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Leti McNeill
Director of Development
lmcneill@support.ucla.edu
Salvador Rivas
Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations
srivas@support.ucla.edu
Bioengineering
Major Research Areas
Biomaterials
James Dunn
Andrea Kasko
Benjamin Wu
Timothy J. Deming
Gerard Wong
Biomedical Devices
Dino Di Carlo
James Dunn
Warren Grundfest
Chih-Ming Ho
Jacob Schmidt
Area(s) of Expertise
• medical and imaging informatics
• imaging-based clinical trials
• lung cancer
• thoracic imaging
Contact Information
UCLA Radiological Sciences
924 Westwood Blvd, Suite 420
Los Angeles, CA 90024
daberle@mednet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-8989
Fax: 310-794-3546
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/joint-faculty/denise-aberle-m.d
http://www.radnet.ucla.edu/radweb/research/faculty/Aberle.jsp
Area(s) of Expertise
• polymer synthesis and processing
• supramolecular materials
• organometallic catalysis
• biomaterials
• polypeptides
• drug delivery
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 5121 Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
demingt@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-4450
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/faculty-no-1
Dr. Dino Di Carlo
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• microfluidics
• biomedical microdevices
• cellular diagnostics
• cell analysis and engineering
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 5121E Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
dicarlo@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-983-3235
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/dino-di-carlo-ph.d
Area(s) of Expertise
• tissue engineering
• stem cell therapy
• regenerative tissue medicine
• biosensors
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 4121J Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
jdunn@mednet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-2746
Fax: 310-206-1120
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/joint-faculty/james-dunn-m.d.-ph.d
Dr. Warren Grundfest
Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Electrical Engineering, Surgery
Area(s) of Expertise
• excimer laser
• minimally invasive surgery
• biological spectroscopy
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 4121H Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
warrenbe@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-5550
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/warren-s.-grundfest-m.d
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 5121J Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
kamei@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-4826
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://kameilab.seas.ucla.edu
Dr. Andrea Kasko
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• polymer synthesis
• biomaterials
• tissue engineering
• cell-material interactions
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 5121H Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
akasko@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-6341
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/andrea-kasko-ph.d
Area(s) of Expertise
• membrane protein engineering
• biomimetic materials and devices
• biophysics at micro and nanoscales
• biomedical instrumentation
• biosensors
• drug delivery and screening
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 5121G Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
schmidt@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4451
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/jacob-j.-schmidt-ph.d
Dr. Gerard Wong
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• antimicrobials
• sociomicrobiology of bacterial communities
• high-resolution diffractive imaging techniques, using synchrotron x-ray and
electron scattering
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 5121D Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
gclwong@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-7684
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/gerard-wong-ph.d
Dr. Benjamin M. Wu
Associate Professor, Vice Chair
Other Affiliation(s)
Materials Science and Engineering, Advanced Prosthodontics, Biomaterials, & Hospital Dentistry
Area(s) of Expertise
• biomechanics
• biomaterials
• cell-material interactions
• materials processing
• tissue engineering
• prosthetic and regenerative dentistry
• biomedical instrumentation
Contact Information
UCLA Department of Bioengineering
BOX 951600, 5121K Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
benwu@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-7094
Fax: 310-794-5956
http://www.bioeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/benjamin-m.-wu-d.d.s.-ph.d
Chemical and
Biomolecular
Engineering
Major Research Areas
Biomolecular Engineering and Systems Biology
Louis Ignarro
James Liao
Harold Monbouquette
Gerassimos Orkoulas
Tatiana Segura
Yi Tang
Semiconductor Manufacturing
Jane P. Chang
Panagiotis Christofides
Robert Hicks
Vasilios Manousiouthakis
Gerassimos Orkoulas
Selim Senkan
Nanoengineering
Jane P. Chang
Yoram Cohen
Panagiotis Christofides
Roberg Hicks
Harold Monbouquette
Gerassimos Orkoulas
Area(s) of Expertise
• surface and interface engineering
• plasma enhanced surface chemistries
• synthesis of multifunctional oxide materials/nanostructures
• semiconductor manufacturing
• energy conversion and storage
• chemical microelectromechanical systems
• computational surface chemistry
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5532D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
jpchang@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-7980
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/Chang/jpchang.html
Area(s) of Expertise
• advanced materials processing
• process modeling
• dynamics and control
• applied mathematics
• desalination and water treatment
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5532F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
pdc@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-1015
Fax: 310-206-1407
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/panagiotis-christofides
Dr. Yoram Cohen
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• desalination and water treatment
• separation processes
• graft polymerization
• surface nanostructuring
• macromolecular dynamics
• pollutant transport and exposure assessment
• environmental monitoring
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5531E Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
yoram@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8766
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yoram-cohen/
Area(s) of Expertise
• smart manufacturing
• information technology
• intelligent systems and decision support
• control operations and design
• management of abnormal situations
• data interpretation and knowledge management
• pattern recognition
Contact Information
UCLA Chancellor’s Office
BOX 951405, 2333 Murphy Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1405
Phone: 310-206-0011
Fax: 310-206-4961
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/james-f-davis/
Dr. Robert F. Hicks
Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise
• fabrication of integrated circuits
• chemical vapor deposition
• atmospheric plasma processing
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5532J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
rhicks@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-6865
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.seas.ucla.edu/prosurf/
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/robert-hicks
Other Affiliation(s)
Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
Area(s) of Expertise
• molecular and medical pharmacology
• regulation and modulation of NO production
Contact Information
UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
BOX 951735, 23-305 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1735
lignarro@mednet.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5159, 310-825-7137
Fax: 310-206-0589
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/louis-j-ignarro
Dr. James C. Liao
Chancellor’s Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• molecular and cellular bioengineering
• biochemical engineering
• metabolic reaction engineering
• reaction path analysis and control
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5531G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
liaoj@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-1656
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/james-c-liao
Dr. Yunfeng Lu
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• Biomimetic materials and devices
• nanotechnology
• energy
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5531G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
luucla@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-7238
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yunfeng-lu
Dr. Vasilios Manousiouthakis
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• Process systems engineering: modeling, simulation, design, optimization, and control
• semiconductor manufacturing
• energy and the environment
• hydrogen economy
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5531 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
vasilios@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-0300
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/vasilios-manousiouthakis
Area(s) of Expertise
• biochemical engineering
• biosensors
• nanotechnology
• liposomes
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5531D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
harold@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8946
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/harold-monbouquette
Dr. Gerassimos Orkoulas
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• molecular and cellular bioengineering
• molecular simulation
• critical phenomena in ionic fluids
• thermodynamics of complex fluids
• process systems engineering
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5532G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
