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J. W. Evans

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

production of materials, particularly fluid flow, reaction kinetics, mass transport, electrochemical, electromagnetic phenomena governing processes for producing materials, metals, storing energy

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

Goldman School of Public Policy

public policy, quantitative methods, environmental policy, public management, arts policy

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

biogeochemistry, iron reduction, metals and contaminants, soil aggregates, selenium kinetics of organic matter degradation, nitrate reduction, soil and environmental biogeophysics, biogeochemical cycles, fate and transport of nutrients, sulfate reduction, wetland soils, littoral sediments, spatial variation in biogeochemical processes

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

Ali Javey sitting in lab with equipment in background

Ali Javey

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

nanotechnology, low power electronics, flexible electronics and sensors, nanofabrication, energy harvesting and conversion, programmable matter

Burgmann teaching EPS116 field trip at Moss Beach

Roland Bürgmann

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

active tectonics, geophysics, geology, earth and planetary science, geomechanics, tectonics, Seismology, structural geology, fault zone processes, crustal deformation, space geodesy, natural hazards, landslides

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

hydrogeology, fluid mechanics, geomorphology, earth & planetary science, geological processes involving fluids, including problems in physical volcanology, geodynamics, dynamics of suspensions, flow & transport in porous materials, percolation theory

Joel Fajans

Dept of Physics

astrophysics, plasma processing, physics, basic plasma physics, non-neutral plasmas, basic plasma physics experiments, pure electron plasma traps, cyrogenic plasmas, plasma bifurcations, basic non-linear dynamics, autoresonance

William (Bill) D. Thompson

Dept of Psychology

cognition, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, learning, Problem solving, Reasoning, decision-making, Bayesian statistics, natural language processing, machine learning, computational modeling, collective decision-making, social networks

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

stochastic systems, service operations, scheduling and load balancing, telecommunications, computer and internet communications

Prof. Iris D. Tommelein in Sutardja Dai Hall

Iris D. Tommelein

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

lean construction, lean production, design management, sustainability, supply-chain management, life-cycle engineering, civil infrastructure systems, adaptive project leadership, engineering project management, megaproject delivery, construction process engineering, integrated project delivery IPD, building information modeling BIM, virtual design and construction VDC

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

Dept of Physics

Atomic-scale synthesis of complex oxide heterostructures, 2D materials, spin-charge coupling, polar and magnetic topologies, electron microscopy, piezoforce microscopy, NV magnetometry, materials processing for devices, energy efficient electronics(12634)

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers

Haas School of Business

sharing economy operations, economics of operations management, social responsibility in operations management, supply chain management, marketing-operations interface

Aila Matanock at work in Berkeley

Dept of Political Science

post-conflict elections, policing, peace processes, civil conflict, foreign intervention, armed actor governance, armed actor social support, counterinsurgency, survey experiments, mixed-method research design, Central America, Colombia, Solomon Islands, West Africa

photographed in front of the blackboard in his office

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu

Dept of Mathematics

operator algebras, free probability theory, random matrices, K-theory of operator algebras, single operator theory

Luyi Yang

Haas School of Business

service operations, economics of queues, Business Model Innovation, Operations-Marketing Interface, digital marketplace, Sustainable Operations

Fai Ma

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

dynamical systems with inherent uncertainties, vibration, damping and hysteresis

School of Social Welfare

civic participation, community based research, visual methods, aging, immigration, Latinx older adults, Black older adults, intersectional life course perspective, systems of oppression, access to healthcare

Sylvia Ratnasamy

Division of Computer Science (EECS)

operating systems & networking

Hiroshi Nikaido

Hiroshi Nikaido

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

membrane biochemistry, bacterial physiology, bacteria, channel-forming proteins of the outer membrane, the diffusion of lipophilic compounds, mechanism and regulation of multidrug efflux transport systems, mycobacterial cell wall

Jose Guajardo - Operations Stills Reference

Haas School of Business

operations strategy, Business Model Innovation, Service Innovation, Sustainable Operations, Business Analytics

Park Sinchaisri

Park Sinchaisri

Haas School of Business

operations management, operations research, machine learning, human-computer interaction, decision-making, behavioral science, behavioral economics, service operations, applied econometrics

Dept of Political Science

American politics, elections, voter behavior, democratic accountability, campaigns