Research Directory

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Bioengineering & Health

Faculty		Research Area
	Brangwynne, Clifford Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering A313 Engineering Quad 609-258-4528 cbrangwy@princeton.edu	Patterning in Developing Embryos; Physical Properties and Function of RNA/Protein Bodies; Architecture and Dynamics of the Cytoskeleton

	Brynildsen, Mark Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering A423 Engineering Quad 609-258-1995 mbrynild@princeton.edu	Host-pathogen Interactions; Bacterial Persistence; Biofilms

	Chou, Stephen Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering B412 Engineering Quad 609-258-4416 chou@princeton.edu	Nanotechnology and nanoscale electronics; optoelectronic; magnetic devices, such as nanoimprint, self-assembly, reactive ion etching, single electron transistors, subwavelength optical elements, patterning of nanoscale organic light emitters and transistors, growth of semiconductors and polymers on nanopatterned substrates, quantized magnetic disks, and giant magnetoresistance

	Debenedetti, Pablo Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Vice Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science A419 Engineering Quad 609-258-5480 pdebene@princeton.edu	Protein storage and preservation; bioavailability of therapeutic compounds; self-cleaning surfaces; carbon capture and storage; ice formation in the atmosphere; liquid-state theory; theory of the glass transition; theory of nucleation; protein thermodynamics; molecular simulation

	Fan, Jianqing Frederick L. Moore, Class of 1918, Professor in Finance; Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering; Director, Committee for Statistical Studies 205 ORFE 609-258-7924 jqfan@princeton.edu	Statistics; biostatistics and bioinformatics; quantitative finance; machine learning; risk modeling and analysis; portfolio management; asset pricing; time series analysis, longitudinal data analysis; survival analysis

	Floudas, Christodoulos Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering A325 Engineering Quad 609-258-4595 floudas@princeton.edu	Process synthesis, design and operations; mixed-integer nonlinear optimization; global optimization; computational biology and chemistry; proteomics

	Gmachl, Claire Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director of MIRTHE (NSF-ERC) B326 Engineering Quad 609-258-7489 cgmachl@princeton.edu	High performance quantum cascade lasers; innovative quantum cascade laser design; mid-infrared photonics; mid-infrared sensing applications in environment, health, and security; novel semiconductor devices; semiconductor metamaterials.

	Haataja, Mikko Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering D404C Engineering Quad 609-258-9126 mhaataja@princeton.edu	Theoretical and computational materials science; physics of materials; physical biology; microstructure formation

	Holmes, Philip Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering D-202B Engineering Quad 609-258-2958 pholmes@math.princeton.edu	Nonlinear dynamics and differential equations; mathematical modeling of solid, fluid, and biological systems; neuromechanics of legged locomotion and swimming; cognitive control and decision making

	Li, Kai Paul M. and Marcia R. Wythes Professor of Computer Science 321 Computer Science Building 609-258-4637 li@cs.princeton.edu	Computer architecture; operating systems; parallel systems; networking

	Link, A. James Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering A207 Engineering Quad 609-258-7191 ajlink@princeton.edu	Protein engineering and expression; bio-organic chemistry; directed evolution; bacterial flow cytometry

	McAlpine, Michael Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering D414 Engineering Quad 609-258-8613 mcm@princeton.edu	Portable energy harvesting; early disease detection; nanoscience and nanotechnology; flexible electronics; hybrid nano-bio sensors; inorganic assembly on plastics; nanoscale materials design; bioassemblies

	Nelson, Celeste Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering A321 Engineering Quad 609-258-8851 celesten@princeton.edu	Mammalian tissue morphogenesis/morphodynamics; microfabrication/bioMEMS for tissue engineering; cell adhesion and mechanics

	Prud'homme, Robert Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Director, Program in Engineering Biology A301 Engineering Quad 609-258-4577 prudhomm@princeton.edu	Flow in porous media; micro and nanofluidic phenomena; rheology; colloidal dispersions; polymer engineering

	Ramadge, Peter Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering. Professor of Electrical Engineering B212 Engineering Quad 609-258-4645 ramadge@princeton.edu	Video and image processing; adaptive systems; adaptive signal processing; adaptive control; discrete-event systems, optimization of queueing systems; video analysis, annotation and search

	Register, Richard Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Chair, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering A217 Engineering Quad 609-258-4691 register@princeton.edu	Materials design: creation of new materials for specific function; polymer chemistry, physics, and engineering; nanoscience and nanotechnology, including "bottom up" nanopatterning technologies; block copolymers, polymer blends and composites, semicrystalline polymers, and ionomers

	Rowley, Clarence Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering D232 Engineering Quad 609-258-7321 cwrowley@princeton.edu	Fluid flows from a dynamical systems point of view; modeling and model reduction for bifurcation analysis and control; numerical methods, both for fluids simulations, and analysis of dynamical systems; applications of geometric methods in fluid mechanics

