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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Telecommunication, network systems design, wireless networks, wireless technologies. |
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Lecturer SOE, CSE |
Curriculum and program design for computer science education, with a focus on engaging underrepresented groups. Pen-based user interfaces. |
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Lecturer, MAE |
Expertise in vehicle design, navigation, and control. |
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Faculty-Affiliate, ECE |
Astrobiology, origin of life, organic chemistry, geochemistry, cosmochemistry, exobiology and mineralogy. |
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Asst Professor, NENG |
Molecular modeling and simulations of biomaterials and nanomaterials |
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Professor, SE Faculty, SE |
Composite design and manufacturing technologies for large scale structures and marine applications as well as the deformation, fracture and fatigue of high temperature intermetallics. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Design and development of high-speed transistors and integrated circuits, power amplifiers and opto-electronic devices using compound semiconductor materials and heterostructures |
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Professor, CSE |
High performance and parallel scientific computation. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty, BENG |
Computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, proteomics, approximational algorithms, human genome, human proteome, protein identification, Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) analysis |
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Professor, MAE ECE Affiliate Professor, ECE |
Development and investigation of nano-materials for magnetic, semiconductor, optical, and MEMS/NEMS (micro-/nano- electro mechanical systems) devices. |
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Adjt Professor, MAE |
Baskes developed with Murray Daw the embedded atom method, which allows researchers to describe the cohesive energy of solids and liquids. This method has now become the standard used for calculating complex applications in materials science, especially for fission, fusion and nuclear weapons materials. |
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Assoc Professor, SE |
Design of robust and efficient computational methods for large scale, high performance computing |
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Professor, MAE |
Electron and proton beam generation in short pulse laser solid interactions; plasma based x-ray and neutron sources; and multi-wire z-pinch dynamics for Inertial Confinement Fusion. |
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Professor, CSE |
Computer security focusing on authentication, encryption, and electronic payment standards that have helped secure transactions over the Internet and advance e-commerce standards. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Emerging fields of computer vision and object recognition, as well as biometrics (fingerprint recognition in particular) and video segmentation. |
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Professor, SE |
Computational mechanicsand computer methods for solving problems in mechanical engineering. |
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Prof Emertius, ECE |
Magnetic recording physics, recording materials, magnetic media, and information storage. |
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Professor, MAE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Research interests lie at the intersections of control and optimization theory, fluid mechanics, Navier-Stokes mathematics, high-performance computing, and robotics. |
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Professor, SE |
Buckling and post-buckling, crash worthiness, fatigue, damage propagation, optimization of aerospace composite structures using nonlinear analysis and structural testing. |
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Professor, MAE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Design of dynamic feedback control systems for a variety of engineering applications. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE Faculty, Dean |
Integrated circuit design of RF and millimeter-wave communication systems and opto-electronic interfaces for high-speed sampling and wireline communication. |
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Prof Emeritus, CSE |
Storage system algorithms expert with interest in data layouts, disk arrays, RAID, video servers, replicated file systems. |
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Professor, CSE |
Bounded arithmetic, proof theory and complexity, mathematical logic and behavioral logic. |
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Asst Professor, BENG |
Gas transport physiology and bioengineering design for development of next generation blood substitutes; Bioengineering microcirculation; The effect of blood substitutes on oxygen transport to tissue. |
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Asst Professor, MAE |
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Adjt Professor, CSE |
Computer architecture, specifically the interaction between architecture and compiler optimizations across a broad range of subjects. |
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Professor Emeritus, CSE |
Scientific computation, performance programming, parallel computation, machine and system architecture for high performance. |
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Professor, MAE |
Combustion, fluid mechanics, optical spectroscopy, laser and electron beam diagnostics, molecular energy transfer, and hypersonic gas dynamics. |
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Professor, BENG |
Biomedical integrated circuits and systems, micropower analog VLSI, neuromorphic engineering, computational and systems neuroscience, neuron-silicon and brain-machine interfaces, adaptive neural computation, learning and intelligent systems. |
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Adj Professor, NENG |
Biological and chemical approaches for assembling nanoscale materials, such as metal and semiconductor nanoparticles, nanorods, nanowires, and single walled carbon nanotubes. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Integrated optics, solid state electronics, and photonics. |
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Prof Emeritus, NENG |
Large-scale mammalian cell culture, membrane bioreactor, cell cycle kinetics, flow cytometry. |
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Asst Prof, CSE |
Topics in machine-learning, in particular, clustering or unsupervised learning, online learning and privacy-preserving machine-learning. |
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Asst Professor, MAE |
Renkun Chen's current research is focused on thermal transport, which plays a very significant role in both energy production and consumption. He is interested in exploiting the fundamental heat transfer science and engineering at the micro and nano scale, and developing materials and devices for thermal energy conversion, storage and management. |
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Professor, NENG |
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Nanomanufacturing and Biomanufacturing, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics |
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Professor, CSE ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE |
Computer-aided design, VLSI layout automation, circuit partitioning, network flow optimization, physical design of multichip modules for hybrid package. |
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Professor, CSE |
Professor Chien's research focuses on "grid" computing and cuts across a broad range of system layers. It includes both hardware and software architecture issues in large-scale parallel and distributed computer systems such as scalable servers, and clusters and workgroups of workstations |
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Professor, BENG Faculty, NENG Faculty, IEM |
Research on how the forces of blood flow impact the cardiovascular system. His studies are leading to new understanding about the pathophysiological mechanisms of atherosclerosis and hypertension, and to the development of therapeutical approaches for cardiovascular disease. |
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Asst Professor, BENG Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry and bio-nanotechnology, multi-scale bioengineering and biomaterial design |
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Adjt Professor, BENG |
Paul Citron was vice president of Technology Policy and Academic Relations at Medtronic, Inc. when he retired in 2003 after 32 years at the company His previous position was Vice President of Science and Technology. |
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Scientist, CSE |
kc claffy holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and now is Adjunct Professor. She acts as Principal Investigator and Director for the distributed Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), and resident research scientist based at the University of California's San Diego Supercomputer Center. |
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Assoc Professor, MAE |
Solar energy, intelligent energy systems, stochastic modeling and forecasting, fractional and variable order methods, evolutionary methods, and multiphase flows/unsteady flow phenomena. |
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Assoc Professor, BENG ECE Affiliate Professor, ECE |
Information theory, neuroscience, machine learning, bioelectronics |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Radio science/engineering, particularly the propagation of radio waves through turbulent media, with applications to solar wind physics and to radio astronomy in general. |
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Professor, MAE |
Continuum mechanics and its application to biological tissues. |
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Professor, SE |
Structural Analysis and Dynamics, Structural Reliability and Risk Analysis, Earthquake Engineering |
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Assoc Prof, MAE |
Systems and control, sensor networks, game theory, adversarial networks, cooperative robotics, and geometric mechanics |
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Vice Chair/Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Image and video compression for transmission over wireless, Internet or other telecommunications networks, image and video processing, computer vision, video quality evaluation. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Facial recognition, neural networks, human cognition, cognitive science, computational philosophy, artificial intelligence (AI). |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Design and performance analysis of communication networks, with an emphasis on high speed wireless and optical systems, scheduling, routing, network calculus. |
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Adj Professor, ECE |
Acousto-optics, opto-electronics, spread-spectrum communications, oversampling. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
High-dimensional statistics, clustering, algorithms for finding underlying patterns in high-dimensional data, machine learning |
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Asst Professor, ECE |
Neuroprosthetic devices, growth and devices of compound semiconductors and silicon/germanium materials, monolithic and hybrid hetero-integration technologies, in-situ microscopy on advanced III-V compound semiconductor device architectures. |
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Professor, MAE |
Simulation, prediction and control of dynamic systems, theory of modeling using system identification techniques, and the interaction between modeling and control. |
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Asst Professor, MAE |
Aerodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Methods, and is currently helping develop new courses for the graduate program in bio-mechanics such as Mechanics Inside the Cell. |
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Lecturer, MAE |
Project-based learning and teaching students how to construct myriad contraptions—from robots and clocks to medical devices. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE |
Semistructured and XML data, data security, adaptive distributed query design, and the design and optimization of query languages. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 Faculty, Dean |
Mobile Cloud Computing, Wireless Multimedia, Adaptive Networks and Applications, Green Computing and Communication, Embedded System-on-Chip. |
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Professor, SE |
Information Technology, Earthquake Engineering, Computational Geomechanics |
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Professor, CSE |
Automated reasoning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, database systems, expert systems, computational biology, and data mining. |
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Asst Professor, BENG |
Stem cell research, with an emphasis on how adult and embryonic stem cell differentiation is controlled by the extracellular matrix |
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Professor, NENG Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Photonics and opto-electronics, including optical interconnects, optical data storage, biophotonics, and cancer nanotechnology |
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Professor/Chair, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Applied optics and photonics, including 3-D imaging, biomedical optics, optical signal processing and nano-photonics. |
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Adjt Professor, SE |
Analytical and experimental solid mechanics problems with emphasis on structural dynamics. |
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Assoc VC/Faculty Equity, CSE Professor, CSE Assoc Dean, Dean Assoc VC for Faculty Equity, Dean |
Compiling techniques that make scientific applications run faster. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Physical optics system design and integration for applications in imaging, communications, and energy. |
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Professor, SE |
Geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Information science of complex networks and systems: Random networks, phase transitions and critical phenomena, wave propagation in random media, wireless communication, control systems with information loss, algorithms and protocols. Applications in the areas of wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks |
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Professor, CSE |
Computational learning theory and related areas in probability theory, information theory, statistics and pattern recognition. |
