Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
The Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics is unique, with vibrant academic programs and cutting-edge research spanning from applied physics, to applied mathematics, to materials science and engineering, and to medical physics. These efforts highlight our Department, as do the many interconnections between them. Modeling ways to predict weather. Decoding the mathematics of cancer. Testing sophisticated solutions for developing nanoscale devices. Pioneering fusion energy. Those are just some of the extraordinary advances made in our Department.
- Neutron Diffraction study of nano-ceria for fast ionic conduction for better solid state fuel-battery
- Nano-oxide synthesis for Emerging Engineering Applications
- Protecting Coastal Infrastructure in a Changing Climate by Integrating Optimization Modeling and Stakeholder Observations - 1
- Protecting Coastal Infrastructure in a Changing Climate by Integrating Optimization Modeling and Stakeholder Observations - 2
- Investigating Nonlinear Wave Coupling
- Investigating Nonlinear Wave Coupling
- Insulation In Driven Crystals
- Earth Mover's Distance and Kernel Statistics
- Grain Growth in Metallic Films: Analysis of Ex situ and In Situ Experimental Results
- Local atomic structure of nanomaterials from advanced x-ray neutron and electron diffraction data
- Local atomic structure of nanomaterials from advanced x-ray neutron and electron diffraction data
- Stress in nano-scale
- Heat Capacity of nano-crystals
- Chan Research Group
- Accelerating the Calculation of Risk of Coastal Flooding due to Hurricanes
Biomedical Engineering
In the Department of Biomedical Engineering, we make significant contributions in science and medicine that include new medical devices, biomaterials, clinical methods, and insight into how living organisms function. Our faculty are known for both their contributions to science and their shared passion for teaching and inspiring students to explore new ways to treat disease and keep people healthy.
- Spatial Memory in Augmented Reality
- Tissue Engineering of the Synovium
- In vitro microphysiological system for modeling Marfan Syndrome
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Point-of-care molecular diagnostics
- Wireless implantable devices
- Smartphone-assisted blood tests
- Point-of-care blood tests
- Shoulder Biomechanics
- Engineering novel bacteria circuitry
- Non-linear mechanical properties of brain
- In vitro model of traumatic brain injury
- Developing an iPSCs model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy using CRISPRi
- Generating a stem cell model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy using CRISPRi
- Undergraduate Researcher
- CRISPR/Cas9-mediated PARP1 disruption to sensitize BRCA1 mutated breast cancer cells in response to chemotherapy
- Articular cartilage delamination wear and a novel treatment strategy to delay osteoarthritis progression
- Adhesive solutions for rotator cuff repair
- High-speed 3D microscopy: applications and image analysis
- Building and replicating microscope systems
- Modeling of blood flow changes from 3D data
- Classification of Multiple Sclerosis disease state and biomarker identification from brain metabolite concentrations acquired from 1H-MRS at 7T
- Shoulder Biomechanics - 2
- Wireless control of implantable microdevices
- Engineering matrix for guiding stem cell differentiation
- Guiding Stem Cell Differentiation
- Single molecule studies of biomolecular adsorption processes
- Brain-state dependent population neural coding
- Orthopedic Research Position in Shoulder Biomechanics
- Open-Source Sharing of High-Speed Brain Imaging System
- Point-of-Care Molecular Diagnostics
- Smartphone-Assisted Blood Tests
- Point-of-Care Blood Tests
- Wireless Implantable Device
- Engineering Macroscopic Pattern Formation in Bacteria
- Primary cilia regulation of intercellular cytoskeletal dynamics
- T cell expansion
- Engineering Bacterial Pattern Formation
- Targeting protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activity to mitigate electrophysiological deficits due to blast-induced traumatic brain injury
- Concussion Analysis
- Characterizing the mechanism of T cell exhaustion in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Effects of network disruption within the hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons due to blast induced traumatic brain injury
- Quantification of mechanical strain from time lapse experiments in the developing chick endoderm
- Modeling of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Using CRISPR Interference
- Polarized Noble Gas Imaging
- Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering
- Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering for Women's Health Challenges
- Investigating the Mechanobiology of Organ Formation in the Developing Embryo
- Targeted de-epithelialization as a novel therapeutic strategy for lung repair in ARDS.
