PICS Associated Faculty
- Professor Materials Science and Engineering
Research interests:
- Electronic Materials
- Nanostructured Materials
- Energy
Contact:
- Email: riteshag@seas.upenn.edu
- Phone: 215-573-3037
- Office Location: LRSM 301
Paul Allison
- Professor of Sociology
Research Interests:
- Statistical Methods
Contact:
- Email: allison@ssc.upenn.edu
- Phone Number: 215-898-6717
- Office Location: 581 McNeil Building
- Professor, and MEAM Associate Chair for Undergraduate Affairs, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM), Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE)
Research Interests:
- Biomechanics
- Fluid Mechanics
- Mechanics of Materials
Contact:
- Email: parratia@seas.upenn.edu
- Phone Number: 215-746-2174
- Research Assistant Professor Radiology
Research Interests:
- Medical Image Registration
- Image-Based Analysis of Pediatric Brain Development
- Imaging and Clinical Effects of Frontotemporal Dementia and variants
- Imaging and Clinical Effects in Traumatic Brain Injury
- Lesion Analysis in the Brain
- Cortical Thickness Analysis
- Statistical Image Analysis
- Visualization and Computation
- Numerical Methods
- Diffeomorphisms
Contact:
- Email: stnava@gmail.com
- Phone Number: 215-870-0787
- Office Location: 3600 Market Street, Suite 370
- Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics
Research Interests:
- Particle Physics
- Neuroscience
Contact:
- Email: vijay@physics.upenn.edu
- Phone Number: 215-573-0982
- Office location: DRL 2N3A
- Assistant Professor of Genetics
Research Interests:
- Machine learning
- Probabilistic graphical models
- Computational biology
- RNA splicing
- Post-transcriptional regulation
- Genomics
- High-throughput sequencing analysis
Contact:
- Email: yosephb@upenn.edu
- Phone: 215-746-8683
- Office Location: 1409 Blockley Hall
- Class of 1965 Term Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests:
- Micro- and nanomechanics
- Thermial sciences and energy conversion
- Mechanics of materials
Contact:
- Email: bargatin@seas.upenn.edu
- Phone: 216-746-4887
- Office Location: Towne 277
- Professor Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests:
- Computational mechanics
- Fluid mechanics
- Mechanics of materials
Contact:
- Email Haim
- Phone: 215-898-8363
- Office Location: Towne 233
Gary Bernstein
- Reese W. Flower Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests:
- Weak gravitational lensing
- The Kuiper Belt
- SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP)
- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
Contact:
- Email Gary
- Phone: 215-573-6252
- Office Location: DRL 4N1
- Professor of Genetics
Research Interests:
- Genetic dissection of complex behaviors in mice and humans
- Functional genomics
- Biopolar disorder
- Autism
Contact:
- Email Maja
- Phone: 215-898-0020
- Office Location: 528 Clinical Research Building
- The Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor of Statistics
Research Interests:
- Data visualization
- Multivariate statistics
- Nonparametric statistics
Contact:
- Email Buja
- Phone: 215-898-8236
- Office Location: Jon M. Huntsman Hall 471
- Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
Research Interests:
- Human genetics
- Gene regulation
Contact:
- Email Vivian
- Office Location: Life Sciences Institute Room 5435, University of Michigan
- Research Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Research Interests:
- Psychiatry
Contact:
- Email Anna Rose
- Phone: 215-222-3200
- Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests:
- Linguistics
- Game theoretic pragmatics
Contact:
- Email Robin
- Phone: 215-898-2943
- Office Location: Williams 605
- Professor Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
- Polymers
- Material interfaces
- Biomaterials
Contact:
- Email Russell
- Phone: 215-898-4451
- Office Location: LRSM 321
- Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests:
- Riemannian Geometry
Contact:
- Email Chris
- Phone: 215-898-7846
- Office Location: DRL 3E3
- Ruth Yalom Stone Professor Computer and Information Science
Research Interests:
- Computer vision
- Robotics
Contact:
- Email Kostas
- Phone: 215-898-8549
- Office Location: Levine 472
- Associate Professor Of Radiology At The Hospital Of The University Of Pennsylvania
Research Interests:
- Cardiovascular imaging by MRI and CT
Contact:
- Email Benoit
- Phone: 215-615-5476
- Founding director of the Penn Center for Molecular Discovery & Arthur E. Humphrey Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Research Interests:
- Endothelial mechanobiology
- Blood clot dissolving therapies
- Blood systems biology
- Nonviral gene therapy
- High throughput drug discovery
Contact:
- Email Scott
- Phone: 215-573-5704
- Office Location: 1042 Vagelos Research Laboratories
Timothy Dillingham
- William J. Erdman, II, Professor Of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation Department: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Research Interests:
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Contact:
- Email Timothy
- Phone: 215-662-3620
- Office Location: 5 W. Gates
- Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:
- Understanding functioning of individual neurons and subregions of neurons by using molecular biological tools
Contact:
- Email James
- Phone: 215-898-0420
- Office Location: 37 John Morgan
- Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics Graduate Group Chair, AMCS
Research Interests:
- Partial differential equations
- Maxwell’s equations
- Population genetics
- Medical imaging
- Several Complex Variables
- Microlocal analysis and index theory
- Numerical analysis
Contact:
- Email Charles
- Phone: 215-898-8476
- Office Location: 4E7 David Rittenhouse Lab
- Wilf Family Term Assistant Professor BioEngineering
Research Interests:
- Computational neuroscience
- Experimental neuroscience
- Medical imaging
- Imaging instrumentation
Contact:
- Email Christopher
- Phone: 617-721-8180
- Office Location: Skirkanich 240
- Marie and Joseph Melone Professor of Statistics
Research Interests:
- Statistical inference for stochastic processes
- Stochastic models for game theory
- Worst-case analysis of estimators
- Analysis of random algorithms
Contact:
- Email Dean
- Phone: 215-898-8233
- Office Location: 427 Huntsman Hall
- Associate Professor of Radiologic Science
Research Interests:
- Medical image analysis
- Radiology
Contact:
- Email James
- Phone: 215-662-7109
- Office Location: 3600 Market Street, Suite 370
- Universal Furniture Professor of Statistics
Research Interests:
- Statistics
- Hierarchical modeling
- Modeling uncertainty
- Shrinkage estimation
- Treed modeling’
- Variable selection
- Wavelet regression
Contact:
- Email Ed
- Phone: 215-898-8229
- Office Location: Jon M. Huntsman Hall 446
- Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor for Faculty Excellence and Associate Dean for Natural Sciences
Research Interests:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Experimental high energy physics
- Cosmology
Contact:
- Email Larry
- Phone: 215-898-7320
- Office Location: 4N10 David Rittenhouse Laboratory
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests:
- Medicine
- Complementary/alternative medicine
- Melatonin
- Patient-oriented research
- Translational research
- Catergorical data
- Clinical trials
- Multivariate analysis
- Aging
- Sleep
- Director, Clinical Informatics
Research Interests:
- Expansion of the electronic health record
- Repurposing of clinical data for secondary use in clinical and genomics research
Contact:
- Associate Professor Of Medicine At The Hospital Of The University Of Pennsylvania
Research Interests:
- Application of novel cardiac MRI and echocardiography techniques to understand atrial and ventricular mechanics/remodeling in pathological states and cardiac MRI imaging of fibrosis
Contact:
- Email Yuchi
- Phone: 215-662-2855
- Office Location: 3400 Spruce Street, Room 9022 East Gates
- Adjunct Professor Of Pharmacology
Research Interests:
- Mammalian circadian clock
- Genomic and computational tools
Contact:
- Email John
- Phone: 484-842-4232
- Office Location: 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Building 421
- Medical Director of the Center for Pediatric Airway Disorders in the Division of Otolaryngology, Associate Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
Research Interests:
- Otalaryngology
- Pediatric airway disorders
Contact:
- Email Ian
- Phone: 215-590-4646
- Associate Professor Department of Statistics
Research Interests:
- Urban Analytics: The quantitative analysis of the functioning of local areas within large cities
- Genetics and Molecular Biology
- Statistics in Sports
- Bayesian Nonparametrics
- Economics and Marketing
Contact:
- Email Shane
- Phone: 215-573-2211
- Office Location: 463 Huntsman Hall
- Professor, Graduate Chair, Graduate Group member, Physics and Astronomy and Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Research Interests:
- Theoretical and Experimental Geology
Contact:
- Email Doug
- Phone: 215-746-2823
- Office Location: 240 Hayden Hall
- Henry Salvatori Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science
Research Interests:
- Program reliability
- Computational biology
- Algorithms
Contact:
- Email Sampath
- Phone: 215-898-9514
- Office Location: Levine 566
Mitchel Kling
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Research Interests:
- Endocrine and metabolic aspects of mood and anxiety disorders
- Stress neurobiology
- Biomarkers of stress, allostatic load, innate function, and metabolic syndrome
Contact:
- Email Mitchel
- Phone: 215-823-5800
- Office Location: 3900 Woodland Avenue
- Associate Professor of Radiology
Research Interests:
- Biomedical image analysis
- Quantitative imaging biomarkers
- Pattern recognition
Contact:
- Email Despina
- Phone: 215-614-0266
- Office Location: 3600 Market Street, Suite 360
- Professor, Department of Linguistics
Research Interests:
- Linguistics
- Formal analysis of natural language syntax
- Historical syntax
- Syntax-semantics interface
Contact:
- Email Anthony
- Phone: 215-898-3212
- Office Location: 614 Williams Hall
- Associate Professor Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests:
