Faculty Member	Email	Department	School
	Research Interests
Agrawal, Divy	agrawal@cs.ucsb.edu	Computer Science	UCSB
	Distributed systems, databases, digital libraries, scalable and fault-tolerant access to multimedia data and digital libraries.
Allen, S. James	allen@qi.ucsb.edu	Physics	UCSB
Almeroth, Kevin	almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu	Computer Science	UCSB
Anderson, Chris	anderson@math.ucla.edu	Mathematics	UCLA
	Numerical Analysis, Computational Solution of PDE's, Software for Technical Computing.
Awschalom, David	awsch@physics.ucsb.edu	Physics	UCSB
	Optical and magnetic interactions in semiconductor quantum structures, spin dynamics and coherence in condensed matter, nanometer-scale magnetism, and quantum information processing in the solid state.
Balents, Leon	balents@surf.physics.ucsb.edu	Physics	UCSB
Barrio, Jorge	jbarrio@mednet.ucla.edu	Molecular and Medical Pharmacology	UCLA
	In-vivo Probes for Gene Expression, Dopaminergic Mechanisms and Alzheimer Disease
Bazan, Guillermo	bazan@chem.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
	Design of well-defined initiators for polymerization reactions, the study of photophysical processes in advanced organic photonic materials and the design of interconnects for bringing together molecular wires.
Bezanilla, Francisco	fbezanil@ucla.edu	Department of Physiology, Department of Anesthesiology	UCLA
	Biophysics of excitation: Structure Function in Voltage Dependent Ionic Channels.
Blumenthal, Daniel	danb@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical & Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Electronics and Photonics: fiber-optic networks, wavelength and subcarrier division multiplexing, photonic packet switching, signal processing in semiconductor optical devices, wavelength conversion, microwave photonics.
Bowers, John	bowers@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical & Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Solid State: fiber optic networks, photonic integrated circuits, high speed photonic and electronic devices, femtosecond lasers and physics.
Bowers, Michael	bowers@chem.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
Bowie, Jim	bowie@mbi.ucla.edu	Chemistry & Biochemistry	UCLA
	Protein Structure/Signal Transduction
Brown, Stuart	brown@physics.ucla.edu	Physics & Astronomy	UCLA
	Roles of dimensionality, electronic correlations, and disorder in the properties of electronic materials.
Buratto, Steve	buratto@chem.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
Butler, Alison	butler@chem.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
	Bioinorganic chemistry and metallobiochemistry with an emphasis on the roles of metal ions in the catalytic activity of metalloenzymes. Two areas of current concentration, in which we are beginning to probe the bioinorganic chemistry of the marine environment, are investigations of the biological role of vanadium and the mechanism of acquisition of transition metal ions by marine microorganisms.
Caflisch, Russel	caflisch@math.ucla.edu	Mathematics	UCLA
	Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation for epitaxial growth, including Monte Carlo, continuum and bulk modeling. Applications of control. Acceleration of Monte Carlo methods.
Carter, Emily A.	eac@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Characterization of metal-ceramic and ceramic-ceramic interfaces (how they form and degrade, and how to optimize interfacial adhesion), chemisorption and reaction of molecules on metals and metal oxides, and the degradation of metals via corrosion and embrittlement.
Chan, Tony	chan@math.ucla.edu	Mathematics	UCLA
	Applies linear and non-linear algebraic algorithms to the solution of large systems of equations arising in scientific computing.
Cheetham, Tony	cheetham@mrl.ucsb.edu	Chemistry/MRL	UCSB
	Characterization and Modeling of Inorganic Materials; Synthesis and Properties of Open-framework Materials and Transition Metal oxides.
Chmelka, Brad	bradc@engineering.ucsb.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCSB
	Molecular Sieves (Zeolites), Polymer Structure and Dynamics, Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, and NMR Spectroscopy.
Clarke, David	clarke@engineering.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
Cleland, Andrew	cleland@physics.ucsb.edu	Physics	UCSB
	Nanoscale electronic and mechanical devices, exploring their uses as novel and ultrasensitive sensors and imaging devices.
Clubb, Robert	rclubb@mbi.ucla.edu	Chemistry & Biochemistry	UCLA
	Protein structure and molecular recognition are studied by NMR spectroscopy and biochemical methods.
Coldren, Larry	coldren@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Integration of various optoelectronic devices, including optical amplifiers and switches, tunable lasers, receivers, and surface-emitting lasers.
DenBaars, Steve	denbaars@engineering.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
	Develop an understanding of novel materials and extend them into applications.
Dunn, Bruce	bdunn@ucla.edu	Materials Science and Engineering	UCLA
	Solid electrolytes, electrical properties of ceramics and glasses, ceramic-metal bonding, optical materials.
Eisenberg, David	david@mbi.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Protein interactions are studied by X-ray crystallography, and computational and biochemical methods.
