Research Listing - College

• Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry: microscopy, spectroscopy
• Nanoscience & Materials Chemistry: molecular plasmonics, nanomaterials
• Chemical Biology: biophysical spectroscopy
• Experimental Physical Chemistry: ultrafast vibrational…

Junaed Sattar’s primary research focus is on making robots work safely and intuitively with people, so humans and robots can coexist and collaborate. This means looking into improving a robot's perception about people, their intentions, and/or actions, engaging in dialog, as well as the environment. Perceiving the world robustly, particularly under changing and degraded conditions is an open challenge; this research interest extends into multi-modal sensory perception. Past research has been…

Behavior Detection, Deception Detection, Risk Assessment.

Expertise

• Security Risk Assessment
• Security Program Design
• Threat Management
• Behavior Detection
• Security Interviewing
• Threat Intelligence
• Aviation Security
• Critical Infrastructure Protection  

Consulting
Northern Tier Energy, State of Minnesota, Metro Transit Police Department, Hennepin County Sheriffs Office,…

The Living Devices Lab is focused on building benchtop systems that mimic human disease outside the human body. We use microfluidics and microfabrication to create engineered tissues in which we control biological components and transport processes at the length scale that is relevant to physiology and pathology. We believe these cutting-edge tools will help us elucidate fundamental mechanisms of disease, improve disease diagnosis, and develop new therapies.

Currently, we are working…

Wrenn’s teaching philosophy involves presenting the material to students to create an interest in the field of computer science and to present it in a manner that can be understood. He loves teaching problem-solving and incorporating multiple teaching strategies for the visual learner, the auditory learner, the reading/writing learners, and the active learners. 

Research Division
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I am a geoscientist whose research focuses on the physics of flow and reactive transport in porous and fractured media. My research group combines theory, high-performance numerical simulations, machine learning, and visual laboratory experiments to understand how coupled processes control mixing and reactive transport across spatial scales (from pore to field scale). Based on the improved understanding, we develop predictive models for groundwater, subsurface energy, and environmental applications.

Undergraduate research opportunities available in 1. Microfluidics laboratory experiments to visualize groundwater processes; 2. Fieldwork to characterize fractured aquifers.

Professor Garrard's work concentrates on flight mechanics and control of aerospace vehicles.

Chandra's research interests are in the areas of operating systems and distributed systems. His research focuses on resource management and performance in large-scale distributed systems with the goal of achieving reliability, scalability, and manageability. The recent focus has been on designing and optimizing systems for data-intensive computing applications in cloud and edge computing platforms, especially for data generated near end-users (e.g., mobile…

• Chemical and physical processes for water, wastewater, and hazardous waste treatment
• Membrane applications in water and waste water treatment
• Membrane bioreactor design
• The design of composite membranes and membrane modules for environmental applications
• Passive barrier membranes for in-situ bioremediaton of chlorinated organic compounds
• Biofilms grown on gas-permeable membranes

Note: Prof. Semmens is no longer accepting…

I am working in Dr. Lucy Fortson's group, studying both Blazars— active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets are along the line of sight of the observer— and radio-loud AGN with mis-aligned jets to our line-of-sight to investigate their properties as gamma-ray emitters compared to the more prevalent blazars. The gamma rays emitted from radio galaxy jets are a probe of the physics of the jet. Specifically, I am analyzing VERITAS observatory data of 3C 120 to investigate the idea that…