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VIRGINIA ADAN-LIFANTE
Senior Lecturer SOE, Foreign Language Program Coordinator, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Licenciatura, Universidad de Sevilla; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Second language acquisition, Hispanic women’s literature, Hispanic culture, Puerto Rican literature and culture
MARK ALDENDERFER
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Wake Forest University; M.A., Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Comparative archeological anthropology that examines the emergence of social inequality and subsequent long-term cultural transformation of forager societies, and cultural adaptations within high-elevation montane regions
PAUL ALMEIDA
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.A., The University of New Mexico; Ph.D. University of California, Riverside
Social movement dynamics in historical and comparative perspective, to explain the conditions associated with the levels, forms, and outcomes of social movement activity in lesser-developed countries
SUSAN AMUSSEN
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
A.B., Princeton University; A.M., Ph.D., Brown University
Early Modern England, Women’s History, especially early modern European Atlantic History
DAVID ARDELL
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
A.B., Harvard College; Ph.D., Stanford University
Computational biology of gene expression systems: their structure, function, evolution, and coevolution with genomes, functional and evolutionary bioinformatics of RNA and proteins, evolutionary genomics of prokaryotes
VENKATTRAMAN AYYASWAMY
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.A., Indian Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University
Particle methods including particle-in-cell with Monte Carlo collisions (PIC/MCC), direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) and molecular dynamics; non-equilibrium flows and plasma physics; Micro/nanotechnology & N/MEMS
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ANAND BALA SUBRAMANIAM
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
A.B., S.M., and Ph.D., Harvard University
Intersection of chemistry, physics, biology and engineering, particularly materials-biology interface with applications in synthetic biology
RAMESH BALASUBRAMANIAM
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
M.Sc., BITS, Pilani, India; Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Cognitive, neurophysiological, and dynamical systems approaches to action
ROGER C. BALES
Distinguished Professor, School of Engineering, and Director, Sierra Nevada Research Institute
B.S., Purdue University; M.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Hydrology, snow and ice, hydrochemistry, climate impacts on water resources, climate changes over polar ice sheets
MIRIAM BARLOW
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Utah; M.S., Ph.D., University of Rochester
Evolution of bacteria, predicting the evolution of antibiotic resistance, testing evolutionary theory
RYAN BAXTER
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., University of Wisconsin; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Development of powerful synthetic processes from inexpensive materials and the rigorous mechanistic analysis of complex reaction systems
JAYSON BEASTER-JONES
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Whitman College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Commodity status of Indian popular music in various forms
LAURA BEASTER-JONES
Lecturer, PSOE, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., Whitman College; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Understanding how differences in spatial-temporal expression of genes can affect biological events: from the specification of cell type to changes in animal body plans
IRENEE R. BEATTIE
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Tufts University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona
Education, racial/ethnic and gender inequality, adolescent transitions to adulthood, law/policy
J. MICHAEL BEMAN
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Yale University; Ph.D., Stanford University
Linking microbial ecological patterns to biogeochemical processes with a specific focus on the nitrogen cycle in coastal systems
ASMERET ASEFAW BERHE
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., University of Asmara; M.Sc., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Biogeochemistry, soil science, effect of changing environmental conditions on vital soil processes, especially the cycling and fate of essential elements in the critical zone
MARC BEUTEL
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Intersection of engineering and aquatic ecosystems with practical applications in water management and urban policy
HARISH BHAT
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
A.B., Harvard University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Applied mathematics, dynamical systems and applied analysis, waves in discrete/inhomogeneous/dispersive media, numerical analysis, and scientific computing
FRANCOIS BLANCHETTE
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., Universite de Montreal; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fluid mechanics and related numerical methods, focusing on sedimentation and multiphase flows
JESSICA BLOIS
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, San Diego; M.A., Humboldt State University; Ph.D., Stanford University
Modern ecology, paleoecology, and phylogeography
HEATHER BORTFELD
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York
Expertise and a research focus on typical and atypical speech and language development, with an emphasis on language learning under adverse listening conditions
KATHERINE BROKAW
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University; B.A., M.A., University of Cambridge; Ph.D., University of Michigan
Early modern and medieval drama and poetry; performance theory; Shakespeare in contemporary performance; music in drama and poetry; religion and ritual
PAUL BROWN
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts and Director, Health Sciences Research Institute
B.S. (2), University of California, Santa Barbara; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Health Economics, Comparative Effectiveness, and Health Services Research
NANCY BURKE
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A, University of Tennessee; M.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of New Mexico
Global health, social inequalities in health/health disparities, health behavior, cancer, oral health, medical anthropology, clinical trials recruitment/research participation, refugees, survivorship, immigration
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LINDA CAMERON
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Health Psychology, Environmental Psychology
GREGG CAMFIELD
Vice Provost for the Faculty, Professor and Vincent Hillyer Chair in Literature, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
A.B., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Nineteenth-century American literature and culture, Mark Twain, American literary sentimentalism
ELLIOTT CAMPBELL
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Iowa
