ucla engineering 2011 faculty expertise directory
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65 Years of Driving Innovation
2011 Faculty Expertise Directory
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, established in 1945, offers 28 academic and professional degree programs and has an enrollment of nearly 5,000 students. The school’s distinguished faculty are leading research to address many of the critical challenges of the 21st century, including renewable energy, clean water, health care, wireless sensing and networking, and cybersecurity. Ranked among the top 10 engineering schools at public universities nationwide, the school is home to seven multimillion-dollar interdisciplinary research centers in wireless sensor systems, nanoelectronics, nanomedicine, renewable energy, customized computing, and the smart grid, all funded by federal and private agencies.
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Office of the Dean7400 Boelter HallBox 951600Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600Phone: 310-825-2938Email: engrdean@ea.ucla.edu
Office of External Affairs7256 Boelter HallBox 951600Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600Phone: 310-206-0678Email: UCLAengineering@support.ucla.edu
Leti McNeillDirector of Developmentlmcneill@support.ucla.edu
Salvador RivasDirector of Corporate and Foundation Relationssrivas@support.ucla.edu
Bioengineering
Major Research Areas
BiomaterialsJames DunnAndrea KaskoBenjamin WuTimothy J. DemingGerard Wong
Biomedical DevicesDino Di CarloJames DunnWarren GrundfestChih-Ming HoJacob Schmidt
Medical Imaging InformaticsDenise Aberle
Molecular and Cellular BioengineeringTimothy J. DemingDaniel KameiGerard Wong
Dr. Denise AberleProfessor, Vice Chair of Research (Radiological Sciences)
Other Affiliation(s)Radiological Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise• medical and imaging informatics• imaging-based clinical trials• lung cancer• thoracic imaging
Contact InformationUCLA Radiological Sciences924 Westwood Blvd, Suite 420Los Angeles, CA 90024daberle@mednet.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-8989Fax: 310-794-3546http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/joint-faculty/denise-aberle-m.dhttp://www.radnet.ucla.edu/radweb/research/faculty/Aberle.jsp
Dr. Timothy J. DemingProfessor, Department Chair
Other Affiliation(s)Chemistry and Biochemistry
Area(s) of Expertise• polymer synthesis and processing• supramolecular materials• organometallic catalysis• biomaterials• polypeptides• drug delivery
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 5121 Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600demingt@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-4450Fax: 310-794-5956http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/faculty-no-1
Dr. Dino Di CarloAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• microfluidics• biomedical microdevices• cellular diagnostics• cell analysis and engineering
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 5121E Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600dicarlo@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-983-3235Fax: 310-794-5956http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/dino-di-carlo-ph.d
Dr. James DunnAssociate Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Surgery
Area(s) of Expertise• tissue engineering• stem cell therapy• regenerative tissue medicine• biosensors
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 4121J Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600jdunn@mednet.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-2746Fax: 310-206-1120http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/joint-faculty/james-dunn-m.d.-ph.d
Dr. Warren GrundfestProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Electrical Engineering, Surgery
Area(s) of Expertise• excimer laser• minimally invasive surgery• biological spectroscopy
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 4121H Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600warrenbe@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-5550Fax: 310-794-5956http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/warren-s.-grundfest-m.d
Dr. Daniel T. KameiAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• molecular and cellular bioengineering• drug delivery• rational design of molecular therapeutics• systems-level analysis of cellular processes• quantitative cell biology• diagnostics
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 5121J Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600kamei@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-4826Fax: 310-794-5956http://kameilab.seas.ucla.edu
Dr. Andrea KaskoAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• polymer synthesis• biomaterials• tissue engineering• cell-material interactions
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 5121H Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600akasko@ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-6341Fax: 310-794-5956http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/andrea-kasko-ph.d
Dr. Jacob J. SchmidtAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• membrane protein engineering• biomimetic materials and devices• biophysics at micro and nanoscales• biomedical instrumentation• biosensors• drug delivery and screening
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 5121G Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600schmidt@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4451Fax: 310-794-5956http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/jacob-j.-schmidt-ph.d
Dr. Gerard WongProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• antimicrobials• sociomicrobiology of bacterial communities• high-resolution diffractive imaging techniques, using synchrotron x-ray and electron scattering
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 5121D Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600gclwong@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-7684Fax: 310-794-5956http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/gerard-wong-ph.d
Dr. Benjamin M. WuAssociate Professor, Vice Chair
Other Affiliation(s)Materials Science and Engineering, Advanced Prosthodontics, Biomaterials, & Hospital Dentistry
Area(s) of Expertise• biomechanics• biomaterials• cell-material interactions• materials processing• tissue engineering• prosthetic and regenerative dentistry• biomedical instrumentation
Contact InformationUCLA Department of BioengineeringBOX 951600, 5121K Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600benwu@ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-7094Fax: 310-794-5956http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/benjamin-m.-wu-d.d.s.-ph.d
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Major Research Areas
Biomolecular Engineering and Systems BiologyLouis IgnarroJames LiaoHarold MonbouquetteGerassimos OrkoulasTatiana SeguraYi Tang
Semiconductor ManufacturingJane P. ChangPanagiotis ChristofidesRobert HicksVasilios ManousiouthakisGerassimos OrkoulasSelim Senkan
NanoengineeringJane P. ChangYoram CohenPanagiotis ChristofidesRoberg HicksHarold MonbouquetteGerassimos Orkoulas
Process Systems EngineeringPanagiotis ChristofidesJames F. DavisVasilios ManousiouthakisGerassimos Orkoulas
Dr. Jane P. ChangProfessor, William Frederick Seyer Chair in Materials Electrochemistry, Associate Dean for Research and Physical Resources
Area(s) of Expertise• surface and interface engineering• plasma enhanced surface chemistries• synthesis of multifunctional oxide materials/nanostructures• semiconductor manufacturing• energy conversion and storage• chemical microelectromechanical systems• computational surface chemistry
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5532D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592jpchang@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-7980Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.seas.ucla.edu/Chang/jpchang.html
Dr. Panagiotis D. ChristofidesProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• advanced materials processing• process modeling• dynamics and control• applied mathematics• desalination and water treatment
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5532F Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592pdc@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-1015Fax: 310-206-1407http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/panagiotis-christofides
Dr. Yoram CohenProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• desalination and water treatment• separation processes• graft polymerization• surface nanostructuring• macromolecular dynamics• pollutant transport and exposure assessment• environmental monitoring
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5531E Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592yoram@ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8766Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yoram-cohen/
Dr. James F. DavisProfessor, Vice Provost for Information Technology
Area(s) of Expertise• smart manufacturing• information technology• intelligent systems and decision support• control operations and design• management of abnormal situations• data interpretation and knowledge management• pattern recognition
Contact InformationUCLA Chancellor’s OfficeBOX 951405, 2333 Murphy HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1405Phone: 310-206-0011Fax: 310-206-4961http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/james-f-davis/
Dr. Robert F. HicksProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• fabrication of integrated circuits• chemical vapor deposition• atmospheric plasma processing
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5532J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592rhicks@ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-6865Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.seas.ucla.edu/prosurf/http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/robert-hicks
Dr. Louis J. IgnarroDistinguished Professor, Jerome J. Belzer Professor of Medical Research
Other Affiliation(s)Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Area(s) of Expertise• molecular and medical pharmacology• regulation and modulation of NO production
Contact InformationUCLA Molecular and Medical PharmacologyBOX 951735, 23-305 CHSLos Angeles, CA 90095-1735lignarro@mednet.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5159, 310-825-7137Fax: 310-206-0589http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/louis-j-ignarro
