Faculty Profiles
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Student Asst, CSE
Telecommunication, network systems design, wireless networks, wireless technologies.
Asst Professor, BENG
Computational Biology; Cancer Genomics; Mutagenesis; Ageing; Bioinformatics
Lecturer SOE, 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.
Assoc Teaching Prof, MAE
Expertise in vehicle design, navigation, and control.
Asst Professor, ECE
Co-design of optical systems and algorithms; computational optical systems
Asst Professor, 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.
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Astrobiology, origin of life, organic chemistry, geochemistry, cosmochemistry, exobiology and mineralogy.
Professor, SE
Faculty, 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.
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Design and development of high-speed transistors and integrated circuits, power amplifiers and opto-electronic devices using compound semiconductor materials and heterostructures
Asst Professor, ECE
Asst Professor, Calit2
Robotics, control theory, optimization, computer vision, machine learning, autonomous information collection, sensor-based planning, reactive navigation, unmanned aerial vehicles, active localization and mapping
Professor Emeritus, CSE
High performance and parallel scientific computation.
Asst Professor, NENG
Responsive materials, hydrogels, self-assembly, nano/microfabrication of soft materials, printable soft sensors/devices.
Professor, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Computational molecular biology, bioinformatics, proteomics, approximational algorithms, human genome, human proteome, protein identification, Expressed Sequence Tags (EST) analysis
Asst Teaching Prof, ECE
Discovery-based lab design, hands-on educational programs for K-12 students, optical engineering education, bio-optical imaging, optical trapping, light field encoding
Professor, MAE
ECE Affiliate Professor, ECE
Development and investigation of nano-materials for magnetic, semiconductor, optical, and MEMS/NEMS (micro-/nano- electro mechanical systems) devices.
Assoc Professor, CSE
Computational Mass Spectrometry, Bioinformatics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Natural Products, Therapeutic molecules, Big Data science, Crowdsourcing
Adjunct Professor, SE
Design of robust and efficient computational methods for large scale, high-performance computing.
Teaching Professor, MAE
Geophysical fluid dynamics, observational nearshore oceanography, nonlinear waves
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.
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.
Adjunct Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Emerging fields of computer vision and object recognition, as well as biometrics (fingerprint recognition in particular) and video segmentation.
Prof Emeritus, SE
Computational mechanics and computer methods for solving problems in mechanical engineering.
Asst Professor, CSE
Machine learning, data science, structured human data
Prof Emertius, ECE
Magnetic recording physics, recording materials, magnetic media, and information storage.
Professor, MAE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Research interests lie at the intersections of control and optimization theory, fluid mechanics, Navier-Stokes mathematics, high-performance computing, and robotics.
Asst Professor, ECE
Communication theory, signal processing, full duplex, wireless communication systems, low-power Internet of Things, wireless imaging/sensing, and wireless networks.
Professor, MAE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Design of dynamic feedback control systems for a variety of engineering applications.
Asst Professor, 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.
Prof Emeritus, CSE
Storage system algorithms expert with interest in data layouts, disk arrays, RAID, video servers, replicated file systems.
Professor, CSE
Bounded arithmetic, proof theory and complexity, mathematical logic and behavioral logic.
Professor, 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.
Assoc Professor, MAE
Mechanics of Soft Materials; Electro-chemo-mechanics of Solids; Mechanics of Energy Materials;Bio-inspired Design and Bio-mechanics; 3D Fabrications
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Human genome analysis; molecular genetics; new biophysical tools and methodologies; genetic engineering.
Professor Emeritus, CSE
Scientific computation, performance programming, parallel computation, machine and system architecture for high performance.
Professor, MAE
Combustion, fluid mechanics, optical spectroscopy, laser and electron beam diagnostics, molecular energy transfer, and hypersonic gas dynamics.
Professor, BENG
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
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.
Asst Professor, CSE
Computer vision, 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, autonomous driving, vision for robotics, graphics-based vision.
Prof Emeritus, NENG
Large-scale mammalian cell culture, membrane bioreactor, cell cycle kinetics, flow cytometry.
Assoc Professor, CSE
Topics in machine-learning, in particular, clustering or unsupervised learning, online learning and privacy-preserving machine-learning.
Distinguished Professor, SE
Faculty, MAE
William Prager Endowed Chair
Computational solid mechanics, multiscale materials modeling, modeling of extreme events.
Assoc Professor, 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.
