PhD Advisors at University of Illinois Chicago 伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校 US
Quick answer: University of Illinois Chicago in the US has 831 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 19 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at University of Illinois Chicago, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (19)
Professors at University of Illinois Chicago with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Akintomide Afolayan Akinsanola
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I am actively seeking highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students, and postdocs who are interested in utilizing regional and Earth system models, and observations to understand the dynamics of the climate system, better quantify extreme weather/climate events and address the critical challe…
Dr. Akinsanola is broadly interested in how large-scale tropospheric circulation influences regional climate and climatic extremes. He utilizes varieties of climate models and observations to better understand climate dynamics, especially processes that impact monsoon systems as …
Austin Mordahl
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I am actively looking to grow my research group with new Ph.D., M.S., and B.S., students. Please feel free to reach out if you are interested in working together. *Funded RA positions available.*
approaches to automatically find bugs and improve the quality of software. More specifically, I am interested in improving the utility, performance, and usability of static analysis and testing tools for finding bugs.
David Hernández Uribe
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I welcome applications from highly motivated undergraduate students, M.S. and Ph.D. students, and postdoctoral researchers interested in economic geology, subduction-zone processes, metamorphic and igneous petrology, phase equilibria, and geochemical cycling.
Subduction-zone processes, Economic geology, Metamorphic geology and tectonics, Phase equilibria
Douglas D. Thomas
Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy - Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
Director of Graduate Studies, College of Pharmacy - Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
⭐ An NIH-funded Postdoctoral position is available immediately to study epigenetics. We offer a dynamic research environment with dedicated mentoring to support career development. If interested email ddthomas@Uic.edu and visit https://research.uic.edu/news-stories/postdoctoral-position-in-epigenetics…
investigate the myriad of abnormal epigenetic modifications that have been associated with tumor phenotype via tumor suppressor silencing or upregulation of oncogenic proteins. The current emphasis of our team focuses on genome-wide analysis of events leading to the development a…
Hongjin Li
Associate Professor · College of Nursing
⭐ She is currently accepting PhD Students.
Dr. Li's research focuses on three main components: (1) phenotyping, identifying trajectory and predictors (genetic and metabolomic) of the psychoneurological symptom cluster (pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety) experienced by breast cancer survivors; (2) testi…
Jason Polakis
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I’m looking for excited and motivated students to work with. Information for PhD applications at UIC can be found here.
Web and Mobile Security
Internet Privacy
Online Social Networks
Network Security
Jeffrey Sklansky
Professor
⭐ For potential graduate students, Sklansky is currently accepting new students in early American history, intellectual history, labor history, and the history of capitalism.
intellectual and social history of capitalism in colonial America and the United States
Jennifer Brier
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ As of 2025, I have taken a pause on accepting new PhD students. I will consider working with students in various fields--public history, oral history, the history of HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ history in the US--but I am not able to serve as the main advisor to new PhD students.
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Jeremy Riel
Assistant Professor · College of Education
⭐ I am regularly seeking undergraduate and graduate interns and research assistants to join the lab who are interested in educational technology development, AI, games and simulations, or technology policy. More information for undergraduates can be found at the Undergraduate Research Experience page.…
Computational knowledge representation; Human-AI interaction; Neuro-symbolic AI; Interactive AI agents for teaching and learning; AI literacy and computational thinking education/professional development; Simulations and narrative/scenario-based learning; AI and emerging tech ris…
Keely Stauter-Halsted, PhD
Professor and Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland
⭐ For potential graduate students, she is currently accepting students wishing to specialize in modern East Central Europe, especially Poland, and who are able to conduct research in at least one East European language. She is particularly eager to train those interested in questions of human mobility…
modern East-Central European history with a focus on Poland, Eastern Europe, Poland, The Polish diaspora, migration and refugee studies, comparative nationalism, post-imperial transitions, peasant mobilization, gender and sexuality, Jewish-Christian relations, impact of refugees …
Kevin M. Schultz
Professor and Chair of the Department of History
⭐ Professor Schultz is accepting graduate students working on American history topics ranging from the late nineteenth century to today. He particularly invites students working in religious and intellectual history, the 1960s, and American immigration.
