Computer Engineering
2012-13 General Catalog
Baskin School of Engineering
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu
Program Description | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Alexandre Brandwajn
Performance modeling, queueing network models of computer systems and operating systems, computer architecture
F. Joel Ferguson
Fault diagnosis, failure analysis, logic fault modeling, digital test pattern generation, design-for-test of digital circuits and systems
J. J. García-Luna-Aceves (Department Chair)
Baskin Professor of Computer Engineering and Director of Networking Sciences Institute
Computer communication, wireless networks, Internet, network science
Richard Hughey (joint with Biomolecular Engineering)
(Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education)
Bioinformatics, hidden Markov models, computer architecture, parallel computation
Glen G. Langdon Jr., Emeritus
Tracy Larrabee
Test-pattern simulation and generation, fault modeling, fault diagnosis, design verification, technical writing, logic simulation
Roberto Manduchi
Computer vision and sensor processing, with application to assistive technology for the visually impaired
Patrick E. 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
Katia Obraczka
Computer networks, distributed systems, operating systems, Internet information systems, mobile computing, wireless networks
Martine D. F. Schlag
VLSI design tools and algorithms, VLSI theory, field-programmable gate arrays, FPGA-based computing engines
Anujan Varma
Computer networking, computer architecture, optical networks
Associate Professor
Pak K. Chan, Emeritus
William Dunbar
Theory and application of feedback control, single molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules
Gabriel Elkaim
Embedded systems; robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control schemes; feedback control systems; robotics; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs); and cooperative control
Matthew R. Guthaus
VLSI, CAD, design for reliability and variability, resonant clocking, sub-threshold circuits
Sri Kurniawan
Human-computer interaction; human factors and ergonomics; accessibility; assistive technology; usability; empirical studies; human-centered design
Jose Renau
Computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements, thermal modeling, process variability, energy efficient data-centers, thread level speculation, and FPGA/ASIC design
Jacob Rosen
Biorobotics; human-centered robotics; medical robotics, surgery and rehabilitation; wearable robotics (exoskeleton); teleoperation, haptics and virtual reality, biomechanics, neuromuscular control and human-machine interfaces
Adjunct Professor
Victoria Bellotti
Focus on user-centered design of context- and activity-aware computing systems
Renwick Curry
Control and optimization with special attention to aviation; air-traffic control; and collision-avoidance system design and analysis
Peter Danzig
Internet web caching, scalable techniques to stream internet media around the world, scalable mechanisms to dynamically transform web content as applied to security for residential and enterprise networks
Harwood G. Kolsky, Retired
Associate Adjunct Professor
Nicolas Ducheneaut
Focus on software and technologies that support and enhance social interactions
Mircea Teodorescu
Dynamics, vibrations, contact mechanics, biomechanics
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Andrea Di Blas
Parallel computer architectures, parallel applications and programming models, combinatorial optimization
David Pease
File systems, operating systems, storage, programming languages
Bruce Sawhill
Self-organizing systems, distributed control, dynamic scheduling, many-agent systems, agent-based simulation, game theory, computational logic, dynamics of social and economic networks, foundation of nonequilibrium economics
Cedric Westphal
Internet working and wireless networks, with special attention to analytical modeling
Lecturer
Gerald Moulds
Technical writing, professional communications
Stephen C. Petersen
Embedded controller systems, RF wireless systems, modulation and spectrum reuse, digital signal processing, circuit theory
Bradley Smith
Computer communications, distributed systems, policy-based routing, routing protocols, security and trust in distributed systems
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Luca De Alfaro (Computer Science)
Reputation systems, crowdsourcing, game theory, formal methods
Benjamin Friedlander (Electrical Engineering)
Digital communications, wireless communication system, array processing, adaptive signal processing
Qi Gong (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Computational methods for real-time control systems, trajectory optimization and motion planning, nonlinear filtering and observer design, robust and adaptive control of nonlinear systems, industry applications of control theory
Claire Gu (Electrical Engineering)
Fiber sensors for bio-applications, optical fiber communications, volume holographic data storage, liquid crystal displays, nonlinear optics, optical information processing
Kevin Karplus (Biomolecular Engineering)
Genome assembly from next-generation sequence data. (Formerly protein structure prediction)
Suresh K. Lodha (Computer Science)
Visualization, vision, innovation
Darrell D. E. Long (Computer Science)
Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems
Dominic W. Massaro, Emeritus
Charles E. McDowell (Computer Science)
Programming languages, parallel computing, and computer science education
Peyman Milanfar (Electrical Engineering)
Statistical signal, image, and video processing; computational vision and photography; modeling and inverse problems in imaging; detection and estimation theory
Ethan L. Miller (Computer Science)
Archival storage systems, non-hierarchical file systems and metadata management, non-volatile memory and next-generation storage, scalable file systems, reliable and secure storage, distributed systems, information retrieval, computer security
Dejan Milutinović (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Stochastic, dynamical systems and statistical signal processing, multi-agent systems/robotics, systems biology/immune system, optimal control, hybrid and discrete event systems
John Musacchio (Technology and Information Management)
Control, analysis, and pricing of communications networks; applications of game theory in networking; wireless ad-hoc networks; and management of technology
Alex T. 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
Kevin Ross (Technology and Information Management)
Service engineering and management; resource allocation; operations research, pricing, scheduling; queueing theory; networks
Hamid Sadjadpour (Electrical Engineering)
Wireless communication systems, network information theory and scaling laws, performance analysis of wireless and social networks, routing and MAC protocol design for wireless networks
Patrick Tantalo
Graph theory, combinatorics, optimization, algorithms
Linda Werner
Software engineering, computer science education, testing, social issues
E. James Whitehead, Jr. (Computer Science)
Software engineering, software evolution, software bug prediction, level design in computer games, procedural content generation
Donald Wiberg, Emeritus (UCLA)
Control systems, Kalman filtering, system parameter estimation, adaptive optics for large telescopes, and biomedical system modeling
Yi Zhang (Technology and Information Management)
Large-scale information retrieval, recommendation systems, internet advertising, data mining, language processing, and applied machine learing
Revised: 8/13/12
