As part of the strategic planning process completed in 2011, the Engineering School undertook a critical evaluation of its current research strengths.

Four societal challenges capture much of the research strength within SEAS in 2011:

• Creating a sustainable future — There is a need to better manage our natural resources while providing sufficient energy for improved life.
• Engineering improved health — Technology and quantitative understanding of living systems can be used to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to improve the human condition.
• Advancing the cyber and physical infrastructure — Although the current cyber and physical infrastructure allows society to function in ways that would have been unknown in the not-too-distant past, there are many challenges to reinvigorating and expanding the reach of this field.
• Providing personal and societal security — The need for advances in protecting personal privacy and societal security has become increasingly important as more personal and societal functions rely on technology.

Current Research Strengths

Create a Sustainable Future

Engineer Improved Health

Advance Cyber/Physical Infrastructure

Provide Personal and Societal Security

Biomechanics

Silvia Salinas Blemker ( contact)

Jeff R. Crandall ( contact)
Richard W. Kent ( contact)
Hilary Bart-Smith ( contact)

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Biomolecular Design
Giorgio Carta ( contact)
Erik Fernandez ( contact)
Inchan Kwon ( contact)
Michael Shirts ( contact)

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Catalysis and Surface Reactivity
Robert Davis ( contact)
Matthew Neurock ( contact)

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Corrosion and Electrochemistry

James T. Burns ( contact)

Richard P. Gangloff ( contact)
John Hudson ( contact)
Robert G. Kelly ( contact)
Gary M. Koenig ( contact)

Elizabeth J. Opila ( contact)
John R. Scully ( contact)
Giovanni Zangari ( contact)

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Cryptography
David Evans ( contact)
Abhi Shelat ( contact)
Kevin Sullivan ( contact)
Alfred Weaver ( contact)

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Dependability Research Group
Jack W. Davidson ( contact)
David Evans ( contact)
John C. Knight ( contact)
Westley Weimer ( contact)

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Ethics in Emerging Technologies
Rosalyn Berne ( contact)
Michael Gorman ( contact)
Deborah Johnson ( contact)
Edmund Russell ( contact)

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Graphics
Jason Lawrence ( contact)
Kevin Skadron ( contact)

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Human Computer Interaction
Ellen Bass ( contact)
Gregory Gerling ( contact)
Stephanie Guerlain ( contact)
Stephen Patek ( contact)

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Medical Imaging
Scott Acton ( contact)
Travis Blalock ( contact)
Brian Helmke ( contact)
John Hossack ( contact)
Kimberly Kelly ( contact)
Craig Meyer ( contact)
William Walker ( contact)

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Nanoelectronics
Lloyd Harriott ( contact)
Jiwei Lu ( contact)
Mircea Stan ( contact)
Stuart Wolf ( contact)

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Next-Generation Aerospace Science
Harsha Chelliah ( contact)
Christopher Goyne ( contact)
Hossein Haj-Hariri ( contact)
Gabriel Laufer ( contact)
James McDaniel ( contact)

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Optimization and Control
Peter Beling ( contact)
Randy Cogill ( contact)
Alfredo Garcia ( contact)
Barry Horowitz ( contact)
Stephen Patek ( contact)

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Pervasive Computing
Sang Son ( contact)
John Stankovic ( contact)
Gang Tao ( contact)
Kamin Whitehouse ( contact)

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Risk Management of Engineering
Kenneth Crowther ( contact)
Yacov Haimes ( contact)
James Lambert ( contact)

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Scalable, Efficient and Reliable Circuits, Architectures and Systems
Benton Calhoun ( contact)
Sudhanva Gurumurthi ( contact)
Kim Hazelwood ( contact)
John Lach ( John Lach)
Kevin Skadron ( contact)
Mircea Stan ( contact)

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Software Engineering Programming Languages and Compilers
Jack W. Davidson ( contact)
David Evans ( contact)
John C. Knight ( contact)
William Soffa ( contact)
Kevin Sullivan ( contact)
Westley Weimer ( contact)

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Sustainable Infrastructure Systems
Andres Clarens ( contact)
Lisa Colosi ( contact)
Teresa Culver ( contact)
Joanna Curran ( contact)
Wu-Seng Lung ( contact)
Brian Smith ( contact)

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Space Science
Raul Baragiola ( contact)
Robert E. Johnson ( contact)

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Systems Biology and Cell Signaling
Brett Blackman ( contact)
Edward Botchwey ( contact)
Kevin Janes ( contact)
Kimberly Kelly ( contact)
Jason Papin ( contact)
Shayn Peirce ( contact)
Jeff Saucerman ( contact)

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Terahertz Science and Engineering
N. Scott Barker ( contact)
Boris Gelmont ( contact)
Tatiana Globus ( contact)
Arthur Lichtenberger ( contact)
Bobby Weikle ( contact)

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Transportation Studies
Steven Chase ( contact)
Michael Demetsky ( contact)
Brian Park ( contact)
William Scherer ( contact)

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Wireless Health
Benton Calhoun ( contact)
John Lach ( contact)
Stephen Patek ( contact)
John Stankovic ( contact)

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