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Malgorzata Fidelis
Professor
⭐ Yes, I am currently accepting new students. I can advise a range of topics related to Eastern Europe, but my expertise is in social and cultural history with a focus on gender, youth, popular culture, everyday life, the history of communism, and the intersection of culture and politics.
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Mary Dawn Koenig
Associate Professor · College of Nursing
⭐ Currently accepting PhD students
maternal obesity, perinatal nutrition, iron metabolism, nutritional status and immune/inflammatory responses, interventions to optimize nutrition in pregnancies complicated by obesity, improving iron bioavailability and cardiometabolic health
Rodrigo Solinis-Casparius
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ I am actively looking for students to join doing their MA and PhD research… email me!
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Sarick Lars Matzen
Assistant Professor
⭐ I am looking for undergraduate and graduate (Masters and Ph.D.) students who are interested in understanding metal transport and bioavailability in urban soils. Interested students can email me with a brief description of their interests and questions at smatzen@umn.edu
Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry, Nanoparticle Behavior, Environmental Justice
Stephanie Torres
Assistant Professor · College of Education
⭐ *Dr. Torres will not be accepting new PhD graduate students for the 2026-2027 academic year*
community-based participatory research (CBPR), healing-centered approach, community-based programs, well-being and mental health among immigrant communities, resilience, empowerment, cultural strengths among Latine community, Latine families impacted by immigration-related stress…
Wei Tang
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ Fully funded Ph.D. positions are available. Prospective students are encouraged to contact Dr.Tang with their CV, academic transcripts, and TOEFL scores.
computer vision, machine learning, and digital image processing
Xiaoguang Wang
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
⭐ Seeking one highly motivated Ph.D. student interested in computer systems and security. Occasionally offers funded research opportunities for UIC master’s and undergraduate students, with preference for students who have taken his courses.
I work on system and software security projects, including system software support for heterogeneous CPU architectures and software system security. My past projects also include building secure systems on (with) virtualization, operating system kernel, and compiler.
Youngjoon Suh
Assistant Professor
⭐ We're Hiring! Opportunities available at https://suh.lab.uic.edu/opportunities/
Dr. Suh’s research intersects the multidisciplinary fields of thermal-fluid sciences, interfacial and transport physics, and renewable energy, centering on keywords – machine learning, data-driven science, and computer vision. His research aims to bring transformational efficienc…
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A. Naomi Paik
Associate Professor
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A. Simon Pickard
Professor, College of Pharmacy - Pharmacy Systems Outcomes and Policy; Associate Head, PSOP; Assistant Director, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
evaluating the safety, effectiveness and value of health care interventions; improving drug-related outcomes through education (particularly opioids); and on the measurement and evaluation of quality of care and health outcomes.
A.W. Eaton
Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs & Interdisciplinary Programs · College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
aesthetic and ethical value, pornography, erotic art, fatness, feminist aesthetics, aesthetics and race, artistic representations of rape, pragmatic account of pictures, aesthetic injustice
Aadirupa Saha
Assistant Professor
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Aaron N. Winn
Associate Professor · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
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Abolfazl Asudeh
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Algorithm Design for Data and AI problems. He designs efficient, accurate, and responsible solutions that leverage Approximation, Randomized, and Computational Geometry Algorithms. His research interests include the interplay of Data/Algorithms/AI, Responsible Data Science, and R…
Abolfazl Mohammadian, PhD, PE
UIC Distinguished Professor and Department Head
Travel Behavior Analysis
Transportation Planning and Demand Modeling
Goods Movement and Logistics
Travel Surveys
Transportation Systems Analysis
Microsimulation
Choice Modeling and Applied Econometrics
Abriana Stewart-Height, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dr. Stewart-Height leads the Bioinspired Robotics and Resilient Intelligence Laboratory (BR²I Lab). Her research investigates the integration of technologies and algorithms for long-term, autonomous multi-agent teams in extreme terrestrial environments. She draws on techniques fr…
Adam Goodman
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
migration history, policy, and law; Latino history; race and ethnicity; social movements; borders and borderlands; and twentieth- and twenty-first-century US, Mexican, and Central American history
Adina Luican-Mayer
Professor
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Agatha Marie Gallo
Professor Emerita · College of Nursing
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Agnieszka Sobolewska
Research Assistant Professor
Cultural history of modernism and psycho-medical sciences; history of psychoanalysis and psychology in Central and Eastern Europe; life writing studies; anthropology of knowledge; anthropology of writing practices.
