Physical and Engineering Sciences
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From astronomy to chemistry and aeronautics to civil engineering, data science has a significant role to accelerate discovery in any area of study related to the physical world.
Affiliated Faculty
![Randal J. Barnes](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/BarnesRandal.jpg.webp?itok=pmsCt11i)
Associate Professor and Mental Health Advocate, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
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![Ambika Bhagi-Damodaran headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Bhagi_DamodaranAmbikaNP.jpeg.webp?itok=lEpmni63)
Assistant Professor, McKnight Land-Grant Professor, Department of Chemistry
![natalie](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/boehnke%20200.jpg.webp?itok=ujdjfmOs)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
![Yu (Kevin) Cao](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Kevin_Yu_Cao_0.jpg.webp?itok=gN-nZCWc)
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Seongjin Choi](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/sjchoi.jpeg.webp?itok=K8ozIRj3)
Assistant Professor (beginnning January 2024), Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
162 Civil Engineering Building
![Michael Coughlin headhot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/_AES5786.jpeg.webp?itok=BUhGLLlv)
Assistant Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Prodromos Daoutidis](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/prodromos%20200-2_0.jpg.webp?itok=crwRbVn7)
College of Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor and Executive Officer, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
![K dos Santos](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/K%20dos%20Santos_0.jpeg.webp?itok=svzC0LVC)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
246 Civil Engineering Building
![Traian Dumitricã headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Dumitrica_200x300_0.jpeg.webp?itok=HDT9ydOp)
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
![Ryan Elliott](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Elliotresized.jpg.webp?itok=0gIwhFKL)
Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Aerospace Engineering Mechanics
![Profile picture of Joshua feinberg](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Josh%20Feinberg%20profileRES.png.webp?itok=RSdAXH7-)
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
![Lucy Fortson](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/LucyFortsonTate2018-compressed.jpg.webp?itok=eR6eu22Q)
Associate Head, School of Physics and Astronomy,
Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Renee Frontiera](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Renee%20FrontieraNP.jpg.webp?itok=bStOR7VG)
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies for Chemical Physics, Department of Chemistry
![Lindsay Gleaner](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Lindsay%20Glesener.jpeg.webp?itok=cIwb2Hul)
Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Jason Goodpaster headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/JasonGoodpasterNP.jpeg.webp?itok=8oqigsRf)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Michele Guala](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/michele-guala_0.jpg.webp?itok=FwAq6K7e)
Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory
![Professor Jarvis Haupt](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Jarvis%20Haupt.jpg.webp?itok=j6V314ki)
Associate Professor; Associate Dept. Head, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Christy Haynes](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/ChristyHaynes%202023_2.jpg.webp?itok=JQCSeXEy)
Department Head, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Qizhi He headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/IMG-0044%20%281%29.jpeg.webp?itok=35EmlWvl)
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Richard D. James headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Jamesresized_1.jpeg.webp?itok=s1J5DgZb)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering Mechanics
![Matt Johnson headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/matt-johnson-profile.jpeg.webp?itok=kE2R8NEs)
Professor and Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar, Department of Biomedical Engineering
![Mostafa Kaveh](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mos%20Kaveh_0_1.jpg.webp?itok=vql0tObT)
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Steven Koester](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Steve%20Koester_2.jpg.webp?itok=o-C1gxDZ)
Russell J. Penrose Professor in Nanotechnology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Vipin Kumar headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Kumar_Vipin_1.jpg.webp?itok=6RYEj1QF)
Regents Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
William Norris Land Grant Chair in Large-Scale Computing,
Director, CSE Data Science Initiative
![Andrew Lamperski](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Andrew%20Lamperski_1.jpg.webp?itok=vukNJ3Am)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Hubert H. Lim](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Hubert%20Lim.jpeg.webp?itok=-2lIiaMI)
Professor and Institute for Translational Neuroscience Scholar, Endowed Lions Professor in Otolaryngology, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Device Center
![Lauren Linderman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Lauren%20Linderman.jpeg.webp?itok=KmIADyNR)
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
![Tony Low](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Tony%20Low_4.jpg.webp?itok=apjSfRXV)
Paul Palmberg Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Yulong Lu](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yulong%20Lu.jpeg.webp?itok=iP8hNK8l)
![Mitchell Luskin headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/mitch-luskin_0_0.png.webp?itok=in5XfU58)
![Vuk Mandic](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Vuk_2019_1%20crop_0.jpeg.webp?itok=5TUdVgqK)
Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Gregory Pawloski](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Pawloski%20Gregory.jpeg.webp?itok=Ngp_c9ca)
Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Murti Salapaka headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Murti%20Salapaka.jpeg.webp?itok=pjzLlRxh)
Professor, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Sachin Sapatnekar](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sachin%20Sapatnekar_2.jpg.webp?itok=uYGDjTzw)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Robert and Marjorie Henle Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
![Sapna Sarupria](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sapna%20Sarupria%204_2024.png.webp?itok=lx9hJuXW)
![M. Claudia Scarlata](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Claudia%20Scarlata%20-%203.jpg.webp?itok=2Yj_qmTs)
Director of Graduate Studies for MIfA, Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Lian Shen headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Shen_200x300.jpeg.webp?itok=5T8FKG7u)
![J. Ilya Siepmann](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/SiepmannJ_IljaNP_0_0.jpg.webp?itok=pO1suWjx)
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry
![Nadja Strobbe](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Strobbe%20Nadja%20SMALL.png.webp?itok=099Q5gce)
Assistant Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Ali Sulaiman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Ali%20Sulaiman.jpeg.webp?itok=iDO4ELMN)
Assistant Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
![Ju Sun](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Sun_Ju_headshot_thumb.jpg.webp?itok=3WaKD8Qv)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering
![Ellad B. Tadmor headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Tadmorresized.jpeg.webp?itok=zj44qaAx)
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics
![Suo Yang headshot](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Yang_200x300_0.jpg.webp?itok=RrjLYP6n)
Richard and Barbara Nelson Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Labs and Research Groups
- Fluid Mechanics Lab
- Goodpaster Research Group
- Neuromodulation Research and Technology Laboratory
- Richard D. James Research Group
- Salapaka Lab
- Simulations and Advanced Methods for Probing Energy Landscapes (SAMPEL)
Organizations
Selected projects
- Robustness of Machine Learning Algorithms for HEP Event Reconstruction. See also Strobbe receives grant to study machine learning.
- At-Scale Heterogeneous Data based Adaptive Development Platform for Machine-Learning Models for Material and Chemical Discovery
- Reliable Materials Simulation based on the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM)
- Automated Near-Infrared and Optical Imaging with the Mt. Lemmon Observing Facility (MLOF) 60-inch Telescope
- Collaborative Research: Framework: Cyberloop for Accelerated Bionanomaterials Design
- NRT-WOU: Research Training Opportunities in the Nascent Field of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
- Visit project website.
- Collaborative Research: Reliable Materials Simulation based on the Knowledgebase of Interatomic Models (KIM)