Associated Faculty:

Professor Ritesh Agarwal

  • Professor Materials Science and Engineering

Research interests: 

  • Electronic Materials
  • Nanostructured Materials
  • Energy

Contact:

    • Office: LRSM 301
  • Phone: 215-573-3037

Paul Allison

  • Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: 

  • Statistical Methods

Contact:

Paulo Arratia

  • 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: 

Brian Avants

  • 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: 3600 Market Street, Suite 370

Vijay Balasubramanian

  • Cathy and Marc Lasry Professor of Physics
Research Interests: 
  • Particle Physics
  • Neuroscience

Contact: 

Yoseph Barash

  • Assistant Professor of Genetics

Research Interests: 

  • Machine learning
  • Probabilistic graphical models
  • Computational biology
  • RNA splicing
  • Post-transcriptional regulation
  • Genomics
  • High-throughput sequencing analysis

Contact:

Igor Bargatin

  • 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:
    • Office: Towne 277
  • Phone: 216-746-4887

Haim Bau

  • Professor Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Research Interests:

  • Computational mechanics
  • Fluid mechanics
  • Mechanics of materials
Contact:
    • Office: Towne 233
  • Phone: 215-898-8363

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:
    • Office: DRL 4N1
  • Phone: 215-573-6252

Maja Bucan

  • Professor of Genetics
Research Interests:
  • Genetic dissection of complex behaviors in mice and humans
  • Functional genomics
  • Biopolar disorder
  • Autism
Contact:
    • Office: 528 Clinical Research Building
  • Phone: 215-898-0020

Andreas Buja

  • The Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: 
  • Data visualization
  • Multivariate statistics
  • Nonparametric statistics
Contact:
    • Office: Jon M. Huntsman Hall 471
  • Phone: 215-898-8236

Vivian Cheung

  • Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
Research Interests:
  • Human genetics
  • Gene regulation
Contact:
  • Office: Life Sciences Institute Room 5435, University of Michigan

Anna Rose Childress

  • Research Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Research Interests:
  • Psychiatry
Contact:
  • Phone: 215-222-3200

Robin Clark

  • Professor of Linguistics
Research Interests:
  • Linguistics
  • Game theoretic pragmatics
Contact:
    • Office: Williams 605
  • Phone: 215-898-2943

Russell Composto

  • Professor Bioengineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
  • Polymers
  • Material interfaces
  • Biomaterials
Contact:
    • Office: LRSM 321
  • Phone: 215-898-4451

Chris Croke

  • Professor of Mathematics
Research Interests:
  • Riemannian Geometry
Contact:
    • Office: DRL 3E3
  • Phone: 215-898-7846

Kostas Daniilidis

  • Ruth Yalom Stone Professor Computer and Information Science
Research Interests: 
  • Computer vision
  • Robotics
Contact:
    • Office: Levine 472
  • Phone: 215-898-8549

Benoit Desjardins

  • Associate Professor Of Radiology At The Hospital Of The University Of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: 
  • Cardiovascular imaging by MRI and CT
Contact:
  • Phone: 215-615-5476

Scott Diamond

  • 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: 
    • 1042 Vagelos Research Laboratories
  • 215-573-5704

Timothy Dillingham

  • William J. Erdman, II, Professor Of Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation Department: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Research Interests:

  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Contact:
    • 5 W. Gates
  • 215-662-3620

James Eberwine

  • Elmer Holmes Bobst Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests:
  • Understanding functioning of individual neurons and subregions of neurons by using molecular biological tools
Contact:
    • Office: 37 John Morgan
  • Phone: 215-898-0420

Charles Epstein

  • 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: 
    • Office: 4E7 David Rittenhouse Lab
  • Phone: 215-898-8476

Christopher Fang-Yen

  • Wilf Family Term Assistant Professor BioEngineering
Research Interests:
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Experimental neuroscience
  • Medical imaging
  • Imaging instrumentation
Contact:
    • Office: Skirkanich 240
  • Phone: 617-721-8180