Agustina Laurito
Associate Professor · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Ahmed A. Abokifa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Water Resources Engineering, Multi-Scale Modeling and Optimization, Water Quality Control
Ahmed A. Shabana
UIC Distinguished Professor
Computational dynamics
Vibration and control of multibody systems that consist of interconnected rigid and deformable bodies
Integration of finite element
Computational geometry
Multibody system algorithms
Integration of computer aided design and analysis (ICADA)
Aidan Gray
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · University of Illinois Chicago
philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, theoretical linguistics, and the history of analytic philosophy. He has a particular focus on reference, proper names, and issues surrounding Frege's Puzzle.
Ainsworth A. Clarke
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
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Aisha Griffith
Associate Professor · College of Education
Her research focuses on the development and function of relationships between adolescents and non-parental adults within diverse learning contexts, including out-of-school time programs and schools. She is particularly interested in how mechanisms within these relationships and i…
Aixa Alfonso
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Regulation of Neuronal Polarity and Acquisition of Neuronal Fate in C. Elegans
Aixa Alfonso
Associate Professor · Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Chicago
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Akemi Nishida
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Ableism, saneism, racism, sexism, social injustices, cross-community solidarity, disability studies, critical race theories, transnational feminist studies, immigration studies, neoliberal political economy, U.S. public health care system, higher education, activist community, ne…
Alana Gunn
Associate Professor
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Alana Steffen
Research Associate Professor · College of Nursing
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Alberto Bernabe
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development; Professor of Law · School of Law
personal injury, mass disaster litigation, media law; Torts, Professional Responsibility, Remedies
Alessandra S. Eustaquio
Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
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Alex Leow
Professor · Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Chicago
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Alexander Eisenschmidt
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
alternative forms of collective housing and the productivities of architectural urbanism; the study of the contemporary city and speculations on new forms of urbanism and housing
Alexander Furman
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Ergodic theory and Lie groups, especially aspects of rigidity for group actions
Alexander Jones
Senior Instructional Laboratory Specialist
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Alexander L. Yarin
UIC Distinguished Professor and Richard and Loan Hill Professor
Nanotechnology
Electrospinning of nano fibers
Nanotechnology
Co-electrospinning of core-shell nanofibers
Thermal treatment of core-shell nanofibers to manufacture turbostratic carbon nanotubes
Micro- and nanofluidics
Nanoparticle-based ink-jet printing in micro- and optoelectroni…
Alexander Mankin
Distinguished Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Center for Biomolecular Sciences · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
Fundamental mechanisms of protein synthesis. Structure and function of the ribosome. Ribosome engineering. Mechanisms of antibiotic action. Mechanisms of resistance to antibiotics.
Alexander Nekrasov
Associate Professor of Accounting (with Tenture) · College of Business Administration
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Alexander Shingleton, PhD
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Evolution, Development, Physiology, Eco-Evo-Devo, Gene-Environment Interactions, Modeling, Drosophila, Morphology, Allometry, Plasticity
Alfred Thomas
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Comparative Literature | Early Modern/Renaissance British Literature | Gender and Sexuality Studies | Medieval British and European Literature
Alicia Alvarez
Professor of Law · School of Law
clinical legal education and community economic development
Alison Castro Superfine
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
My research interests focus primarily on studying and supporting mathematics teacher learning, both practicing and prospective elementary teachers. My funded projects include designing and studying learning environments for mathematics teacher preparation courses to support prosp…
Allyson Holbrook
Professor · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Amanda E Lewis
Director · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Amid Khodadoust
Associate Professor, Director of Environmental Engineering Program · College of Engineering
Environmental separations technologies: adsorption, solvent extraction, leaching. Removal of heavy metals and other toxic species from water. Remediation of contaminated soils and sediments.
