Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Telecommunication, network systems design, wireless networks, wireless technologies.
Faculty, BENG
Biomaterials, tissue engineering, precision medicine, sex differences, cardiovascular disease, immunoengineering
Faculty, BENG
Computational Biology; Cancer Genomics; Mutagenesis; Ageing; Bioinformatics
Faculty, CSE
Associate Dean for Students, Jacobs School
Curriculum and program design for computer science education, with a focus on engaging underrepresented groups. Pen-based user interfaces.
Faculty, MAE
Expertise in vehicle design, navigation, and control.
Faculty, ECE
Co-design of optical systems and algorithms; computational optical systems
Faculty, MAE
Computational and theoretical plasma physics with the focus on high-intensity laser-plasma interactions, high energy density physics, and kinetic plasma phenomena; Numerical algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations.
, 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.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Faculty, ECE
Design and development of high-speed transistors and integrated circuits, power amplifiers and opto-electronic devices using compound semiconductor materials and heterostructures
Faculty, ECE
Robotics, control theory, optimization, computer vision, machine learning, autonomous information collection, sensor-based planning, reactive navigation, unmanned aerial vehicles, active localization and mapping
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
High performance and parallel scientific computation.
Faculty, NENG
Responsive materials, hydrogels, self-assembly, nano/microfabrication of soft materials, printable soft sensors/devices.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, proteomics, approximational algorithms, human genome, human proteome, protein identification, Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) analysis
Faculty, ECE
Discovery-based lab design, hands-on educational programs for K-12 students, optical engineering education, bio-optical imaging, optical trapping, light field encoding
Adjunct Professor, MAE
Development and investigation of nano-materials for magnetic, semiconductor, optical, and MEMS/NEMS (micro-/nano- electro mechanical systems) devices.
Faculty, MAE
Geophysical fluid dynamics, observational nearshore oceanography, nonlinear waves
Faculty, CSE
Computer security focusing on authentication, encryption, and electronic payment standards that have helped secure transactions over the Internet and advance e-commerce standards.
Faculty-Emeritus, SE
Computational mechanics and computer methods for solving problems in mechanical engineering.
Faculty, CSE
Machine learning, data science, structured human data
Faculty, MAE
Research interests lie at the intersections of control and optimization theory, fluid mechanics, Navier-Stokes mathematics, high-performance computing, and robotics.
Faculty, MAE
Dynamically responsive and microstructured materials, wave propagation, nonlinear dynamics, self-assembly, granular media, metamaterials, shock and impact physics, laser ultrasonics, topology optimization, high strain rate mechanics, and soft material dynamics.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Storage system algorithms expert with interest in data layouts, disk arrays, RAID, video servers, replicated file systems.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, MAE
Mechanics of Soft Materials; Electro-chemo-mechanics of Solids; Mechanics of Energy Materials;Bio-inspired Design and Bio-mechanics; 3D Fabrications
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Scientific computation, performance programming, parallel computation, machine and system architecture for high performance.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Faculty, MAE
Combustion, fluid mechanics, optical spectroscopy, laser and electron beam diagnostics, molecular energy transfer, and hypersonic gas dynamics.
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, CSE
Computer vision, 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, autonomous driving, vision for robotics, graphics-based vision.
Faculty-Emeritus, NENG
Large-scale mammalian cell culture, membrane bioreactor, cell cycle kinetics, flow cytometry.
Faculty, CSE
Topics in machine-learning, in particular, clustering or unsupervised learning, online learning and privacy-preserving machine-learning.
Faculty, SE
Faculty, MAE
William Prager Endowed Chair
Computational solid mechanics, multiscale materials modeling, modeling of extreme events.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, NENG
3D Printing and Bioprinting; Biomaterials; Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering; Organ-on-a-chip and Micro-physiological Systems; Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing
Faculty, NENG
Nanostructured materials and functional polymers for electrochemical energy and sustainable environment.
ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE
Faculty, CSE
Computer-aided design, VLSI layout automation, circuit partitioning, network flow optimization, physical design of multichip modules for hybrid package.
Faculty, CSE
Numerical analysis, differential geometry, algebraic topology, differential equations, computational mathematics
Faculty-Emeritus, IEM
Faculty-Emeritus, BENG
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.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Robotics, policy, computer vision, artificial intelligence
Faculty, BENG
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Welfare, Jacobs School
Regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, polymer chemistry and bio-nanotechnology, multi-scale bioengineering and biomaterial design
Faculty, CSE
Computer networks, modeling, analysis, visualization, and extraction of trends in observable Internet topology, routing, and traffic behavior and implications for the future of the Internet.