- Theoretical Astrophysics
- Cosmology
Contact:
- Email Adam
- Phone: 215-898-9597
- Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 4N2a
- Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research Interest:
- Analysis of misfolding of signaling proteins upon loss of their obligatory small ligand. Role of misfolding in biological aging.
- Thermodynamics, kinetics and protein-protein contact mechanism of signal transduction proteins.
- Computational modeling, complex systems analysis of simultaneous actions of GTP’ase activator protein, phosducin, arrestin and receptor phosphorylation in signal transduction.
Contact:
- Email Paul
- Phone: 215-898-6917
- Office Location: Room 143 Anatomy-Chemistry Building
- Hepburn Professor of Physics
Research Interests:
- Soft matter physics
Contact:
- Contact Andrea
- Phone: 215-573-7374
- Office Location: DRL 2N30
- Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics
Research Interests:
- Quantum electronic phenomena in condensed matter
Contact:
- Email Eugene
- Phone: 215-898-3135
- Office Location: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 2N17
- Professor of Computer and Information Science
Research Interests:
- Robust fixed-geometry confidence regions for multivariate location parameters
- Algorithms for robust multisensor fusion
- Algorithms for set-valued state estimation with performance guarantees
- Applications of confidence sets in mobile robotics and computational vision
Yoichiro Mori
- Visiting Professor, Calabi-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Biology
Research Interests:
- Mathematical modeling of biophysical systems
- Numerical and applied analysis, scientific computing
Contact:
- Email Yoichiro
- Phone: 215-898-8472
- Office Location: 4N67 DRL
- Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Sociology
Research Interests:
- Hispanic population in the US and issues of immigrant adaptation and new areas of migrant settlement
- International migration
- Social and demographic change in Latin America
Contact:
- Email Emilio
- Phone: 215-898-7831
- Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests:
- Mechanics of Materials
- Active Materials
- Homogenization
Contact:
- Email Pedro
- Phone: 215-898-5046
- Office Location: Towne 235
- Professor Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
- Chemistry of materials
- Nanostructured materials
- Surfaces and interfaces
Contact:
- Email Andrew
- Phone: 215-898-8313
- Office Location: 264 Cret
- Associate Professor and Undergrad Chair of Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests:
- Observational cosmology with supernovae
Contact:
- Email Masao
- Phone: 215-898-8151
- Office Location: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 4N2
- Associate Professor of Radiologic Science
Research Interests:
- Radiology
Contact:
- Email Hee Kwon
- Phone: 215-662-6265
- Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biological and Theoretical Physical Chemistry
Research Interests:
- Theoretical chemistry
Contact:
- Email Jeffrey
- Phone: 215-573-6062
- Office Location: 266 Cret
- Chair of the Mathematics Department, Professor of Mathematics & Professor of Computer and Information Science
Research Interests:
- Logic
- Cybersecurity
- Information assurance
- Information privacy
- Computer security and privacy
- Cryptographic protocols
- Formal methods
Contact:
- Email Andre
- Phone: 215-898-5983
- Office Location: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 4W
- Professor Electrical and Systems Engineering
Research Interests:
- Systems approach to organizational learning and knowledge management
- Intelligent software agents for human training and decision support
- Edutainment
Contact:
- Email Barry
- Phone: 215-573-8368
- Office Location: Hayden Hall 120
- Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Statistics
Research Interests:
- Applications of statistics to public health
- Design and analysis of experiments and observational studies for comparing treatments
- Longitudinal data
- Measurement error
- Medicine and economics
Contact:
- Email Dylan
- Phone: 215-573-5241
- Office Location: 464 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
- Boettner Professor, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Research Interests:
- Public economics
- Applied theory
- Finance
Contact:
- Email kent
- Phone: 215-898-9811
- Office Location: 1354 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
- C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics
Research Interests:
- Applications of probability
- Mathematical finance
- Modeling of price processes
- Statistical modeling
Contact:
- Email Michael
- Phone: 215-898-9477
- Office Location: 447 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
Joe Subotnik
- Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of Chemistry
Research Interests:
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Intersection of static quantum chemistry methods (especially for excited states) with nonadiabatic dynamics methods (specifically surface hopping).
