Reed Walker Dept of Economics Haas School of Business environmental economics, public economics, labor economics
Nancy Wallace Haas School of Business housing price indices, real estate price dynamics, mortgage valuation models: prepayment and default, mortgage contract design, mortgage backed security trading and valuation, executive stock option valuation, and energy efficient mortgage underwriting, and climate risk
Rui Wang Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering theoretical polymer, soft materials, electrostatic double layer
David E. Wemmer Dept of Chemistry nuclear magnetic resonance, nucleic acids, biophysical chemistry: proteins, NMR spectroscopy, magnetic resonance methods, structure of proteins and DNA, conformational fluctuations, biopolymers
Hans-Rudolf Wenk Dept of Earth and Planetary Science crystallography, earth & planetary science, structural geology & rock deformation, seismic anisotropy, investigating development of preferred orientation under expreme conditions using neutron diffraction, synchrotron x-rays, & electron microscopy
Gerald Westheimer Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology neurobiology; psychophysics, primate visual cortex, neural circuits, brain mechanisms, response modifications, active perception, learning, stereoscopic vision, optometryoptics of the eye, ophthalmic instrumentation
Noah Whiteman Dept of Integrative Biology Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology adaptation, evolutionary biology, genomics, genetics, toxicology, insect biology, plant biology, microbiology, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Laurie Wilkie Dept of Anthropology anthropology, historical archaeology, oral history, material culture and ethnic identity, family and gender relations; North America, Northern California, Caribbean. Bahamas, African consumerism, creolization, multi-ethnic community
Caroline Williams Dept of Integrative Biology evolution, physiology, ecophysiology, metabolism, insect, winter, adaptation, thermal biology
Ashley Wolf School of Public Health Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions
Winnie Wong Dept of Rhetoric labor and creativity, Modern Art, contemporary art, contemporary art and law, China studies
Jonathan Wurtele Dept of Physics physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments
Lisa Wymore Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies dance, Choreography, Multi-Media Performance, Dance Theater
Omar M. Yaghi Dept of Chemistry Reticular Chemistry, metal-organic frameworks, covalent organic frameworks, Carbon Capture, gas storage systems, water harvesting from desert air.
Katherine A. Yelick Division of Computer Science (EECS) high performance computing, partitioned Global Address Space programming, communication-avoiding algorithms, automatic performance tuning, high performance data analytics, computational biology
Ahmet Yildiz Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology Dept of Physics single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, intracellular transport, microtubules
Nasser Zakariya Dept of Rhetoric science and narrative and documentary, history and philosophy of mathematics and physics
Avideh Zakhor Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS) signal processing, image processing, computer vision, Deep Learning
Dimitrios Zekkos Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering geotechnical engineering; landslides; drones; satellites; earthquakes; natural hazards; infrastructure resilience; informatics, geoenvironmental engineering; landfills
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