Our research and teaching program are built around the application of transport phenomena (e.g., energy and water transport, fluid flow) in biological processes in an effort to better understand their complexities with the intent of improving them through optimization. We have been active in primarily the application areas of industrial food processing but we have
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Macromolecular science is the study of the synthesis, structure, processing, properties and use of polymers. These giant molecules are the basis of synthetic materials including plastics, fibers, rubber, films, paints, membranes, and adhesives. Founded in 1963 as the first department for education and research in polymers in the nation, and recognized around the world as one of
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Professor Pappu joined Washington University in 2001. He received his PhD in biological physics from Tufts University and completed two biophysics postdoctoral fellowships at Washington University and Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine. Professor Pappu is the director of the Center for Biological Systems Engineering, co-director of the Center for High Performance Computing, and a member
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Dr. Premkumar (Prem) Natarajan is the inaugural Michael Keston Executive Director of the USC Information Sciences Institute, a storied multi-disciplinary research organization which is recognized for creating fundamental scientific advances and for operationalizing them in the form of prototypes and open source software.He also holds concurrent appointments as Vice Dean of Engineering and Research Professor
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I am Associate Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department at Columbia University. I received my PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization (ACO) in 2008 from Tepper School of Business, CMU where my advisor was R. Ravi. Before joining Columbia, I spent a couple of years as a postdoctoral associate at the Operations Research Center, MIT working with Dimitris Bertsimas. My research interests include dynamic
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Manika Prasad received her B.S. (1978) from St. Xavier’s College, Bombay, India and an M.S. (1983) from University of Kiel, Germany in geology, Ph.D. (1990) in geophysics from University of Kiel, Germany. Manika’s Ph.D. work focused on attenuation, energy loss mechanisms and velocity dispersion in dry and fluid saturated sands. After graduation Manika worked as
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Manoj’s research include cryptography and other topics in Theoretical Computer Science and Applied Cryptography.
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The goal of research in Christos Maravelias’s lab is to develop theory, models and algorithms for the solution of problems in the general area of Process Systems Engineering (PSE). Current projects include: (a) chemical production planning and scheduling; (b) supply chain management; (c) chemical process synthesis; (d) renewable fuel technology development and assessment, with special
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“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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