Chair/Professor, NENG
3D Printing and Bioprinting; Biomaterials; Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering; Organ-on-a-chip and Micro-physiological Systems; Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing
Asst Professor, NENG
Engineering DNA nanostructure-based artificial biological systems for biomedical applications.
Asst Professor, NENG
Nanostructured materials and functional polymers for electrochemical energy and sustainable environment.
Professor, CSE
ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE
Computer-aided design, VLSI layout automation, circuit partitioning, network flow optimization, physical design of multichip modules for hybrid package.
Asst Professor, CSE
Numerical analysis, differential geometry, algebraic topology, differential equations, computational mathematics
Professor, BENG
Faculty-Emeritus, IEM
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.
Dir/Contex Robotics Inst, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Robotics, policy, computer vision, artificial intelligence
Professor, 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
Scientist, 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.
Professor/Chair, MAE
Faculty, CER
Heat and mass transfer, stochastic modeling and forecasting, variable order methods, longwave and shortwave radiation, cloud physics; concentrated solar power.
Professor, BENG
ECE Affiliate Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Information theory, neuroscience, machine learning, bioelectronics
Prof 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.
Professor, SE
Structural Analysis and Dynamics, Structural Reliability and Risk Analysis, Earthquake Engineering, Damage Diagnosis and Prognosis for Civil Structures.
Asst Professor, BENG
Translational cardiovascular imaging techniques for advanced assessment of cardiovascular physiology and disease
Professor, MAE
Systems and control, sensor networks, game theory, adversarial networks, cooperative robotics, and geometric mechanics
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Image and video compression for transmission over wireless, Internet or other telecommunications networks, image and video processing, computer vision, video quality evaluation.
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Facial recognition, neural networks, human cognition, cognitive science, computational philosophy, artificial intelligence (AI).
Assoc Professor, NENG
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Nanoengineered photonic devices and sensors, plasmonics, optomechanics, optical materials, light-material interactions on the nanoscale, and two dimensional materials.
Adjunct Professor, ECE
Acousto-optics, opto-electronics, spread-spectrum communications, oversampling.
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
High-dimensional statistics, clustering, algorithms for finding underlying patterns in high-dimensional data, machine learning
Asst Professor, MAE
Optimization, power systems planning and operation, renewable resources assessment, infrastructure policy
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Neural probe devices for the central nervous system. Nanotechnology for drug screening. Hybrid hetero-integration science and technology for electronics.
Professor, MAE
Simulation, prediction and control of dynamic systems, theory of modeling using system identification techniques, and the interaction between modeling and control.
Assoc Teaching Prof, MAE
Robotics, actuator design and control, mechatronics, medical devices, and project-based learning.
Professor, CSE
Semistructured and XML data, data security, adaptive distributed query design, and the design and optimization of query languages.
Director/IGE, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Connected Health, Green Computing and Communications, Mobile Cloud Computing, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics, Smart Cities and Smart Transportation, Wireless Immersive Multimedia.
Distinguished Professor, SE
Information Technology, Earthquake Engineering, Computational Geomechanics.
Assoc Professor, SE
Shock wave dynamics, shock, polymers, high strain rate loading.
Professor, CSE
Automated reasoning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, database systems, expert systems, computational biology, and data mining.
Prof Emeritus, NENG
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, CSE
Photonics and opto-electronics, including optical interconnects, optical data storage, biophotonics, and cancer nanotechnology
Assoc Professor, CSE
Computer architecture, immersive machine intelligence.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Applied optics and photonics, including 3-D imaging, biomedical optics, optical signal processing and nano-photonics.
Adjunct Professor, SE
Analytical and experimental solid mechanics problems with emphasis on structural dynamics.
Assoc Professor, NENG
Solar cells and solar energy storage, defect engineering in materials for energy conversion, photoelectrochemistry, synchrotron-based X-ray characterization.
Professor Emerita, CSE
Compiling techniques that make scientific applications run faster.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Physical optics system design and integration for applications in imaging, communications, and energy.
Asst Professor, BENG
3D matrix systems biology, digital PCR, machine learning, Raman spectroscopy, infectious disease, cancer
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Information science of complex networks and systems: applications to control, computation, communication, and sensing.
Asst Professor, MAE
Energy Dissipation, Elastic Wave Propagation, Phononic Materials, Mechanical Metamaterials, Multistable Materials & Structures
Professor, CSE
Computational learning theory and related areas in probability theory, information theory, statistics and pattern recognition.
Professor, MAE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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.
