Faculty

Research/Areas of Interest: micromechanics of composites, interfacial fracture and adhesion, fatigue and creep damage in solder alloys, thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic packaging, defects and transport in solids with applications to solid oxide fuel cells and batteries, ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of advanced engineering materials, material science

Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Multi-modal data.

Research/Areas of Interest: multiphase flow and transport in porous media, liquid-liquid and solid-liquid equilibria, sols and emulsions, surfactants and interfaces, mass transfer, biotransformation, emerging contaminants

Research/Areas of Interest: Programming languages and systems; functional programming

Research/Areas of Interest: artificial intelligence, computer vision, hyperspectral imaging, image processing

Research/Areas of Interest: Experience design management.

Research/Areas of Interest: navigation, safety-critical transportation systems, state estimation, human-robot interaction

Research/Areas of Interest: Computational methods for data analytics, edge AI, machine vision, deep learning, big data, depth perception, and generative modeling.

Research/Areas of Interest: Engineering Education, Human Robot Interaction, Mechanical Engineering, Music Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing

Research/Areas of Interest: Occupational and environmental health; designing effective safety systems; creating systems of production that do not harm workers or the environment; drivers for corporations to create those systems of production and overcoming obstacles that they encounter to this endeavor, public health improvements as social change. Current focus is safety systems and safety culture. Recent projects include: 1)health and safety curriculum development for the United Steelworkers of America, 2) health and safety systems in former nuclear weapons production sites and 3) improving safety conditions in the offshore wind industry.

Research/Areas of Interest: Multidimensional and statistical signal processing; array processing; radar and sonar signal processing; artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Research/Areas of Interest: process control

Research/Areas of Interest: Silk chemistry and biomedical materials design, Biopolymers, Hydrogels

Research/Areas of Interest: materials engineering, materials science, manufacturing processes, quality control

Research/Areas of Interest: Cloud computing, evolvability, debugging distributed systems.

Research/Areas of Interest: Bridge structural health monitoring, building train-induced vibrations, nondestructive testing of full-scale structures, fatigue life prediction of structures with nonproportional multi-axial loading.

Research/Areas of Interest: Developing/integrating Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques in autonomous surgical robots.

Research/Areas of Interest: Product development, branding, global marketing training and management, marketing excellence, strategic business planning, marketing consulting, retail expansion strategies, marketing planning process development, strategic planning work, business assessments, role and responsibility definition, training, and vision / brand positioning development.

Research/Areas of Interest: Embodied AI approaches for performing complex tasks that require creativity, reasoning, and alignment with social and ethical norms.

Research/Areas of Interest: near-infrared spectroscopy, diffuse optical tomography

Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive modeling, foundations of cognitive science, human-robot interaction, multi-scale agent-based models, natural language understanding.

Research/Areas of Interest: ethical leadership, social justice, and public speaking.

Research/Areas of Interest: programming languages, software systems, concurrency, distributed information systems

Research/Areas of Interest: Algorithmic human-robot interaction for robust and socially appropriate assistance to human users, especially users with disabilities.

Research/Areas of Interest: Quantum Information, Computation and Communication Electronic Nanomaterials Quantum Photonics Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Research/Areas of Interest: Techniques for building concurrent mobile and IoT systems

Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Robotics, Computational Perception, Robotic Manipulation, Machine Learning, Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interaction

Research/Areas of Interest: Big Data Systems

Research/Areas of Interest: data science, algorithms for analysis of biological networks, gene and pathway regulation in human development, algorithms for precision medicine, computational approaches to pharmacogenomics and drug discovery or repositioning

Research/Areas of Interest: Engineering for Health -> Physics of cancer and aging -> Mechanics of biomaterials at the nanoscale, Synthesis and study of functionals nanomaterials for biomedical imaging and drug delivery, Advanced imaging for medical diagnostics, Novel processes and materials for dentistry: nano-polishing and self-healing materials

Research/Areas of Interest: Bioelectronics, Biomedical microdevices, Wearables, Ingestibles, Biomedical circuits and systems, micro and nano fabrication, lab-on-chip microsystems, global health and precision medicine, CMOS image sensors for scientific imaging, analog to information converters, analog computing, brain inspired machine learning, active metamaterial devices, circuits, and systems, terahertz devices and circuits

Research/Areas of Interest: computational geometry, design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity

Research/Areas of Interest: Metabolic Engineering, Systems Biology, Data Science, Drug Discovery

Research/Areas of Interest: modeling, control, and estimation in electric energy processing, power electronics, power systems, and electric drives

Research/Areas of Interest: Dr. Stearns provided thought leadership to USDOT in the areas of human factors research and evaluation focusing on relationships between humans and transportation policies and processes. She has a broad understanding of the human factors issues affecting transportation due to her work as the founding Executive Agent for the DOT's Human Factors Coordinating Committee (HFCC). Her research contributions focused on social factors influencing the use, operation, and organization of transportation systems and equipment. She led research to address user acceptance of new vehicle technologies and designed and conducted evaluations of user acceptance of automotive collision avoidance and roadway departure warning systems. She led a government-industry cooperative program to develop the first generation of driver assist features using an adaptive interface system to minimize driver distraction. She led the Volpe Center's aviation human factors program and designed and conducted a longitudinal effort to assess the impact of advanced technology on transit operations. She and her team developed a software tool to evaluate and record human factors considerations for air traffic controllers' equipment, provided the human factors plan for a proposed air traffic control upgrade, and provided software tools for acquiring and archiving data on air traffic control activity. She documented the differential impacts of the energy shortage by user category. She has also analyzed alcohol-related recreational boating fatalities, use of automotive safety belts, experiences of older drivers, general aviation fatalities, marine crew fatigue, characteristics of the future FAA maintenance work force, and the impacts of crew scheduling and fatigue on the railroad industry. She has extensive experience developing data collection and analyses strategies and has consulted on, as well as designed, numerous data collection instruments and surveys.

Research/Areas of Interest: Environmental health, environmental epidemiology, air pollution, exposure science, data analytics