Faculty, CER
Faculty, MAE
Heat and mass transfer, stochastic modeling and forecasting, variable order methods, longwave and shortwave radiation, cloud physics; concentrated solar power.
Faculty-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.
Faculty, SE
Structural Analysis and Dynamics, Structural Reliability and Risk Analysis, Earthquake Engineering, Damage Diagnosis and Prognosis for Civil Structures.
Faculty, BENG
Translational cardiovascular imaging techniques for advanced assessment of cardiovascular physiology and disease
Faculty, MAE
Systems and control, sensor networks, game theory, adversarial networks, cooperative robotics, and geometric mechanics
Faculty, ECE
Image and video compression for transmission over wireless, Internet or other telecommunications networks, image and video processing, computer vision, video quality evaluation.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Facial recognition, neural networks, human cognition, cognitive science, computational philosophy, artificial intelligence (AI).
Faculty, NENG
Nanoengineered photonic devices and sensors, plasmonics, optomechanics, optical materials, light-material interactions on the nanoscale, and two dimensional materials.
Faculty, CSE
High-dimensional statistics, clustering, algorithms for finding underlying patterns in high-dimensional data, machine learning
Faculty, MAE
Optimization, power systems planning and operation, renewable resources assessment, infrastructure policy
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Faculty, ECE
Neural probe devices for the central nervous system. Nanotechnology for drug screening. Hybrid hetero-integration science and technology for electronics.
Faculty, MAE
Simulation, prediction and control of dynamic systems, theory of modeling using system identification techniques, and the interaction between modeling and control.
Faculty, MAE
Robotics, actuator design and control, mechatronics, medical devices, and project-based learning.
Faculty, CSE
Semistructured and XML data, data security, adaptive distributed query design, and the design and optimization of query languages.
Faculty, ECE
Connected Health, Green Computing and Communications, Mobile Cloud Computing, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics, Smart Cities and Smart Transportation, Wireless Immersive Multimedia.
Faculty, SE
Information Technology, Earthquake Engineering, Computational Geomechanics.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Emeritus, NENG
Photonics and opto-electronics, including optical interconnects, optical data storage, biophotonics, and cancer nanotechnology
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty, ECE
Applied optics and photonics, including 3-D imaging, biomedical optics, optical signal processing and nano-photonics.
Faculty, SE
Analytical and experimental solid mechanics problems with emphasis on structural dynamics.
Faculty, NENG
Solar cells and solar energy storage, defect engineering in materials for energy conversion, photoelectrochemistry, synchrotron-based X-ray characterization.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Compiling techniques that make scientific applications run faster.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Physical optics system design and integration for applications in imaging, communications, and energy.
Faculty, BENG
3D matrix systems biology, digital PCR, machine learning, Raman spectroscopy, infectious disease, cancer
Faculty, ECE
Information science of complex networks and systems: applications to control, computation, communication, and sensing.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Computational learning theory and related areas in probability theory, information theory, statistics and pattern recognition.
Faculty, MAE
Micro- and nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) and devices. Ultrasonics and nonlinear and physical effects of sound at the micro and nano scale. Medical microdevices. Acoustoelectric effects and surface acoustic waves (SAW) in piezoelectric materials. Biomedical instrumentation and transducers.
Faculty, CMRR
Faculty, ECE
Faculty, NENG
Magnetic recording and nano-technologies; thin film and superlattice growth, interfacial and thin-film magnetism, x-ray and neutron scattering.
Faculty, 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).
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Automated reasoning; design automation for cyber-physical systems; theory of physical computing.
Faculty, MAE
Associate Dean for Research, Jacobs School
Materials processing, nanocomposites, optical materials, magnetic materials, current activated pressure assisted densification (CAPAD)
Faculty, ECE
Signal processing focused on wave propagation in acoustic, electromagnetic and seismic media with an emphasis on extracting information from noise.
Faculty, MAE
Development and device integration of nanostructured materials, Micro-and nano- electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), Advanced Manufacturing and Microfabrication, Nanocarbon Materials and Devices, Engineering Education and STEM Pedagogy
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Theoretical and experimental studies of turbulence and turbulent mixing in the atmosphere and ocean.
