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 John Akin Professor
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci akin@rice.edu 348-4879
| Finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computer-aided design
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 Athanasios Antoulas Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering aca@rice.edu 348-4756
| Large-scale dynamical systems, approximation, computation, linear algebra.
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 Behnam Azhang J.S. Abercrombie Professor; Department Chair
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering aaz@rice.edu 348-4749
| Wireless network and multiuser communication
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 Richard Baraniuk Victor E. Cameron Professor in Engineering
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering richb@rice.edu 348-5132
| Multiscale, computational signal and image processing; open access, collaborative scholarly publication
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 Robert Bixby Noah Harding Prof Emeritus
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics bixby@rice.edu 348-6073
| Theory and practice of optimization
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 Liliana Borcea Noah Harding Professor Computational & Applied Mathematics
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics borcea@rice.edu 348-5723
| Partial differential equations, inverse problems
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 Anthony Brandt Associate Professor of Composition and Theory
| Music Shepherd School of Music abrandt@rice.edu 348-2192
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Robert Bronk Baker Postdoctoral Fellow
| Engineering Baker Institute Robert.C.Bronk@rice.edu 348-
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Eliza Burgund Assistant Professor
| Social Sciences Psychology dburgund@rice.edu 348-3413
| Developmental cognitive neuroscience
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 C. Sidney Burrus Maxfield Oshman Professor Emeritus
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering csb@rice.edu 348-5484
| Digital filter design and signal processing algorithms
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 Michael Byrne Assistant Professor
| Social Sciences Psychology byrne@rice.edu 348-3770
| Computer-human interaction
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 Michael Carroll Burton J. and Ann M. McMurtry Professor of Engineering
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci carroll@rice.edu 348-6142
| Continuum mechanics, geomechanics, porous materials
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 Robert Cartwright Professor
| Engineering Computer Science cork@rice.edu 348-6042
| Programming language design and implementation, program semantics and verification
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 Joseph Cavallaro Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering cavallar@rice.edu 348-4719
| Fault-tolerant computer architecture, VLSI, microlithography
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 Walter Chapman Professor
| Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering wgchap@rice.edu 348-4900
| Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular simulation
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 John Clark Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering jwc@rice.edu 348-3597
| Biological systems modeling, nonlinear dynamic systems analysis
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 Cecilia Clementi Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator Asst Professor
| Natural Sciences Chemistry cecilia@rice.edu 348-3485
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Daniel Cohan Assistant Professor
| Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering cohan@rice.edu 713-348-5129
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 Keith Cooper Professor
| Engineering Computer Science keith@rice.edu 348-6013
| Compiler construction
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 Alan Cox Associate Professor
| Engineering Computer Science alc@rice.edu 348-5730
| Operating systems, computer architecture
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 Dennis Cox Professor
| Engineering Statistics dcox@rice.edu 348-6007
| Computational, spatial, and Bayesian statistics, nonparametric function estimation
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 Steven Cox Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics cox@rice.edu 348-5192
| Optimal control, design of elliptic partial differential equations
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 Scott Cutler Professor in the Practice in Computer Technology
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering cutler@rice.edu 348-2291
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 Michael Deem John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical & Genetic Engineering
| Engineering Bioengineering mwdeem@rice.edu 348-5852
| Immune response to variable or multi-strain viruses and vaccines, computational cancer
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 Rebekah Drezek Professor; Professor, ECE
| Engineering Bioengineering drezek@rice.edu 348-3011
| Biomedical optics and bionanotechnology
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Leonardo Duenas Osorio Assistant Professor
| Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering leonardo.duenas-osorio@rice.edu 713
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Ahmad Durrani Professor Emeritus
| Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering durrani@rice.edu 348-5607
| Seismic analysis and design of concrete structures
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Karl Ecklund Assistant Professor
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy Karl.Ecklund@rice.edu
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 Mark Embree John & Ann Doerr Professor,Center for Engineering Leadership
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics embree@rice.edu 348-6160
| Numerical analysis
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 Katherine Ensor Professor
| Engineering Statistics ensor@rice.edu 348-4687
| Time series, space-time and stochastic processes, financial systems
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 Michael Fagan Research Scientist; Lecturer
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics mfagan@rice.edu 348-5178
| Automatic differentiation, uncertainty quantification, computational biology
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Ariel Fernandez Karl F. Hasselmann Professor
| Engineering Bioengineering arifer@rice.edu
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Giovanni Fossati Assistant Professor
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy gfossati@rice.edu 348-3425
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 John Freeman Professor Emeritus
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy jwf@rice.edu 348-5212
| Magnetospheric physics, solar-terrestrial relations, and space weather
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Frank Geurts Professor
| Physics and Astronomy geurts@rice.edu 348-4481
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 Fathi Ghorbel Professor
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci ghorbel@rice.edu 348-3738
| Dynamic systems and control, robotics, biomedical systems
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 Raymon Glantz Professor Emeritus
| Natural Sciences Biochemistry & Cell Biology rmg@rice.edu 348-3756
| Neurophysiology, computational biology, sensory information processing, neural networks.
