Faculty


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	Martin Abadi Professor Computer Science	831-459-1489 Engineering 2 Room 347A
	Computer and network security, specification and verification methods, programming languages

	Dimitris Achlioptas Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1081 Engineering 2 Room 343A
	Analysis of algorithms, machine learning, random structures, applications to biological and computer systems.

	Ram Akella Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-1728 Engineering 2 Room 131
	Information technology and systems, management of technology, new product introduction and development, enterprise and knowledge management, supply chain management and e-business,and financial engineering

	Mark Akeson Adjunct Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1038 Physical Sciences Room 405C
	Nanoscale pores, processive enzymes, bioethics, G-protein coupled receptors

	Eric Anderson Assistant Adjunct Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics
	Statistical methods in fisheries management and ecology, parentage inference of species hybrids, genetic stock identification

B

	Delbert Bailey Lecturer Computer Science	831-459-1339 Engineering 2 Room 249B
	Artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, computational complexity, analysis of algorithms

	Cyrus Bazeghi Lecturer Computer Engineering	831-459-2217 Engineering 2 Room 319
	Computer architecture, VLSI, FPGA, embedded systems, and system architecture

	Phillip Berman Jack Baskin Endowed Chair Biomolecular Engineering Chair and Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-3529 Physical Sciences Room 405E
	Recombinant vaccines, HIV, therapeutic antibodies, cell engineering, biotechnology.

	Zhixi Bian Assistant Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-3844 Baskin Engineering Room 251


	Scott Brandt Professor Computer Science	831-459-5042 Engineering 2 Room 347B
	Operating systems, storage systems, real-time systems, distributed systems.

	Alexandre Brandwajn Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4023 Engineering 2 Room 223
	Computer architecture, performance modeling, queuing network models of computer systems and operation systems

	Nicholas Brummell Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-2122 Baskin Engineering Room 125
	Fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, numerical simulations of geophysical and astrophysical dynamics, especially solar interior physics, supercomputing.

C

	Don Chamberlin Adjunct Professor Computer Science	831-459-1891 Engineering 2 Room 547B


	Pak K. Chan Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-429-4156 Engineering 2 Room 229
	Placement and routing algorithms, field-programmable gate arrays, spectral-based partitioning, circuit theory, computer arithmetic.

	Bin Chen Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering


	William Culman Lecturer Technology & Information Management	Engineering 2 Room 545B


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	James Davis Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1841 Engineering 2 Room 363
	Computer graphics and computer vision, methods for acquiring and manipulating complex graphical models from the real world.

	Luca De Alfaro Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4982 Engineering 2 Room 339A
	Formal methods, game theory, embedded systems, software engineering.

	David Deamer Research Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-5158 Physical Sciences Room 405B
	Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly.

	Subhas Desa Associate Adjunct Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-1641 Engineering 2 Room 561
	Product development, supply chain management, management of technology, system dynamics and control

	Andrea Di Blas Lecturer Computer Engineering	831-459-4193 Engineering 2 Room 217
	Parallel computer architectures, parallel applications and programming models, combinatorial optimization

	David Draper Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1295 Baskin Engineering Room 135
	Bayesian statistics, hierarchical modeling, stochastic optimization, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, statistical model uncertainty, quality assessment in health & education, stochastic modeling in the medical and social sciences.

	William Dunbar Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1031 Engineering 2 Room 325
	Theory and application of feedback control, air traffic control, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules.

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	Gabriel Elkaim Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3054 Engineering 2 Room 337B
	Embedded systems; robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control chemes; feedback control systems; robotics; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) and cooperative control.

	Keivan Esfarjani Visiting Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-3430


F

	Joel Ferguson Professor Computer Engineering Provost of Crown College	831-459-2411 Engineering 2 Room 329
	Fault diagnosis, failure analysis, logic fault modeling, digital test pattern generation, design-for-test of digital circuits and systems.

	Cormac Flanagan Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-5375 Engineering 2 Room 367
	Software engineering, programming languages, computer-aided verification, program analysis, defect detection, type systems.

	Camilla Forsberg Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-2111 Physical Sciences Room 310
	Hematopoietic stem cells, transcriptional regulation, chromatin, blood cell development, cell surface receptors, genomics

	Paulo Franca Lecturer Computer Science	831-459-3691 Engineering 2 Room 259
	Computer programming teaching methodology, web-based development techniques, office automation, and paperless document management

	Benjamin Friedlander Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-5838 Engineering 2 Room 241B
	Digital communications, wireless communication system, array processing, adaptive signal processing

	John Funge Assistant Adjunct Professor Computer Science	Engineering 2 Room 263


G

	Pascale Garaud Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1055 Baskin Engineering Room 131
	Astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics.

