Strategic Vision

Associate Professor Gwynn Johnson's five-year project will work to reduce the urban-rural divide by awarding nearly $3 million in scholarships to students from both PSU and Heritage University, a rural, primarily undergraduate institution on the Yakama Reservation in Washington.

Bob Bass, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, created laboratory demonstration recordings and used online tools to help his students collaborate in the new remote learning environment. 

Dr. Rich Corsi has contributed to several articles regarding COVID-19 as it relates to indoor air quality, from proper ventilation to the safety of riding in elevators.

Mechanical and Materials Engineering Assistant Professor, Dr. Elliot Gall, is part of a team of researchers from Portland State University helping a Portland middle school come up with a lung-saving HVAC system to remove the tiny particles coming from vehicle exhaust from a nearby highway.

Dr. James Pankow and fellow PSU researchers' recent study helps to explain why a growing number of young people who never smoked cigarettes have become regular users of Juul vaping devices.

Dr. Song is curious about the theoretical foundations of computation, especially quantum computing. His research explores the power of quantum computer algorithms to solve hard computational problems, and develops cryptographic techniques to combat the unprecedented threats to cybersecurity enabled by quantum computing.

Dr. Yang's research focuses on risk management for civil infrastructure under climate change and maintenance optimization of deteriorating structures. His research strives to develop novel, effective approaches to climate adaptation planning for civil infrastructure systems, primarily through applications of machine learning.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Professors, Dr. Arash Khosravifar and Dr. Diane Moug, are researching how a new microorganism treatment could help Portland infrastructure survive an earthquake.

Dr. Gupta’s research focuses on power electronics for sustainability. She is specifically interested in the characterization of advanced power semiconductor devices, development of converter topologies and control strategies, switching circuit realization and layout, and mitigation of electromagnetic interference.

Dr. Hartzell uses both stochastic and deterministic frameworks to study the dynamics of carbon, water, and nutrient exchange among the soil, vegetation, and atmosphere. She’s particularly interested in limitations of moisture availability on ecosystem productivity.

Dr. Bob Bass, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, will develop an Energy Services Interface (ESI) that provides a trustworthy link between Grid Service Providers (GSP) and Service-Provisioning Consumers (SPC).

Dr. Burnett has spent his career designing sensor systems for scientific, medical, and defense applications. Past projects include wearable biorhythm monitoring, shallow-water intrusion detection, miniature ROVs, and chip-scale wireless chemical sensors. His research interests are low-power wireless motes and field-deployable sensors

Dr. Agrawal’s research includes natural language processing, computational linguistics and machine learning. She’s particularly interested in distributional semantics, textual affect analysis, and news recommender systems with a current focus on efficient unsupervised learning and biases in computational modeling.

A new NSF $400k grant, "CC* Compute: GPU-based Computation and Data Enabled Research and Education (G-CoDERE) at PSU", has been awarded to a group of PSU faculty led by Feng Liu (CS) and comprising Christof Teuscher (ECE), and other interdisciplinary partners.