Engquist, Bjorn	engquist@math.ucla.edu	Mathematics	UCLA
	General fields of numerical analysis, applied partial differential equations and scientific computing.
Feigon, Juli	feigon@mbi.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Nucleic acid structure and sequence specific recognition of nucleic acids by proteins, peptides, and drugs.
Friedlander, Sheldon	skf@seas.ucla.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCLA
	Aerosol Engineering, the science and technology of fine particles in gases, with applications to air pollution and advanced materials.
Gambhir, Sanjiv	sgambhir@mednet.ucla.edu	Molecular and Medical Pharmacology	UCLA
	Imaging Approaches to Gene Therapy; Mathematical Modeling, Bio-imaging Assays, Computer Aided Education.
Gelbart, Bill	gelbart@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Self-assembly, structure, and phase transitions in polymeric, colloidal and interfacial systems; Modelling of cell membranes, DNA packaging and gene delivery, and related biological processes.
Gimzewski, James	gim@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Molecular Wheel, Molecular Amplifier, Molecular Abacus, Molecular Manipulation,Translating Biochemical Recognition into Nanomechanical Action
Goldberg, Robert	bobg@mcdb.ucla.edu	Biology	UCLA
	How plant cells become specialized during development.
Gossard, Art	gossard@engineering.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
	Quantum Structure Growth, Science and Technology; High Performance Graded Quantum Structures; Quantum Wire and Quantum Dot Growth and Devices; MBE Technology for Ultrafast, Ultra-high-density Optoelectronic Devices; Smart Optoelectronic Pixel Technology; Cryogenic Lasers for Low-Temperature Electronics; Advanced Infrared Detectors Based on Strained Layer Superlattices.
Gwinn, Elisabeth	bgwinn@physics.ucsb.edu	Physics	UCSB
Heath, James	heath@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Architectures and devices for molecular electronics; nonlinear optical imaging techniques applied to physiological active biomolecules; quantum phase transitions in quantum dot designed solids.
Heeger, Alan	ajh@physics.ucsb.edu	Physics	UCSB
Herschman, Harvey	hherschman@mednet.ucla.edu	Biological Chemistry	UCLA
	Identification and characterization of genes that may mediate inflammatory response, modulate neuronal differentiation and modulate neuronal plasticity. Development of procedures in image reporter gene expression.
Ho, Chih-Ming	chihming@seas.ucla.edu	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	UCLA
	Molecular fluidic phenomena, Nano/Micro-electro-Mechanical-Systems, Direct handling of macro molecules, Bio-nano technologies, DNA based micro sensors.
Holczer, Karoly	holczer@physics.ucla.edu	Physics and Astronomy	UCLA
	Experimental condensed matter physics; organic conductors and superconductors and electron paramagnetic resonance.
Hu, Evelyn	hu@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Low-damage, high spatial resolution fabrication techniques for novel device structures. Approaches for achieving heterogeneous materials integration in devices.
Hubbell, Wayne	hubbellw@jsei.ucla.edu	Chemistry & Biochemistry, Department of Ophthalmology	UCLA
	Phototransduction, voltage-dependent membrane switching and active membrane transport are our primary research focuses. These processes involve membrane proteins that function through conformational changes regulated by light, transmembrane potential and energy sources, respectively. The immediate goal is to determine the molecular mechanisms underlying these conformational transitions.
Imamoglu, Atac	atac@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Semiconductor quantum optics, quantum information processing, quantum dot physics, single photon nonlinear optics.
Israelachvili, Jacob	jacob@engineering.ucsb.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCSB
	Biomaterials and Bioengineering Polymers and Complex Fluids
Jiang, Hong-Wen	jiangh@physics.ucla.edu	Physics & Astronomy	UCLA
	Experimental Condensed Matter
Judy, Jack	jjudy@ee.ucla.edu	Electrical Engineering	UCLA
	Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), microsensors, microactuators, microsystems and micromachining; magnetism and magnetic materials; neuroengineering and neuro-silicon interfaces; distributed sensors, actuators and information.
Kaner, Richard	rbk@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry & Biochemistry	UCLA
	Our solid state research group concentrates on the synthesis and characterization of new materials.
Kim, Chang-Jin (CJ)	cjkim@seas.ucla.edu	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	UCLA
	MEMS and Nanotechnology; Design and Fabrication of Micro and Nano Devices; Surface-Tension-Driven Micromachines, Nanoengineered Surfaces, Mechanical Memories, MEMS RF switches, Microarray Stamping, Microbattery, Micro Power Generator, and Aerogel MEMS.
Kramer, Ed	edkramer@mrl.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
	Mesoscale polymer physics involving interfacial structure and properties utilizing quantitative transmission electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering and forward recoil spectrometry, secondary ion mass spectrometry and neutron reflectometry.
