Members

Department of Computer Science

• Dipak Ghosal, Professor and GGCS Chair (high speed networks, parallel and distributed systems)
• Nina Amenta, Professor (computational geometry, computer graphics, algorithms)
• Zhaojun Bai, Professor (number linear algebra, parallel algorithms)
• Matthew A. Bishop, Professor (computer security, cryptography, assurance)
• Hao Chen, Professor (computer security, software verification)
• Raissa D’Souza, Professor (phase transitions, self-organization, structure, function and growth of networks)
• Ian Davidson, Professor (data mining, machine learning)
• Premkumar T. Devanbu, Professor (software engineering)
• David Doty, Assistant Professor (molecular computing, theoretical computer science)
• Matthew K. Farrens, Professor and Chair (computer architecture, VLSI design)
• Vladimir Filkov, Professor (network data analytics, statistical models and algorithms for complex empirical data, social aspects of empirical software engineering)
• Matt Franklin, Professor (cryptography)
• Daniel M. Gusfield, Distinguished Professor (design and analysis of algorithms, computational biology)
• Francois Gygi, Professor (computational materials science, parallel numerical algorithms)
• Bernd Hamann, Professor (visualization, geometric modeling, computer graphics)
• Cho-Jui Hsieh, Assistant Professor (machine learning, optimization for big data, high dimensional problems)
• Sam King, Associate Professor (security, operating systems, networking)
• Patrice Koehl, Professor and Vice-Chair (computational biology)
• Yong Jae Lee, Assistant Professor (computer vision, machine learning)
• Karl N. Levitt, Professor (computer security, system verification)
• Xin Liu, Professor (wireless communication, communication networks)
• Jason Lowe-Power, Assistant Professor (computer architecture, high-performance computing)
• Kwan-Liu Ma, Professor (visualization, graphics, parallel and distributed computation)
• Charles U. Martel, Emeritus Professor (design and analysis of algorithms)
• Norman S. Matloff, Professor (parallel processing, statistical computing, mathematical and applied statistics)
• Nelson L. Max, Distinguished Professor (scientific visualization, computer animation, realistic computer graphics rendering)
• Josh McCoy, Assistant Professor (games technology)
• Prasant Mohapatra, Professor (computer networks)
• Biswanath Mukherjee, Distinguished Professor (lightwave networks, telecom networks, survivable network architectures)
• Michael Neff, Professor (computer animation, modeling human motion, computer graphics )
• Ronald A. Olsson, Professor (programming languages, concurrent programming)
• Sean Peisert, Associate Adjunct Professor (computer security, network security, digital forensics)
• Phillip W. Rogaway, Professor (cryptography, theory of computation)
• Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, Assistant Professor (programming languages, software engineering)
• Mohammad Sadoghi, Assistant Professor (high-performance, extensible big data management systems)
• Zhendong Su, Professor (programming languages, software engineering)
• Ilias Tagkopoulos, Associate Professor (machine learning, data science, computational biology)
• Aditya Thakur, Assistant Professor (programming languages, automated reasoning, program analysis)
• Hao-Chuan Wang, Associate Professor (human-computer interaction)
• S. Felix Wu, Professor (computer security, computer networks)
• Zhou Yu, Assistant Professor (speech and natural language processing, machine learning, human -computer interaction)

Other UC Davis Departments

• Venkatesh Akella, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (computer architecture, parallel computing)
• Nicholas Anderson, Professor, School of Medicine (deidentified large-scale clinical data sharing)
• Sharon Aviran, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering (computational RNA biology, biomolecular engineering)
• Hemant Bhargava, Professor, Graduate School of Management (economics of information systems and networks, decision support technologies)
• C. Titus Brown, Associate Professor, School of Medicine (biological data analysis, data integration, data sharing)
• 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, visualization)
• Chen-Nee Chuah, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (networks, Internet architecture and protocol design, wireless communications)
• James P. Crutchfield, Professor, Physics (collective cognition, nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation)
• Jesús De Loera, Professor, Mathematics (discrete computational mathematics)
• Jonathan A. Eisen, Professor, School of Medicine (phylogenomics of novelty in microbes)
• Robert Faris, Associate Professor, Sociology (social network analysis of social problems)
• Soheil Ghiasi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (embedded and cyber-physical systems)
• Martin Hilbert, Associate Professor, Communication (theory and practice of digitalization)
• Michael Hogarth, Professor, School of Medicine (medical informatics, text mining, knowledge discovery)
• Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (algorithms for genome analysis, system biology, disease predictions)
• Sanjay Joshi, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (robotics, neuroengineering, control systems, human-machine interfaces)
• Louise Kellogg, Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences (dynamics of the solid Earth and similar planets)
• Matthias Köppe, Professor, Mathematics (mathematical optimization, computational discrete mathematics)
• Greg Kuperberg, Professor, Mathematics (quantum algebra, geometric topology, quantum information theory)
• Laura Marcu, Professor, Biomedical Engineering (optical spectroscopy, imaging for biomedical diagnostics)
• Deb Niemeier, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering (transportation-air quality modeling)
• Michael Oskin, Professor and Chair, Earth and Planetary Sciences (active crustal deformation, surface processes and topography)
• John D. Owens, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (graphics hardware, GPGPUs, parallel hardware)
• Gregory B. Pasternack, Professor, Land, Air, and Water Resources (impacts of historic and modern human activities on watershed and estuarine processes)
• Gerald Quon, Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology (computational biology, machine learning, genomics)
• Luis Rademacher, Assistant Professor, Mathematics (theoretical computer science, data science, machine learning)
• Bahram Ravani, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (robotics and mechatronics, mechanical design and manufacturing, applications of robotics)
• G. Robert Redinbo, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (fault-tolerant computing, testing)
• David Rocke, Distinguished Professor, School of Medicine (computational statistics, data mining, machine learning)
• Kenji Sagae, Assistant Professor, Linguistics (computational linguistics, data-driven natural language processing)
• Jeffrey Schank, Professor, Psychology (agent-based models)
• Kenneth Shackel, Professor, Plant Sciences (responses and adaptations of plants to water-limited conditions)
• David C. Slaughter, Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering (computer vision, pattern recognition, robotics)
• Susan L. Ustin, Professor, Land, Air and Water Resources (remote sensing of environmental properties, optical, microwave, and thermal scanners)
• Katia Vega, Assistant Professor, Design (beauty technology)
• John S. Werner, Professor, Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior (neurophysiological computations and mechanisms for human vision)
• Kent D. Wilken, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (compiler optimization, computer architecture)
• Catherine Yang, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management (information technology, data mining, e-marketing and e-commerce)
• S. J. Ben Yoo, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering (optical networks)