Sustainable energy, ecological design, bioenergy
STEFANO CARPIN
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
Laurea in Ingegneria Informatica, Ph.D., University of Padova, Italy
Robot algorithms, robot motion planning, randomized and distributed algorithms, cooperative multi robot systems, rescue robotics, Internet based simulations
MIGUEL CARREIRA-PERPINAN
Professor, School of Engineering
B.Sc., M.Sc., Technical University of Madrid Spain; B.Sc., U.N.E.D. University, Spain; Ph.D., University of Sheffield, UK
Artificial intelligence, machine learning
ALBERTO E. CERPA
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
Engineer Degree, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology; M.S. (2), University of Southern California; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Computer networking and distributed systems, wireless sensor networks, topology control, wireless radio channel measurement and characterization, programming models, development of wireless test beds, Internet protocols, operating systems issues
ADITI CHANDRA
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., University of Delhi; M.A., Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Islamic and South Asian Art and Architecture, Colonial Archaeological Histories,
Histories of Travel and Tourism, Social and Visual Histories of Postcards, Theories of Space, Histories of Landscapes and Gardens, Cinema of India, Islam in Indian Cinema
YANGQUAN CHEN
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., University of Science and Technology of Beijing, China; M.S., Beijing Institute of Technology, China; Ph.D., Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Mechatronics, control systems, unmanned aircraft systems, cyber-physical systems, and applied fractional calculus
RAYMOND Y. CHIAO
Professor Emeritus, Schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering
B.A., Princeton University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experimental and theoretical studies of nonlinear and quantum optics, gravitational radiation, nonlinear parametric effects, general relativity, the interaction of matter waves with gravity waves
CHIH-CHUN CHIEN
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., M.A., National Taiwan University; Ph.D. The University of Chicago
Ultra-cold Atoms, strongly correlated electrons, and transport and non-equilibrium phenomena
WEI-CHUN CHIN
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.S., National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan; M.S.E., Ph.D., University of Washington
Cellular signaling, cellular engineering, polymer gel assembly, biopolymer gels
JINAH CHOI
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the mechanism of synthesis and functions of novel HCV proteins that are produced by programmed translational frame shifting, as well as how HCV replication might be regulated by endogenous and exogenous agents
PO-YA ABEL CHUANG
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.S., National Cheng Kung University; M.B.A., Rochester Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Heat transfer and fluid mechanics, with an emphasis in porous media
RICARDO CISNEROS
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., MPH., California State University, Fresno; Ph.D., University of California, Merced
Interdependence of ecological and human health, interconnections of air, soil water, and biota
MICHAEL CLEARY
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., Stanford University
Stem cell biology
MICHAEL E. COLVIN
Professor and Art and Fafa Kamangar Endowed Chair in Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences
S.B. (2), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Computational and systems biology, biotechnology, computational chemistry
MARTHA H. CONKLIN
Professor, School of Engineering
B.A., Mount Holyoke College; M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Biogeochemistry, metal cycling, surface water/shallow groundwater interactions, organic chemical distribution in soil and groundwater, chemical processes in snow, K-12 environmental education
JUSTIN COOK
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., M.S., PhD., Louisiana State University
Long run economic development, specifically in the relationship between historic economic environments and natural selection since the initiation of agriculture.
COURTENAY CONRAD
Associate Professor, Social of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Clemson University; M.S., Ph.D., Florida State University
Intersection of international relations and comparative politics and focus on state repression, international organizations, and comparative political institutions
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RICK DALE
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Toronto; Ph.D., Cornell University
Cognition and action relationship; language learning and processing; coordination and interaction in learning and communication; dynamical and connectionist models of learning and processing; philosophy of cognitive science
LILIAN DAVILA
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Materials structure and simulations, nanoscale materials, environmental materials
KEVIN DAWSON
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D. University of South Carolina
Colonial History
MICHAEL DAWSON
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England; M.Sc., University of York, England; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Assembly of evolution of communities, population dynamics in relation to climate change, evolution of morphology and behavior at micro-and macro-evolutionary scales
ROBIN DELUGAN
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Nation-state identity, globalization, immigration, transnationalism
SARAH DEPAOLI
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Quantitative Psychology
MARIA DEPRANO
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Italian Renaissance Art and the intersection of patronage, gender relations and family relationships.
GERARDO C. DIAZ
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Universidad de Santiago de Chile; M.S., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Energy conversion systems, dynamic simulation and control of thermal systems, absorption chillers and heat pumps, vapor compression systems with alternate refrigerants
KYLE DODSON
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., The University of Texas, Austin; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Political Sociology, Quantitative Methodology, Social Change, Religion and Science, Social Stratification, and Comparative Sociology
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DANIELLE EDWARDS
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., University of Newcastle, Ph.D, University of Western Australia
Evolution of a range of vertebrate taxa focusing on reconstructing the biogeographic history of regions in a comparative context and understanding the interlay between evolution, morphology and the environment.
ARIEL ESCOBAR
Professor, School of Engineering
Bachelor’s degree, ENET 28 “Republica Francesa”, CONET; Electronic Engineer, Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Argentina; Ph.D., University of the Republic (PEDECIBA) R.O.U.