- Brain Computer Interfaces developed for Virtual Reality
- Deep Learning for Cell Segmentation in Multiplexed Tissue Imaging
- Degeneration and Regeneration of the Intervertebral Disc
- The role of cell contractility in looping morphogenesis of the small intestine
- Lab Research in the Hung Lab
- Representation of directions in the human brain
- Unsupervised Machine Learning to discover new COPD subtypes
- Neurotrauma and Repair Laboratory
- Mobile App for Disease Tracking
- Wearable Device For Health Monitoring
- Drug release hydrogels to improve wound healing
- Microfluidic device for improving cancer immunotherapy
- Simulation and characterization of neural stimulation
- Exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying host-pathogen interactions of Malaria parasites using cryoelectron microscopy (cryoEM)
- Cellular biomechanical phenotyping of degenerate human disc cells
- Engineering bacteria for cancer therapy
- Molecular-scale breaking due to repeated loading in molecular shuttles
- Collagen wrap for ACL repair and prevention of Post-traumatic OA
- Signal and Image Processing for Focused-Ultrasound Experiments
- Novel Biomaterial design and testing
- Single-cell chemical transcriptomics
- Traumatic Brain Injury in Automobile Accidents – Determining Mechanical and Chemical Properties of Brain
- Effects of repetitive mild blast-induced traumatic brain injury on hippocampal networks
- Summer Internship: Mechanics of Morphogenesis
- Mobile app for disease tracking
- Drug release hydrogels to improve wound healing
- Neural mechanisms underlying perceptual decision making
- Neural stimulation to modulate cognitive functions
Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering is a highly interdisciplinary field concerned with materials and processes at the heart of a broad range of technologies. Practicing chemical engineers are the experts in charge of the development and production of diverse products in traditional chemical industries as well as many emerging new technologies. The chemical engineer guides the passage of the product from the laboratory to the marketplace, from ideas and prototypes to functioning articles and processes, from theory to reality. This requires a remarkable depth and breadth of understanding of physical and chemical aspects of materials and their production.
- Development and Characterization of Battery Materials
- Hydrogen Battery
- High speed video analysis of membraneless electrolyzers
- Spectroelectrochemical Investigation of Low-dimensional van der Waals Electrocatalysts
- Membrane Coated Electrocatalysts
- Numerical Modeling of Air Pollution Episodes in New Delhi, India
- Development of Therapeutic Protein Delivery Vehicles
- Development of Innovative CO2 Capture Materials and Their Fluidization Behaviors
- Mechanism of neurotransmitter release in the brain
- MRI of Multiphase Granular Flows
- Designing Nanoparticle Based Polymer Membranes
- Structure-Performance Relationships in Aqueous Na Ion Batteries
- Design and Control of Batteries for Grid Applications
- Chemical Biology Tools for Protein Structure by Solid State NMR
- Responsive delivery of therapeutic proteins
- Cement from Seawater
- High speed video analysis of membraneless electrolyzers
- Membrane Coated Electrocatalysts
- Photoelectrochemical cells
- Selective Coacervation of Proteins in Complex Mixtures
- Undergraduate Researcher
- Battery Design & Analysis
- Methods for the intracellular delivery of gene editing tools
- Engineering synthetic organelles using protein phase separation
- Development of bio-orthogonal synthetic organelles via engineered protein phase separation
- Future-proof strategies in preventing SARS-CoV-2 virus entry
- Multiphase Granular Flows
- Zippering Motion in Gas Jets in Liquid
- High speed video analysis of membraneless electrolyzers
- Membrane Coated Electrocatalysts
- In situ imaging of photocatalysts
- 3D printed membraneless electrolyzers for CO2 conversion
- Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
- Structure and dynamics in lead halide perovskites
- Data Science to Close the Air Pollution Data Gap
- Using stem cells to build quantitative platforms for studying human implantation and early pregnancy failure
- Battery Design and Analysis
- Predicting battery recycling processes
- Machine-learning thermodynamics
- Membraneless electrolyzers for renewable fuels and chemicals
- Membrane Coated Electrocatalysts
- Synthesis and characterization of encapsulated (photo)electrocatalyst materials
- Technoeconomic analysis of electrolysis technologies
- Engineering protein interactions with (bio)polymers
- Bubble Dynamics in Complex Fluid
- Structured Bubbling in Fluidized Beds
- Quantitative stem cell-based platforms for studying basic principles of human organ development
- Oxide-Encapsulated Electrodes for Electrochemical Energy Conversion
- Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab
- Research opportunities in the O’Shaughnessy group
- Quantitative platforms for making lab-grown mini organs
- Protein Engineering for Biomolecular Recognition
Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The Department emphasizes a collaborative, hands-on approach to education, combining research and real-world application in a multidisciplinary program of study. Our goal is to educate and inspire students to become problem solvers and leaders in engineering, technology, computer science, and related disciplines.