Dr. James C. LiaoChancellor’s Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• molecular and cellular bioengineering• biochemical engineering• metabolic reaction engineering• reaction path analysis and control
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5531G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592liaoj@ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-1656Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/james-c-liao
Dr. Yunfeng LuProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• Biomimetic materials and devices• nanotechnology• energy
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5531G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592luucla@ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-7238Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yunfeng-lu
Dr. Vasilios ManousiouthakisProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• Process systems engineering: modeling, simulation, design, optimization, and control• semiconductor manufacturing• energy and the environment• hydrogen economy
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5531 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592vasilios@ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-0300Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/vasilios-manousiouthakis
Dr. Harold G. MonbouquetteProfessor, Department Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• biochemical engineering• biosensors• nanotechnology• liposomes
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department Box 951592, 5531D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592harold@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8946Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/harold-monbouquette
Dr. Gerassimos OrkoulasAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• molecular and cellular bioengineering• molecular simulation• critical phenomena in ionic fluids• thermodynamics of complex fluids• process systems engineering
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering DepartmentBox 951592, 5532G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592makis@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-0169Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/gerassimos-orkoulas
Dr. Tatiana SeguraAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• molecular and cellular bioengineering• gene therapy• tissue engineering• substrate-mediated non-viral DNA delivery• biomaterials• biomimetic materials and devices
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering DepartmentBox 951592, 5532C Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592tatiana.segura@ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-3980Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/tatiana-segura
Dr. Selim SenkanProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• semiconductor manufacturing• reaction engineering• combinatorial catalysis• combustion• laser photoionization• real time detection• quantum chemistry• energy and the environment
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering DepartmentBox 951592, 5532B Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592senkan@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-4106Fax: 310-267-0177http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/selim-senkan
Dr. Yi TangChancellor’s Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• molecular and cellular bioengineering• biosynthesis of proteins/polypeptides with unnatural amino acids• synthesis of novel antibiotics/antitumor products
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering DepartmentBox 951592, 5531 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1592yitang@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0375Fax: 310-206-4107http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yi-tang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Major Research Areas
Structural Engineering and MechanicsJiun-Shyan (JS) ChenJiann-Wen Woody JuGaurav SantErtugrul TacirogluJohn W. WallaceJian Zhang
Geotechnical EngineeringScott J. BrandenbergJonathan P. StewartMladen Vucetic
Environmental EngineeringEric M.V. HoekJennifer A. JayShaily MahendraMichael K. StenstromKeith D. Stolzenbach
Hydrology and Water ResourcesTerri S. HogueSteven A. MargulisWilliam W. G. Yeh
Dr. Scott J. BrandenbergAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• earthquake engineering• soil-structure interaction• liquefaction• data acquisition and processing• numerical analysis• foundation problems for buildings and bridges
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593sjbrandenberg@ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-9819Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/brandenberg
Dr. Jiun-Shyan (JS) ChenChancellor’s Professor, Department Chair
Other Affiliation(s)Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise• structural engineering and mechanics• computational mechanics: finite element and meshfree methods• large deformation mechanics• inelasticity• biomechanics• structural dynamics
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5713 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593jschen@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-4620Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/jschen
Dr. Eric HoekAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• water treatment• wastewater treatment• membrane technology• desalination• nanotechnology• oil/water separations• bioseparations
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5732G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593emvhoek@ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-3735Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/hoek
Dr. Terri S. HogueAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• hydrology and water resources• surface hydrology• hydroclimatology• rainfall-runoff modeling• operational flood forecasting• parameter estimation• model optimization techniques• sensitivity analysis
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731F Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593thogue@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-4239Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/hogue
Dr. Jennifer JayAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• environmental engineering• aquatic chemistry• environmental microbiology• contaminant transport monitoring
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5732H Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593jjay@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-5365Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/jay
Dr. Jiann-Wen Woody JuProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computational mechanics and finite element simulations• biomechanics• mechanics of composite materials• earthquake engineering• micro- and nanomechanics• cement and concrete, construction defects• damage mechanics and fracture mechanics• bioengineering
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731K Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593juj@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-1751Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/ju
Dr. Shaily MahendraAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• environmental microbiology• biodegradation of groundwater contaminants• microbial-nanomaterial interactions• nanotoxicology• applications of molecular biological and isotopic tools in environmental engineering
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5732C Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593mahendra@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-9850Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/mahendra
Dr. Steven A. MargulisAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• hydrology and water resources• surface hydrology• hydrometeorology• remote sensing• data assimilation
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5732D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593margulis@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-5490Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/margulis
Dr. Gaurav SantAssistant Professor, Edward K. and Linda Rice Term Chair in Cementitious Materials
Area(s) of Expertise• fundamental constituent chemistry-microstructure-engineering property relationship for cementitious materials• geochemical simulation• thermodynamics of solid-liquid-vapor interfaces• organic polymer development for service-life extension of infrastructure materials• carbon footprint mininmization and sequestration in infrastructure materials
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593gsant@ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-3084Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/sant/profile
Dr. Michael StenstromDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Policy Studies
Area(s) of Expertise• environmental engineering• process development and control for water and wastewater treatment plants
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5714 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593stentsro@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-1408Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/stenstrom
Dr. Jonathan P. StewartProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• geotechnical engineering• earthquake engineering• engineering seismology• embankment problems: dams, levees, compacted fills• soil - structure interaction
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593jstewart@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2990Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/stewart
Dr. Keith D. StolzenbachProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• environmental engineering• environmental fluids mechanics• fat and transport of pollutants• dynamics of particles
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5732J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593stolzenb@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-7624Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/stolzenbach
Dr. Ertugrul TacirogluAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• computational structural and solid mechanics• structural dynamics• system identification and health monitoring• soil-structure interaction• finite element and meshfree methods
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731E Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593etacir@ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-4655Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/taciroglu
