Faculty

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Hari Sundar

Associate Professor
Computer Science
Parallel Algorithms, Computational Sciences, High Performance Computing
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Deborah Sunter

Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Science focused on energy, development and environmental management. Computational modeling of electrical grid integration of renewable energy and storage. Interaction of science and policy in academia, industry and government
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Chris Swan

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
engineering education, geoenvironmental and geotechnical engineering
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E. Charles Sykes

John Wade Professor
Chemistry
Physical Chemistry, Surface Science, and Nanoscience. The Sykes group utilizes state of the art scanning probes and surface science instrumentation to study technologically important systems. For example, scanning tunneling microscopy enables visualization of geometric and electronic properties of catalytically relevant metal alloy surfaces at the nanoscale. Using temperature programmed reaction studies of well defined model catalyst surfaces structure-property-activity relationships are drawn. Of particular interest is the addition of individual atoms of a reactive metal to a relatively inert host. In this way reactivity can be tuned, and provided the energetic landscapes are understood, novel bifunctional catalytic systems can be designed with unique properties that include low temperature activation and highly selective chemistry. Newly developed curved single crystal surface are also being used to open up previously inaccessible areas of structure sensitive surface chemistry and chiral surface geometries. In a different thrust, the group has developed various molecular motor systems that are enabling us to study many important fundamental aspects of molecular rotation and translation with unprecedented resolution.
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Ken Tango

Part-time Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
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Holly Tarnower

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
Social Emotional Learning, Multiple Intelligence based Learning, Applied Theater and Theater of the Oppressed
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Abiy Tasissa

Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Matrix completion, compressive sensing, distance geometry
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Holly Taylor

Professor
Psychology
Spatial Cognition, Language, Memory
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Scott Taylor

Affiliate
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Michelle Tempesta

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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Brian Timko

Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
nanoelectronics, biosensing, biomaterials, tissue engineering, drug delivery
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Csaba Toth

Adjunct Associate Professor
Computer Science
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Richard Townsend

Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science
functional languages, compilers for embedded systems, program analysis and optimization, embedded domain-specific languages
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Brian Tracey

Part-time Lecturer
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Will Trevor

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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Barry Trimmer

Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Science
Biology
Control of locomotion and the neural processes that organize sensory and motor information
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Eleonora Maria Tronci

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Emmanuel (Manolis) Tzanakakis

Professor and Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chemical and Biological Engineering
stem cell and tissue engineering, optogenetics, diabetes
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Ugochukwu Ugwu

Part-time Lecturer
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Farshid Vahedifard

Professor and Louis Berger Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 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
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Thomas Van de Velde

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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James Van Deventer

Associate Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Synthetic Biology, Chemical Biology, Protein Engineering, Antibody Engineering, Drug Discovery, Genetic Code Expansion, Noncanonical Amino Acids, Tumor Microenvironment.
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Thomas Vandervelde

Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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.
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Robert Viesca

Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
applied mathematics and mechanics for geophysical and engineering problems
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Richard Vogel

Professor Emeritus
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stochastic and Statistical Hydrology, Environmental Statistics, Natural Hazards.
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Josef Volman

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
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
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Daniel Votipka

Lin Family Assistant Professor
Computer Science
computer security and privacy, secure development, security professionals, human-computer interaction, mobile security
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Mai Vu

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
wireless communications, millimeter wave communications, 5G/6G systems and techniques, energy-efficient communications, machine learning techniques, applied convex optimization
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Adjunct Professor
Biomedical Engineering
transport phenomena, tissue engineering and bioreactors
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Tina Weber

Part-time Senior Lecturer
Gordon Institute
Market strategy and development, business planning, entrepreneurship.
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Guannan Wei

Visiting Assistant Professor
Computer Science
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Kathryn Weiler

Part-time Lecturer
Gordon Institute
business planning, revenue development, innovation and execution
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Kristen Wendell

Associate Professor and Stacey and Robert Morse Fellow
Mechanical Engineering
learning sciences, engineering education, design practices, classroom discourse, engineering knowledge construction
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Ryan Wexler

Part-time Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
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Robert White

Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
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.
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Michael Wiklund

Professor of the Practice
Mechanical Engineering
human factors
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Andrew Winslow

Part-time Lecturer
Computer Science
Computational geometry, algorithmic self-assembly, discrete geometry, computational complexity, recreational mathematics
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Jason Wiser

Part-time Lecturer
Computer Science
digital game design, computer animation
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David Wittenberg

Part-time Lecturer
Computer Science
I do very little research now, but previous work was on proving cryptographic protocols; proving safety properties of models of physical systems (this involved using interval arithmetic to achieve correct numerical results using floating point arithmetic); and less formal methods of improving security properties of systems.
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Josephine Wolff

Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy
The Fletcher School
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Mark Woodin

Senior Lecturer
Civil and Environmental Engineering
epidemiologic methods
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Matthew Woodward

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
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.
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Qiaobing Xu

Professor
Biomedical Engineering
biomaterials, drug delivery, micro/nanofabrication, tissue engineering