- Quantifying electron transfer, energy transfer, and electronic relaxation.
Contact:
- Phone: 215-746-7078
- Office Location: 268 Cret wing
David Srolovitz
- Founding Director of PICS
- Former Joseph Bordogna Professor Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Computer and Information Science
Research Interests:
- Computational and Theoretical Materials Science; Defects; Growth; Evolution; Deformation of materials
Contact:
- Professor Computer and Information Science
Research Interests:
- Image segmentation
- Anaysis of RGB-D imagery
- High resolution structured light
Contact:
- Email Camillo
- Phone: 215-898-0376
- Office Location: Levine 474
- Professor, and MEAM Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs and Graduate Group Chair, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) , Materials Science and Engineering (MSE)
Research Interests:
- Mechanics of materials
- Micro- and nano-mechanics
Contact:
- Email Kevin
- Phone: 215-573-7485
- Office Location: Towne 245
- Harold Pender Professor Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests:
- Mechanics of Materials
- Nanostructured Materials
- Material Interfaces
Contact:
- Email Vaclav
- Phone: 215-898-7883
- Office Location: LRSM 218
- Associate Professor Pharmacology
Research Interests:
- Population genetics
- Statistical genetics
- Bioinformatics
- Computational biology
Contact:
- Email Ben
- Phone: 215-746-8083
- Office Location: 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Building 421
Li-San Wang
- Associate Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests:
- Neurodegenerative disorders
- Aging
- Psychiatric disorders, including autism and bipolar disorder
Contact:
- Email Li-San
- Phone: 215-746-7015
- Office Location: 1424 Blockley Hall
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Psychiatry, Radiology
Research Interests:
- MR image reconstruction, including parallel MRI
- Signal processing for BOLD fMRI and ASL perfusion fMRI
- Imaging in age-related diseases and drug addictions
Contact:
- Email Ze
- Phone: 215-222-3200 ext. 123
- Professor of Radiologic Science in Radiology
Research Interests:
- Tissue microarchitecture
- Metabolic bone disease
- Non-Cartesian imaging techniques for cancer staging
Contact:
- Email Felix
- Phone: 215-662-7951
- Office Location: 1 Founders Building, 3400 Spruce Street
- Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests:
- Genomic contributors to disease risk for pediatric disorders, including ADHD, cardiac defects, and solid tumors
Contact:
- Email Peter
- Phone: 215-590-5241
- Office Location: 34th and Civic Center, Room 1407
- Professor of Statistics, Director of Undergraduate Program in Statistics
Research Interests:
- Boosting
- Data compression
- Entropy
- Information theory
- Probabilistic modeling
- Temperature reconstructions
Contact:
- Email Abraham
- Phone: 215-898-2439
- Office Location: 448 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
- Adjunct Professor Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
- Nanotubes and nanowires
- Energy
- Materials theory and modeling
- Nanostructured materials
- Physics of materials
- X-Ray and neutron scattering
Contact:
- Email Taner
- Phone: 301-668-2794
- Office Location: NIST Center for Neutron Research
- Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests:
- Lymphomas and other hematologic malignancies
Contact:
- Email Qian
- Phone: 215-573-5468
- Office Location: 422 Curie Blvd