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Abigail De Kosnik Abigail De Kosnik
Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
new media, performance studies, performance theory, performance, media studies, fan studies, digital culture, social networks, film, television, social media, Internet culture, digital humanities, data science, race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality, transnationalism, Filipino American studies, Asian American studies, archives, cultural memory, piracy, distribution
Robert Merges Robert P. Merges
School of Law
antitrust, intellectual property, property rights, patent law, law and economics, copyright law, digital content, online contracts
Masayoshi Tomizuka with two industrial robot arms. Masayoshi Tomizuka
Dept of Mechanical Engineering
robotics, mechatronics, control systems theory, digital control, dynamic systems, mechanical vibrations, adaptive and optimal control, motion control
Photo Vasugi Kailasam
Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies
Tamil studies, film and digital culture, South Asia, South and Southeast Asian studies, cultural studies of Southeast Asia, South Asian Literature and Culture
Lilla Balint Lilla Balint
Dept of German
contemporary German literature and media, theories of the contemporary, aesthetics and politics, transnationalism and translation, digital writing, European Jewish literature, literary and cultural theory, theories of the novel
Simon Schleicher Simon Schleicher
Dept of Architecture
biomimetics, structural engineering, architectural design, 3D printing, 3D scanning, digital fabrication, fabrication, composite structures, finite element analysis, parametric design, bio-inspired structures, robotics manufacturing, robotics
Nicholas Paige Nicholas Paige
Dept of French
17th and 18th century French literature and culture, history and theory of the novel, quantitative literary history and digital humanities, history of aesthetics, cinema (French New Wave)
Timothy Tangherlini Timothy Tangherlini
Dept of Scandinavian
School of Information
folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship
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Dept of Art Practice
art, sculpture, photography, archives, social practice, craft, activism, material culture, ceramics, digital culture, zines, alternative publishing, libraries, museums, museum display, postcolonial studies, Asian American studies, empire, textiles, ethnography, 1904 World's Fair, Filipino and Filipino American studies, whiteness studies, camouflage, DIY culture
Ronald Rael at the U.S. - Mexico Boundary Ronald Rael
Dept of Architecture
Dept of Art Practice
3D printed buildings, additive manufacturing, earth architecture, mud, artificial intelligence, U.S.-Mexico border wall, arid landscapes, ranching, acequias, alipne deserts, ceramics, rural architecture, ruralism, animation, digital modeling, furry buildings, unnatural materials, rasquachetecture
Person placeholder image Kristen Whissel
Dept of Film and Media
Cinema and technological change, cinema and modernity, computer-generated images and contemporary cinema, digital visual effects, stereoscopic 3D cinema and media, the history and theory of special effects, cinema in transition, American film history, modernity and early cinema, cinema and globalization, cinema and the environment/elements
Zachary Pardos Zachary Pardos
School of Education
knowledge representation, adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, Recommender Systems, higher education, data science, Digital Learning Environments, cognitive modeling, Big Data in Education, Knowledge Tracing, Formative Assessment, intelligent tutoring systems, Online Learning, psychometrics, Educational Data Mining
Professor Tackett in China examining a recently excavated ninth-century funerary epitaph. Nicolas Tackett
Dept of History
Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies
James F. O'Brien James O'Brien
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
School of Optometry
computer graphics, fluid dynamics, computer simulation, physically based animation, finite element simulation, human perception, image forensics, video forensics, computer animation, special effects for film, video game technology, motion capture, machine learning, facial animation, artificial intelligence, geometric algorithms, geometric design and modeling
Kris Pister Kristofer Pister
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)
micro robotics, synthetic insects, smart dust
Jacob Gaboury Jacob Gaboury
Dept of Film and Media
media studies, computer graphics, history of technology, Science and Technology studies, queer theory, new media, art and technology
Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall Iris D. Tommelein
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC
Nathaniel Wolfson Nathaniel Wolfson
Dept of Spanish and Portuguese
Brazilian literature and culture, Latin American literature and culture, Latin American Art History, media studies, critical theory, environmental humanities, Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, visual studies
Nicole Starosielski standing in outdoor setting Nicole Starosielski
Dept of Film and Media
communications infrastructure
Lisa Iwamoto Lisa Iwamoto
Dept of Architecture
architecture, design, materials research and fabrication
Richard K Hernandez Richard K. Hernandez
School of Journalism
journalism, new media, Mobile, visual storytelling, virtual reality, film/video production, photojournalism
Glynda Hull Glynda Hull
School of Education
language, culture, society, education, literacy, writing in and out of schools, multi-media technology, new literacies, adult learning, work, community, school, university collaborations
Photo of Professor Marti Hearst in her office on the UC Berkeley campus Marti Hearst
Division of Computer Science (EECS)
School of Information
information visualization, web search, search user interfaces, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, empirical computational linguistics, natural language processing, online education
Headshot of Puck Engman Puck Engman
Dept of History
history of socialism, social revolution, law and state, historical justice, political communication, bureaucratic process
Claudia Ostertag Claudia P. Ostertag
Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering
energy, environmental analysis of civil infrastructure systems, structural engineering, mechanics and materials
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