Jack Baskin School of Engineering

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

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David Draper
David Draper
Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics