CNSI Faculty

Name	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, Media Arts and Technology	Computer networks and protocols, large-scale multimedia systems, performance evaluation, and distributed systems.
Paul Atzberger	Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering	Mathematical analysis and computational methods for the study of the statistical mechanics of biological and engineered systems. Application areas include molecular motor proteins, soft matter physics, polymeric fluids, lipid bilayer membranes, fluctuating hydrodynamics, osmotic phenomena, and microfluidic devices.
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	Emerging nanoscale issues in ultra-scaled CMOS technologies and their implications for high-performance and low-power design; circuit and system applications of non-classical CMOS and beyond-CMOS nanoelectronics.
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 Engineering	Ceramic composite design; solid mechanics applied to materials problems, such as the remediation of crystalline defects in gallium nitride and other optoelectronic films.
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.
Otger Campas	Mechanical Engineering	Our group takes a highly interdisciplinary and quantitative approach, combining theory and experiments, as well as physics, biology, materials science and engineering, to study the processes of morphogenesis and self-organization in living systems.
Michael Chabinyc	Materials	Flexible electronic devices. Organic semiconductors for thin film transistor and photovoltaics. Materials for energy storage and conversion. Characterization of polymer films.
Bradley Chmelka	Chemical Engineering	Molecular Sieves (Zeolites), Polymer Structure and Dynamics, Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, and NMR Spectroscopy.
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 application.
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.
Michael Gordon	Chemical Engineering	Development and application of hybrid scanning probe microscopes for chemical, electrical, and optical interrogation of surfaces. Focus areas include nanomaterial synthesis, optical spectroscopies, plasmonics, and probing structure-function relationships in a variety of material venues (microelectronics, catalysis, organic PV, and bio).
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.
Claudia Gottstein	CNSI	Application of nanomedicine in cancer, targeted drug delivery, antibody engineering, tumor angiogenesis, cancer stem cells.
Elisabeth Gwinn	Physics	Quantum Hall effect in semiconductor multilayers, Josephson effects in quantum-well-coupled superconductors, and ferromagnetism in semiconductors.
Song-I Han	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Dynamic Nuclear Polarization NMR to study of large molecular assemblies such as vesicles or lipid bilayer embedded membrane proteins.
Craig Hawker	Materials Department, Materials Research Lab	Current interests include design, synthesis and exploitation of nanoscopically defined materials in applications ranging from next-generation microelectronic devices to diagnostic agents for detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Alan Heeger	Physics	Physics of conductive and light-emitting polymers, biosensors.
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	Research projects in Jaeger's lab are all related to RNA tectonics, a new LEGO game for supra-molecular chemists and biochemists. It refers to the construction of artificial RNA architectures with novel properties and takes advantage of the knowledge of folding and assembly rules governing the three-dimensional shape of complex natural RNA molecules.
Ania Bleszynski Jayich	Physics	Quantum mechanical effects in mesoscopic systems, electron transport in nanostructures, and nanometer-scale imaging and magnetometry.
Nancy Kawalek	Film & Media Studies, Media Arts & Technology	STAGE Project and Professional Artists Lab.
Ken Kosik	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology	Basic mechanisms and disorders of neural plasticity, the role of microRNAs in stem cell differentiation.
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, Media Arts and Technology	Multimedia Composition, 3D Immersive Physical Sound Environments, 3D Immersive Virtual Sound Environments, Auralization, Distributed Multimedia Computing Environments.
Gary Leal	Chemical Engineering	Fluid mechanics, complex fluids, surfactant and nanoparticle effects on interfaces, vesicle formation and stability, polymer rheology.
Everett Lipman	Physics	Single molecule optical methods; protein folding; resonance energy transfer; applications of microfluidic devices.
Noel MacDonald	Mechanical Engineering	MEMS, Applied Physics, Materials, Mechanics, Nano Fabrication.
John Martinis	Physics	Superconductivity, ultra low-temperature electronic devices, and quantum computation.
Ben Mazin	Physics	Photon-counting, energy-resolving cryogenic detectors and instrumentation for Astrophysics.