Amie M. Schuck
Interim Head and Professor
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Amit Ranjan Trivedi
Associate Professor
Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the edge; Hardware Security; Nano-robotics
Amy Bailey
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
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Amy T. Campbell
Associate Dean for Law & Health Sciences; Professor of Law · School of Law
Her current scholarly interests focus on how to rethink legal/policy approaches to advance mental health and, more broadly, how to develop health policy from a therapeutic, evidence-informed, and ethical perspective.
An Tran
Teaching Associate, Classical Guitar · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
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Anastasios Sidiropoulos
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
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Andrea Craft
Teaching Assistant Professor, Dept. of Urban Planning and Policy · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
government transparency, accountability, open data, community participation, and the politics of economic development incentives, particularly tax increment financing (TIF)
Andreas E. Feldmann
Professor
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Andrei Karginov
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Protein engineering and synthetic biology
One of the directions of my laboratory is development of novel tools for interrogation of signaling pathways in living cells. We employ protein engineering approaches to gain control of individual proteins, reconstruct and manipulate spe…
Andrew D. Eaton
Associate Professor · Jane Addams College of Social Work
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Andrew Foell
Assistant Professor · Jane Addams College of Social Work
Housing and Community Development Policy
Mixed-Income Community Development Initiatives
Urban Poverty and Low-Income Populations
Organizational Partnerships and Collaboration
Community-Engaged and Mixed-Methods Research
Andrew J. Dombard
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies · University of Illinois Chicago
Planetary Science, Geophysics, Planetary Exploration
Andrew Riley
Assistant Professor
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Andrew Rojecki
Professor
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Andrey Yushkov
Assistant Professor · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Andrés M. Urcuqui-Bustamante
Assistant Professor · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Andrés has conducted extensive environmental science research in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas in the United States, Mexico, and Colombia. His research interests are located within the fields of environmental science and studies. These include:
- Environmental policy and gov…
Andy Clarno
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Racism, Capitalism, Colonialism, Empire, Policing, Comparative Racial Formation, Global and Transnational Sociology, Urban Sociology, Political Sociology
Angela Kong
Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes, and Policy; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science; Center Affiliate, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
Implementation science, chronic disease prevention, public health nutrition, dietary assessment
Angeles Salles
Assistant Professor
I am interested in the auditory processing of complex sounds and the underlying neurobiology of social behaviors. In humans, efforts have been made to investigate the neural underpinnings of speech and music processing. It is crucial to establish mammalian models that will allow …
Anh Ngo
Professor
Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials; Quantum-to-Device Modelling; Artificial Intelligence-Driven Computational Materials Science for Materials Design; Renewable Energy and Nanotechnology; Advanced Battery Materials; Physics-Informed Artificial Intelligence for Microgrid Insight…
Anjum Ansari
Professor
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Ann M. Lousin
Professor of Law · School of Law
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Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
UIC Distinguished Professor
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Anna Romina Guevarra
Professor and Founding Director
immigrant and transnational labor, the geopolitics of carework, the Philippine diaspora, food studies, and critical race/ethnic studies
Anna Vlasits
Affiliate Assistant Professor
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Anne M. Fink
Associate Professor & Department Head · College of Nursing
Autonomic neuroscience, circadian rhythms, hypertension, occupational health, shift-work sleep disorder, sleep apnea, stroke, substance use disorder, workplace safety.