Cardiac signaling, development of new optical and spectroscopic techniques for studying the subcellular dynamics of second messengers using fluorescent probes
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FABIAN FILIPP
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., University of Regensburg; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Heidelberg
Systems biology of cancer metabolism
EDWARD FLORES
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of the Pacific; M.A. University of Warwick; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Critical ethnographic fieldwork on gang recovery – the process of leaving street life
MARILYN FOGEL
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., The Pennsylvania State University; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Ecology and Biogeochemistry
HENRY JAY FORMAN
Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., Queens College; Ph.D., Columbia University
Signal transduction, antioxidants and redox signaling, lung disease
DAVID FORTUNATO
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Miami; M.S., University of New Haven; M.A., Ph.D., Rice University
Coalition politics, legislative institutions, mass political behavior, ideal point estimation
CAROLIN FRANK
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
M.Sc., Uppsala University School of Engineering; Ph.D., Uppsala University
Evolutionary genomics of prokaryotes and fungi, evolution of host-parasite interactions, marine genomics and metagenomics
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HUMBERTO GARCIA
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Florida International University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
British Romanticism and Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century British Literature and Culture; British Literature from the Restoration to the present; the history of radicalism in Britain, 1660-1840; the history or early modern occultism; Islam and Romantic Orientalism; critical and interpretive theory; gender and women’s study; postcolonial studies; and transnational/global/transoceanic studies
MARCOS GARCIA-OJEDA
Lecturer SOE, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Illinois; M.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Stanford University
Stem cell research, cell biology, immunology, biotechniques, virology
TEAMRAT GHEZZEHEI
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Asmara; Ph.D., Utah State University
Soil and environmental physics, multiphase flow and mechanics of porous media
SAYANTANI GHOSH
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., St. Stephen’s College, India; B.A.,University of Cambridge; M.S., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Nanodevices, solid state materials, quantum information, optical science
PAUL GIBBONS
Lecturer SOE, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., B.M., Arizona State University; M.F.A., University of Massachusetts
Merritt Writing Program
JEFFREY GILGER
Professor and Cunningham Chair in Cognitive Development, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.S., CSU Hayward; M.A., Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
Developmental Psychology
JAN GOGGANS
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D., University of California, Davis
American literature, American nature writing and literature of the environment, California literature and culture, literature of the Central Valley, literature and culture of the Great Depression, literature and photography
TANYA GOLASH-BOZA
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Maryland; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina
Race, human rights, and immigration policy
SIDRA GOLDMAN-MELLOR
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Cornell University; M.P.H., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Intersection of psychology, biology and epidemiology, with a focus upon developing a more nuanced approach to understanding the influence of these domains on depression and suicidal behaviors from a life-history perspective
MARIAELENA GONZALEZ
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., B.A., Santa Clara University; M.T.S., Harvard University; Ph.D., Stanford University
Tobacco-related health disparities and the potential for public health policy to address such disparities
AJAY GOPINATHAN
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Cell motility, actin bundle dynamics
SACHIN GOYAL
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.Tech, Banaras Hindu University, India; M.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Continuum Mechanics, Dynamics and Controls
ROWENA GRAY
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Dublin, Trinity College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
American and British economic history, focusing on labor and growth topics within that
QINGHUA GUO
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.S., Peking University, China; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Methodological and applied aspects of geographical information science
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LAURA HAMILTON
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., DePauw University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University
Family and educational systems as factors that shape social stratification processes associated with gender, sexuality, and social class
THOMAS HANSFORD
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Saint Mary’s College of Maryland; Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Politics of the federal judiciary, campaigns and elections
THOMAS C. HARMON
Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Johns Hopkins University; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University
Contaminant transport in aquatic systems, soil and groundwater remediation, development and use of environmental sensors
STEPHEN HART
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Duke University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Soil microbial ecology, global change, terrestrial biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, natural resources
NIGEL HATTON
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Virginia Tech; M.F.A., University of San Francisco; M.A., M.J., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Nineteenth–and twentieth–century American and African American literature and culture, transnational American studies, literature and philosophy, Søren Kierkegaard, global human rights
EVAN HEIT
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S.E., B.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Stanford University
Categorization, inductive reasoning, recognition memory, computer simulation and mathematical modeling, intuitive statistical judgment
GREGG HERKEN
Professor Emeritus, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., Princeton University
History, American diplomatic history, nuclear history, history of Cold War
AARON HERNDAY
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Focus on the systems control principles and molecular mechanisms that underlie cellular decision-making
MATTHEW HIBBING
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Iowa; Ph.D., University of Illinois
American politics, political behavior, political psychology, public opinion, biology and politics, personality and political behavior, physiological traits and political attitudes, ideology, and perceptions of political opposition
JUSTIN HICKS
Lecturer PSOE, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., University of California, Merced
Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Economics of Innovation, Industrial Organization, Managerial Economics, Macroeconomics, Labor Economics
LINDA HIRST
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., Ph.D., Manchester University, UK
Experimental biophysics, soft condensed mater physics, molecular self-assembly and structure-function relationships
KATRINA HOYER
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Research in immunology, specifically studying how cellular and signaling abnormalities lead to autoimmune and inflammatory disease
HRANT HRATCHIAN
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Eastern Michigan University; Ph.D., Wayne State University
Molecular quantum chemistry and electronic structure theory with applications to artificial photosynthesis
HAIFENG HUANG
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
B.A., Zhejiang University, China; M.P.P., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Political roles of new media and central local relations and principal agent problems of authoritarian politics
EMILIA HUERTA-SANCHEZ
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., Mills College, M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
Developing statistical methods for the detection of genetic variants under selective pressures in human populations, investigation of the phenotypic connection to genetic variation, developing and testing alternative mathematical models of selection, estimation of demography, and algorithm development for the analysis of next enervaton sequencing data
KATHLEEN HULL
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
M.A., University of Calgary; B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Cultural impact of colonial encounters of the native people in North America, interplay of demography and culture, ethnicity and ethnogenesis in pre-literate societies
ANNEETH HUNDLE
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Northwestern University, M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Broadly concerned with the analysis of globalization especially as it regards migration, citizenship and the state.
