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Faculty	Department	Area of Research
Divykant Agrawal	Computer Science	Distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, scalable and fault-tolerant access to multimedia data and digital libraries.
S. James Allen	Physics	Terahertz dynamics in semiconductor quantum structures far from equilibrium, Bloch oscillators, novel terahertz detectors and terahertz circular dichroism and dynamics of bio-polymers.
Kevin Almeroth	Computer Science	Computer networks and protocols, large-scale multimedia systems, performance evaluation, and distributed systems.
David Awschalom	Physics	Optical and magnetic interactions in semiconductor quantum structures, spin dynamics and coherence in condensed matter, nanometer-scale magnetism, and quantum information processing in the solid state.
Leon Balents	Physics	"Exotic" Order and Criticality, Quasi-One-Dimensional Frustrated Quantum Magnets, Nanowires, Spintronics and Magnetic Semiconductors, Statics and Dynamics of Glasses, Mott Transitions and Competing Orders.
Kaustav Banerjee	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Nanometer-scale circuit effects in high-performance and low-power digital VLSI.
Guillermo Bazan	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Design of well-defined initiators for polymerization reactions, the study of photophysical processes in advanced organic photonic materials and the design of interconnects for bringing together molecular wires.
Glenn Beltz	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	Solid mechanics, mechanics of materials, fracture, composite materials, crystal defects, quantum dots.
Daniel Blumenthal	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Electronics and Photonics: fiber-optic networks, wavelength and subcarrier division multiplexing, photonic packet switching, signal processing in semiconductor optical devices, wavelength conversion, microwave photonics.
Dirk Bouwmeester	Physics	Quantum information processing with entangled photon states.
John Bowers	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Solid State: fiber optic networks, photonic integrated circuits, high speed photonic and electronic devices, femtosecond lasers and physics.
Forrest Brewer	Electrical & Computer Engineering	VLSI and computer system design automation.
Frank Brown	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Cellular functioning: membrane dynamics, cytoskeletal assembly and the kinetics of enzymatic turnover.
Steven Buratto	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Conjugated Oligomers, Porous Silicon, Polyelectrolyte Films, Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Ag/Au Clusters on TiO2.
Alison Butler	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Bioinorganic chemistry and metallobiochemistry with an emphasis on the roles of metal ions in the catalytic activity of metalloenzymes.
Bradley Chmelka	Chemical Engineering	Molecular Sieves (Zeolites), Polymer Structure and Dynamics, Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, and NMR Spectroscopy.
David Clarke	Materials	Electrical properties of ceramics; Development of PiezoSpectroscopy and its applications to materials.
Andrew Cleland	Physics	Nanoscale electronic and mechanical devices, exploring their uses as novel and ultrasensitive sensors and imaging devices.
Larry Coldren	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Integration of various optoelectronic devices, including optical amplifiers and switches, tunable lasers, receivers, and surface-emitting lasers.
Patrick Daugherty	Chemical Engineering	Molecular Bioengineering
Steven DenBaars	Materials	Develop an understanding of novel materials and extend them into applications.
Frank Doyle	Chemical Engineering	Nonlinear model-based control of complex nonlinear and distributed processes.
Glenn Fredrickson	Chemical Engineering	Polymers and Complex Fluids, Fluids and Transport Phenomena.
Deborah Fygenson	Physics	Biological Physics, mechanics and dynamics in macromolecular assemblies.
Arthur Gossard	Materials	Quantum Structure Growth, Science and Technology; High Performance Graded Quantum Structures; Quantum Wire and Quantum Dot Growth and Devices; MBE Technology for Ultrafast, Ultra-high-density Optoelectronic Devices; Smart Optoelectronic Pixel Technology; Cryogenic Lasers for Low-Temperature Electronics; Advanced Infrared Detectors Based on Strained Layer Superlattices.
Elisabeth Gwinn	Physics	Quantum Hall effect in semiconductor multilayers, Josephson effects in quantum-well-coupled superconductors, and ferromagnetism in semiconductors.
Alan Heeger	Physics	Physics of conductive and light-emitting polymers, biosensors.
Bud Homsy	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	Fluid mechanics and transport, and in particular in interfacial flows, polymer and viscoelastic fluid mechanics, porous media flows, and microgravity fluid mechanics.
Evelyn Hu	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Low-damage, high spatial resolution fabrication techniques for novel device structures. Approaches for achieving heterogeneous materials integration in devices.
Jacob Israelachvili	Chemical Engineering	Intermolecular and Surface Forces in Complex Colloidal Systems and Macromolecular Materials, adhesion, friction, lubrication, biological interactions. integration in devices.
