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Dept of Art Practice

performance art, video, sculpture, new genres, feminist and queer theory, Latin American and U.S. Chicana/Latino performance

Associate Professor Desiree Fields, smiling, wearing a colorfully patterned blouse in front of grey concrete background.

Dept of Geography

economic geography, urban theory, financialization, digital platforms, property, geographical political economy, housing justice, digital capitalism

Ernesto Dal Bó

Haas School of Business

applied microeconomic theory, political economy, corruption and influence, collective decision-making, coercion, quality of politicians, state capabilities

Dept of African American Studies

20th century African American history, African American women's history, Black feminist theory, black nationalism

Eric A. Stanley

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

critical prison studies, queer/trans social movements, anti-colonial feminism, gentrification, California housing market, critical theory

Rhiannon Noel Welch

Rhiannon Noel Welch

Dept of Italian Studies

Italian literature, film and media, Italian colonialism, critical theories of race and racialization, borders and mobilities, biopolitics, postcolonial and decolonial theory

Dept of African American Studies

African American history, Black feminist theory, carceral studies, disability studies, racial formation in Arabic-speaking communities

Timothy Tangherlini

Timothy Tangherlini

Dept of Scandinavian

School of Information

folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship

Wick Haxton

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, neutrino physics, nuclear astrophysics, tests of symmetries and conservation laws in nuclear and particle and atomic physics, many-body theory, effective theories

Claire Tomlin standing in front of a project of an aerial device

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

electrical engineering, computer sciences, control, biosystems, control theory, intelligent systems, robotics, hybrid and embedded systems, biological cell networks

Professor Xiao-Jun Zhang

Haas School of Business

security valuation, financial statement analysis, accounting theory, corporate disclosure, auditing, international accounting, machine learning and asset pricing

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

Cyber-Physical Systems, embedded software, modeling and design of systems, real-time and concurrent system, theory of current systems

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

Marc A. Rieffel

Marc A. Rieffel

Dept of Mathematics

mathematics, operator algebras, non-commutative geometry, non-commutative harmonic analysis, quantum geometry, quantum information theory

Joel Moore

Dept of Physics

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

Masayoshi Tomizuka with two industrial robot arms.

Masayoshi Tomizuka

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

robotics, mechatronics, control systems theory, digital control, dynamic systems, mechanical vibrations, adaptive and optimal control, motion control

David Steigmann

David J. Steigmann

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

finite elasticity, mechanics, continuum, shell theory, variational methods, stability, surface stress, capillary phenomena, mechanics of thin films

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz

Dept of Sociology

race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Dept of Rhetoric

critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and humanities, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism, anti-colonialism

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, nuclear magnetic resonance, semiconductors, metals, physics, fullerenes, nanotubes, condensed matter theory, surfaces, defects, nanostructure materials, clusters, many-electron effects in solids

Marvin L. Cohen

Marvin L. Cohen

Dept of Physics

nanoscience, semiconductors, nanotechnology, physics, condensed matter physics, new properties of condensed matter systems, superconductivity, applications of BCS theory, superluminal velocities

Dept of Statistics

fragmentation, statistics, mathematics, Brownian motion, distribution theory, path transformations, stochastic processes, local time, excursions, random trees, random partitions, processes of coalescence

School of Education

resilience, risk, culture, teacher wellness, school climate, school violence and school climate, children and adolescents, mental health, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Ian Duncan

Dept of English

English, the novel, British literature 1750-1900, Scottish literature, history and theory of fiction, Scottish enlightenment/romanticism, Scott, literature and the human sciences, Darwin

Christian H. Borgs

Christian Borgs

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

theoretical computer science, probability theory, combinatorics, complex networks, statistical physics, artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in engineering and sciences