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BOAZ ILAN
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., Ph.D., Tel Aviv University
Mathematics involved with real-world phenomena, with application to such areas as the control of intense laser beams and high-precision measurements of frequency and time, numerical computation
SUNGJIN IM
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.S., Seoul National University; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
Design and analysis of algorithms and their applications; approximation algorithms, online algorithms, randomized algorithms, scheduling algorithms, combinatorial optimization, game theory, big data algorithms
ROBERT INNES
Professor and County Bank Chair in Economics, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Environmental economics, law and economics, industrial organization, agricultural policy and markets, finance
CHRISTINE M. ISBORN
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of San Francisco; M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington
Theoretical and computational chemistry
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CAROLYN DICEY JENNINGS
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
M.A., University of St Andrews; M.A., Ph.D., Boston University
Philosophy of mind and cognitive science, attention, perception, consciousness, and action
KIRK JENSEN
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., M.S., University of California, San Diego; Ph.D., Stanford University
Immunology and pathogenesis
ANDREA JOYCE
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., Texas A & M University
Public Health
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MATTHEW KAISER
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Oregon; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University
The literature of the Victorian era in Britain and seeks to understand both the era and literature that emerged from it in a broader cultural perspective.
MARCELO KALLMANN
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., State University of Rio de Janeiro; M.S., Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Ph.D., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Geometric modeling, computer graphics, computer animation, autonomous agents, robotics, artificial intelligence
DAVID KAMINSKY
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University Ethnomusicology
ANNE MYERS KELLEY
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Riverside; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Resonance Raman spectroscopy and microscopy, molecular photochemistry and photophysics, organic materials for nonlinear optics, modeling of spectroscopic data
DAVID F. KELLEY
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Whitworth College; Ph.D., University of Washington
Spectroscopy and dynamics of semiconductor nanoparticles, ultrafast spectroscopy of excited states and reactive intermediates, solvation effects on proton and electron transfer reactions, vibrational dynamics of gas phase molecules
CHRISTOPHER KELLO
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Rochester; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Speech and reading processes, coordinative bases of cognitive systems
SHILPA KHATRI
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.S., Ph.D., New York University
The development and analysis of numerical methods for mathematical models of fluid-structure interactions and multiphase flow.
ARNOLD D. KIM
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Northwestern University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Washington
Wave propagation in random media, light propagation in tissues, wireless communications, scientific computing, asymptotic and perturbation methods
MASASHI KITAZAWA
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., CSU, San Bernardino; M.S., University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., Iowa State University
Toxicology
DUSTIN KLECKNER
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum micro-mechanical systems with a focus on topology ad geometry in fluid dynamics and soft matter physics
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KEKE LAI
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Quantitative methods as they are applied to the behavioral and educational sciences, and help bridge the gap between methodology and substantive research
JASON LEE
Lecturer PSOE, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Economic History, Economic Growth, Financial Economics, Macroeconomics, Money and Banking
MIN HWAN LEE
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Seoul National University, Korea; M.S., Ph.D., Stanford University
Energy Storage
YUE LEI
Lecturer SOE, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Peking University, Beijing, China; M.S. California Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Low-dimensional topology and geometry, geometric analysis, index theory, eta invariant and its applications
KARIN LEIDERMAN
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., M.S., University of New Mexico; Ph.D., University of Utah
Mathematical Biology, specifically in biological fluid dynamics, biomechanics, and biochemistry. Other interests include porous media flow, regularization methods, and scientific computing.
DOROTHY LELAND
Chancellor and Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University
Contemporary continental philosophy
VALERIE J. LEPPERT
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.A. (2), California State University, Sonoma; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Electron microscopy, nanomaterials for application in technology and the environment
NICOLA LERCARI
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Genova; M.A., Ph.D., University of Bologna
Visualization in world heritage and its implications for understanding past landscapes
BRAD LEVECK
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Uses experiments and mathematical models to study cooperation under uncertainty across a number of substantive domains, including American politics and international relations.
