News Release
Jacobs School Hires 15 New Faculty
San Diego, Calif., Jan. 10, 2013 -- From UC San Diego's new chancellor, to researchers who build biomedical devices; design new materials; and work on better ways to make airplanes safer, it's been a busy year for academic hiring at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego. For more information on UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, and the Jacobs School's new faculty, read the latest issue of Pulse and the school's 2012 Snapshot.
For information on the search for the next Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, click here. For the Jacobs School dean job posting, click here. For other faculty job postings, click here.
Read more about the 15 new faculty members that were hired during the 2012-13 academic year:
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Chiara Bisagni
Professor, Structural Engineering
Aerospace composite structures, in particular buckling and postbuckling,
crashworthiness, fatigue, damage propagation, optimization.
Ph.D. 1997 Politecnico di Milano
Most recently: Associate Professor in aerospace structures in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Italy
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Shengqiang Cai
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mechanics of soft materials; energy harvesting and storage; micro/nanofabrication techniques of polymeric structures and soft/stiff hybrid structures; and deformable acoustics and optical metamaterials.
Ph.D. 2011 Harvard University
Most recently: Postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Shadi Dayeh
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neuroprosthetic devices, growth and devices of compound semiconductors and silicon/germanium materials, monolithic and hybrid hetero-integration technologies, in-situ microscopy on advanced III-V device architectures.
Ph.D. 2008 UC San Diego
Most recently: Distinguished JR Oppenheimer Fellow, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Olivia A. Graeve
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Solution-based processing of nanopowders; spark plasma sintering of materials; powder particle size distribution control and characterization; behavior of colloidal systems; morphological control of nonoxide ceramic powders; composite manufacturing; special emphasis on electromagnetic materials for sensors and energy applications.
Ph.D. 2001 UC Davis
Most recently: Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Alfred University
Website: http://graeve.ucsd.edu/
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Drew Hall
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Analog and mixed-signal CMOS integrated circuits to address applications in bioelectronics, biosensors, lab-on-achip devices, point-of-care (POC) testing, and other biomedical devices and systems.
Ph.D. 2012 Stanford University
Most recently: Research scientist in the Integrated Biosensors Laboratory, Intel Corporation
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Pradeep K. Khosla
UC San Diego Chancellor
Internet-enabled collaborative design, collaborating autonomous systems, agent-based architectures for distributed design and embedded control, software composition and reconfigurable software for real-time embedded systems, reconfigurable and distributed robotic systems, integrated design-assembly planning systems and distributed information systems.
Ph.D. 1986 Carnegie Mellon University
Most recently: Dean of the College of Engineering and Philip and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University
Website: http://chancellor.ucsd.edu
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Darren Lipomi
Assistant Professor, NanoEngineering
Mechanically compliant organic electronic materials and devices, including stretchable polymer-based solar cells and skin-like sensors, and unconventional, green approaches to nanomanufacturing.
Ph.D. 2010 Harvard University
Most recently: U.S. Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering
Website: http://darrenlipomi.com/
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Shachar Lovett
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Algorithms, computational complexity, coding theory, randomness in computation, additive combinatorics.
Ph.D. 2010 The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Most recently: Postdoctoral researcher at The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
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Jian Luo
Professor, NanoEngineering
Utilizing nanoscale interfacial phenomena to design and tailor materials for energy-related applications, including lithium-ion battery materials, high-temperature materials, ionic conductors, photocatalyst and photovoltaic materials, and materials for applications in nuclear power generation systems and clean coal technologies.
Ph.D. 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Most recently: Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
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Jason Mars
Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Online adaptive systems in both software and hardware, datacenter and warehouse-scale computer architecture, and software / hardware co-design.
Ph.D. 2012 University of Virginia
Most recently: Ph.D. student at the University of Virginia
Website: http://clarity-lab.org/
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Patrick Mercier
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Energy-efficient circuit and system design, with emphasis on miniaturized devices for biomedical electronics that employ novel RF, analog, digital, power management, and energy harvesting architectures.
Ph.D. 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Most recently: Ph.D. student at the the Massachusettes Institute of Technology
Website: http://efficiency.ucsd.edu/
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Mark Mercola
Professor, Bioengineering
Developing novel pharmacological therapies for heart regeneration, protection and maintenance of function after injury. Approaches include high throughput screening, animal and human stem cell models of disease, and systems biology.
Ph.D. 1985 University of California, Los Angeles
Most recently: Professor, Sanford- Burnham Medial Research Institute; Director, Muscle Development and Regeneration Program
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Justin Opatkiewicz
Lecturer, NanoEngineering
Opatkiewicz joined the NanoEngineering Department to teach a variety of the core courses in the Chemical Engineering curriculum. He created and taught courses related to mathematical techniques for chemical engineers while a student at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.
Ph.D. 2012 Stanford University
Most recently: Research staff, Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering
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Peter YingXiao Wang
Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Interdisciplinary approaches involving 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.
Ph.D. 2002 UC San Diego
Most recently: Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Sheng Zhong
Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Computational genomics, epigenomics, stem cells and developmental biology, single-cell nano-technology. His lab discovered genetic differences between humans and other mammals in early embryonic development, and contributed to introducing the field of “comparative epigenomics”.
Ph.D. 2005 Harvard University
Most recently: Associate Professor and Bliss Faculty Scholar, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, Department of Bioengineering
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