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Graduate Group Members

Department of Computer Science

  • Kwan-Liu Ma, GGCS Chair (Visualization, graphics, parallel and distributed computation)
  • Nina Amenta, Professor (computational geometry, computer graphics, algorithms)
  • Zhaojun Bai, Professor (number linear algebra, parallel algorithms)
  • Hemant Bhargava, Professor, Joint appointment with Graduate School of Management (economics of information systems and networks, decision support technologies)
  • Matthew A. Bishop, Professor (computer security, assurance)
  • Hao Chen, Assistant Professor (computer security and software verification)
  • Ian Davidson, Associate Professor (data mining)
  • Premkumar Devanbu, Professor (software engineering)
  • Matthew K. Farrens, Professor (computer architecture, VLSI design)
  • Vladimir Filkov, Assistant Professor (computational biology)
  • Matt Franklin, Professor (cryptography)
  • Dipak Ghosal, Professor (high speed networks, parallel and distributed systems)
  • Todd J. Green, Assistant Professor (Collaborative data sharing, data provenance, incomplete and probabilistic databases)
  • Daniel M. Gusfield, Professor (design and analysis of algorithms, computational biology)
  • Bernd Hamann, Professor Associate Vice Chancellor for Research (visualization, geometric modeling, computer graphics)
  • Kenneth I. Joy, Professor and Director, Institute for Data Analysis and Visualization (computer graphics, geometric modeling)
  • Patrice Koehl, Professor (computational biology)
  • Karl N. Levitt, Professor (computer security, system verification)
  • Peter Linz, Professor Emeritus (numerical analysis, scientific computing)
  • Xin Liu, Associate Professor (wireless communication, communication network

  • Bertram Ludaescher, Professor (databases)
  • Charles U. Martel, (design and analysis of algorithms)
  • Norman S. Matloff, Professor (computer architecture, communication networks)
  • Nelson L. Max, Professor (computer graphics, animation)
  • Prasant Mohapatra, Professor and Chair (networks)
  • Biswanath Mukherjee, Professor (lightwave networks, intrusion detection)
  • Michael Neff, Assistant Professor (computer animation)
  • Ronald A. Olsson, Professor (programming languages, concurrent programming)
  • Raju Pandey, Associate Professor (programming languages, parallel and distributed computation)
  • Sean Peisert, Assistant Adjunct Professor (computer security, network security, digital forensics)
  • Phillip W. Rogaway, Professor (cryptography, theory of computation)
  • Zhendong Su, Associate Professor (programming languages and software engineering)
  • Ilias Tagkopoulos, Assistant Professor (Computational biology, biological networks, bioinformatics, systems and synthetic biology, modeling and simulation of biological systems)
  • V. Rao Vemuri, Professor in Applied Science (joint appt with CS) (artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms)
  • Richard F. Walters, Professor Emeritus (distance learning, distributed databases)
  • S. Felix Wu, Professor (computer security)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Venkatesh Akella, Professor (computer architecture and parallel computing)
  • Chen-Nee Chuah, Assistant Professor (networks, Internet architecture and protocol design, wireless communications)
  • Soheil Ghiasi, Associate Professor, Laboratory for Embedded and Programmable Systems (LEPS)>
  • John D. Owens, Assistant Professor (graphics hardware, GPGPU, parallel hardware, software)
  • G. Robert Redinbo, Professor (fault-tolerant computing, testing)
  • Kent D. Wilken, Associate Professor (compiler optimization, computer architecture)
  • Ben Yoo, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (optical networks)

Department of Applied Science

  • David Rocke, Professor, Applied Science and Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine; (computational statistics, data mining, machine learning)
  • Garry H. Rodrigue, Professor Emeritus (scientific computing, numerical analysis)
  • V. Rao Vemuri, Professor (artificial neural networks, genetic algorithms)

Other UC Davis Departments

  • Bahram Ravani, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Owen Carmichael, Associate Professor, Neurology (neuroimaging) and Adjunct Faculty, Computer Science
  • Harry H. Cheng, Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering (mobile agent-based computing, embedded systems)
  • R. Holland Cheng, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology (computational biology, 3D image processing and visualization)
  • James P. Crutchfield, Professor, Physics
  • Raissa M. D'Souza, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
  • Jesus DeLoera, Professor, Mathematics (Discrete Computational Mathematics)
  • Robert Faris, Assistant Professor, Sociology
  • Michael Hogarth, Associate Professor, School of Medicine (medical informatics, text mining, knowledge discovery, ontology development, and evaluating decision support systems in the clinical domain)
  • Greta Hsu, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Management
  • Sanjay Joshi, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  • Louise Kellogg, Professor, Geology
  • Mathias Koeppe, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (mathematical optimization (integer programming) and computational discrete mathematics)
  • E. O. Milton, Professor, Mathematics (databases)
  • Deb Niemeier, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Kenneth Shackel, Professor, Plant Sciences
  • David Slaughter, Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering (Computer vision, pattern recognition, instrumentation and robotics)
  • Susan Ustin, Professor, Land, Air and Water Resources
  • David Whitney, Associate Professor, Center for Mind and Brain and Department of Psychology
  • David L. Woodruff, Professor, Graduate School of Management (heuristic search optimization)
  • Catherine Yang, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Management