- Production of CO2 negative concrete from seawater-derived raw materials
- Development of Novel 3D Concrete Print Head Prototype for Autonomous Structures Printing
- Image Processing Based Vehicle Driving Behavior Calibration
- Suspension Bridge Resiliency Research in the Carleton Laboratory for BS Students
- Tailoring the rheology of 3-D printed concretes
- Sustainable construction materials with integrated upcycling of waste materials and carbon sequestration
- Mechanical characterization of 3D printed concrete
- Waymo & Lyft Driverless Car Data Analysis and Driving Modeling
- An Urban Tree Database for High-Fidelity Airflow Simulations
- Development of a Feature-Extraction Tool for Turbulence in Hurricanes
- Tailoring the rheology of 3-D printed concretes
- Modeling thawing settlement of soil under changing climate
- Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems
Computer Science
Computer science is now integral to almost every field of study, from engineering and the natural and social sciences, to economics and business, and increasingly to the heavily text-based fields of literature and history. The trend is irreversible, driven by more powerful computers, larger data sets, the conversion of text and imagery into data, and better, more optimized algorithms. The Department of Computer Science is dedicated to making computer science accessible to the wider student population.
- FastBall
- CURVE (Collaborative URban Visualization Environment)
- Adaptive Information Extraction from Social Media for Actionable Inferences in Public Health
- Analyzing COVID-19 data using the Synthetic Control methodology
- Privacy for the Internet of Things| Speech intelligibility for First Responders | COVID-19 on the internet: traffic and stay-at-home orders
- Active scene understanding
- COVID-19 Symptom Tracking App on Android
- Adaptive Information Extraction from Social Media for Actionable Inferences in Public Health
- Predicting cell-type specific RNA splicing from gene sequence using deep learning
- Audio Navigation Systems for People Who Are Blind
- Mult-Arms Motion Planning
- Multi-agent collaborative learning
- Grounding Language in Vision and Interaction
- Columbia Computer Vision Lab
- Machine learning and understanding of video, language, and multimodal content
- Unravelling the genetic basis of neurological disorders with machine learning
- SenSQL: A global Internet of Things system
- Blind-accessible
- Self-supervised Representation Learning
- Scaling up the Internet of Things
- Investigating growth dynamics in the human microbiome
- Action-specific dissecting of basal ganglia: from the classical model to diverse action-specific subcircuits
- Internet of Things - programming, privacy and permissions
Earth and Environmental Engineering
The Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering (EEE) is a small, diverse, and outwardly facing team actively researching and developing solutions to these complex and multidisciplinary problems. EEE reconciles a deep concern for the environment with the needs of a global industrialized society. Through conscientious stewardship of our finite natural resources: minerals, energy, water, air and land, EEE pioneers crucial new environmental initiatives.
- Carbon dioxide capture and conversion to fuel
- CO2 capture and catalytic conversion
- Catalysis using Niobium oxide as a promoter
- Chemically enhanced weathering of silicate minerals and industrial wastes for carbon capture and storage
- Niobouim oxide as a promoter for catalytic pollution abatement
- Carbon dioxide capture and the conversion to fuel
- Sustainable Nutrient Recycling: Development of Decentralized Technologies for High-Yield Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery from Source-Separated Urine
- Novel technologies for sustainable water production
- Sustainable Nutrient Recycling: Development of Decentralized Technologies for High-Yield Nitrogen and Phosphorus Recovery from Source-Separated Urine - 2
- Machine learning applications to satellite based surveillance of tailing dams and pollution sources for early warning of risks
- Encapsulation of CO2 capture materials
- Catalytic oxidation of hydrocarbons for pollution abatement
- Temperature Swing Solvent Extraction for High-Salinity Desalination
- Isothermal Membrane Distillation for Ammonia Recovery from Source-Separated Urine
- Gaussian Processes to emulate climate models
- Battery Design & Analysis
- Dual Function Materials (DFM) for CO2 mitigation
- Catalytic dry reforming of green hous gases
- Dual Functional Materials for CO2 capture and conversion
- Data-driven analysis
- Electric Bus Energy Analysis in New York City
- Resource Recovery of N and P Nutrients from Diverted Urine
- Gaussian Processes to emulate climate models
- Electric bus charging analysis in New York City
- Survey of battery technologies
- Battery lifetime valuation framework design
- Dual functional Materials for CO2 capture and catalytic conversion
- Novel, cleaner processes for extraction of Critical Metals and/or Removal of Hazardous Elements from Industrial Wastes
- Electricity market analysis using implicit learning models
- Characterization of the temperature dependence of hydro-philicity/phobicity of thermoresponsive solvents for hypersaline desalination
Electrical Engineering
The Electrical Engineering department is among the oldest in the United States and has a storied history including being at the foundation of modern radio communications, control engineering, and multimedia coding. And, every day we are hard at work pushing new frontiers in Electrical Engineering with innovative teaching and state-of- the-art research.