Dr. Mladen VuceticProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• geotechnical engineering• soil dynamics• earthquake ground shaking• experimental studies of static and cyclic soil properties
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5750 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593vucetic@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-6260Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/vucetic
Dr. John W. WallaceProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• structural engineering and mechanics• earthquake engineering• design methodologies• seismic evaluation and retrofit• large-scale testing laboratory and field testing
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731C Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593wallace@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-7124Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/wallace
Dr. William W. YehDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• hydrology and water resources• optimization of water resources systems
Contact InformationUCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5732B Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593williamy@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2300Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/yeh
Dr. Jian ZhangAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• structural engineering and mechanics• earthquake engineering• structural dynamics and mechanics• seismic protective devices and strategies• soil-structure interaction• bridge engineering
Contact InformationCivil and Environmental Engineering DepartmentBox 951593, 5731G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1593zhangj@ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7986Fax: 310-206-2222http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/zhang
Computer Science
Major Research Areas
Artificial IntelligenceAdnan DarwicheRichard KorfMichael DyerDemetri TerzopoulosJennifer Wortman Vaughan
Computer System Architecture and Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
Jason CongMilos ErcegovacMiodrag PotkonjakGlenn ReinmanMajid SaraffzadehYuval Tamir
Computational Systems BiologyJoseph DiStefano IIIEleazar EskinChristopher LeeD. Stott ParkerZhuowen Tu
Graphics and VisionPetros FaloutsosStanley OsherStefano SoattoDemetri TerzopoulosAlan YuilleSong-Chun Zhu
Information and Data ManagementAlfonso CardenasJunghoo John ChoWesley ChuRichard MuntzCarlo Zaniolo
Network SystemsDeborah EstrinMario GerlaSongwu LuPeter ReiherMani B. SrivastavaLixia Zhang
Software SystemsPaul EggertEddie KohlerTodd MillsteinRupak MajumdarJens PalsbergDavid Smallberg
Computer Science TheoryElizer GafniAdam MeyersonRafail OstrovskyAmit Sahai
Dr. Alfonso F. CardenasProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• information and data management• database management• distributed heterogeneous and multimedia systems• informational systems• planning and development methodologies• software engineering• medical informatics• legal and intellectual property issues
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3732E Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596cardenas@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7550Fax: 310-825-2273http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~cardenas/
Dr. Junghoo “John” ChoAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• information and data management• databases/search engines• web technologies• information discovery and integration
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3532J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596cho@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-571-8240Fax: 360-488-0606http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~cho
Dr. Jason CongChancellor’s Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer system architecture• electronic design automation• fault-tolerant design of VLSI systems• design and analysis of algorithms• computer-aided design• reconfigurable computing• design for nano-technologies
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4711 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596cong@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2775Fax: 310-825-2273http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/faculty_pages/cong.html
Dr. Adnan DarwicheProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• knowledge representation and automated reasoning (symbolic and probabilistic)• applications to diagnosis, prediction, planning, and verification• artificial intelligence• biomedical informatics
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4532D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596darwiche@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5201Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~darwiche/
Dr. Joseph J. Distefano IIIDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Computational & Systems Biology Interdepartmental Programs
Area(s) of Expertise• dynamic systems biology modeling and simulation• clinical therapy and experiment design optimization methodologies• pharmacokinetic (PK), pharmacodynamic (PD), and physiologically-based PBPK, PBPK and PBTK (toxicokinetic) modeling• knowledge-based systems and Internet-based software for life science research and patient education• biocontrol systems
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4711 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596joed@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7482Fax: 310-825-2773http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/faculty_pages/distefano.htmlhttp://www.biocyb.cs.ucla.edu/
Dr. Michael G. DyerProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• artificial intelligence• natural language processing• connectionist• cognitive and animated-based modeling
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4532F Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596dyer@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4033, 310-206-6674Fax: 310-825-2773http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dyer/
Dr. Paul R. EggertLecturer PSOE
Area(s) of Expertise• software systems• programming languages• operating systems principles• compilers• Internet
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBOX 951596, 4532J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596eggert@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-2254Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/
Dr. Milos ErcegovacDistinguished Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• computer system architecture• digital computer arithmetic• digital design• low-power systems• reconfigurable systems
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4731H Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596milos@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5414Fax: 310-825-2273http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~milos/
Dr. Eleazar EskinAssociate Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Human Genetics
Area(s) of Expertise• bioinformatics• genetics• genomics• machine learning
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science Department Box 951596, 3532J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596eeskin@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-594-5112, 310-206-4490Fax: 310-825-2273http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eeskin/
Dr. Deborah L. EstrinProfessor, Jonathan B. Postel Chair in Networking
Other Affiliation(s)Electrical Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• mobile technologies and applications• environmental sensing systems• Internet protocols and architecture• open systems• multidisciplinary research• science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and diversity
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3531H Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596destrin@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-3923Fax: 310-206-3053http://www.cens.ucla.edu/portal/people/estrin.html
Dr. Petros FaloutsosAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer graphics and animation• medical simulation and visualization• automatic assessment of surgical skills• remote surgical technologies for training and tele-surgery
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4531F Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596pfal@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2393Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~pfal/
Dr. Eliezer M. GafniProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer science theory• networks• mathematical programming algorithms
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3731F Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597eli@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-3211Fax: 310-825-2273http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eli/
Dr. Mario GerlaProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer networks: MAC, routing and transport protocols, vehicular communications, peer-to-peer mobile networks, personal-area networks (Bluetooth and zibgee), and underwater sensor networks• Internet transport protocols• Internet path characterization• capacity and bandwidth estimates• analytic and simulation models for network and protcol performance evaluation
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3732F Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596gerla@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4367Fax: 310-825-7578http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/faculty_pages/gerla.html
Dr. Eddie W. KohlerAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• software systems• operating systems• programming languages and systems• computer networks• file systems
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4531C Boelter Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596Kohler@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-5450Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kohler/
Dr. Richard E. KorfProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• artificial intelligence• problem solving• heuristic search
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science Department Box 951596, 4532E Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596Korf@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5383Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~korf/