, ECE
Professor Gilja’s research focuses on brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) with a specific interest in translating basic research into clinical applications. Using statistical signal processing, machine learning and real-time embedded systems, he develops BMIs that effectively use neural signals to control prosthetic devices for individuals with paralysis and neurodegenerative disease.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Faculty, MAE
Continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, rheology of complex fluids & granular media, bioenergetics
Faculty, 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.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Algorithmic design, parallel computing, communications networks, Internet computing, discrete geometry, and active compilers for the Grid.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Computer science, Internet routing, and mathematics, including combinatorics, number theory, graph theory, discrete and computational geometry.
Faculty, NENG
Faculty, NENG
Faculty, NENG
Applications and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in environmental processes; aerosol chemistry and climate.
Faculty, MAE
Robotics, robotic and biological systems, biomechanics, locomotion, manufacturing
Faculty, ECE
Radio-frequency integrated circuits, 2G/3G/4G/5G cellular, wireless communication.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Neural networks, goal-directed AI, optical system design, computervision
, ECE
Device noise mechanisms and noise models, thermodynamics of fluctuations. Low-noise circuits and devices, RF microelectronics, from devices to integrated circuits and packaging.
ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE
Faculty, ECE
Faculty, CSE
Embedded systems and mobile computing, including the integration of software and hardware to make computers more portable and energy efficient ('power-aware' computing).
Faculty, CSE
Genetic variation, bioinformatics, short tandem repeats, microsatellites
Faculty, ECE
CMOS integrated circuits for bioelectronics, biosensors, lab-on-a-chip devices, and other biomedical devices and systems.
Faculty, BENG
Computational genomics and the dynamics of gene regulatory networks which control cell function.
Faculty-Emeritus, SE
Earthquake engineering to retrofit bridges, roadways and buildings for improved public safety and structural performance.
Faculty-Emeritus, NENG
Faculty, NENG
Microelectronic DNA chip technology and its applications to genomics and clinical diagnosis.
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Faculty, MAE
New techniques for safety and efficiency in autonomous systems
Faculty-Emeritus, 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.
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Faculty, MAE
Renewable energy, optimization, climate change, control theory, machine learning
Faculty, ECE
Marine mammal vocalizations, acoustic wave propagation and ambient noise, algorithms for automatic detection and classification.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Data telemetry, sensor array signal processing, and environmental parameter estimation.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Continuum mechanics and its application to biological tissues.
Faculty, CSE
Cognitive ethnography, distributed and embodied cognition, human-computer interaction, multiscale information visualization, multimodal interaction, and software tools for visualization and interaction.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Software testing and analysis, error modeling and prevention, software design, and embedded systems.
Faculty, ECE
Analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for wireline communication systems, data centers, Ethernet, electrical-to-optical interfaces, silicon photonics, data links, transceivers, serializers-deserializers (SerDes), and clock-and-data recovery (CDR).
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Combinatorial algorithms, mathematical programming, networks and graphs, VLSI circuit layout.
Faculty, BENG
Single molecule DNA and protein sequencing; single-cell genomics and proteomics; molecular medical diagnostics; lab on a chip microfluidics; protein and nano-device engineering; computational modeling, numerical simulations and deep machine learning; DNA data storage and molecular computing.
Faculty, SE
Earthquake and geotechnical engineering, performance assessment of structural/nonstructural components, and machine learning and computer vision methods for damage estimation.
Faculty, MAE
Multidisciplinary design optimization, aircraft design, satellite design, aerodynamic shape optimization, structural optimization, trajectory optimization
Chief of Medical Genetics, BENG
Bioinformatics and systems biology; computational modeling of cellular regulatory networks; yeast genetics
Faculty, CSE
Computational complexity, cryptography, circuit complexity, computational randomness.
Faculty-Emeritus, 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.
Faculty, NENG
Nano-bioelectronics; data analytics; nano/bio interface; miniaturization of bioelectronics sensors to nano-and micron-scales.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
experiential systems, multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems.
Faculty, ECE
Wireless systems: stochastic and optimal resource allocation, network design and control, multi-access control, and topology design in ad hoc systems.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Computer graphics, specializing in the rendering of realistic images of natural phenomena, global illumination and appearance modeling.
Faculty, CSE
Techniques for building reliable systems: model checking, automated deduction, program analysis, type systems, programming languages, software engineering, and logic.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Cutting-edge materials science, including nano-materials, magnetic alloys and thin films, and MEMS materials and devices.
Faculty, NENG
Molecular Imaging, in vitro Diagnostics, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging, regenerative medicine, cancer detection, tumor resection.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Mathematics, theoretical computer science, combinatorics, number theory, derandomization, Boolean functions
Faculty, ECE
Digital and analog Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) circuit, architecture, and system for machine learning and signal processing algorithms based on emerging computing paradigms
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Computational science and engineering, high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, scientific visualization and interaction environments, computer and network security, networking.
