Sustainability Research Directory

Richard D. Semba, MD, MA, MPH, conducts research on major conditions affecting human health, including age-related macular degeneration, child malnutrition and growth failure, and loss of muscle mass and strength with older age using proteomics, metabolomics, and mass spectrometry.

Adam Sheingate, PhD, is a professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His research explores the politics of food and agriculture policy in the United States.

Michael Shields, PhD, focuses on uncertainty quantification for wide-ranging problems in computational mechanics and computational materials science.

Dr. Shilva Shrestha focuses on developing sustainable anaerobic biotechnologies for waste treatment and resource recovery of biofuels and biochemicals. Dr. Shrestha’s lab also studies microorganisms with industrial and environmental applications.

Ellen Silbergeld, PhD, bridges science and public policy, with a focus on the incorporation of research in both toxicology and epidemiology into environmental and occupational health policy.

Jennifer Sleeman, PhD, specializes in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative models, Image Processing and Natural Language Processing. She is currently working at the intersection of AI and climate tipping point discovery as part of the DARPA AI-assisted Climate Tipping-point Modeling program; the team is using large ocean circulation models, deep learning, and neuro-symbolic representations to build a general machinery that is able to predict conditions that may lead to a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and other types of climate tipping points, such as coral reef die-off. She is also leading the research for a set of AI for air quality forecasting projects that include collaborations with NASA and NOAA, including: AI Emulation of Wildfire Emissions, AI Air Quality Forecast Model Emulation, and a Next-Generation Ensemble Prediction System for Atmospheric Composition.