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 Ronald Goldman Professor
| Engineering Computer Science rng@rice.edu 348-5729
| Computer graphics, geometric modeling
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 G Gorry Friedkin Professor of Management
| Jones School Jones Graduate School of Management tony@rice.edu 348-6054
| Information technology and society
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 Kathryn Grande-Allen Associate Professor
| Engineering Bioengineering grande@rice.edu 348-3704
| Investigation of tissue and cellular responses to disease
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 John Greiner Lecturer
| Engineering Computer Science greiner@rice.edu 348-3838
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 Rudy Guerra Professor
| Engineering Statistics rguerra@rice.edu 348-5453
| Biostatistics, genetics
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 Nancy Halas Stanley C. Moore Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering halas@rice.edu 348-5611
| Nanophotonics, plasmonics, nanobiotechnology, and nanoscale engineering
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Tim Harvey Research Scientist
| Engineering Computer Science harv@rice.edu 348-5185
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 Matthias Heinkenschloss Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics heinken@rice.edu 348-5176
| Optimization, optimal control, numerical analysis
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 Geneva Henry Exec. Dir, Ctr Digital Scholar
| Fondren Library Fondren Library ghenry@rice.edu 713
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Illya Hicks Associate Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics Illya.Hicks@rice.edu 713-348-6113 3023
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Brent Houchens Assistant Professor
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci houchens@rice.edu 348-3546
| Fluid mechanics, magnetohydrodynamics, and
stability analysis.
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Oleg Igoshin Assistant Professor
| Engineering Bioengineering Oleg.Igoshin@rice.edu
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Christopher Jermaine Associate Professor
| Engineering Computer Science Christopher.M.Jermaine@rice.edu
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 David Johnson Professor
| Engineering Computer Science dbj@rice.edu 348-3063
| Wireless an dmobile networking protocols
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 Don Johnson J. S. Abercrombie Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering dhj@rice.edu 348-4956
| Statistical signal processing
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J Jump Professor Emeritus
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering jrj@rice.edu 348-5609
| Parallel computation, simulation computer architecture
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 Lydia Kavraki Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science
| Engineering Computer Science kavraki@rice.edu 348-5737
| Bioinformatics, robotics, physical algorithms
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Werner Kelber Isla Caroll & Percy E Turner Prof. Emeritus/Biblical Studies
| Humanities Religious Studies kelber@rice.edu
| New Testament studies; history of early Christianity; biblical hermeneutics; media history of the Bible; Jewish-Christian dialogue
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 Sallie Keller-McNulty Dean of Engineering
| Engineering Brown School of Engineering sallie@rice.edu 348-4009
| Computational statistics, statistical modeling, data access, massive data set analysis, environmental statistics
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 Marek Kimmel Professor
| Engineering Statistics kimmel@rice.edu 348-5255
| Population dynamics, branching processes, mathematics of DNA
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 Edward Knightly Professor; Professor, Computer Science
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering knightly@rice.edu 348-5748
| Mobile and wireless networks, high performance protocol design
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 Charles Koelbel Research Scientist
| Engineering Computer Science chk@rice.edu 348-5868
| Mapping algorithms and programs onto distributed memory multiprocessors
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 Hans Kohn Assistant Professor
| Natural Sciences Ecology & Evolutionary Biology hmkohn@rice.edu 348-3779
| Bioinformatics, genomics, molecular evolution and population genetics, medical genetics
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Farinaz Koushanfar Assistant Professor; Assistant Professor; Computer Science
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering Farinaz.Koushanfar@rice.edu
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Mark W Krentel Sr Research Programmer
| Engineering Computer Science Mark.W.Krentel@rice.edu
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 David Lane Associate Professor
| Social Sciences Psychology lane@rice.edu 348-3412
| Human-computer interaction, educational technology and training, statistics, cognitive development
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 Adrian Lenardic Professor
| Natural Sciences Earth Science ajns@rice.edu 348-4883
