Faculty Profiles
Pisano, Albert
Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives
Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS, manufacturing, wireless sensors for harsh environments, low-cost sensors.
Pokorski, Jonathan
Professor, Chemical and Nano Engineering
Polymer chemistry, polymer processing, biomaterials, nanomedicine, drug delivery.
Polikarpova, Nadia
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Program synthesis from refinement types; enforcing information flow security using types and synthesis.
Politz, Joseph
Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Computer science education, programming languages, compiler design, web programming, and web security.
Porter, George
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Computer networks, data-intensive computing, and computer systems, data center networking.
Porter, Leo
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
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.
Poulikakos, Lisa
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanophotonics, optical materials, nanomaterials, electromagnetism, biophotonics, biomaterials, diagnostics
Poveda, Jorge
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Poveda analyzes and designs high-performance and adaptive feedback control algorithms for complex non-smooth and hybrid dynamical systems.
Proakis, John
Faculty-Affiliate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Digital communications and digital signal processing, as well as communication systems modeling and simulation.