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Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

ecohydrology, remote sensing, satellite experiments, stable isotopes, plant biology, surface hydrology, wetlands, methane

Enrique Iglesia

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites

Kristie Boering in her UC Berkeley laboratory with graduate student Katie Mar

Kristie Boering

Dept of Chemistry

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

physical chemistry, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, environmental chemistry, ozone, earth and planetary science, isotopic compositions of atmospheric trace gases, stratospheric ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, molecular hydrogen, methane

Fotini Chow

Dept of Civil and Environmental Engineering

environmental fluid mechanics, wind energy applications, clouds, large-eddy simulation, turbulence modeling, atmospheric boundary layer flow, flow over complex terrain, wildfire smoke transport, methane emissions, urban dispersion modeling, urban air quality

Francesco Borrelli

Francesco Borrelli

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

automotive control systems, distributed and robust constrained control, manufacturing control systems, energy efficient buildings, model predictive control

Christopher E. Dames

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanostructured materials, thermal rectification, graphene, microscale heat transfer, nano scale heat transfer

Bethanie Edwards

Bethanie Edwards

Dept of Earth and Planetary Science

oceanography, chemical oceanography, environmental microbiology, molecular tools for microbial ecology, mass spectrometry, lipidomics, lipid metabolism, marine biogeochemistry, microbial carbon cycling, ocean carbon cycle dynamics

Liwei Lin in lab

Liwei Lin

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

nanotechnology, MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems), design and manufacturing of microsensors, microactuators, development of micromachining processes, silicon surface/bulk micromachining, micromolding process

Michael Frenklach

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

chemical kinetics, computer modeling, uncertainty quantification, combustion chemistry, pollutant formation (carbon black, soot), chemical vapor deposition of diamond films, homogeneous nucleation of silicon, diamond and graphene, diamond powders; interstellar dust formation

Lydia Sohn in lab

Lydia Sohn

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

micro-nano engineering, bioengineering, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, microfluidics and nanofluidics, bioanalytical separations and disease diagnostics, stem cells, cancer

Bethany L. Goldblum

Dept of Nuclear Engineering

applied nuclear physics, neutron detection, scintillation physics, machine learning applications, nuclear weapon policy

Ethan Ligon @ Blue Oak Ranch

Ethan Ligon

Dept of Agricultural & Resource Economics

economics, insurance, agricultural contracts, risk sharing, intra-household allocation, welfare, demand analysis

Ethan H. Shagan

Dept of History

British history, early modern European history, history of religion

Ethan Katz

Dept of History

Jewish history, modern France, empire, Jewish-Muslim relations, secularism

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fluid mechanics, mechanics in computer technology, tribology in hard-disk drives, laser measurement systems, numerical simulations, static and dynamic problems in solid mechanics

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 Auslander

David M. Auslander

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

control systems, simulation, mechatronics, real time software, energy management, satellite attitude control, demand response, machine control

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

Theoretical Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Wave Mechanics, ocean and coastal waves phenomena, ocean renewable energy (wave, Tide and Offshore Wind Energy), Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Fluid Flow Control, ocean renewable energy

Panayiotis Papadopoulos

Panayiotis Papadopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

continuum mechanics, computational mechanics, contact mechanics, computational plasticity, materials modeling, solid mechanics, applied mathematics, dynamics of pseudo-rigid bodies

O'Connell on UC Berkeley's campus

Grace D O'Connell

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

biomechanics, tissue engineering, intervertebral disc, cartilage

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage

Alice M. Agogino

Alice M. Agogino

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

intelligent learning systems, information retrieval and data mining, multiobjective and strategic product design, nonlinear optimization, probabilistic modeling, intelligent control and manufacturing, sensor validation and fusion and diagnostics, wireless sensor networks, multimedia and computer-aided design, design databases, design theory and methods, MEMS Synthesis and CAD, artificial intelligence and decision and expert systems, gender equity

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

geometric and solid modeling, general purpose computation on the GPU (GPGPU), CAD/CAM, computational geometry, computer graphics and visualization, tool path planning, additive manufacturing, computer vision, Deep Learning

Ken Kamrin

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

solid and fluid mechanics, constitutive modeling, computational mechanics, physical applied mathematics

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials