Share the Vision 2013 Technology Showcase Faculty Presenters

(in approximate presentation order)

Life Sciences: Devices Rashid Bashir

The interface of biology and engineering from molecular to tissue scale, and the application of semiconductor fabrication to biology, all applied to solve biomedical problems.

Big Data, Networking & Security Sam King

Designing, implementing, and analyzing secure and robust software systems spanning across all levels of software from low-level virtual-machine monitor and operating system software to high-level application code.

Ryan Bailey
The development of new bioanalytical tools to understand the onset and progression of disease. Areas of particular interest include cancer metastasis and immunotherapy, which due to tissue heterogeneity and immune cell diversity; represent challenges that necessitate single cell investigation.

Vikram Adve
Productivity advantages over todays multithreaded programming models. Enforce memory safety and partial type safety fully automatically for unmodified C programs. Enable lifelong analysis and transformation of programs in arbitrary programming languages. Compiler-based virtual machine for commodity operating systems

Kenneth Suslick
The chemical effects of ultrasound which includes nano-materials synthesis and sonoluminescence and chemical sensing; specifically, an optoelectronic nose, which is a colorimetric sensor array for the detection of volatile organic compounds.

Chengxiang Zhai
Combining the fields of information retrieval, natural language processing, machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. Researching techniques for managing and exploiting large amounts of text information and developing effective information retrieval models.

John Rogers
Unconventional semiconductor materials and their use in classes of devices that cannot be achieved using established wafer-based technologies; with a focus on bio-integrated and bio-inspired electronics.

Joseph Torellas
New processor, memory, and system technologies and organizations to build novel computer architectures with the goal of designing highperformance computers that are very easy to program, reliable, and built out of commodity components.

John Katzenellenbogen
Exploring the molecular details of action of steroid hormones using chemical and spectroscopic tools and molecular biology to understand how these interesting proteins work and to develop novel medical diagnostic procedures.

Rakesh Kumar
Disruptive and non-disruptive, but impactful approaches to build robust and low power computing systems, including particular focus on programmable stochastic computing, algorithmic techniques for fault tolerance, design and architecture of energy-constrained SoCs, and low power memory systems.

Computational Methods for Health Klaus Schulten

Focuses on the structure, dynamics, and function of biopolymer aggregates, e.g., lipds and proteins forming the photosynthetic apparatus in plants that absorbs sun light and produces the energy-rich molecule ATP.

Global Challenges Stephen Long

RIPE Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency a project funded through a $25 million Gates Foundation grant that has the potential to benefit farmers around the world by increasing productivity of staple food crops.

Victor Jongeneel
Bringing together expertise and resources from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Institute for Genomic Biology to create a biomedical informatics program.

Jeffrey Moore
Leading campus efforts under a multi-institutional, 5year, $120 million DoE grant to establish a new Batteries & Energy Storage Hub that will advance next generation battery and energy storage technologies for electric and hybrid cars and the electricity grid

Jiawei Han
Uncovering patterns and knowledge in massive data sets through the integration and further development of methods in multiple disciplines, including statistics, machine learning, database systems, algorithms, information theory, Web technology, spatiotemporal, text, multimedia, and biological data analysis, and high performance computing.

Bryan White
Using microbial physiology and genetics, microbial genomics and metagenomics, and microbial ecology to understand host-microbe interactions in vertebrates. Understanding the roles of beneficial and pathogenic organisms and antibiotic use in domestic production animals, as well as approaches that will enable the detection of diseases in livestock and provide critical genetic contexts for understanding food safety. Reproductive and Gastrointestinal interests.

Catherine Blake
Accelerating scientific discovery by synthesizing evidence from text through research on text mining clusters around three core themes: (1) language processing to automate information synthesis; (2) human information synthesis; and (3) medical and health informatics.

Carl Gunter
Leading a multi-university consortium, under a grant from the Department of Health & Human Services, focusing on digital health, specifically on security issues in electronic health records, health information exchange, and telemedicine.