makis@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-0169
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/gerassimos-orkoulas
Area(s) of Expertise
• molecular and cellular bioengineering
• gene therapy
• tissue engineering
• substrate-mediated non-viral DNA delivery
• biomaterials
• biomimetic materials and devices
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5532C Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
tatiana.segura@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-3980
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/tatiana-segura
Dr. Selim Senkan
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• semiconductor manufacturing
• reaction engineering
• combinatorial catalysis
• combustion
• laser photoionization
• real time detection
• quantum chemistry
• energy and the environment
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5532B Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
senkan@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-4106
Fax: 310-267-0177
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/selim-senkan
Dr. Yi Tang
Chancellor’s Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• molecular and cellular bioengineering
• biosynthesis of proteins/polypeptides with unnatural amino acids
• synthesis of novel antibiotics/antitumor products
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
Box 951592, 5531 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1592
yitang@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0375
Fax: 310-206-4107
http://www.chemeng.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yi-tang
Civil and
Environmental
Engineering
Major Research Areas
Structural Engineering and Mechanics
Jiun-Shyan (JS) Chen
Jiann-Wen Woody Ju
Gaurav Sant
Ertugrul Taciroglu
John W. Wallace
Jian Zhang
Geotechnical Engineering
Scott J. Brandenberg
Jonathan P. Stewart
Mladen Vucetic
Environmental Engineering
Eric M.V. Hoek
Jennifer A. Jay
Shaily Mahendra
Michael K. Stenstrom
Keith D. Stolzenbach
Area(s) of Expertise
• earthquake engineering
• soil-structure interaction
• liquefaction
• data acquisition and processing
• numerical analysis
• foundation problems for buildings and bridges
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
sjbrandenberg@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-9819
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/brandenberg
Other Affiliation(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise
• structural engineering and mechanics
• computational mechanics: finite element and meshfree methods
• large deformation mechanics
• inelasticity
• biomechanics
• structural dynamics
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5713 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
jschen@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-4620
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/jschen
Dr. Eric Hoek
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• water treatment
• wastewater treatment
• membrane technology
• desalination
• nanotechnology
• oil/water separations
• bioseparations
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5732G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
emvhoek@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-3735
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/hoek
Area(s) of Expertise
• hydrology and water resources
• surface hydrology
• hydroclimatology
• rainfall-runoff modeling
• operational flood forecasting
• parameter estimation
• model optimization techniques
• sensitivity analysis
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
thogue@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-4239
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/hogue
Dr. Jennifer Jay
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• environmental engineering
• aquatic chemistry
• environmental microbiology
• contaminant transport monitoring
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5732H Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
jjay@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-5365
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/jay
Area(s) of Expertise
• computational mechanics and finite element simulations
• biomechanics
• mechanics of composite materials
• earthquake engineering
• micro- and nanomechanics
• cement and concrete, construction defects
• damage mechanics and fracture mechanics
• bioengineering
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731K Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
juj@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-1751
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/ju
Dr. Shaily Mahendra
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• environmental microbiology
• biodegradation of groundwater contaminants
• microbial-nanomaterial interactions
• nanotoxicology
• applications of molecular biological and isotopic tools in environmental engineering
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5732C Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
mahendra@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-9850
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/mahendra
Area(s) of Expertise
• hydrology and water resources
• surface hydrology
• hydrometeorology
• remote sensing
• data assimilation
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5732D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
margulis@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-5490
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/margulis
Dr. Gaurav Sant
Assistant Professor, Edward K. and Linda Rice Term Chair in Cementitious Materials
Area(s) of Expertise
• fundamental constituent chemistry-microstructure-engineering property relationship for
cementitious materials
• geochemical simulation
• thermodynamics of solid-liquid-vapor interfaces
• organic polymer development for service-life extension of infrastructure materials
• carbon footprint mininmization and sequestration in infrastructure materials
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
gsant@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-3084
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/sant/profile
Other Affiliation(s)
Policy Studies
Area(s) of Expertise
• environmental engineering
• process development and control for water and wastewater treatment plants
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5714 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
stentsro@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-1408
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/stenstrom
Dr. Jonathan P. Stewart
Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• geotechnical engineering
• earthquake engineering
• engineering seismology
• embankment problems: dams, levees, compacted fills
• soil - structure interaction
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
jstewart@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2990
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/stewart
Area(s) of Expertise
• environmental engineering
• environmental fluids mechanics
• fat and transport of pollutants
• dynamics of particles
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5732J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
stolzenb@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-7624
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/stolzenbach
Dr. Ertugrul Taciroglu
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computational structural and solid mechanics
• structural dynamics
• system identification and health monitoring
• soil-structure interaction
• finite element and meshfree methods
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731E Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
etacir@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-4655
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/taciroglu
Area(s) of Expertise
• geotechnical engineering
• soil dynamics
• earthquake ground shaking
• experimental studies of static and cyclic soil properties
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5750 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
vucetic@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-6260
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/vucetic
Dr. John W. Wallace
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• structural engineering and mechanics
• earthquake engineering
• design methodologies
• seismic evaluation and retrofit
• large-scale testing laboratory and field testing
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731C Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
wallace@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-7124
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/wallace
Area(s) of Expertise
• hydrology and water resources
• optimization of water resources systems
Contact Information
UCLA Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5732B Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
williamy@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2300
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/yeh
Dr. Jian Zhang
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• structural engineering and mechanics
• earthquake engineering
• structural dynamics and mechanics
• seismic protective devices and strategies
• soil-structure interaction
• bridge engineering
Contact Information
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Box 951593, 5731G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593
zhangj@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7986
Fax: 310-206-2222
http://www.cee.ucla.edu/faculty/zhang
Computer Science
Major Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence Software Systems
Adnan Darwiche Paul Eggert
Richard Korf Eddie Kohler
Michael Dyer Todd Millstein
Demetri Terzopoulos Rupak Majumdar
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan Jens Palsberg
David Smallberg
Computer System Architecture and
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Computer Science Theory
Jason Cong Elizer Gafni
Milos Ercegovac Adam Meyerson
Miodrag Potkonjak Rafail Ostrovsky