Faculty, CSE
Hardware Acceleration; Hardware Security; Remote Sensing; Embedded Systems; Ecological Monitoring
Faculty, SE
Impact effects on composite materials and structures with aerospace and other applications, multifunctional materials, nano-materials, and adhesive bonding.
Faculty-Affiliate, MAE
Faculty, SE
Structural and topology optimization, multidisciplinary design optimization, multiscale and multiphysics optimization of structures and materials, optimization with uncertainties, aerospace structures, computational mechanics.
Faculty, CER
Faculty, MAE
Solar energy meteorology, solar variability and forecasting, urban meteorology, turbulence, field measurements and numerical modeling.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, BENG
Faculty, BENG
Faculty, CSE
Microbiome, computer science, pediatrics
Faculty, MAE
Faculty, SE
Design, analysis, and experimental testing of light-weight advanced composite structures.
Faculty, ECE
Koushanfar’s research goal is to build more intelligent embedded computer systems that can ensure low-overhead security and trust, reduce energy usage, and improve performance within the physical resource constraints. Her work has applications in Internet of Things (IoT), antipiracy systems, medical devices, automotive systems, deep learning networks and secure bioinformatics.
Physician Asst PD, MAE
Multifidelity and data-driven modeling, optimization and control, uncertainty quantification, reliability-based design and design under uncertainty in fluid flows
Faculty, BENG
Kravets’ research focus is electrical, paracrine, and neural networks of insulin-producing beta-cells in healthy and diabetic conditions.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Nonlinear dynamics and control;, adaptive sensory-motor control, multibody systems theory, learning theory and pattern recognition, computational vision, and data compression.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Computer vision, computer graphics, face recognition and vision-guided robotics.
Faculty, MAE
Nonlinear and adaptive control, distributed parameter systems, delay systems, extremum seeking, stochastic control, and applications to automotive and aerospace systems, energy storage, and biotechnology.
Faculty, SE
Finite element computational modeling techniques for solids and structures, model order reduction in nonlinear mechanics, and computer and engineering simulations in multiphysics problems.
Faculty, Calit2
Faculty, SE
Scientific visualization and virtual reality, with emphasis on collaborative workspaces, multi-modal interfaces, and distributed and remote visualization of large data sets.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Data science, advanced analytics, data management, database systems, machine learning
Faculty, ECE
Nanoelectronic Devices: Nanoscale engineering of materials and devices for brain-inspired computing, heterogeneous integration of nanoelectronic devices and systems.
Neuroelectronics: Neural interfaces for studying dynamics of brain circuits, transparent probes for neuroimaging and optogenetics.
Clinical Neurodevices: Active implantable neurodevices, clinical arrays for long-term recording, dissolvable neural electrodes for post operation monitoring.
Faculty, BENG
Nanotechnology, Central Nervous System, Bioinspired Materials, Peptides, Drug Delivery
Faculty, MAE
Faculty, BENG
Nanobiotechnology, multidimensional biological atomic force microscopy, ion channel biophysics and nanomedicine.
Faculty, SE
Health Monitoring, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Experimental Mechanics of Materials and Structures.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Design of high-speed integrated circuits for wireless communications and other applications.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Electronic materials Science and Technology
Faculty, ECE
Integrated Power Electronics circuits and systems, with emphasis on miniaturized power conversions, power supply on chip (PwrSoC), large conversion ratios, smart power delivery and control for high performance IT systems, data centers, telecommunication systems, robots, automotive, mobile, wearable, and IoT applications.
Faculty, CSE
Programming language and analysis, including domain-specific languages, compilation, formal methods and automated theorem proving.
Faculty, ECE
Novel embedded system and VLSI architectures for communications and networking applications.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Experimental and theoretical study of dynamic flows, and environmental engineering.
Faculty, MAE
Fluid mechanics, numerical analysis, cradiovascular development biology
Faculty, NENG
Mechanically compliant organic electronic materials and devices, including stretchable polymer-based solar cells and skin-like sensors, and unconventional, green approaches to nanomanufacturing.
Faculty, NENG
Materials and architectures for energy conversion and storage; solid-state actuation; nanomaterials synthesis and reaction mechanism in batteries; energy storage device architecture design.
Faculty, 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
Faculty, MAE
Fluid dynamics and environmental engineering.