CHANGQING LI
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.A., Northwestern Poylytech. University; M.S., (1) Tsinghua University (2) Clemson University; Ph.D., University of Florida
Biomedical imaging instrumentation and reconstruction algorithm development, focusing on preclinical imaging, x-ray Luminescence Optical Tomography (XLOT), simultaneous Fluorescence Optical Tomography (FOT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Cerenkov Luminescence Imaging (CLI)/Tomography (CLT)
DONG LI
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.S. Beihang University; M.S., Tsinghua University and Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (Royal Institute of Technology); Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic University
High performance computing, particularly scientific computing for extremely large-scale systems
BIN LIU
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., Fudan University; M.Sc., Ph.D., New York University
Biofluid dynamics, geo-inspired fluid-structure interactions, nonewtonian flows, computational fluid dynamics with mobile boundaries and simple models of nonlinear systems
YANG LIU
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Peking University; M.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Development of statistical methods for analyzing categorical response data, as well as the adaptation of measurement modeling to public-health and educational applications
ANDY LIWANG
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Washington
Structure and function of circadian clock proteins
PATRICIA LIWANG
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Harvard University
Structure and function of anti-HIV Chemokines
IGNACIO LOPEZ-CALVO
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain; M.A., California State University Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of Georgia
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American narratives with an emphasis on the cultural production of the Caribbean and the Southern Cone, Chicano literature and culture
JENNIFER LU
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Shanghai University; M.S., Drexel University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Nanotechnology, nanofabrication
KELVIN LWIN
Lecturer PSOE, School of Engineering
B.S., University of California, Berkeley
Computer Science and Engineering
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YANBAO MA
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei; M.S., Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Fluid mechanics with emphasis on multi-scale, multi-physics flows ranging from microfluidic systems to macro-scale aerodynamics and hydrodynamics
DALIA MAGANA
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., University of California, Davis
Spanish Linguistics
PAUL MAGLIO
Professor, School of Engineering and School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Cognitive science management in regards to the studies of work, models of web programming, and human-computer interaction
ALEXANDRA MAIN
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Developmental psychology with a focus upon emotion, communication and coping strategies with adolescent children and their parents
SEAN MALLOY
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
War and morality, American political history, utopian and extremist movements in the 1930s, the domestic sources of U.S. foreign policy, the ways in which economics, religion and culture shape Americans’ interactions with the rest of the world
JENNIFER MANILAY
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., Harvard University
Mechanisms that control cell fate decisions in the immune system, the development of T lymphocytes, important components of immune defense against pathogens
ROUMMEL MARCIA
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Columbia University, New York; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Scientific computation, large-scale optimization, interior-point methods, numerical analysis, global optimization, mathematical biology, compressed sensing, signal processing
MANUEL M. MARTIN-RODRIGUEZ
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
Licenciatura, Universidad de Sevilla; M.A., University of Houston; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Cross-disciplinary perspectives from cultural, ethnic and film studies, border studies, textual recovery, intra-cultural difference, the Hispanic context of Chicano/Chicana literature, popular culture and the mass media
ASHLIE MARTINI
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Ph.D., Northwestern University
Molecular modeling of nanoscale interfaces, simulation-based interface design, fluid power tribology
TEENIE MATLOCK
Associate Professor and McClatchy Chair in Communication, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., California State University, Fresno; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Cognitive science, psycholinguistics, spatial cognition, metaphor, semantics, gesture
MARK MATSUMOTO
Dean, School of Engineering
B.S., University of California, Irvine; M.S, Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Water and wastewater treatment, especially land-based treatment systems and hazardous waste site remediation.
KARA E. MCCLOSKEY
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.S., Ohio State University; Ph.D., Ohio State University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Engineering principles, such as analysis and design, as they apply to the advancements being made in stem cells and tissue engineering, cardiovascular cell lineage
CARRIE MENKE
Lecturer SOE, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Chemical and materials physics
ERIK MENKE
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Colorado State University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Alternative energy including improving solar cells and producing carbon neutral fuel sources
MATTHEW MEYER
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Kansas, M.S., University of Wisconsin, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Research on using temperature-dependent isotope effects as a probe for enzyme dynamics in soybean lipoxygenase-1
JUAN MEZA
Dean, School of Natural Sciences and Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., M.A., M.S., Ph.D., Rice University
Nonlinear optimization with an emphasis on methods for parallel computing
KEVIN A. MITCHELL
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Carnegie Mellon University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Nonlinear dynamics and classical/quantum chaos, semi-classical phase-space techniques, topological and geometric methods for low-dimensional systems, the geometric/Berry phase and gauge theory
MICHAEL MODEST
Professor, School of Engineering
Dipl.-Ing., Technical University of Munich, Germany; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Radiative heat transfer and laser machining of ceramics
NATHAN MONROE
Associate Professor and Tony Coehlo Endowed Chair in Public Policy, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
American political institutions, role of political parties and organizational institutions within Congress, legislative politics
EMILY MORAN
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Duke University
Ecological geneticist who applies the tools of ecological and molecular genetics to investigate the interplay between individual variation, species distributions and environmental change