Dean Foster

  • 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: 
    • Office: 427 Huntsman Hall
  • Phone: 215-898-8233

James Gee

  • Associate Professor of Radiologic Science

Research Interests:

  • Medical image analysis
  • Radiology
Contact: 
    • Office: 3600 Market Street, Suite 370
  • Phone: 215-662-7109

Ed George

  • Universal Furniture Professor of Statistics

Research Interests:

  • Statistics
  • Hierarchical modeling
  • Modeling uncertainty
  • Shrinkage estimation
  • Treed modeling’
  • Variable selection
  • Wavelet regression

Contact: 

    • Jon M. Huntsman Hall 446
  • 215-898-8229

Larry Gladney

  • 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: 
    • Office: 4N10 David Rittenhouse Laboratory
  • Phone: 215-898-7320

Nalaka Gooneratne

  • Associate Professor of Medicine
Research Interests:
    • Medicine
    • Complementary/alternative medicine
    • Melatonin
    • Patient-oriented research
    • Translational research
    • Catergorical data
    • Clinical trials
    • Multivariate analysis
    • Aging
  • Sleep
Contact:
    • Office: Ralston Penn Center, Room 220
  • Phone: 215-349-5938

Robert Grundmeier

  • Director, Clinical Informatics
Research Interests:
  • Expansion of the electronic health record
  • Repurposing of clinical data for secondary use in clinical and genomics research
Contact:
Email Robert

Yuchi Han

  • 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:
    • Office: 3400 Spruce Street, Room 9022 East Gates
  • Phone: 215-662-2855

John Hogenesch

Adjunct Professor Of Pharmacology

Research Interests:

  • Mammalian circadian clock
  • Genomic and computational tools
Contact: 
    • Office: 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Building 421
  • Phone: 484-842-4232

Ian Jacobs

  • 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:
  • Phone:215-590-4646

Shane Jensen

  • 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:

Douglas J. Jerolmack

  • Professor, Graduate Chair, Graduate Group member, Physics and Astronomy and Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Research Interests: 
  • Theoretical and Experimental Geology
Contact: 
    • Office: 240 Hayden Hall
  • Phone: 215-746-2823
SAMPATH KANNAN

Sampath Kannan

  • Henry Salvatori Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science
Research Interests: 
  • Program reliability
  • Computational biology
  • Algorithms
Contact:
    • Office: Levine 566
  • Phone: 215-898-9514

Mitchel Allan Kling

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:
    • Office: 3900 Woodland Avenue
  • Phone: 215-823-5800

Despina Kontos

  • Associate Professor of Radiology
Research Interests:
  • Biomedical image analysis
  • Quantitative imaging biomarkers
  • Pattern recognition
Contact:
    • 3600 Market Street, Suite 360
  • 215-614-0266

Anthony Kroch

  • Professor, Department of Linguistics
Research Interests:
  • Linguistics
  • Formal analysis of natural language syntax
  • Historical syntax
  • Syntax-semantics interface
Contact:
    • 614 Williams Hall
  • 215-898-3212

Adam Lidz

  • Associate Professor Physics and Astronomy

Research Interests:

  • Theoretical Astrophysics
  • Cosmology
Contact:
    • Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 4N2a
  • Phone: 215-898-9597

Paul Liebman

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:
    • Office: Room 143 Anatomy-Chemistry Building
  • Phone: 215-898-6917

Andrea Liu

  • Hepburn Professor of Physics

Research Interests:

  • Soft matter physics
Contact:
    • DRL 2N30
  • 215-573-7374

Eugene Mele

  • Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Physics
Research Interests:
  • Quantum electronic phenomena in condensed matter
Contact:
    • Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 2N17
  • Office: 215-898-3135

Max Mintz

  • 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
Contact:
    • Office: 462 GRW
  • Phone:215-898-7909

Emilio Parrado

  • 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 Americ
Contact:
  • Phone: 215-898-7831

Pedro Ponte

  • Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests:
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Active Materials
  • Homogenization
Contact:
    • Office: Towne 235
  • Phone: 215-898-5046