Annette Martín
Assistant Professor
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Anrin Chakraborti
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
I build secure systems and protocols that incorporate cryptographic tools to solve real-world problems. My research lies in the intersection of cryptography, systems and theory, Some of the questions that I am exploring through my current research are: i) how can we scale cryptog…
Anthony Laden
Professor
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Antonio Torres
Assistant Professor · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
Antonio Torres explores expressions and sensations through architecture and various media. He co-founded the Bittertang Farm as a place to experiment with the physics, biology, behaviors, and emotions of our surroundings. He continues to create projects between his childhood home…
April Jackson
Associate Professor · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Aravinda Prasad Sistla
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
I am interested in the following areas of research:
Formal Methods in Concurrent and Distributed Systems
With the widespread use of distributed and concurrent systems and with the increase in the complexity of software for such systems, it becomes important to develop various met…
Ardith Z. Doorenbos
Professor · College of Nursing
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Aria Razfar, PhD
Professor · College of Education
Aria Razfar coordinates the Project ELMSA grant, preparing Chicago-area teachers to deliver culturally relevant instruction, while his personal research interests focus on the sociocultural dimensions of language and its meaning to human development. Razfar's research interests a…
Ariel Smith Malonga
Assistant Professor · College of Nursing
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Aritra Banerjee
Assistant Professor
analog, RF, millimeter-wave, and THz integrated circuits and systems
Arman Roohi
Associate Professor
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Arthur Acevedo
Professor of Law · School of Law
tax law, corporate accountability, and constitutional law
Arunkumar Subramanian, PhD
Associate Professor
Nanomaterials, devices, and systems
Coupled-physics probing and microscopy of nanosystems
Electrochemical energy storage
Electrokinetic nanoengineering
Field-directed nanomanipulation and nanomanufacturing
Ash Stephens
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
queer criminology, transgender studies, queer of color critique, surveillance studies, critical prison studies, gender-based violence, critical sports studies, and prison industrial complex abolition and activism
Ashley Muchow
Assistant Professor
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Aslihan Karatas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Systems,
Built environment,
Optimization and decision support systems for construction operations,
Off-site/prefab construction.
Atef S. Said
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
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Austin Baty
Assistant Professor
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Azadeh Haghighi, PhD
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Smart manufacturing; Additive manufacturing; In-space manufacturing; Printed electronics; Cooperative robotic additive manufacturing; Decision support systems for intelligent manufacturing.
Balajee Vamanan
Associate Professor
computer networks: datacenters, low-latency networks, architecture of routers, cellular networks, programmable routers, etc. Nevertheless, I am broadly interested in computer systems research as an area and I do dabble on research topics such as in-memory caches and architecture …
Barbara Di Eugenio
Professor
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Barbara Ransby
John D. MacArthur University Chair, and Distinguished Professor, in the Departments of Black Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History · University of Illinois Chicago
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Barbara Sostaita
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
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Beate Geissler
Professor · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
interdisciplinary artist researcher and educator interested in the question of how human actions transform the planet and how those transformations alter our existence. Her work concentrates on inner alliances of knowledge and power, their deep links in western culture and the es…
Beatriz Peñalver Bernabé
Assistant Professor · Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Chicago
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Ben Feigenberg
Professor
Labor Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Crime, Economics of Education
Ben Ost
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Economics of Education, Labor Economics, Applied Econmetrics
Benjamin Call
Research Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Ergodic Theory, Dynamical Systems from Geometric Systems, Thermodynamical Formalism
Benjamin M. Superfine, JD, PhD
Professor · College of Education
education law and policy, history of education law and policy, school finance reform, standards-based reform and accountability, teacher evaluation, collective bargaining
Benjamin Sanchez Terrones
Associate Professor
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Bernadette Sánchez
President's Distinguished Professor; Inaugural Presidential Humanities and Social Sciences Chair · College of Education
mentoring relationships and the positive development of urban, low-income racially minoritized adolescents, particularly Latino/a/x/e and African-American youth. Her research is on the role of formal and natural mentoring relationships in youth’s healthy development, the resilien…
Besma Smida
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
wireless communication theory, full-duplex communication, radar, and backscatter modulation
Beth E. Richie
Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies; Inaugural Chair in Social Sciences and the Humanities · University of Illinois Chicago
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Bethany G. Elkington
Research Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Associate Director of Ethnobotany Resources, Pharmacognosy Institute; Curator Atkins Medicinal Plant Garden, College of Pharmacy; Institute Affiliate, Pharmacognosy Institute · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
Exploring how plants and people-plant interactions influence human health and well-being, focusing on traditional herbal medicines in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Chicago.
