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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Mary K. Firestone

Mary K. Firestone

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

soils, miicrobial biology, environmental science

Emily Ozer

School of Public Health

participatory research, community-engaged research/scholarship, mental health, public health, health and social behavior, clinical and community psychology, adolescent development, school-based health promotion

Dept of Anthropology

disability, Japan, disability studies, queer studies, LGBTQ communities, social cultural anthropology, medical and psychiatric anthropology, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

Daryl C. Chrzan

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

materials science and engineering, computational materials science, metals and metallic compounds, defects in solids, growth of nanostructures

School of Public Health

causal inference, targeted learning, statistical issues in epidemiology, precision medicine and public health

Priya Moorjani standing in front of map of the world

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Human evolutionary genetics, human genetics, ancient DNA, population genetics, statistical genetics

Kannan Ramchandran

Kannan Ramchandran

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

statistical and sparse signal processing, adversarial and distributed machine learning, coded computing, privacy and security, scalable distributed video-on-demand delivery, coding theory, communications, information theory, peer-to-peer networking, blockchains

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

earth & planetary science

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Division of Computer Science (EECS)

data science, machine learning, inequality, Healthcare

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Maya Carrasquillo

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

infrastructure justice, food-energy-water systems, urban water infrastructure, equitable decision-making, environmental justice, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

intellectual property, privacy, copyright, artists' rights, free expression, notice and takedown, free and open source licensing, defensive patent licensing, DMCA, patent, how technical and policy design affect privacy and other social values

Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, biological membranes, active matter, glassy dynamics

Joe Hellerstein

Joseph M. Hellerstein

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computer science, database systems, distributed systems

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

unsupervised language acquisition, efficient algorithms for NLP, linguistically rich models of language, integrating symbolic and statistical methods for NLP, organization of the web, machine translation, information extraction

Richard S. Dodd

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

environmental policy, environmental science, forestry, wildlife, plant biology

Ann Swidler

Dept of Sociology

religion, culture, Africa, AIDS, political sociology, theory, development, NGOs, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, research practice partnership, community-based research partnerships, social justice research

Nilah Ioannidis

Nilah Ioannidis

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

computational biology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, genomics, personal genome interpretation, precision health, rare diseases, statistical genetics, molecular biology, biophysics

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

Sanjam Garg

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

cryptography, cybersecurity, theoretical computer science

Teresa Head-Gordon standing with hands crossed in front

Teresa Head-Gordon

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

Computational chemistry, machine learning, chemical physics, biophysics, biomolecules, materials, catalysis, computational science

Pheng Cheah

Dept of Rhetoric

world literature, human rights, nationalism, legal philosophy, feminism, 18th-20th century continental philosophy & contemporary critical theory, postcolonial theory & anglophone postcolonial literatures, cosmopolitanism & globalization, social & political thought

Adrian Aguilera standing in an office

Adrian Aguilera

Computational Precision Health Program

School of Social Welfare

digital health, depression interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy, health equity, machine learning, implementation science

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

J. Merrill Shanks

J. Merrill Shanks

Dept of Political Science

political science, election behavior, public opinion