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Lee Ann Kahlor
Associate Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
kahlor@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 791 5726
Expertise: Public relations, health and environmental risk communication, science communication, and information seeking. Cultural and racial norms related to health behaviors, message processing

Loukas F Kallivokas
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
loukas@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5769
Expertise: Computational mechanics; Inverse problems in engineering; Wave propagation and structural dynamics; Earthquake engineering; Numerical methods; Large-scale computational modeling

Marilyn C Kameen
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
mkameen@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1695, +1 512 232 1696
Expertise: Interests include academic administration, faculty in higher education, and college student development with research on college teaching and minorities in higher education.

Robert H Kane
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts
robertkane@utexas.edu
Expertise: Contemporary disputes about ethics and values, freedom and responsibility, in a pluralist world of conflicting beliefs and points of view and the implications of these disputes for social ethics, politics, law and religion

John W Kappelman
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
jkappelman@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0055
Expertise: Evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid evolution and hominid origins, paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging

Lynn E Katz
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
lynnkatz@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 0071, +1 512 471 4244
Expertise: Contaminant fate and transport; Combined abiotic/biotic treatment systems for in-situ remediation; Environmental surface chemistry

Xiaofen Keating
Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
xk93@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 3565
Expertise: Researches fitness education, physical activity promotion among k-16 students, and technologies related to physical education teacher education.

Ward W Keeler
Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts
ward.keeler@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8520
Expertise: Anthropology and expressive culture (performing arts and literature); hierarchy; gender; Buddhism; Indonesia and Burma, including the Rohingya crisis

Timothy H Keitt
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
tkeitt@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5004
Expertise: Keitt is an expert on the ecological impacts of a proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Stuart D Kelban
Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Moody College of Communication
skelban@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6037
Expertise: Screenwriting, television and film industry.

William R Kelly
Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
wkelly@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4142
Expertise: Criminal Justice/Criminology/Ecology of Crime, Program and Policy Research and Evaluation, Research Methodology and Statistics

Deborah C Kelt
Assistant Professor of Practice-CURR, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
dkelt@utexas.edu
Expertise: Brings her experience in literacy education to UT with a specialization in preparing secondary teachers to work in urban schools.

Deena Kemp
Assistant Professor, Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations, Moody College of Communication
dkemp@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: persuasion; emotion; behavioral economics in decision-making

Charles Kerans
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
ckerans@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3519, +1 512 471 4282
Expertise: Carbonate sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, reservoir characterization, basin analysis, seismic interpretation, seismic stratigraphy, paleokarst analysis, carbonate diagenesis

Sean M Kerwin
Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy
skerwin@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5074
Expertise: Synthetic medicinal chemistry, anticancer drug discovery/development, DNA-drug interactions, natural products chemistry, molecular modeling
Donald Kettl
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
kettl@austin.utexas.edu
+1 267 265 6909

Sarfraz Khurshid
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
khurshid@ece.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8244
Expertise: Software testing; Specification languages; Code conformance; Model checking; Heuristics in program analysis; Data structure repair; Program repair

Anjum Khurshid
Assistant Professor of Population Health, Department of Population Health, Dell Medical School
anjum.khurshid@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5225

Su Yeong Kim
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
su.yeong.kim@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5524, +1 512 475 6014
Expertise: Development of children of immigrants in the United States, with a focus on children of Chinese and Mexican origin; parenting; parent-child relationships
Miyong Kim
Professor, School of Nursing
mkim@nursing.utexas.edu

Hyun Jung Kim
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
hyunjung.kim@utexas.edu
+1 512 471 2165
Expertise: Professor Kim's laboratory focuses on innovating bioinspired engineering principles to create biomedical platform technologies for uncovering the fundamental questions in human health and disease by integrating multidisciplinary approaches such as microfluidics, tissue engineering, and applied microbiology. His research interests include developing biomimetic organ model (human organs-on-chips), microengineered host-microbe ecosystem, programmable synthetic microbiome, and humanized diagnostic/therapeutic platform for clinical, pharmaceutical, and environmental applications.
Christopher T King
Director, Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
chris.king@raymarshallcenter.org
+1 512 471 2186, +1 512 471 7891
Expertise: Job Training, Worker Health, and Safety Education Policy, Labor Performance Management
John D King
Professor Emeritus, Department of Special Education, College of Education
jack.king@mail.utexas.edu

Amy L Kinkade
Assistant Professor of Practice, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
akinkade@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Focuses on creating positive learning communities via social and emotional learning, organization/management, and differentiating instruction.

Spyridon A Kinnas
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
kinnas@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 7969
Expertise: Ocean engineering; Hydrodynamics; Cavitation; Wave mechanics; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Design of ocean vehicle control and propulsion systems; Tidal turbines;

William R Kinney
Professor Emeritus, Department of Accounting, Red McCombs School of Business
william.kinney@mccombs.utexas.edu
Expertise: Financial accounting, auditing

Kerry A Kinney
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
kakinney@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1740
Expertise: Beneficial application of microorganisms to the treatment of pollutants in the environment; Algae-to-biofuel production processes; Potentially detrimental microbial communities that develop in indoor environments

Mary Jo Kirisits
Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
kirisits@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7120
Expertise: Biological drinking water treatment processes; Microbial transformation of inorganic contaminants; Application of molecular biology to biological water treatment processes; Rainwater harvesting; Impacts of nanomaterials on microorganisms in engineered water treatment systems; Biofilms; Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms; Microbial community structure of pediatric otitis media

