Jack Baskin School of Engineering

Art Ramirez, Dean of Baskin Engineering, researches experimental materials physics. Photos from Graduation 2011 are now available on the BSOE gallery web site. Katia Obraczka leads the Inter-Networking Research Group, which integrates sensors and networks to understand the environment. Holger Schmidt directs the Applied Optics Group and the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. Sri Kurniawan designs and evaluates interactive systems that help people with special needs. Jose Renau directs the first-ever OpenSPARC Center of Excellence. Ali Shakouri leads the ONR Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) Thermionic Energy Conversion Center. Brad Smith (center) works with students and Cisco engineers on new projects in the NMO Lab. JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves leads a team of researchers at UCSC and six other universities in developing ad-hoc wireless networking. Ed Green is interested in the evolutionary history of humans and their extinct relatives. The Bionics Lab, led by Jacob Rosen, develops wearable robots, exoskeletons and surgical robots. Professor Michael Mateas leads North America's largest games research group, the Center for Games and Playable Media. Stephen Petersen works with students on the Greenwharf project, a low-impact marine microgrid energy system. Professors Pascale Garaud and Raquel Prado are part of the growing Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department. Professors Elkaim, Rosen, and Dunbar lead research on autonomous systems at all scales.

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