PhD Advisors at University of California, Berkeley 加州大学伯克利分校 US
Quick answer: University of California, Berkeley in the US has 2212 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 33 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at University of California, Berkeley, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (33)
Professors at University of California, Berkeley with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Abhishek Kaicker
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ I generally welcome graduate students who are interested in the history of early modern South Asia to apply to the PhD program in the department. Applicants are encouraged to submit statements of purpose that clearly and compellingly delineate a proposed course of historical investigation.
Please n…
I am an historian of Persianate South Asia (c. 1200-1900) with focus on the history of the Mughal empire. I am interested in questions of intellectual history and the history of concepts; early modern global history; religion, politics and the city; and more generally in the cont…
Albert Ruhi
Associate Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
⭐ We are always interested in inquiries from motivated students and postdocs. If you are interested in our research program please contact the lab at: albert.ruhi@berkeley.edu
Freshwater ecology, biodiversity conservation, community ecology, global change
Allon Wagner
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ I am accepting new students every year. If you are interested in working with me, please apply to our PhD program, mention my name as a potential research advisor, and list CS-BIO or AI-SCI as your major area. This guarantees that your application will be forwarded to me for review. Once you're shor…
Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO), Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Angjoo Kanazawa
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ Dear prospective students: Click here for information. Thank you for your interest in joining my group! Sorry I can't respond to your email if you ask me about PhD admissions, please apply directly through the department, thank you! PhD applicants: I will be looking to hire one or two graduate stude…
My research lies at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. We live in a 3D world that is dynamic, full of life with people and animals interacting with each other and the environment. How can we build a system that can capture, perceive, and…
Asad Q. Ahmed
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures · College of Letters and Science
⭐ Professor Ahmed is very happy to receive queries and applications from students wishing to pursue doctoral studies in his fields of interest and expertise, and he welcomes manuscripts of books and articles for publication in the venues noted above.
Arabo-Islamic philosophy and theology, with a special focus on logic and epistemology; classical Arabic poetry and poetics; Hadith studies; Tafsir; and Graeco-Arabic
Christopher W. Fletcher
Associate Professor · University of California, Berkeley
⭐ I am always looking for talented PhD students. If you are interested in joining my group, please make sure to apply to Berkeley in December, and list me under 'Faculty Interest'. Please do not email directly me about PhD supervision before you have been admitted (unless we have met in some professio…
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Eric Y. Ma
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ Potential postdocs, graduate, and undergrad students can send me an email with your CV to start the conversation. Join us and be part of an exciting journey to build a state-of-the-art optics & optoelectronic lab from scratch!
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science
Frances Hellman
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters and Science
⭐ We currently have openings for graduate students in a variety of projects, including studying the thermodynamics of magnetocaloric materials, multilayer systems, semiconductor nanowires, and various magnetic materials.
Condensed Matter Physics And Materials Science, Biophysics, Astrophysics
Jack P. Moehle
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Engineering
⭐ Professor Moehle is no longer accepting new graduate students or visiting scholars.
Design and analysis of structural systems, Earthquake engineering, Reinforced concrete construction, New & existing buildings , Lifeline systems, Rehabilitation (retrofitting)
Justin Davidson
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ For prospective and current undergraduate and graduate students, the MuHSiC project offers the opportunity to engage first-hand in corpus-based sociolinguistic research. Undergraduate and graduate students are openly invited to collaborate in data analysis, leading to possibilities for advanced (His…
Sociolinguistics, contact linguistics and language contact, language variation and change, Romance linguistics, quantitative methods (statistics, variable rule analyses for sociolinguistics, and computer software for statistics), sociohistorical linguistics, sociophonetics, bilin…
Lynn Huntsinger
Professor of Rangeland Ecology and Management, Russell Rustici Chair in Rangeland Management, Head graduate advisor Rangeland and Wildlife Management · Rausser College of Natural Resources
⭐ Note: Lynn Huntsinger is retiring and is not accepting graduate students.
