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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Yoram Rubin

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

risk assessment, hydrogeology, contaminant transport, geostatistics

Mark Stacey

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

coastal climate change and adaptation, interaction between environmental processes and built infrastructure and social systems, local/regional interdependence

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Daniel Stolper in lab setting

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

biogeochemistry, earth history, geobiology, global climate studies, organic geochemistry, stable isotope geochemistry

Walter Hood

Dept of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning

urban design, community development, landscape architecture, environmental planning, landscape design, citizen participation, design of architecture and landscape

William H. Miller

William H. Miller

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, chemical dynamics, quantum mechanical and semiclassical theories, dynamical chemical processes at the molecular level, photodissociation, femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, calculations of rate constants for chemical reactions

Photo of Oliver O'Reilly standing near Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus.

Oliver O'Reilly

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

continuum mechanics, vibrations, dynamics

Dept of Psychology

cognition, human brain function, development

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolutionary biology, phylogenetic methods, plant evolutionary biology

Barbara Romanowicz

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

John D. Kubiatowicz

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer architecture, quantum computer design, internet-scale storage systems and peer-to-peer networking, operating systems & networking, computer security

Stuart Russell in outdoor environment

Stuart J. Russell

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms, machine learning, real-time decision-making, probabilistic reasoning

Ann Keller

School of Public Health

political science, health politics, public policy, public administration, disaster response, expertise in public decision-making

Dept of Psychology

A.I., learning, philosophy, psychology, cognitive development, theory of mind, young children, children's causal knowledge, Bayes Net formalism

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Felix Owusu

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, criminal legal system

Wenbin Lu

Dept of Astronomy

astronomy

Fenyong Liu

School of Public Health

public health, infectious diseases

Streets in his Stanley Hall Laboratory. Photo credit: Michelle Tran

Dept of Bioengineering

bioengineering, computational biology, biophysics, data science, microfluidics, microscopy, genomics

Ting Xu in lab looking at samples

Ting Xu

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

polymer, nanocomposite, biomaterial, membrane, directed self-assembly, drug delivery, protein therapeutics, block copolymers, nanoparticles

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

data mining, integer programming, discrete optimization, network flow techniques, clustering, image segmentation, machine vision, pattern recognition

Professor Lewis: A young smiling woman wearing glasses in a blue, collared shirt.

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Martin P. Head-Gordon

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical chemistry, electronic structure calculations, development of novel theories and algorithms, quantum mechanics

School of Education

mathematical cognition, design-based research, mixed-media design for mathematics learning environments, embodied interaction

Michael Lindsey

Michael J. Lindsey

Dept of Mathematics

applied mathematics, mathematical analysis, probability, numerical analysis, optimization, Monte Carlo methods