Faculty Profiles
![Photo of J. Enrique Luco](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/171.jpg)
Luco, J. Enrique
Professor Emeritus, Structural Engineering
Earthquake engineering, strong motion seismology, soil structure interaction.
![Photo of Robert Lugannani](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/43.jpg)
Processes with an impact on communications, particularly those which are stochastic (random) in nature.
![Photo of Huey-Lin Luo](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/44.jpg)
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.
![Photo of Jian Luo](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/356.jpg)
Luo, Jian
Professor, NanoEngineering
Ceramics & Metals; Surfaces & Interfaces; Advanced Materials for Energy Related Applications
![Photo of Prashant Mali](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/374.jpg)
Mali, Prashant
Professor, Bioengineering
Synthetic Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Genome Engineering, Stem Cell Engineering.
![Portrait of Alessandro Marinoni](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/UCSD-JacobsSchool-20230823-Marinoni_Alessandro-07936-e-8MP-2.jpg)
Marinoni, Alessandro
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Magnetically controlled nuclear fusion, plasma, advanced modeling
![Photo of Xanthippi Markenscoff](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/139.jpg)
Markenscoff, Xanthippi
Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Solid Mechanics and Materials Science, Elasticity Theory, Micromechanics, Elastodynamics of Defects, Conservation Laws.
![Photo of Jason Mars](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/340.jpg)
Online adaptive systems in both software and hardware, datacenter and warehouse-scale computer architecture, and software / hardware co-design
![Photo of Alison Marsden](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/262.jpg)
Computational fluid mechanics, cardiovascular mechanics, bio-fluid mechanics and biomedical devices technology emphasizing optimization methods relating to vascular surgery
![Sonia Martinez, UC San Diego mechanical engineering professor](/sites/default/files/groups/jsoe/img/people/faculty-profiles/sonia_martinez.jpeg)
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.