Dr. Song-Wu LuProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• integrated-service support over heterogeneous networks• Internet and activenet: networking and computing• cryptography• computer networks• dynamic game theory• dynamic systems• neural networks• information economics
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science Department Box 951596, 4731C Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596slu@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-9289Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~slu/
Dr. Rupak MajumdarProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• software systems• open source software
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4531E BoelterLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596rupak@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8127Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rupak/
Dr. Adam W. MeyersonAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer science theory• randomized algorithms• online algorithms• theoretical problems in networks and databases
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3731J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596awm@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0866Fax: 310-825-7578http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~awm
Dr. Todd D. MillsteinAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• software systems• programming and storage• open source software
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4531D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596todd@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5942Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~todd/
Dr. Richard R. MuntzProfessor Emeritus, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• multimedia systems• database systems• data mining
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3277A Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596muntz@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-3546Fax: 310-825-2273http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~muntz/
Dr. Rafail OstrovskyProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise• computer security• cryptography• computer networks• randomization• network protocols• geometric algorithms• data mining
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3732D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596rafail@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5283Fax: 310-825-7578http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/
Dr. Jens PalsbergProfessor, Department Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• compilers• embedded systems• programming languages
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4531K Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596palsberg@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-6320Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/
Dr. D. Stott Parker, Jr.Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• data mining• information modeling• scientific computing• bioinformatics• database and knowledge-based systems
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3532H Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596stott@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-6871, 310-825-1322Fax: 310-794-5056http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~stott/
Dr. Miodrag PotkonjakProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer security• computer-aided design• engineering optimization/operations research• error-correction and fault tolerance
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3532G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596miodrag@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0790Fax: 310-794-5056http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~miodrag/
Dr. Glenn D. ReinmanAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer system architecture• exploitation of instruction, thread, memory-level parallelism• power-efficient design• hardware, software co-design• multicore and multiprocessor design
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4731G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596reinman@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-9755Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~reinman/
Dr. Amit SahaiProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer networks• cryptography• computer science theory• biometrics• computer security• applied mathematics• artificial intelligence• data structures, databases, search engines
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3731E Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596sahai@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-4982Fax: 310-825-7578http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~sahai/
Dr. Majid SarrafzadehProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer system architecture• embedded systems• VLSI CAD• algorithms• biomedical informatics
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3532C Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596majid@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-4303Fax: 310-794-5056http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~majid/
Mr. David A. SmallbergLecturer PSOE
Area(s) of Expertise• programming languages• software development
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4532G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596das@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-4665Fax: 310-794-5057
Dr. Stefano SoattoProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer vision• shape analysis, motion analysis, texture analysis, 3-D reconstruction, vision-based control• computer graphics: image-based modeling and rendering• medical imaging: registration, segmentation, statistical shape analysis• autonomous/intelligent vehicles: sensor-based control, planning non-linear filtering• human-computer interaction: vision-based interfaces, visibility, visualization• artificial intelligence
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 3531D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596soatto@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4840Fax: 310-794-5056http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~soatto/
Dr. Yuval TamirAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• parallel and distributed systems• dependable/fault-tolerant systems• multiprocessor/multicore architectures• system software and middleware• system-level virtualization• cluster computing• on-chip and off-chip interconnection networks
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science Department Box 951596, 4531J Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596tamir@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2852Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~tamir/
Dr. Demetri TerzopoulosChancellor’s Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer graphics and animation• computer vision• medical image analysis• computer-aided design• artificial life/intelligence
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4531G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596dt@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-6946Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt/
Dr. Jennifer Wortman VaughanAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• machine learning• computational learning theory• algorithmic economics• social computing
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science DepartmentBox 951596, 4532H Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596jenn@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2858Fax: 310-794-5057http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~jenn/
Dr. Alan YuilleProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Statistics, Psychology, Psychiatry,
Area(s) of Expertise• computer vision• computations models of cognition• machine learning
Contact InformationUCLA Statistics DepartmentBOX 951563, 8967 MSBLos Angeles, CA 90095-1563yuille@stat.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-5383Fax: 310-206-5658http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~yuille/
Dr. Carlo A. ZanioloProfessor, Norman E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science
Area(s) of Expertise• data stream management systems• archival systems and temporal DBs• mining databases and data streams• Web information systems and XML• information system evolution• deductive DBs and knowledge bases• nonmonotonic reasoning
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science Department Box 951596, 3532D Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596zaniolo@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8137Fax: 310-794-5056http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~zaniolo/
Dr. Lixia ZhangProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer network• Internet architecture• protocol designs• security and resiliency of large-scale systems
Contact InformationUCLA Computer Science Department Box 951596, 3713 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1596lixia@cs.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2695Fax: 310-825-7578http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/
Dr. Song-Chun ZhuProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Statistics
Area(s) of Expertise• computer vision• statistical modeling and computing• vision and visual arts• machine learning
Contact InformationUCLA StatisticsBOX 951554, 8125 MSBLos Angeles, CA 90095-1554sczhu@stat.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-8693http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~sczhu
Electrical Engineering
Major Research Areas
Circuits and Embedded SystemsAsad AbidiDanijela CabricM.C. Frank ChangBabak DaneshradDeborah EstrinPuneet GuptaLei HeWilliam J. KaiserDejan MarkovicSudhakar PamartiBehzad RazaviVwani RoychowdhuryHenry SamueliMajid SarrafzadehMani B. SrivastavaAlan N. Willson, Jr.Chih-Kong Ken Yang
Physical and Wave ElectronicsRobert N. CandlerM.C. Frank ChangChi On ChuiWarren GrundfestDiana HuffakerTatsuo ItohBahram JalaliChandrashekar JoshiJack W. JudyJia-Ming LiuWarren MoriChristoph NiemannAydogan OzcanC. Kumar PatelYahya Rahmat-SamiiOscar StafsuddKang L. WangYuanxun (Ethan) WangBenjamin WilliamsJason C.S. Woo
Signals and SystemsAbeer AlwanA.V. BalakrishnanPangiotis ChristofidesLara DolecekSuhas N. DiggaviMark HansenAlan LaubJin Hyung LeeStanley OsherGregory J. PottieIzhak RubinRichard D. WeselAli H. SayedStefano SoattoJason SpeyerPaulo TabuadaLieven VandenbergheMihaela van der SchaarJohn D. VillasenorKung YaoAlan N. Willson, Jr.
