Tarek Abdoun
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Specializes in centrifuge modeling, soil-structure interaction, soil remediation, field advanced sensing, and data visualization
Data VisualizationSoil RemediationCentrifuge ModelingSoil-Structure InteractionField Advanced Sensing
Michael "Miki" Amitay
Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control & James L. Decker ’45 Endowed Chair Professor in Aerospace Engineering
Specializes in developing active flow control techniques with applications in aeronautical and mechanical systems
Active and Passive Flow ControlExperimental AerodynamicsAeronautical SystemsActive Flow Control Techniques3-D Flow Physics
Kristin Bennett
Professor, Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science & Associate Director, Institute for Data Exploration and Application (IDEA)
Extracts information from data using novel predictive or descriptive mathematical models
BioinformaticsData VisualizationMachine LearningData MiningHealth Informatics
Selmer Bringsjord
Director, Rensselaer AI & Reasoning Lab; Professor, Cognitive Science and Computer Science
Expert in logic and philosophy, specializing in AI and reasoning
Artifical IntelligencePhilosophical Foundations of AIComputational EconomicsAI SystemsFormal Logic
Ethan Brown
Associate Professor
Astrophysicist investigating the search for Dark Matter with XENON experiments and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with the nEXO experiment.
Neutrinoless Double Beta DecayParticle AstrophysicsDark MatterXENONnTRadiation Detector Development
Nancy D. Campbell
Professor and Graduate Program Director, Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Focuses on the history of science, technology, and medicine as it relates to drug policy and the social significance of drugs
Opioid CrisisHarm ReductionOpioid OverdoseHistory of Science & MedicineGender & Addiction
Christopher D. Carothers
Director, Center for Computational Innovations (CCI) & Professor, Computer Science
Researches massively parallel computer systems with a focus on modeling and simulation systems
Information and Computer ScienceParallel Discrete-Event SimulationComputer ScienceMassively Parallel SystemsModeling and Simulation Systems
Ben Chang
Director, Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences (GSAS) & Professor, Arts
Explores the intersections of virtual environments and experimental gaming with contemporary media art
Digital GamesImmersive Visualization SystemsExperimental GamingElectronic ArtVirtual Environments
Brian Clark
Assistant Professor, Lally School of Management
Quantitative finance expert with extensive experience in risk management and machine learning in the banking and credit card industries.
Financial RegulationFinancial IntermediationQuantitative FinanceMachine Learning in FinanceRisk Management
Jonathan S. Dordick
Institute Professor, Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Biological Sciences
Applies biological principles to advance bioengineering and biomanufacturing, stem cell engineering, and drug discovery
Drug DiscoveryBiomanufacturingBiochemical EngineeringBiochemistryChemistry
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