Professor Michael Mateas leads North America's largest games research group, the Center for Games and Playable Media. Brad Smith (center) works with students and Cisco engineers on new projects in the NMO Lab. Ed Green is interested in the evolutionary history of humans and their extinct relatives. Holger Schmidt directs the Applied Optics Group and the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics. The BSOE Now Offers Graduate Courses On-Line Sri Kurniawan designs and evaluates interactive systems that help people with special needs. Photos from Graduation 2012 are now available on the BSOE gallery web site. Stephen Petersen works with students on the Greenwharf project, a low-impact marine microgrid energy system. Jose Renau directs the first-ever OpenSPARC Center of Excellence. Professors Elkaim, Rosen, and Dunbar lead research on autonomous systems at all scales. For their senior capstone design project, a team of engineering undergraduates builds a lightweight bionic exoskeleton Art Ramirez, Dean of Baskin Engineering, researches experimental materials physics. Professors Pascale Garaud and Raquel Prado are part of the growing Applied Mathematics & Statistics Department. JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves leads a team of researchers at UCSC and six other universities in developing ad-hoc wireless networking. The Bionics Lab, led by Jacob Rosen, develops wearable robots, exoskeletons and surgical robots. Katia Obraczka leads the Inter-Networking Research Group, which integrates sensors and networks to understand the environment.

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Michael Mateas
Michael Mateas
Professor, Computer Science