Dr. Chen’s research interests include quantum information processing in realistic environments, applications of quantum computing, and the interplay of quantum computing, symmetry, and topology in condensed matter physics.

Dr. Lenczewska’s research interests include Kant's practical philosophy, the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, and contemporary moral and political philosophy, including its applications to issues in public policy and feminist theory.

Dr. Patience’s research interests include phonetics and phonology, second and subsequent language acquisition, teaching and learning of second language pronunciation, Indigenous language revitalization, and phonetic and phonological variation.

Dr. Kara’s research interests include the mathematics of decision making for complex systems. 

Dr. Lauersdorf’s research interests include colonial North American borderlands focusing on the Indigenous history of the Gulf Coast and broader Southeast in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Dr. Ajibade’s research interests include everyday urban life in Africa with a current focus on a history of the politics and profits of commercial gambling in Nigeria between the colonial and post-independence period.

Dr. Nam’s research interests focus on tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) with radar observations and numerical modeling.

Dr. Li’s research interests include Artificial Intelligence for Science, Bayesian machine learning, approximate inference, data-driven scientific simulations.

Dr. Li’s research interests include Artificial Intelligence for Science, Bayesian machine learning, approximate inference, data-driven scientific simulations.

Dr. Gao’s research interests focus on reducing the size of large models like Large Language models (LLMs), diffusion models, etc. Additional research topics include the safety and interoperability of LLMs.