Andrew Rappe

Professor Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering

Research Interests:

  • Chemistry of materials
  • Nanostructured materials
  • Surfaces and interfaces
Contact:
    • Office: 264 Cret
  • Phone: 215-898-8313

Masao Sako

  • Associate Professor and Undergrad Chair of Physics and Astronomy
Research Interests:
  • Observational cosmology with supernovae
Contact:
    • Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 4N2
  • Phone: 215-898-8151

Hee Kwon Song

Associate Professor of Radiologic Science

Research Interests:

  • Radiology
Contact:
  • Phone: 215-662-6265

Jeffrey Saven

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry, Biological and Theoretical Physical Chemistry
Research Interests: 
  • Theoretical chemistry
Contact:
    • Office: 266 Cret
  • Phone: 215-573-6062

Andre Scedrov

  • 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:
    • Office: David Rittenhouse Laboratory 4W
  • Phone: 215-898-5983

Barry Silverman

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:
    • Hayden Hall 120
  • 215-573-8368

Dylan Small

  • 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: 
    • Office: 464 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
  • Phone: 215-573-5241

Kent Smetters

  • Boettner Professor, Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
Research Interests:
  • Public economics
  • Applied theory
  • Finance
Contact: 
    • Office: 1354 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall
  • Phone: 215-898-9811

Michael Steele

  • C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics
Research Interests: 
  • Applications of probability
  • Mathematical finance
  • Modeling of price processes
  • Statistical modeling
Contact:
    • Office: 447 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
  • Phone: 215-898-9477

Joe Subotnik

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: 

  • Email
  • Phone: 215-746-7078
  • Office:268 Cret wing

Camillo Taylor

Professor Computer and Information Science

Research Interests:
  • Image segmentation
  • Anaysis of RGB-D imagery
  • High resolution structured light
Contact:
    • Levine 474
  • 215-898-0376

Kevin Turner

  • 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: 
    • Office: Towne 245
  • Phone: 215-573-7485

Vaclav Vitek

  • Harold Pender Professor Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Research Interests:
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Nanostructured Materials
  • Material Interfaces
Contact:
    • Office: LRSM 218
  • Phone: 215-898-7883

Ben Voight

  • Associate Professor Pharmacology
Research Interests:
  • Population genetics
  • Statistical genetics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
Contact:
    • Office: 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Building 421
  • Phone: 215-746-8083

Li-San Wang

Li-San Wang

  • Associate Professor Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests:
  • Neurodegenerative disorders
  • Aging
  • Psychiatric disorders, including autism and bipolar disorder
Contact:
    • Office: 1424 Blockley Hall
  • Phone: 215-746-7015

Ze Wang

  • 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: 
  • Phone: 215-222-3200 ext. 123

Felix Wehrli

  • Professor of Radiologic Science in Radiology
Research Interests:
  • Tissue microarchitecture
  • Metabolic bone disease
  • Non-Cartesian imaging techniques for cancer staging
Contact:
    • Office: 1 Founders Building, 3400 Spruce Street
  • Phone: 215-662-7951

Peter White

  • Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Research Interests:
  • Genomic contributors to disease risk for pediatric disorders, including ADHD, cardiac defects, and solid tumors
Contact:
    • Office: 34th and Civic Center, Room 1407
  • Phone: 215-590-5241

Abraham Wyner

  • Professor of Statistics, Director of Undergraduate Program in Statistics
Research Interests:
  • Boosting
  • Data compression
  • Entropy
  • Information theory
  • Probabilistic modeling
  • Temperature reconstructions
Contact:
    • 448 Jon M. Huntsman Hall
  • 215-898-2439

Taner Yildirim

  • 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:
    • NIST Center for Neutron Research
  • 301-668-2794

Qian Zhang

  • Research Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Research Interests:
  • Lymphomas and other hematologic malignancies
Contact:
    • Office: 422 Curie Blvd
  • Phone: 215-573-5468