Rangeland conservation and management
Maureen C. Miller
Professor, Jane K. Sather Professor of History · College of Letters and Science
⭐ Potential Grad Students — Please note, I am no longer admitting new graduate students.
My research and teaching explores the extraordinary capacity of individuals and societies for change, using the rapid transformation of Europe over the eleventh and twelfth centuries as a lense to interogate contemporary understandings of life choices and the social, economic, po…
Nicolas Tackett
Professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ Note to prospective graduate students: Due to current department priorities, I am not currently accepting graduate students to work with me.
Chinese elite society (7th to 12th centuries), meritocracy / Song political culture, Northeast Asian interstate relations (10th-13th c.), frontiers, nationalism, death and death rituals, Tang capital cities
Rhona S. Weinstein
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters and Science
⭐ I am not accepting students
Community psychology (children, schools, and community settings): Classroom/school processes and positive development; expectations about ability and self-fulfilling prophecies; educational equity and school reform.
Samantha "Sam" Lewis
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology · College of Letters and Science
⭐ We are currently recruiting postdocs, graduate students, technicians and undergrads!
mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles
Sunaura Taylor
Assistant Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
⭐ NOTE FOR PHD APPLICANTS: I am accepting students for the 2024 application cycle. Please know I only bring graduate students into my lab who work in the areas of critical disability studies/crip studies. In addition I advise students working in critical animal studies and multispecies justice. Please…
Disability studies/crip theory; ableism; animal studies/ethics; multispecies justice; environmental humanities; ecofeminism; environmental justice
Yuan Cao
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ Prof. Yuan Cao is looking for highly self-motivated perspective graduate student and postdoctoral researchers in the field of 2D materials, low-temperature electrical transport, nanophotonics, metamaterials, MEMS and related fields, starting 2024 fall. Previous nanofabrication experience is a bonus.
His primary research interest is in the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of low-dimensional materials, and how to engineer these properties and find applications for them using cross-disiplinary approaches including nanotechnology, metamaterials, and microelectrical…
Alexis Kaminski
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Ho-Shang and Mei-Li Lee Faculty Fellow · College of Engineering
⭐ November 2021 – update for graduate recruitment: I am recruiting PhD students to start in fall 2022! For more information, please see https://akkaminski.github.io
Stratified flows, hydrodynamic instabilities, transition to turbulence, mixing and entrainment, internal waves, non-normal stability, upper-ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, geophysical and environmental fluid dynamics.
Asir Intisar Khan
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ Prof. Khan is always seeking highly motivated graduate students, and undergraduate researchers with a strong interest in transformative materials, devices, and their heterogeneous integration for energy-efficient electronics.
Physical Electronics (PHY), Power and Energy (ENE), Electronic Materials
Emmeline Chuang
Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Professor and Mack Distinguished Professor Emmeline Chuang's research focuses on how health and human service organizations can improve service access and well-being of underserved populations, with a specific focus on: (1) how the nature and quality of inter-organizational relat…
Evan A. Variano
Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ PROSPECTIVE GRADUATE STUDENTS:
The best way to get involved with Professor Variano’s research is to apply to the UC Berkeley graduate program in Civil and Environmental Engineering. You will likely have some questions about this process, which are best answered by our Graduate Admissions Advisor, In…
Environmental fluid dynamics, Novel imaging for flow measurements, Mixing & transport by turbulence, Flow & transport in wetlands, Hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms, Aerosol transport, Inquiry & inclusive education, Mental wellness
Jamie Chang
Acting Associate Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Dr. Chang’s research involves investigating the structural determinants that impact the health of unhoused people, focusing on the role of social policies (e.g. encampment sweeps) on unhoused people’s health outcomes. Recently, she has led mixed-methods studies which examine the …
Jennifer Skeem
Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Behavioral Health and Prevention/Intervention
Community, Organizational and Policy Development
Jose Eos Trinidad
Assistant Professor of Education and Organizational Studies · Berkeley School of Education
⭐ Application season is usually from September to December, with deadline in early December. I am open to advising students focused on (1) cross-sector partnerships, (2) education policy, (3) organizational/ sociological theory, and/or (4) causal inference. Feel free to email me about what you plan to…
Causal Inference, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Organizations
Maria Laura Delle Monache
Clare & Hsieh Wen Shen Distinguished Professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering, Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ Perspective students: Students interested in joining the lab are encouraged to apply in the PhD programs in Systems Engineering and Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley.