RUTH MOSTERN
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Georgetown University, M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Geography and state power in Middle Period China, georeferencing, the digital mapping of historical and cultural phenomena
HOLLEY MOYES
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Florida State University; M.A. Florida Atlantic University; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Archaeological anthropology addressing the place of ideology and ritual in the ascendance and decline of elite power and authority
VICTOR MUNOZ
Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., University of Alcala de Henares; M.S., Autonomous University of Madrid; Ph.D., EMBL and Autonomous University of Madrid
Protein folding, engineering, and design using a multidisciplinary approach that combines cutting edge experimental methods (Protein engineering laser spectroscopy, NMR, single-molecule spectroscopy) with theory and computation work
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SHAWN D. NEWSAM
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of California, Davis; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, content based information retrieval, digital libraries, data mining
CLARISSA NOBILE
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Research lies in transcriptional networks that regulate gene expression during biofilm development
STEPHEN NICHOLSON
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Political behavior in the United States, direct democracy on political outcomes, divided partisan control of government on public opinion and political behavior, effects of issues on Latino political behavior, media effects on trust in government
DAVID NOELLE
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Computational cognitive neurosciences, connectionism, cognitive control, learning, concept formation, working memory, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, machine learning, artificial intelligence
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ROBERT S. OCHSNER
Senior Lecturer SOE, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Western Washington University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Social and cultural issues of teaching “white” English, a research focus that joins ESL theory with social constructionist insights about the power relationships between teacher and student or among diverse students in groups
PEGGY A. O’DAY
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Davis; M.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., Stanford University
Aqueous, surface and environmental geochemistry, biogeochemistry and transport of inorganic contaminants in natural systems, geochemical applications of spectroscopy and microscopy, chemistry in hydrothermal systems
DAVID M. OJCIUS
Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Infection by intracellular pathogens, particularly chlamydia trachomatis, interaction between infected cells and the immune system mechanisms of cell death, innate immunity
RUDY MARTIN ORTIZ
Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., M.Sc., Texas A&M University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Endocrine physiology, physiological adaptations in water and electrolyte homeostasis and fat metabolism during extreme conditions such as prolonged fasting and altered gravitational load
NÉSTOR OVIEDO
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
D.V.M., Universidad Centroccidental “Lisandro Alvarado”, Venezuela; M.Sc., Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC); Ph.D., IVIC/University of Utah
Tissue regeneration, morphogenesis, role of stem cells in regulating tissue homeostasis and regeneration of missing parts in adults
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THOMAS W. PETERSON
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Tufts University; M.S., University of Arizona; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Chemical Engineering
NOEMI PETRA
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., M.S., Babes-Bolyai University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Maryland
Applied and computation mathematics
WHITNEY PIRTLE
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Grand Valley State University; M.A., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Advanced quantitative methods as applied to sociological research.
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ALA QATTAWI
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Jordan University of Science & Technology; Ph.D., Clemson University
Innovative manufacturing processes and design procedures, with the primary goal of generating optimized sustainable components and fabrication practices for sustainable scalable production volume with low capital investment
SHOLEH QUINN
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Middle Eastern history, history of Iran, Islamic civilization, women in the Middle East, Central Asian history, Historiography, Early Modern empires
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DUNYA RAMICOVA
Distinguished Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.F.A., Goodman School of Drama; M.F.A., Yale University School of Drama
Costume design for theatre, opera, ballet, dance, film and television, history of costume design, history of clothing and fashion, drawing, watercolor painting
SUSANA RAMIREZ
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Santa Clara University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
Communication in the service of social justice
LINDA-ANNE REBHUN
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
A.B., Mount Holyoke College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Cultural phenomena, women’s and gender studies, Latin American studies, Agrarian studies
CRISTIÁN H. RICCI
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., California State University, Los Angeles; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish literature, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Spanish-American literature, Portuguese literature, Golden Age and Colonial literature
ROBERT RICE
Lecturer PSOE, School of Engineering
B.A., Hobart College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Utah
Snow science, mountain hydrology, water resources, sensor networks, remote sensing, and climate change
EMILY RITTER
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Webster University; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Political repression and domestic conflict; international human rights law, institutions, & practices; international governance & judicial institutions; formal methodology
JILL ROBBINS
Dean, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas
Contemporary Spanish poetry, trans-Atlantic studies, globalization and migration, cultural issues, and studies in gender, sexuality, violence and memory
WOLFGANG ROGGE
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
Dipl. Ing., Technical University, Berlin, Germany; M.S., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Air pollution science and engineering
ERIK ROLLAND
Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., M.A., Ph.D., Ohio State University; M.Sc., NHH and NTNU, Norway
Solving intractable management problems inspired by real management problems, often from the fields of operations research and information systems, but also from other domains, such as healthcare, service, and risk management.
