Faculty

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Laurie Gaskins Baise

Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical earthquake engineering, seismic hazard mapping, natural hazards
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Christos Georgakis

Professor Emeritus
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Data-Driven Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Batch Processes using Machine Learning algorithms, Model Predictive, Nonlinear and Plant-Wide Control, Statistical Process Monitoring, The Interaction between Process Design and Control, Modeling and Optimization of Pharmaceutical Processes
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Irene Georgakoudi

Adjunct Professor
Biomedical Engineering
label-free high resolution tissue imaging, non-linear microscopy, metabolic imaging, matrix characterization, in vivo flow cytometry, cancer detection, osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases
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Renae Geraci

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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John Germaine

Research Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical, laboratory testing, automation, soil behavior, physical properties, mechanical properties, material science
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Chiara Ghezzi

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Dense collagen based tubular tissue models for airway tissue engineering
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Juan Gnecco

Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
reproductive biology and tissue engineering to understand the immune-endocrine mechanisms driving both reproductive physiology and disease pathogenesis.
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Elizabeth Goodrich

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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Brian Gravel

Associate Professor
Education
Brian's research focuses on students' representational practices in science and engineering studied using design-based research on learning technologies and socio-technical learning environments. This work builds from the development of SAM Animation, which is stop-motion animation software developed at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. Brian co-developed SiMSAM: a multi-representational toolkit to support creative computational modeling activities for middle grades learners. Curious about design, play, and making, his work involves partnerships with researchers and educators to explore dimensions of STEM learning at the intersections of people, materials, representations, and cultures. One such example is starting Nedlam's Workshop in 2014, a makerspace in an urban high school that emphasizes multidisciplinary inquiry. Through this work, he developed both empirical and theoretical contributions focused on heterogeneous design, STEM literacies in making, and analyses of how communities of makers organize to support each other's practices. Collectively, his research complicates and expands the field's understandings of how inquiry unfolds in making contexts, and how makerspaces can be a site for equitable and dignified participation in STEM. Brian's newer work involves teachers engaging in playful computational making to study how they (re)negotiate relationships to inquiry, disciplines, computational tools, and heterogeneous ways of knowing. This includes the exploration of geographies of care and responsibility that support STEM learning environments that center wellbeing. His scholarship examines the many facets of making and making spaces in schools, both in the United States and abroad. Brian's collaborative research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the LEGO Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. Selected Publications Gravel, B. E., & Puckett, C. (2023). What shapes implementation of a school-based makerspace? Teachers as multilevel actors in STEM reforms. International Journal of STEM Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40594-023-00395-x Gravel, B. E., & Svihla, V. (2021). Fostering heterogeneous engineering through whole-class design work. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 30(2), 279–329. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2020.1843465 Gravel, B. E., Tucker-Raymond, E., Wagh, A., Klimczak, S., & Wilson, N. (2021). More than mechanisms: Shifting ideologies for asset-based learning in engineering education. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research 11(1), 276–297. https://doi.org/10.7771/2157-9288.1286 Tucker-Raymond, E., & Gravel, B. E. (2019). STEM literacies in makerspaces: Implications for learning, teaching, and research. Routledge.
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Jeffrey Griffiths

Professor
Public Health and Community Medicine
How to scale up package of health, nutrition and agricultural interventions (individually known to work at a small scale) to a national scale, so as to improve maternal and child health and nutrition, the human, animal, and environmental epidemiology of the emerging pathogen Cryptosporidium, development of an ultrastable measles vaccine for use where there is no refrigeration or during emergencies, influence of malnutrition and environmental factors, such as air pollution and heavy metals, on common infectious diseases such as diarrhea and pneumonia.
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Joel Grodstein

Lecturer
Electrical and Computer Engineering
VLSI, computer architecture, computer-aided design and computing at the intersection of hardware and software, Interdisciplinary courses combining these topics with biology
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Stefan Gross

Adjunct Professor
Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology
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Jeffrey Guasto

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
biophysics and soft matter, microscale fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, microfluidic devices
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Bastien Guerin

