Research Listing - College
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor, Associate Department Head of Instruction
Nicholas Hopper’s primary research interest is in online communications security and privacy. Within this field his main focus is on anonymous communication, censorship resistance, and applied cryptography. In the past, he also worked on security and privacy in peer-to-peer networks, BGP routing, electronic cash, and provable security for steganography and watermarking.
Research Division
Computing Foundations…
Department of Chemistry
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Distinguished University Teaching Professor, Department of Chemistry
- Chemical Biology, protein engineering
- Organic Chemistry, bioorganic chemistry
Our group is interested in molecular recognition and catalysis in the context of proteins. Current research is focused on the process of protein prenylation, a key modification that occurs on proteins involved in cellular signaling. Part of the group is studying the enzymes responsible for this process with the ultimate goal of facilitating the development of new anti-cancer…
School of Mathematics
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, School of Mathematics
Algebraic, geometric, and topological combinatorics
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
I am a geomicrobiologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and a member of the BioTechnology Institute at UMN. My research examines the impact of microbial activity on geological and environmental processes such as mineral formation, mineral alteration and weathering, metal(loid) redox transformations, nutrient biogeochemical cycling, and the remediation of polluted environments. My specific research objectives are driven by conducting fundamental scientific…
- Accepting new undergraduate research students
- Accepting new graduate research students
Chemical Theory Center
Graduate Student, Truhlar Group
- Computational study of inorganometallic systems
Physics
Professor
High Energy Astrophysics
My research interests are in experimental high-energy astrophysics. As a member of the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS), I study gamma rays detected from active galactic nuclei. Gamma-ray astronomy probes the extreme physics of systems such as the black holes at the centers of active galaxies. These…
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Assistant Professor
Our research bridges biotechnology and sustainable catalysis, harnessing enzymes that demonstrate versatile catalytic capabilities under ambient conditions without requiring rare metals or toxic solvents. We focus particularly on enzymes catalyzing carbon-carbon coupling reactions to construct synthetic metabolic pathways that enable carbon and energy-efficient transformation of simple, low-value compounds such as one-carbon (C1) and two-carbon (C2) substrates into complex, value-added…
Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering
Assistant Professor
Guanyi Lu has expertise in experimental and computational geomechanics.
- Accepting new undergraduate research students
- Accepting new graduate research students
Data Science Initiative
Associate Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy
My area of expertise is in experimental high energy physics with experience in both hadron collider and neutrino oscillation physics. Most recently, I have been fascinated by the neutrino sector of particle physics. Although the existence of these particles has been known for many decades, much is still unknown about them. What is the ordering of the neutrinos? Is there CP-violation in the lepton sector? Are neutrinos responsible for leptogenesis? Can neutrinos lead to a discovery of physics…
Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Barocas research group explores the relationship between tissue architecture and mechanics using a combination of multiscale computational models and innovative mechanical experiments. This approach, applied in a wide range of organs and tissues, represents two key paradigms in modern biomechanics:
- No matter what scale is of interest, to understand it properly, one must study the smaller scale — one cannot understand an organ without studying…