The List: Rice Researchers

Spring 2024

• Behnaam Aazhang — J.S. Abercrombie Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; director of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative
• Caroline Ajo-Franklin — professor of biosciences
• David Alexander — director of Rice Space Institute; professor of physics and astronomy
• Pedro Alvarez — director of WaTER Institute; George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Bernard “Bernie” Banks — director of Doerr Institute
• Enrique Barrera — professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry
• Bonnie Bartel — Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences
• Dominic Boyer — professor of anthropology
• Anthony Brandt — professor of composition and theory
• Ryan Brown ’93 — managing director for measurement; associate director at Doerr Institute
• Tony Brown — distinguished professor of sociology
• Rossella Calvi — assistant professor of economics
• Luis A. Campos — Baker College Chair for History of Science, Technology and Innovation
• John Casbarian ’69, ’72 — Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Professor of Architecture; director of Rice School of Architecture external programs
• James Chappell — assistant professor of biosciences and of bioengineering
• Jing Chen — assistant professor of psychological sciences
• Shih-Hui Chen — professor of composition and theory
• Songtao Chen — assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Paul Cherukuri — vice president for innovation; director of the Woodside-Rice Decarbonization Accelerator
• Taiyun Chi — assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Marie-Nathalie Contou-Carrere — executive director of the Rice Sustainability Institute
• Jacqueline Couti — Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French Studies; department chair of modern and classical literature and cultures
• Elizabeth Cummins-Muñoz — senior lecturer of the Program in Writing and Communication
• Flávio Cunha — Ervin Kenneth Zingler Professor of Economics; department chair of economics
• Reginald DesRoches — president; professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering
• Amy Dittmar — Howard R. Hughes Provost; professor of economics and of finance
• Arlei da Silva — assistant professor of computer science
• Daniel Domingues da Silva — associate professor of history
• Rajdeep Dasgupta — Maurice Ewing Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
• Valentin Dragoi — professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Elaine Howard Ecklund — director of Boniuk Institute; Herbert S. Autrey Chair and Professor of Sociology
• Robert Englebretson — associate professor of linguistics
• Kory Evans — assistant professor of biosciences
• Rodrigo Ferreira — assistant teaching professor of computer science
• Jeremy Fiel — assistant professor of sociology
• Dawn Finley ’99 — director of graduate studies; professor of architecture
• Simon Fischer-Baum — associate professor of psychological sciences
• Jeffrey Fleisher — department chair and professor of anthropology
• Hua Gong — assistant professor of sport management
• Naomi Halas — former director of Smalley-Curl Institute; director of Laboratory for Nanophotonics; University Professor; professor of electrical and computer engineering, chemistry, bioengineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering
• Yimo Han — assistant professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry
• Kaiyu Hang — assistant professor of computer science
• Leslie Hewitt — associate professor of visual and dramatic arts
• Vivian Ho — James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics; professor of economics
• Robert J. Howell — department chair and professor of philosophy
• Randy Hulet — Fayez Sarofim Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Christopher Jermaine — J.S. Abercrombie Professor of Engineering; director of data science; professor of computer science
• Lydia Kavraki — director of Ken Kennedy Institute; Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science; professor of bioengineering, mechanical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering
• Rachel Kimbro — dean of School of Social Sciences; Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences; professor of sociology
• Danielle King — assistant professor of psychological sciences
• Junichiro Kono — director of Smalley-Curl Institute; Karl F. Hasselmann Professor in Engineering; graduate program chair of applied physics; professor of electrical and computer engineering, physics and astronomy, and materials science and nanoengineering
• Jeffrey J. Kripal — J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion
• Kiese Laymon — Libbie Shearn Moody Professor of English
• Brandon Levin — assistant professor of mathematics
• Ted Loch-Temzelides — George and Cynthia Mitchell Chair in Sustainable Development; professor of economics
• Sara Lowman — vice provost; university librarian
• Lane Martin — director of Rice Advanced Materials Institute; Welch Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering
• Ana María Martínez — professor of voice
• Caroline Masiello — director of Rice Sustainability Institute; W. Maurice Ewing Professor of Biogeochemistry; professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences
• W. Caleb McDaniel — Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities; professor of history
• Vikas Mittal — J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Management in Marketing
• Aditya Mohite — director of the Woodside-Rice Decarbonization Accelerator; director of REINVENTS; associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and materials science and nanoengineering
• Emilia Morosan — professor of physics and astronomy, chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering, and electrical and computer engineering
