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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Scott L. Stephens

Scott L. Stephens

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

fire, forestry, fire ecology, fire behavior, environmental biology/ecology, forest policy

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Jason Wittenberg

Dept of Political Science

dictatorship, democratic backsliding, ethnic politics, Eastern Europe, religion and politics, voting behavior

Haas School of Business

information dissemination, information cascades on social media, retail investor behavior, decentralized finance

Robert O. Ritchie

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

structural materials, mechanical behavior in biomaterials, creep, fatigue and fracture of advanced metals, intermetallics, ceramics

Dept of Neuroscience

Dept of Psychology

cognitive neuroscience, behavior, cognition, brain, attention, coordination, psychology, motor and perceptual processes in normal and neurologically impaired populations, temporal processing, executive control

Xin Guo

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

stochastic control and games, theory of machine learning and applications to medical and financial data analysis, applied probability and stochastic models

Neil Tsutsui standing in Woo Fai Han Hall with net draped over his back

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

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

atmospheric modeling, exposure monitoring, environmental justice applications, community resilience, climate adaptation and disaster resilience

Michael Crommie

Michael Crommie

Dept of Physics

physics, electronic properties of atomic-scale structures at surfaces, atomic-scale structures, morphology and dynamics of mesoscopic systems, atomic manipulation, visualizing low dimensional electronic behavior

Sanjay Govindjee

Sanjay Govindjee

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

finite element analysis, Theoretical and computational solid mechanics, constitutive theory, micromechanics, polymer mechanics, elastomer modeling, battery modeling, thermomechanics, continuum mechanics, failure analysis

Sylvia Guendelman

Sylvia Guendelman

School of Public Health

public health, maternal & child health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, specialty area in multicultural health

Daniel McFadden

Daniel McFadden

Dept of Economics

latent variable models, choice modeling, econometric modeling, sampling theory, production theory, consumer theory

Brian A. Barsky

Brian A. Barsky

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

School of Optometry

computer science, geometric design and modeling, computer graphics, computer aided cornea modeling and visualization, medical imaging, virtual environments for surgical simulation

George A. Akerlof

George A. Akerlof

Dept of Economics

macroeconomics, monetary theory, behavioral economics, sociology and economics, theory of unemployment, asymetric information, staggered contract theory, money demand, labor market flows, theory of business cycles, economics of social customs, measurement of unemployment, economics of discrimination

Dept of Statistics

statistics, empirical process, high-dimensional modeling, technology in education

Dept of Psychology

learning, decision making, computational modeling, executive functions

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dmitry Taubinsky

Dept of Economics

behavioral economics, tax policy, soda taxes, payday loans, household consumption and portfolio choice, energy policy, health, gambling, state-run lotteries, inflation expectations, nudges

Dept of Statistics

statistics, machine learning, semiparametric models, asymptotic theory, hidden Markov models, applications to molecular biology

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, geophysics, physics, nonlinear dynamics of dissipative systems, bifurcation theory, low-dimensional behavior of continuous systems, the theory of nonlinear waves, pattern formation in fluid systems, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, reaction-diffusion systems

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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

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

Photo of Alex Dimakis

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

generative models

Kameshwar Poolla

Kameshwar Poolla

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

modeling, control, estimation, smart grids, renewable energy, electricity markets, transportation networks, integrated circuit design and manufacturing

Perry de Valpine

Perry de Valpine

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

population ecology, mathematical modeling and statistics

William Collins

William Collins

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate change, uncertainty of extremes, climate modeling, coupled models of the climate system, global climate models, solar and terrestrial radiation