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Professor, ECE Director, CMRR Faculty, NENG Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Magnetic recording and nano-technologies; thin film and superlattice growth, interfacial and thin-film magnetism, x-ray and neutron scattering. |
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Prof Emeritus, BENG Faculty-Emeritus, MAE |
Biomechanics of molecules, cells, tissues, and organs with a focus on developing methods to study the structural and functional link between each of these levels. |
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Professor, ECE |
Data converters, frequency synthesizers, clock-recovery systems, digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to mitigate the effects of non-ideal analog circuit behavior in mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs) implemented in CMOS (silicon chips). |
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Professor, MAE |
Theoretical and experimental studies of turbulence and turbulent mixing in the atmosphere and ocean. |
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Lecturer, CSE |
Lecturer in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at UCSD. I'm teaching my 37th version of CSE 12. Additionally, I run the Tutor Training program for the CSE Department. | |
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Professor, MAE |
Rheology of complex fluids, and bio-molecular energy transduction |
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Professor, BENG |
Development and application of implantable biochemical sensors for the continuous monitoring of glucose, oxygen, lactate, and other metabolites. |
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Assoc Professor, MAE |
Solution-based processing of nanopowders; spark plasma sinteringof materials; powder particle size distribution control and characterization; behavior of colloidal systems; morphological control of non-oxide ceramic powders; composite manufacturing; special emphasis on electromagnetic materials for sensors and energy applications. |
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Professor, CSE |
Algorithmic design, parallel computing, communications networks, Internet computing, discrete geometry, and active compilers for the Grid. |
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Prof/Comptr Info Sci, CSE |
Computer science, Internet routing, and mathematics, including combinatorics, number theory, graph theory, discrete and computational geometry. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Software engineering and ubiquitous computing, specializing in the construction of large, complex software systems, software design, aspect-oriented software development, mobile applications, and educational technology. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE |
Neural networks, goal-directed AI, optical system design, computervision |
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Adj Professor, ECE Faculty-Adjunct, ECE |
Dr. Gupta is an authority on the physical theory of noise in electron devices, and has discovered fundamental results on thermal fluctuations under nonlinear and non-equilibrium conditions that apply to nonlinear, active, and nano-scale devices. His broader interest in radio-frequency (RF) microelectronics ranges from RF devices and components, to RF integrated circuits and packaging. His work has advanced the technology of low-noise RF devices and circuits, which find applications in the RF front-end of wireless communication systems. |
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Chair/Professor, CSE ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Embedded systems and mobile computing, including the integration of software and hardware to make computers more portable and energy efficient ('power-aware' computing). |
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Asst Professor, ECE |
CMOS integrated circuits for bioelectronics, biosensors, lab-on-a-chip devices, and other biomedical devices and systems. |
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Professor, BENG |
Computational genomics and the dynamics of gene regulatory networks which control cell function. |
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Adj Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
An authority on neural networks, he introduced the first comprehensive theory of the mammalian cerebral cortex and thalamus in 2002. His research revolves around scientific testing, elaboration, and extension of this theory. |
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus, SE |
Earthquake engineering to retrofit bridges, roadways and buildings for improved public safetgy and structural performance |
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Professor, NENG Faculty, BENG |
Microelectronic DNA chip technology and its applications to genomics and clinical diagnosis. |
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Assoc Professor, NENG |
dynamics of diffusion, adsorption and reaction in porous solid media including heterogeneous catalysts. He also simulates and analyzes processes for conversion of biomass to power and fuels. |
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Professor, ECE |
Marine mammal vocalizations, acoustic wave propagation and ambient noise, algorithms for automatic detection and classification. |
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AVC/Acad Persnl & Resc, ECE Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Data telemetry, sensor array signal processing, and environmental parameter estimation. |
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Professor, CSE |
My research explores the cognitive consequences of computationally-based media. It is motivated by a belief that we are at the beginning of a paradigm shift in thinking about representational media, one that is starting to appreciate the importance of representations that are not only dynamic and interactive but that also adapt to the structure of tasks, the context of activities, and even our relationships with others. The goal is to better understand the cognitive, computational, and social ecology of these dynamic interactive adaptive media. |
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Prof Emeritus, CSE |
Software testing and analysis, error modeling and prevention, software design, and embedded systems. |
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Faculty-Emeritus, CSE |
Combinatorial algorithms, mathematical programming, networks and graphs, VLSI circuit layout. |
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Assoc Prof, BENG |
Genomics, molecular biotechnology and bioinformatics including chemistry and biophysics of protein and DNA molecules and technologies to uncover greater information regarding the human genome and genetics. |
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Professor, SE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Earthquake and geotechnical engineering, performance assessment of structural/nonstructural components, and machine learning and computer vision methods for damage estimation. |
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Professor, BENG Chief of Medical Genetics, BENG Faculty-Affiliate, CSE |
Bioinformatics and systems biology; computational modeling of cellular regulatory networks; yeast genetics |
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Professor, CSE |
Computational complexity, cryptography, circuit complexity, computational randomness. |
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Professor, BENG |