	Russel, William Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering; Dean of the Graduate School A225 Engineering Quad 609-258-4590 wbrussel@princeton.edu	Nanoscience and nanotechnology; colloidal dispersions: gelation, crystallization, rheology modifiers, architectural, paper, and tape coatings, film formation and cracking, fillers for polymer melts; thin polymer films: instabilities, micron and submicron patterning, effects of electric or stress fields, coarsening, cracking

	Scherer, George William L. Knapp '47 Professor of Civil Engineering; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials E319 Engineering Quad 609-258-5680 scherer@princeton.edu	Durability of infrastructure; damage to materials by frost and salt; conservation of art and architecture; transport in porous materials; nucleation and growth kinetics; relaxation processes; sol-gel processing

	Sengupta, Kaushik Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. B216 Engineering Quadrangle 609-258-5250 kaushiks@princeton.edu	Integrated microsystems for next generation ultrafast wireless communication, sensing, imaging and low-cost smart biomedical devices for point-of-core applications.

	Shvartsman, Stanislav Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics A421 Engineering Quad 609-258-4694 stas@princeton.edu	Quantitative analysis of pattern formation and morphogenesis in developing tissues; genetics, genomics, and computational studies of signaling pathways; reaction engineering and transport processes

	Singh, Jaswinder Professor of Computer Science 423 Computer Science Building 609-258-5329 jps@cs.princeton.edu	Boundary of applications and computer systems; interdisciplinary research in computer and application sciences; methods for information discovery, extraction, routing and dissemination; use of high-performance computing in biology/medicine and graphics/visualization

	Singh, Mona Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics 420 Computer Science Building 609-258-2087 msingh@princeton.edu	Computational biology and bioinformatics; computational science

	Smits, Alexander Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering D218 Engineering Quad 609-258-5117 asmits@princeton.edu	Turbulence; fluid mechanics; behavior of turbulent boundary layers at subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic speeds; response of boundary layers to extra strain rates and other strong perturbations; Mach and Reynolds number effects on turbulence; shockwave/turbulent boundary layer interactions; flow control; Taylor-Couette flows; fluid-structure interaction; sports ball aerodynamics and the development of new and improved measurement techniques

	Soboyejo, Winston Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials D404B Engineering Quad 609-258-5609 soboyejo@princeton.edu	Biomaterials and nanoparticles for disease detection and treatment; MEMS and BioMEMS; fatigue and fracture of materials; alternative energy systems; affordable infrastructure

	Stengel, Robert Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Director, Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems D202C Engineering Quad 609-258-5103 stengel@princeton.edu	Systems biology, including optimization of disease therapy and analysis of genetic data; robust, optimal, and adaptive control of physical systems; stochastic design methods; computational neural networks; aircraft flight dynamics

	Sturm, James William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials 320 Bowen Hall 609-258-5610 sturm@princeton.edu	Physics and technology of semiconductor devices for both microelectronics and large-area electronics; silicon-based heterostructures and three-dimensional integration; organic semiconductors; flat panel and flexible displays

	Suckewer, Szymon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.; Co-Director, Program in Plasma Science and Technology D426 Engineering Quad 609-258-4738 suckewer@princeton.edu	X-ray lasers; powerful picosecond and femtosecond lasers; laser interactions with matter, the application of lasers to gas and plasma diagnostics, spectroscopy, and atomic processes in plasmas and gases; ignition system for internal combustion engines to improve the engine performance and decrease its negative effects on the environment; application of lasers for research in biomaterials and medical devices

	Troyanskaya, Olga Assistant Professor of Computer Science and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics 320 Computer Science Building 609-258-1749 ogt@princeton.edu	Genomic data integration; microarray analysis; gene and protein function prediction; detection and analysis of chromosomal abnormalities; evaluation and validation of computational predictions; algorithms for integration of data from multiple data sources; visualization of biological data; machine learning methods in bioinformatics

	Verma, Naveen Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. B226 Engineering Quad 609-258-1424 nverma@princeton.edu	Analog and digital integrated circuits with an emphasis on developing system platforms for emerging applications, especially where considerable computation and instrumentation is required but energy is severely constrained. Important examples include implantable and wearable biomedical systems and remote sensing and processing network nodes.

	Wagner, Sigurd Professor of Electrical Engineering B422 Engineering Quad 609-258-4631 wagner@princeton.edu	Devices, processes, and materials for large-area electronics, which is also called macroelectronics or giant electronics; flat panel displays, rigid, flexible or foldable electronics shaped to cover irregular surfaces, electronic skin and e-textiles; environmental aspects of electrical engineering