| Geodynamics, mantle processes
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 Alan Levander Carey Croneis Professor of Geology and Geophysics
| Natural Sciences Earth Science alan@rice.edu 348-6064
| Lithospheric seismology and wave propagation
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 Edison Liang Andrew Hays Buchanan Professor of Astrophysics
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy liang@rice.edu 348-3524
| High energy astrophysics, plasma astrophysics, radiation processes, laser plasma interactions, ultra-intense laser applications
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 Michael Liebschner Assistant Professor
| Engineering Bioengineering mliebsch@rice.edu 348-5797
| Spine fracture mechanics, fracture treatment, tissue engineering, minimally invasive surgery
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 Nikolaos Mantzaris Assistant Professor
| Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering nman@rice.edu 348-2955
| Mathematical modeling of biological systems, signal transduction and pattern formation, cell population balances, nonlinear control of bioprocesses, particulate processes
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Randi Martin Elma W. Schneider Professor
| Social Sciences Psychology rmartin@rice.edu 348-3417
| Cognitive neuropsychology, psychology of language, working memory, reading
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 Yehia Massoud Associate Professor; Associate Professor, Computer Science
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering massoud@rice.edu 348-6706
| High-performance digital and mixed-signal ICs, applications of electromagnetics to nano- and bio- technology
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 Andrew Meade Professor
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci meade@rice.edu 348-5880
| Experimental and computational fluid dynamics
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 John Mellor-Crummey Professor; Professor, ECE
| Engineering Computer Science johnmc@rice.edu 348-5179
| High-performance computing, optimizing compilers, performance analysis
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 Erzsebet Merenyi Research Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering erzsebet@rice.edu 348-3595
| Neural networks, datamining, applications to spectral imaging
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 Leslie Miller Senior Research Scholar
| Engineering C T T L lmm@rice.edu 348-5352
| Use of technology in education
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 Kartik Mohanram Assistant Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering kmram@rice.edu 348-6712
| VLSI design and testing, computer-aided design for VLSI, programming languages
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Mark Moll Research Scientist
| Engineering Computer Science mmoll@rice.edu 713-348-3834
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 Julia Morgan Professor of Earth Science
| Natural Sciences Earth Science morganj@rice.edu 348-6330
| Structural geology, marine geology, neotectonics, and particle dynamics modeling
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 Satish Nagarajaiah Professor; Professor, MEMS
| Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering nagaraja@rice.edu 348-6207
| Structural dynamics and control, computational methods
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 Luay Nakhleh Assistant Professor
| Engineering Computer Science nakhleh@rice.edu 348-3959
| Computational biology and bioinformatics, phylogenetics and biological sequence analysis
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 Eugene Ng Asst. Professor
| Engineering Computer Science eugeneng@rice.edu 713
| Networking and distributed systems, peer-to-peer networking, network resource management, multimedia networking
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 Dung Nguyen Lecturer
| Engineering Computer Science dxnguyen@rice.edu 348-3835
| Computer networks, distributed systems
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 Fenglin Niu Associate Professor
| Natural Sciences Earth Science niu@rice.edu 348-4122
| Global seismology, seismic structure of earth's deep interior
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 Peter Nordlander Professor
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy nordland@rice.edu 348-5171
| Condensed matter theory, electronic properties of nanoparticles, electron transfer and transport in nanostructures, nano-optics, nanophotonics
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 Marcia O'Malley Assistant Professor
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci omalleym@rice.edu 348-3545
| Systems dynamics and control, mechatronics
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 Jan Odegard Executive Director
| Engineering Ken Kennedy Ins for Info Technology odegard@rice.edu 713
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 Michael Orchard Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering orchard@rice.edu 348-3822
| Image and video modeling and compression
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Jamie Padgett Assistant Professor
| Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Jamie.Padgett@rice.edu
