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	Martin Abadi Professor Computer Science	831-459-1489 Engineering 2 Room 347A
	Computer and network security, specification and verification methods, programming languages

	Dimitris Achlioptas Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1081 Engineering 2 Room 343A
	Analysis of algorithms, machine learning, random structures, applications to biological and computer systems.

	Ram Akella Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-1728 Engineering 2 Room 131
	Information technology and systems, management of technology, new product introduction and development, enterprise and knowledge management, supply chain management and e-business,and financial engineering


	Phillip Berman Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-3529 Physical Sciences Room 405E
	Recombinant vaccines, HIV, therapeutic antibodies, cell engineering, biotechnology.

	Scott Brandt Professor Computer Science	831-459-5042 Engineering 2 Room 347B
	Operating systems, storage systems, real-time systems, distributed systems.

	Alexandre Brandwajn Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4023 Engineering 2 Room 223
	Computer architecture, performance modeling, queuing network models of computer systems and operation systems

	Nicholas Brummell Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-2122 Baskin Engineering Room 125
	Fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, numerical simulations of geophysical and astrophysical dynamics, especially solar interior physics, supercomputing.


	Pak K. Chan Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-429-4156 Engineering 2 Room 229
	Placement and routing algorithms, field-programmable gate arrays, spectral-based partitioning, circuit theory, computer arithmetic.


	James Davis Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1841 Engineering 2 Room 363
	Computer graphics and computer vision, methods for acquiring and manipulating complex graphical models from the real world.

	Luca De Alfaro Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4982 Engineering 2 Room 339A
	Formal methods, game theory, embedded systems, software engineering.

	David Deamer Research Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-5158 Physical Sciences Room 405B
	Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly.

	David Draper Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1295 Baskin Engineering Room 135
	Bayesian statistics, hierarchical modeling, stochastic optimization, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, statistical model uncertainty, quality assessment in health & education, stochastic modeling in the medical and social sciences.

	William Dunbar Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1031 Engineering 2 Room 325
	Theory and application of feedback control, air traffic control, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules.


	Gabriel Elkaim Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3054 Engineering 2 Room 337B
	Embedded systems; robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control chemes; feedback control systems; robotics; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) and cooperative control.


	Joel Ferguson Professor Computer Engineering Provost of Crown College	831-459-2411 Engineering 2 Room 329
	Fault diagnosis, failure analysis, logic fault modeling, digital test pattern generation, design-for-test of digital circuits and systems.

	Cormac Flanagan Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-5375 Engineering 2 Room 367
	Software engineering, programming languages, computer-aided verification, program analysis, defect detection, type systems.

	Camilla Forsberg Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-2111 Physical Sciences Room 310
	Hematopoietic stem cells, transcriptional regulation, chromatin, blood cell development, cell surface receptors, genomics

	Benjamin Friedlander Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-5838 Engineering 2 Room 241B
	Digital communications, wireless communication system, array processing, adaptive signal processing


	Pascale Garaud Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1055 Baskin Engineering Room 131
	Astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics.

	J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves Professor Computer Engineering Director of NSI	831-459-4153 Engineering 2 Room 317
	Wireless networks, internet, multimedia information systems.

	Dietlind Gerloff Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-4833 Physical Sciences Room 320
	Structural biochemistry, information technology, evolutionary biology, and experimental molecular biology.

	Claire Gu Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-5296 Baskin Engineering Room 253B
	Fiber sensors for bio-applications, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, optical information processing

	Matthew Guthaus Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4449 Engineering 2 Room 225
	VLSI, Systems-on-a-Chip, Design Automation, Design for Variability/Robustness, Mixed-Signal Systems


	David Haussler Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-2105 Engineering 2 Room 501A
	Genomis, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks, decision theory, theory of computation.

	David Helmbold Professor Computer Science	831-459-2016 Engineering 2 Room 345B
	Machine learning, theoretical computer science, analysis of algorithms, intelligent systems.

	Richard Hughey Chair Computer Engineering Professor Biomolecular Engineering Chair of BS Bioengineering	831-459-2939 Engineering 2 Room 233
	Computer architecture, parallel processing, parallel programming languages and environments, computer applications in biology, programmable systolic arrays.


	Michael Isaacson Acting Dean - Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1722 Baskin Engineering Room 337
	Nanofabrication technology applied to diagnostics, separation and prosthetic devices; development of tools for the micro/nanocharacterization of materials.