	J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves Jack Baskin Endowed Professor Computer Engineering Director of NSI	831-459-4153 Engineering 2 Room 317
	Wireless networks, internet, multimedia information systems.

	Dietlind Gerloff Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-4833 Physical Sciences Room 320
	Structural biochemistry, information technology, evolutionary biology, and experimental molecular biology.

	Juan Gomez Lecturer Computer Engineering	831-459-1653 Baskin Engineering Room 157B


	Qi Gong Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1047 Baskin Engineering Room 143
	Computational methods for real-time control systems, trajectory optimization and motion planning, nonlinear filtering and observer design, robust and adaptive control of nonlinear systems, industry applications of control theory

	Martin Griss Adjunct Professor Computer Science	Engineering 2 Room 269


	Karen Groppi Lecturer Computer Engineering	831-459-1046 Baskin Engineering Room 157A


	Claire Gu Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-5296 Baskin Engineering Room 253B
	Fiber sensors for bio-applications, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, optical information processing

	Matthew Guthaus Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4449 Engineering 2 Room 225
	VLSI, Systems-on-a-Chip, Design Automation, Design for Variability/Robustness, Mixed-Signal Systems

H

	David Haussler Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-2105 Engineering 2 Room 501A
	Genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks, decision theory, theory of computation.

	David Helmbold Professor Computer Science	831-459-2016 Engineering 2 Room 345B
	Machine learning, theoretical computer science, analysis of algorithms, intelligent systems.

	Richard Hughey Chair Computer Engineering Professor Biomolecular Engineering Chair of BS Bioengineering	831-459-2939 Engineering 2 Room 233
	Computer architecture, parallel processing, parallel programming languages and environments, computer applications in biology, programmable systolic arrays.

I

	Michael Isaacson Dean's Office Acting Dean, Jack Baskin School of Engineering Narinder Singh Kapany Professor of Optoelectronics	831-459-1722 Baskin Engineering Room 337
	Nanofabrication technology applied to diagnostics, separation and prosthetic devices; development of tools for the micro/nanocharacterization of materials.

K

	Kevin Karplus Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-4250 Physical Sciences Room 318
	Undergraduate and Graduate Director of Bioinformatics Protein structure prediction, protein design, hidden Markov models, neural nets, stochastic search.

	Yonatan Katznelson Lecturer Economics Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-4436 Engineering 2 Room 409
	Number theory, diophantine equations

	Arthur Keller Lecturer Technology & Information Management	831-459-1485 Baskin Engineering Room 123


	James King Adjunct Professor Computer Science	831-459-1896 Engineering 2 Room 541B


	Nobuhiko Kobayashi Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-3571 Baskin Engineering Room 247
	Synthesis and properties of nanometer-scale materials, Fabrication and characterization of nanometer-scale electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices

	Phokion G. Kolaitis Professor Computer Science	831-459-4768 Engineering 2 Room 345A
	Logic in computer science, computational complexity, database theory

	Athanasios Kottas Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5536 Baskin Engineering Room 153A
	Bayesian nonparametrics, survival analysis, quantile regression modeling, categorical data analysis, spatial statistics.

	Arthur J. Krener Professor Emeritus Applied Mathematics & Statistics	Baskin Engineering Room 143


	Joel Kubby Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1073 Baskin Engineering Room 249
	Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems(NEMS), Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomical and biological imaging, printed MEMS, and renewable energy.

	Sri Kurniawan Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1037 Engineering 2 Room 331
	Human-computer interaction, human factors and ergonomics, accessibility, assistive technology, usability, empirical studies, user-centered design

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	Tracy Larrabee Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3476 Engineering 2 Room 337A
	Test pattern simulation and generation, fault modeling, fault modeling, fault diagnosis, design verification, technical writing, logic simulation.

	Todd Lauderdale Lecturer Applied Mathematics & Statistics	Baskin Engineering Room 143


	Kenneth Laws Lecturer Electrical Engineering	831-459-1046 Baskin Engineering Room 129


	Herbert Lee Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1655 Baskin Engineering Room 151
	Bayesian statistics; spatial inverse problems; model selection and model averaging; statistical computing; neural networks; nonparametric regression and classification.

	Bob Levinson Professor Computer Science	831-459-2087 Engineering 2 Room 255
	Artificial intelligence, machine learning, heuristic search, associative pattern retrieval, hierarchical reinforcement learning, semantic networks

	Wentai Liu Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1721 Engineering 2 Room 341A
	Visual prosthesis, transceiver design, molecular electronics, microelectronic sensor, timing/clock optimization, noise characterization and modeling, and computer-vision/image processing.