Professor, ECE
Director, CMRR
Faculty, NENG
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Magnetic recording and nano-technologies; thin film and superlattice growth, interfacial and thin-film magnetism, x-ray and neutron scattering.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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).
Asst Professor, CSE
Asst Professor, CSE
Automated reasoning; design automation for cyber-physical systems; theory of physical computing.
Professor, MAE
Associate Dean for Research, Jacobs School
Materials processing, nanocomposites, optical materials, magnetic materials, current activated pressure assisted densification (CAPAD)
Data Scientist, ECE
Signal processing focused on wave propagation in acoustic, electromagnetic and seismic media with an emphasis on extracting information from noise.
Asst Teaching Prof, 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
Professor, MAE
Theoretical and experimental studies of turbulence and turbulent mixing in the atmosphere and ocean.
Assoc Professor, ECE
Faculty, 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.
Lecturer, 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.
Professor Emeritus, MAE
Continuum mechanics and thermodynamics, rheology of complex fluids & granular media, bioenergetics
Professor, BENG
Development and application of implantable biochemical sensors for the continuous monitoring of glucose, oxygen, lactate, and other metabolites.
Professor, 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.
Professor, CSE
Algorithmic design, parallel computing, communications networks, Internet computing, discrete geometry, and active compilers for the Grid.
Prof/Comptr Info Sci, CSE
Computer science, Internet routing, and mathematics, including combinatorics, number theory, graph theory, discrete and computational geometry.
Professor/Chair, NENG
Faculty, NENG
Applications and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in environmental processes; aerosol chemistry and climate.
Asst Professor, MAE
Robotics, robotic and biological systems, biomechanics, locomotion, manufacturing
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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.
Adjunct Professor, ECE
Other, Calit2
Radio-frequency integrated circuits, 2G/3G/4G/5G cellular, wireless communication.
Professor Emeritus, ECE
Neural networks, goal-directed AI, optical system design, computervision
Adjunct Professor, ECE
Faculty-Emeritus, 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-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty, ECE
Embedded systems and mobile computing, including the integration of software and hardware to make computers more portable and energy efficient ('power-aware' computing).
Asst Professor, CSE
Genetic variation, bioinformatics, short tandem repeats, microsatellites
Assoc Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
CMOS integrated circuits for bioelectronics, biosensors, lab-on-a-chip devices, and other biomedical devices and systems.
Professor, BENG
Computational genomics and the dynamics of gene regulatory networks which control cell function.
Professor Emeritus, SE
Earthquake engineering to retrofit bridges, roadways and buildings for improved public safety and structural performance.
Prof Emeritus, NENG
Microelectronic DNA chip technology and its applications to genomics and clinical diagnosis.
Asst Professor, ECE
Asst Professor, MAE
New techniques for safety and efficiency in autonomous systems
Prof 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.
Asst Professor, MAE
Professor Hidalgo-Gonzalez holds a Ph.D. and two M.Sc. from the University of California, Berkeley (Energy and Resources Group and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science). She graduated as an Industrial and Electrical engineer from Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile (with highest honors).
Professor, ECE
Marine mammal vocalizations, acoustic wave propagation and ambient noise, algorithms for automatic detection and classification.
Professor, Calit2
Faculty-Emeritus, ECE
Data telemetry, sensor array signal processing, and environmental parameter estimation.
Prof Emeritus, MAE
Continuum mechanics and its application to biological tissues.
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Cognitive ethnography, distributed and embodied cognition, human-computer interaction, multiscale information visualization, multimodal interaction, and software tools for visualization and interaction.
Prof Emeritus, CSE
Software testing and analysis, error modeling and prevention, software design, and embedded systems.
Asst Professor, 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).
Prof Emeritus, CSE
Combinatorial algorithms, mathematical programming, networks and graphs, VLSI circuit layout.
Assoc Prof, 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.
Professor, SE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Earthquake and geotechnical engineering, performance assessment of structural/nonstructural components, and machine learning and computer vision methods for damage estimation.
Asst Professor, MAE
Multidisciplinary design optimization, aircraft design, satellite design, aerodynamic shape optimization, structural optimization, trajectory optimization
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Professor of practice, machine learning algorithms, natural intelligence
Professor, CSE
Chief of Medical Genetics, BENG
Bioinformatics and systems biology; computational modeling of cellular regulatory networks; yeast genetics
Professor, CSE
Computational complexity, cryptography, circuit complexity, computational randomness.
Professor, 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.
