Faculty Profiles
Bitmead, Robert
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Design of dynamic feedback control systems for a variety of engineering applications.
Boechler, Nicholas
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dynamically responsive and microstructured materials, wave propagation, nonlinear dynamics, self-assembly, granular media, metamaterials, shock and impact physics, laser ultrasonics, topology optimization, high strain rate mechanics, and soft material dynamics.
Integrated circuit design of RF and millimeter-wave communication systems and opto-electronic interfaces for high-speed sampling and wireline communication.
Burkhard, Walter
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science & Engineering
Storage system algorithms expert with interest in data layouts, disk arrays, RAID, video servers, replicated file systems.
Buss, Samuel
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Bounded arithmetic, proof theory and complexity, mathematical logic and behavioral logic.
Cabrales Arevalo, Pedro
Professor, Bioengineering
Gas transport physiology and bioengineering design for development of next generation blood substitutes; Bioengineering microcirculation; The effect of blood substitutes on oxygen transport to tissue.
Cai, Shengqiang
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mechanics of Soft Materials; Electro-chemo-mechanics of Solids; Mechanics of Energy Materials;Bio-inspired Design and Bio-mechanics; 3D Fabrications
Calder, Brad
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Computer architecture, specifically the interaction between architecture and compiler optimizations across a broad range of subjects.
Human genome analysis; molecular genetics; new biophysical tools and methodologies; genetic engineering.
Carter, Larry
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science & Engineering
Scientific computation, performance programming, parallel computation, machine and system architecture for high performance.