Faculty Profiles

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

Luo, Huey-Lin
Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Solid-state physics, materials science, superconductivity, thin film phenomena; physical metallurgy; thin film materials for superconducting tunneling and Josephson junctions; and interface studies.

Luo, Jian
Professor, Chemical and Nano Engineering
Ceramics & Metals; Surfaces & Interfaces; Advanced Materials for Energy Related Applications

Mali, Prashant
Professor, Bioengineering
Synthetic Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Genome Engineering, Stem Cell Engineering.

Marinoni, Alessandro
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Magnetically controlled nuclear fusion, plasma, advanced modeling

Markenscoff, Xanthippi
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Solid Mechanics and Materials Science, Elasticity Theory, Micromechanics, Elastodynamics of Defects, Conservation Laws.

Martinez , Sonia
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Faculty-Affiliate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty-Affiliate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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.

Mc Culloch, Andrew
Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
Shu Chien Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Engineering and Medicine
Director, UC San Diego Institute for Engineering in Medicine
Director, UC San Diego Interfaces Graduate Training Program
Shu Chien Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Engineering and Medicine
Director, UC San Diego Institute for Engineering in Medicine
Director, UC San Diego Interfaces Graduate Training Program
In-vitro, in-vivo and computational cardiac mechanics and physiology in healthand disease.

McAuley, Julian
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Recommender systems, machine learning, data mining, graphical models

McCartney, John
Professor, Structural Engineering
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.