Faculty

DIRECTORS

	Robert Bodenheimer Professor of Computer Science Co-Director of Scientific Computing	368 Jacobs Hall (615) 322-3555	Email Website
	computer science, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual environments

	Kalman Varga Professor of Physics and Astronomy Co-Director of Scientific Computing	6638 Stevenson Center (615) 343-9278	Email
	linear-scaling first-principles simulations of nanodevices, recision calculations of electronic and scattering properties of small atoms and molecules, quantum dynamics at the nanoscale, time-dependent quantum simulation of nanodevices

AFFILIATED FACULTY

	John C. Ayers Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences	5705 Science & Engineering Bldg. (615) 973-1879	Email Website
	geochemical modeling, water quality, chemistry of natural materials, sustainability science

	Hiba Baroud Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering	400 24th Avenue South, room 274 (615) 322-2976	Email Website
	risk analysis, statistical modeling, infrastructure systems, resilience modeling, decision analysis

	Ralf Bennartz Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences	5726 Science & Engineering Bldg (615) 322-2976	Email Website
	satellite remote sensing and image analysis, atmospheric radiative transfer

	Matthew Berger Assistant Professor of Computer Science	379 Jacobs Hall (615) 343-2016	Email
	data visualization, machine learning, computer vision, geometry processing

	Gautam Biswas Professor of Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Engineering Management	366 Jacobs Hall (615) 343-6204	Email Website
	modeling and simulation, embedded and hybrid systems, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, datamining, intelligent learning environments

	Nicole Creanza Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences	4280A MRB III (615) 875-8139	Email Website
	evolution of genes and behaviors, learning, mathematical modeling, computational biology, phylogenetics

	Mario Crucini Professor of Economics	301A Calhoun Hall (615) 322-7357	Email Website
	macroeconomics, international trade, money

	Will Doyle Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education	Payne 207D (615) 322-2904	Email Website
	education policy; data visualization; communicating statistical results; Bayesian estimation and inference

	Mark Ellingham Professor of Mathematics	1514 Stevenson Center (615) 322-6670	Email Website
	graph theory, including paths and cycles, graph embeddings, reconstruction, edge colourings, isomorphic factorizations, algebraic graph theory

	David Jon Furbish Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences	5719 Stevenson Center (615) 322-2137	Email Website
	hydrology, geomorphology, environmental fluid dynamics

	Guilherme Gualda Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences	5717 Science & Engineering Bldg (615) 322-2976	Email Website
	magmatism, volcanism, x-ray tomography, microscopy & microanalysis, 3D image processing, magma evolution modeling

	Kelly Holley-Bockelmann Stevenson Professor in Physics and Astronomy	6912 Stevenson Center (615) 343-2153	Email
	galaxy dynamics, n-body simulations, supermassive black holes, gravitational waves

	William Holmes Assistant Professor in Physics and Astronomy	6410 Stevenson Center (615) 322-2599	Email
	multi-scale computational modeling of biological organization, cell structure and function, development and regeneration, cognitive modeling

	Shane Hutson Professor of Physics	6835 Stevenson Center (615) 343-9980	Email Website
	biological physics, biophotonics.

	Bennett Landman Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science	372 Jacobs Hall (615) 322-2338	Email
	magnetic resonance imaging, statistical analysis with emphasis on medical imaging.

	Gordon Logan Centennial Professor of Psychology	506 Wilson Hall (615) 322-2529	Email Website
	attention and performance, automaticity, stopping behavior

	Carlos Lopez Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology, Biomedical Informatics, and Biomedical Engineering	496 PRB (615)936-1374	Email Website
	systems biology, molecular simulations, mesoscale simulations, signaling networks, stochastic models, modeling frameworks, cell decision processes, model selection, parameter inference

	Haoxiang Luo Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	334 Olin Hall (615) 322-2079	Email Website
	computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, micro-fluidics, numerical methods for partial differential equations

	Terry Lybrand Professor of Chemistry & Pharmacology	5154C Biosci/MRBIII (615) 343-1247	Email Website
	computational structural biology

	Bradley Malin Professor of Biomedical Informatics	Suite 1475, 2525 West End Ave. (615) 343-9906	Email Website
	biomedical informatics, data science, artificial intelligence, technology policy

	Jens Meiler Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacology	5144B BIOSCI/MRBIII (615) 936 5662	Email Website
	structural biology

	Michael Miga Harvie Branscomb Professor, Professor of Biomedical Engineering	5923 Stevenson Center (615) 343-8336	Email Website
	biomedical modeling, inverse problems, numerical methods

	Mike Neamtu Professor of Mathematics	1326 Stevenson Center (615) 322-6655	Email Website
	approximation theory, splines, geometric design, numerical analysis, quantitative and financial mathematics

	Ipek Oguz Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering	380 Jacobs Hall (615) 343-4546	Email Website
	medical image analysis

	Caglar Oskay Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Room 258 MuMS Building (615) 343-0583	Email Website
	computational mechanics, multiscale simulation of engineering structures and structural systems

	Thomas Palmeri Distinguished Professor of Psychology	507 Wilson Hall (615) 343-7900	Email Website
	visual object recognition and categorization, perceptual expertise, cognitive and neural modeling

	Sean Polyn Associate Professor of Psychology	335 Wilson Hall (615) 322-2536	Email Website
	cognitive and neural dynamics of the human memory system, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, computational modeling

	Antonis Rokas Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences	7270B MRB III (615) 936-3892	Email Website
	comparative functional genomics, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, evolution of fungal metabolism, evolution of the human genome, mosquito functional genomics

	Gerald Roth Professor of the Practice of Computer Science	220 Featheringill Hall (615) 322-2907	Email Website
	optimizing compilers, computer science education

	Mikail Rubinov Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering	5824 Stevenson Center (615) XXX-XXXX	Email Website
	integrative statistical models of big neuroscience data

	Jeffrey D. Schall E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Neuroscience	004 Wilson Hall (615) 322-0868	Email Website
	neuorophysiological, anatomical, and computational studies of visual attention, executive control, decision making

	Larry Schumaker Stevenson Professor of Mathematics	1532 Stevenson Center (615) 322-6652	Email Website
	spline functions, approximation theory, CAGD, numerical analysis

	Frank Tong Centennial Professor of Psychology	531 Wilson Hall (615)322-1780	Email
	Visual perception, attention, and object recognition, advanced neuroimaging methods, computational modeling, exploration of deep learning networks

	Jennifer Trueblood Associate Professor of Psychology	532 Wilson Hall (615)343-7554	Email
	human judgment, decision-making, reasoning, computational modeling, and Bayesian statistics

	Steven Tschantz Associate Professor of Mathematics	1507 Stevenson Center (615) 322-6664	Email
	logic, combinatorial group theory, hyperbolic geometry, economic modeling

	Greg Walker Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering	335 Olin Hall (615) 343-6959	Email Website
	micro-scale heat transfer, heat flux measurement, energy transport processes, ultrasonic pyrometry, thermographic phospors, energy conversion devices, high-performance computing

	Steven Wernke Associate Professor of Anthropology	108 Garland Hall (615) 343-2518	Email Website
	archaeology and history, prehispanic and colonial studies, anthropology and cultural geography

	Zhongyue (John) Yang Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Core Faculty, Data Science Institute		Email Website
	quantum chemistry computations, molecular mechanics simulations, antibody design, enzyme discovery

	Maizie (Xin) Zhou Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science	5th floor Stevenson Center 615-343-1099	Email Website
	computational genomics, bioinformatics, computational neuroscience, machine learning