Prof Emeritus, ECE
experiential systems, multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty, Calit2
Wireless systems: stochastic and optimal resource allocation, network design and control, multi-access control, and topology design in ad hoc systems.
Exec Dir/Pro Of Practice, BENG
Professor of practice, molecular biology, microbiome discovery
Prof Emeritus, CSE
Computer graphics, specializing in the rendering of realistic images of natural phenomena, global illumination and appearance modeling.
Professor, CSE
Techniques for building reliable systems: model checking, automated deduction, program analysis, type systems, programming languages, software engineering, and logic.
Prof Emeritus, MAE
Cutting-edge materials science, including nano-materials, magnetic alloys and thin films, and MEMS materials and devices.
Assoc Professor, NENG
Molecular Imaging, in vitro Diagnostics, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging, regenerative medicine, cancer detection, tumor resection.
Professor, 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.
Asst Professor, CSE
Mathematics, theoretical computer science, combinatorics, number theory, derandomization, Boolean functions
Asst Professor, 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
Assoc Professor, ECE
Experimental and Theoretical Electromagnetic Materials from Microwaves to Optics for Novel Devices with Applications in Energy, Defense, and Health Systems.
Prof Emeritus, CSE
Computational science and engineering, high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, scientific visualization and interaction environments, computer and network security, networking.
Professor, CSE
Faculty, Calit2
Hardware Acceleration; Hardware Security; Remote Sensing; Embedded Systems; Ecological Monitoring
Professor, SE
Impact effects on composite materials and structures with aerospace and other applications, multifunctional materials, nano-materials, and adhesive bonding.
Professor, SE
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, MAE
Structural and topology optimization, multidisciplinary design optimization, multiscale and multiphysics optimization of structures and materials, optimization with uncertainties, aerospace structures, computational mechanics.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty, Calit2
Statistical signal processing and information theory, with applications in communication, networking, data compression, and information processing.
Professor, MAE
Faculty, CER
Solar energy meteorology, solar variability and forecasting, urban meteorology, turbulence, field measurements and numerical modeling.
Professor, CSE
Faculty, Calit2
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, CSE
Faculty, BENG
Microbiome, computer science, pediatrics
Professor, SE
Faculty, MAE
Design, analysis, and experimental testing of light-weight advanced composite structures.
Professor, 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.
Asst Professor, MAE
Multifidelity and data-driven modeling, optimization and control, uncertainty quantification, reliability-based design and design under uncertainty in fluid flows
Professor, ECE
Faculty, Calit2
Nonlinear dynamics and control;, adaptive sensory-motor control, multibody systems theory, learning theory and pattern recognition, computational vision, and data compression.
Professor, CSE
Computer vision, computer graphics, face recognition and vision-guided robotics.
Professor, MAE
Sr Assoc Vice Chanc, ECE
Nonlinear and adaptive control, distributed parameter systems, delay systems, extremum seeking, stochastic control, and applications to automotive and aerospace systems, energy storage, and biotechnology.
Assoc Adj Prof, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Service-oriented software and systems engineering, programming methodology, and the design, implementation, and verification of distributed, reactive systems.
Professor, SE
Finite element computational modeling techniques for solids and structures, model order reduction in nonlinear mechanics, and computer and engineering simulations in multiphysics problems.
Professor, SE
Faculty-Affiliate, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Scientific visualization and virtual reality, with emphasis on collaborative workspaces, multi-modal interfaces, and distributed and remote visualization of large data sets.
Asst Professor, CSE
Asst Professor, CSE
Data science, advanced analytics, data management, database systems, machine learning
Assoc Professor, 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.
Asst Professor, BENG
Nanotechnology, Central Nervous System, Bioinspired Materials, Peptides, Drug Delivery
Professor, MAE
Faculty, BENG
Nanobiotechnology, multidimensional biological atomic force microscopy, ion channel biophysics and nanomedicine.
Professor, SE
Health Monitoring, Non-Destructive Evaluation and Experimental Mechanics of Materials and Structures.
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Design of high-speed integrated circuits for wireless communications and other applications.
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Faculty, MAE
Turbulence and fluid mechanics with a special interest in two-phase flows. Mechano-biology. Mechanotransduction, Mechanics of cell migration and invasion. Medical devices.
Asst Professor, 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.
Professor, CSE
Programming language and analysis, including domain-specific languages, compilation, formal methods and automated theorem proving.
Assoc Professor IR, BENG
Leader of public CHO genome sequencing efforts. Expert in systems biology and genome editing technologies.
