysical inverse problems, and methods for constructing synthetic seismograms in heterogeneous media. His areas of research include classical whole earth seismology, applied seismology and inverse theory.

Sarah Seulki Oh

Radio-Television-Film

Sarah Seulki Oh is a Korean-born independent producer. She has produced narrative and documentary films in Amsterdam, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Turkey, U.K., and the U.S.

Sanjay Shakkottai

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sanjay Shakkottai's research interests lie at the intersection of algorithms for resource allocation, statistical learning, and networks, with applications to wireless communication networks and online platforms.

Shyam Shankar

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Shyam Shankar’s research focuses on developing superconducting and semiconducting quantum devices and circuits for applications in quantum information science and engineering. This research area combines expertise in microwave circuit design, nanofabrication, cryogenics and ultra-low-noise microwave measurements.

Mukul Sharma

Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

Mukul Sharma’s research interests include hydraulic fracturing, oil field water management, formation damage and improved oil recovery.

Jayant Sirohi

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Jayant Sirohi's research group investigates the fundamental physics of vertical lift aircraft, such as a rigid, coaxial, counter-rotating rotor and a stacked coaxial co-rotating rotor, by means of various experimental and computational tools. With each study, their goal is to expand the capabilities and understand the complex aeroelastic behavior of future vertical take-off aerial vehicles.

Raji Srinivasan

Marketing

Raji Srinivasan’s expertise centers on organizational innovation and marketing metrics, including such topics as new product development, market entry and exit strategies, and the financial performance of firms.

Calvin Streeter

Social Work

Calvin Streeter's social work practice experience includes rural community development, program planning and implementation, and program evaluation. In addition to his interest in rural social work, his research has focused on school-based services, homelessness, disability services, employment policy.

Venkat Subramanian

Mechanical Engineering

Venkat Subramanian’s research is aimed at modeling, analyzing, and designing cost-effective and energy-efficient electrochemical systems, especially devices like batteries, fuel cells, capacitors, and sensors.

Jeremi Suri

Public Affairs, History

Jeremi Suri's research interests include the formation and spread of nation-states, the emergence of modern international relations, the connections between foreign policy and domestic politics, and the rise of knowledge institutions as global actors.

Saikishan Suryanarayanan

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

Saikishan Suryanarayanan is interested in development of numerical methods, vorticity dynamics and control of turbulent flows for mechanical and aerospace engineering applications.

Nina Telang

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nina Telang's research interests include electronics, photonics, and quantum systems.

Devarajan Thirumalai

Chemistry, Physics

Devarajan Thirumalai’s group focuses on various problems in equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, including investigating various aspects of the transition from liquid to amorphous state. Another area of research involves the theoretical study of polymer-colloid interactions. Research is also being carried out to understand the dynamics of protein folding.

Mohit Tiwari

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mohit Tiwari focuses on building secure systems, all the way from hardware to system software to applications that run on them.

Paul Toprac

Computer Science

Paul Toprac's research involves the use of games, simulations, mobile apps, and extended reality to change emotion, motivation, learning, and behavior in individuals.

Sriram Vishwanath

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sriram Vishwanath’s research interests are in the domains of big data analysis, information theory, wireless communications, probabilistic algorithms, and blockchains and cryptocurrencies.

Abigail Weitzman

Sociology, Latin American Studies

Abigail Weitzman is a sociologist with a particular interest in gendered family dynamics and the social psychology of demographic processes. Weitzman studies diversity in young women's sexual and fertility desires, how and why such desires evolve during the transition to adulthood, and their influence on young women's reproductive behaviors. Her research explores how different types of sexual relationships emerge and progress among young adults.

Ramesh Yerraballi

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ramesh Yerraballi's teaching and research experiences center around architecture, computer systems, and embedded systems, with a focus on operating systems, multimedia communications, and system security.

Guihua Yu

Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering

Guihua Yu's researches design and synthesis of functional nano-architectured materials, like organic and hybrid organic-inorganic nanomaterials, understanding of their chemical and physical properties, and development of large-scale assembly and integration methodologies to enable important applications in energy, environment and sustainability, e.g. fast-charging batteries, electrocatalysis, solar water purification, critical mineral recovery.

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