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Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

landscape architecture and environmental planning, urban design, urban ecology, surface hydrology, groundwater, sea level rise, climate change, adaptation, environmental justice, adaptation to flooding, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, social justice research, client-based studio teaching, community-based studio teaching

William Dow

Dept of Demography

School of Public Health

health economics, global health, economic demography

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

biosensors, bioelectronics, microfluidics, molecular engineering, analog, RF/mm-wave, mixed-signal circuits, microsystems design, multi-physics, silicon photonics

David Auslander

David M. Auslander

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

control systems, simulation, mechatronics, real time software, energy management, satellite attitude control, demand response, machine control

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Deborah Orel-Bixler

Deborah Orel-Bixler

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, visual abilities in infants, children and special-needs population, visual evoked potentials, vision screening, photorefraction

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

chemicals policy and politics, sustainable food systems, environmental STS, sustainability transitions, sustainability learning and societal change

Ken Light

School of Journalism

journalism, photojournalism, documentary photography

David Kirp

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, law, social policy, higher education policy, politics and policy, primary and secondary education policy, race and ethnicity, early childhood policy

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Dept of Psychology

alcohol and substance use disorder, externalizing, electroencephalogram (EEG), event-related potentials, ecological momentary assessment, behavioral economics, behavioral genetics

Dept of Political Science

Goldman School of Public Policy

civil litigation

Photo Berkeley Library

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

Dept of Statistics

causal inference, health services & policy analysis, biostatistics, discrete optimization

School of Social Welfare

adolescent violence and victimization, polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents, bullying involvement roles and mental health, sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions, impact of family-level microaggressions and microaffirmations on mental health, disability, anti-ableism

Simo Mäkiharju in lab setting

Simo Mäkiharju

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

experimental fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, Cavitation, multiphase flow, drag reduction, ocean renewable energy, particle image velocimetry, Time-Resolved X-Ray Densitometry, Droplet and particle transport

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

environmental and resource economics, remote sensing, climate change, water resources, health effects of air pollution

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

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

physics, condensed matter theory, electron-electron interactions, zero-temperature phase transitions, interaction effects in nanoscale devices, quantum phase transitions

Dept of Philosophy

metaphysics, philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, comparative welfare state analysis, child welfare, evaluation research, family policy, social security

Lee Fleming

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

commercializing breakthroughs, invention, innovation, patents, big data, ethics and technology, leadership

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies