Research Directory

Research Directory

College of Science & Mathematics Research Directory

Welcome to the CSM Research Directory! This is your exciting first step into the world of research opportunities available in our departments. Below are individuals who offer undergraduates opportunities to conduct research through courses, labs, or field work. Please be sure to watch the video below to learn about the application process and best practices. As you browse through the faculty profiles, please note their availability to accept research students. Please be aware that faculty availability is updated every Monday, and applications to accepting labs are open throughout the year.

 

To view the research opportunities available in the School of Earth & Environment through the departments of Geography, Planning, and Sustainability; Geology; or Environmental Science, please visit the SEE Research page.

Biological & Biomedical Sciences

Mary Alpaugh, Ph.D. | Cancer Biology | Metastasis | Drug Development
Matthew Bealor, Ph.D. | Animal behavior | Evolution of behavior | Mating and aggression in reptiles and fishes | The effects of domestication on the evolution of behavior | Ecology of introduced lizards
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Steven Bentivenga, Ph.D. | Mycology | Plant ecology | Soil ecology
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes - Please contact your program director
Benjamin Carone, Ph.D. | Epigenetics | Genomics | Histone modifications
Yong Chen, Ph.D. | Bioinformatics | Cancer Epigenetics | Deep Learning | Computational Neuroscience | Single-cell Omics | Mathematical Modeling
Matthew Farber, Ph.D. | Microbiology | Fermentation
Michael Grove, Ph.D. | Freshwater and Marine Ecology
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!  
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Jason Heindl, Ph.D. | Microbiology | Molecular Biology | Bacteriology
Luke Holbrook, Ph.D. | Evolution | Vertebrate Paleontology | Anatomy
Gerald Hough, Ph.D.  | Birdsong | Salt Marsh Ecology | Bioacoustics | Language Evolution
Thomas Keck, Ph.D.  | Pharmacology | Neuroscience | Drug Development | Biochemistry
Claude Krummenacher, Ph.D.  | Virology | Cell culture | Drug development
Svjetlana (Lana) Vojvodic Kruse, Ph.D. | Microbiology | Entomology | Gut Microbiome | Insect Behavior
Melissa Manners, Ph.D. | Molecular mechanisms underlying the behavioral effects of chronic stress| how gene expression and molecular mechanisms are affected by disease state and drug treatment| bioinformatics | regulatory factors in gene expression | neuroscience
  • Faculty Page
  • Research Output
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes - Please contact your program director
Terry O'Brien, Ph.D. | Plant Biology | Botany | Genetics | Evolution
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Maggie Panning Pearce, Ph.D. | Neurodegeneration | Genetics | Cell & Molecular Biology
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes - Please contact your program director
Courtney Richmond, Ph.D. | Ecological modeling | Individual to community responses to environmental stressors | Life history strategies of marine invertebrates | Biocontrol of crop pests
Nathan Ruhl, Ph.D. | Aquatic Ecology | Science Pedagogy

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Gregory Caputo, Ph.D. | Biochemistry | Biophysics | Antimicrobials
James Grinias, Ph.D. | Analytical Chemistry | Diagnostics | Chemical Separations
Erik Hoy, Ph.D. | Physical Chemistry | Molecular Electronics | Charge Transport | Quantum Sensors | Quantum Chemistry | Computational Chemistry | Small Molecule Drug Tautomers
Subash Jonnalagadda, Ph.D. | Anti-Cancer Drug Design and Discovery | Medicinal/Organic Chemistry
Thomas Keck, Ph.D. | Pharmacology | Neuroscience | Drug Development | Biochemistry
Zhiwei Liu, Ph.D. | Computational Chemistry | Foldamer | Protein-Protein Interaction | Molecular Modeling | Molecular Dynamics
Ping Lu, Ph.D. | Smart Drug Delivery | Renewable Energy | Catalysis | Nanotechnology
Gustavo Moura-Letts, Ph.D. | Drug Design | Chemical Reaction Invention | Isolation of New Natural Products
Amos Mugweru, Ph.D. | Biochemistry | Biosensor | Electrochemistry | Chromatography | Mass Spectrometry
Lark Perez, Ph.D. | Organic Chemistry | Microbiology | Assay Development
Rashanique Quarels, Ph.D. | Organic Chemistry | Organic Synthesis | Photocatalysis | Peptides | Antibiotics | Analgesics
Kandalam Ramanujachary, Ph.D. | Materials | Synthesis | Characterization
Timothy Vaden, Ph.D. | Physical and Biophysical Chemistry
  • Faculty Page
  • Lab Website
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!  
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes - Please contact your program director
Zhihong Wang, Ph.D. | Biochemistry | Chemical Biology | Pharmacology | Cancer Biology
Chun Wu, Ph.D. | Computer-aided Drug Design Targeting Viruses and Cancers
Lei Yu, Ph.D. | Analytical Chemistry | Electrochemistry | ICP-MS/LC-MS/AFM

