“What could we do with layered structures with just the right layers? What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them …” These words from Richard Feynman started the scientific world down the path to discover 2D materials. Dr. Robinson’s interests span a wide range
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I work on manipulation. My goal is to enable robots to robustly and gracefully interact with the world to perform complex manipulation tasks in uncertain, unstructured, and cluttered environments. I want to make this interaction faster, safer, elegant, and involve simpler actuation. To this end, I founded and direct the Personal Robotics Lab, co-direct the Manipulation Lab,
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Justin Weibel received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue in 2012. His research focuses on two-phase electronics cooling and packaging solutions; heat pipe testing, modeling, and design; and thermal system analysis for energy efficiency. More current research interests of Professor Weibel include electronics cooling and packaging, phase-change transport phenomena, microscale and nanoscale surface engineering
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The primary aim of the laboratory is to develop techniques at the device/circuit/algorithm/architecture level suitable for low-power and high-performance system design. The group explores different aspects of device /circuit modeling, exploratory Silicon and non-Silicon devices, spintronics, neuromorphic computing and learning algorithms, stochastic computing. The different research groups of the laboratory are – Neuromorphic computing enabled
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Dr. Guruswami’s research interests span several topics in theoretical computer science such as the theory of error-correcting codes, approximability of fundamental optimization problems, explicit combinatorial constructions and pseudorandomness, probabilistically checkable proofs, computational complexity theory, and algebraic algorithms. Dr. Guruswami currently serves on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Computing and the ACM Transactions
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We are pursuing a molecular-level understanding of polymer structure and dynamics. Currently, we are most interested in multicomponent systems — copolymers, homopolymer blends, and their mixtures — in solution and in the bulk state. Such materials are of great commercial interest, due primarily to the potential flexibility for tailoring superior combinations of physical properties. The
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We study how interfaces and confinement impact the properties of molecular liquids and crystals, colloidal and nanoparticle suspensions, protein solutions, and glassy solids. Our recent work focuses on three fundamental areas—self-assembly at the nanoscale, dynamics of confined liquids, and structural arrest of complex fluids—that are important for applications ranging from biomedical imaging to the delivery
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2016 Khorana Scholars Vishal is researching the detection of morphological differences in tissues in the context of osteoarthritis. His project is based on the registration of two images to analyse effect of bone development in osteoarthritis.
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SN Bose 2016 Scholar Ishan is attending an REU in math at UChicago as well as a summer school in algebraic topology there.
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