Glenn Reinman Amit Sahai
Majid Saraffzadeh
Yuval Tamir
Network Systems
Deborah Estrin
Mario Gerla
Songwu Lu
Peter Reiher
Mani B. Srivastava
Lixia Zhang
Dr. Alfonso F. Cardenas
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• information and data management
• database management
• distributed heterogeneous and multimedia systems
• informational systems
• planning and development methodologies
• software engineering
• medical informatics
• legal and intellectual property issues
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3732E Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
cardenas@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7550
Fax: 310-825-2273
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~cardenas/
Area(s) of Expertise
• information and data management
• databases/search engines
• web technologies
• information discovery and integration
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3532J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
cho@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-571-8240
Fax: 360-488-0606
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~cho
Dr. Jason Cong
Chancellor’s Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer system architecture
• electronic design automation
• fault-tolerant design of VLSI systems
• design and analysis of algorithms
• computer-aided design
• reconfigurable computing
• design for nano-technologies
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4711 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
cong@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2775
Fax: 310-825-2273
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/faculty_pages/cong.html
Area(s) of Expertise
• knowledge representation and automated reasoning (symbolic and probabilistic)
• applications to diagnosis, prediction, planning, and verification
• artificial intelligence
• biomedical informatics
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4532D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
darwiche@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5201
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~darwiche/
Dr. Joseph J. Distefano III
Distinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Computational & Systems Biology Interdepartmental Programs
Area(s) of Expertise
• dynamic systems biology modeling and simulation
• clinical therapy and experiment design optimization methodologies
• pharmacokinetic (PK), pharmacodynamic (PD), and physiologically-based PBPK, PBPK and PBTK
(toxicokinetic) modeling
• knowledge-based systems and Internet-based software for life science research and patient
education
• biocontrol systems
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4711 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
joed@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7482
Fax: 310-825-2773
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/faculty_pages/distefano.html
http://www.biocyb.cs.ucla.edu/
Area(s) of Expertise
• artificial intelligence
• natural language processing
• connectionist
• cognitive and animated-based modeling
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4532F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
dyer@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4033, 310-206-6674
Fax: 310-825-2773
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dyer/
Dr. Paul R. Eggert
Lecturer PSOE
Area(s) of Expertise
• software systems
• programming languages
• operating systems principles
• compilers
• Internet
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
BOX 951596, 4532J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-2254
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer system architecture
• digital computer arithmetic
• digital design
• low-power systems
• reconfigurable systems
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4731H Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
milos@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5414
Fax: 310-825-2273
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~milos/
Dr. Eleazar Eskin
Associate Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Human Genetics
Area(s) of Expertise
• bioinformatics
• genetics
• genomics
• machine learning
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3532J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
eeskin@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-594-5112, 310-206-4490
Fax: 310-825-2273
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eeskin/
Other Affiliation(s)
Electrical Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise
• mobile technologies and applications
• environmental sensing systems
• Internet protocols and architecture
• open systems
• multidisciplinary research
• science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and diversity
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3531H Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
destrin@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-3923
Fax: 310-206-3053
http://www.cens.ucla.edu/portal/people/estrin.html
Dr. Petros Faloutsos
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer graphics and animation
• medical simulation and visualization
• automatic assessment of surgical skills
• remote surgical technologies for training and tele-surgery
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4531F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
pfal@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2393
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~pfal/
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer science theory
• networks
• mathematical programming algorithms
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3731F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
eli@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-3211
Fax: 310-825-2273
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eli/
Dr. Mario Gerla
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer networks: MAC, routing and transport protocols, vehicular communications, peer-to-peer
mobile networks, personal-area networks (Bluetooth and zibgee), and underwater sensor networks
• Internet transport protocols
• Internet path characterization
• capacity and bandwidth estimates
• analytic and simulation models for network and protcol performance evaluation
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3732F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
gerla@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4367
Fax: 310-825-7578
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/people/faculty_pages/gerla.html
Area(s) of Expertise
• software systems
• operating systems
• programming languages and systems
• computer networks
• file systems
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4531C Boelter
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
Kohler@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-5450
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~kohler/
Dr. Richard E. Korf
Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• artificial intelligence
• problem solving
• heuristic search
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4532E Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
Korf@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5383
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~korf/
Dr. Song-Wu Lu
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• integrated-service support over heterogeneous networks
• Internet and activenet: networking and computing
• cryptography
• computer networks
• dynamic game theory
• dynamic systems
• neural networks
• information economics
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4731C Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
slu@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-9289
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~slu/
Dr. Rupak Majumdar
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• software systems
• open source software
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4531E Boelter
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
rupak@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8127
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rupak/
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer science theory
• randomized algorithms
• online algorithms
• theoretical problems in networks and databases
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3731J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
awm@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0866
Fax: 310-825-7578
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~awm
Dr. Todd D. Millstein
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• software systems
• programming and storage
• open source software
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4531D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
todd@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5942
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~todd/
Area(s) of Expertise
• multimedia systems
• database systems
• data mining
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3277A Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
muntz@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-3546
Fax: 310-825-2273
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~muntz/
Dr. Rafail Ostrovsky
Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer security
• cryptography
• computer networks
• randomization
• network protocols
• geometric algorithms
• data mining
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3732D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
rafail@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5283
Fax: 310-825-7578
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rafail/
Area(s) of Expertise
• compilers
• embedded systems
• programming languages
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4531K Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
palsberg@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-6320
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/
Dr. D. Stott Parker, Jr.
