Patrick Hsu Dept of Bioengineering generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science
Diliana Angelova Dept of History Dept of History of Art late antique art, Byzantine art, gender, representations of Roman imperial power, the emperor Constantine, the Virgin Mary, Roman art and visual culture, ancient Mediterranean cities, textiles, ivories, mythology in Byzantine art, romantic love in antiquity and the middle ages
Greg Castillo Dept of Architecture Cold war history, California Counterculture, History of Exhibitions, Architectural history, Indigenous Australian art, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership
Zamansele Nsele Dept of History of Art modern & contemporary African diaspora visual art, modern & contemporary African visual art, Black art, Black & African feminisms, critical theories of Blackness, African modernism, theories of nostalgia and melancholia, visual activism
Carlos Fernandez-Pello Dept of Mechanical Engineering fire, combustion, flammability of materials, wildland fire spotting, wildland fire propagation, ignition and fire spread, smoldering and flaming, self heating and ignition, small scale energy generation
Qiang Zhou Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology biochemistry of HIV gene expression, transcriptional elongation, Tat activation, stage of transcriptional elongation, HIV replication, anti-HIV therapy
Ali Kakhbod Haas School of Business financial economics, liquidity, market microstructure, big data, contracts
Abhishek Kaicker Dept of History South Asia, Mughal, early modern, cities, history, Persian, India, politics, Asia
Gašper Beguš Dept of Linguistics computational linguistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Generative AI, Deep Learning, speech processing, NLP, phonology, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, historical linguistics, Indo-European linguistics
Ken Goldberg Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research robotics, art, social media, new media, automation
Shannon Jackson Dept of History of Art Dept of Rhetoric Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies rhetoric, performance studies, American studies, 20th century art movements and critical theory, local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States, history and theory of theatre and performance art
Darian Longmire Dept of Art Practice mixed media, printmaking, Abstraction, Black studies, Black contemporary art
James Grantham Turner Dept of English gender, sexuality, English, 16th-18th century English, Italian and French literature, art and literature, 17th century political writing, landscape and the city, Enlightenment materialism, sexuality in Renaissance Italian art and Antiquity, ecocriticism in literature and art
Michael (Miki) Lustig Division of Computer Science (EECS) Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) medical imaging, MRI, compressed sensing
Pradeep Chhibber Dept of Political Science political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India
Steven Conolly Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) instrumentation, medical imaging reconstruction, contrast, MRI, Magnetic Particle Imaging
Nicholas Dirks Dept of Anthropology Dept of History History and anthropology of South Asia, social and cultural theory, history of imperialism, historiography, cultural studies, globalization
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
Pamela Samuelson School of Law public policy, intellectual property law, new information technologies, traditional legal regimes, information management, copyright, software protection and cyberlaw, AI govenance