Development of effective blood substitutes based on a deep understanding of the microcirculation. Applications to transfusion and emergency medicine, cancer, ischemia, and the heart-lung machine. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Ramesh has been an active researcher in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Wireless systems: stochastic and optimal resource allocation, network design and control, multi-access control, and topology design in ad hoc systems. |
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Professor, CSE |
Computer graphics, specializing in the rendering of realistic images of natural phenomena, global illumination and appearance modeling. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE |
Techniques for building reliable systems: model checking, automated deduction, program analysis, type systems, programming languages, software engineering, and logic. |
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Professor, MAE Faculty, NENG |
Cutting-edge materials science, including nano-materials, magnetic alloys and thin films, and MEMS materials and devices. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty, ECE |
Professor Kahng is an expert on the physical design of Very Large Scale Integrated circuits (VLSI), and a key strategist defining the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. ITRS specifies the technology developments needed to keep pace with Moore's Law. |
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Faculty-Emeritus, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Computational science and engineering, high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, scientific visualization and interaction environments, computer and network security, networking. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty, Dean Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Reconfigurable computing, VLSI computer-aided design, sensor networks, radiolocation, computer architecture, security, embedded systems and optimization algorithms. |
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Chancellor, CSE Faculty, ECE |
Internet-enabled collaborative design, collaborating autonomous systems, agent-based architectures for distributed design and embedded control, software composition and reconfigurable software for real-time embedded systems, reconfigurable and distributed robotic systems, integrated design-assembly planning systems and distributed information systems |
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Professor, SE |
Impact effects on composite materials and structures with aerospace and other applications, multifunctional materials, nano-materials, and adhesive bonding. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Statistical signal processing and information theory, with applications in communication, networking, data compression, and information processing. |
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Assoc Professor, MAE Faculty, CER |
Solar energy meteorology, solar variability and forecasting, urban meteorology, turbulence, field measurements and numerical modeling. |
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Faculty-Adjunct, CSE |
Interface of design and programming, leveraging online examples of creative work to empower more users to design new user interfaces and software programs, learners to acquire new skills, experts to be more creative, and programmers to engage in more design thinking. Techniques for designers to rapidly create novel user interfaces, explore more alternatives and revise prototypes based on feedback be more creative, and programmers to engage in more design thinking. The psychological and social ingredients of design excellence?focusing on the role of alternatives and prototyping. |
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Professor, SE Faculty, MAE |
Design, analysis, and experimental testing of light-weight advanced composite structures. |
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Professor, MAE |
Fusion energy and plasma physics. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Nonlinear dynamics and control;, adaptive sensory-motor control, multibody systems theory, learning theory and pattern recognition, computational vision, and data compression. |
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Professor, CSE |
Computer vision, computer graphics, face recognition and vision-guided robotics. |
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Professor, MAE AVC Research, MAE |
Nonlinear and adaptive control, distributed parameter systems, delay systems, extremum seeking, and applications to automotive and aerospace systems, energy storage, and biotechnology. |
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Assoc Prof, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Service-oriented software and systems engineering, programming methodology, and the design, implementation, and verification of distributed, reactive systems. |
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Professor, SE |
Finite element computational modeling techniques for solids and structures, model order reduction in nonlinear mechanics, and computer and engineering simulations in multiphysics problems. |
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Assoc Professor, SE Faculty-Affiliate, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Scientific visualization and virtual reality, with emphasis on collaborative workspaces, multi-modal interfaces, and distributed and remote visualization of large data sets. |
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Professor, MAE Faculty, BENG |
Nanobiotechnology, multidimensional biological atomic force microscopy, ion channel biophysics and nanomedicine. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Machine learning, applied statistics, convex optimization, with applications to music information retrieval, computer audition, computational genomics, finance. |
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Professor, SE |
Health Monitoring, Non-destructive Evaluation and Experimental Mechanics of Structural Components using novel sensing technology |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Design of high-speed integrated circuits for wireless communications and other applications. |
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Professor, MAE Dean (Interim), Dean |
Turbulence and fluid mechanics with a special interest in two-phase flows. Mechano-biology. Mechanotransduction, Mechanics of cell migration and invasion. Medical devices. |
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Professor, ECE |
Electronic materials Science and Technology |
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Assoc Professor, MAE |
Applied mathematics, fluid mechanics of animal locomotion, microfluidics, capillary phenomena, and the mechanics of soft matter |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Professor Lee joined the faculty at UC San Diego in January 1974, after having taught at Carnegie Mellon University. He has published more than 125 refereed papers in professional journals, edited special issues of Applied Optics and Optical Engineering |
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Adj Professor, ECE |
Theoretical and applied recording physics, nano-tribology, research and development of magnetic information storage |
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Assoc Professor, CSE |
Programming language and analysis, including domain-specific languages, compilation, formal methods and automated theorem proving. |
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Adjt Professor, BENG |
