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Name	School/Department	Research Interests

Pulickel M Ajayan Professor; Professor, Chemistry; Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Eng	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci ajayan at rice dot edu

John Akin Professor	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci akin at rice dot edu	Finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computer-aided design

David Alexander Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy dalex at rice dot edu

Genevera Allen Assistant Professor	Engineering Statistics gallen at rice dot edu

Athanasios Antoulas Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering aca at rice dot edu	Large-scale dynamical systems, approximation, computation, linear algebra.

Behnam Azhang J.S. Abercrombie Professor; Department Chair	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering aaz at rice dot edu	Wireless network and multiuser communication

Aydin Babakhani Assistant Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering Aydin dot Babakhani at rice dot edu

Richard Baraniuk Victor E. Cameron Professor in Engineering	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering richb at rice dot edu	Multiscale, computational signal and image processing; open access, collaborative scholarly publication

Robert Bixby Noah Harding Prof Emeritus	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics bixby at rice dot edu	Theory and practice of optimization

Liliana Borcea Noah Harding Professor Computational & Applied Mathematics	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics borcea at rice dot edu	Partial differential equations, inverse problems

Paul Brace Clarence L. Carter Professor	Social Sciences Political Science pbrace at rice dot edu

Stephen Bradshaw Assistant Professor; William V. Vietti Junior Chair of Space Physics	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy Stephen dot Bradshaw at rice dot edu

Anthony Brandt Associate Professor of Composition and Theory	Music Shepherd School of Music abrandt at rice dot edu

Robert Bronk Baker Postdoctoral Fellow	Engineering Baker Institute Robert dot C dot Bronk at rice dot edu

C. Sidney Burrus Maxfield Oshman Professor Emeritus	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering csb at rice dot edu	Digital filter design and signal processing algorithms

Michael Byrne Associate Professor, Computer Science	Social Sciences Psychology byrne at rice dot edu	Computer-human interaction

Michael Carroll Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor of Engineering	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci carroll at rice dot edu	Continuum mechanics, geomechanics, porous materials

Royce Carroll Assistant Professor	Social Sciences Political Science rcarroll at rice dot edu

Robert Cartwright Professor	Engineering Computer Science cork at rice dot edu	Programming language design and implementation, program semantics and verification

Joseph Cavallaro Professor, Computer Science	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering cavallar at rice dot edu	Fault-tolerant computer architecture, VLSI, microlithography

Walter Chapman Professor; Director, EESI	Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering wgchap at rice dot edu	Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular simulation

Swarat Chaudhuri Assistant Professor	Engineering Computer Science Swarat dot Chaudhuri at rice dot edu

John Clark Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering jwc at rice dot edu	Biological systems modeling, nonlinear dynamic systems analysis

Cecilia Clementi Professor; Assoc Professor; Chem & Biomolecular Eng; Wiess Career Development Chair	Natural Sciences Chemistry cecilia at rice dot edu

Daniel Cohan Assistant Professor	Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering cohan at rice dot edu

Keith Cooper Professor	Engineering Computer Science keith at rice dot edu	Compiler construction

Alan Cox Associate Professor, ECE	Engineering Computer Science alc at rice dot edu	Operating systems, computer architecture

Dennis Cox Professor	Engineering Statistics dcox at rice dot edu	Computational, spatial, and Bayesian statistics, nonparametric function estimation

Steven Cox Professor; Master, Brown College	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics cox at rice dot edu	Optimal control, design of elliptic partial differential equations

Scott Cutler Professor in the Practice in Computer Technology	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering cutler at rice dot edu

Yuri Dabaghian Assistant Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics Yuri dot A dot Dabaghian at rice dot edu

Michael Deem John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical & Genetic Engineering	Engineering Bioengineering mwdeem at rice dot edu	Immune response to variable or multi-strain viruses and vaccines, computational cancer

Andrew Dick Assistant Professor	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci Andrew dot J dot Dick at rice dot edu

Rebekah Drezek Professor; Professor, ECE	Engineering Bioengineering drezek at rice dot edu	Biomedical optics and bionanotechnology

Leonardo Duenas Osorio Assistant Professor	Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering leonardo dot duenas-osorio at rice dot edu

Ahmad Durrani Professor Emeritus	Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering durrani at rice dot edu

Karl Ecklund Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy Karl dot Ecklund at rice dot edu

Farès El-Dahdah Professor; Director of the Humanities Research Center	Architecture School of Architecture fdahdah at rice dot edu

Mark Embree John & Ann Doerr Professor,Center for Engineering Leadership	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics embree at rice dot edu	Numerical analysis