Dr. Asad AbidiDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• high-performance analog electronics• device modeling
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-122 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594abidi@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-9490Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-abidi.htm
Dr. Abeer AlwanProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• bioacoustics, speech and hearing• biomedical informatics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 66-147G Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594alwan@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2231Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-alwan.htm
Dr. A. V. BalakrishnanDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• control systems• flight systems applications
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147G Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594bal@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2180Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-bal.htm
Dr. Danijela CabricAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• wireless communications system design• cognitive radio networks• VLSI architectures of signal processing and digital communications• performance analysis and experiments on embedded platforms
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 56-147C Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594danijela@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-8856Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-cabric.htm
Dr. Robert N. CandlerAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• MEMS and nanoscale devices• fundamental limitations of sensors• packaging• biological and chemical sensing
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 6731H Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594rcandler@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4161Fax: 310-825-8282http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-candler.htm
Dr. M.C. Frank ChangDistinguished Professor, Department Chair, Wintek Endowed Professor of Electrical Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• high-speed semiconductors devices• integrated circuits for digital, analog, microwave, mm-wave systems• RF/wireless interconnects
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147M Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594mfchang@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-1633Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-chang.htm
Dr. Chi On ChuiAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• devices and technology for nanoelectronics, nanoarchitectronics, and nanotheranostics• semiconductor devices and manufactoring technology• monolithic integration of heterogeneous technology• exploratory nanotechnology
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 6730B Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594chui@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-4786Fax: 310-825-8282http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-chui.htm
Dr. Babak DaneshradProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• digital VLSI circuits• wireless communication systems• high-performance communications• integrated circuits for wireless applications
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6731G Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594babak@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7792Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-daneshrad.htm
Dr. Suhas N. DiggaviProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• information theory, wireless networks• cooperative information flow over wireless networks• network data compression• network secrecy• large-scale data analysis algorithms
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 6731J Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594suhas@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5171Fax: 310-794-1592http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-diggavi.htm
Dr. Lara DolecekAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• information and coding theory• graphical models• statistical algorithms and computational methods with applications to large-scale and complex systems for data processing• communications and storage
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 56-147B Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594dolecek@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2108http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-dolecek.htm
Dr. Puneet GuptaAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• CAD for VLSI design and manufacturing• physical design• manufacturing-aware circuits and layouts• design-aware semiconductor manufacturing• hardware-software interface in presence of hardware variability
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 6730C Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594puneet@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-1376Fax: 310-794-1592http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-gupta.htm
Dr. Lei HeProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• computer-aided design: VLSI circuits and systems• modeling and simulation• programmable logic and reconfigurable computing, embedded and cyber-physical systems for health care, electric vehicle and smart grid
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6731D Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594lhe@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2037Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-he.htm
Dr. Diana HuffakerAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• solid-state nanotechnology• MWIR optoelectronic devices• solar cells• Si photonics• novel materials
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 66-147E Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594huffaker@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-9786Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-huffaker.htm
Dr. Tatsuo ItohDistinguished Professor, Northrop Grumman Chair in Microwave and Millimeter Wave Electronics
Area(s) of Expertise• electromagnetics• guided wave structures• lower-power wireless electronics• integrated passive components and antenna• photonic bandgap structures and meta materials applications• antennas: smart and active integrated• RF technologies for reconfigurable front-ends• sensors and transponders
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 66-147A Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594itoh@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-4820Fax: 310-206-4819http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-itoh.htm
Dr. Bahram JalaliProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• RF photonics• integrated optics• fiber optic integrated circuits
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 68-109 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594jalali@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-9655Fax: 310-206-2239http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-jalali.htm
Dr. Chandrashekhar J. JoshiDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• laser fusion• laser acceleration of particles• nonlinear optics• high-power lasers• plasma physics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 66-147D Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594joshi@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7279Fax: 310-206-8220http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-joshi.htm
Dr. Jack W. JudyProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)• micromachining, microsensors, microactuators, and microsystems• neuroengineering• brain-computer interfaces• biomedical instrumentation• implantable electronic systems• wireless telemetry• neural prostheses
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6731E Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594jjudy@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-1371Fax: 310-861-5055http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-judy.htm
Dr. William J. KaiserProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• biomedical informatics• embedded systems
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147L Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594kaiser@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-3236Fax: 310-825-7928http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-kaiser.htm
Dr. Alan J. LaubDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise• computer-aided design• numerical analysis• condition estimation• computer-aided control system design• high-performance computing• applied mathematics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 44-123B Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594laub@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7221Fax: 310-825-7126http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-laub.htm
Dr. Jin Hyung LeeAssistant Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Radiology
Area(s) of Expertise• advanced imaging techniques for biomedical applications• neurosciences and neural engineering• magnetic resonance imaging• development of novel image contrast strategies• alternate image acquisitions• reconstructions• processing technologies
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 68-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594ljinhy@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-8335http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-lee.htm
Dr. Jia-Ming LiuProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• nonlinear optics• ultrafast optics• laser dynamics and chaos• semiconductor lasers• optoelectronics• photonics• nonlinear and ultrafast processes
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 66-147K Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594liu@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2097Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-liu.htm
Dr. Dejan MarkovicAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• power/area-efficient digital integrated circuits• VLSI architectures for wireless communications• organization methods• supporting CAD flows
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 56-147E Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594dejan@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8656Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-markovic.htm
Dr. Warren B. MoriProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Physics and Astronomy
Area(s) of Expertise• laser and charged particle beam-plasma interactions• advanced accelerator concepts• advanced light sources• laser-fusion• high-energy density science• high-performance computing• plasma physics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951547, 66-127L Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1547mori@physics.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-6709Fax: 310-825-4057http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-mori.htm
Dr. Aydogan OzcanAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• bioimaging• nano-photonics• nonlinear optics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 66-127D Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594ozcan@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0915Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-ozcan.htm
Dr. C. Kumar PatelDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Physics and Astronomy
Area(s) of Expertise• quantum electronics• nonlinear optics• photo-acoustics in gases, liquids, and solids• ultra-low level detection of trace gases• chemical and toxic gas sensors• condensed matter
Contact InformationUCLA Physics and AstronomyBOX 951547, 6-130H Knudsen HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1547patel@physics.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-1613http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-patel.htm
Dr. Gregory J. PottieProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• communications/telecommunications• biomedical informatics• collaborative signal processing