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty, ECE
Professor Lo’s research interests are biomedical devices and systems, bioelectronics, microfluidics, nanophotonics, and semiconductor nanoscaled devices.
Faculty, SE
Damage detection and localization, multifunctional materials, nanocomposites, scalable nano-manufacturing, smart infrastructure materials, structural health monitoring, thin films and coatings, tomographic methods, wearable technology.
Faculty, ECE
Faculty, CMRR
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.
Faculty, CSE
Computational complexity, coding theory, randomness and pseudo-randomness, explicit constructions
Faculty, MAE
Educational research, engineering pedagogy, curriculum design, computational micromagnetics, device physics, materials science, solid mechanics, computer-aided design.
Faculty, NENG
Faculty, MAE
Computational and theoretical analysis of solids, specifically solid mechanics.
Faculty, MAE
Biogeochemical/Physical control of phytoplankton productivity and community structure; internal waves; submesoscale physical dynamics; air/sea interactions; physical/biological interactions; autonomous vehicle development;low power wave and ocean current energy generation
Faculty-Emeritus, SE
Earthquake engineering, strong motion seismology, soil structure interaction.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Processes with an impact on communications, particularly those which are stochastic (random) in nature.
Faculty-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.
Faculty, NENG
Ceramics & Metals; Surfaces & Interfaces; Advanced Materials for Energy Related Applications
Faculty, BENG
Synthetic Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Genome Engineering, Stem Cell Engineering.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Faculty, MAE
Solid Mechanics and Materials Science, Elasticity Theory, Micromechanics, Elastodynamics of Defects, Conservation Laws.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Recommender systems, machine learning, data mining, graphical models
Faculty, SE
Thermo-hydro-mechanical behavior of soils; design and analysis of thermally active geotechnical systems (energy foundations); mechanical and hydraulic interaction between unsaturated soils and geosynthetics; centrifuge modeling of geotechnical systems involving unsaturated soils; design and characterization of alternative landfill cover systems; shear strength of geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs); and reliability-based design in geotechnical engineering.
Faculty, BENG
Faculty, IEM
In-vitro, in-vivo and computational cardiac mechanics and physiology in health and disease.
Faculty, MAE
Nonlinear, stochastic, and robust control theory; dynamic games; estimation; max-plus algebraic methods; and partial differential equations.
, BENG
Cardiovascular Imaging, MRI CT. Image guided therapy. Novel MRI and CT methods.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Solar system physics, cometary physics, physics of dusty plasmas
Faculty, NENG
Director, Sustainable Power and Energy Center
Zable Endowed Chair in Energy Technologies
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.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, BENG
Metabolism, system biology, mass spectrometry, flux analysis, cancer, stem cell biology
Faculty, ECE
Statistical signal processing, high-dimensional and nonlinear estimation, applied ocean sciences, inference on graphs, machine perception, multiobject tracking, network localization and navigation, multiagent systems.
Faculty, NENG
Faculty, MAE
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.
Faculty, CSE
Cryptography, complexity, and the relation of the two. Develops, tests, and validates algorithms for securing E-commerce and other computer transactions.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Experimental engineering physics, surface physics, gas dynamics and molecular beams.
Faculty, ECE
Digital communications theory and wireless communications, specializing in spread-spectrum systems. Other areas of expertise include signal transmission, bandwidth considerations, and broadband wireless.
Faculty, CSE
Theory of computation, algorithms, problem solving, overlap of math and computer science, writing in math and computer science, transitions to computer science, connections to industry.
Faculty, ECE
Computational biology and bioinformatics, parallel computing, and big data analytics.
Faculty, ECE
Photonics, nonlinear optics, quantum photonics, nanotechnology.
Faculty, MAE
Robotics and controls; medical robotics; soft robotics; haptics; virtual and augmented reality; and teleoperation
Faculty, ECE
Project-based curriculum; hands-on learning; application-oriented coursework.
Faculty, CSE
Massive Adaptive Interactive Texts, open computational problems in HIV epidemiology
Faculty, SE
Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems, seismic response of structural and nonstructural building systems, experimental methods including hybrid simulation.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Computational modeling and analysis of heterogeneous materials, including composites, for aerospace, civil and biological applications, and tensegrity structures
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Fusion energy research and development of new techniques to study laser-materials interactions.
Faculty, CSE
Natural language processing, machine learning and data mining
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Strongly nonlinear wave dynamics of strongly nonlinear low dimensional metamaterials. Development of new experimental capabilities for dynamic testing. Physics and mechanics of shock and high strain, strain rate deformation, instability and fragmentation of heterogeneous solid materials. High energy processing of advanced materials and devices.