Dr. Ley received his B.S. from Altkönigschule-Gymnasium, Kronberg, Germany in 1976. In 1982, he received his M.D. from the Julius-Maximilians- Universität, Würzburg, Germany. Dr. Ley began his postdoctoral training from 1983 to 1987 at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. From 1987 to 1989, Dr. Ley was a visiting research scientist at the University of California, San Diego. From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Ley was appointed as scientific assistant for the Department of Physiology at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. |
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Prof Emeritus, MAE |
Laminar and turbulent reacting flows |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Adjunct, CSE |
Novel embedded system and VLSI architectures for communications and networking applications. |
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Research Professor, MAE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Experimental and theoretical study of dynamic flows, and environmental engineering. |
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Asst Professor, NENG |
Mechanically compliant organic electronic materials and devices, including stretchable polymer-based solar cells and skin-like sensors, and unconventional, green approaches to nanomanufacturing. |
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Asst Professor, ECE |
Development of novel nanofabrication techniques and bio-photonics, as well as research of high speed and high spatial resolution bioimaging and sensing, and light control at nanoscale using plasmonic structures |
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Professor, MAE |
Fluid dynamics and environmental engineering. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Professor Lo’s research interests are biomedical devices and systems, bioelectronics, microfluidics, nanophotonics, and semiconductor nanoscaled devices. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE |
Theoretical and computational electromagnetics, including analytical models for studying electromagnetic phenomena occurring in complex structures, fast and robust numerical methods for calculating electromagnetic fields in complex environments, and applications of these analytical and numerical methods to the analysis and design of electromagnetic devices and systems. |
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Asst Professor, CSE |
Computational complexity, coding theory, randomness and pseudo-randomness, explicit constructions |
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Adjt Professor, NENG Faculty-Adjunct, MAE |
Computational and theoretical analysis of solids, specifically solid mechanics. |
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Professor/Chair, SE |
Earthquake engineering, strong motion seismology, soil structure interaction |
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Professor, ECE |
Processes with an impact on communications, particularly those which are stochastic (random) in nature. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Solid-state physics, materials science, superconductivity, thin film phenomena; physical metallurgy; thin film materials for superconducting tunneling and Josephson junctions; and interface studies. |
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Professor, NENG |
Ceramics & Metals; Surfaces & Interfaces; Advanced Materials for Energy Related Applications |
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Professor, MAE |
Solid mechanics and materials science, elasticity, and fracture dynamics. |
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Asst Professor, CSE |
Online adaptive systems in both software and hardware, datacenter and warehouse-scale computer architecture, and software / hardware co-design |
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Asst Professor, MAE |
Computational fluid mechanics, cardiovascular mechanics, bio-fluid mechanics and biomedical devices technology emphasizing optimization methods relating to vascular surgery |
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Assoc Professor, MAE |
Distributed motion coordination algorithms, distributed estimation and data gathering, optimal control policies for robotic locomotion, motion planning for underactuated systems, and low-complexity representations of mechanical systems. |
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Professor, CSE |
Fault-tolerant computing with focus on Internet, grid computing, and other distributed networks that have radically changed the challenges of assuring reliability. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Statistical signal analysis, with a particular emphasis on time series analysis and adaptive filtering algorithms for dependent data. | |
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Professor, BENG |
In-vitro, in-vivo and computational cardiac mechanics and physiology in health and disease. |
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Professor, MAE |
Nonlinear, stochastic, and robust control theory; dynamic games; estimation; max-plus algebraic methods; and partial differential equations. |
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Professor, MAE |
Generation of materials with superior properties through novel processing technique. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Solar system physics, cometary physics, physics of dusty plasmas | |
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Asst Professor, NENG Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Energy storage and conversion materials: nano structured electrodes for advanced rechargeable batteries, dye-sensitized solar cells and thermoelectric conversion; charge ordering, structure stability, processing/structure/property - performance relation in functional ceramics. |
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Asst Professor, ECE |
Energy-efficient circuit and system design, with emphasis on miniaturized devices for biomedical applications that employ novel RF, analog, digital, power management, and energy harvesting architectures. |
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Professor, BENG |
Research interests include developing novel pharmacological therapies for heart regeneration, protection and maintenance of function after injury. |
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Asst Professor, BENG |
Metabolism, system biology, mass spectrometry, flux analysis, cancer, stem cell biology |
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Professor, MAE Faculty, NENG |
Biological and bioinspired materials; nanocrystalline and ultra fine grained metals; mechanical and dynamic behavior of materials with emphasis on laser compression and high speed reactions. |
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Professor, CSE |
Cryptography, complexity, and the relation of the two. Develops, tests, and validates algorithms for securing E-commerce and other computer transactions. |
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Prof Emeritus, MAE |
Experimental engineering physics, surface physics, gas dynamics and molecular beams. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Digital communications theory and wireless communications, specializing in spread-spectrum systems. Other areas of expertise include signal transmission, bandwidth considerations, and broadband wireless. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE |
Photonics, nonlinear optics, quantum photonics, nanotechnology. |
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Assoc Professor, SE |
Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems, seismic response of structural and nonstructural building systems, experimental methods including hybrid simulation. |
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Professor, MAE |
Computational modeling and analysis of heterogeneous materials, including composites, for aerospace, civil and biological applications, and tensegrity structures |
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Dir-CER/Prof, ECE Faculty, CER |
Fusion energy research and development of new techniques to study laser-materials interactions. |
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Faculty, MAE |
Development, testing and analysis of advanced materials for a variety of applications, including defense, space exploration, construction, and biotechnology. |
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Professor, MAE |
Processing of materials for a variety of applications, including electronics (e.g. superconductors and thin films), bioengineering, and defense. |
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Vice Chair/Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Image/Video Processing and Communications; 3D Video; Wavelets and Filter Banks. |
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Professor, MAE |
Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, transport phenomena, reacting flows and combustion, environmental flows. |
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Lecturer PSOE, NENG Faculty, NENG |
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Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Electronic design automation, VLSI testing, and synthesis of fault-tolerant integrated circuits (ICs). |
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Lecturer, CSE |
Rick received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1987. He has been Director of the Computing Facility in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UCSD from August of 1988 to July of 2001, at which time he became a full-time Lecturer in Computer Science. Rick has been a Lecturer in the CSE department at UCSD since January 1991 (full-time since 2001) and an Instructor in the Information Technologies department at UCSD Extension from 1987 - 2005. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Communications and information theory, with particular interests in signal processing, data compression, speech recognition and learning theory. |
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Adj Professor, ECE |
Communication networks with emphasis on wireless communications. |
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Professor, BENG |
Reconstruction of genetic circuits and genome-scale models of complex cellular processes. |
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Professor, CSE |
Database systems and Internet technologies, and specifically data integration applications that require search, querying and interaction with the information of multiple distributed sources, such as multiple Web sites. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Advanced photonic systems including optical communication systems, optical networking, and environmental and atmospheric remote sensing. |
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Professor, CSE |
Operating systems, distributed systems and networks, focusing on performance and reliability of Internet-scale systems with highly decentralized control |
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Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Algorithms, complexity theory, satisfiability, lower bounds, digital libraries, data mining, machine learning, and information technology (IT) education. |
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Assoc Professor, MAE |
Coastal and estuarine turbulent mixing processes and their interactions with topographic features. |
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Prof Emeritus, MAE |
Energy technologies, environmental issues, management and policies. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Computational molecular biology and bioinformatics, including pattern finding, DNA sequencing, DNA arrays, genome rearrangements, computational proteomics. |
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Adj Professor, ECE |
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Professor Emeritus, SE |
Seismic design of concrete and masonry structures; Seismic design philosophy |
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Adj Professor, ECE |
Digital communications and digital signal processing, as well as communication systems modeling and simulation. |
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Assoc Prof, SE |
High-performance infrastructure materials, smart materials and structures, energy-related materials, failure analysis for engineering materials and structures. |
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Professor, ECE |
Collisionless shock structure, magnetic reconnection, and plasma waves and instabilities |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Optical communications, information network infrastructure, optics and photonics |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Digital signal processing, estimation theory, and optimization theory, with applications to digital communications, speech signal processing, and human-computer interactions. |
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Dir/SD Div/Prof/ECE, Calit2 Faculty, ECE |
Architectures, protocols and performance analysis of wireless, wire line and photonic networks for integrated multimedia services |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Professor Rebeiz's expertise includes design of silicon RFICs for microwave and millimeter-wave systems with a specialty on phased arrays and low power circuits, active and passive imaging systems up to THz frequencies (including thermal imagers), THz CMOS and SiGe electronics, RF micro-electro-mechanical systems (RF MEMS), reconfigurable front-ends including tunable filters and tunable antennas, cognitive radios, planar antennas from RF to THz frequencies, radars, and collision avoidance systems for automotive applications. |
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Assoc Dean, Dean Professor, CSE |
Combinatorics, Computer Science, Enumerative and Algebraic Combinatorics, Hybrid Control, Mathematical Logic |
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Professor, SE |
Seismic design of buildings for improved response during earthquakes. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Radio astronomy, electromagnetic waves, and space science. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Embedded system design, resource management at the system level, hardware management and embedded software optimization, power management algorithms. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
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Adjunct Prof, MAE |
James Rottman's research interests focus on meteorology and oceanography and include theoretical, numerical and experimental studies of internal waves, gravity currents, wake flows, turbulence, and mixing in stratified fluids. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Structure Property Relations in Materials for the Electronics Industry |
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Professor, BENG |
Cartilage repair and tissue engineering; relationship between biomechanical function, metabolism, composition, and structure of cartilage during growth, aging, degeneration (osteoarthritis), repair, and regeneration. |