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• data mining
• information modeling
• scientific computing
• bioinformatics
• database and knowledge-based systems
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3532H Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
stott@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-6871, 310-825-1322
Fax: 310-794-5056
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~stott/
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer security
• computer-aided design
• engineering optimization/operations research
• error-correction and fault tolerance
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3532G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
miodrag@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0790
Fax: 310-794-5056
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~miodrag/
Dr. Glenn D. Reinman
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer system architecture
• exploitation of instruction, thread, memory-level parallelism
• power-efficient design
• hardware, software co-design
• multicore and multiprocessor design
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4731G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
reinman@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-9755
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~reinman/
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer networks
• cryptography
• computer science theory
• biometrics
• computer security
• applied mathematics
• artificial intelligence
• data structures, databases, search engines
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3731E Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
sahai@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-4982
Fax: 310-825-7578
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~sahai/
Dr. Majid Sarrafzadeh
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer system architecture
• embedded systems
• VLSI CAD
• algorithms
• biomedical informatics
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3532C Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
majid@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-4303
Fax: 310-794-5056
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~majid/
Area(s) of Expertise
• programming languages
• software development
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4532G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
das@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-4665
Fax: 310-794-5057
Dr. Stefano Soatto
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer vision
• shape analysis, motion analysis, texture analysis, 3-D reconstruction, vision-based control
• computer graphics: image-based modeling and rendering
• medical imaging: registration, segmentation, statistical shape analysis
• autonomous/intelligent vehicles: sensor-based control, planning non-linear filtering
• human-computer interaction: vision-based interfaces, visibility, visualization
• artificial intelligence
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3531D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
soatto@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4840
Fax: 310-794-5056
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~soatto/
Area(s) of Expertise
• parallel and distributed systems
• dependable/fault-tolerant systems
• multiprocessor/multicore architectures
• system software and middleware
• system-level virtualization
• cluster computing
• on-chip and off-chip interconnection networks
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4531J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
tamir@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2852
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~tamir/
Dr. Demetri Terzopoulos
Chancellor’s Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer graphics and animation
• computer vision
• medical image analysis
• computer-aided design
• artificial life/intelligence
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4531G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
dt@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-6946
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt/
Area(s) of Expertise
• machine learning
• computational learning theory
• algorithmic economics
• social computing
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 4532H Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
jenn@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2858
Fax: 310-794-5057
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~jenn/
Dr. Alan Yuille
Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Statistics, Psychology, Psychiatry,
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer vision
• computations models of cognition
• machine learning
Contact Information
UCLA Statistics Department
BOX 951563, 8967 MSB
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
yuille@stat.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-5383
Fax: 310-206-5658
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~yuille/
Area(s) of Expertise
• data stream management systems
• archival systems and temporal DBs
• mining databases and data streams
• Web information systems and XML
• information system evolution
• deductive DBs and knowledge bases
• nonmonotonic reasoning
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3532D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8137
Fax: 310-794-5056
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~zaniolo/
Dr. Lixia Zhang
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer network
• Internet architecture
• protocol designs
• security and resiliency of large-scale systems
Contact Information
UCLA Computer Science Department
Box 951596, 3713 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596
lixia@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2695
Fax: 310-825-7578
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/
Other Affiliation(s)
Statistics
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer vision
• statistical modeling and computing
• vision and visual arts
• machine learning
Contact Information
UCLA Statistics
BOX 951554, 8125 MSB
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554
sczhu@stat.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-8693
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~sczhu
Electrical Engineering
Major Research Areas
Circuits and Embedded Systems Signals and Systems
Asad Abidi Abeer Alwan
Danijela Cabric A.V. Balakrishnan
M.C. Frank Chang Pangiotis Christofides
Babak Daneshrad Lara Dolecek
Deborah Estrin Suhas N. Diggavi
Puneet Gupta Mark Hansen
Lei He Alan Laub
William J. Kaiser Jin Hyung Lee
Dejan Markovic Stanley Osher
Sudhakar Pamarti Gregory J. Pottie
Behzad Razavi Izhak Rubin
Vwani Roychowdhury Richard D. Wesel
Henry Samueli Ali H. Sayed
Majid Sarrafzadeh Stefano Soatto
Mani B. Srivastava Jason Speyer
Alan N. Willson, Jr. Paulo Tabuada
Chih-Kong Ken Yang Lieven Vandenberghe
Mihaela van der Schaar
Physical and Wave Electronics John D. Villasenor
Robert N. Candler Kung Yao
M.C. Frank Chang Alan N. Willson, Jr.
Chi On Chui
Warren Grundfest
Diana Huffaker
Tatsuo Itoh
Bahram Jalali
Chandrashekar Joshi
Jack W. Judy
Jia-Ming Liu
Warren Mori
Christoph Niemann
Aydogan Ozcan
C. Kumar Patel
Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Oscar Stafsudd
Kang L. Wang
Yuanxun (Ethan) Wang
Benjamin Williams
Jason C.S. Woo
Dr. Asad Abidi
Distinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• high-performance analog electronics
• device modeling
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-122 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
abidi@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-9490
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-abidi.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• bioacoustics, speech and hearing
• biomedical informatics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 66-147G Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
alwan@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2231
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-alwan.htm
Dr. A. V. Balakrishnan
Distinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• control systems
• flight systems applications
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147G Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
bal@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2180
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-bal.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• wireless communications system design
• cognitive radio networks
• VLSI architectures of signal processing and digital communications
• performance analysis and experiments on embedded platforms
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 56-147C Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
danijela@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-8856
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-cabric.htm
Dr. Robert N. Candler
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• MEMS and nanoscale devices
• fundamental limitations of sensors
• packaging
• biological and chemical sensing
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 6731H Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
rcandler@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4161
Fax: 310-825-8282
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-candler.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• high-speed semiconductors devices
• integrated circuits for digital, analog, microwave, mm-wave systems
• RF/wireless interconnects
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147M Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
mfchang@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-1633
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-chang.htm
Dr. Chi On Chui
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• devices and technology for nanoelectronics, nanoarchitectronics, and nanotheranostics
• semiconductor devices and manufactoring technology
• monolithic integration of heterogeneous technology
• exploratory nanotechnology
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 6730B Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
chui@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-4786
Fax: 310-825-8282
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-chui.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• digital VLSI circuits
• wireless communication systems
• high-performance communications
• integrated circuits for wireless applications
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6731G Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
babak@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7792
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-daneshrad.htm
Dr. Suhas N. Diggavi
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• information theory, wireless networks