	Suresh Lodha Professor Computer Science	831-459-3773 Engineering 2 Room 361
	Visualization, vision, innovation, entrepreneurship

	Darrell Long Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies Kumar Malavalli Endowed Professor of Storage Systems Research Director of SSRC Professor Computer Science	831-459-2616 Engineering 2 Room 371
	Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems.

	Todd Lowe Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1511 Physical Sciences Room 316
	Experimental and computational genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of archaea.

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	Wesley Mackey Lecturer Computer Science	831-459-5322 Engineering 2 Room 253


	Carlos Maltzahn Assistant Adjunct Professor Computer Science	831-459-1627 Engineering 2 Room 369
	Scalable file system data and metadata management, very long-term digital preservation, network intermediaries, machine learning, information retrieval, and cooperation dynamics

	Roberto Manduchi Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1479 Engineering 2 Room 327
	Sensor processing and image understanding, with application to autonomous navigation, sensor networks, and deep-space communications.

	Marc Mangel Chair Applied Mathematics & Statistics Distinguished Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5797 Baskin Engineering Room 145
	Mathematical biology, especially evolutionary and behavioral ecology, biodemography, quantitative fishery science, population biology of disease.

	Patrick Mantey CITRIS Campus Director Director of ITI Director Technology & Information Management Jack Baskin Endowed Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-2158 Engineering 2 Room 595
	Image systems, image processing, visualization, image and multimedia systems, digital signal processing, real-time control

	Michael Mateas Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1789 Engineering 2 Room 373
	Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based art and entertainment (Expressive AI).

	Charlie McDowell Professor Computer Science	831-459-4772 Engineering 2 Room 349B
	Programming languages, computer go, parallel computing, computer science education.

	Bruno Mendes Lecturer Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1033 Baskin Engineering Room 141
	Parameter and model uncertainty in groundwater contamination modeling, Bayesian statistics, parallel computation

	Peyman Milanfar Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-4929 Engineering 2 Room 243A
	Statistical signal and image processing, inverse problems, detection and estimation, scientific computing, and applied mathematics.

	Ethan L. Miller Professor Computer Science	831-459-1222 Engineering 2 Room 365
	File and storage systems, operating systems, computer security, distributed systems, reliability and fault tolerance, performance evaluation, and information retrieval

	Gene Moriarty Lecturer Computer Engineering	831-459-1653 Baskin Engineering Room 157


	Robin D. Morris Associate Adjunct Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	Baskin Engineering Room 143


	Gerald Moulds Lecturer Computer Engineering	831-459-5286 Engineering 2 Room 237A


	Christopher Moylan Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-5453 Engineering 2 Room 239A


	John Musacchio Assistant Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-1385 Engineering 2 Room 557
	Control, analysis, and pricing of communications networks; applications of game theory in networking; wireless ad-hoc networks; and management of technology

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	Katia Obraczka Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4308 Engineering 2 Room 323
	Computer networks, distributed systems, operating systems, Internet information systems, mobile computing, wireless networks

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	Alex Pang Professor Computer Science	831-459-2712 Engineering 2 Room 359
	Uncertainty visualization, tensor visualization, scientific visualization, collaboration software, virtual reality interfaces

	Ken Pedrotti Chair Electrical Engineering Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1229 Baskin Engineering Room 253C
	Optical communications, high-speed electronics for lightwave systems, devices for all optical networking and imaging

	Stephen Petersen Lecturer Computer Engineering	831-459-4782 Baskin Engineering Room 117
	Embedded controller systems, RF wireless systems, modulation and spectrum reuse, digital signal processing, circuit theory

	Ira Pohl Chair Computer Science Professor Computer Science	831-459-3648 Engineering 2 Room 349A
	Artificial intelligence, programming languages, heuristic methods, educational and social issues, combinatorial algorithms

	Neoklis Polyzotis Assistant Professor Computer Science	831-459-1304 Engineering 2 Room 353
	Synopses for XML data, visual query interfaces, query processing, and optimization.

	Nader Pourmand Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-502-7315 Physical Sciences Room 314
	Biosensors, microarray, nanotechnology, pathogens, sequencing, genotyping, DNA fingerprinting

	Corey Powell Lecturer Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1623 Physical Sciences Room 405a


	Raquel Prado Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1488 Baskin Engineering Room 149
	Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing, wavelets and statistical genetics.