Professor/Chair, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Novel embedded system and VLSI architectures for communications and networking applications.
Prof Emeritus, MAE
Experimental and theoretical study of dynamic flows, and environmental engineering.
Assoc Professor, NENG
Mechanically compliant organic electronic materials and devices, including stretchable polymer-based solar cells and skin-like sensors, and unconventional, green approaches to nanomanufacturing.
Assoc Professor, NENG
Materials and architectures for energy conversion and storage; solid-state actuation; nanomaterials synthesis and reaction mechanism in batteries; energy storage device architecture design.
Assoc Professor, 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
Professor, MAE
Fluid dynamics and environmental engineering.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Professor Lo’s research interests are biomedical devices and systems, bioelectronics, microfluidics, nanophotonics, and semiconductor nanoscaled devices.
Professor/Vice Chair, 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.
Professor, 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.
Assoc Professor, CSE
Computational complexity, coding theory, randomness and pseudo-randomness, explicit constructions
Lecturer, MAE
teaches mechanics, materials science, computational analysis and design courses
Professor, NENG
Computational and theoretical analysis of solids, specifically solid mechanics.
Asst Professor, 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
Prof Emeritus, SE
Earthquake engineering, strong motion seismology, soil structure interaction.
Professor, ECE
Processes with an impact on communications, particularly those which are stochastic (random) in nature.
Prof 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.
Professor, NENG
Ceramics & Metals; Surfaces & Interfaces; Advanced Materials for Energy Related Applications
Asst Professor, BENG
Synthetic Biology, Regenerative Medicine, Genome Engineering, Stem Cell Engineering.
Professor, MAE
Solid Mechanics and Materials Science, Elasticity Theory, Micromechanics, Elastodynamics of Defects, Conservation Laws.
Professor, MAE
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
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.
Assoc Professor, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Recommender systems, machine learning, data mining, graphical models
Chair/Professor, 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.
Professor, BENG
Faculty, IEM
In-vitro, in-vivo and computational cardiac mechanics and physiology in health and disease.
Professor, MAE
Nonlinear, stochastic, and robust control theory; dynamic games; estimation; max-plus algebraic methods; and partial differential equations.
Professor, BENG
Faculty, BENG
Cardiovascular Imaging, MRI CT. Image guided therapy. Novel MRI and CT methods.
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Solar system physics, cometary physics, physics of dusty plasmas
Professor, NENG
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Faculty, Calit2
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.
Assoc Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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.
Assoc Professor, BENG
Metabolism, system biology, mass spectrometry, flux analysis, cancer, stem cell biology
Asst Professor, 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.
Professor, 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.
Professor, CSE
Cryptography, complexity, and the relation of the two. Develops, tests, and validates algorithms for securing E-commerce and other computer transactions.
Prof Emeritus, MAE
Experimental engineering physics, surface physics, gas dynamics and molecular beams.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Digital communications theory and wireless communications, specializing in spread-spectrum systems. Other areas of expertise include signal transmission, bandwidth considerations, and broadband wireless.
Assoc Teach Prof, 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.
Assoc Professor, ECE
Computational biology and bioinformatics, parallel computing, and big data analytics.
Professor, ECE
Other, Calit2
Photonics, nonlinear optics, quantum photonics, nanotechnology.
Asst Professor, MAE
Robotics and controls; medical robotics; soft robotics; haptics; virtual and augmented reality; and teleoperation
Asst Teaching Professor, ECE
Project-based curriculum; hands-on learning; application-oriented coursework.
Asst Professor, SE
Seismic safety, materials science, solid mechanics.
Asst Professor, CSE
Massive Adaptive Interactive Texts, open computational problems in HIV epidemiology
Professor, SE
Earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, seismic isolation and energy dissipation systems, seismic response of structural and nonstructural building systems, experimental methods including hybrid simulation.
Professor, MAE
Computational modeling and analysis of heterogeneous materials, including composites, for aerospace, civil and biological applications, and tensegrity structures
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Fusion energy research and development of new techniques to study laser-materials interactions.
Asst Professor, CSE
Natural language processing, machine learning and data mining
Faculty, MAE
Faculty-Emeritus, MAE
Development, testing and analysis of advanced materials for a variety of applications, including defense, space exploration, construction, and biotechnology.
Professor, 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.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Image/Video Processing and Communications; 3D Video; Wavelets and Filter Banks.
Professor, MAE
Theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, transport phenomena, reacting flows and combustion, environmental flows.