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Chair/Professor, MAE |
Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, environmental flows |
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Professor, CSE |
Machine learning, pattern recognition, voice processing, auditory computation and methods for high dimensional data analysis. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty, CNS |
Computer security issues (especially worms, viruses, intrusion detection and denial-of-service attacks), wide-area and wireless networking, and distributed and/or adaptive computer systems. |
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Faculty-Emeritus, CSE |
Complexity theory, formal language theory, computational linguistics, and the development of computer science education materials. |
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Professor, BENG |
Molecular and cellular biomechanics, microcirculation and transport in living tissues. Applications to cardiovascular diseases and the design of new tools for prevention and treatment. Development of the Auto-digestion Theory for shock and multiorgan failure, metabolic syndrome, and autism. |
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Prof Emeritus, MAE |
Systems science applied to biomedical problems. |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Electronic systems and control, intelligent systems, fuzzy and neural systems |
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus, SE |
Design and retrofit of buildings and bridges for earthquake safety, new technologies to renew the nation's aging infrastructure, and bomb blast-resistant design of critical infrastructure. |
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Co Dir/INC, CSE Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Terrence J. Sejnowski, professor and head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, is a pioneer in the field of computational neuroscience. |
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Adjt Professor, SE Director, UCSD CISA3, SE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Maurizio Seracini has spent a lifetime developing new ways to study art and historic buildings using advanced technologies. Dr. Seracini is a pioneer in the use of multispectral imaging (e.g., infrared, ultraviolet, x-ray etc.) and other diagnostic and analytical tools applied to works of art and structures. |
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Professor, MAE |
Experimental and analytical studies on combustion |
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Asst Professor, CSE Faculty, SE |
Applied cryptography, systems security, and tech policy |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Specializing in condensed matter theory. His current interest is in optical control of electron spins in semiconductor nanostructures, for quantum information processing and spintronics. |
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Professor, SE Vice-Chair, SE |
Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, inelastic behavior of concrete and masonry structures, bridge structures, finite element modeling of concrete and masonry structures, structural testing, structural control, pseudynamic and fast hybrid test techniques. |
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Professor, CMRR Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Information theory, coding theory, and communication theory, with applications to digital data storage and transmission. |
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Professor, ECE |
Research focus on novel electromagnetic structures for antennas and other applications. |
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Assoc Professor, BENG |
Bioengineering and neuroengineering applications of retinal physiology, visual neuroscience, and ophthalmology, including the interface between cells and micro/nanotechnologies. |
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LSOE, CSE Director/Ctr Teach Dev, CSE |
Computer science education, educational technology, compilers, computer architecture, performance programming, and scientific computing. |
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Asst Professor, NENG |
Nanophotonic sensors and devices, nanostructured semiconductors for applications in optics, energy conversion, and medicine. |
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Prof Emeritus, MAE |
Design of dynamic feedback control systems for a variety of applications, including vibration control, model reduction theory, and integration of plant and control design. |
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Director/Prof/CSE, Calit2 Faculty, CSE |
Internet, information technology, telecommunications, supercomputing, interdisciplinary research, networking, and the wireless Web. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE |
Computer systems, including operating systems and networking, and particularly protocols to support secure and robust wide-area mobile computing. |
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Professor, ECE Endowed Chair, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
CMOS integrated circuits for communications, design of integrated filters, frequency synthesizers, radio frequency (RF) circuits, and analog-digital data converters, among other devices critical to wireless communications. |
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Prof Emeritus, MAE |
Systems engineer, founding UCSD faculty member, former Air Force Chief Scientist, MITRE GM, co-founder Orincon |
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Professor/Chair, BENG |
Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Medicine |
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Professor, BENG |
Geneticist who studies the molecular basis of cell and membrane mechanics. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE |
Hardware/software interactions, applications and architectures for non-volatile solid-state memories, ultra-efficient specialized computing architectures, architectures for data-centric computing, and software optimizations for multi-core processors. |
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Professor, ECE |
Guidance and control systems and the signal processing of heterogeneous streams of data. | |
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Professor, NENG |
As director of the School's Chemical Engineering Program, Talbot coordinates with affiliated faculty from the nanoengineering, mechanical and aerospace engineering, bioengineering, and chemistry departments. The curricula at both the undergraduate and graduate levels are designed to support and foster chemical engineering as a multidisciplinary profession that interfaces engineering and all aspects of basic sciences (physics, chemistry, and biology), and facilitates California’s critical biotech and high-tech based economy. |
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Professor, MAE |
Mechanics and tribology of magnetic storage, and micro-mechanical design techniques for ultra-high density disk drives |
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Asst Professor, NENG |
Functional nanostructured materials, including nanowires, nanophotonics, and biomimetic materials. She works in nanophotonics and optics at the nanoscale, in the synthesis and assembly of platonic nanocrystals, and in developing nanowires for sensing applications. |
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Professor, MAE |
