2011-12 General Catalog

Baskin School of Engineering
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu

Program Description | Course Descriptions

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Ramakrishna Akella
Information technology and systems, management of technology, new product introduction and development, enterprise and knowledge management, supply chain management and e-business, financial engineering

Marc Mangel
Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Program Director, Information Systems Management
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena, especially quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational aspects of aging and disease; impact of technology on biological systems

Associate Professor

John Musacchio
Control, analysis, and pricing of communications networks; applications of game theory in networking; wireless ad-hoc networks; and management of technology

Yi Zhang
Information retrieval, knowledge management, natural language processing, machine learning

Assistant Professor

Kevin Ross
Service engineering and management; resource allocation; operations research; pricing; scheduling; queueing theory; networks

Yi Zhang
Information retrieval, knowledge management, natural language processing, machine learning

Lecturer

Subhas Desa
Product development, supply chain management, management of technology, system dynamics and control

Yin-Wong Cheung, Economics)
Econometrics, applied econometrics, exchange rate dynamics, financial price behavior, aggregate output dynamics

Luca De Alfaro (Computer Science )
Formal methods, game theory, embedded systems, software engineering

William B. Dunbar (Computer Engineering )
Theory and application of feedback control, single-molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules

Daniel Friedman (Economics)
Microeconomic theory, experimental economics, evolution and learning, behavioral economics, financial markets

Brent Haddad (Environmental Studies )
Fresh-water economics, policy, and communications; economic institutions and the environment; climate-change mitigation and adaptation; institutional and ecological economics

Michael Isaacson (Electrical Engineering)
Nano- and microfabrication technology and applications to biomedical and diagnostic devices, nanocharacterization of materials with emphasis on the development of microscopy tools, novel modes of imaging, electron and light optics

Robert A. Levinson (Computer Science)
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, heuristic search, associative pattern retrieval, hierarchical reinforcement learning, semantic networks

Darrell Long (Computer Science)
Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems

Patrick Mantey
Associate Dean, Industry Programs
Jack Baskin Endowed Professor of Computer Engineering
CITRIS Campus Director
Director of ITI
Multimedia systems, digital signal processing, sensor systems and networks, real-time monitoring and control, image systems, image processing, visualization, geographic information systems, decision support systems

Charles E. McDowell (Computer Science)
Programming languages, parallel computing, and computer science education

Alex Pang (Computer Science)
Uncertainty visualization, tensor visualization, scientific visualization, comparative visualization, collaboration software, virtual reality interfaces

Ira Pohl (Computer Science)
Artificial intelligence, programming languages, heuristic methods, educational and social issues, combinatorial algorithms

Nirvikar Singh (Economics)
Industrial organization, political economy, economic development, technology and innovation, South Asian immigrants in the U.S.

Linda Werner
Software engineering, testing, usability engineering, educational and social issues

James Whitehead, Jr. (Computer Science)
Software engineering, software evolution, software bug prediction, automated software construction, video game level design

Revised: 8/13/12