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Faculty Name	Title/Department	Expertise

Acampora, Anthony	Professor ECE	Telecommunication, network systems design, wireless networks, wireless technologies.

Arrhenius, Gustaf O.S.	Associated Faculty Professor ECE	Astrobiology, origin of life, organic chemistry, geochemistry, cosmochemistry, exobiology and mineralogy.

Arya, Gaurav	Assistant Professor Nanoengineering	Theoretical modeling and simulation of gene regulatory systems and biomolecular engineering

Asaro, Robert J.	Professor Structural Engineering	Composite design and manufacturing technologies for large scale structures and marine applications as well as the deformation, fracture and fatigue of high temperature intermetallics.

Asbeck, Peter M	Distinguished Professor ECE	Design and development of high-speed transistors and integrated circuits, power amplifiers and opto-electronic devices using compound semiconductor materials and heterostructures

Baden, Scott B.	Professor CSE	High performance and parallel scientific computation.

Bafna, Vineet	Assistant Professor CSE	Computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, proteomics, approximational algorithms, human genome, human proteome, protein identification, Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) analysis

Bandaru, Prabhakar	Assistant Professor MAE	Development and investigation of nano-materials for magnetic, semiconductor, optical, and MEMS/NEMS (micro-/nano- electro mechanical systems) devices.

Beg, Farhat	Assistant 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.

Bellare, Mihir	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.

Belongie, Serge	Associate Professor CSE	Emerging fields of computer vision and object recognition, as well as biometrics (fingerprint recognition in particular) and video segmentation.

Benson, David	Professor MAE	Computational mechanicsand computer methods for solving problems in mechanical engineering.

Berman, Francine	Professor CSE	High-performance and grid computing: programming environments, adaptive middleware, scheduling, and performance predication.

Bertram, H. Neal	Professor Emeritus ECE	Magnetic recording physics, recording materials, magnetic media, and information storage.

Bewley, Thomas	Associate Professor MAE	Control, optimization, and forecasting of multiscale fluid systems

Bitmead, Robert	Professor MAE	Design of dynamic feedback control systems for a variety of engineering applications.

Buckley, Steven G.	Associate Professor MAE, Nanoengineering	Energy and environmental research, focusing on combustion-generated air pollution, novel sensors, applied diagnostics, general combustion and fire research problems.

Buckwalter, James	Assistant Professor ECE	Design of high-speed integrated circuits for wireline communication.

Burkhard, Walter A.	Professor CSE	Storage system algorithms expert with interest in data layouts, disk arrays, RAID, video servers, replicated file systems.

Buss, Samuel	Adjunct Professor CSE	Bounded arithmetic, proof theory and complexity, mathematical logic and behavioral logic.

Calder, Brad	Professor CSE	Computer architecture, specifically the interaction between architecture and compiler optimizations across a broad range of subjects.

Carter, Larry	Professor Emeritus CSE	Scientific computation, performance programming, parallel computation, machine and system architecture for high performance.

Cattolica, Robert J.	Professor MAE	Combustion, fluid mechanics, optical spectroscopy, laser and electron beam diagnostics, molecular energy transfer, and hypersonic gas dynamics.

Chang, William S.C.	Professor Emeritus ECE	Integrated optics, solid state electronics, and photonics.

Chau, Paul M	Associate Professor ECE	Design of Very Large Scale Integrated circuits or VLSI chips for communications, computer engineering, VLSI digital Signal Processing [VLSI-DSP], application/algorithm-specific integrated circuit [ASIC] chip design, computer-aided design [CAD] tools, adaptive signal processing, electronic neural networks.

Chau, Pao C.	Professor Nanoengineering	Large-scale mammalian cell culture, membrane bioreactor, cell cycle kinetics, flow cytometry.

Cheng, Chung-Kuan	Professor CSE,ECE	Computer-aided design, VLSI layout automation, circuit partitioning, network flow optimization, physical design of multichip modules for hybrid package.

Chien, Shu	University Professor Bioengineering	Research on how the forces of blood flow impact the cardiovascular system. His studies are leading to new understanding about the onset of atherosclerosis and hypertension, and to experimental treatments for heart disease using gene therapy and engineered tissue.

Christman, Karen	Assistant Professor Bioengineering	Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry and bio-nanotechnology, multi-scale bioengineering and biomaterial design

Coles, William A.	Professor 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.