Katherine Ensor Professor; Department Chair	Engineering Statistics ensor at rice dot edu	Time series, space-time and stochastic processes, financial systems

Jeffrey Fleisher Assistant Professor	Social Sciences Anthropology jfleisher at rice dot edu

Giovanni Fossati Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy gfossati at rice dot edu

John Freeman Professor Emeritus	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy jwf at rice dot edu	Magnetospheric physics, solar-terrestrial relations, and space weather

Frank Geurts Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy geurts at rice dot edu

Fathi Ghorbel Professor	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci ghorbel at rice dot edu	Dynamic systems and control, robotics, biomedical systems

Raymon Glantz Professor Emeritus	Natural Sciences Biochemistry & Cell Biology rmg at rice dot edu	Neurophysiology, computational biology, sensory information processing, neural networks.

Ronald Goldman Professor	Engineering Computer Science rng at rice dot edu	Computer graphics, geometric modeling

Tony Gorry Friedkin Professor of Management	Jones School Jones Graduate School of Management tony at rice dot edu	Information technology and society

Jane Kathryn Grande-Allen Associate Professor	Engineering Bioengineering grande at rice dot edu	Investigation of tissue and cellular responses to disease

Richard Grandy Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor	Social Sciences Philosophy rgrandy at rice dot edu

Rudy Guerra Professor; Master, Jones College	Engineering Statistics rguerra at rice dot edu	Biostatistics, genetics

Nancy Halas Stanley C. Moore Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering halas at rice dot edu	Nanophotonics, plasmonics, nanobiotechnology, and nanoscale engineering

Matthias Heinkenschloss Professor; Department Chair	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics heinken at rice dot edu	Optimization, optimal control, numerical analysis

Illya Hicks Associate Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics Illya dot Hicks at rice dot edu

Brent Houchens Assistant Professor	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci houchens at rice dot edu	Fluid mechanics, magnetohydrodynamics, and stability analysis.

Oleg Igoshin Assistant Professor	Engineering Bioengineering Oleg dot Igoshin at rice dot edu

Jeff Jacot Assistant Professor	Engineering Bioengineering Jeff dot Jacot at rice dot edu

Christopher Jermaine Associate Professor	Engineering Computer Science Christopher dot M dot Jermaine at rice dot edu

David Johnson Professor	Engineering Computer Science dbj at rice dot edu	Wireless an dmobile networking protocols

Don Johnson J. S. Abercrombie Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering dhj at rice dot edu	Statistical signal processing

Lydia Kavraki Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science	Engineering Computer Science kavraki at rice dot edu	Bioinformatics, robotics, physical algorithms

Caleb Kemere Assistant Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering Caleb dot Kemere at rice dot edu

Marek Kimmel Professor	Engineering Statistics kimmel at rice dot edu	Population dynamics, branching processes, mathematics of DNA

Edward Knightly Professor, Computer Science	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering knightly at rice dot edu	Mobile and wireless networks, high performance protocol design

Hans Kohn Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences Ecology & Evolutionary Biology hmkohn at rice dot edu	Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular evolution and population genetics, medical genetics

Farinaz Koushanfar Assistant Professor, Computer Science	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering Farinaz dot Koushanfar at rice dot edu

David Lane Associate Professor	Social Sciences Psychology lane at rice dot edu	Human-computer interaction, educational technology and training, statistics, cognitive development

Victoria Langlais	Other Victoria dot Langlais at rice dot edu

Adrian Lenardic Professor	Natural Sciences Earth Science ajns at rice dot edu	Geodynamics, mantle processes

Alan Levander Carey Croneis Professor of Geology and Geophysics	Natural Sciences Earth Science alan at rice dot edu	Lithospheric seismology and wave propagation

Caroline Levander Professor; Carlson Professor, School of Humanities; Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives	Humanities English clevande at rice dot edu

Wei Li Assistant Professor	Physics and Astronomy wl33 at rice dot edu

Edison Liang Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy liang at rice dot edu	High energy astrophysics, plasma astrophysics, radiation processes, laser plasma interactions, ultra-intense laser applications

Jianpeng Ma Professor	Engineering Bioengineering jpma at rice dot edu

Melissa Marschall Associate Professor	Social Sciences Political Science marschal at rice dot edu

Randi Martin Elma W. Schneider Professor	Social Sciences Psychology rmartin at rice dot edu	Cognitive neuropsychology, psychology of language, working memory, reading

John McDevitt Brown-Wiess Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering	Natural Sciences Chemistry mcdevitt at rice dot edu