Tartakovsky studies uncertainty quantification, risk assessment,stochastic partial differential equations, inverse problems, hybrid algorithms, flow and transport in porous media, multiphase flow, subsurface hydrology, and biomedical modeling. |
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Professor, ECE |
Semiconductor device design expert who specializes in the structure and physics of transistors. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE |
Computer architecture, parallel computing, microprocessor and VLSI circuit design, and on-chip interconnection networks. |
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Professor, SE Vice-Chair, SE |
Structural dynamics, nonlinear vibrations, time series modeling, structural health monitoring strategies for civil, mechanical, and aerospace systems, fiber optic sensor system design and noise propagation modeling. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Computer vision, robotics and sensors for a number of cutting-edge applications, including "smart cars" (telematics), intelligent transportation systems, “smart rooms" (intelligent environments), biometrics (facial recognition) and sensor-based intelligent systems. |
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Assoc Dean, Dean Assoc Dean/Prof, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Compound semiconductor materials for electronic, opto-electronic, and photovoltaic devices. |
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Assoc Professor, CSE |
Processor architecture for high-end computing; widely credited with an innovation that can double the performance of a new generation of microprocessors. |
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Professor, MAE |
Basic and applied plasma physics. |
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Professor, SE |
Steel design of structures for optimal performance during earthquakes and vibrations. |
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Professor, CSE SAIC Chair in Engineering, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Distributed systems, computer networks, operating systems, Internet security, and mobile/wireless systems. |
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Lecturer, SE |
Lelli Van Den Einde is a Lecturer (LPSOE) in the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Information theory specializing in error-correcting codes for data transmission and storage. |
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Assoc Professor, BENG |
Stem cells, molecularly engineered bioresorbable materials, smart stimuli responsive biopolymers, nano-composites, in vitro and in vivo tissue repair, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine |
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Professor, ECE |
Statistical signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, multimedia |
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Professor/Chair, NENG |
The creation and performance testing of new composite materials and alloys |
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Professor, CSE |
Reinventing the database in response to recent developments, including the emergence of the World Wide Web. |
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Professor, CSE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Computer systems research in operating systems, distributed systems, networking, and mobile and wireless computing. |
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Assoc Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Nanoscale science and technology, semiconductor nanomaterials and devices for electronic, optoelectronic and biological applications. |
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Professor, NENG Vice-Chair, NENG Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
A leader in a wide range of research areas including nanomachines, nanobioelectronics, and sensing technologies for applications including clinical diagnostics, environmental and security monitoring and remote sensing. |
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Assoc Professor, BENG |
Molecular engineering, fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), live cell imaging, and bio-nanotechnology to visualize and elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which live cells perceive the environment and to engineer machinery molecules for the reprogramming of cellular functions. |
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Director/Professor, BENG |
A von Liebig Center founding director, artificial hearts, team builder in medical progress, National Academy of Engineering |
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Prof Emeritus, ECE |
Physics and engineering applications of electron devices, heterostructures and quantum electronics. |
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Professor, MAE |
Energy from combustion, combustion efficiency, and combustion instability problems in a variety of engines, including rockets. |
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Faculty-Emeritus, CSE |
Algorithms, combinatorial mathematics, and combinatorics. |
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Res/Assoc Director, MAE |
Kraig is a Principal Investigator in the Integrative Oceanography Division and a member of the Center for Observations Modeling and Prediction at Scripps. He is the leader of the Computational Fluid Dynamics and Ocean Process Modeling Group and is an Adjunct Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. |
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Asst Professor, ECE |
Nanomaterial synthesis, advanced semiconductor physics, coupled electromechanical systems (NEMS) |
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Assoc VC/Res Initiatives, ECE Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Microwave photonics, with research on electronic and opto-electronic devices and advanced materials for use in photonic devices. |
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Prof Emertitus, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Asynchronous design methods, the synthesis, verification, and analysis of mixed-timed VLSI designs, particularly interface design methodologies and tools to facilitate ultra-high-speed communications between synchronous-asynchronous modules. |
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Professor, ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Information coding and data compression, information theory, and signal processing, including image and speech processing. |
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Res (Emeritus), ECE Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2 |
Adaptive signal and array processing for wireless networks, and antenna arrays. |
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Assoc Professor, BENG |
Integrative genomics, with a focus on human stem cells; single-cell genomics; genetical genomics; epigenomics |
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Assoc Professor, NENG |
Synthesis and engineering of lipid- and polymer-based nanomaterials for biomedical applications. |
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Assoc Professor, BENG |
Computational genomics, epigenomics, stem cells and developmental biology, single-cell nano-technology. |
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Professor, CSE |
Yuanyuan (YY) Zhou is a Qualcomm Chair Professor at University of California, San Diego, where she joined since 2009. Prior to UCSD, she was working at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign as a faculty from 2002 to 2009. |
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Assoc Prof, SE |
Ocean engineering, biomechanics. |