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 Brian Padley Associate Professor
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy padley@rice.edu 348-4703
| Experimental elementary particle physics
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Krishna Palem Ken & Audrey Kennedy Professor
| Computer Science palem@rice.edu
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 Matteo Pasquali Professor; Professor, Chemistry; Master, Lovett College
| Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering mp@rice.edu 348-5830
| Microstructured liquids, free surface flows, rheology of carbon nanotubes, wet nanotechnology
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Nicholas Putnam Assistant Professor
| Natural Sciences Ecology & Evolutionary Biology nputnam@rice.edu
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 Robert Raphael Associate Professor
| Engineering Bioengineering rraphael@rice.edu 348-3494
| Electromechanical properties of biological membranes
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Beatrice Riviere Associate Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics riviere@rice.edu
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 Scott Rixner Associate Professor; Associate Professor, ECE
| Engineering Computer Science rixner@rice.edu 348-6353
| Processor architecture design for multimedia, networking and communications
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Javier Rojo Professor
| Engineering Statistics jrojo@rice.edu 348-2797
| Nonparametric function estimation, stochastic orders
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 Ashutosh Sabharwal Assistant Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering ashu@rice.edu 348-5057
| Wireless networks, information theory, statistical signal processing
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 Paula Sanders Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Professor, History
| Humanities Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies sanders@rice.edu 348-2598
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Vivek Sarkar Professor & E. D. Butcher Chair in Engineering
| Engineering Computer Science Vivek.Sarkar@rice.edu Computer Science
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Dale Sawyer Professor
| Natural Sciences Earth Science dale@rice.edu 348-5106
| Geodynamics, seismology
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Stanislav Sazykin Senior Faculty Fellow
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy sazykin@rice.edu 348-3628
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Bill Scherer Faculty Fellow
| Engineering Computer Science scherer@rice.edu
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 David Scott Noah Harding Professor
| Engineering Statistics scottdw@rice.edu 348-6037
| Density estimation, data visualization, data mining
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 Gustavo Scuseria Robert A. Welch Professor
| Natural Sciences Chemistry guscus@rice.edu 348-4746
| Theoretical chemistry, ab initio computational quantum chemistry, density functional theory, development of new methods for molecular electronic structure, and applications to nanostructures
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 Yousif Shamoo Associate Professor
| Natural Sciences Biochemistry & Cell Biology shamoo@rice.edu 348-5493
| sequence-specific RNA recognition, DNA replication and molecular evolution of microbial populations
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 Janet Siefert Senior Faculty Fellow
| Engineering Statistics siefert@rice.edu 348-3891
| Systems evolution: phylogenetics, microbial ecosystem modeling
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Ray Simar Jr Temp Sr Research Scientist
| Elec & Comp Engineering Ray.Simar@rice.edu
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 James Sinclair Associate Dean
| Engineering Brown School of Engineering bs@rice.edu 348-6324
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Angela Smith Institute Coordinator
| Engineering Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology avsmith@rice.edu
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 Danny Sorensen Noah Harding Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics sorensen@rice.edu 348-5193
| Numerical linear algebra, eigenvalue problems, parallel computing
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 Pol Spanos Lewis B. Ryon Professor in Mechanical Engineering
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci spanos@rice.edu 348-4909
| Vibration and dynamics in aerospace, earthquake, offshore, and vehicle engineering
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 Lisa Spiro Director, Digital Media Center; Director, ETRAC
| Fondren Library Fondren Library lspiro@rice.edu 713
| Digital libraries, humanities computing, educational technology, intellectual property
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Ilinca Stanciulescu Assistant Professor
| Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering ilinca@rice.edu
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 Richard Stoll Professor
| Social Sciences Political Science stoll@rice.edu 348-3362
| International relations, international conflict, U.S. national security policy, computer simulation