Conn, Robert W.	Professor Emeritus MAE	Semiconductors and components, energy systems, specialized materials

Conte, Joel	Professor Structural Engineering	Modeling and analysis of structures with particular emphasis on the dynamic, nonlinear, and probabilistic aspects.

Cortes, Jorge	Assistant Professor MAE	Systems and control, sensor networks, engineering mathematics, and geometric mechanics

Cosman, Pamela	Professor ECE	Image and video compression for transmission over wireless, Internet or other telecommunications networks.

Cottrell, Garrison W.	Professor CSE	Facial recognition, neural networks, human cognition, cognitive science, computational philosophy, artificial intelligence (AI).

Cruz, Rene L.	Professor ECE	Design and performance analysis of communication networks, with an emphasis on high speed wireless and optical systems, scheduling, routing, network calculus.

Das, Pankaj K.	Adjunct Professor ECE	Acousto-optics, opto-electronics, spread-spectrum communications, oversampling.

Dasgupta, Sanjoy	Assistant Professor CSE	High-dimensional statistics, clustering, algorithms for finding underlying patterns in high-dimensional data, machine learning

de Callafon, Raymond	Associate Professor MAE	Simulation, prediction and control of dynamic systems, theory of modeling using system identification techniques, and the interaction between modeling and control.

Deutsch, Alin	Assistant Professor CSE	Semistructured and XML data, data security, adaptive distributed query design, and the design and optimization of query languages.

Dey, Sujit	Professor ECE	Adaptive Wireless Multimedia, Sensor Networks, Hardware-Software Embedded Systems, Nano-meter System-on-Chip Design and Test.

Elgamal, Ahmed	Professor Structural Engineering	Information Technology, Earthquake Engineering, Computational Geomechanics

Elkan, Charles	Professor CSE	Automated reasoning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, database systems, expert systems, computational biology, and data mining.

Englekirk, Robert E.	Adjunct Professor Structural Engineering	Earthquake-resistant design, creative seismic bracing systems, Englekirk Companies, NEES Large High Performance Shake Table

Esener, Sadik	Professor ECE, Nanoengineering	Photonics and opto-electronics, including optical data storage, biophotonics and optical interconnects.

Fainman, Yeshaiahu (Shaya)	Professor ECE	Applied optics and photonics, including 3-D imaging, biomedical optics, optical signal processing and nano-photonics.

Ferrante, Jeanne	Associate Dean of the Jacobs School, Professor CSE	Compiling techniques that make scientific applications run faster.

Ford, Joseph	Associate Professor ECE	Optical subsystems and devices for applications including telecommunication networks, data storage, and optoelectronic computing

Franceschetti, Massimo	Asssistant Professor ECE	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

Freund, Yoav	Professor CSE	Computational learning theory and related areas in probability theory, information theory, statistics and pattern recognition.

Fullerton, Eric	Professor ECE, Nanoengineering	Magnetic recording and nano-technologies; thin film and superlattice growth, interfacial and thin-film magnetism, x-ray and neutron scattering.

Fung, Yuan-Cheng	Professor Emeritus Bioengineering	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.

Galton, Ian	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).

Gibson, Carl H.	Professor MAE	Theoretical and experimental studies of turbulence and turbulent mixing in the atmosphere and ocean.

Giles, Wayne	Professor Bioengineering	Electrophysiology, pharmacology and biophysics of cardiac cells, and their role in heart rhythm and arrhythmias. Mathematical modeling.

Gille, Sarah T.	Associate Professor MAE	Ocean dynamics and global climate.

Goddard, Joe	Professor MAE	Rheology of complex fluids, and bio-molecular energy transduction

Gough, David	Professor Bioengineering	Development and application of implantable biochemical sensors for the continuous monitoring of glucose, oxygen, lactate, and other metabolites.

Graham, Fan Chung	Professor CSE	Algorithmic design, parallel computing, communications networks, Internet computing, discrete geometry, and active compilers for the Grid.

Graham, Ronald	Professor CSE	Computer science, Internet routing, and mathematics, including combinatorics, number theory, graph theory, discrete and computational geometry.

Griswold, William	Professor CSE	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.

Guest, Clark C.	Associate Professor ECE	Neural networks, goal-directed AI, optical system design, computervision

Gupta, Rajesh	Professor CSE	Embedded systems and mobile computing, including the integration of software and hardware to make computers more portable and energy efficient ('power-aware' computing).