• K.C. Nicolaou — Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry
• Peter Nordlander — Wiess Chair in Physics and Astronomy; professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials science and nanoengineering
• Z. Maria Oden — co-director of Rice360 Institute; director of Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen; teaching professor of bioengineering
• Marcia O’Malley — associate dean for research and innovation; department chair of mechanical engineering; Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering; professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computer science
• José Onuchic — co-director of the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics; Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics; professor of chemistry, biosciences, and physics and astronomy
• Kirsten Ostherr — director of Medical Humanities Research Institute; Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English
• Fred Oswald — Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Psychological Sciences; professor of management
• Jamie Padgett — Stanley C. Moore Professor in Engineering; department chair and professor of civil and environmental engineering
• Jon Kimura Parker — professor of piano
• Matteo Pasquali — A.J. Hartsook Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of chemistry
• Tony Payan — fellow in Mexican studies at Baker Institute
• Elizabeth Petrick — associate professor of history
• Anthony B. Pinn — Agnes Cullen Arnold Distinguished Professor of Humanities; founding director of Rice’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning and Rice’s Center for African and African American Studies; professor of religion
• Albert Pope — Gus Sessions Wortham Professor of Architecture
• Mary Prendergast — associate professor of anthropology
• Daniel Preston — assistant professor of mechanical engineering
• Robert Purvis — director of the Moody Workshop and Makerspace
• Caroline Quenemoen — associate provost for strategic and educational initiatives
• Ramamoorthy Ramesh — executive vice president for research; professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of physics and astronomy
• Alexander Regier — department chair and professor of English
• Pat Reiff ’74, ’75 — professor of physics and astronomy; associate director of outreach programs for the Rice Space Institute
• Anna Rhodes — assistant professor of sociology
• Rebecca Richards-Kortum — director of Rice360 Institute; Malcolm Gillis University Professor of Bioengineering; professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Jacob Robinson — professor of electrical and computer engineering and of bioengineering
• Ashutosh Sabharwal — Ernest Dell Butcher Professor of Engineering; department chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering
• Eduardo Salas — Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Organizational Behavior
• Julia Saltz — associate professor of biosciences
• David Satterfield — director of Baker Institute
• Troy Schaum — associate professor in architecture
• Nicola Secomandi — Houston Endowment Professor of Operations Management
• Qimiao Si — Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Jonathan “Joff” Silberg — Stewart Memorial Professor of BioSciences; professor of bioengineering
• Scott Solomon — associate teaching professor of biosciences
• Scott Sonenshein — Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management
• Lauren Stadler — assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering
• Carolyn Sumners — adjunct professor of physics and astronomy
• Evelyn Tang — assistant professor of physics and astronomy
• Todd Treangen — associate professor of computer science
• Adrian Trömel ’18 — assistant vice president for strategy and investments
• Maggie Tsang — assistant professor of architecture
• Ruth N. López Turley — director of Kinder Institute; professor of sociology
• Vaibhav Unhelkar — assistant professor of computer science
• Moshe Vardi — University Professor; Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor of Computational Engineering; professor of electrical and computer engineering and of computer science
• Omid Veiseh — director of the Biotech Launch Pad; associate professor of bioengineering
• Chelsea Walton — professor of mathematics
• Haotian Wang — William Marsh Rice Trustee Chair; associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Danielle Ward-Griffin — assistant professor of musicology
• Bryan Washington — assistant professor of English
• Geoff Wehmeyer — assistant professor of mechanical engineering
• Kelly Weinersmith — adjunct assistant professor of biosciences
• Bruce Weisman — professor of chemistry
• Angela Wilkins — executive director of the Ken Kennedy Institute
• Joshua Winograde — opera studies program director; professor of opera
• Peter Wolynes — D.R. Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of Science; professor of chemistry, biosciences, and physics and astronomy; co-director of Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
• Michael Wong — director of Catalysis and Nanomaterials Laboratory; Tina and Sunit Patel Professor in Molecular Nanotechnology; professor of chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering, and civil and environmental engineering; department chair of chemical and biomolecular engineering
• Paul Wotton — executive director of the Biotech Launch Pad; adjunct professor in the practice of bioengineering
• Han Xiao — Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator and Associate Professor of Chemistry, Bioengineering, and BioSciences
• Yan “Anthea” Zhang — Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Professor of Management
• Hanyu Zhu — assistant professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of physics and astronomy