Faculty, ECE
Image/Video Processing and Communications; 3D Video; Wavelets and Filter Banks.
Faculty, MAE
Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, transport phenomena, reacting flows and combustion, environmental flows.
Faculty, ECE
Development of new semiconductor material and high performance flexible electronic devices for next generation electronics
Faculty, NENG
Experimentation and computational modeling on powder processing.
Faculty, NENG
Intersecting the disciplines of materials science and information science, Dr. Ong’s research will develop new materials informatics approaches to create and analyze rich materials data and apply them to the design of new energy materials.
Faculty, CSE
Electronic design automation, VLSI testing, and synthesis of fault-tolerant integrated circuits (ICs).
, Calit2
Faculty, Calit2
Faculty, ECE
Faculty, CSE
Communications and information theory, with particular interests in signal processing, data compression, speech recognition and learning theory.
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Communication networks with emphasis on wireless communications.
Faculty, ECE
Faculty, ECE
High Dimensional Statistical Signal Processing and Data Analysis, Energy Efficient Sketching and Sampling For Statistical Inference, Compressive Sensing and Sparse Estimation, Tensor Methods, Convex and Non-Convex Optimization, Optical Signal Processing and High Resolution Imaging, Statistical Learning.
Faculty, BENG
We study the complexity of cellular life using experimental and computational methods that span the genome to the phenotype.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, NENG
Theoretical and Computational Spectroscopy, Materials Physics, Electro Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Faculty, CSE
Operating systems, distributed systems and networks, focusing on performance and reliability of Internet-scale systems with highly decentralized control
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Algorithms, complexity theory, satisfiability, lower bounds, digital libraries, data mining, machine learning, and information technology (IT) education.
Faculty, MAE
Coastal and estuarine turbulent mixing processes and their interactions with topographic features.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Computational molecular biology and bioinformatics, including pattern finding, DNA sequencing, DNA arrays, genome rearrangements, computational proteomics.
Faculty, Jacobs School of Engineering
Micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS, manufacturing, wireless sensors for harsh environments, low-cost sensors.
Faculty, NENG
Polymer chemistry, polymer processing, biomaterials, nanomedicine, drug delivery.
Faculty, CSE
Program synthesis from refinement types; enforcing information flow security using types and synthesis.
Faculty, CSE
Computer science education, programming languages, compiler design, web programming, and web security.
Faculty, CSE
Computer networks, data-intensive computing, and computer systems, data center networking.
Faculty, CSE
Multithreading, transactional memory, thread-level parallelism, branch-prediction, cache-design, chip-multiprocessors, simultaneous multithreading, process scheduling, architecture-aware scheduling, and cache coherence, CS1, media computation, clickers, active learning, flipped classroom, program evaluation, concept inventories, and peer instruction.
Faculty, MAE
Nanophotonics, optical materials, nanomaterials, electromagnetism, biophotonics, biomaterials, diagnostics
Faculty, MAE
Project based learning, multi-disciplinary course design, the influence of assessment methods on students’ learning outcomes, freshmen engineering education and retention improvement, promoting diversity in engineering, and sustainable engineering education
Faculty, SE
Thermodynamics, advanced energy-related materials, high-performance infrastructure materials, in-situ resource utilization, smart materials and structures, failure analysis for engineering materials and structures.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Collisionless shock structure, magnetic reconnection, and plasma waves and instabilities
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Optical communications, information network infrastructure, optics and photonics
Faculty, CSE
Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Rendering, Visual computing
Faculty, MAE
Faculty, MAE
Biological systems design, transport phenomena in biological membranes, influence of cell shape on biological activation of signaling networks, morphological and topological changes to lipid membranes mediated by proteins and cytoskeletal forces, computational biology and biophysics.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Faculty, ECE
Digital signal processing, estimation theory, and optimization theory, with applications to digital communications, speech signal processing, and human-computer interactions.
Faculty, Calit2
Architectures, protocols and performance analysis of wireless, wire line and photonic networks for integrated multimedia services
Faculty, ECE
Design of silicon RFICs for microwave and millimeter-wave systems, phased arrays and low power circuits, active and passive imaging systems, RF MEMS, tunable filters and antennas, collision avoidance systems for automotive applications
Faculty-Emeritus, SE
Seismic design of buildings for improved response during earthquakes.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Radio astronomy, electromagnetic waves, and space science.
Faculty, CSE
Robotics, healthcare engineering, human-robot interaction, machine perception, computer vision, machine learning, non-linear dynamics
Faculty, MAE
Faculty-Adjunct, 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.