• cooperative information flow over wireless networks
• network data compression
• network secrecy
• large-scale data analysis algorithms
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 6731J Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
suhas@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5171
Fax: 310-794-1592
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-diggavi.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• information and coding theory
• graphical models
• statistical algorithms and computational methods with applications to large-scale and complex
systems for data processing
• communications and storage
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 56-147B Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
dolecek@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2108
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-dolecek.htm
Dr. Puneet Gupta
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• CAD for VLSI design and manufacturing
• physical design
• manufacturing-aware circuits and layouts
• design-aware semiconductor manufacturing
• hardware-software interface in presence of hardware variability
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 6730C Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
puneet@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-1376
Fax: 310-794-1592
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-gupta.htm
Dr. Lei He
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer-aided design: VLSI circuits and systems
• modeling and simulation
• programmable logic and reconfigurable computing, embedded and cyber-physical systems for
health care, electric vehicle and smart grid
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6731D Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
lhe@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2037
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-he.htm
Dr. Diana Huffaker
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• solid-state nanotechnology
• MWIR optoelectronic devices
• solar cells
• Si photonics
• novel materials
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 66-147E Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
huffaker@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-9786
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-huffaker.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• electromagnetics
• guided wave structures
• lower-power wireless electronics
• integrated passive components and antenna
• photonic bandgap structures and meta materials applications
• antennas: smart and active integrated
• RF technologies for reconfigurable front-ends
• sensors and transponders
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 66-147A Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
itoh@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-4820
Fax: 310-206-4819
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-itoh.htm
Dr. Bahram Jalali
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• RF photonics
• integrated optics
• fiber optic integrated circuits
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 68-109 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
jalali@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-9655
Fax: 310-206-2239
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-jalali.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• laser fusion
• laser acceleration of particles
• nonlinear optics
• high-power lasers
• plasma physics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 66-147D Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
joshi@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7279
Fax: 310-206-8220
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-joshi.htm
Dr. Jack W. Judy
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
• micromachining, microsensors, microactuators, and microsystems
• neuroengineering
• brain-computer interfaces
• biomedical instrumentation
• implantable electronic systems
• wireless telemetry
• neural prostheses
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6731E Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
jjudy@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-1371
Fax: 310-861-5055
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-judy.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• biomedical informatics
• embedded systems
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147L Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
kaiser@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-3236
Fax: 310-825-7928
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-kaiser.htm
Dr. Alan J. Laub
Distinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise
• computer-aided design
• numerical analysis
• condition estimation
• computer-aided control system design
• high-performance computing
• applied mathematics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 44-123B Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
laub@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7221
Fax: 310-825-7126
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-laub.htm
Other Affiliation(s)
Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Radiology
Area(s) of Expertise
• advanced imaging techniques for biomedical applications
• neurosciences and neural engineering
• magnetic resonance imaging
• development of novel image contrast strategies
• alternate image acquisitions
• reconstructions
• processing technologies
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 68-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
ljinhy@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-8335
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-lee.htm
Dr. Jia-Ming Liu
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• nonlinear optics
• ultrafast optics
• laser dynamics and chaos
• semiconductor lasers
• optoelectronics
• photonics
• nonlinear and ultrafast processes
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 66-147K Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
liu@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2097
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-liu.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• power/area-efficient digital integrated circuits
• VLSI architectures for wireless communications
• organization methods
• supporting CAD flows
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 56-147E Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
dejan@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8656
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-markovic.htm
Dr. Warren B. Mori
Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Physics and Astronomy
Area(s) of Expertise
• laser and charged particle beam-plasma interactions
• advanced accelerator concepts
• advanced light sources
• laser-fusion
• high-energy density science
• high-performance computing
• plasma physics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951547, 66-127L Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547
mori@physics.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-6709
Fax: 310-825-4057
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-mori.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• bioimaging
• nano-photonics
• nonlinear optics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 66-127D Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
ozcan@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0915
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-ozcan.htm
Dr. C. Kumar Patel
Distinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Physics and Astronomy
Area(s) of Expertise
• quantum electronics
• nonlinear optics
• photo-acoustics in gases, liquids, and solids
• ultra-low level detection of trace gases
• chemical and toxic gas sensors
• condensed matter
Contact Information
UCLA Physics and Astronomy
BOX 951547, 6-130H Knudsen Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547
patel@physics.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-1613
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-patel.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• communications/telecommunications
• biomedical informatics
• collaborative signal processing
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147G Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
pottie@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8150
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-pottie.htm
Dr. Yahya Rahmat-Samii
Distinguished Professor, Northrop Grumman Professor of Electrical
Engineering/Electromagnetics
Area(s) of Expertise
• antennas: satellite communications
• personal communication antennas including human interaction
• antennas for remote sensing and radio astronomy applications
• advanced numerical and genetic optimization techniques in electromagnetics
• frequency selective surfaces and photonic band gap structures
• novel integrated and fractal antennas
• near-field antenna measurements and diagnostic techniques
• electromagnetics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6731K Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
rahmat@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2275
Fax: 310-206-4833
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-rahmat-samii.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• analog
• RF
• mixed-signal integrated circuit design
• dual-standard RF transceivers
• phase-locked systems and frequency synthesizers
• A/D and D/A converters
• high-speed data communication circuits
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147D Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
razavi@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-1633
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-razavi.htm
Dr. Vwani Roychowdhury
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• communications/telecommunications
• quantum computation and information processing
• embedded systems
• adaptive and learning algorithms
• nonparametric methods and algorithms for large-scale information processing
• combinatorics and complexity
• information theory
• biomedical Informatics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6731C Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
vwani@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-4975
Fax: 310-794-1592
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-roychowdhury.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• communications/telecommunications
• computer networks
• multimedia IP networks
• UAV/UGV-aided networks
• integrated system and network management
• C4ISR systems and networks
• optical networks
• network simulations and analysis
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 58-115 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
rubin@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2326
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-rubin.htm
Dr. Henry Samueli
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• VLSI implementation of signal processing and digital communication systems
• high-speed digital integrated circuits
• digital filter design
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 58-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
samueli@icsl.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2647
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-samueli.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• adaptive systems
• collaborative signal processing
• filtering, estimation, and detection methods
• communications/telecommunications
• linear system theory
• interplays between signal processing and control methodologies
• fast algorithms for large-scale problems
• applied mathematics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 58-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
sayed@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-2142
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-sayed.htm
Dr. Mani B. Srivastava
Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• wireless networking
• embedded computing
• embedded systems
• sensor networks
• mobile and ubiquitous computing
• low-power and power-aware systems
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6730E Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
mbs@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-2098
Fax: 310-794-1592
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-srivastava.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• quantum electronics
• I.R. lasers and nonlinear optics
• solid-state: I.R. detectors
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 58-113 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
stafsudd@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4360
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-stafsudd.htm
Dr. Sudhakar Pamarti
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• mixed-signal IC design
• signal processing
• communications/telecommunications
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6731F Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
spamarti@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2657
Fax: 310-267-1954
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-pamarti.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• automated design
• mathematical systems theory
• geometric non-linear control
• embedded systems
• control systems
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
BOX 951594, 66-147F Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
tabuada@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-4266
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-tabuada.htm
Dr. Mihaela van der Schaar
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• complexity theory
• multimedia networking
• multimedia communications
• multimedia architectures
• enterprise multimedia streaming
• mobile and ubiquitous computing
• engineering opitmization/operations research
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 58-109 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095
mihaela@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5843
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-van-der-schaar.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• engineering opitimization/operations research
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 68-119 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
vandenbe@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-1259
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-vandenberghe.htm
Dr. John D. Villasenor
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• communications
• collaborative signal processing
• configurable computing systems
• design environments
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147H Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
villa@icsl.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0028, 310-206-3416
Fax: 310-825-7928
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-villasenor.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• smart antennas
• RF and microwave power amplifiers
• numerical techniques
• DSP techniques for microwave systems
• phased arrays
• wireless and radar systems
• electromagnetics
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147K Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
ywang@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5670, 310-206-4304
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-ethan-wang.htm
Dr. Kang L. Wang
Distinguished Professor, Raytheon Company Professor of Electrical Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise
• nanoelectronics and nanoarchitectures
• spintronics and nanomagnetics
• Nanoscale science, devices and quantum systems
• non-volatile electronics and low dissipation devices
• molecular beam epitaxy
• optoelectronics and solar cells
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 66-147C Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
wang@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-1609, 310-825-7626
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-kang-wang.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• communications/telecommunications
• turbo codes
• trellis codes
• joint algorithms for distributed communication and detection
• error-correction and fault tolerance
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 6730A & 6426 (Dean’s Office) Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
wesel@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-2150, 310-825-2214
Fax: 310-794-1592
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-wesel.htm
Dr. Benjamin Williams
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• development of terahertz quantum cascade lasers
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 68-117 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
bwilliam@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-6961, 310-206-4304
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-williams.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• theory and applications of digital signal processing including VLSI implementations
• digital filter design
• nonlinear circuit theory
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 66-147H Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
willson@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7400, 310-206-4304
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-willson.htm
Dr. Jason C. Woo
Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• solid state electronics
• CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization
• novel device design
• modeling of integrated circuits
• VLSI fabrication
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147J Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
woo@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-3279, 310-794-4077
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-woo.htm
Area(s) of Expertise
• high performance VLSI design
• digital and mixed-signal circuit design
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 56-147A Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
yang@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-3665, 310-825-7412
Fax: 310-206-8495
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-yang.htm
Dr. Kung Yao
Distinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• communications/telecommunications
• collaborative signal processing
• sensor system
• wireless communication systems
• VLSI and systolic algorithms
Contact Information
UCLA Electrical Engineering Department
Box 951594, 68-113 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1594
yao@ee.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8885, 310-206-4304
Fax: 310-206-4685
http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty-yao.htm
Materials Science
and Engineering
Major Research Areas
Ceramics and Ceramic Processing
Bruce Dunn
Mark Goorsky
Structural Materials
Russel Caflisch
Jane P. Chang
Yong Chen
Nasr Ghoniem
Robert Hicks
Ioanna Kakoulli
Richard Kaner
Suneel Kodambaka
Vidvuds Ozolins
Dwight Streit
Benjamin Wu
Jenn-Ming Yang
Dr. Russel E. Caflisch
Distinguished Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Mathematics
Area(s) of Expertise
• theory and simulation for materials physics
• epitaxial growth
• nanoscale systems
• semiconductor device properties and design applications to quantum well devices
• quantum dots
• nanocrystals and quantum computing
Contact Information
UCLA Mathematics
Box 957121, 460 Portola Plaza 1158A
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7121
caflisch@ipam.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-983-3297
Fax: 310-825-4756
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~caflisch/
Area(s) of Expertise
• solid electrolytes
• electrical properties of ceramics and glasses
• ceramics
• electronic and optical materials
• batteries
• electrochemical materials
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
Box 951595, 3121B Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
bdunn@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-1519, 310-825-5534
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/dunn
Dr. Mark S. Goorsky
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• electronic and optical materials
• epitaxial semiconductor and device structures
• ceramics
• materials integration and wafer bonding
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 951595, 3121G Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
goorsky@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-0267
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/goorsky
Dr. Yu Huang
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• nanomaterial fabrication and development
• bio-nano structures
• Biosystems
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 951595, 2121E Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
yhuang@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-9589
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/huang
Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli
Associate Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
UCLA/Getty Conservation Program, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Area(s) of Expertise
• chemical and physical properties of non-metallic archaeological materials
• alteration processes in archaeological vitreous materials and pigments
• art conservation
• paleoforensics
Contact Information
UCLA/Getty Conservation Program
Box 951510, A410 Fowler
Los Angeles, CA 90095
kakoulli@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-4915
Fax: 310-206-4723
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/kakoulli
Other Affiliation(s)