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 Devika Subramanian Professor
| Engineering Computer Science devika@rice.edu 348-5661
| Artificial intelligece
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 William Symes Noah Harding Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics symes@rice.edu 348-5997
| Partial differential equations, wave propagation
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 Walid Taha Assistant Professor
| Engineering Computer Science taha@rice.edu 348-5718
| Programming languages, embedded systems
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 Richard Tapia University Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics rtapia@rice.edu 348-4049
| Numerical analysis of computer algorithms for optimization theory
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 Tayfun Tezduyar James F. Barbour Professor in Mechanical Engineering
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci tezduyar@rice.edu 348-6051
| Advanced flow simulation and modeling, computational mechanics, finite elements
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 James Thompson Noah Harding Professor
| Engineering Statistics thomp@rice.edu 348-4828
| Market models, simulation, quality control, biometry
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 Frank Toffoletto Associate Professor
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy toffo@rice.edu 348-3641
| Magnetospheric physics, numerical simulations
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 Linda Torczon Senior Research Scientist
| Engineering Computer Science linda@rice.edu 348-5177
| Code generation, interprocedural dataflow analysis and optimization, and programming environments
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 James Tour T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor
| Natural Sciences Chemistry tour@rice.edu 348-6246
| Molecular electronics, chemical self-assembly, conjugated oligomers, electroactive polymers, combinatorial routes to precise oligomers, polymeric sensors, flame retarding polymer additives, carbon nanotube modification and composite formation
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 Moshe Vardi Karen Ostrum George Professor in Computational Engineering
| Engineering Computer Science vardi@rice.edu 348-4834
| Database and multi-agent systems, computational complexity theory, and design specification and verification
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Peter Varman Professor; Professor, Computer Science
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering pjv@rice.edu 348-3990
| I/O systems, parallel algorithms and architecture, databases
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 Dan Wallach Associate Professor
| Engineering Computer Science dwallach@rice.edu 348-6155
| Computer systems and language security
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Timothy Warburton Associate Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics timwar@rice.edu 348-5666
| Numerical methods for partial differential equations
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 Joe Warren Professor
| Engineering Computer Science jwarren@rice.edu 348-5728
| Computer graphics, computational geometry protocols
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Hadley Wickham Assistant Professor
| Engineering Statistics hadley@rice.edu
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James Wise Lecturer
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering jdw@rice.edu 348-4073
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Stephen Wong Lecturer
| Engineering Computer Science swong@rice.edu 348-3814
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 Boris Yakobson Professor
| Engineering Mechanical Engr & Materials Sci biy@rice.edu 348-3572
| Theory of materials and nanoscale structures
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 Pablo Yepes Sr. Faculty Fellow
| Natural Sciences Physics and Astronomy yepes@rice.edu 348-5942
| Particle physics, nuclear physics, computing applications
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Wotao Yin Assistant Professor
| Comp & Applied Mathematics Wotao.Yin@rice.edu 713-348-5368
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 Colin Zelt Professor
| Natural Sciences Earth Science czelt@rice.edu 348-4757
| Development and application of seismic modeling and inversion techniques in tectonic, exploration and environmental studies of the lithosphere, sedimentary basins, and shallow targets
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 Yin Zhang Professor
| Engineering Comp & Applied Mathematics yzhang@rice.edu 348-5744
| Computational optimization
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Lin Zhong Assistant Professor
| Engineering Elec & Comp Engineering lzhong@rice.edu 348-4163
| Mobile & embedded system design, design automation of digital systems
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Weiwei Zhong Assistant Professor
| Natural Sciences Biochemistry & Cell Biology Weiwei.Zhong@rice.edu
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 Kyriacos Zygourakis A.J. Hartsook Professor
| Engineering Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering kyzy@rice.edu 348-5208
| Reaction engineering, bioengineering
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