Kroemer, Herb	kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	UCSB
Kuchera-Morin, JoAnn	jkm@create.ucsb.edu	Music	UCSB
	Multimedia Composition, 3D Immersive Physical Sound Environments, 3D Immersive Virtual Sound Environments, Auralization, Distributed Multimedia Computing Environments.
Lange, Kenneth	klange@ucla.edu	Biomathematics	UCLA
	Human genetics, population biology, biomedical imaging, computational statistics, and applied stochastic processes.
Lee, Christopher	leec@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Bioinformatics of the proteome.
Li, Ming	mli@cs.ucsb.edu	Computer Science	UCSB
	Computational biology, bioinformatics; design and analysis of algorithms.
Liao, James	liaoj@ucla.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCLA
	DNA microarray & bioinformatics, metabolic engineering, nitric oxide metabolism and regulation
Long, Steve	long@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Electronics and Photonics: high speed electronic devices, processing techniques, design of high speed and low power digital ICs, analog RF ICs
MacDonald, Noel	nmacd@engineering.ucsb.edu	Mechanical Engineering	UCSB
	MEMS, Applied Physics, Materials, Mechanics, Nano Fabrication.
McFarland, Eric	mcfar@engineering.ucsb.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCSB
McMeeking, Robert	rmcm@engineering.ucsb.edu	Mechanical Engineering	UCSB
Metiu, Horia	metiu@chem.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
	Catalysis in zeolites and on metal nanoparticles supported on oxides; single-molecule quantum mechanics; electronic structure and transport in thermoelectric materials; theoretical chemical physics.
Mishra, Umesh	mishra@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Develop an understanding of novel materials and extend them into applications.
Mitragotri, Samir	samir@engineering.ucsb.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCSB
	Development of novel methods of drug delivery and diagnostics.
Montemagno, Carlo	cdm@seas.ucla.edu	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	UCLA
	Nanoscale biomedical systems, micro robotics, directed self-assembly, hybrid living/nonliving device engineering, pathogen detection, and tissue engineering.
Monbouquette, Harold	hmonbouq@ucla.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCLA
	Molecular engineering of innovative systems that mimic the biological (i.e., biomimetic systems) in efforts to solve technological problems.
Morse, Dan	d_morse@lifesci.ucsb.edu	Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology	UCSB
	Proteins, genes and molecular mechanisms controlling biological nanofabrication of high-performance mineral-organic composites, and innovative strategies to harness these mechanisms for new routes to nanofabrication of electronic, magnetic and optical materials.
Moskovits, Martin	moskovits@ltsc.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
Nakamura, Shuji	shuji@engineering.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
	Crystal growth, Light-emitting diodes and laser diodes.
Nelson, Stanley	snelson@ucla.edu	Human Genetics	UCLA
	Genetic Technology Development.
Osher, Stanley	sjo@math.ucla.edu	Mathematics	UCLA
	My research consists of developing innovative numerical methods to solve partial differential equations, especially those whose solutions have steep gradients, analysis of these algorithms and the underlying P.D.E.'s and applications to various areas of Engineering, Physics, graphics, computer vision and image processing.
Peltonen, Leena	lpeltonen@mednet.ucla.edu	Human Genetics	UCLA
	Mutations and variants in human disease genes.
Petroff, Pierre	petroff@engineering.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
	Crystal growth and epitaxy with emphasis on understanding the fundamental processes involved in the epitaxy of semiconductors for producing novel self assembling nanostructure.
Petzold, Linda	petzold@engineering.ucsb.edu	Mechanical Engineering	UCSB
	Numerical ordinary differential equations, differential-algebraic equations, and partial differential equations, dynamic optimization, nonlinear model reduction, mathematical software and scientific computing.
Phelps, Michael	mphelps@mednet.ucla.edu	Molecular and Medical Pharmacology	UCLA
	Molecular Imaging and Molecular Pharmacology.
Pine, David	pine@engineering.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
	Soft materials, multiple light scattering, and photonic crystals.
Plaxco, Kevin	kwp@chem.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
Roychowdhuri, Vwani	vwani@ee.ucla.edu	Electrical Engineering	UCLA
	Models of computation, quantum and nanoelectronic computation, quantum information processing, fault-tolerant computation, combinatorics and information theory, advanced statistical processing, and adaptive algorithms.
Sawyers, Charles	csawyers@mednet.ucla.edu	Molecular Biology	UCLA
	Signal Transduction in Prostate Cancer and Leukemia
Schauser, Klaus	schauser@cs.ucsb.edu	Computer Science	UCSB
	parallel computing, parallel programming languages, compilers, computer architecture.