Hasty, Jeff	Associate Professor Bioengineering	Computational genomics and the dynamics of gene regulatory networks which control cell function.

Hecht-Nielsen, Robert	Adjunct Professor ECE	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.

Hegemier, Gilbert A.	Professor and Chair Structural Engineering	Earthquake engineering to retrofit bridges, roadways and buildings for improved public safetgy and structural performance

Heller, Michael	Professor ECE, Bioengineering, Nanoengineering	Microelectronic DNA chip technology and its applications to genomics and clinical diagnosis.

Herz, Richard K.	Associate Professor Nanoengineering	Analysis and modeling of reactions to heterogeneous catalysis or catalysis by solids, absorption equilibria and kinetics, and interactive educational software.

Hildebrand, John A.	Adjunct Professor ECE	Marine mammal vocalizations, acoustic wave propagation and ambient noise, algorithms for automatic detection and classification.

Hodgkiss, William S.	Adjunct Professor ECE	Data telemetry, sensor array signal processing, and environmental parameter estimation.

Hoger, Anne	Professor MAE	Continuum mechanics and its application to biological tissues.

Howden, William E.	Professor CSE	Software testing and analysis, error modeling and prevention, software design, and embedded systems.

Hu, T. C.	Professor CSE	Combinatorial algorithms, mathematical programming, networks and graphs, VLSI circuit layout.

Huang, Xiaohua	Assistant Professor Bioengineering	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.

Huber, Gary	Assistant Professor Bioengineering	Molecular simulation, multiscale molecular modeling.

Hutchinson, Tara	Associate Professor Structural Engineering	Earthquake and geotechnical engineering, performance assessment of structural/nonstructural components, and machine learning and computer vision methods for damage estimation.

Ideker, Trey	Associate Professor Bioengineering	Bioinformatics and systems biology; computational modeling of cellular regulatory networks; yeast genetics

Impagliazzo, Russell	Professor CSE	Computational complexity, cryptography, circuit complexity, computational randomness.

Intaglietta, Marcos	Professor Bioengineering	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.

Javidi, Tara	Assistant Professor ECE	Wireless systems: stochastic and optimal resource allocation, network design and control, multi-access control, and topology design in ad hoc systems.

Jensen, Henrik Wann	Associate Professor CSE	Computer graphics, specializing in the rendering of realistic images of natural phenomena, global illumination and appearance modeling.

Jhala, Ranjit	Assistant Professor CSE	Techniques for building reliable systems: model checking, automated deduction, program analysis, type systems, programming languages, software engineering, and logic.

Jin, Sungho	Distinguished Professor MAE, Nanoengineering	Cutting-edge materials science, including nano-materials, magnetic alloys and thin films, and MEMS materials and devices.

Kahng, Andrew B.	Professor CSE,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.

Karbhari, Vistasp	Professor Structural Engineering	Composite materials for innovative structural designs.

Karin, Sidney	Professor CSE	Computational science and engineering, high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, scientific visualization and interaction environments, computer and network security, networking.

Kassner, Michael	Adjunct Professor MAE	Mechanical behavior of metals for defense and industry applications, including creep of materials, hot-working of metals, ductile fracture, fatigue and phase diagrams.

Kastner, Ryan	Associate Professor CSE	Reconfigurable computing, VLSI computer-aided design, sensor networks, radiolocation, computer architecture, security, embedded systems and optimization algorithms.

Kedrosky, Paul S.	Academic Director von Liebig Center for Entrpreneurism & Technology Advancement	Business ethics and practices, finance, entrepreneurship, engineering education, innovation

Kim, Young-Han	Assistant Professor ECE	Statistical signal processing and information theory, with applications in communication, networking, data compression, and information processing.

Kim, Hyonny	Associate Professor Structural Engineering

Kleissl, Jan	Assistant Professor MAE	Atmospheric boundary layer meteorology, turbulence, integrated field measurements and numerical modeling of evaporation, and wireless sensor networks.

Kosmatka, John	Professor Structural Engineering	Design, analysis, and experimental testing of light-weight advancedcomposite structures.

Krasheninnikov, Sergei	Professor MAE	Fusion energy and plasma physics.