Computer Science

Ganesh Baliga, Ph.D. | Digital Health | Machine Learning | Virtual Reality | Algorithm Design and Analysis | Cloud Computing
Protima Banerjee, Ph.D.
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Anthony Breitzman, Ph.D. | Data Mining | Web and Text Mining | Computation Linguistics | Sentiment Analysis | Intellectual Property | Science Policy
André Gomes, Ph.D. | Wireless networks | Mobile networks | Network reliability | Network controllability | Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces
Guimu Guo, Ph.D. | Data Mining | Parallel Computing
Vasil Hnatyshin, Ph.D. | Computer Networks | Cyber Security | Data Science
Shen-Shyang Ho, Ph.D. | Machine Learning | Data Mining | AI
Gabriela Hristescu, Ph.D. | Data Mining | Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence | Bioinformatics/Computational Biology | Databases | Parallel and Distributed Computing
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Nikolay Inanov, Ph.D. | Network Security | Distributed Systems | Usable Security | Blockchain | Smart Contract Security | Digital equity | Self-Service Systems Security | Applied Cryptography
  • Faculty Page
  • Lab Website
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Jennifer Kay, Ph.D. | Robotics | CS Education | AI | MOOCs | Theory
Silvija Kokalj-Filipovic, Ph.D. | AI for Signals (radio, audio, image, EEG) and Systems (Cellular, Cybersecurity)
Andrea Lobo, Ph.D. | Digital Health
Jack Myers
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No  
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Richard Rabbitz | Virtual Reality | Augmented Reality | GPU accelerated computing
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes - Please contact your program director
Bo Sun, Ph.D. | Visual Analytics | Immersive Analytics | Medical Simulation
Nancy Tinkham, Ph.D. | Computer Science Education | Broadening Participation in Computing
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Neil Toporski, Ph.D. | Evaluating Differences In Programming "Cleanliness" With And Without The Aid of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Sihan Yu, Ph.D. | Emerging Communication Technology | Internet of Things | Network Security | AI-based Wireless Communication and Security

Mathematics

Nasrine Benjilali, Ph.D. | Multiple testing procedures and their applications in biomedical research | Machine learning and artificial neural networks | Cancer research | Statistical genetics
Abdul Hassen, Ph.D. | Analytic and Elementary Number Theory | Generalized Bernoulli and Euler Numbers and Polynomials
Karen Heinz, Ph.D. | Mathematics Education | Teacher Development
Helga Huntley, Ph.D. | Geophysical fluid dynamics | Ocean currents | Dynamical Systems | Numerical Modeling | Atmosphere-Ocean Science
Olcay Ilicasu, Ph.D.
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Christopher Lacke, Ph.D. | Medical Decision Making | Statistics in Medicine & Health | Statistical Education
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Paul Laumakis, Ph.D. | Applied Mathematics
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Ik Jae Lee, Ph.D. | Drone AI | Drone AI Mapping | Drone AI Urban Agriculture | Topological Data Analysis | Knot Theory | Manifolds and Cell Complexes
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes - Please contact your program director
Eric Milou, Ed.D. | K-12 Mathematics Education Curriculum & Instruction
Hieu Nguyen, Ph.D. | Drone AI | Precision Agriculture
Thanh Nguyen, Ph.D. | Computational Mathematics | Applied Mathematics | Engineering Applications
Charalampos (Babis) Papachristou, Ph.D. | Statistical Genetics | Biostatistics | Genetic Epidemiology
Christopher Simons, Ph.D. | History of Mathematics | Finite Group Theory | Computational Number Theory
Umashanger (Uma) Thayasivam, Ph.D. | Data Mining and Statistical Learning | Robust Estimation | Bayesian Statistics
Hung Tong, Ph.D. | Cluster analysis | Mixture Modeling | Computational Statistics
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No