Faculty, BENG
Cartilage repair and tissue engineering; relationship between biomechanical function, metabolism, composition, and structure of cartilage during growth, aging, degeneration (osteoarthritis), repair, and regeneration.
Faculty, MAE
Combustion, fluid mechanics, propulsion, flame dynamics, droplet dynamics
Faculty, MAE
Microscale flow modeling, biophysical fluid mechanics, complex fluids, electrokinetics, microfluidics.
Faculty, MAE
Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, environmental flows
Faculty, CSE
Machine learning, pattern recognition, voice processing, auditory computation and methods for high dimensional data analysis.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, BENG
Molecular and cellular biomechanics, mechanotransduction and microcirculation. Development of the Autodigestion Theory. Design of new tools for prevention and treatment of sepsis with multiorgan failure, metabolic syndrome and autism.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Systems science applied to biomedical problems.
Faculty, ECE
Course development, active learning and research experiences for undergraduates. Research in wireless and embedded systems.
Faculty-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.
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
the hippocampus, computational neuroscience
Faculty, SE
Computational mechanics; materials science; geomechanics; machine learning in computational sciences and engineering; natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes and landslides); clean/renewable energy and decarbonization technologies.
Faculty, MAE
Experimental and analytical studies on combustion
Instructional Svc Coord, CSE
Faculty, NENG
Biomaterials and nanoscale self-assembly, immune engineering, regenerative medicine
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Data science, data mining, bioinformatics, information networks
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Faculty, BENG
Ultrafast laser scanning microscopy, Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS), multiphoton fluorescence, Brain, metabolism, cancer, bioorthogonal labeling, Raman probe, subcellular resolution, in situ
Faculty, ECE
Energy systems, cyber-physical systems, machine learning for energy management
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, ECE
Information theory, coding theory, and communication theory, with applications to digital data storage and transmission.
Faculty, ECE
Novel electromagnetic media including nonlinear and active metasurfaces and other periodic structures for radio through optical frequency applications
Faculty, BENG
Bioengineering and neuroengineering applications of retinal physiology, visual neuroscience, and ophthalmology, including the interface between cells and micro/nanotechnologies.
ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE
Faculty, CSE
Embedded system design, resource management at the system level, hardware management and embedded software optimization, power management algorithms.
Faculty, NENG
Nanophotonic sensors and devices, nanostructured semiconductors for applications in optics, energy conversion, and medicine.
Faculty, BENG
Faculty, BENG
Time series analysis in biological systems, data science
Faculty, CSE
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Internet, information technology, telecommunications, supercomputing, interdisciplinary research, networking, and the wireless Web.
Faculty, CSE
Computer systems, including operating systems and networking, and particularly protocols to support secure and robust wide-area mobile computing.
Endowed Chair, 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.
Faculty, CSE
Student-centered methods for teaching computer science
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Systems engineer, founding UCSD faculty member, former Air Force Chief Scientist, MITRE GM, co-founder Orincon
Faculty, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Building principled and practical secure systems, cryptography, confinement, information flow control, web application security, and programming languages.
Faculty, NENG
Nanomedicine, bionanotechnology, immunoengineering
Faculty, CSE
Aritificial intelligence, machine learning, copmputer vision and graphics, robotics, deep learning.
Faculty, BENG
Faculty, BENG
Faculty, CSE
Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Medicine
Faculty-Emeritus, BENG
Molecular basis of erythrocyte cell membrane mechanics.
Faculty, CSE
Applications, software support, and architectures for novel memory, storage, and compute technologies.
Faculty, ECE
Guidance and control systems and the signal processing of heterogeneous streams of data.
Faculty-Emeritus, NENG
Electrodeposition, information display screening technology, chemical mechanical polishing, solid state lighting materials, electrochemical transport phenomena
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Faculty, MAE
Medical device technology; mechanics and tribology of magnetic storage systems (disk and tape drives)
Faculty, ECE
Semiconductor device design expert who specializes in the structure and physics of transistors.
Faculty, 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.
Faculty, MAE
Bioinspired and soft robotic systems, printable and origami-inspired robotics, self-assembly and self-folding, microfabrication, microassembly, microfluidics, simulation and assembly planning.
Faculty, SE
Hydro-thermo-mechanical coupled processes in rocks; dense fluid-particulate systems micromechanics and rheology; rock mechanics; hydraulic fracturing and proppant flow and transport in geothermal reservoirs; induced seismicity and CO2 sequestration.
