Research with Impact

Civil and environmental engineer Khaled Abdelghany researches transportation system modeling, city logistics, and airline operations among others.

Stephen Arrowsmith is a geophysicist who specializes in understanding how seismic and acoustic waves are excited, how they propagate, and how to unravel the information they contain.

Heather DeShon's research focuses on improving scientific and societal understanding of natural hazards. She conducts studies relevant to earthquake, tsunami and volcanic hazards and prepares mitigation strategies.

Robert Kehoe is a member of the Dark Energy Spectroscipic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration and studies the large-scale structure in the universe allows to measure the history of cosmic expansion.

Leanne Ketterlin Geller's research is situated in mathematics education in grades K-8, specifically focused on students experiencing difficulty or with disabilities.

Eric Larson conducts research that explores the interdisciplinary relationship of machine learning and signal/image processing with the fields of security, psychology, mobile health, education, human-computer interaction, and ubiquitous computing.

Barbara Minkser is a Civil and Environmental Engineer that uses data analytics and systems analysis to advance urban sustainability and resilience. Coupling machine learning, modeling, and crowd-sourced data to improve management of water resource and infrastructure systems.

Alexandra Pavlakis studies the social contexts of education, K-12 educational leadership, family-school-community engagement, economic disadvantage, poverty, and homelessness.

Kate Smits and her research team combine theoretical, numerical, and experimental approaches to address food, water, and energy concerns occurring near the earth’s surface.

Mitch Thornton conducts research in the areas of cyber security, quantum informatics, autonomy, EDA/CAD methods, and algorithms for quantum, classical digital systems, and large systems design including synthesis, verification, asynchronous, security, and disaster and fault tolerant circuit techniques.

Candace Walkington studies technology for mathematics learning and instruction, including Artificial Intelligence, Extended Reality, and personalized learning.

Edward Glasscock's research focuses on genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP).

Zhong Lu focuses on developing satellite radar interferometry processing techniques and their applications in the study of natural and anthropogenic hazards and natural resources.

MinJun Kin is a Mechanical Engineer with a focus on thermal science and fluid mechanics, microbiorobotics, soft robotics, single molecule biophysics, single cell analysis and micro/nanofluidics.