Physics & Astronomy

Robert Chimenti, Ph.D. | Optics & Photonics | Vibrational Spectroscopy | Raman Spectroscopy | Polymer Physics | Thermal Analysis | Structural Kinetics
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: Yes - Please contact your program director
Tabbetha Dobbins, Ph.D. | Materials Science and Engineering | Advanced Materials Characterization | Synchrotron X-ray Studies | Neutron Studies
Dongmei Dong, Ph.D. | Applied Physics | Materials Science | Energies
Eduardo Flores, Ph.D. | Dark Matter | Foundations of Quantum Physics
Eddie Guerra, Ph.D. | Active Galaxies | Cosmology | Radio Astronomy | Galaxy Photometry
Jeffrey Hettinger, Ph.D. | Thin Film Synthesis | Antimicrobial Coatings | Coatings for Orthopedic Applications
Xiao Hu, Ph.D. | Protein-based Biomaterials | Polymer Physics | Tissue Engineering | Controlled Drug Release and Delivery | Biosensor and Nanomedicine
David Klassen, Ph.D. | Image Processing | Spectrophotometry | Martian Atmosphere
Michael Lim, Ph.D. | Experimental Atomic Physics
Hong Ling, Ph.D. | Ultracold Atoms & Molecules | Condensed Matter | (Quantum) Light & Matter
  • Faculty Page
  • Lab Website
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Samuel Lofland, Ph.D. | Materials Science | Catalysis | Multifunctional Materials
Nathaniel Nucci, Ph.D. | Protein Biophysics | Structural Biology | Nanotechnology
Ted Scabarozi, Ph.D. | Battery | Energy Storage
  • Professional Staff Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: Yes - Apply Now!  
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Trevor Smith, Ph.D. | Physics Education Research | Statistical Analyses of Large Data Sets | Mathematical Reasoning in Physics
Nicholas Whiting, Ph.D. | Carbon Quantum Dots | Hyperpolarized Magnetic Resonance | Electronic Cigarettes | Green Chemistry for Agricultural Applications

Psychology

Lisa Abrams, Ph.D. | Equity in higher education | Scholarship of teaching and learning | Inclusive teaching
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Bonnie Angelone, Ph.D. | Visual Attention | Change Detection | Working Memory
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
D.J. Angelone, Ph.D. | Sexual and Dating Violence
Danielle Arigo, Ph.D. | Behavioral Science | Behavioral Medicine | Psychological and Social Influences on Health/Health Behavior | Digital Health | Women's Health | Chronic Illness | Physical Activity | Body Image
Steven Brunwasser, Ph.D. | Prevention science | Youth depression | Developmental origins of disease | Perinatal mental health | Development of pediatric asthma
Roberta Dihoff, Ph.D. | Early Intervention (0-3 year) for children with developmental concerns | Childhood Obesity
Tom Dinzeo, Ph.D. | Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders | Schizotypy | Lifestyle and Health Behaviors
Dustin Fife, Ph.D. | Data Visualization | Statistical Cognition | Exploratory Data Analysis
Katherine Gotham, Ph.D. | Autism | Depression | Identity
Jeffrey Greeson, Ph.D. | Health Psychology | Stress | Mindfulness
Jim Haugh, Ph.D. | Depression | Mobile Health | Anxiety | Self-Help | Equity in Admissions to Ph.D. Program
Gerald Hough, Ph.D. | Birdsong | Salt Marsh Ecology | Bioacoustics | Language Evolution
Meredith Jones, Ph.D. | Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood | Romantic Relationships | Dating Violence Prevention | Sexual Risk Prevention
Jonathan Lassiter, Ph.D. | African-centered Psychology | Health Inequities | Mental Health | LGBTQ+
Tenelle Porter, Ph.D. | Social Psychology | Developmental Psychology | Adolescence | Motivation | Intellectual Humility
Brian Pugliese, Ph.D. | Human Error | Safety | Human Factors | Automation
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Bethany Raiff, Ph.D. | Technology | Health | Behavior Analysis | Behavioral Economics | Substance Use Disorders
Christina Simmons, Ph.D. | Autism | Applied Behavior Analysis | Severe Behavior | Caregivers | Technology | Compassionate Care
Eve Sledjeski, Ph.D. | Traumatic Stress | Human Psychophysiology | PTSD | Peritraumatic Dissociation | Secondary Data Analysis
  • Faculty Page
  • Currently Accepting Undergraduate Students: No
  • Currently Accepting Graduate Students: No
Michelle Ennis Soreth, Ph.D. | Applied Behavior Analysis | Autism Spectrum Disorder | Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention | Parent-Implemented Interventions | Telehealth Service Delivery | Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Patrice (Polly) Tremoulet, Ph.D. | Human Factors Engineering | Cognitive Psychology | Healthcare Informatics