	Kevin Karplus Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-4250 Physical Sciences Room 318
	Undergraduate and Graduate Director of Bioinformatics Protein structure prediction, protein design, hidden Markov models, neural nets, stochastic search.

	Nobuhiko Kobayashi Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-3571 Baskin Engineering Room 247
	Synthesis and properties of nanometer-scale materials, Fabrication and characterization of nanometer-scale electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices

	Phokion G. Kolaitis Professor Computer Science	831-459-4768 Engineering 2 Room 345A
	Logic in computer science, computational complexity, database theory

	Athanasios Kottas Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5536 Baskin Engineering Room 153A
	Bayesian nonparametrics, survival analysis, quantile regression modeling, categorical data analysis, spatial statistics.

	Joel Kubby Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1073 Baskin Engineering Room 249
	Nanosystems (NEMS), microsystems (MEMS), biosystems, silicon photonics, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), quantum electron devices, Si/Ge epitaxy, silicon-on-insulator (SOI).

	Sri Kurniawan Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1037 Engineering 2 Room 331
	Human-computer interaction, human factors and ergonomics, accessibility, assistive technology, usability, empirical studies, user-centered design


	Tracy Larrabee Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3476 Engineering 2 Room 337A
	Test pattern simulation and generation, fault modeling, fault modeling, fault diagnosis, design verification, technical writing, logic simulation.

	Herbert Lee Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1655 Baskin Engineering Room 151
	Bayesian statistics; spatial inverse problems; model selection and model averaging; statistical computing; neural networks; nonparametric regression and classification.

	Bob Levinson Professor Computer Science	831-459-2087 Engineering 2 Room 255
	Artificial intelligence, machine learning, heuristic search, associative pattern retrieval, hierarchical reinforcement learning, semantic networks

	Wentai Liu Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1721 Engineering 2 Room 341A
	Visual prosthesis, transceiver design, molecular electronics, microelectronic sensor, timing/clock optimization, noise characterization and modeling, and computer-vision/image processing.

	Suresh Lodha Professor Computer Science	831-459-3773 Engineering 2 Room 361
	Visualization, vision, innovation, entrepreneurship

	Darrell Long Professor Computer Science	831-459-2616 Engineering 2 Room 371
	Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems.

	Todd Lowe Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1511 Physical Sciences Room 316
	Experimental and computational genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of archaea.


	Roberto Manduchi Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1479 Engineering 2 Room 327
	Sensor processing and image understanding, with application to autonomous navigation, sensor networks, and deep-space communications.

	Marc Mangel Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5797 Baskin Engineering Room 145
	Mathematical biology, especially evolutionary and behavioral ecology, biodemography, quantitative fishery science, population biology of disease.

	Patrick Mantey Professor Computer Engineering Chair Technology & Information Management Director of ITI	831-459-2158 Engineering 2 Room 595
	Image systems, image processing, visualization, image and multimedia systems, digital signal processing, real-time control

	Michael Mateas Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1789 Engineering 2 Room 373
	Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based art and entertainment (Expressive AI).

	Charlie McDowell Professor Computer Science	831-459-4772 Engineering 2 Room 349B
	Programming languages, computer go, parallel computing, computer science education.

	Peyman Milanfar Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-4929 Engineering 2 Room 243A
	Statistical signal and image processing, inverse problems, detection and estimation, scientific computing, and applied mathematics.

	Ethan L. Miller Professor Computer Science	831-459-1222 Engineering 2 Room 365
	File and storage systems, operating systems, computer security, distributed systems, reliability and fault tolerance, performance evaluation, and information retrieval

	John Musacchio Assistant Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-1385 Engineering 2 Room 557
	Control, analysis, and pricing of communications networks; applications of game theory in networking; wireless ad-hoc networks; and management of technology


	Katia Obraczka Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4308 Engineering 2 Room 323
	Computer networks, distributed systems, operating systems, Internet information systems, mobile computing, wireless networks


	Alex Pang Professor Computer Science	831-459-2712 Engineering 2 Room 359
	Uncertainty visualization, tensor visualization, scientific visualization, collaboration software, virtual reality interfaces

	Ken Pedrotti Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1229 Baskin Engineering Room 253C
	Optical communications, high-speed electronics for lightwave systems, devices for all optical networking and imaging

	Ira Pohl Professor Computer Science	831-459-2726 Engineering 2 Room 349A
	Artificial intelligence, programming languages, heuristic methods, educational and social issues, combinatorial algorithms

	Neoklis Polyzotis Assistant Professor Computer Science	831-459-1304 Engineering 2 Room 353
	Synopses for XML data, visual query interfaces, query processing, and optimization.