Kreutz-Delgado, Kenneth	Professor ECE	Nonlinear dynamics and control;, adaptive sensory-motor control, multibody systems theory, learning theory and pattern recognition, computational vision, and data compression.

Kriegman, David	Professor CSE	Computer vision, computer graphics, face recognition and vision-guided robotics.

Krstic, Miroslav	Professor MAE	Nonlinear, adaptive, and robust controls for aircraft engines, helicopters, satellites, and automotive systems.

Krueger, Ingolf	Assistant Professor in Residence CSE	Service-oriented software and systems engineering, programming methodology, and the design, implementation, and verification of distributed, reactive systems.

Krysl, Petr	Associate Professor Structural Engineering	Finite element computational modeling techniques for solids and structures, model order reduction in nonlinear mechanics, and computer and engineering simulations in multiphysics problems.

Ku, Walter H.	Professor ECE,CSE	High-speed integrated circuits and systems, design and fabrication of semiconductor IC's for adaptive signal and image processing, secure communications systems, physical design

Kuester, Falko	Associate Professor Structural Engineering

Lanckriet, Gert	Assistant Professor ECE	Applied statistics, machine learning, convex and large-scale optimization, pattern discovery from heterogeneous data (including computational biology, finance, and music annotation).

Lanza di Scalea, Francesco	Professor Structural Engineering	Health Monitoring, Non-destructive Evaluation and Experimental Mechanics of Structural Components using novel sensing technology

Larson, Larry	Professor and Chair ECE	Design of high-speed integrated circuits for wireless communications and other applications.

Lasheras, Juan	Professor MAE	Turbulence and fluid mechanics with a special interest in two-phase flows, particle mechanics, microgravity fluid mechanics and bio-fluid mechanics.

Lau, Silvanus S.	Professor ECE	Characterization of semiconductor processing technology, and applications of electronic materials.

Lauga, Eric	Assistant Professor MAE	Applied mathematics, fluid mechanics of animal locomotion, microfluidics, capillary phenomena, and the mechanics of soft matter

Lemke, James U.	Adjunct Professor ECE	Theoretical and applied recording physics, nano-tribology, research and development of magnetic information storage

Lerner, Sorin	Assistant Professor CSE	Programming language and analysis, including domain-specific languages, compilation, formal methods and automated theorem proving.

Libby, Paul	Professor Emeritus MAE	Fluid dynamics, combustion theory, turbulence and turbulent combustion.

Lin, Bill	Associate Professor ECE	Novel embedded system and VLSI architectures for communications and networking applications.

Linden, Paul F.	Professor and Chair MAE	Experimental and theoretical study of dynamic flows, and environmental engineering.

Llewellyn Smith, Stefan	Associate Professor MAE	Fluid dynamics and environmental engineering.

Lo, Yu-Hwa	Professor ECE	Professor Lo is an expert in bioMEMS and optoelectronic devices, who specializes in photonic integrated circuits.

Lomakin, Vitaliy	Assistant 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.

Lubarda, Vlado A.	Adjunct Professor MAE	Computational and theoretical analysis of solids, specifically solid mechanics.

Luco, J. Enrique	Professor Structural Engineering	Earthquake engineering, strong motion seismology, soil structure interaction

Ludäscher, Bertram	Adjunct Professor CSE	Knowledge-based information systems, query evaluation, and database theory.

Lugannani, Robert	Professor ECE	Processes with an impact on communications, particularly those which are stochastic (random) in nature.

Luo, Huey-Lin	Professor 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.

Markenscoff, Xanthippi	Professor MAE	Solid mechanics and materials science, elasticity, and fracture dynamics.

Marsden, Alison	Assistant Professor MAE	Computational fluid mechanics, cardiovascular mechanics, bio-fluid mechanics and biomedical devices technology emphasizing optimization methods relating to vascular surgery

Martínez, Sonia	Assistant 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.

Marzullo, Keith	Professor and Chair CSE	Fault-tolerant computing with focus on Internet, grid computing, and other distributed networks that have radically changed the challenges of assuring reliability.

Masry, Elias	Professor ECE	Statistical signal analysis, with a particular emphasis on time series analysis and adaptive filtering algorithms for dependent data.

McCulloch, Andrew	Professor and Chair Bioengineering	In-vitro, in-vivo and computational cardiac mechanics and physiology in healthand disease.

