Technology Management
2015-16 General Catalog
Baskin School of Engineering
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Professor
Ramakrishna Akella
Data analytics: machine learning; informational retrieval (search); data; text; image and video mining; social networks and recommender systems; business analytics: business and management of technology; intelligent services and knowledge management, IT; product design; delivery and portfolios; financial engineering and management; process learning; supply chain management; automation
J.J. Garcia-Luna Aceves (joint with Computer Engineering)
Jack Baskin Chair of Computer Engineering
Principles of computer communication, Internet, mobile and pervasive computing, wireless networks, information centric networks, network science
Daniel Friedman (joint with Economics)
Microeconomic theory, experimental/behavioral economics, evolution and learning, financial markets
Brent Haddad (joint with Environmental Studies)
Fresh-water economics, policy, and communications; economic institutions and the environment; climate-change mitigation and adaptation; institutional and ecological economics
Patrick Mantey (joint with Computer Engineering)
Jack Baskin Chair of Computer Engineering
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
Associate Professor
Yihsu Chen
Economics and policy in energy, water resources and transportation sectors
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
Large-scale information retrieval, recommendation systems, internet advertising, data mining, natural language processing, applied machine learning
Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment
Subhas Desa
Management of technology, new product development, supply-chain management, knowledge engineering, system dynamics and control
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Luca De Alfaro (Computer Science)
Reputation systems, crowdsourcing, game theory; formal methods
William B. Dunbar (Computer Engineering)
Theory and application of feedback control, single-molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules
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, renewable energy systems, STEM education
Robert A. Levinson, Emeritus (Cpmputer Science)
Darrell Long (Computer Science)
Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair in Storage Systems
Data storage systems, distributed computing, operating systems, performance evaluation, reliability, cyber security, data science, multimedia
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, Emeritus (Cpmputer Science)
Nirvikar Singh (Economics)
Industrial organization, political economy, economic development, technology and innovation, South Asian immigrants in the U.S.
Linda Werner (Computer Science)
Software engineering, computer science education, children and computer game creation, testing, increasing diversity in computer science
James Whitehead, Jr. (Computational Media)
Software engineering, software evolution, software bug prediction, level design in computer games, procedural content generation
Revised: 09/01/15