	Nader Pourmand Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-502-7315 Physical Sciences Room 314
	Biosensors, microarray, nanotechnology, pathogens, sequencing, genotyping, DNA fingerprinting

	Raquel Prado Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1488 Baskin Engineering Room 149
	Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing, wavelets and statistical genetics.


	Jose Renau Assistant Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-1847 Engineering 2 Room 227
	Computer architecture, chip multiprocessors, energy/performance trade-offs, thread level speculation, interaction between architecture and compilers, Linux kernel

	Abel Rodriguez Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1047 Baskin Engineering Room 147
	Bayesian nonparametrics, Bayesian time series and spatial models, public health, financial econometrics, structural proteomics

	Jacob Rosen Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-5302 Engineering 2 Room 231
	Biorobotics, Human centered robotics, medical robotics (surgery and rehabilitation), wearable robotics (exoskeleton), teleoperation, haptics and virtual reality, biomechanics, neuromuscular control, and human-machine interfaces

	Kevin Ross Assistant Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-1878 Engineering 2 Room 559
	Service engineering and management; resource allocation; operations research; pricing; scheduling; queuing theory; networks


	Hamid Sadjadpour Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1483 Engineering 2 Room 245B
	Wireless communication systems, coding and information theory, ad hoc and sensor networks

	Bruno Sanso Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-1484 Baskin Engineering Room 139
	Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling. Environmental and geostatistical applications. Modeling of extreme values. Statistical assessment of climate variability.

	Martine Schlag Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3243 Engineering 2 Room 219
	VLSI design tools and algorithms, VLSI theory, field-programmable gate arrays, FPGA-based computing engines

	Holger Schmidt Associate Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-1482 Baskin Engineering Room 245
	Integrated optics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nano-magneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics.

	Ali Shakouri Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-3821 Baskin Engineering Room 253A
	Quantum electronics, nano and microscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, thermoelectric/thermionic energy conversion, renewable energy sources, thermal imaging, micro refrigerators on a chip and optoelectronic integrated circuits

	Josh Stuart Assistant Professor Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1344 Physical Sciences Room 308
	Computational functional genomics, comparative analysis of gene regulation, cross-species inference of gene networks, probabilistic graphical models


	Wang-Chiew Tan Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-3709 Engineering 2 Room 343B
	Data provenance, annotations, archiving, data integration, scientific databases, database query languages, combinatorial optimization of database problems.

	Hai Tao Associate Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-4879 Engineering 2 Room 333
	Image and video processing, computer vision, vision-based graphics, and human-computer interaction


	Allen Van Gelder Professor Computer Science	831-459-4611 Engineering 2 Room 355
	Logic programming algorithms, parallel algorithms, complexity, programming languages, automated theorem proving, scientific visualization

	Anujan Varma Professor Computer Engineering	831-459-3505 Engineering 2 Room 221
	Computer networking, computer architecture, optical networks.

	John Vesecky Professor Electrical Engineering	831-459-4099 Baskin Engineering Room 221
	HF radar design and construction and observation of ocean surface winds, waves and currents with applications to coastal and deep water ocean processes; project MEDSAT


	Hongyun Wang Associate Professor Applied Mathematics & Statistics	831-459-5653 Baskin Engineering Room 153C
	Molecular modeling and biophysics, numerical analysis, fluid mechanics, computer animation, partial differential equations, parallel computing, statistical physics, data structures, fast algorithms.

	Manfred Warmuth Professor Computer Science	831-459-4950 Engineering 2 Room 357
	Online learning, machine learning, statistical decision theory, neural computation, analysis of algorithms

	Jim Whitehead Associate Professor Computer Science	831-459-1227 Engineering 2 Room 273
	Software engineering, configuration management, hypertext versioning, web, open hypertext, collaborative authoring, application layer protocols, internet information systems.


	Yi Zhang Assistant Professor Technology & Information Management	831-459-4549 Engineering 2 Room 565
	Information retrieval, natural language processing, applied machine learning and data mining.