Luc Jaeger	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Biochemistry / Materials
Edward Kramer	Materials	Mesoscale polymer physics involving interfacial structure and properties utilizing quantitative transmission electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering and forward recoil spectrometry, secondary ion mass spectrometry and neutron reflectometry.
Herbert Kroemer	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Bloch oscillators, superconducting-semiconducting interfaces, negative refractive index materials.
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin	Music	Multimedia Composition, 3D Immersive Physical Sound Environments, 3D Immersive Virtual Sound Environments, Auralization, Distributed Multimedia Computing Environments.
Everett Lipman	Physics	Single molecule optical methods; protein folding; resonance energy transfer; applications of microfluidic devices.
Noel MacDonald	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	MEMS, Applied Physics, Materials, Mechanics, Nano Fabrication.
John Martinis	Physics	Superconductivity, ultra low-temperature electronic devices, and quantum computation.
Eric McFarland	Chemical Engineering	Catalysis, Surface Science, and Reaction Engineering, Electronic and Photonic Semiconductor Materials.
Robert McMeeking	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: mechanics of materials, fracture, plasticity, composite materials, materials processing.
Carl Meinhart	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	Thermal/Fluid Sciences: development and analysis of MEMS-based micro-fluidic devices, optical instrumentation for micro-scale fluid mechanics, and wall turbulence.
Horia Metiu	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Catalysis in zeolites and on metal nanoparticles supported on oxides; single-molecule quantum mechanics; electronic structure and transport in thermoelectric materials; theoretical chemical physics.
Igor Mezic	Mechanical Engineering	Applied mechanics, non-linear dynamics, fluid mechanics, applied mathematics, active (chaotic advection) methods in micromixing, nonlinear dynamics and control of dielectrophoretic separation of bioparticles, bioparticle control for biosensing, control of spin systems.
Umesh Mishra	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Develop an understanding of novel materials and extend them into applications.
Samir Mitragotri	Chemical Engineering	Development of novel methods of drug delivery and diagnostics.
Daniel E. Morse	Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology	Proteins, genes and molecular mechanisms controlling biological nanofabrication of high-performance mineral-organic composites, and innovative strategies to harness these mechanisms for new routes to nanofabrication of electronic, magnetic and optical materials.
Martin Moskovits	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Spectroscopy, surface chemistry, and the chemistry and fabrication of nanowires.
Shuji Nakamura	Materials	Crystal growth, Light-emitting diodes and laser diodes.
Pierre Petroff	Materials	Crystal growth and epitaxy with emphasis on understanding the fundamental processes involved in the epitaxy of semiconductors for producing novel self assembling nanostructure.
Linda Petzold	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	Numerical ordinary differential equations, differential-algebraic equations, and partial differential equations, dynamic optimization, nonlinear model reduction, mathematical software and scientific computing.
Kevin Plaxco	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Protein folding, folding-based sensors and adaptive materials.
Norbert Reich	Chemistry & Biochemistry
Joan Emma Shea	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Application of statisical and computational physics to biological systems like protein folding.
Mark Sherwin	Physics	Quantum information processing, Terahertz Dynamics in Semiconductor Nanostructures.
Hyongsok "Tom" Soh	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	Scanning probe devices and techniques, use of MEMS technology for molecular scale detection and manipulation, and parallel operation of micromachined devices.
James Speck	Materials	Relationship between thin film electronic materials growth, microstructure, and the relation between microstructure and physical properties.
Galen Stucky	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Derive a general methodology for the creation by molecular assembly of integrated systems.
Matthew Tirrell	Chemical Engineering	Polymer surface properties including adsorption, adhesion, surface treatment, friction, lubrication and biocompatibility.
Matthew Turk	Computer Science	Computer vision and imaging, perceptual interfaces, multimodal interaction, human-computer interaction, gesture recognition, artificial intelligence.
Kimberly Turner	Mechanical & Environmental Engineering	Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics and Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: MEMS, Solid Mechanics, Dynamics, Microsystems Motion.
Chris Van de Walle	Materials Department	First-principles calculations, optoelectronic materials, semiconductors and oxides, hydrogen generation and storage.
Fred Wudl	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Currently interested in optical and electro-optical properties of conjugated polymers, organic chemistry of fullerenes, and design and preparation of self-mending polymers.
Robert York	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Application of emerging electronic materials for high frequency RF/microwave devices, circuits and systems.
Joseph Zasadzinski	Chemical Engineering	Polymers and Complex Fluids, Biomaterials and Bioengineering

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