Asst Professor, ECE
Development of new semiconductor material and high performance flexible electronic devices for next generation electronics
Dir/Prof Emeritus, Calit2
Developing the principles of human-centered design, acting as the interface between people and technology to ensure human-technology teamwork.
Adjunct Professor, NENG
Experimentation and computational modeling on powder processing.
Assoc Professor, 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.
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Electronic design automation, VLSI testing, and synthesis of fault-tolerant integrated circuits (ICs).
Professor, ECE
Faculty, Calit2
Faculty, Calit2
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.
Asst Professor, 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.
Professor, BENG
We study the complexity of cellular life using experimental and computational methods that span the genome to the phenotype.
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.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Advanced photonic systems including optical communication systems, optical networking, and environmental and atmospheric remote sensing.
Asst Professor, NENG
Theoretical and Computational Spectroscopy, Materials Physics, Electro Chemistry and Nanotechnology
Professor, CSE
Operating systems, distributed systems and networks, focusing on performance and reliability of Internet-scale systems with highly decentralized control
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty, Calit2
Algorithms, complexity theory, satisfiability, lower bounds, digital libraries, data mining, machine learning, and information technology (IT) education.
Professor, MAE
Coastal and estuarine turbulent mixing processes and their interactions with topographic features.
Professor, BENG
Pediatric cardiology; adult congenital heart problems; electrophysiology
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Computational molecular biology and bioinformatics, including pattern finding, DNA sequencing, DNA arrays, genome rearrangements, computational proteomics.
Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering
Faculty, ECE
Micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS, manufacturing, wireless sensors for harsh environments, low-cost sensors.
Assoc Professor, NENG
Polymer chemistry, polymer processing, biomaterials, nanomedicine, drug delivery.
Asst Professor, CSE
Program synthesis from refinement types; enforcing information flow security using types and synthesis.
Asst Teaching Prof, CSE
Computer science education, programming languages, compiler design, web programming, and web security.
Assoc Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Computer networks, data-intensive computing, and computer systems, data center networking.
Assoc Teaching Prof, 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.
Asst Professor, MAE
Nanophotonics, optical materials, nanomaterials, electromagnetism, biophotonics, biomaterials, diagnostics
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Digital communications and digital signal processing, as well as communication systems modeling and simulation.
Lecturer PSOE, 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
Professor, 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.
Professor/Vice Chair, ECE
Collisionless shock structure, magnetic reconnection, and plasma waves and instabilities
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Optical communications, information network infrastructure, optics and photonics
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, ECE
Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Rendering, Visual computing
Assoc Professor, 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.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Digital signal processing, estimation theory, and optimization theory, with applications to digital communications, speech signal processing, and human-computer interactions.
Director, Calit2
Faculty, ECE
Architectures, protocols and performance analysis of wireless, wire line and photonic networks for integrated multimedia services
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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
Professor, SE
Seismic design of buildings for improved response during earthquakes.
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Radio astronomy, electromagnetic waves, and space science.
Assoc Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Robotics, healthcare engineering, human-robot interaction, machine perception, computer vision, machine learning, non-linear dynamics
Asst Professor, MAE
Astrodynamics, Celestial Mechanics, and Dynamical Astronomy; Orbital Debris and Space Situational Awareness; Applied and Computational Mathematics; Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaotic and Complex Systems.
Adjunct Professor, 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.
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Structure Property Relations in Materials for the Electronics Industry
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
BIomedical Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Professor, BENG
Cartilage repair and tissue engineering; relationship between biomechanical function, metabolism, composition, and structure of cartilage during growth, aging, degeneration (osteoarthritis), repair, and regeneration.
Asst Professor, MAE
Combustion, fluid mechanics, propulsion, flame dynamics, droplet dynamics
Professor, MAE
Microscale flow modeling, biophysical fluid mechanics, complex fluids, electrokinetics, microfluidics.
Professor Of Practice, ECE
Artificial Intelligence, Antenna Design, Filter Design, Array Signal Processing, Self-Organizing Networks, Mass Production Processes, Technology Roadmap Development, M&A Process.
Professor, MAE
Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence, environmental flows
Professor, CSE
Machine learning, pattern recognition, voice processing, auditory computation and methods for high dimensional data analysis.
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.
Prof Emeritus, CSE
Complexity theory, formal language theory, computational linguistics, and the development of computer science education materials.
Professor, 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.
Asst Professor, MAE
Hydrodynamic stability, computational fluid mechanics, intermittency and rare events, modal decomposition, model order reduction
Prof Emeritus, MAE
Systems science applied to biomedical problems.