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Area(s) of Expertise
• rapid synthesis of high-temperature materials
• conducting polymers as separation membranes for enantiomers
• synthesis of carbon nanoscrolls and composites
Contact Information
UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department
BOX 951569, 2515 Mol Sci Bldg
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
rbk@chem.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5346, 310-206-8393
http://faculty.chemistry.ucla.edu/institution/personnel?personnel_id=113194
Dr. Suneel Kodambaka
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• in situ microscopy
• surface thermodynamics
• kinetics of crystal growth
• phase transformation and chemical reactions
• thin film physics
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 951595, 3121J Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
kodambaka@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-8174
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/kodambaka
Area(s) of Expertise
• energy storage materials (hydrogen storage, batteries, supercapacitors)
• phase diagrams of semiconductors, ceramics and metallic alloys
• thermoelectrics
• nuclear materials and nuclear fuels
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 951595, 3121E Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
vidvuds@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-5538
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/ozolins
Dr. Qibing Pei
Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• electroactive polymers and composites through molecular synthesis and nano-engineering
• artificial muscles
• flexible and organic electronics
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 959515, 3121H Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
qpei@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4217
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/pei
Other Affiliation(s)
Electrical Engineering, Institute for Technology Advancement (ITA)
Area(s) of Expertise
• advanced semiconductors
• microelectronics
• radar
• communication and satellite payload electronics
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 959515, 2121D Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
streit@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7011
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ita.ucla.edu/people/directors/dwight-streit
Dr. King-Ning Tu
Distinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• electronic materials
• metal-silicon interfaces
• electromigration
• Pb-free interconnects
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 959515, 3121D Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-9515
kntu@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-4838
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/tu
Area(s) of Expertise
• graphene growths and device applications
• GaN epitaxy for solid state lighting and solar cell applications
• epitaxial semiconductor hetero-structures and strained Si for quantum transport research
• electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices
• nanofabrication and devices
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 951595, 3121F Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
yhx@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2971
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/xie
Dr. Jenn-Ming Yang
Professor, Department Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• aerospace structural materials
• materials for infrastructure
• nanostructured materials and nanomechanical testing
• electronic packaging
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 951595, 2127 (Chair’s Office) & 3121C Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
jyang@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2758
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/yangjm
Area(s) of Expertise
• polymer LEDs
• solar cells
• conjugated polymers and organics
• transistors
• memory devices
• energy and the environment
Contact Information
UCLA Materials Science and Engineering Department
BOX 951595, 2121C Engineering V
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1595
yy@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4052
Fax: 310-206-7353
http://www.ms.ucla.edu/people/bios/yangyang
Mechanical and
Aerospace
Engineering
Major Research Areas
Dynamics Structural and Solid Mechanics
Oddvar Bendiksen Oddvar Bendiksen
Steven Gibson Gregory P. Carman
Daniel Yang Nasr Ghoniem
Vijay Gupta
Fluid Mechanics William Klug
Jeff Eldredge Christopher Lynch
Ann R. Karagozian Ajit Mal
H. Pirouz Kavehpour
J. John Kim Systems and Control
Owen Smith Steven Gibson
Richard Wirz Tetsuya Iwasaki
Xiaolin Zhong Robert M’Closkey
Jason Speyer
Heat and Mass Transfer Tsu-Chin Tsao
Mohamed Abdou
Ivan Catton
Vijay K. Dhir
Yongho Sungtaek Ju
H. Pirouz Kavehpour
Adrienne Lavine
Anthony Mills
Laurent Pilon
Area(s) of Expertise
• fusion
• thermal hydraulics
• fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer in the presence of magnetic fields
• neutronics
• radiation transport
• plasma-material interactions
• energy
• experiments, modeling, and analysis
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Fusion Science & Technology Center
Box 951597, 44-114 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
abdou@fusion.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-0501
Fax: 310-825-2599
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/mohamed-abdou
http://www.fusion.ucla.edu
http://cestar.ucla.edu
Area(s) of Expertise
• classical and computational aeroelasticity
• structural dynamics
• unsteady aerodynamics
• aerospace materials and structures
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
oddvar@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5453
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/oddvar-bendiksen
Dr. Gregory P. Carman
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• electromagnetoelasticity models
• fatigue characterization of piezoelectric ceramics
• magnetostrictive composites
• ferromagnetic shape memory alloys
• fiber-optic sensors
• magnetoelectric laminates
• biomedical vascular devices
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
carman@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-6030, 310-825-2591
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://aml.seas.ucla.edu
Area(s) of Expertise
• fluid-structural mechanics
• transport phenomena in porous media
• nucleonics heat transfer and thermal hydraulics
• natural and forced convection
• thermal/hydrodynamic stability
• turbulence
• energy
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
catton@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5320
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/ivan-catton
Dr. Yong Chen
Professor
Other Affiliation(s)
Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise
• nanoscale science and engineering
• micro- and nano- fabrication
• self-assembly phenomena
• microscale and nanoscale electronic
• mechanical, optical, biological, and sensing devices
• circuits
• systems
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
yongchen@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2453
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/yong-chen
Area(s) of Expertise
• BioMEMS
• biophotonics
• electrokinetics
• optical manipulation
• optoelectronic devices
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
pychiou@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8620
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/pei-yu-chiou
Dr. Vijay K. Dhir
Distinguished Professor, Dean of Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Area(s) of Expertise
• two-phase heat transfer
• energy
• thermal hydraulics of nuclear reactors
• microgravity heat transfer
• soil remediation
• high-power density electronic cooling
Contact Information
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
Box 951600, 7400 Boelter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1600
vdhir@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-8507
Fax: 310-206-4061
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/vijay-dhir
Area(s) of Expertise
• fluid mechanics
• bio-inspired locomotion in fluids
• transition and turbulence of high-speed flows
• aerodynamically generated sound
• vorticity-based numerical methods
• simulations of biomedical flows
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121A Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
eldredge@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5094
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/jeff-eldredgeing
Dr. Rajit Gadh
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• mobile Internet
• web-based product design
• wireless and collaborative engineering
• CAD/visualization
• smart grid
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 46-147D Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
gadh@winmec.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-267-4892
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/rajit-gadh
Other Affiliation(s)
Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise
• mechanical behavior of high-temperature materials
• radiation interaction with material
• material processing by plasma and beam sources
• physics and mechanics of material defects
• energy
• aerospace materials and structures
• fusion
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121F Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
ghoniem@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4866
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/nasr-ghoniem
Dr. James S. Gibson
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• control and identification of dynamical systems
• optimal and adaptive control of distributed systems
• flexible structures and fluid flows
• identification, and noise cancellation
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
gibson@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-9362
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/steve-gibson
Other Affiliation(s)
Materials Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise
• experimental mechanics
• fracture of engineering solids
• mechanics of thin film and interfaces
• failure mechanisms and characterization of composite materials
• ice mechanics
• aerospace materials and structures
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
vgupta@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0223
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/vijay-gupta
Dr. Chih-Ming Ho
Distinguished Professor, Ben Rich Lockheed Martin Chair in Aeronautics
Other Affiliation(s)
Bioengineering
Area(s) of Expertise
• molecular fluidic phenomena
• microelectrical mechanical systems
• bio-nanotechnology
• biomedical instrumentation
• control of cellular and complex systems
• rapid search of combinatorial medicine
