Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: programming languages, type systems, dynamic languages

Research/Areas of Interest: Fluid mechanics, flow in the human body, hemodynamics, aneurysms, heart development, flow in tumors, cardiac assist devices

Research/Areas of Interest: Material characterization, lithium-ion batteries, tissue biomechanics, and engineering education

Research/Areas of Interest: Optimization and Control, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Graph Theory, Decentralized Algorithms

Research/Areas of Interest: Numerical Linear and Multilinear Algebra, Scientific Computing, Image Reconstruction and Restoration

Research/Areas of Interest: Orthopedics: Bone and cartilage growth and remodeling, repair in response to injury, and grafting. Skeletal tissue engineering. Bone and soft tissue biomechanics. Bone inductive and mitotic proteins. Ligament and tendon physiology and response to injury. Orthopedic device development. Animal models of orthopedic disease. Equine podiatry. Joint disease and interventions. Cardiovascular: Percutaneous treatment of cardiac disease. Animal models of cardiac disease. Interventional cardiology.

Research/Areas of Interest: Effect of infrastructure on social equity, infrastructure against climate change, automation of the design process

Research/Areas of Interest: Marketing advertising, brand management, consumer research, industrial design, communications and exhibit development. Technology Strategy, Product Management, and Supply Chain Operations.

Research/Areas of Interest: Geology and hydrology of arid lands, coastal environmental change, natural hazards

Research/Areas of Interest: design of silicon-based mixed-mode VLSI systems (analog, digital, RF, optical), analog signal processing, and optoelectronic system-on-chip modeling and integration for applications in optical wireless communication and biomedical imaging

Research/Areas of Interest: engineering education research, learning and engagement in the university classroom, development of disciplinary practices, instructional design and technology development, instructional practices, organizational change, social practice theory

Research/Areas of Interest: computational geometry, efficient algorithms

Research/Areas of Interest: biomechanics, applied mechanics, materials characterization, engineering education

Research/Areas of Interest: medical device design and development

Research/Areas of Interest: design, behavior, and modeling of concrete structures

Research/Areas of Interest: Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology The research interests of the Kumar laboratory are centered on the (1) use of chemistry to design molecules to interrogate and illuminate fundamental mechanisms in biology, or be used as therapeutics; and (2) use of biology to "evolve" and "select" molecules that can perform chemistry in non-biological and medicinal settings. These are some questions we are trying to answer: (i) Is it possible to design and mimic natural proteins and other biological macromolecules by use of building blocks that nature does not use – and whether such constructs can be endowed with properties that are not found in biology?; (ii) How did the first enzymes arise in the imagined Darwin's pond – is there a way to recreate this scenario and in the process develop a fundamentally new method to create enzymes?; (iii) Biology uses phase separation, that is, clustering of different compounds in confined locations – a process that is key in orchestrating the daily activities of a cell – can we find methods that can predictably dictate where molecules are located in a given environment and thereby direct the phenotype that is generated?; (iv) Can we rationally design small molecules and peptides that can function against antibiotic resistant bacteria that are threatening the most basic tenet of modern medicine?

Research/Areas of Interest: Performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks, Optimization methods and control theory

Research/Areas of Interest: Medical Device Design, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Education, Thrombosis, Blood-material Interactions

Research/Areas of Interest: water resources, decision making under uncertainty, hydrologic statistics, integrated global change assessment

Research/Areas of Interest: Cybersecurity policy, Privacy, Communications Surveillance

Research/Areas of Interest: water, sanitation, hygiene, infectious diseases, developing countries, emergencies

Research/Areas of Interest: trusted AI, hardware security, electronic design automation, VLSI architectures for machine learning and emerging cryptographic systems, and AI for healthcare and biomedical applications.

Research/Areas of Interest: digital image processing, computer animation, swarm robotics, innovation, engineering method & design

Research/Areas of Interest: metabolic engineering, tissue engineering, systems biology

Research/Areas of Interest: machine design, nondestructive testing

Research/Areas of Interest: molecular biology, cell biology, nano biotechnology, genomics

Research/Areas of Interest: Negotiation, conflict management and resolution.

Research/Areas of Interest: electrochemical energy storage and conversion, batteries, electrolytes

Research/Areas of Interest: Morphological and behavioral information processing in living systems

Research/Areas of Interest: biomaterials for hard tissue regeneration, biophysical control of macrophage polarization

Research/Areas of Interest: New product development, technology strategy and innovation, digital imaging, technology trends, innovation.

Research/Areas of Interest: computer science education, distributed systems, operating systems, networked systems, software development, secure systems and networking

Research/Areas of Interest: hydrology, water resources systems, IWRM

Research/Areas of Interest: Customer discovery, product management, design strategy, sustainable investing solutions, entrepreneurship.

Research/Areas of Interest: Data Science, Machine Learning, Bayesian Methods, Deep Learning, Graph

Research/Areas of Interest: Quantum Information, Quantum Simulation, Adiabatic Quantum Computation, Computational Physics Quantum information faces three basic questions. Firstly, what are quantum computers good for? Secondly, how do we build one? Thirdly, what will quantum information contribute if technological obstacles to constructing a large scale quantum computer prove insuperable? The first question is the search for problems which quantum computers can solve more easily than classical computers. The second is an investigation of which physical systems one could use to build a quantum computer. The third leads to the search for spinoffs in classical computation, and the question of where the classical/quantum boundary lies. I am interested in all three questions.

Research/Areas of Interest: Biomaterials, Regenerative Medicine, Drug Delivery