Faculty, ECE
Network control systems, stochastic control, optimization, distributed computation, distributed optimization, game theory, multi-agent systems, dynamics of biological networks, population games, learning theory
Faculty, SE
Academic-Lecturer, SE
Earthquake structural engineering; seismic force-resisting systems; integrated experimental testing and numerical simulations; structural connections; energy dissipation devices; friction-based structural components; unified structural design methodologies; structural dynamics.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Compound semiconductor materials for electronic, opto-electronic, and photovoltaic devices.
Faculty, CSE
Processor architecture for high-end computing; widely credited with an innovation that can double the performance of a new generation of microprocessors.
Faculty, SE
Earthquake engineering, seismic analysis and design of steel of structures, large-scale testing.
Faculty-Affiliate, MAE
Faculty, BENG
Soft-tissue biomechanics, cardiovascular physiology, pulmonary hypertension, vascular biology, mathematical modeling, parameter estimation & optimization.
Faculty, SE
Lelli Van Den Einde is a Lecturer (LPSOE) in the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering.
Faculty, ECE
Statistical signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, multimedia
Faculty, NENG
Integration of graphene and nanoscale materials into nanoscale devices for photovoltaics, biosensing and two-dimensional hybrid metamaterials.
Faculty, NENG
The creation and performance testing of new composite materials and alloys
Faculty, CSE
Reinventing the database in response to recent developments, including the emergence of the World Wide Web.
Faculty, CSE
Computer systems research in operating systems, distributed systems, networking, and mobile and wireless computing.
Faculty, MAE
Convergent engineering principles, practice and education; design and engineering of AI-intensive systems; systems thinking, systems complexity, technology use in engineering education.
Other, Calit2
Faculty-Affiliate, CSE
Faculty, ECE
Mobile Health Sensing, Ubiquitous Computing, Signal Processing, Biosignals, Wearable Computing, Human Computer Interaction, User Centered Design
Vice-Chair, NENG
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.
Faculty, ECE
Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics, Self-supervised Learning, Video Understanding, Common Sense Reasoning
Faculty, 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.
Faculty-Emeritus, BENG
An Institute for the Global Entrepreneur founding director; artificial hearts; team builder in medical progress; National Academy of Engineering member
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Faculty-Affiliate, MAE
Faculty, ECE
Research, design and engineering of RADAR, LIDAR, communication and navigation systems.
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Faculty, MAE
Energy from combustion, combustion efficiency, and combustion instability problems in a variety of engines, including rockets.
Faculty-Emeritus, CSE
Discrete mathematics, algorithmic and algebraic combinatorics, graph theory.
Faculty, ECE
Machine learning, natural language processing, machine learning for healthcare
Faculty, NENG
Soft electronics, nano electronics, and energy harvesting/storage devices
Faculty, NENG
A theme of my research is to study structural, electronic, optical and magnetic properties of materials, aiming to understand, predict, optimize materials properties and design novel functional materials.
Faculty, ECE
Reinforcement Learning for Robots; Computationally Efficient Robot Planning; Robot Manipulation in Dynamic Environments; Autonomous Robotic Surgery; Mechanical Design of Surgical Robots; Continuum and Snake-like Robots; Artificial Muscles
Faculty, CSE
Machile learning, spatiotemporal data, data science, optimization, deep learning.
Faculty-Emeritus, 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.
Faculty, ECE
Information coding and data compression, information theory, and signal processing, including image and speech processing.
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Adaptive signal and array processing for wireless networks, and antenna arrays.
Faculty, BENG
Integrative genomics, with a focus on human stem cells; single-cell genomics; genetical genomics; epigenomics
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Faculty, NENG
Biomimetic nanomedicine for drug delivery, detoxification, vaccination and diagnosis
Faculty, ECE
5G millimeter-wave networking; distributed and multi-user MIMO; mobile video streaming and virtual reality; visible light sensing and localization; RFID sensing; low-power and batteryless Internet-of-Things.
Faculty, CSE
Software and hardware for data centers, computer systems and machine learning, programming languages
Faculty, CSE
Computer architecture and systems software, memory and storage systems, acceleration mechanisms, high-performance computing.
Faculty, ECE
Optimization and control of networked systems; large-scale network systems; data-driven control methods; learning based control; scalable optimization; autonomous vehicles
Faculty, BENG
Computational genomics, epigenomics, stem cells and developmental biology, single-cell nano-technology.
Faculty, CSE
Energy and thermal management for data centers; Software dependability; Storage systems