- Hybrid Computing
- Impact of Radiofrequency Ablation Geometry on Electrical Conduction
- Audio Separation Using Deep Neural Networks
- Interfacing Hybrid Computer with Digital Computer
- Silicon Photonic SDN Controller
- Integrated Nanophotonic Circuits for Optical Modulators and Switches
- Full-Duplex Wireless
- EE MS Research Positions in Lightwave Research Laboratory
- Network VR
- Exploring the Electronic Properties of Two Dimensional Materials
- Optical Coherence Tomography Image Processing
- Interface circuits for piezoelectric devices
- Subjective speech perception using EEG
- EEG responses to speech
- Open Source Ultrasound
- Reconfigurable network topology design using algorithmic relaxation
- Crosslayer Design and Modeling of Silicon Photonic Interconnects
- AIM Testing
- Speech separation with deep neural networks
- Software Defined Radio for Full Duplex Wireless
- Deep Learning for Measuring Peripheral Edema
- Smart Traffic Intersections - AI applications
- Probing Neurons with Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy
- Controlled-Atmospheric Probing of 2D Materials
- Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Technologies for contacting electric fish
- Optical Imaging of the Heart
- COSMOS Smart Intersections, Cloud-Connected Vehicles - Applications of Deep Learning
- Peripheral Edema Phenotyping Using Artificial Intelligence
- Summer 2020 Research Positions in the Bioelectronic Systems Laboratory
- Research Positions in Lightwave Research Laboratory
- High Quality Video Streaming over Wireless
- Hall-effect measurement
- The Internet under widespread shelter-in-place: Resilience, response, and lessons for the future
- Understanding and optimizing Internet video delivery with self-driving networks
- Edge/cloud Video Analytics
- mmWave Wireless Channel Measurements in the COSMOS testbed
- Streaming video analysis and optimization during Work-from-Home period
- Weather Effects on High Frequency Communication Links
- Distributed Control meets Machine Learning
- Photonic Systems
- Biomedical Optics and Image Processing
- Fever Screening
- COSMOS Smart Intersections, Cloud-Connected Vehicles - Applications of Deep Learning
- AI on the EDGE - Deep Learning with Low-Power GPU and IoT Devices
- Using speech and language to identify patients at risk for hospitalizations and emergency department visits in homecare
- Advanced Soil Sensing and Monitoring
- Contact sensor for blood flow monitoring
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
The department is the home to five disciplines: management science and engineering, financial engineering, business analytics, operations research, and industrial engineering. We produce prominent research in areas like logistics, supply chain management, network algorithms, revenue management, and more. Operations Research uses mathematical models to improve decision making in complex environments. Our faculty members are widely recognized for their contributions to the foundations of the discipline and lead cutting-edge research in healthcare operations, financial engineering, supply chain management, and market design.
Mechanical Engineering
The Department of Mechanical Engineering works to advance practical solutions that improve health, safety, and quality of life. Join us as we address the most important needs of society through rich and versatile discovery and scholarship. The department is home to such diverse research activities as biomechanics, mechanics of materials, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, control and robotics, manufacturing, energy systems, MEMS, and nanotechnology. Our faculty members have distinguished themselves internationally through a wide-ranging array of groundbreaking research areas and activities, including: robotics, smart machines, nanomaterials, morphogenesis and tissue development, and sustainable systems.
- Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Graphene
- Training to Walk on Stairs using Robotic Assistance
- Upper Body Support for Wheelchair Users
- Finite Element Models of Pregnancy
- High Temperature Creep Deformation of Ceramic and Metal Nanowires
- urOvol: Medical Device for Fluid Monitoring
- Design and Testing of Hydrogel Gel-Based Affinity Glucose Micro and Nanosensors
- CVD Graphene Growth
- Mechanisms of Force Generation During Tissue Morphogenesis
- Experimental and computational studies of combustion kinetics
- Robotics for Human Movement Augmentation and Training
- Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis
- Femtosecond Laser Corneal Treatment
- Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Research Experience for Undergraduates
- 2D Material Synthesis
- Electromechanical Actuators Using Two-Dimensional (2D) Materials
- Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis
- Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis - 3
- Digital circuit design for robot assembler
- Robot Simulator in CUDA/C++
- Multi Scale Informatics code research
- Data analytics, automation, and multi-scale/multi-physics modeling
- Robotic Manipulation and Mobility Lab
- Biomechanics of Force Generation during Tissue Morphogenesis
- Kasza Research Group
- Undergraduate Researcher
- Computational modeling of heart valves in health and disease
- Femtosecond laser based modification of collagenous tissues