James McLurkin Assistant Professor	Engineering Computer Science jmclurkin at rice dot edu

Andrew Meade Professor; Department Chair	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci meade at rice dot edu	Experimental and computational fluid dynamics

John Mellor-Crummey Professor, ECE	Engineering Computer Science johnmc at rice dot edu	High-performance computing, optimizing compilers, performance analysis

Erzsebet Merenyi Research Professor	Engineering Statistics erzsebet at rice dot edu	Neural networks, datamining, applications to spectral imaging

Julia Morgan Professor of Earth Science	Natural Sciences Earth Science morganj at rice dot edu	Structural geology, marine geology, neotectonics, and particle dynamics modeling

Satish Nagarajaiah Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering	Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering nagaraja at rice dot edu	Structural dynamics and control, computational methods

Deepak Nagrath Assistant Professor	Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Deepak dot Nagrath at rice dot edu

Luay Nakhleh Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Cell Biology	Engineering Computer Science nakhleh at rice dot edu	Computational biology and bioinformatics, phylogenetics and biological sequence analysis

Eugene Ng Associate Professor; Assistant Professor, ECE	Engineering Computer Science eugeneng at rice dot edu	Networking and distributed systems, peer-to-peer networking, network resource management, multimedia networking

Fenglin Niu Associate Professor	Natural Sciences Earth Science niu at rice dot edu	Global seismology, seismic structure of earth's deep interior

Peter Nordlander Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy nordland at rice dot edu	Condensed matter theory, electronic properties of nanoparticles, electron transfer and transport in nanostructures, nano-optics, nanophotonics

Marcia O'Malley Assistant Professor	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci omalleym at rice dot edu	Systems dynamics and control, mechatronics

Jan Odegard Executive Director, K2I	Other Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology odegard at rice dot edu

Jose Onuchic Harry C & Olga K Wiess Professor; Co-Director, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics; Professor, Chemistry	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy Jose dot Onuchic at rice dot edu

Michael Orchard Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering orchard at rice dot edu	Image and video modeling and compression

Jamie Padgett Assistant Professor	Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Jamie dot Padgett at rice dot edu

Paul Padley Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy padley at rice dot edu	Experimental elementary particle physics

Krishna Palem Ken & Audrey Kennedy Professor	Engineering Computer Science palem at rice dot edu

Matteo Pasquali Professor, Chemistry; Master, Lovett College	Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering mp at rice dot edu	Microstructured liquids, free surface flows, rheology of carbon nanotubes, wet nanotechnology

Dr. George Neal Phillips Jr. Professor, Biochemistry/Cell Biology & Chemistry	Biochemistry & Cell Biology georgep at rice dot edu

Han Pu Associate Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy hpu at rice dot edu

Nicholas Putnam Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences Ecology & Evolutionary Biology nputnam at rice dot edu

Amina Qutub Assistant Professor	Engineering Bioengineering Amina dot A dot Qutub at rice dot edu

Robert Raphael Associate Professor	Engineering Bioengineering rraphael at rice dot edu	Electromechanical properties of biological membranes

Beatrice Riviere Associate Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics riviere at rice dot edu

Scott Rixner Associate Professor; Associate Professor, ECE	Engineering Computer Science rixner at rice dot edu	Processor architecture design for multimedia, networking and communications

Jacob T. Robinson Assistant Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering Jacob dot T dot Robinson at rice dot edu

Javier Rojo Professor	Engineering Statistics jrojo at rice dot edu	Nonparametric function estimation, stochastic orders

Ashutosh Sabharwal Assistant Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering ashu at rice dot edu	Wireless networks, information theory, statistical signal processing

Paula Sanders Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Professor, History	Humanities Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies sanders at rice dot edu

Vivek Sarkar Professor & E. D. Butcher Chair in Engineering	Engineering Computer Science Vivek dot Sarkar at rice dot edu

Dale Sawyer Professor; Master, Sid Richardson College	Natural Sciences Earth Science dale at rice dot edu	Geodynamics, seismology

Stanislav Sazykin Senior Faculty Fellow	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy sazykin at rice dot edu

Stephan M Schwanauer Adjunct Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering Stephan dot M dot Schwanauer at rice dot edu

David Scott Noah Harding Professor	Engineering Statistics scottdw at rice dot edu	Density estimation, data visualization, data mining

Gustavo Scuseria Robert A. Welch Professor	Natural Sciences Chemistry guscus at rice dot edu	Theoretical chemistry, ab initio computational quantum chemistry, density functional theory, development of new methods for molecular electronic structure, and applications to nanostructures