Assoc Res Sci, Calit2
Faculty-Adjunct, Calit2
Faculty-Adjunct, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Immersive virtual reality, augmented reality, real-time rendering of large data sets, volume rendering, 3D user interfaces.
Assoc Teaching Prof, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Course development, active learning and research experiences for undergraduates. Research in wireless and embedded systems.
Professor 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.
Co Dir/INC, Calit2
Professor, Calit2
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Faculty, Calit2
Faculty, CSE
the hippocampus, computational neuroscience
Asst Professor, SE
Characterization and modeling of heterogeneous geomaterials across scales, microstructure and macroscopic behavior of materials.
Professor, MAE
Experimental and analytical studies on combustion
Professor Of Practice, ECE
Wireless communication, theory, systems and networking, health and wellness technologies, online education.
Asst Professor, NENG
Biomaterials and nanoscale self-assembly, immune engineering, regenerative medicine
Assoc Professor, BENG
Neuromuscular bioengineering, neurobiology, biomechanics, and neuromuscular function.
Asst Professor, BENG
Asst Professor, ECE
Ultrafast laser scanning microscopy, Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS), multiphoton fluorescence, Brain, metabolism, cancer, bioorthogonal labeling, Raman probe, subcellular resolution, in situ
Professor, 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.
Professor, CMRR
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Information theory, coding theory, and communication theory, with applications to digital data storage and transmission.
Professor, ECE
Novel electromagnetic media including nonlinear and active metasurfaces and other periodic structures for radio through optical frequency applications
Professor, BENG
Bioengineering and neuroengineering applications of retinal physiology, visual neuroscience, and ophthalmology, including the interface between cells and micro/nanotechnologies.
Professor, CSE
ECE Adjunct Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Embedded system design, resource management at the system level, hardware management and embedded software optimization, power management algorithms.
Assoc Professor, NENG
Nanophotonic sensors and devices, nanostructured semiconductors for applications in optics, energy conversion, and medicine.
Prof Emeritus, 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.
Asst Professor, BENG
Asst Professor, BENG
Time series analysis in biological systems, data science
Director/Prof/Emeritus, CSE
Faculty, CSE
Internet, information technology, telecommunications, supercomputing, interdisciplinary research, networking, and the wireless Web.
Professor, CSE
Computer systems, including operating systems and networking, and particularly protocols to support secure and robust wide-area mobile computing.
Prof Emeritus, ECE
Endowed Chair, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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.
Asst Teaching Professor, CSE
Student-centered methods for teaching computer science
Prof Emeritus, MAE
Systems engineer, founding UCSD faculty member, former Air Force Chief Scientist, MITRE GM, co-founder Orincon
Asst Professor, CSE
Asst Professor, CSE
Building principled and practical secure systems, cryptography, confinement, information flow control, web application security, and programming languages.
Professor, NENG
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Nanomedicine, bionanotechnology, immunoengineering
Asst Professor, CSE
Aritificial intelligence, machine learning, copmputer vision and graphics, robotics, deep learning.
Professor, BENG
Faculty, BENG
Faculty, CSE
Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Medicine
Professor Emeritus, BENG
Molecular basis of erythrocyte cell membrane mechanics.
Professor, CSE
Applications, software support, and architectures for novel memory, storage, and compute technologies.
Professor, ECE
Guidance and control systems and the signal processing of heterogeneous streams of data.
Prof/Dir-Chem Engr Prog, NENG
Electrodeposition, information display screening technology, chemical mechanical polishing, solid state lighting materials, electrochemical transport phenomena
Professor, MAE
Medical device technology; mechanics and tribology of magnetic storage systems (disk and tape drives)
Professor, ECE
Semiconductor device design expert who specializes in the structure and physics of transistors.
Professor, 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.
Asst Professor, MAE
Bioinspired and soft robotic systems, printable and origami-inspired robotics, self-assembly and self-folding, microfabrication, microassembly, microfluidics, simulation and assembly planning.
Asst Professor, 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.
Asst Professor, ECE
Asst Professor, Calit2
Network control systems, stochastic control, optimization, distributed computation, distributed optimization, game theory, multi-agent systems, dynamics of biological networks, population games, learning theory
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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.
Asst Professor, 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.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Compound semiconductor materials for electronic, opto-electronic, and photovoltaic devices.