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
magnetic resonance imaging, electromagnetic modeling, RF and gradient coil design
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Giulia Guidetti

Research Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
natural photonics, structural colors, bio-inspired photonics, biomaterials
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David Gute

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
environmental and occupational epidemiology, environmental health and safety
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Samuel Guyer

Adjunct Associate Professor
Computer Science
Programming languages, program analysis, software reliability, application security, runtime systems, memory management, domain-specific programming languages, compilers, compiler optimizations, program performance
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Pedram Hamrah

Professor
Ophthalmology
Dendritic cells found in the eye with special emphasis on the function of these cells in corneal transplantation, neurotrophic keratitis, and herpetic keratitis Clinical trials that use confocal microscopy in various types of infectious keratitis and dry eye disease
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Daniel Hannon

Professor of the Practice
Mechanical Engineering
human factors, airspace systems
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James Harden

Adjunct Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
biomolecular assemblies, biomaterials, computational biophysics, cell mechanics, complex fluids
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Amir Hasson

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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Soha Hassoun

Professor
Computer Science
Machine Learning; Systems Biology; Metabolic Engineering, computer-aided design for integrated circuits
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Mark Hempstead

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
computer architecture, computer systems, power-aware computing, embedded systems, mobile computing, computer systems for machine learning, workload characterization, quantum computing, learning sciences and computer systems for human subjects research
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Trevion Henderson

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Engineering education; Diversity, equity, and inclusion; team-based engineering pedagogies; engineering design thinking
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Warren Hilton

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
Product Strategy, Product Management, and Leadership
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Eric Hines

Professor of the Practice and Kentaro Tsutsumi Faculty Fellow
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Offshore Wind Energy Structural Design Earthquake Engineering
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Amy Hirschfeld

Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Gordon Institute
Business communication, public speaking, storytelling, self-reflective learning, inclusive and anti-racist pedagogy
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Marc Hodes

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
heat transfer, apparent slip, thermal management of electronics, mass transfer in supercritical fluids and thermoelectricity, material science
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Jeff Hopwood

Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering
microwave circuit design for microplasma generation, microplasma-based environmental sensors and other microsystem applications, plasma diagnostic methods, characterization, and modeling
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Felix Huang

Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
human factors, human motor learning, human motor control, neuro-rehabilitation, robotics, virtual reality, surgery skill training
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Neelakshi Hudda

Research Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
urban air population, transportation emissions
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Michael Hughes

Ann W. Lambertus and Peter Lambertus Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Machine learning : probabilistic models, Bayesian inference, variational methods, time-series analysis, semi-supervised learning Clinical informatics : electronic health record analysis
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James Intriligator

Professor of the Practice
Mechanical Engineering
Human Factors Engineering, Innovation, Design Thinking, AI-powered Innovation and R&D, Human Machine System Design, Robotics, Machine Learning, Perception, Psychology
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Shafiqul Islam

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Water Diplomacy, Principled Pragmatism, Data Driven Decision Making, Climate and Health, Remote Sensing, Flood Forecasting
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Nisha Iyer

Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
stem cells, neural tissue engineering, organoids, disease modeling, spinal cord injury, biomanufacturing
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Robert Jacob

Professor
Computer Science
human-computer interaction, new interaction modes and techniques, implicit brain-computer interfaces, user interface software
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John Jacobsen

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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Michael Jahn

Part-time Lecturer
Computer Science
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Kenneth James

Part-time Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
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Lucy Jen

Professor of the Practice
Civil and Environmental Engineering
geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering, and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering
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Shan Jiang

Eileen Fox Aptman, J90, and Lowell Aptman Assistant Professor
Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning
Urban Analytics; Big Data Analytics; Urban Planning and Science; Spatial Data Science; Urban mobility;
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Mark Kachanov

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of materials; effective properties of heterogeneous materials; microstructure-property relationships; applications to material science
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David Kaplan

Distinguished Professor, Stern Family Professor of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
biopolymer engineering, biomaterials, material science, tissue engineering, bioengineering, cellular agriculture
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Nicholas Katis

Part-time Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
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Milod Kazerounian

Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science
programming languages, type systems, dynamic languages