Bharath Chelluboina
Tenure track Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
Bharath Brain Lab focuses on understanding the pathogenesis of stroke in the context of aging and comorbidities such as hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Our lab explores innovative strategies to develop effective stroke therapies tailored to aging populations and individu…
Bhaskar DasGupta
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Theoretical Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics/Algorithms, Computational Biology, Computational Geometry and Computational Finance
Birgit M. Dietz
Research Associate Professor · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
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Bo Zou
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
transportation and related infrastructure systems performance; trans-disciplinary research by developing new and adapting existing methodologies and modeling tools with roots in an array of foundational fields such as civil systems, operations research, machine learning and AI, m…
Boris Glavic
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
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Boris Igic
Professor
My lab seeks to advance our understanding of mating system evolution, and more broadly the patterns and causes of trait changes and their effects on diversification. Mating systems have wide-ranging effects, including the their strong causal association with the magnitude and dis…
Branden A. McLeod
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Fatherhood among Black fathers and families
Reentry into society from incarceration
Criminal justice reform
Brenda Parker
Associate Professor · College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
Broadly, I am interested in urban equity and how we can create more inclusive and restorative communities. My work addresses topics such as affordable housing, urban politics, care, and activism and seeks to understand gender, race, and other power relations in cities, governance…
Brent C. Talbot
Professor, Music Education; Head of Music · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
examines power, discourse, and issues of justice in varied settings for music learning around the globe; promotes equity and inclusion and diversifies approaches in music learning and teaching; intersections of music education and ethnomusicology
Brian Anderson
Associate Professor, Industrial Design
Director, MDes Industrial Design · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
ethical innovation and advanced fabrication, craft of design, combining advanced and traditional fabrication techniques to explore and develop new material-based knowledge, and aesthetics of sustainability
Brian P. Chaplin
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Environmental Chemistry, Water Treatment
Brian S. Bauer
Associate Department Head and Professor
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Brian T. Murphy
Professor · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
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Brian Ziebart
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
I am primarily interested in machine learning and its applications to problems in robotics, assistive technologies, and human-computer interaction. I develop and apply new techniques for predicting structured data. Adversarial prediction: Approximating our training data and optim…
Brooke Shipley
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Algebraic Topology and Homotopy Theory
Carla Tejada
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
Urban Freight and City Logistics; Freight Network Modeling; Multimodal Network Modeling; Freight Data and statistic methods; Sustainable Transportation Systems (Alternative Transportation Modes; Impacts of Freight in Cities and Communities)
Carmen Lilley, PhD
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Professor Lilley’s research interests are focused on fabrication of nanoscale materials and characterization and modeling of material properties at the nanoscale. Her research on nanomanufacturing and fabrication has focused on self assembly of nanowire and nanoislands with e-bea…
Carol Estwing Ferrans
Professor Emerita · College of Nursing
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Caroline Terry
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Model Theory, Combinatorics
Catherine Vincent
Associate Professor Emerita · College of Nursing
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Cecil J. Hunt II
Professor of Law · School of Law
Constitutional law, Jurisprudence, lending discrimination, and human rights.
