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Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa
Allen J. Acosta
Jess F. Adkins
Harry A. Atwater, Jr.

Alan H. Barr
James L. Beck
Paul M. Bellan
Kaushick Bhattacharya
Guillaume Blanquart
Simona Bordoni
John F. Brady
Christopher E. Brennen
William B. Bridges
Norman H. Brooks
Jehoshua Bruck
Oscar P. Bruno
Joel W. Burdick

Emmanuel J. Candes
Jean-Lou Chameau
K. Mani Chandy
Francis H. Clauser
Donald S. Cohen
Donald E. Coles
Timothy E. Colonius
Noel R. Corngold
Fred E. C. Culick

John O. Dabiri
Chiara Daraio
Mathieu Desbrun
Michael Dickinson
Paul E. Dimotakis
John C. Doyle

Michelle Effros
James P. Eisenstein
Charles Elachi
Michael Elowitz
Azita Emami-Nyestanak
Thomas E. Everhart

Richard C. Flagan
Joel N. Franklin
Scott E. Fraser
Brent T. Fultz

Morteza Gharib
William A. Goddard III
David L. Goodstein
David G. Goodwin
Roy W. Gould
Julia R. Greer
Chin-Lin Guo

Sossina Haile
Ali Hajimiri
John F. Hall
Babak Hassibi
Thomas H. Heaton
Tracey Ho
Michael R. Hoffmann
Hans G. Hornung
Thomas Y. Hou
George W. Housner
Melany L. Hunt

Wilfred D. Iwan

Paul C. Jennings
William L. Johnson

Alexei Kitaev
Wolfgang G. Knauss
James K. Knowles
Christof Koch
Andreas Krause
Swaminathan Krishnan

Nadia Lapusta
Jared R. Leadbetter
Anthony Leonard
Hans W. Liepmann
E. John List
Steven H. Low

Hideo Mabuchi
Frank E. Marble
Jerrold Marsden
Hardy C. Martel
Alain J. Martin
Beverley McKeon
Robert J. McEliece
Carver A. Mead
Daniel I. Meiron
R. David Middlebrook
James J. Morgan
Richard M. Murray

Marc-Aurele Nicolet

Michael Ortiz
Houman Owhadi

Oskar Painter
Sergio Pellegrino
Pietro Perona
Rob Phillips
Niles A. Pierce
Dale I. Pullin

Fredric Raichlen
Guruswami Ravichandran
Ares J. Rosakis
Anatol Roshko
Michael L. Roukes
David Rutledge

Rolf H. Sabersky
Axel Scherer
Tapio Schneider
Peter Schröder
Leonard J. Schulman
Keith Schwab
John H. Seinfeld
Joseph E. Shepherd
Athanassios G. Siapas

Yu-Chong Tai
Frederick B. Thompson
Sandra M. Troian
Joel Tropp

Chris Umans

Kerry J. Vahala
P. P. Vaidyanathan
Axel van de Walle
Thad Vreeland, Jr.

Paul O. Wennberg
Gerald B. Whitham
Adam Wierman
Erik Winfree
Theodore Y. Wu

Changhuei Yang
Amnon Yariv




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imageWilfred D. Iwan
Professor of Applied Mechanics, Emeritus

Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory.

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imagePaul C. Jennings
Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Emeritus

Earthquake engineering and the dynamics of structures.
imageWilliam L. Johnson
Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Engineering and Applied Science

Johnson's research includes studies of metallic materials including liquid alloys, bulk metallic glasses, nanostructured metals, and metal-matrix composites. Also, applications of metallic glasses as structural materials in sporting goods, aircraft, and military hardware, etc.