Ian Brooks
Developing software systems for biomedical data management and analysis for biomedical communities. Creating cyber-environments for infectious disease surveillance, modeling and response; endemic disease control; patient safety; and translational research.

Life Sciences: Enabling Systems Steve Zimmerman

The understanding, development, and application of molecular recognition processes in the areas of drug delivery, chemical sensors and medical diagnostics, anti-gene therapy, and novel materials. In particular, the design, synthesis, and study of organic compounds that can: (1) act as synthetic antibodies to bind any target molecule, as well as signaling its presence, (2) bind to predefined sequences of DNA and RNA with very high affinity, (3) self-assemble into large, nanoscopic structures, and (4) act as supramolecular polymers.

Advanced Materials & Engineering Soon-Jo Chung

Aerospace systems, autonomous systems, and robotics. In particular, nonlinear control theory; cooperative control and synchronization of multivehicle systems; neurobiologically inspired control of flapping flight and robot locomotion; robust nonlinear control of robots and high performance aerospace vehicles; formation of flying UAVs/MAVs and spacecraft; innovative concepts for space systems; space tethers; control experimentation and instrumentation; vision-based SLAM and path planning in GPS-denied environments.

Frederico Zuckermann
Developed a porcine-derived macrophage cell line, branded ZMAC, as a homologous (native species) host cell for porcine virus vaccines. The ZMAC cell line has already been proven to efficiently replicate PRRS virus.

Milton Feng
Breakthrough device and integrated circuit and antenna technology toward THz operation. Professor Feng (with Professor Nick Holonyak) invented a new transistor, the Transistor Laser (3 port operation-an electrical input with an electrical output and optical output) in 2004, opening up new frontiers in optoelectronics integration as well as fast laser modulation, switching and signal processing.

Martin Burke
The synthesis and study of small molecules with the capacity to perform protein-like functions. Development of molecular prosthetics as a general strategy for the understanding and betterment of human health, including Iterative Cross-Coupling (ICC), towards a general strategy for complex small molecule synthesis.

John Dallesasse
Photonic integration for next-generation optical networks, enabling the existing fiber infrastructure to carry more data.

Bill Metcalf
The elucidation of the genes and metabolic pathways involved in the biosynthesis of phosphonic acid antibiotics and to explore the molecular diversity of the natural products comprising this unusual class of bioactive compounds.

Xiuling Li
Nanostructured semiconductor materials and devices, including developing three-dimensional rolled-up inductors which reduce inductor footprint more than 100 times without sacrificing performance.

Satish Nair
Understanding the basis for the regulation of bacteria by small molecule natural products to drive the discovery and development of natural products that can be used to combat the growth of pathogenic bacteria.

William King
Develops thermal processing tools that are used for manufacturing, metrology and materials analysis at the micrometer and nanometer scales. These tools and techniques make high-volume production of nanotechnology-based products economically feasible.

Sua Myoung
Using single molecule fluorescence assays as well as high resolution cell imaging techniques to investigate DNA damage repair and genome integrity, microRNA processing and, virus infection and antiviral signaling.

Paul Braun
The formation and study of nano and microstructures through self and directed assembly, including the use of liquid crystals to create chemically functionalized hollow nanospheres, which would serve as site-specific drug delivery agents and low dielectric constant materials for high-speed microelectronics. The formation and characterization of photonic bandgap structures.

Richard Tapping
Investigating mechanisms by which the human body senses infection, specifically, through a group of cell surface molecules known as Toll-like receptors that directly recognize specific structural components of viral, microbial, and fungal origin.

Andrew Alleyne
The analysis and design of control systems in a dimensionless framework, advanced motion control through iterative learning control and adaptive feedforward techniques, and robust control approaches to gain-scheduling as they relate to vehicle dynamics, large- and small-scale manufacturing systems and fluid power.

Martha Gillette
Understanding and treatment of human behavioral disorders and neural disease. Particular areas of strength and interest include cognitive neuroscience and imaging; neural plasticity, learning, and memory; neuronal signaling and development; and neurogenomics.