People: Faculty
Stephen Wilson
Professor of Psychology
Addictive behavior, with a specific focus on cigarette smoking.
Pak Kin Wong
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Surgery
Douglas Wrenn
Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics
Rongling Wu
Director of the Center for Statistical Genetics; Professor of Public Health Sciences
Lingzhou Xue
Professor of Statistics
High-dimensional statistics, statistical learning, optimization, econometrics, and statistical applications in biological science, environmental science, and social science.
Amulya Yadav
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good, focused on developing theoretically grounded approaches that can positively impact real-world problems, particularly in the fields of public health and wildlife protection.
Qing Yang
Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology
Alzheimer’s disease, amyloid imaging, metals, MRI and fMRI on aging, neurodegeneration, neuroimaging, olfactory deficits in AD
Yinong Yang
Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology
Signal perception and transduction in rice-pathogen interactions. Molecular and genomic strategies for increasing disease resistance and drought tolerance in cereal crops.
Yin-Ting (Tim) Yeh
Assistant Research Professor of Physics - Terrones Lab
Multidisciplinary study focused on developing point-of-care technologies for rapid detection of infectious diseases.
Neela Yennawar
Director, Biomolecular Interactions Core Facility; Co-Director, X-Ray Crystallography and Scattering Core Facility; Research Professor
Biological calorimetry, protein characterization, molecular modeling, X-ray crystallography, and small-angle X-ray scattering.
Hemant Yennawar
Co-Director, X-Ray Crystallography and Scattering Core Facility; Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Hojae Yi
Assistant Research Professor of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Brad Zacharia
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Otolaryngology
Nanyin Zhang
Director of the Center for Neurotechnology in Mental Health Research; Huck Chair in Brain Imaging; Professor of Bioengineering
Investigating the pathophysiology of brain disorders using neuroimaging, behavioral and optogenetic methods.
Ruobo Zhou
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Quantitatively and functionally understanding the compartmentalization and spatiotemporal organization of protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions involved in fundamental cell functions as well as in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
Tao Zhou
Assistant Professor
The intersection of neuroengineering, electronics, materials science, and bioengineering, with the goal to improve human health