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Prith Banerjee
Walter P. Murphy Professor and Department Chairperson Electrical and Computer Engineering banerjee@ece.northwestern.edu http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~banerjee/ Research interests: Parallel algorithms for VLSI computer-aided design applications, parallelizing compilers for distributed-memory multiprocessors, compilers for adaptive computing, power-aware architecture and compilation techniques. |
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Horacio Espinosa
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering espinosa@northwestern.edu http://www.mech.nwu.edu/dept/people/faculty/espinosa.html Research interests: Size scale plasticity and fracture of thin films and MEMS materials; in-situ TEM / SEM / AFM / STM electromechanical testing of thin films and nanowires; failure mechanisms in biomaterials; nanotribology of ultrahard coatings; nanomanipulation and nanolithography. |
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Prem Kumar
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Director, Center for Photonic Communications and Computing kumarp@ece.northwestern.edu http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~kumarp/ Research interests: Novel optical amplifiers and devices for terabits-per-second fiber-optic communications; generation and distribution of quantum entanglement and quantum cryptography over the fiber channel; nonlinear and quantum optics, in particular, applications of novel states of light such as squeezed and twin-beam states. |
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Wing Kam Liu
Professor, Mechanical Engineering w-liu@northwestern.edu http://www.tam.nwu.edu/wkl/liu.html Research interests: Mesh-free finite-element methods; computational fluid dynamics; fluid-structure interactions; material-forming processes; multiple-scale analyses; vulnerability of structures; linear and nonlinear vibrations; structural acoustics, fracture and fatigue; nanomechanics; computational nanotechnology. |
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Roberta Massabo
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering r-massabo@northwestern.edu http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/massabo.html Research interests: Analytic and computational mechanics; fracture mechanics; biomechanics; nonlinear behavior (up to failure) of advanced materials and structures for civil, aeronautical, aerospace, and naval applications; optimal design of engineered advanced materials; reliability of structural components. |
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Phillip Messersmith
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering philm@northwestern.edu http://biomaterials.bme.northwestern.edu/people.asp Research interests: Liposome-based approaches for in-situ formation of biomaterials; self-assembly of phospholipids into nanotubules and nanohelices; design of novel in-situ forming hydrogel biomaterials for use as tissue adhesives and for drug delivery at or via mucosal surfaces. |
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Joseph Moskal
Research professor, Biomedical Engineering Director, Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics j-moskal@northwestern.edu Research interests: Use of molecular biology-based technologies to develop novel diagnostics and therapeutics for treatment of neurological disorders such as brain tumors, cognitive dysfunction, and stroke. |
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Aaron Packman
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering a-packman@northwestern.edu http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/packman.html Research interests: Environmental transport processes: interdisciplinary studies of environmental fluid mechanics, geomorphodynamics, contaminant transport, and microbial processes. Research projects could involve lab and field experiments or modeling and the possibility for students to link research at NU with a term abroad. |
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Manijeh Razeghi
Walter P. Murphy Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering razeghi@ece.northwestern.edu http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/~razeghi/ Research interests: Compound-semiconductor science and technology; theory, epitaxy, characterization, modeling and fabrication of quantum structures and devices operating from the far-infrared to the ultraviolet. |
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Rod Ruoff
Professor, Mechanical Engineering r-ruoff@northwestern.edu http://www.mech.nwu.edu/dept/people/faculty/ruoff.html Research interests: Design, fabrication, testing, and use of nanomanipulation tools for measuring the mechanics / electromechanics of extremely small specimens; solid and fluid mechanics of nanoscale systems; local properties measurements of composites; synthesis of novel nanostructured materials; MEMS / NEMS / nanotechnology. |
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David Seidman
Walter P. Murphy Professor Materials Science and Engineering d-seidman@northwestern.edu http://arc.nucapt.northwestern.edu/David_Seidman Research interests: Microstructure on both atomic and mesoscopic scales; atomic imperfections and diffusion; atom-probe microscopy; field-ion microscopy; scanning- tunneling microscopy; other advanced microscopy techniques. |
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Allen Taflove
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering taflove@ece.northwestern.edu http://www.ece.northwestern.edu/ecefaculty/Allen1.html Research interests: Computational electrodynamics, especially finite-difference time-domain solutions of Maxwell's equations, with applications throughout the electromagnetic spectrum from modeling extremely low-frequency geophysical phenomena to designing photonic devices such as lasers. |
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Bruce Wessels
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering b-wessels@northwestern.edu http://www.matsci.northwestern.edu/faculty/bww.html Research interests: Opto-electronic integrated circuits; compound semiconductors; electro-optic thin films and devices; synthesis and characterization of materials for nanoelectronics and spintronics. |
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