Schwartz, Benjamin	schwartz@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Femtosecond lasers and molecular dynamics computer simulations
Sherwin, Mark	sherwin@physics.ucsb.edu	Physics	UCSB
Sinsheimer, Janet	janet@chuck.biomath.medsch.ucla.edu	Human Genetics	UCLA
	My work in Bayesian inference tests for the reconstruction of evolutionary relationships (phylogenetic reconstruction) has as one of its goals the development of objective prior distributions based on observable properties of the data.
Speck, Jim	speck@mrl.ucsb.edu	Materials	UCSB
	Relationship between thin film electronic materials growth, microstructure, and the relation between microstructure and physical properties.
Stewart, Phoebe	pstewart@mednet.ucla.edu	Molecular and Medical Pharmacology	UCLA
	Cryo-EM Imaging of Macromolecular Assemblies.
Stoddart, Fraser	stoddart@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry	UCLA
	Addresses contemporary issues in molecular, supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry.
Stucky, Galen	stucky@chem.ucsb.edu	Chemistry	UCSB
	Derive a general methodology for the creation by molecular assembly of integrated systems.
Tadmor, Eitan	tadmor@math.ucla.edu	Mathematics	UCLA
	Analysis of time-dependent problems governed by linear and nonlinear PDEs, the development of novel high-resolution algorithms for the approximate solution of these problems, and the interplay between the theory and computational aspects of such approximate methods.
Tirrell, Matt	tirrell@engineering.ucsb.edu	Chemical Engineering	UCSB
	Polymer surface properties including adsorption, adhesion, surface treatment, friction, lubrication and biocompatibility.
Tolbert, Sarah	tolbert@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Understanding and Control of Structure and Periodicity in Complex Nanostructured Composites.
Turner, Kimberly	turner@engineering.ucsb.edu	Mechanical Engineering	UCSB
	Dynamic Systems, Control, and Robotics and Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: MEMS, Solid Mechanics, Dynamics, Microsystems Motion.
Wang, Kang	wang@ee.ucla.edu	Electrical Engineering	UCLA
	Novel device concepts, nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, quantum size effect, and reduced dimensional structures, MBE and superlattices.
Weiss, Shimon	sweiss@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry Physiology	UCLA
	Application of single molecule spectroscopy to biology and nanotechnology; dynamic structural biology; conformational dynamics of molecular machines; protein folding; protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions; single molecule enzymology; ultrahigh resolution & ultrahigh sensitivity fluorescence microscopy and spectroscopy; physics and chemistry of mesoscopic (nano-scale) systems
Witte, Owen	owenw@microbio.lifesci.ucla.edu	Microbiology	UCLA
	Development of the immune system and cancer.
Woo, Jason	woo@ee.ucla.edu	Electrical Engineering	UCLA
	Solid-state technology, device physics, MOS and bipolar device characteristics at low temperatures, modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication.
Wu, Benjamin	benwu@ucla.edu	Material Science and Engineering	UCLA
	Fabrication of highly porous tissue engineering scaffolds with novel material formulations to control cell-substrate, cell-cell, and cell-signal interactions; Computer-driven, additive manufacturing technologies for fabrication of precursor tissue analogues.
Wu, Ming	wu@ee.ucla.edu	Electrical Engineering	UCLA
	Ultrafast integrated optoelectronics, optical interconnect, micro-opto-mechanical systems.
Wudl, Fred	wudl@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Organic metals/superconductors, organic ferromagnets and conjugated polymers.
Yablonovitch, Eli	eliy@ee.ucla.edu	Electrical Engineering	UCLA
	Optoelectronics, high-speed optical communications, high-efficiency light-emitting diodes and nano-cavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave frequencies, quantum computing and communication.
Yeates, Todd	yeates@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Protein structure and function, protein sequence and evolution, and protein assembly and design.
York, Bob	rayork@ece.ucsb.edu	Electrical and Computer Engineering	UCSB
	Application of emerging electronic materials for high frequency RF/microwave devices, circuits and systems.
Zhang, Xiang	xiang@seas.ucla.edu	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	UCLA
	Micro-nano scale engineering, novel 3D fabrication technologies in microelectronics and photonics, micro and nano-devices, nano-lithography and nano-instrumentation, rapid prototyping, bio-MEMS, and semiconductor manufacturing.
Zhong, Xiaolin	xiaolin@seas.ucla.edu	Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	UCLA
	Computational fluid dynamics, hypersonic flow, rarefied gas dynamics, numerical simulation of transient hypersonic flow with nonequilibrium real gas effects, and instability of hypersonic boundary layers.
Zink, Jeffrey	zink@chem.ucla.edu	Chemistry and Biochemistry	UCLA
	Mesostructured silica films, Exotic sol-gel materials, Optical sol-gel biosensors, Excited states of metal compounds, Gas phase photodynamics, Laser-assisted materials deposition
Zocchi, Giovanni	zocchi@physics.ucla.edu	Physics and Astronomy	UCLA
	Conformational changes of biological macromolecules (proteins, DNA).