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Professor Shue's expertise lies in network security. He focuses on using system and network measurements to understand what is happening on a network to protect traditional computers and IoT devices. He also build systems that can detect and prevent attacks to keep organizations and regular Internet users secure. He can speak about all these topics and his research about vulnerabilities in and attacks on multi-factor authentication. Professor Shue has provided analysis for media organizations including NPR and The Associated Press on the July 2024 global technology outage stemming from a defective CrowdStrike software update.

Professor Hall-Phillips' research focuses on studying general consumer behavior, with specific interest in topics related to value, engagement, and loyalty in the areas of user experience and entrepreneurship. An additional research focus is on discovering how social media influences consumption in online and offline environments. Hall-Phillips leads the Social Media Analytics Lab (SMAL) at The Business School which allows students the opportunity explore how social media affects community connections and how it can be responsibly harnessed across a variety of areas from mental health to consumer behavior.

Professor Rangwala's research interests include problems related to industrial fire and explosions. He has worked on topics such as deflagration of combustible dust clouds, ignition behavior of combustible dust layers, in-situ burning of oil, spread of an oil slick in channels, velocity measuring techniques in fire induced flows, and flame propagation and burning rate behavior of condensed fuel surfaces.

As director of WPI's first-in-the-nation explosion protection engineering master's program, Rangwala can speak about the fire and explosion risks posed by manufacturing facilities and advancing technologies like electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. He has provided analysis for The Wall Street Journal and Business Insider on the fire and explosion risks associated with lithium-ion batteries.

Professor Rundensteiner's research focuses on how to make use of data and information in an effective manner, towards achieving goals in business, scientific discovery, and digital health. With the inter-connectivity of the internet, the availability of computing power, and big data everywhere, access to the right piece of information at the right moment, fused together from numerous information sources, is at the core of critical capabilities that she has been developing. Her work includes developing big data, machine learning and data visualization technologies to discover and explore important insights in massive data sets and real-time data streams in applications from fraud detection, digital health, emergency management, business intelligence, to event analytics.

Professor Shue's expertise lies in network security. He focuses on using system and network measurements to understand what is happening on a network to protect traditional computers and IoT devices. He also build systems that can detect and prevent attacks to keep organizations and regular Internet users secure. He can speak about all these topics and his research about vulnerabilities in and attacks on multi-factor authentication. Professor Shue has provided analysis for media organizations including NPR and The Associated Press on the July 2024 global technology outage stemming from a defective CrowdStrike software update.