FACULTY

Control and sensing for nonlinear and coordinated autonomous systems.

International space security, policy and law.

Autonomous control systems and algorithms.

Human-centered data science, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, data-intensive collaboration.

Hydrology/Glaciology of alpine systems; satellite and airborne remote sensing; open source geospatial software; cloud technologies.

Accelerating positive forms of leadership; gamification, global business, leadership, organizational behavior, organization transformation.

Dimensionality reduction, sparse sensing, machine learning for the data-driven discovery and control of complex dynamical systems.

Theory & analysis of planetary atmospheres and surfaces in the solar system and on exoplanets to understand their origin and evolution; Astrobiology.

Technology law and public policy, land use policy.

Microbial populations within pioneer plant species able to colonize newly formed land such as bare rocks and sand. Plant-microbe partnerships for reduced phytotoxicity of metals and pollutants.

Structure processing and property relationships of advanced materials, degradation of materials.

Telerobotics: remote control of manipulators with and without time delay; telerobotic surgery, functional electrical stimulation, neural system control and haptic rendering.

Space propulsion, supersonic/hypersonic flow, cryogenic propellants, heat transfer, film condensation under reduced gravity conditions.

Computer security and privacy.

Electric propulsion, plasma diagnostics, small satellites, space systems, plasma physics.

Remote sensing and geospatial analysis to understand ecosystem services and function, bioenergy/biomass, forest health and inventories, spatiotemporal assessments and habitat mapping.

Electric propulsion,      experimental research, and environment focused, tech-startup.

Comet and asteroid origins and dynamics; Planetary orbital dynamics.

High-speed, low-power integrated circuits and embedded system.

Mechanics of solids and fracture mechanics; Advanced computational and analytical approaches and novel experimental techniques for understanding and improving the mechanical behavior of materials and structures.

Isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry.

Information systems analysis and design, software sustainability, data curation.

Supersonic retropropulsion; High-speed aerodynamics.