Sam Walcott

• Professor Mathematical Sciences

Professor Walcott's research is positioned at the intersection of mathematics and biology. He uses a combination of computer simulations and mathematical analysis to look at how physical principles at the molecular scale can solve ma ... Read more

Harold W. Walker

• Schwaber Professor Civil, Environmental, & Architectural Engineering

Professor Walker's research is focused on the development of new, innovative technology for the purification of water. ... Read more

Yan Wang

• Professor Materials Science & Engineering

Professor Wang's research is in the field of fundamental electrochemistry and electrochemistry-based technologies, including battery materials, manufacturing, safety, design and recycling, solid state batteries, and electrolysis. ... Read more

Pamela Weathers

• Professor Biology & Biotechnology

Professor Weather's studies the production in planta (within the plant) of artemisinin and its other therapeutically active phytochemicals for their efficacy in treating malaria and other artemisinin-susceptible diseases. ... Read more

Jacob Richard Whitehill

• Associate Professor Computer Science

Professor Whitehill's research interests are in applied machine learning, computer vision, data science and their applications to education, affective computing, and human behavior recognition. ... Read more

Craig E Wills

• Professor Computer Science

Prof. Wills is a professor and former head of the Computer Science Department. His research primarily focuses on Internet application performance and measurement with more recent work examining issues related to Internet privacy. ... Read more

Kristin K. Wobbe

• Director, Center for Project Based Learning Project-Based Learning

As director of WPI’s Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL), Dr. ... Read more

Alexander Wyglinski

• Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Electrical & Computer Engineering

Professor Wyglinski's work focuses on devising new, reliable, and robust wireless communications using artificial intelligence and machine learning.Given society's growing reliance on wireless connectivity, it is important that wireless communications a ... Read more

Jing Xiao

• Professor & Department Head Robotics Engineering

Professor Xiao's research spans robotics, haptics, multi-modal perception, at the intersection of computer science and engineering. ... Read more