GABRIELA RUBIO
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey; M.A., Universitat Pompeu Fabra; M.A., Ph.D, University of California, Los Angeles
The intersection between development and labor economics and leverages the research in other social science fields
FLORIN RUSU
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
B.Eng., Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Florida
Databases in general, with a particular focus on large scale data management, data aggregation and approximation methods; data streaming; approximate query processing; online aggregation
KARL RYAVEC
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
A.B., Clark University; A.M., Harvard University Ph.D., University of Minnesota
An extraordinarily rare combined expertise in East Asian History and Geographic Information Science and focus on digital humanities, area studies and integrating geospatial technologies in the study of the social sciences
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RAMENDRA SAHA
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S. (2), M.S., University of Calcutta; Ph.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center
Molecular and genetic regulation of immediate early genes in the central nervous system
JESUS SANDOVAL-HERNANDEZ
Lecturer PSOE, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Universidad Autonoma Chapingo; M.A., California State University, Los Angeles; M.A, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
Global Economics
MICHAEL SCHEIBNER
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
M.S., University of New Mexico; Diplom Physiker, Dr. Rer. Nat., University of Würzburg, Germany
Light-matter interactions on a nanometer scale with a focus on coupling phenomena of nanostructures and resulting applications
KURT SCHNIER
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., University of California, San Diego; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D. University of Arizona
Fisheries research, experimental economics, and health economics
ROSE SCOTT
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Boston University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois
Developmental psychology, child psychology, psychological reasoning, cognitive development, infancy, and language acquisition
JASON SEXTON
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Humboldt State University; M.S. University of Montana; Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Plant distributions, tolerance, and evolvability in novel and stressful environments and the genomic and phylogenetic underpinnings of adaptation
WILLIAM R. SHADISH
Distinguished Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Santa Clara University; M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University
Clinical psychology, experimental and quasi experimental design, meta-analysis, program evaluation, psychology of science
JAY SHARPING
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Wisconsin, Whitewater; M.A., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Non linear fiber optics, atomic and molecular optics, quantum optics, carbon annotates
KETKI SHETH
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Development economist whose work spans a number of social science disciplines with foci on health economics and economics education
STEPHANIE SHIH
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A, University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
The link between phonology and morphology, linguistic harmony and tone and rhythm
MARIO SIFUENTEZ
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., University of Oregon; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Comparative ethnic studies, race and labor in Latin America, Asian Pacific Americans and the Pacific Rim, Western History
SUZANNE SINDI
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., California State University, Fullerton; M.S., Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Applied non-linear dynamics, computational biology, and genomics
MUKESH SINGHAL
Professor and Chancellor’s Professorship, School of Engineering
B.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India; Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Cybertrust, Information Security, Distributed Computing Systems, Operating Systems, Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, Networks Security, Database Systems, Cloud Computing, and Wireless Sensor Networks and Systems
MARK SISTROM
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
An evolutionary biologist focused on using comparative genomic and experimental evolutionary approaches to understand what roles pathogens play in the diversification of their hosts
ANNA SONG
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Adolescent decision-making relating to their health and well-being
MICHAEL SPIVEY
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; Ph.D., University of Rochester
Language/vision interaction, sentence processing, spoken word recognition, visual memory, visual attention, visual imagery, problem solving, eye movements, neural networks and dynamical systems
BENJAMIN STOKES
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago
Organic synthesis, physical organic chemistry, asymmetric catalysis and medicinal chemistry
JIAN-QIAO SUN
Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Bio-mechanics, bio-medical engineering
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ALEXANDER THEODORIDIS
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Virginia; M.P.P., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Political psychology, experimental methods, and political attitude formation
LIN TIAN
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Tsinghua University; M.S., Beijing University; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Theoretical studies of quantum information and quantum computation
JITSKE TIEMENSMA
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Leiden University Medical Center; M.S., Free University Amsterdam; Ph.D., Leiden University Medical Center
Biological health psychology and behavioral medicine
MAYYA TOKMAN
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Mathematical modeling of nonlinear phenomena, numerical analysis, scientific computing
CHRISTINA TORRES-ROUFF
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
A.B., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Biological anthropology
DAVID TORRES-ROUFF
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
A.B., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Race and Ethnicity, Urban History, Latina/o History, Comparative Borderlands, Social Institutions, Community Formation, Public Policy, California, US West
SAMUEL J. TRAINA
Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor, Schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering and holder of the Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology
B.S., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Surface, colloidal and complexation chemistry in soils, sediments and natural waters, remediation of contaminated soils and sediments
JESSICA TROUNSTINE
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Political Institutions, elite political behavior, elections, representation
THEOFANIS TSOULOUSHAS
Professor and Ruiz Family Chair in Entrepreneurship, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Athens; M.S., Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Applied micro theory, particularly contract theory and the economics of organizations and corporate finance.