Lisa C Kirsch
Senior Policy Director, Dell Medical School
lisa.kirsch@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5131
Expertise: health care delivery and payment, Medicaid, children's health insurance

Karrol A Kitt
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
kkitt@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Personal Finance (Insurance, cash management, spending plans, financial spreadsheets, credit, financial behavior); Family Resource Management (values, standards, & goals; mananging change; decision making; organization; work at home & at the workplace)

Dale E Klein
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
dale.klein@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 499 4689
Expertise: Dale E. Klein is Associate Director of the Energy Institute and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Texas System. Formerly he was Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and also served as a member of the Commission. Before joining the NRC, Dr. Klein served as the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs. In this position he served as the principal; staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology for all policy and planning matters related to nuclear weapons and nuclear, chemical and biological defense.

Leonard Kleinman
Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics, College of Natural Sciences
leonardkleinman@yahoo.com
Expertise: Condensed matter physics theory; density functional theory; electronic and magnetic structure calculations of solids surfaces and liquids

Richard E Klingner
Professor Emeritus, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
klingner@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Experimental and analytical investigation of the response of masonry and reinforced concrete masonry structures; Earthquake engineering; Anchorage to concrete

Adam R Klivans
Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
klivans@cs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9790
Expertise: His research interests lie in machine learning and theoretical computer science, in particular, Learning Theory, Computational Complexity, Pseudorandomness, Limit Theorems, and Gaussian Space. He also serves on the editorial board for the Theory of Computing and Machine Learning Journal.

Gregory W Knapp
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, College of Liberal Arts
gwk@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1588
Expertise: Adaptive dynamics, cultural landscapes, and archaeology of Andean agriculture; regional identities, ethnogeography, linguistic geography and ethnic territoriality; mapping; modernization as contextualized in historical cultural ecology and feminist political ecology; history of geographic thought; Latin America

Kara Kockelman
Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
kkockelm@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 4252, +1 512 471 0210
Expertise: Travel behavior; traffic safety; urban form and land development; transportation planning and policy-making.

Gary A Kocurek
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
garyk@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5855
Expertise: Sedimentology, geomorphology and stratigraphy of aeolian systems; fluid flow and grain transport; bedform dynamics and pattern evolution of dune fields; the stratigraphic record of aeolian and related systems on Earth and Mars.

Karl M Koenig
Division Chief, Orthopaedics, Medical Director of the Integrated Practice Unit for Musculoskeletal Care, Associate Professor of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School
karl.koenig@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5113

Harold W Kohl
Research Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, College of Education
hkohl@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 391 2530
Expertise: Specializes in public health, epidemiology and the study and promotion of physical activity for health.

Prabhudev C Konana
Professor Emeritus (Interim Appointment), Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, Red McCombs School of Business
prabhudev.konana@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 3322, +1 512 471 5219
Expertise: Global sourcing, supply chain management, electronic commerce, virtual communities

Brian A Korgel
Professor and Matthew Van Winkle Regents Professorship in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
korgel@che.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5633
Expertise: Nanotechnology can be defined as the study of material properties and interactions on a nanometer length scale. Our experimental group focuses on investigating size-tunable material properties, and the rational self-assembly and fabrication of nanostructures with atomic detail. This research finds applications in microelectronics and photonics, spintronics, coatings, sensors and biotechnology.

John Kormendy
Professor Emeritus, Department of Astronomy, College of Natural Sciences
kormendy@astro.as.utexas.edu
Expertise: Astronomy, black holes, elliptical galaxies, galactic bulges, dark matter, Andromeda Galaxy

Rajinder Koul
Department Chair, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
rajinder.koul@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Understanding the symbol, referent, and instructional variables that influence graphic symbol learning in people with severe communication impairments as a consequence of developmental or acquired disabilities.

Desiderio Kovar
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
dekovar@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5185
Expertise: Production and characterization of nanoparticles; Nanostructured thick films; Solid oxide fuel cells; Honeycomb ceramics

Robert M Krug
Professor Emeritus, Department of Molecular Biosciences, College of Natural Sciences
rkrug@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Avian flu; viral gene replication and expression; human influenza; infectious disease

John S Kuo
Department Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, Dell Medical School
john.kuo@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5557, +1 512 495 5559

Alan J Kuperman
Associate Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
akuperman@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8245
Expertise: Ethnic conflict, U.S. military intervention, nuclear proliferation, humanitarian intervention, America foreign policy

Erhan Kutanoglu
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
erhank@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7194
Expertise: Applied operations research; Supply chain management; Manufacturing and transportation logistics; Game theoretic and distributed mechanisms (e-commerce and auctions)

Nancy P Kwallek
Professor Emeritus, School of Architecture
nkwallek@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Interior design, human behavior and design, history and theory of design, interior environments

J. Richard Kyle
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
rkyle@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4351
Expertise: Ore deposits geology, strata-controlled mineral resources, metals & industrial minerals exploration, ore petrology, characterization of ore-forming fluids, high resolution X-ray computed tomography applications to ore genesis & processing, geology of critical minerals, resources & society, geology & mineral resources of Texas

Stelios Kyriakides
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering
skk@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 4167
Expertise: Instability in Solids and Structures (Plastic Buckling of Structures; Propagating Instabilities in Shape Memory Metals; Composites; Foams); Modeling of Nonlinear Behavior and Failure of Solids (Metals; Composites; Foams)