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imageAlexei Kitaev
Professor of Theoretical Physics and Computer Science
Kitaev's research is quantum computation, which includes quantum algorithms, error correction, and quantum complexity classes.
imageWolfgang G. Knauss
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics, Emeritus

Solid Mechanics.
James K. Knowles
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor and Professor of Applied Mechanics, Emeritus
Continuum mechanics of solids, with emphasis on the modeling of materials that undergo mechanically-induced solid-solid phase transformations.
imageChristof Koch
Lois and Victor Troendle Professor of Cognitive and Behavioral Biology and Professor of Computation and Neural Systems

Properties of nerve cells; how the brain perceives the visual environment; the neuronal basis of selective attention, visual awareness, and consciousness; design of highly integrated circuits (smart vision chips) for edge detection, filtering, motion, etc., for robotics; computer vision.

imageSwaminathan Krishnan
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Geophysics
Structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, computational mechanics, 3-D nonlinear analysis of tall buildings and long-span bridges, computational seismology, and ground motion simulation.

imageAndreas Krause
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Research interests include machine learning algorithms and probabilistic reasoning both in theory and in complex real world systems.

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imageNadia Lapusta
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics
Computational mechanics, fracture and frictional processes, mechanics and physics of earthquakes
imageJared R. Leadbetter
Associate Professor of Environmental Microbiology

Microbial diversity: physiology, ecology, and phylogeny. Microbial symbioses and microbe-microbe interactions. Cultivation of novel microbes. Relating in situ location of microbes to their environmental functions.
imageAnthony Leonard
Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics, Emeritus

Computational fluid dynamics and its application to a wide variety of flows including turbulence, transitional flows, and bluff-body areodynamics. Developments in Lagrangian vortex methods, spectral methods, and in the technique of large-eddy simulation. Application of dynamical systems theory to fluid transport and mixing.
E. John List
Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, Emeritus

Environmental fluid mechanics, turbulent mixing and diffusion, particle coagulation.
imageSteven H. Low
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
The main focus of Low's research group is the control and optimization of communication networks and protocols. We are currently focusing on managing the performance of the Internet and Web applications. We are also interested in digital watermarking and privacy protection.

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imageHideo Mabuchi
Associate Professor Physics and Control & Dynamical Systems
Quantum optics and atomic physics, including fundamental studies in quantum measurement, conditional dynamics of observed quantum systems, real-time quantum feedback, and closed-loop quantum control.

Optical biophysics, focusing on the use of experimental and mathematical methods from quantum optics to enable biophysical investigations at the few- or single-molecule level.

imageFrank E. Marble
Richard L. and Dorothy M. Hayman Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Jet Propulsion, Emeritus
imageJerrold Marsden
Carl F Braun Professor of Engineering, Control and Dynamical Systems, and Applied and Computational Mathematics; Option Representative for Control and Dynamical Systems

Mechanics, dynamics and control systems. Mechanical systems with symmetry analyzed using geometric, analytical, and computational techniques as well as dynamical systems, control theory, and bifurcation theory. Applications are made to a variety of engineering and spacecraft systems.
Hardy C. Martel
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus
imageAlain J. Martin
Professor of Computer Science

Asynchronous VLSI and Parallel Architecture.
imageRobert J. McEliece
Allen E. Puckett Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus

Information theory, error-control codes (including iterative decoding algorithms), graphical models for probabilistic inference, fast distributive algorithms, communications.
imageBeverley McKeon
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics
Experimental manipulation of wall-bounded flows for improved flow characteristics, such as reduction of drag, noise and structural loading or expansion of vehicle performance envelopes.
imageCarver A. Mead
Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus

The creation of silicon models of specific areas of the nervous system; physics of computation.
Daniel I. Meiron
Fletcher Jones Professor of Aeronautics and Applied and Computational Mathematics; Associate Director of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories

Computational fluid dynamics, particularly interfacial flows, computational materials science, high performance scientific computation.
R. David Middlebrook
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus

Structured Analog Design.
imageJames J. Morgan
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Environmental Engineering Science, Emeritus

Chemistry of waters in natural and technologic systems, with particular emphasis on surfaces and particle behavior.
imageRichard M. Murray
Thomas E. and Doris Everhart Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering
Murray's research is in the application of feedback and control to mechanical, information, and biological systems. Current projects include integration of control, communications, and computer science in multi-agent systems, information dynamics in networked feedback systems, analysis of insect flight control systems, and biological circuit design.

 

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