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	Dominik Rabus Assistant Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering


	Jose Renau Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1847 Engineering 2 Room 227
	Computer architecture, chip multiprocessors, energy/performance trade-offs, thread level speculation, interaction between architecture and compilers, Linux kernel

	Abel Rodríguez Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1047 Baskin Engineering Room 147
	Bayesian nonparametrics, Bayesian time series and spatial models, public health, financial econometrics, structural proteomics

	Carol Rohl Assistant Adjunct Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1720 Baskin Engineering Room 313A
	Protein design, protein structure and function prediction; protein-protein interactions

	Jacob Rosen Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-5302 Engineering 2 Room 231
	Biorobotics, Human centered robotics, medical robotics (surgery and rehabilitation), wearable robotics (exoskeleton), teleoperation, haptics and virtual reality, biomechanics, neuromuscular control, and human-machine interfaces

	Kevin Ross Assistant Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-1878 Engineering 2 Room 559
	Service engineering and management; resource allocation; operations research; pricing; scheduling; queuing theory; networks

	Wendy Rothwell Lecturer Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1623 Physical Sciences Room 405A
	Biotechnology and molecular genetics

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	Hamid Sadjadpour Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1483 Engineering 2 Room 245B
	Wireless communication systems, coding and information theory, ad hoc and sensor networks

	Bruno Sansó Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1484 Baskin Engineering Room 139
	Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling. Environmental and geostatistical applications. Modeling of extreme values. Statistical assessment of climate variability.

	Martine Schlag Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3243 Engineering 2 Room 219
	VLSI design tools and algorithms, VLSI theory, field-programmable gate arrays, FPGA-based computing engines

	Holger Schmidt Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1482 Baskin Engineering Room 245
	Integrated optics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nano-magneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics.

	Thomas Schwarz Associate Adjunct Professor Computer Science
	File and storage systems; highly available storage systems and data structures; scalable distributed data structures, computer forensics

	Andrew Segal Lecturer Electrical Engineering	831-459-1912 Baskin Engineering Room 129


	Ali Shakouri Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-3821 Baskin Engineering Room 253A
	Quantum electronics, nano and microscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, thermoelectric/thermionic energy conversion, renewable energy sources, thermal imaging, micro refrigerators on a chip and optoelectronic integrated circuits

	Brad Smith Assistant Adjunct Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-2370 Engineering 2 Room 595K


	Josh Stuart Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1344 Physical Sciences Room 308
	Computational functional genomics, comparative analysis of gene regulation, cross-species inference of gene networks, probabilistic graphical models

	Ephraim Suhir Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-5311 Baskin Engineering Room 312A


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	Wang-Chiew Tan Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-3709 Engineering 2 Room 343B
	Data provenance, annotations, archiving, data integration, scientific databases, database query languages, combinatorial optimization of database problems.

	Patrick Tantalo Lecturer Computer Science	831-459-3898 Engineering 2 Room 257
	Combinatorics, optimization, graph theory, and algorithms

	Hai Tao Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4879 Engineering 2 Room 333
	Image and video processing, computer vision, vision-based graphics, and human-computer interaction

	Jonathan Trent Adjunct Professor Biomolecular Engineering	Physical Sciences Room 405C


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	Allen Van Gelder Professor Computer Science	831-459-4611 Engineering 2 Room 355
	Logic programming algorithms, parallel algorithms, complexity, programming languages, automated theorem proving, scientific visualization

	Anujan Varma Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3505 Engineering 2 Room 221
	Computer networking, computer architecture, optical networks.

	John Vesecky Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-4099 Baskin Engineering Room 239
	HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes; project MEDSAT

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	Hongyun Wang Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5653 Baskin Engineering Room 153C
	Molecular modeling and biophysics, numerical analysis, fluid mechanics, computer animation, partial differential equations, parallel computing, statistical physics, data structures, fast algorithms.

	Noah Wardrip-Fruin Assistant Professor Computer Science	831-459-4131 Engineering 2 Room 271


	Manfred Warmuth Professor Computer Science	831-459-4950 Engineering 2 Room 357
	Online learning, machine learning, statistical decision theory, neural computation, analysis of algorithms

	Linda Werner Lecturer Computer Science	831-459-1017 Engineering 2 Room 249
	Software engineering testing, usability engineering, educational and social issues

	Jim Whitehead Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1227 Engineering 2 Room 273
	Software engineering, configuration management, hypertext versioning, web, open hypertext, collaborative authoring, application layer protocols, internet information systems.

	Donald Wiberg Professor Emeritus Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering	831-459-5560 Engineering 2 Room 241A


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	Toshishige Yamada Associate Adjunct Professor Electrical Engineering


Z

	Yi Zhang Assistant Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-4549 Engineering 2 Room 565
	Information retrieval, natural language processing, applied machine learning and data mining.

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