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
chihming@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-9993
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/chih-ming-ho
Area(s) of Expertise
• dynamical systems
• robust and optimal controls
• nonlinear oscillators
• resonance entrainment
• modeling and analysis of neurocircuits for animal locomotion
• central pattern generators
• body-fluid interaction during undulatory and oscillatory swimming
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
BOX 951597, 37-144 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
iwasaki@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2533
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/tetsuya-iwasaki
Dr. Yongho Sungtaek Ju
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• heat transfer
• thermodynamics
• microelectromechanical and nanoelectromechanical systems
• magnetism
• biosensors
• aerospace materials and structures
• energy and the environment
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137K Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
just@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0985
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/y-sungtaek-ju
Area(s) of Expertise
• combustion
• defense science
• energy
• fluid mechanics
• propulsion systems
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 46-147K Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
ark@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5653
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/ann-karagozian
Dr. H. Pirouz Kavehpour
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• fluid mechanics
• transport phenomena in biological systems
• physics of contact line phenomena
• complex fluid
• non-isothermal flows
• micro- and nano- heat guides
• biomechanics
• biomedical instrumentation
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
pirouz@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-6494
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/pirouz-kavehpour
Area(s) of Expertise
• turbulence
• numerical simulation of turbulent and transitional flows
• flow control
• numerical analysis
• large-scale scientific computations
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 46-147J Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
jkim@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-4393
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/john-kim
Dr. Chang-Jin Kim
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• Microelectromechanical systems
• micro/nano fabrication technologies, structures, actuators, devices, and systems
• microfluidics involving surface tension
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
cjkim@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-0267
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/chang-jin-kim
Area(s) of Expertise
• modeling of DNA
• engineering modeling of proteins
• simulation of traumatic head injury
• biomechanics
• finite element analysis
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
Klug@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-7347
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/william-klug
Dr. Adrienne G. Lavine
Professor, Department Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• heat transfer: thermomechanical behavior of shape memory alloys
• thermal aspects of manufacturing processes,
• natural and mixed convection
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137F Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
lavine@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7468
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/adrienne-lavine
Other Affiliation(s)
Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise
• atmospheric radiative transfer
• clouds and aerosols
Contact Information
UCLA Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Department
BOX 951565, 7163 MSB
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565
knliou@atmos.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-794-9832
Fax: 310-794-9796
http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~liougst/
Dr. Christopher Lynch
Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• field coupled materials
• constitutive behavior
• thermo-electro-mechanical properties
• sensor and actuator applications
• fracture mechanics and failure analysis
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
BOX 951597, 37-146 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
cslynch@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-7660
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/christopher-s-lynch
Area(s) of Expertise
• mechanics of solids, fractures, and failure
• wave propagation
• nondestructive evaluation
• composite materials
• aerospace materials and structures
• biomechanics
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
ajit@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5481
Fax: 310-794-6830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/ajit-mal
Dr. Robert T. M’Closkey
Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• nonlinear control theory
• design with application to mechanical and aerospace systems
• real-time implementation
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
rtm@obsidian.seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2909
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/robert-mcloskey
Area(s) of Expertise
• convection heat and mass transfer
• condensation heat transfer
• turbulent flows
• ablation and transpiration cooling
• perforated plate heat exchanges
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
amills@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-3583
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/anthony-mills
Dr. Laurent Pilon
Associate Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• radiation transfer
• biomedical engineering
• energy and the environment
• nanomaterials
• waste heat harvesting
• interfacial and transport phenomena
• foams
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 37-132 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
pilon@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-5598
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/laurent-pilon
Area(s) of Expertise
• combustion and combustion-generated air pollutants
• hydrodynamics and chemical kinetics of combustion systems
• semiconductor chemical vapor deposition
• energy
• fluid mechanics
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 37-140 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
osmith@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2125
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/owen-smith
Dr. Jason L. Speyer
Distinguished Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems
• guidance
• flight control
• flight mechanics
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137O Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
speyer@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-4451
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/jason-speyer
Area(s) of Expertise
• modeling and control of dynamics systems with applications in mechanical systems
• manufacturing processes
• automotive systems
• energy systems
• digital control
• repetitive and learning control
• adaptive and optimal control
• mechatronics
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 38-137L Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
ttsao@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-2819
Fax: 310-206-2302
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/tsu-chin-tsao
Dr. Richard Wirz
Assistant Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
• space and plasma propulsion
• partially ionized plasma discharges
• behavior of miniature plasma devices
• spacecraft and space missions design
• wind energy
• solar thermal energy
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
BOX 951597, 46-147B Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
wirz@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-5489
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/richard-wirz
Area(s) of Expertise
• robotics and mechanisms
• CAD/CAM systems
• computer-controlled machines
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
dyang@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-8066
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/daniel-yang
Dr. Xiaolin Zhong
Professor, Vice Chair
Area(s) of Expertise
• computational fluid dynamics
• hypersonic flow
• high-order methods for high-speed flow simulation
• numerical simulation of transient hypersonic flow with nonequilibrium real gas effects
• instability and transition of hypersonic boundary layers
• fluid mechanics
Contact Information
UCLA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Box 951597, 48-121 Engineering IV
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597
xiaolin@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: 310-825-2905
Fax: 310-206-4830
http://www.mae.ucla.edu/people/faculty/xiaolin-zhong
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Cross-Disciplinary
Research Areas
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Renewable Energy Harold Monbouquette
Mohamed Abdou Aydogan Ozcan
Ivan Catton Gregory J. Pottie
Jane P. Chang Vwani Roychowdhury
Panagiotis D. Christofides Majid Sarrafzadeh
Vijay K. Dhir Jacob Schmidt
Bruce Dunn Tatiana Segura
Rajit Gadh Yi Tang
Nasr Ghoniem Demetri Terzopoulos
Yu Huang Gerard Wong
Diana Huffaker Benjamin Wu
Yongho Sungtaek Ju
Ann R. Karagozian Water
James Liao Yoram Cohen
Yunfeng Lu Panagiotis D. Christofides
Vasilios Manousiouthakis Eric Hoek
Vidvuds Ozolins Terri S. Hogue
Laurent Pilon Jennifer A. Jay
Selim Senkan Shaily Mahendra
Owen I. Smith Steven A. Margulis
Richard Wirz Michael Stenstrom
Yang Yang Keith Stolzenbach
Gerard Wong
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Denise Aberle
Abeer Alwan Wireless Sensing and Networking
Gregory P. Carman Danijela Cabric
Eric Pei-Yu Chiou Babak Daneshrad
Panagiotis Christofides Suhas Diggavi
Jason Cong Deborah Estrin
Timothy J. Deming Rajit Gadh
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James Dunn William J. Kaiser
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Eleazar Eskin Dejan Markovic
Petros Faloutsos Gregory J. Pottie
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Chih-Ming Ho Izhak Rubin
Eric Hoek Mani Srivastava
Louis Ignarro Majid Sarrafzadeh
Jack W. Judy Paulo Tabuada
William J. Kaiser Mihaela van der Schaar
Daniel Kamei Yuanxun Ethan Wang
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Jin Hyung Lee
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Yu Huang
Richard Kaner
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Vwani Roychowdhury
Dwight Streit
Kang L. Wang
Benjamin Williams
Ya-Hong Xie
Sustainable Infrastructure
Yoram Cohen
Eric Hoek
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