McEneaney, William	Professor MAE	Nonlinear, stochastic, and robust control theory; dynamic games; estimation; max-plus algebraic methods; and partial differential equations.

Mendis, D. Asoka	Professor Emeritus ECE	Solar system physics, cometary physics, physics of dusty plasmas

Meyers, Marc A.	Professor MAE, Nanoengineering	Dynamic behavior of materials subjected to explosions, ballistic impacts, and other high-energy forces, biological materials.

Micciancio, Daniele	Associate Professor CSE	Cryptography, complexity, and the relation of the two. Develops, tests, and validates algorithms for securing E-commerce and other computer transactions.

Miller, David	Professor & Associate Vice Chancellor MAE, Chemical Engineering	Experimental engineering physics, surface physics, gas dynamics and molecular beams.

Milstein, Laurence	Professor ECE	Digital communications theory and wireless communications, specializing in spread-spectrum systems. Other areas of expertise include signal transmission, bandwidth considerations, and broadband wireless.

Mookherjea, Shayan	Assistant Professor ECE	Photonics, nanotechnology, nonlinear optics, optical networking, solitons, and electromagnetic wave theory.

Murakami, Hidenori	Professor MAE	Computational modeling and analysis of heterogeneous materials, including composites, for aerospace, civil and biological applications, and tensegrity structures

Najmabadi, Farrokh	Professor ECE	Fusion energy research and development of new techniques to study laser-materials interactions.

Nemat-Nasser, Siavouche	Professor MAE	Development, testing and analysis of advanced materials for a variety of applications, including defense, space exploration, construction, and biotechnology.

Nesterenko, Vitali	Professor MAE, Materials Science	Processing of materials for a variety of applications, including electronics (e.g. superconductors and thin films), bioengineering, and defense.

Nguyen, Truong Q.	Professor ECE	Image and video processing and signal processing for communications, including an emphasis on implementations or digital signal processing or DSP architectures.

Nomura, Keiko	Associate Professor MAE	Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, transport phenomena, reacting flows and combustion, environmental flows.

Orailoglu, Alex	Professor CSE	Electronic design automation, VLSI testing, and synthesis of fault-tolerant integrated circuits (ICs).

Orlitsky, Alon	Professor ECE,CSE	Communications and information theory, with particular interests in signal processing, data compression, speech recognition and learning theory.

Padovani, Roberto	Adjunct Professor ECE	Communication networks with emphasis on wireless communications.

Palsson, Bernhard O.	Professor Bioengineering	Reconstuction of genetic circuits and genome-scale models of complex cellular processes.

Papakonstantinou, Yannis	Associate 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.

Papen, George	Professor ECE	Advanced photonic systems including optical communication systems, optical networking, and environmental and atmospheric remote sensing.

Pasquale, Joseph	Professor CSE	Design, implementation, and performance evaluation of networks and operating systems to support Internet-scale systems.

Paturi, Ramamohan	Professor CSE	Algorithms, complexity theory, satisfiability, lower bounds, digital libraries, data mining, machine learning, and information technology (IT) education.

Penner, Stanford	Professor Emeritus MAE	Energy technologies, environmental issues, management and policies.

Pevzner, Pavel	Professor CSE	Computational molecular biology and bioinformatics, including pattern finding, DNA sequencing, DNA arrays, genome rearrangements, computational proteomics.

Polyzos, George C.	Adjunct Professor CSE	Mobile multimedia communications and computing, wireless packet networks and mobile communications, Internet Protocols and applications, pricing packet communications services, distributed multimedia, and distance learning.

Pozrikidis, Constantine	Professor MAE	Computational fluid dynamics to better understand the mechanics and behaviors of various flows.

Proakis, John	Adjunct Professor ECE	Digital communications and digital signal processing, as well as communication systems modeling and simulation.

Qiao, Yu	Associate Professor Structural Engineering

Quest, Kevin B.	Professor ECE	Collisionless shock structure, magnetic reconnection, and plasma waves and instabilities

Radic, Stojan	Professor ECE	Optical communications, information network infrastructure, optics and photonics

Rao, Bhaskar	Professor ECE

Rao, Ramesh	Professor ECE	Architectures, protocols and performance analysis of wireless, wire line and photonic networks for integrated multimedia services

Rebeiz, Gabriel	Professor ECE	Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) for microwave applications, design of radio frequency/microwave/millimeter-wave systems, related front-end analog electronic circuits, active and passive sensor systems, planar antennas and phased arrays, microwave filters and passive components, monopulse tracking systems and radars, and collision avoidance systems for automotive applications.

