Laura E. Pérez Dept of Ethnic Studies Chicana/Latina feminist & queer literary, visual, performance arts, US women of color thought, decolonial aestetics and decolonial spiritualities
Edward Miguel Dept of Economics Africa, education, development economics, human capital, health, ethnic divisions, social capital, civil conflict, war, pre-analysis plans, water
Eric Paulos Division of Computer Science (EECS) human-computer interaction, new media arts, digital fabrication, epidermal and wearable electronics
Marié Abe Dept of Music sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology
James Porter Dept of Rhetoric Classical Studies, classical reception studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach, Jewish intellectual thought
Neil Tsutsui Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management insect behavior, evolutionary biology, ants, genetics, genomics, Argentine ants, kidnapper ants, chemical ecology, pheromones, urban parks, East Bay Regional Parks
Sara McMains Dept of Mechanical Engineering geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Christine Philliou Dept of History Mediterranean, Modern Greece and Turkey, Middle East, Ottoman Empire political and social history, Turkey and Greece as parts of the post-Ottoman world
Gary Karpen Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology gene expression, cell biology, chromosome structure and function, drosophila melanogaster, centromere identity and function, biophysics, condensed phases
Barbara Romanowicz Dept of Earth and Planetary Science earth & planetary science, deep earth structure & dynamics, earthquake processes & scaling laws, real time estimation of earthquake parameters, development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories, planetary seismology
Steven Weber Dept of Political Science School of Information political science, international security, international political economy, information science
Carl Shapiro Dept of Economics Haas School of Business anti-trust economics, economics of networks and interconnection, design and use of patents, industrial organization economics
Karsten Gronert School of Optometry inflammatory diseases, innate immune responses, lipid mediators, lipidomics, leukocytes, inflammatory resolution, eicosanoids, omega-3 PUFA, Dry Eye, lipxoygenase, cycloooxygenase, resolution pharmacology, neuroprotection, adaptive immunity, glaucoma
Burkhard Militzer Dept of Earth and Planetary Science density functional methods, equation of state calculations, planetary interiors, materials at high pressure, theoretical mineral physics, path integration Monte Carlo, planet formation, quantum Monte Carlo method
Avideh Zakhor Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Avishay Tal Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory(THY), complexity theory, analysis of Boolean functions, randomness in computation, quantum computation
Prasad Raghavendra Division of Computer Science (EECS) theory(THY), optimization, complexity theory, approximation algorithms
Michelle Wilkerson School of Education K-12 math and science education, science education, mathematics education, computing education, design-based research, computers in K-12 education, data literacy, data science education
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury Dept of Sociology political sociology, historical sociology, knowledge production, social theory, colonialism and settler colonialism, citizenship
Dacher Keltner Dept of Psychology culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality
Teresa Head-Gordon Dept of Bioengineering Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Dept of Chemistry Computational chemistry, machine learning, chemical physics, biophysics, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science
Charlan Jeanne Nemeth Dept of Psychology decision making, jury decision making, influence and persuasion, creativity in small groups, managing innovation in organizations, psychology of creative scientists and entrepreneurs, corporate cultures, diversity of team members, brainstorming, psychology and law