CHUN-CHIN VINCENT TUNG
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
M.S., National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan; Ph.D., UCLA
Materials Science and Engineering
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ZULEMA VALDEZ
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Racial and ethnic relations, international migration, intersectionality, and economic sociology
NELLA VAN DYKE
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Michigan; M.A., Ph.D., University of Arizona
Political sociology, social movements, sexuality, gender, hate crime
PETER VANDERSCHRAAF
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Loyola Marymount University; M.S., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Political philosophy, game theory, ethics
MA VANG
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., University of Oregon; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Engages with the Hmong diaspora in the context of the Cold War in Southeast Asia on critical refugee studies, knowledge formation and postcolonial theory
JACK VEVEA
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.S., San Francisco State University; A.B., University of California, Berkeley; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Innovation of statistical methods to address problems that cannot be solved by conventional techniques
JESS VICKERY
Lecturer PSOE, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Chemistry and chemical biology
JOSHUA VIERS
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Director of CITRIS
B.S., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Environmental resource management and decision-making
CHRISTOPHER VINEY
Professor, School of Engineering
B.A., Ph.D., Cambridge University
Biomolecular materials (design of materials synthesis, assembly, processing and physical optimization strategies based on examples from nature), physical science and engineering of polymers and liquid crystals (structure-property-processing relationships)
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JAN WALLANDER
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Ashland College; M.S., Ph.D., Purdue University
Health psychology, pediatric psychology
ERIC WALLE
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Vanderbilt University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Emotion, Social Interaction, Socio-emotional Development, Epigenetic Phenomena
ANNE WARLAUMONT
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., University of Memphis
Communication Sciences and Disorders
SHI-PU WANG
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., M.A., Indiana University, Bloomington; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
History and theory of 20th century American Art with concentration on American artists of Asian origin, study of the role that national, cultural, and/or ethnic identity plays in the work of artists, the impact that US Cold War cultural programs played in the development of new art trends in Asia Since World War II
ZHONG WANG
Associate Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences
M.S., Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Shanghai, China; Ph.D., Duke University
Study of complex microbial communities through computations analysis of genome data
ANTHONY WESTERLING
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Research efforts to model climatic influences on wildfire and on water and energy resources, working with policy makers to explore alternatives for building sustainable resource management structures
ALEXANDER WHALLEY
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Western Ontario; M.A., University of British Columbia; Ph.D.,
University of Maryland, College Park
Labor economics, macroeconomics, applied econometrics
DEBORAH WIEBE
Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Art
B.A., Bethel College; M.A., M.P.H., Ph.D., University of Alabama at Birmingham
Health and Pediatric Psychology
ELIZABETH WHITT
Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education and Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Drake University; M.A. Michigan State University, Ph.D., Indiana University
Study of higher education
ROLAND WINSTON
Distinguished Professor, Schools of Natural Sciences and Engineering
B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Solar power and renewable energy, elementary particle physics, non-imaging optics
FRED WOLF
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Molecular and cell biology
STEPHEN WOODING
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Art
B.A., University of Colorado; M.S., and Ph.D., University of Utah
Evolutionary genetics with a specific focus on obtaining a deeper understanding of the genetics of taste perception and associated health related issues
J. ARTHUR WOODWARD
Professor Emeritus, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.S., Wake Forest University; M.A., Ph.D., Texas Christian University
Experimental design, statistical genetics, applied statistics and psychometrics
GREGORY WRIGHT
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Davis
International Trade, Immigration, Economic Growth
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JING XU
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Caltech; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Physics/Biophysics
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MING-HSUAN YANG
Associate Professor, School of Engineering
B.S., National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan; M.S., University of Southern California and University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, image processing, cognitive science
TAO YE
Associate Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Peking University; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
Nanoscale science, bioanalysis
JUSTIN YEAKEL
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S, Kent State University; Ph.D., University of California, Santa Cruz
The structure of mammalian food-webs: Interpreting, predicting, and informing estimates of species interactions in paleontogical and modern communities.
KENICHI YOSHIDA
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
How the trope of objects and matter operated in art of modern Japan to posit a critical alternative to a Eurocentric and anthropocentric totality
JEFFREY YOSHIMI
Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of California Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, phenomenology (especially Husserl), neural networks
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ANNE ZANZUCCHI
Lecturer SOE, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Drew University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester
Merritt Writing Program, Pedagogy & Assessment, Science and Technical Writing
MARJORIE ZATZ
Vice Provost and Dean for Graduate Studies and Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington
Immigration policy; immigration, crime and victimization; Race, gender and juvenile and criminal court processing and sanctioning; Chicano gangs, Latin American legal systems
MATTHEW ZAWADZKI
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
B.A., Iona College; M.A., Columbia University; M.S., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Has established an interdisciplinary and translational research program that integrates many critical issues in health psychology and behavioral medicine
Adjunct Faculty
M. PILAR FRANCINO
Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., National Autonomous University of Mexico; M.S., Ph.D., University of Rochester
Bacterial genomes
GABRIELA LOOTS
Associate Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., University of California, Irvine; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Developmental genomics with emphasis on skeletal and limb development
ALEKSANDR NOY
Associate Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.A., Moscow State University; M.S., Ph.D., Harvard University
Nanosynthesis, single-molecule imaging and measurements
COSMIN PETRA
Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.Sc., Babes-Bolyai University, Rmaonia, M.A., Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The intersection of applied mathematics and high performance computing with emphasis on developing scalable algorithms and methods of the optimization, simulation and statistical inference of large scale mathematical systems under uncertainty
MOHAMMED SAFEEQ
Assistant Adjunct Professor, School of Engineering
B. Tech, M. Tech, CSA University of Agriculture & Technology; Ph.D., University of Hawaii-Manoa
Developed a productive and innovative research program at the intersection of forest, land use, climate and water resources at multiple scales
WILLEM J.M. Van BREUGEL
Adjunct Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Sciences
Ingeniur degree, Eindhoven University; Ph.D., Leiden University
Distant massive galaxies, the effects of their central super-massive black holes on the galaxy-formation process, the formation and evolution of the largest structures known in the Universe: clusters of galaxies
AXEL VISEL
Associate Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences
Ph.D., Max Planck Institute, Germany
Gene regulation, vertebrate developmental biology and bioenergy
ZHONG WANG
Associate Adjunct Professor, School of Natural Sciences
B.S., Shangdon University; M.S., Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology; Ph.D, Duke University
Understanding the function of complex microbial communities by combining high throughput sequencing technologies and high performance computing
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