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147G Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594pottie@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8150Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-pottie.htm
Dr. Yahya Rahmat-SamiiDistinguished Professor, Northrop Grumman Professor of Electrical Engineering/Electromagnetics
Area(s) of Expertise• antennas: satellite communications• personal communication antennas including human interaction• antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications• advanced numerical and genetic optimization techniques in electromagnetics• frequency selective surfaces and photonic band gap structures• novel integrated and fractal antennas• near-field antenna measurements and diagnostic techniques• electromagnetics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6731K Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594rahmat@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2275Fax: 310-206-4833http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-rahmat-samii.htm
Dr. Behzad RazaviProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• analog• RF• mixed-signal integrated circuit design• dual-standard RF transceivers• phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers• A/D and D/A converters• high-speed data communication circuits
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147D Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594razavi@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-1633Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-razavi.htm
Dr. Vwani RoychowdhuryProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• communications/telecommunications• quantum computation and information processing• embedded systems• adaptive and learning algorithms• nonparametric methods and algorithms for large-scale information processing• combinatorics and complexity• information theory• biomedical Informatics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6731C Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594vwani@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-4975Fax: 310-794-1592http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-roychowdhury.htm
Dr. Izhak RubinDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• communications/telecommunications• computer networks• multimedia IP networks• UAV/UGV-aided networks• integrated system and network management• C4ISR systems and networks• optical networks• network simulations and analysis
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 58-115 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594rubin@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2326Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-rubin.htm
Dr. Henry SamueliProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• VLSI implementation of signal processing and digital communication systems• high-speed digital integrated circuits• digital filter design
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 58-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594samueli@icsl.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2647http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-samueli.htm
Dr. Ali H. SayedProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• adaptive systems• collaborative signal processing• filtering, estimation, and detection methods• communications/telecommunications• linear system theory• interplays between signal processing and control methodologies• fast algorithms for large-scale problems• applied mathematics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 58-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594sayed@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-2142Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-sayed.htm
Dr. Mani B. SrivastavaProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• wireless networking• embedded computing• embedded systems• sensor networks• mobile and ubiquitous computing• low-power and power-aware systems
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6730E Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594mbs@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-2098Fax: 310-794-1592http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-srivastava.htm
Dr. Oscar M. Stafsudd, Jr.Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• quantum electronics• I.R. lasers and nonlinear optics• solid-state: I.R. detectors
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 58-113 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594stafsudd@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4360http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-stafsudd.htm
Dr. Sudhakar PamartiAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• mixed-signal IC design• signal processing• communications/telecommunications
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6731F Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594spamarti@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2657Fax: 310-267-1954http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-pamarti.htm
Dr. Paulo TabuadaAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• automated design• mathematical systems theory• geometric non-linear control• embedded systems• control systems
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBOX 951594, 66-147F Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594tabuada@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-4266Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-tabuada.htm
Dr. Mihaela van der SchaarProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• complexity theory• multimedia networking• multimedia communications• multimedia architectures• enterprise multimedia streaming• mobile and ubiquitous computing• engineering opitmization/operations research
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 58-109 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095mihaela@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5843http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-van-der-schaar.htm
Dr. Lieven VandenbergheProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• engineering opitimization/operations research
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 68-119 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594vandenbe@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-1259Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-vandenberghe.htm
Dr. John D. VillasenorProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• communications• collaborative signal processing• configurable computing systems• design environments
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147H Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594villa@icsl.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0028, 310-206-3416Fax: 310-825-7928http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-villasenor.htm
Dr. Yuanxun Ethan WangAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• smart antennas• RF and microwave power amplifiers• numerical techniques• DSP techniques for microwave systems• phased arrays• wireless and radar systems• electromagnetics
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147K Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594ywang@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5670, 310-206-4304Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-ethan-wang.htm
Dr. Kang L. WangDistinguished Professor, Raytheon Company Professor of Electrical Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• nanoelectronics and nanoarchitectures• spintronics and nanomagnetics• Nanoscale science, devices and quantum systems• non-volatile electronics and low dissipation devices• molecular beam epitaxy• optoelectronics and solar cells
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 66-147C Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594wang@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-1609, 310-825-7626Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-kang-wang.htm
Dr. Richard D. WeselProfessor, Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs
Area(s) of Expertise• communications/telecommunications• turbo codes• trellis codes• joint algorithms for distributed communication and detection• error-correction and fault tolerance
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 6730A & 6426 (Dean’s Office) Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594wesel@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-2150, 310-825-2214Fax: 310-794-1592http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-wesel.htm
Dr. Benjamin WilliamsAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• development of terahertz quantum cascade lasers
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 68-117 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594bwilliam@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-6961, 310-206-4304Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-williams.htm
Dr. Alan N. Willson, Jr.Distinguished Professor, Charles P. Reames Chair in Electrical Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• theory and applications of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations• digital filter design• nonlinear circuit theory
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 66-147H Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594willson@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7400, 310-206-4304Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-willson.htm
Dr. Jason C. WooProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• solid state electronics• CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization• novel device design• modeling of integrated circuits• VLSI fabrication
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147J Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594woo@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-3279, 310-794-4077Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-woo.htm
Dr. Chih-Kong Ken YangProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• high performance VLSI design• digital and mixed-signal circuit design
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 56-147A Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594yang@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-3665, 310-825-7412Fax: 310-206-8495http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-yang.htm
Dr. Kung YaoDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• communications/telecommunications• collaborative signal processing• sensor system• wireless communication systems• VLSI and systolic algorithms
Contact InformationUCLA Electrical Engineering DepartmentBox 951594, 68-113 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1594yao@ee.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8885, 310-206-4304Fax: 310-206-4685http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-yao.htm
Materials Science and Engineering
Major Research Areas
Ceramics and Ceramic ProcessingBruce DunnMark Goorsky
Electrical and Optical MaterialsGregory P. CarmanJane P. ChangYong ChenBruce DunnMark GoorskyYu HuangVidvuds OzolinsQibing PeiKing-Ning TuKang WangYa-Hong XieYang Yang
Structural MaterialsRussel CaflischJane P. ChangYong ChenNasr GhoniemRobert HicksIoanna KakoulliRichard KanerSuneel KodambakaVidvuds OzolinsDwight StreitBenjamin WuJenn-Ming Yang
Dr. Russel E. CaflischDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise• theory and simulation for materials physics• epitaxial growth• nanoscale systems• semiconductor device properties and design applications to quantum well devices• quantum dots• nanocrystals and quantum computing
Contact InformationUCLA MathematicsBox 957121, 460 Portola Plaza 1158A Los Angeles, CA 90095-7121caflisch@ipam.ucla.eduPhone: 310-983-3297Fax: 310-825-4756http://www.math.ucla.edu/~caflisch/
Dr. Bruce S. DunnDistinguished Professor, Nippon Sheet Glass Company Chair in Materials Science
Area(s) of Expertise• solid electrolytes• electrical properties of ceramics and glasses• ceramics• electronic and optical materials• batteries• electrochemical materials
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBox 951595, 3121B Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595bdunn@ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-1519, 310-825-5534Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/dunn
