Faculty Profiles

Anesthesiology and Critical Care physician, with special research interests in inflammation and shock as it relates to microcirculation.

Kleissl, Jan
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Faculty, CER
Faculty, CER
Solar energy meteorology, solar variability and forecasting, urban meteorology, turbulence, field measurements and numerical modeling.

Klemmer, Scott
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Interface of design and programming, leveraging online examples of creative work to empower more users to design new user interfaces and software programs, learners to acquire new skills, experts to be more creative, and programmers to engage in more design thinking. Techniques for designers to rapidly create novel user interfaces, explore more alternatives and revise prototypes based on feedback be more creative, and programmers to engage in more design thinking. The psychological and social ingredients of design excellence?focusing on the role of alternatives and prototyping.

Knight, Robin
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Faculty Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation
Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Faculty Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation
Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research
Microbiome, computer science, pediatrics

Kosmatka, John
Professor, Structural Engineering
Faculty, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Faculty, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Design, analysis, and experimental testing of light-weight advancedcomposite structures.

Koushanfar, Farinaz
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Koushanfar’s research goal is to build more intelligent embedded computer systems that can ensure low-overhead security and trust, reduce energy usage, and improve performance within the physical resource constraints. Her work has applications in Internet of Things (IoT), antipiracy systems, medical devices, automotive systems, deep learning networks and secure bioinformatics.

Kramer, Boris
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Multifidelity and data-driven modeling, optimization and control, uncertainty quantification, reliability-based design and design under uncertainty in fluid flows

Krasheninnikov, Sergei
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Fusion energy and plasma physics.

Kravets, Vira
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Kravets’ research focus is electrical, paracrine, and neural networks of insulin-producing beta-cells in healthy and diabetic conditions.