Cedric Johnson
Professor
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Celeste M. Hammond
Director, Center for Real Estate Law; Professor of Law · School of Law
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Celso A. Mendoza
Assistant Professor
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Chang Park
Research Assistant Professor · College of Nursing
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Chang-ming Hsieh, PhD
Director of PhD Program and Associate Professor · Jane Addams College of Social Work
Quality of life, subjective well-being, life satisfaction, client satisfaction of social services for older adults
Charles E. Gaber
Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes & Policy · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
Pharmacoepidemiology
Causal inference
Comparative effectiveness research
Geriatric oncology
Health services research
Charles E. Hounmenou
Associate Professor · Jane Addams College of Social Work
Professional Interests
Human trafficking
Commercial sexual exploitation of children
Child Welfare
Community Policing
Human rights of detainees and immigrants
Cheng Ouyang
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Probability theory and Stochastic analysis: diffusions and differential geometry, rough paths theory, SPDEs
Cheryl Towler Weese
Professor, Graphic Design; Director, MDes Graphic Design; Associate Dean, CADA Academic Programs · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
explores design’s civic potential. Through projects that span publication, identity, interactive, and environmental design, she investigates design’s ability to participate in public dialogue and shape collective consciousness. With this approach, she endeavors to foster an engag…
Cheryl Wilson
Teaching Associate, Jazz Voice · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chieh Chang
Professor
The research in my laboratory tries to understand the rules that allow the nervous system to ‘wire itself’ in embryos, ‘rewire itself’ after injury in adults, and degenerate as animals age. We specifically address the following questions: How do neurons regulate the transition of…
Chieh Chang
Professor · Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Chicago
Mechanisms underlying neural circuit assembly and regeneration, and age-related neurodegenerative diseases
Chiou-Fen Chuang
Associate Professor
Molecular and genetic mechanisms of sensory diversity in C. elegans
Chiou-Fen Chuang
Associate Professor · Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christian Oiticica
Senior Instructional Laboratory Specialist
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christian Peters
Assistant Professor · Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christina Pugh
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Creative Writing – Poetry | Poetry and Poetics
Christine Coughlin
Assistant Professor
Memories provide a record of our past experiences that contributes to our understanding of who we are. However, they can also serve as "building blocks" for forms of flexible cognition including future event imagination, reasoning, and creativity. Using behavioral and neuroimagin…
Christine McGinn
Assistant Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christof Sparber
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Mathematical Physics, Quantum Dynamics, Partial Differential Equations, Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Multi-scale Problems.
Christoph Grein
Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christopher B. Burke
Professor of Practice
Dr. Burke is a practicing Civil Engineer who specializes in water resources, and municipal engineering focusing on the Midwest.
Christopher G. Mitchell
Associate Professor · Jane Addams College of Social Work
Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities
Integrated Care and Behavioral Health Practice
HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Adherence
Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions
Interprofessional Education
Social Work Ethics
Christopher Muhawe
Assistant Professor of Law · School of Law
Dr. Christopher Muhawe researches the intersection of technology and law, human rights, and data privacy law. He focuses on the legal and social implications of emerging digital technologies on marginalized communities. His cause-driven research advocates for respect of human rig…
Christos G. Takoudis
Professor of Chemical Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chun-Tao Che
Harry H.S. Fong Professor of Pharmacognosy, Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
Drug lead discovery from medicinal plants; Traditional Chinese medicine; Quality and standardization of botanical supplements
Cindy Tekobbe
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Claire Johnson Raba
Assistant Professor of Law · School of Law
empirical legal scholar researching access to civil justice and the impact of the civil legal system on low-income borrowers and their communities. At the intersection of big data, emerging legal technologies, consumer protection, and racial and social justice, her research is di…
Claire Laurier Decoteau
Professor
Social Theory, Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Health and Medicine, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of the Body, Globalization, Gender/Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity, and Ethnography
Clare Lyster
Professor · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
architecture, landscape, and infrastructure, with emphasis on how metabolic and socio-technical systems territorialize the built environment and the implications of this for design
Clare S. Kim
Assistant Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Colleen Piersen
Associate Department Head for Administration, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Research Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Collette Pollard
Associate Professor · College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Conley Wouters
Assistant Professor of Law · School of Law
legal storytelling and Animal Law
Constance J. Jeffery
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