Dr. Mark S. GoorskyProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• electronic and optical materials• epitaxial semiconductor and device structures• ceramics• materials integration and wafer bonding
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBOX 951595, 3121G Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595goorsky@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-0267Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/goorsky
Dr. Yu HuangAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• nanomaterial fabrication and development• bio-nano structures• Biosystems
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBOX 951595, 2121E Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595yhuang@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-9589Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/huang
Dr. Ioanna KakoulliAssociate Professor
Other Affiliation(s)UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Area(s) of Expertise• chemical and physical properties of non-metallic archaeological materials• alteration processes in archaeological vitreous materials and pigments• art conservation• paleoforensics
Contact InformationUCLA/Getty Conservation ProgramBox 951510, A410 FowlerLos Angeles, CA 90095kakoulli@ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-4915Fax: 310-206-4723http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/kakoulli
Dr. Richard B. KanerProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Chemistry and Biochemistry
Area(s) of Expertise• rapid synthesis of high-temperature materials• conducting polymers as separation membranes for enantiomers• synthesis of carbon nanoscrolls and composites
Contact InformationUCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department BOX 951569, 2515 Mol Sci BldgLos Angeles, CA 90095-1569rbk@chem.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5346, 310-206-8393http://faculty.chemistry.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=113194
Dr. Suneel KodambakaAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• in situ microscopy• surface thermodynamics• kinetics of crystal growth• phase transformation and chemical reactions• thin film physics
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBOX 951595, 3121J Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595kodambaka@ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-8174Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/kodambaka
Dr. Vidvuds OzolinsProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• energy storage materials (hydrogen storage, batteries, supercapacitors)• phase diagrams of semiconductors, ceramics and metallic alloys• thermoelectrics• nuclear materials and nuclear fuels
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBOX 951595, 3121E Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595vidvuds@ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-5538Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/ozolins
Dr. Qibing PeiProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• electroactive polymers and composites through molecular synthesis and nano-engineering• artificial muscles• flexible and organic electronics
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBOX 959515, 3121H Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595qpei@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4217Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/pei
Dr. Dwight C. StreitDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Electrical Engineering, Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA)
Area(s) of Expertise• advanced semiconductors• microelectronics• radar• communication and satellite payload electronics
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBOX 959515, 2121D Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595streit@ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7011Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ita.ucla.edu/people/directors/dwight-streit
Dr. King-Ning TuDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• electronic materials• metal-silicon interfaces• electromigration• Pb-free interconnects
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering DepartmentBOX 959515, 3121D Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-9515kntu@ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-4838Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/tu
Dr. Ya-Hong XieProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• graphene growths and device applications• GaN epitaxy for solid state lighting and solar cell applications• epitaxial semiconductor hetero-structures and strained Si for quantum transport research• electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices• nanofabrication and devices
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department BOX 951595, 3121F Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595yhx@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2971Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/xie
Dr. Jenn-Ming YangProfessor, Department Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• aerospace structural materials• materials for infrastructure• nanostructured materials and nanomechanical testing• electronic packaging
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department BOX 951595, 2127 (Chair’s Office) & 3121C Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595jyang@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2758Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/yangjm
Dr. Yang YangProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• polymer LEDs• solar cells• conjugated polymers and organics• transistors• memory devices• energy and the environment
Contact InformationUCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department BOX 951595, 2121C Engineering VLos Angeles, CA 90095-1595yy@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4052Fax: 310-206-7353http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/yangyang
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Major Research Areas
DynamicsOddvar BendiksenSteven GibsonDaniel Yang
Fluid MechanicsJeff EldredgeAnn R. KaragozianH. Pirouz KavehpourJ. John KimOwen SmithRichard WirzXiaolin Zhong
Heat and Mass TransferMohamed AbdouIvan CattonVijay K. DhirYongho Sungtaek JuH. Pirouz KavehpourAdrienne LavineAnthony MillsLaurent Pilon
Manufacturing and DesignMohamed AbdouGregory P. CarmanRajit GadhNasr GhoniemYongho Sungtaek JuTsu-Chin TsaoDaniel Yang
MEMS and NanotechnologyGregory P. CarmanYong ChenEric Pei-Yu ChiouVijay GuptaChih-Ming HoYongho Sungtaek JuH. Pirouz KavehpourChang-Jin KimLaurent Pilon
Structural and Solid MechanicsOddvar BendiksenGregory P. CarmanNasr GhoniemVijay GuptaWilliam KlugChristopher LynchAjit Mal
Systems and ControlSteven GibsonTetsuya IwasakiRobert M’CloskeyJason SpeyerTsu-Chin Tsao
Dr. Mohamed AbdouDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• fusion• thermal hydraulics• fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer in the presence of magnetic fields• neutronics• radiation transport• plasma-material interactions• energy• experiments, modeling, and analysis
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentFusion Science & Technology CenterBox 951597, 44-114 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597abdou@fusion.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-0501Fax: 310-825-2599http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/mohamed-abdouhttp://www.fusion.ucla.eduhttp://cestar.ucla.edu
Dr. Oddvar O. BendiksenProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• classical and computational aeroelasticity• structural dynamics• unsteady aerodynamics• aerospace materials and structures
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597oddvar@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5453Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/oddvar-bendiksen
Dr. Gregory P. CarmanProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• electromagnetoelasticity models• fatigue characterization of piezoelectric ceramics• magnetostrictive composites• ferromagnetic shape memory alloys• fiber-optic sensors• magnetoelectric laminates• biomedical vascular devices
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597carman@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-6030, 310-825-2591Fax: 310-206-2302http://aml.seas.ucla.edu
Dr. Ivan CattonDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• fluid-structural mechanics• transport phenomena in porous media• nucleonics heat transfer and thermal hydraulics• natural and forced convection• thermal/hydrodynamic stability• turbulence• energy
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597catton@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5320Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/ivan-catton
Dr. Yong ChenProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• nanoscale science and engineering• micro- and nano- fabrication• self-assembly phenomena• microscale and nanoscale electronic• mechanical, optical, biological, and sensing devices• circuits• systems
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597yongchen@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2453Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yong-chen
Dr. Eric P. Y. ChiouAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• BioMEMS• biophotonics• electrokinetics• optical manipulation• optoelectronic devices
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597pychiou@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8620Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/pei-yu-chiou
Dr. Vijay K. DhirDistinguished Professor, Dean of Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Area(s) of Expertise• two-phase heat transfer• energy• thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactors• microgravity heat transfer• soil remediation• high-power density electronic cooling
Contact InformationUCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied ScienceBox 951600, 7400 Boelter HallLos Angeles, CA 90095-1600vdhir@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-8507Fax: 310-206-4061http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/vijay-dhir
Dr. Jeff D. EldredgeAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• fluid mechanics• bio-inspired locomotion in fluids• transition and turbulence of high-speed flows• aerodynamically generated sound• vorticity-based numerical methods• simulations of biomedical flows
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121A Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597eldredge@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5094Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/jeff-eldredgeing
Dr. Rajit GadhProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• mobile Internet• web-based product design• wireless and collaborative engineering• CAD/visualization• smart grid
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 46-147D Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597gadh@winmec.ucla.eduPhone: 310-267-4892http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/rajit-gadh
Dr. Nasr M. GhoniemDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• mechanical behavior of high-temperature materials• radiation interaction with material• material processing by plasma and beam sources• physics and mechanics of material defects• energy• aerospace materials and structures• fusion
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121F Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597ghoniem@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4866Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/nasr-ghoniem
Dr. James S. GibsonProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• control and identification of dynamical systems• optimal and adaptive control of distributed systems• flexible structures and fluid flows• identification, and noise cancellation
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597gibson@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-9362http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/steve-gibson
Dr. Vijay GuptaProfessor