Assoc Professor, CSE
Visual inference, machine learning, neuro imaging, and medical informatics
Chair/Professor, CSE
Processor architecture for high-end computing; widely credited with an innovation that can double the performance of a new generation of microprocessors.
Professor, SE
Earthquake engineering, seismic analysis and design of steel of structures, large-scale testing.
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Distributed systems, computer networks, operating systems, Internet security, and mobile/wireless systems.
Asst Professor, BENG
Asst Professor, MAE
Soft-tissue biomechanics, cardiovascular physiology, pulmonary hypertension, vascular biology, mathematical modeling, parameter estimation & optimization.
Lecturer, SE
Lelli Van Den Einde is a Lecturer (LPSOE) in the Department of Structural Engineering at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Faculty, CSE
Information theory specializing in error-correcting codes for data transmission and storage.
Professor, ECE
Statistical signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, multimedia
Asst Professor, NENG
Integration of graphene and nanoscale materials into nanoscale devices for photovoltaics, biosensing and two-dimensional hybrid metamaterials.
Professor, NENG
The creation and performance testing of new composite materials and alloys
Professor, CSE
Reinventing the database in response to recent developments, including the emergence of the World Wide Web.
Professor, CSE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Computer systems research in operating systems, distributed systems, networking, and mobile and wireless computing.
Convergent engineering principles, practice and education; design and engineering of AI-intensive systems; systems thinking, systems complexity, technology use in engineering education.
Asst Professor, ECE
Asst Professor, Calit2
Asst Professor, CSE
Mobile Health Sensing, Ubiquitous Computing, Signal Processing, Biosignals, Wearable Computing, Human Computer Interaction, User Centered Design
Professor, NENG
Vice-Chair, NENG
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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.
Professor, 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.
Director/Professor, BENG
An Institute for the Global Entrepreneur founding director; artificial hearts; team builder in medical progress; National Academy of Engineering member
Adjunct Professor, BENG
Brain-on-a-chip, micropatterning neurons and microelectrode arrays, neural signal processing. Bioengineering Education.
Prof. Wheeler is particularly interested in the future of our young biomedical engineers. To this end he is heavily involved in UCSDs's new undergraduate Bioengineering Systems major, teaching and developing courses in instrumentation, signal processing and design. In his work with the UCSD Bioengineering: Systems UG major he emphasizes classical systems engineering but is cognizant that this education needs to take place in a context of genomics/informatics and the wearable/sensor/physiologic revolutions, both of which are changing the practice of medicine.
Professor Of Practice, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, MAE
Research, design and engineering of RADAR, LIDAR, communication and navigation systems.
Professor Emeritus, MAE
Energy from combustion, combustion efficiency, and combustion instability problems in a variety of engines, including rockets.
Professor Emeritus, CSE
Discrete mathematics, algorithmic and algebraic combinatorics, graph theory.
Asst Professor, NENG
Asst Professor, BENG
Asst Professor, ECE
Soft electronics, nano electronics, and energy harvesting/storage devices
Assoc Professor, 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.
Asst Professor, ECE
Asst Professor, Calit2
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
Professor, ECE
Provost, Revelle College
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Microwave photonics, with research on electronic and opto-electronic devices and advanced materials for use in photonic devices.
Asst Professor, CSE
Machile learning, spatiotemporal data, data science, optimization, deep learning.
Prof Emertitus, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
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.
Professor, ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Information coding and data compression, information theory, and signal processing, including image and speech processing.
Res (Emeritus), ECE
Faculty-Affiliate, Calit2
Adaptive signal and array processing for wireless networks, and antenna arrays.
Adjunct Professor, BENG
Microbial Physiology and Metabolism, Microbiomes, Aerobiosis, Amino Acids
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Spatiotemporal regulation of cell signaling; signaling enzymes such as protein kinases and phosphatases
Chair/Professor, BENG
Integrative genomics, with a focus on human stem cells; single-cell genomics; genetical genomics; epigenomics
Professor, NENG
Faculty-Affiliate, BENG
Biomimetic nanomedicine for drug delivery, detoxification, vaccination and diagnosis
Assoc Professor, ECE
Other, Calit2
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.
Asst Professor, CSE
Software and hardware for data centers, computer systems and machine learning, programming languages
Asst Professor, CSE
Computer architecture and systems software, memory and storage systems, acceleration mechanisms, high-performance computing.
Professor, BENG
Computational genomics, epigenomics, stem cells and developmental biology, single-cell nano-technology.
Professor, CSE
Energy and thermal management for data centers; Software dependability; Storage systems