Restrepo, Jose	Associate Professor Structural Engineering	Seismic design of buildings for improved response during earthquakes.

Rickett, Barney	Professor Emeritus ECE	Radio astronomy, electromagnetic waves, and space science.

Rosen, J. Ben	Adjunct Professor CSE	Parallel algorithms, global optimization, especially with respect to computational biology.

Rudee, M. Lea	Professor Emeritus ECE	Structure Property Relations in Materials for the Electronics Industry

Sah, Robert	Professor and Vice Chair Bioengineering	Cartilage repair and tissue engineering; relationship between biomechanical function, metabolism, composition, and structure of cartilage during growth, aging, degeneration (osteoarthritis), repair, and regeneration.

Sarkar, Sutanu	Professor MAE	Computational fluid dynamics, and the simulation and modeling of turbulence.

Saul, Lawrence	Professor CSE	Machine learning, pattern recognition, voice processing, auditory computation and methods for high dimensional data analysis.

Savage, Stefan	Associate Professor CSE	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.

Savitch, Walter	Professor Emeritus CSE	Complexity theory, formal language theory, computational linguistics, and the development of computer science education materials.

Schmid-Schönbein, Geert	Professor Bioengineering	Biomechanics and transport in living tissues and in the microcirculation. Identification of mechanisms that trigger cardiovascular diseases and the design of new tools for prevention and treatment of such diseases.

Schneider, Alan	Professor Emeritus MAE	Systems science applied to biomedical problems.

Schurgers, Curt	Assistant Professor ECE	Energy efficient wireless embedded systems with research thrusts including digital electronic circuits, VLSI system design, digital communications, wireless systems, digital signal processing, and networked systems.

Sebald, Anthony	Professor Emeritus ECE	Electronic systems and control, intelligent systems, fuzzy and neaural systems

Seible, Frieder	Dean of the Jacobs School, Professor Structural Engineering	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.

Seshadri, Kalyanansundaram	Professor MAE	Experimental and analytical studies on combustion

Shacham, Hovav	Assistant Professor CSE	Applied cryptography, systems security, and tech policy

Shapiro, Vitali	Professor ECE, Physics	Space and astrophysics, plasma physics, and fluid dynamics.

Shing, P. Benson	Professor Structural Engineering	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.

Siegel, Paul	Professor ECE	Information storage, information theory, as well as signal transmission in wireless, optical fiber and other wireline telecommunications.

Silva, Gabriel	Assistant Professor Bioengineering and Ophthalmology	Bioengineering and neuroengineering applications of retinal physiology, visual neuroscience, and ophthalmology, including the interface between cells and micro/nanotechnologies.

Simon, Beth	Lecturer CSE	Computer science education, educational technology, compilers, computer architecture, performance programming, and scientific computing.

Simunic-Rosing, Tajana	Assistant Professor CSE	Embedded system design, resource management at the system level, hardware management and embedded software optimization, power management algorithms.

Skelton, Robert	Professor 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.

Smarr, Larry	Professor CSE	Internet, information technology, telecommunications, supercomputing, interdisciplinary research, networking, and the wireless Web.

Snoeren, Alex	Assistant Professor CSE	Computer systems, including operating systems and networking, and particularly protocols to support secure and robust wide-area mobile computing.

Song, Bang-Sup	Endowed Chair, Professor ECE	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.

Sorenson, Harold W.	Professor Emeritus MAE	Systems engineer, founding UCSD faculty member, former Air Force Chief Scientist, MITRE GM, co-founder Orincon

Subramaniam, Shankar	Professor Bioengineering	Bioinformatics, the interdisciplinary field that characterizes the flow of information in living systems.

Sung, Lanping Amy	Associate Professor Bioengineering	Geneticist who studies the molecular basis of cell and membrane mechanics.

Swanson, Steven	Assistant Professor CSE	Unconventional processor architectures that require novel approaches to problems such as performance, power, and programmability.

Sworder, David	Professor ECE	Guidance and control systems and the signal processing of heterogeneous streams of data.