Eric McFarland	Chemical Engineering	Catalysis, Surface Science, and Reaction Engineering, Electronic and Photonic Semiconductor Materials.
Robert McMeeking	Mechanical Engineering	Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: mechanics of materials, fracture, plasticity, composite materials, materials processing.
Carl Meinhart	Mechanical 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.
Shuji Nakamura	Materials	Crystal growth, Light-emitting diodes and laser diodes.
Chetan Nayak	Microsoft Station Q & Physics	Correlated electron systems, quantum Hall effect, topological phases of matter, and quantum computation.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Photophysics and electronic properties of novel organic and metal-organic hybrid materials for applications in nanotechnology such as molecular electronics, transistors, photovoltaics, and sensors.
Christopher Palmstrom	Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials	Heteroepitaxial growth of novel materials and structures to form the basis for making new electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic and micromechanical devices.
Sumita Pennathur	Mechanical Engineering	Novel studies of chemical and biological species using fabricated nanoscale devices.
Pierre Petroff	Materials	Crystal growth of self-assembling nanostructures (quantum dots and quantum rods) and studies of quantum emitters properties coupled to a microcavity field. Novel quantum dot and quantum rod devices for ultra fast single photon emitters and lasers.
Linda Petzold	Mechanical 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	Biomolecular engineering, biosensors and bioelectronics.
Norbert Reich	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Enzyme function, primarily at the levels of catalytic and specificity mechanisms, with a long term goal of developing enzyme inhibitors with potential therapeutic application.
Jon Schuller	Electrical and Computer Engineering
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 Engineering	High throughput cell sorting, integrated biosensors, and in vitro directed evolution of molecules.
James Speck	Materials	Relationship between thin film electronic materials growth, microstructure, and the relation between microstructure and physical properties.
Todd Squires	Chemical Engineering	Micro-scale fluid mechanics and transport science - microfluidics, electrokinetics, and ion transport; active, nonlinear and interfacial microrheology of complex materials; polymer and nanoparticle dynamics and sensing.
Susanne Stemmer	Materials	Development of new high-permittivity oxide thin films for frequency agile microwave devices, fundamental studies on ferroelectric thin films, understanding interface stability in alternative gate dielectrics for silicon CMOS, and application of novel scanning transmission electron microscopy techniques to problems in materials science.
Dmitri Strukov	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Physical implementation of computation, including device physics, circuit design, and high-level architecture, with emphasis on emerging device technologies. In particular, the main focus is on the "CMOL" (standing for Cmos + MOLecular-scale devices) variety of hybrid nanoelectronic circuits.
Galen Stucky	Chemistry & Biochemistry	Derive a general methodology for the creation by molecular assembly of integrated systems.
Luke Theogarajan	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Low-Power Analog VLSI, Biomimetic Nanosystems, Neural Prostheses, Biosensors, Block Copolymer Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Microfabrication.
James Thomson	Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering	Understanding how human embryonic stem (ES) cells can form any cell in the body (pluripotency); how an ES cell chooses between self-renewal and the initial decision to differentiate; and how a differentiated cell with limited developmental potential can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent cell.
Matthew Turk	Computer Science, Media Arts and Technology	Computer vision and imaging, multimodal human-computer interaction, 3D body tracking, gesture recognition, visualization and immersive environments.
Kimberly Turner	Mechanical Engineering	Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics and Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: MEMS, Solid Mechanics, Dynamics, Microsystems Motion.
Megan T. Valentine	Mechanical Engineering	Nanoscale manipulation and measurement techniques to probe diverse biological materials on length scales from that of single proteins (a few nanometers) to that of entire cells (~ 100 microns or more).
Chris Van de Walle	Materials Department	First-principles calculations, optoelectronic materials, semiconductors and oxides, hydrogen generation and storage, metal/semiconductor nanocomposites.
David Weld	Physics	Quantum simulation with ultracold neutral atoms in optical lattices, Bose-Einstein condensation, and experiments at the intersection of condensed matter and atomic physics.
Rich Wolski	Computer Science	High-performance distributed computing, computational grids, and computational economies for resource allocation and scheduling.
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.