Rouzbeh Shahsavari Assistant Professor	Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Rouzbeh dot Shahsavari at rice dot edu

Yousif Shamoo Associate Professor	Natural Sciences Biochemistry & Cell Biology shamoo at rice dot edu	sequence-specific RNA recognition, DNA replication and molecular evolution of microbial populations

Janet Siefert Senior Faculty Fellow	Engineering Statistics siefert at rice dot edu	Systems evolution: phylogenetics, microbial ecosystem modeling

Bart Sinclair Associate Dean	Engineering Brown School of Engineering bs at rice dot edu

Christopher Michael Smith Associate Vice Provost for Research	Ctr Theoretical Biological Physics cs43 at rice dot edu

Danny Sorensen Noah Harding Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics sorensen at rice dot edu	Numerical linear algebra, eigenvalue problems, parallel computing

Pol Spanos Lewis B. Ryon Professor in Mechanical Engineering	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci spanos at rice dot edu	Vibration and dynamics in aerospace, earthquake, offshore, and vehicle engineering

Ilinca Stanciulescu Assistant Professor	Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering ilinca at rice dot edu

Richard Stoll Professor	Social Sciences Political Science stoll at rice dot edu	International relations, international conflict, U.S. national security policy, computer simulation

Devika Subramanian Professor	Engineering Computer Science devika at rice dot edu	Artificial intelligece

William Symes Noah Harding Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics symes at rice dot edu	Partial differential equations, wave propagation

Jeffrey Tabor Assistant Professor	Engineering Bioengineering Jeffrey dot Tabor at rice dot edu

Yizhi Jane Tao Associate Professor	Natural Sciences Biochemistry & Cell Biology ytao at rice dot edu

Richard Tapia University Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics rtapia at rice dot edu	Numerical analysis of computer algorithms for optimization theory

Tayfun Tezduyar James F. Barbour Professor in Mechanical Engineering	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci tezduyar at rice dot edu	Advanced flow simulation and modeling, computational mechanics, finite elements

James Thompson Noah Harding Professor	Engineering Statistics thomp at rice dot edu	Market models, simulation, quality control, biometry

Frank Toffoletto Professor	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy toffo at rice dot edu	Magnetospheric physics, numerical simulations

James Tour T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor	Natural Sciences Chemistry tour at rice dot edu	Molecular electronics, chemical self-assembly, conjugated oligomers, electroactive polymers, combinatorial routes to precise oligomers, polymeric sensors, flame retarding polymer additives, carbon nanotube modification and composite formation

Marina Vannucci Professor	Engineering Statistics marina at rice dot edu

Moshe Vardi Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering	Engineering Computer Science vardi at rice dot edu	Database and multi-agent systems, computational complexity theory, and design specification and verification

Peter Varman Professor; Professor, Computer Science	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering pjv at rice dot edu	I/O systems, parallel algorithms and architecture, databases

Ashok Veeraraghavan Assistant Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering vashok at rice dot edu

Dan Wallach Associate Professor	Engineering Computer Science dwallach at rice dot edu	Computer systems and language security

Timothy Warburton Associate Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics timwar at rice dot edu	Numerical methods for partial differential equations

Joe Warren Professor	Engineering Computer Science jwarren at Rice dot edu	Computer graphics, computational geometry protocols

Hadley Wickham Assistant Professor	Engineering Statistics haldey at rice dot edu

Peter Wolynes D.R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Chemistry; Professor, Physics & Astronomy	Natural Sciences Chemistry pwolynes at rice dot edu

Qianfan Xu Assistant Professor	Elec & Comp Engineering qianfan at rice dot edu

Boris Yakobson Professor	Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci biy at rice dot edu	Theory of materials and nanoscale structures

Pablo Yepes Sr. Faculty Fellow	Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy yepes at rice dot edu	Particle physics, nuclear physics, computing applications

Wotao Yin Assistant Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics Wotao dot Yin at rice dot edu

Colin Zelt Professor	Natural Sciences Earth Science czelt at rice dot edu	Development and application of seismic modeling and inversion techniques in tectonic, exploration and environmental studies of the lithosphere, sedimentary basins, and shallow targets

Yin Zhang Professor	Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics yzhang at rice dot edu	Computational optimization

Lin Zhong Assistant Professor	Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering lzhong at rice dot edu	Mobile & embedded system design, design automation of digital systems

Weiei Zhong Assistant Professor	Natural Sciences Biochemistry & Cell Biology Weiwei dot Zhong at rice dot edu

Kyriacos Zygourakis A.J. Hartsook Professor	Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering kyzy at rice dot edu	Reaction engineering, bioengineering

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