Eric J. Alm
Professor Understanding and engineering the human microbiome.
Saurabh Amin
Professor Developing resilient infrastructure monitoring, control algorithms, and incentives to enhance decision-making under uncertainty.
Cynthia Barnhart
Provost Specializes in developing models, optimization methods, and decision support systems for large-scale transportation problems.
Moshe E. Ben-Akiva
Professor Developing and applying advanced discrete choice models to analyze travel behavior and simulate demand and supply to optimize transportation systems.
Lydia Bourouiba
Associate Professor Investigates the fundamental physical mechanisms shaping the transmission dynamics of pathogens in human, animal, and plant populations.
Markus J. Buehler
Professor Computational modeling of materials in biology and engineering, utilizing artificial intelligence, machine learning and multiscale modeling to understand, design and manufacture complex materials across scales, from atoms to structures.
Oral Buyukozturk
Professor Specializes in resiliency and sustainability of infrastructure through structural engineering, sustainable concrete materials, and novel sensing and monitoring for structures.
Josephine V. Carstensen
Associate Professor Civil engineer developing computational methods that integrate optimization, structural mechanics, and human expertise to transform the built environment at all scales.
Penny Chisholm
Institute Professor Studies the biology, ecology, and evolution of the single most abundant marine phytoplankton species to understand the forces that shape microbial ecosystems.
Tal Cohen
Associate Professor Investigates how materials behave under extreme conditions by combining theory and experiments.
Otto Cordero
Associate Professor Understanding how social and ecological interactions at micro-scales impact the global productivity, stability and evolutionary dynamics of microbial ecosystems.
David L. Des Marais
Associate Professor Uses tools from molecular, quantitative, and population genetics to identify the physiological and genetic basis of plant response to environmental cues.
Herbert Einstein
Professor Works in rock mechanics, underground construction, engineering geology and natural hazards, focusing on mechanical performance through experimentation and modeling as well as on practice-oriented approaches involving risk analysis.
Elfatih Eltahir
Professor Investigates how global climate change may impact patterns of water availability, extreme weather, and spread of disease, and how society may to adapt to such impacts.
Dara Entekhabi
Professor Expert in remote sensing techniques for soil and water, with a focus on Earth's water cycle and modeling land-atmosphere interactions.
Michael Follows
Professor Models marine ecosystems to understand relationships between microbial biodiversity and carbon and nutrient cycling in the ocean.
Charles F. Harvey
Professor Hydrologist and biogeochemist, leader of field projects in Bangladesh and Borneo, expert in carbon storage, peatlands, coastal groundwater, and hydrogeology.
Michael F. Howland
Assistant Professor Environmental flow physics and the modeling, optimization, and control of renewable energy systems.
Ali Jadbabaie
Department Head; Professor Explores collective phenomena and group decision making in social and engineering systems, leveraging control theory, network science, and optimization to advance understanding of decision making, opinion dynamics, and social learning.
Patrick Jaillet
Professor Specializes in online optimization and learning, machine learning, and sequential decision making under uncertainty.
Ruben Juanes
Professor Computational geoscientist and engineer studying the physics of multiphase flow in porous media with energy and environmental applications.
Jesse Kroll
Professor Investigates the chemical transformations and impacts of organic species in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Tami Lieberman
Associate Professor Studies microbial evolution in real time, with a focus on mutations occurring within individual human ‘microbiomes’ – the set of microbes that live in and on us during health.
Benedetto Marelli
Associate Professor Specializes in using bio-fabrication strategies to design bio-inspired materials that work at the biotic/abiotic interface to prevent or mitigate environmental impact.
Admir Masic
Associate Professor Leader in the study of cement chemistry and the development of multifunctional cement-based materials.
Darcy McRose
Assistant Professor Uses secondary metabolites to understand microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, and plant-microbe interactions.
Caitlin Mueller
Associate Professor Specializes in developing new computational methods and tools for synthesizing architectural and structural intentions in early-stage design.
Heidi Nepf
Professor Fluvial and coastal hydrodynamicist studying the physical processes that determine how vegetation impacts currents and waves, sediment transport, and ecosystem function.
John A. Ochsendorf
Professor Expert in structural design, mechanics of historic structures, and design education.
Desirée Plata
Associate Professor Specializes in environmental chemistry for novel materials and industrial process optimization, carbon and energy systems, resource efficiency, and sustainable design.
Serguei Saavedra
Associate Professor Interested in understanding the feasibility of observing the emergence, transformation, and regeneration of ecological systems.
Yossi Sheffi
Professor Global expert in systems optimization, risk analysis, and supply chain management.
David Simchi-Levi
Professor Leader in supply chain management and business analytics known for developing the Risk Exposure Model, a new approach to assessment of supply chain resilience and risk-tolerance.
César Terrer
Assistant Professor Examines Earth system challenges and climate change with satellite and field data, assessing terrestrial ecosystems, carbon dynamics and climate solutions.
Franz-Josef Ulm
Professor Studies the nano and micro mechanics of porous materials, such as concrete, rocks, and bones.
Haruko Murakami Wainwright
Assistant Professor Computational hydrogeologist and geostatistician advancing AI/ML methods for monitoring and predicting water quality and water resources.
Andrew Whittle
Professor Expert in modeling of geomaterial behavior, developing analysis methods for predicting soil-structure interactions, and monitoring and controlling underground infrastructure.
John Williams
Professor Agentic computing leveraging synthetic environments for data and robots in energy, military and supply chain sectors. Professional education lead for applied computation courses.
Cathy Wu
Associate Professor Advancing machine learning and optimization for large-scale societal systems, focusing on accelerating design and analysis for urban mobility and enabling trustworthy decision-making in critical infrastructure.
Gioele Zardini
Assistant Professor Develops efficient computational tools and algorithmic approaches to formulate and solve complex, interconnected system design and autonomous decision-making problems.
Xuanhe Zhao
Professor Expert in mechanics, materials, and biotechnology with a focus on the study and development of soft materials and systems.