Faculty

faculty photo

Farshid Vahedifard

- Resilient and equitable infrastructure - Impacts of extreme events (e.g., drought, flood, wildfire) in a changing climate on infrastructure and communities - Climate adaptation of infrastructure - Slopes, dams, and levees - Unsaturated soil mechanics - Multi-physics (e.g., hydro-mechanical, thermo-hydro-mechanical) processes in soils - Analytical and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering
faculty photo

James Van Deventer

Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology, Protein Engineering, Antibody Engineering, Drug Discovery, Genetic Code Expansion, Noncanonical Amino Acids, Tumor Microenvironment.
faculty photo

Thomas Vandervelde

Interaction of light with matter, physics of nanostructures and interfaces, metamaterials, material science, plasmonics, and surfactants, semiconductor photonics and electronics, epitaxial crystal growth, materials and devices for energy and infrared applications.
faculty photo

Josef Volman

Investments Mergers and acquisitions Public offerings Securities compliance Buying and selling private and public companies Venture financing Private/public equity and debt financings Capital raises Industries: technology, life sciences, media and entertainment, sports and sports tech, hospitality
faculty photo

Daniel Votipka

computer security and privacy, secure development, security professionals, human-computer interaction, mobile security
faculty photo

Mai Vu

wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, 5G/6G systems and techniques, energy-efficient communications, machine learning techniques, applied convex optimization
faculty photo

Kristen Wendell

learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, classroom discourse, engineering knowledge construction
faculty photo

Robert White

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) fabrication, modeling, and testing. Particularly acoustic MEMS (microphones, ultrasound), and aerodynamic measurement technologies (skin friction sensors, aeroacoustic sensors). Acoustics, vibrations, dynamics and controls. Electromechanical systems including robotics. Finite element methods and system modeling. Electronics for measurement. Mechanical measurements.
faculty photo

Matthew Woodward

Animals, as a consequence of evolution, employ multiple, complex, highly interconnected, locomotion modes to overcome obstacles and move through unstructured environments; the individual contributions of which are not well understood. While roboticists have made great strides in enhancing robot performance, the focus has been on the control system (brain, sensors), and yet a significant gap still exists between robots and their biological counterparts. The Robot Locomotion & Biomechanics Laboratory at Tufts University focuses on enhancing robot mobility through a deeper understanding of the fundamental design methodologies employed by animals to combine locomotion modes (integrated multimodal locomotion), interact deterministically yet passively with the environment (morphological intelligence), and actuate their physical systems (advance actuation). Current projects include, adapting the complex, passive, multifunctional feet of desert locusts to enhance the dynamic surface interactions of terrestrial robots and support highly dynamic behaviors, studying how flying animals may use their physical systems (bodies) to transform relatively simple inputs into complex non-linear outputs through an understanding of the unsteady aerodynamics, and understand how swarms communicate and create complex structures.
faculty photo

Pamela Yelick

Research in my laboratory focuses on mineralized tissue development, homeostasis, disease and regeneration. Our research models include the zebrafish, Danio rerio, mammalian models including pig, mouse and rat, human healthy and diseased tissues, and three dimensions (3D) in vitro and in vivo tissue engineering models for human cartilage, bone and tooth tissue engineering.