Faculty Profiles

Pawlak, Eugene
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Coastal and estuarine turbulent mixing processes and their interactions with topographic features.

Pevzner, Pavel
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Computational molecular biology and bioinformatics, including pattern finding, DNA sequencing, DNA arrays, genome rearrangements, computational proteomics.

Pisano, Albert
Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS, manufacturing, wireless sensors for harsh environments, low-cost sensors.

Pokorski, Jonathan
Professor, Chemical and Nano Engineering
Polymer chemistry, polymer processing, biomaterials, nanomedicine, drug delivery.

Polikarpova, Nadia
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Program synthesis from refinement types; enforcing information flow security using types and synthesis.

Politz, Joseph
Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Computer science education, programming languages, compiler design, web programming, and web security.

Porter, George
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Computer networks, data-intensive computing, and computer systems, data center networking.

Porter, Leo
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Multithreading, transactional memory, thread-level parallelism, branch-prediction, cache-design, chip-multiprocessors, simultaneous multithreading, process scheduling, architecture-aware scheduling, and cache coherence, CS1, media computation, clickers, active learning, flipped classroom, program evaluation, concept inventories, and peer instruction.