Other Affiliation(s)Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• experimental mechanics• fracture of engineering solids• mechanics of thin film and interfaces• failure mechanisms and characterization of composite materials• ice mechanics• aerospace materials and structures
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597vgupta@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0223Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/vijay-gupta
Dr. Chih-Ming HoDistinguished Professor, Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Chair in Aeronautics
Other Affiliation(s)Bioengineering
Area(s) of Expertise• molecular fluidic phenomena• microelectrical mechanical systems• bio-nanotechnology• biomedical instrumentation• control of cellular and complex systems• rapid search of combinatorial medicine
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597chihming@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-9993Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/chih-ming-ho
Dr. Tetsuya IwasakiProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• dynamical systems• robust and optimal controls• nonlinear oscillators• resonance entrainment• modeling and analysis of neurocircuits for animal locomotion• central pattern generators• body-fluid interaction during undulatory and oscillatory swimming
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBOX 951597, 37-144 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597iwasaki@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2533Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/tetsuya-iwasaki
Dr. Yongho Sungtaek JuAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• heat transfer• thermodynamics• microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems• magnetism• biosensors• aerospace materials and structures• energy and the environment
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137K Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597just@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0985Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/y-sungtaek-ju
Dr. Ann R. KaragozianProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• combustion• defense science• energy• fluid mechanics• propulsion systems
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 46-147K Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597ark@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5653Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/ann-karagozian
Dr. H. Pirouz KavehpourAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• fluid mechanics• transport phenomena in biological systems• physics of contact line phenomena• complex fluid• non-isothermal flows• micro- and nano- heat guides• biomechanics• biomedical instrumentation
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597pirouz@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-6494Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/pirouz-kavehpour
Dr. J. John KimDistinguished Professor, Rockwell Collins Chair in Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise• turbulence• numerical simulation of turbulent and transitional flows• flow control• numerical analysis• large-scale scientific computations
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 46-147J Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597jkim@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-4393Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/john-kim
Dr. Chang-Jin KimProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• Microelectromechanical systems• micro/nano fabrication technologies, structures, actuators, devices, and systems• microfluidics involving surface tension
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597cjkim@ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-0267Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/chang-jin-kim
Dr. William S. KlugAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• modeling of DNA• engineering modeling of proteins• simulation of traumatic head injury• biomechanics• finite element analysis
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597Klug@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-7347Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/william-klug
Dr. Adrienne G. LavineProfessor, Department Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• heat transfer: thermomechanical behavior of shape memory alloys• thermal aspects of manufacturing processes,• natural and mixed convection
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137F Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597lavine@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7468Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/adrienne-lavine
Dr. Kuo-Nan LiouDistinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise• atmospheric radiative transfer• clouds and aerosols
Contact InformationUCLA Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences DepartmentBOX 951565, 7163 MSBLos Angeles, CA 90095-1565knliou@atmos.ucla.eduPhone: 310-794-9832Fax: 310-794-9796http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~liougst/
Dr. Christopher LynchProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• field coupled materials• constitutive behavior• thermo-electro-mechanical properties• sensor and actuator applications• fracture mechanics and failure analysis
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBOX 951597, 37-146 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597cslynch@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-7660Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/christopher-s-lynch
Dr. Ajit K. MalDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• mechanics of solids, fractures, and failure• wave propagation• nondestructive evaluation• composite materials• aerospace materials and structures• biomechanics
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597ajit@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5481Fax: 310-794-6830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/ajit-mal
Dr. Robert T. M’CloskeyProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• nonlinear control theory• design with application to mechanical and aerospace systems• real-time implementation
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597rtm@obsidian.seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2909Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/robert-mcloskey
Dr. Anthony F. MillsProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• convection heat and mass transfer• condensation heat transfer• turbulent flows• ablation and transpiration cooling• perforated plate heat exchanges
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597amills@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-3583Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/anthony-mills
Dr. Laurent PilonAssociate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• radiation transfer• biomedical engineering• energy and the environment• nanomaterials• waste heat harvesting• interfacial and transport phenomena• foams
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 37-132 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597pilon@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-5598Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/laurent-pilon
Dr. Owen I. SmithProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• combustion and combustion-generated air pollutants• hydrodynamics and chemical kinetics of combustion systems• semiconductor chemical vapor deposition• energy• fluid mechanics
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 37-140 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597osmith@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2125Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/owen-smith
Dr. Jason L. SpeyerDistinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems• guidance• flight control• flight mechanics
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137O Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597speyer@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-4451Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/jason-speyer
Dr. Tsu-Chin TsaoProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• modeling and control of dynamics systems with applications in mechanical systems• manufacturing processes• automotive systems• energy systems• digital control• repetitive and learning control• adaptive and optimal control• mechatronics
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 38-137L Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597ttsao@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-2819Fax: 310-206-2302http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/tsu-chin-tsao
Dr. Richard WirzAssistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise• space and plasma propulsion• partially ionized plasma discharges• behavior of miniature plasma devices• spacecraft and space missions design• wind energy• solar thermal energy
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBOX 951597, 46-147B Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597wirz@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-5489Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/richard-wirz
Dr. Daniel C. YangProfessor
Area(s) of Expertise• robotics and mechanisms• CAD/CAM systems• computer-controlled machines
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597dyang@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-206-8066Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/daniel-yang
Dr. Xiaolin ZhongProfessor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise• computational fluid dynamics• hypersonic flow• high-order methods for high-speed flow simulation• numerical simulation of transient hypersonic flow with nonequilibrium real gas effects• instability and transition of hypersonic boundary layers• fluid mechanics
Contact InformationUCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering DepartmentBox 951597, 48-121 Engineering IVLos Angeles, CA 90095-1597xiaolin@seas.ucla.eduPhone: 310-825-2905Fax: 310-206-4830http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/xiaolin-zhong
Major Cross-Disciplinary Research Areas
Renewable EnergyMohamed AbdouIvan CattonJane P. ChangPanagiotis D. ChristofidesVijay K. DhirBruce DunnRajit GadhNasr GhoniemYu HuangDiana HuffakerYongho Sungtaek JuAnn R. KaragozianJames LiaoYunfeng LuVasilios ManousiouthakisVidvuds OzolinsLaurent PilonSelim SenkanOwen I. SmithRichard WirzYang Yang
Healthcare TechnologiesDenise AberleAbeer AlwanGregory P. CarmanEric Pei-Yu ChiouPanagiotis ChristofidesJason CongTimothy J. DemingDino Di CarloJoseph DiStefano IIIJames DunnJeff D. EldredgeEleazar EskinPetros FaloutsosWarren GrundfestChih-Ming HoEric HoekLouis IgnarroJack W. JudyWilliam J. KaiserDaniel KameiAndrea KaskoH. Pirouz KavehpourWilliam KlugJin Hyung Lee
Major Cross-Disciplinary Research Areas
Harold MonbouquetteAydogan OzcanGregory J. PottieVwani RoychowdhuryMajid SarrafzadehJacob SchmidtTatiana SeguraYi TangDemetri TerzopoulosGerard WongBenjamin Wu
WaterYoram CohenPanagiotis D. ChristofidesEric HoekTerri S. HogueJennifer A. JayShaily MahendraSteven A. MargulisMichael StenstromKeith StolzenbachGerard WongWilliam W. G. Yeh
Wireless Sensing and NetworkingDanijela CabricBabak DaneshradSuhas DiggaviDeborah EstrinRajit GadhMario GerlaJack W. JudyWilliam J. KaiserSongwu LuDejan MarkovicGregory J. PottieYahya Rahmat-SamiiIzhak RubinMani SrivastavaMajid SarrafzadehPaulo TabuadaMihaela van der SchaarYuanxun Ethan WangKung Yao
CybersecuritySuhas DiggaviSong-Wu LuRafail OstrovskyMiodrag PotkonjakAmit SahaiJohn VillasenorLixia Zhang
Nanoelectronics, Nanoelectronics Materials and Physical Processes
Robert CandlerJane P. ChangChi On ChuiJason CongBruce DunnYu HuangRichard KanerSuneel KodambakaDejan MarkovicVwani RoychowdhuryDwight StreitKang L. WangBenjamin WilliamsYa-Hong Xie
Sustainable InfrastructureYoram CohenEric HoekDiana HuffakerYongho Sungtaek JuGaurav SantYa-Hong XieJenn-Ming Yang
Public Health, Resource Monitoring and Protection
Deborah EstrinChih-Ming HoTerri S. HogueJennifer JayJack W. JudyKuo-Nan LiouShaily MahendraSteve MargulisAydogan OzcanMichael StenstromKeith Stolzenbach
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