Talbot, Jan	Professor Nanoengineering	Electrochemical engineering, electrodeposition on magnetic recording and semiconductor technologies, corrosion, and information-display technologies.

Talke, Frank E.	Professor MAE	Mechanics and tribology of magnetic storage, and micro-mechanical design techniques for ultra high-density disk drives.

Taur, Yuan	Professor ECE	Semiconductor device design expert who specializes in the structure and physics of transistors.

Taylor, Michael	Assistant Professor CSE	Computer architecture, parallel computing, microprocessor and VLSI circuit design, and on-chip interconnection networks.

Todd, Michael	Associate Professor Structural Engineering	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.

Trivedi, Mohan	Professor ECE	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.

Tsybakov, Boris	Research Scientist ECE	Information theory, coding, multiple access and teletraffic.

Tu, Charles W.	Associate Dean of the Jacobs School, Professor ECE	Compound semiconductor materials for electronic and opto-electronic devices in electronic systems and optical communications.

Tullsen, Dean M.	Professor CSE	Processor architecture for high-end computing; widely credited with an innovation that can double the performance of a new generation of microprocessors.

Tynan, George	Professor MAE	Basic and applied plasma physics.

Uang, Chia-Ming	Professor Structural Engineering	Steel design of structures for optimal performance during earthquakes and vibrations.

Vahdat, Amin	Associate Professor CSE	Distributed systems, computer networks, operating systems, Internet security, and mobile/wireless systems.

Vardy, Alexander	Professor ECE,CSE	Information theory specializing in error-correcting codes for data transmission and storage.

Varghese, George	Professor CSE	Very-high-speed communications in computer networks and the Internet. Research aims at making the Internet as fast and reliable as electric and telephone utilities.

Varghese, Shyni	Assistant Professor Bioengineering	Stem cells, molecularly engineered bioresorbable materials, smart stimuli responsive biopolymers, nano-composites, in vitro and in vivo tissue repair, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine

Vasconcelos, Nuno	Assistant Professor ECE	Statistical signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, multimedia

Vecchio, Kenneth S.	Professor and Chair Nanoengineering	The creation and performance testing of new composite materials and alloys

Vianu, Victor	Professor CSE	Reinventing the database in response to recent developments, including the emergence of the World Wide Web.

Voelker, Geoffrey M.	Associate Professor CSE	Computer systems research in operating systems, distributed systems, networking, and mobile and wireless computing.

Wang, Deli	Assistant Professor ECE	Nanoscale science and technology, semiconductor nanomaterials and devices for electronic, optoelectronic and biological applications.

Watson, John T.	Professor Bioengineering	A von Liebig Center founding director, artificial hearts, team builder in medical progress, National Academy of Engineering

Wieder, Harry H.	Professor Emeritus ECE	Physics and engineering applications of electron devices, heterostructures and quantum electronics.

Williams, Forman A.	Professor MAE	Energy from combustion, combustion efficiency, and combustion instability problems in a variety of engines, including rockets.

Williamson, S. Gill	Professor Emeritus CSE	Algorithms, combinatorial mathematics, and combinatorics.

Wolf, Jack Keil	Professor ECE	Digital information storage and signal processing for digital recording, as well as coding theory, information theory and data communications.

Yu, Edward T.	Professor ECE	Semiconductor materials and device physics; nanoscale science and nanotechnology.

Yu, Paul K.L.	Professor ECE	Microwave photonics, with research on electronic and opto-electronic devices and advanced materials for use in photonic devices.

Yun, Kenneth Y.	Associate Professor ECE	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.

Zeger, Kenneth	Professor ECE	Information coding and data compression, information theory, and signal processing, including image and speech processing.

Zeidler, James R.	Adjunct Professor ECE	Adaptive signal and array processing for wireless networks, and antenna arrays.

Zhang, Kun	Assistant Professor Bioengineering	Human genetics, synthetic biology, neuroscience, polymerase cloning, genomics with emphasis on high-throughput genomic analysis of single DNA molecules and applied issues in microbial and stem cell biology

Zhu, Qiang	Assistant Professor Structural Engineering	Fluid-structure interactions in offshore systems, biofluid mechanics, and nonlinear wave dynamics.

Zwicker, Matthias	Assistant Professor CSE	Computer graphics focusing on point-based methods, signal processing for image synthesis, 3D geometry processing, and data-driven methods.

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