**Liliana Borcea, Applied Mathematics**
Wave propagation in random media with applications to wave based imaging and free space optical communications; Inverse problems for hyperbolic, elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations; Data driven reduced order modeling and applications to inverse problems; Scientific computing
**Alexander L. Gaeta, Applied Physics**
Ultrafast nonlinear optics, nano-photonics, nonlinear propagation in fibers & bulk media
**Irving P. Herman, Applied Physics**
Nanocrystals, optical spectroscopy of nanostructured materials, laser diagnostics of thin film processing, mechanical properties of nanomaterials
**Michal Lipson, Applied Physics**
Silicon photonics, novel micron-size photonic structures for light manipulation, light confining structures
**Michael I. Weinstein, Applied Mathematics**
Partial Differential Equations, applied analysis, dynamical systems, waves and multiscale phenomena in inhomogeneous, nonlinear and random media
**Nanfang Yu, Applied Physics**
Nanophotonics, mid-infrared and far-infrared optics and optoelectronic devices, 2D and 1D designer optical structures, active plasmonics and meta-surfaces integrating gain and nonlinear media, quantum cascade lasers, infrared imaging and spectroscopy, biophysics: perception and control of infrared radiation by insects
**Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang, Applied Physics**
Quantum devices and their applications, superconducting qubits, solid state spins, quantum light-matter interaction, metamaterials, quantum many-body dynamics, topological photonics, quantum information, quantum networking