The genome projects yielded the sequences of tens of thousands of proteins. Elucidating the roles these proteins play in health and disease, and also how they can be used and/or modified for the development of novel therapeutics, biomaterials, biosensors, methods for energy produ…
Constance J. Jeffery
Professor · Graduate Program in Neuroscience, University of Illinois Chicago
Protein structure and function; genetic mutations that lead to disease
Constantine M. Megaridis
University Distinguished Professor and James P. Hartnett Professor of Energy Engineering
Heat and Mass Transfer, Multiphase Flows<br /> Thermal Management of Microelectronics<br /> Multifunctional Coatings and Wettability Patterning<br /> Droplets, Sprays, Aerosols<br /> Interfacial Phenomena<br /> Micro/Nanofluidics
Cornelia Caragea, PhD
Robert V. Kenyon Professor in Computer Science · University of Illinois Chicago
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, information retrieval, and natural language processing
Corrinne Mills
Associate Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Professor Mills, a member of the CMS collaboration, researches the properties of the observed Higgs boson and connections between the physics of Higgs bosons and the fundamental questions that the Standard Model of particle physics, for all its successes, cannot answer. How did t…
Courtney Luedke, Phd
Associate Professor · College of Education
Courtney Luedke’s research focuses on transforming Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) students’ experiences through anti-racist practices within higher education. Within this broader context, her research agenda focuses on a) educational access for BIPOC students across t…
Craig D. Foster
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
My research focuses on computer modeling of deformation in solid materials with an emphasis on geomaterials such as rocks, soils, and concrete, as well as biomaterials. In particular, I use finite element analysis to investigate a variety of problems, from plasticity and damage t…
Cristián A. Roa
Associate Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Cynthia Blair
Associate Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Cynthia Fritschi
Associate Professor · College of Nursing
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
D'Arcy Meyer-Dombard, PhD
Associate Professor and Director of Undergrad Studies · University of Illinois Chicago
Geomicrobiology, Astrobiology, Microbial Ecology
Dalal Katsiaficas
Associate Professor · College of Education
Katsiaficas’ research interests relate to the social development of immigrant-origin youth. Integrating theories and methods from developmental, social and educational psychology, her research broadly explores questions such as: How do immigrant students engage in their schools, …
Dan Peterman
Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dan Wheeler
Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Daniel Borzutzky
LAS Distinguished Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Contemporary Literature | Creative Writing – Poetry | Poetry and Poetics | Creative Writing – Fiction | Latinx Studies | Translation and Latin American Literature
Daniel Groves
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Geometric group theory and low-dimensional topology
Daniel M. Maggin
Associate Dean of Research and Professor · College of Education
Daniel Maggin's research and teaching addresses three areas related to the education of students with disabilities with a particular emphasis on supporting those students with and at risk for developing emotional and behavioral disorders. These areas include the use of various re…
Daniel Morales-Doyle, PhD
Associate Professor of Science Education · College of Education
His research examines the potential for science education to act as a catalyst for alternative futures. Specifically, Morales-Doyle's work focuses on the sociopolitical dimensions of science curriculum, teaching, and teacher education.
Daniel S. Seara
Assistant Professor
What are the mechanical properties of living systems viewed as materials? This differs from understanding typical materials due to the non-equilibrium, distributed nature of living material’s microscopic constituents. Furthermore, the interactions and behaviors of the building bl…
Daniel Sutherland
Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies · University of Illinois Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Daniel Touchette
Full Professor, College of Pharmacy - Pharmacy Systems Outcomes and Policy · Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy
My primary research interests are in the areas of pharmacoeconomics and comparative effectiveness research. I am particularly interested in evaluating innovative methods of delivering health care to complex patients with multiple chronic conditions to improve clinical outcomes an…
Daniela Tuninetti
Professor, and Department Head
Information Theory: ultimate performance limits of multi-terminal networks.
— Cache-aided networks.
— Distributed Coded Computing and Coded Data Shuffling.
— Index Coding: Pliable, Decentralized and Secure.
— Wireless interactive (cooperative, or cognitive or with feedback) inter…
Danielle Beaujon
Assistant Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Danilo Erricolo
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
Wireless communications: Methods for the propagation of the electromagnetic field in complex environments, ray tracing, full-duplex communications
Radar systems: Ground penetrating radar, Radio Frequency Tomography, Propagation models of the electromagnetic field in complex envir…
Danny Martin
Professor · University of Illinois Chicago
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Daria Tsoupikova
Professor, Digital Media Design; Co-Founder + Design Chair, BS Computer Science + Design; Affiliate Faculty, UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory · University of Illinois Chicago
Explores the potential of new media and interactivity in relation to traditional arts through virtual reality (VR) art projects and networked multi-user exhibitions for VR projection systems (CAVE/CAVE2); applies computer graphics to educational multimedia, cultural heritage, and…
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