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Research Expertise and Interest

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Name

Department

Sanjam Garg

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

cryptography, cybersecurity, theoretical computer science

Thomas Courtade

Thomas Courtade

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

information theory, probability, data compression, communications, computer science

Steven N. Evans

Dept of Mathematics

Dept of Statistics

large random combinatorial structures, random matrices, superprocesses & other measure-valued processes, probability on algebraic structures -particularly local fields, applications of stochastic processes to biodemography, mathematical finance, population genetics, phylogenetics & historical linguistics

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

geotechnical engineering, landslides, drones, satellites, earthquakes, natural hazards, infrastructure resilience, informatics, geoenvironmental engineering, landfills

J. Merrill Shanks

J. Merrill Shanks

Dept of Political Science

political science, election behavior, public opinion

Patrick Hsu in the lab

Patrick Hsu

Dept of Bioengineering

generative biology, language models, virtual cell models, genome mining and editing, synthetic biology, AI agents for science

Dept of Statistics

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

Dept of Statistics

causal inference, machine learning, nonparametric statistics, responsible AI, algorithmic fairness

Costas J. Spanos

Costas J. Spanos

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

integrated circuits, solid-state devices, sensors, semiconductor manufacturing, energy efficiency, smart buildings

Michel Maharbiz

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

neural interfaces, bioMEMS, microsystems, MEMS, microsystems for the life sciences

Ignacio Chapela

Ignacio Chapela

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

agriculture, biotechnology, environmental science, microbial biology, policy and management

Nitash Balsara in his lab

Nitash P. Balsara

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

electrochemical energy conversion, polymer properties, small angle scattering, nanoscale and microscale sciences

David Romps

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

climate, atmosphere, atmospheric science, weather, clouds, fluid dynamics

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

machine learning, data science, artificial intelligence

Elizabeth Purdom

Elizabeth Purdom

Dept of Statistics

computational biology, bioinformatics, statistics, data analysis, sequencing, cancer genomics

Allen Goldstein

Allen Goldstein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

global change, air pollution, environmental science, biogeochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, indoor air quality

Dept of Astronomy

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

radio, planetary science, infrared, observations

Christopher Fletcher

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer architecture & engineering

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

artificial intelligence, machine learning, theoretical computer science, game theory and mechanism design

Cathryn Carson. Credit: Brandon Sánchez Mejia/UC Berkeley

Dept of History

science and society, data science, ethics, artificial intelligence, history of science and technology, history of physics, nuclear waste, intellectual history, interdisciplinarity

David Sedlak standing in pool with sculpture to his right.

David L. Sedlak

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

fate and transport of and transformation of chemicals in the aquatic environment, water reuse and water recycling, urban water infrastructure, engineered treatment wetlands

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, brown fat, thermogenesis, tissue engineering, diabetes, fatty acid transport, fatty acid, stem cells, microphysiological systems, lipid nanoparticles, liver disease

Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal picture

Vinod K. Aggarwal

Dept of Political Science

political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling

Jack Gallant in outdoor setting

Jack L. Gallant

Dept of Neuroscience

computational neuroscience, vision science, attention, fMRI, language, natural scene perception, brain encoding, brain decoding

Scott Moura

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

control systems, optimization, data science, batteries, electric vehicles, energy systems