Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX·Private
7 labs on PI Pages. It spends $63M a year on research and awards 136 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 12,900: 7,491 undergraduates, 5,409 graduate
- Postdocs
- 64
- Faculty
- 750 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
MinJun Kim
Biomedical Engineering
Characterize how single adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsids filled with single-stranded DNA, double-stranded DNA, or nothing deform as voltage pushes them through solid-state nanopores, with automated recapture for repeated measurements.
Jeanna Wieselmann
Education Research
Develop two practice formats for preservice science teachers, AI-driven virtual reality avatar simulations and scaffolded peer teaching, to build skill in leading discussions of real-world scientific problems.
Himanshu Thapliyal
Engineering·Early-career
Investigate how secret information leaks through the power traces of energy recovery circuits, and propose design methods that reduce leakage against differential power analysis attacks.
Joseph Camp
Computer Science
Develop an AI curriculum covering federated learning, explainable AI, homomorphic encryption and neural networks, taught through lectures, exercises and simulations and shared via the NAIRR Pilot.
Elyse Singer
Social Science
Document how terminally ill patients, their families and palliative care clinicians define a dignified death, using ethnographic fieldwork and interviews conducted in health facilities.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.