Traffic flow modeling, Transportation systems, Traffic control
Neil Gilbert
Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Systems of Care for Children/Families/Older Adults
Comparative Welfare State Analysis
Child Welfare
Evaluation Research
Family Policy
Social Security
Paul Sterzing
Associate Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ Taking PhD Students - CY26
Adolescent violence and victimization
Polyvictimization rates among vulnerable adolescents
Bullying involvement roles and mental health
Sexual orientation and gender identity microaggressions
Impact of family-level microaggressions and microaffirmations on mental health
Disabilit…
Peter Jenks
professor · College of Letters and Science
⭐ Students with research interests in these areas, particularly those investigating formal syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, morphology, or the syntax-phonology interface, with strong training in these areas and a clear research trajectory are encouraged to contact me to inquire about our PhD pr…
syntax-semantics interface; syntax-phonology interface; definiteness, quantification, and relative clauses; how phonological rules, especially those which are sensitive to prosody, are or are not syntactically constrained; descriptive linguistics; formal theories applied to new d…
Pierluigi Nuzzo
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ I am accepting students! Read about how to apply.
Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation (CPSDA), Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR), Integrated Circuits (INC), Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Power and Energy (ENE), Programming Systems (PS), Security (SEC), Theory (TH…
Sean Darling-Hammond
Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences · School of Public Health
⭐ Available for Advising
K-12 policies and practices, Exclusionary discipline, Restorative practices, School policing, Racial bias, Belonging, Child and adolescent mental health, Stress and cognitive decline
Valerie Shapiro
Associate Professor · School of Social Welfare
⭐ View postdoc opportunities.
Adoption, Implementation, and Sustainability of Effective Prevention Practices
Systemic and Transformation Social and Emotional Learning
Infrastructure to Promote the Use of Research Evidence and Provide Implementation Support
Strength-Based Screening and Assessment in Schools an…
Zachary A. Pardos
Associate Professor of Education · Berkeley School of Education
⭐ I am currently accepting grad students and undergraduate research assistants. Consult tiny.cc/zpUCB to schedule a meeting.
adaptive learning and AI. His current research focuses on knowledge representation and recommender systems approaches to increasing upward mobility in postsecondary education using behavioral and semantic data.
Zaijun Chen
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
⭐ I am accepting students! Read about how to apply.
Physical Electronics (PHY), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Architecture & Engineering (ARC), Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Integrated Circuits (INC)
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A. Richard Newton
Former Professor, Dean · College of Engineering
Design, Modeling and Analysis (DMA); Computer architecture
Aaron Edlin
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Richard Jennings Endowed Chair, Professor of Economics, Professor of Law Industrial organization, law and economics, public economics Ph.D., J.D. Stanford University, 1993 College financial aid; the provision of goods produced under increasing returns; Predation, Auto Insurance, …
Aaron Edlin
Richard Jennings Endowed Chair, Professor of Economics, Professor of Law · College of Letters and Science
Industrial organization, law and economics, public economics
Aaron Streets
Associate Professor of Bioengineering · University of California, Berkeley
The Streets lab is interested in applying lessons from mathematics, physics, and engineering, to invent tools that help us dissect and quantify complex biological systems. Our goal is to uncover laws that govern the interactions of molecules inside the cell and the interactions b…
Aaron Streets
assistant professor of bioengineering · College of Engineering
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Aaron Streets
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering · College of Engineering
Aaron Streets, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Streets will explore how obesity leads to unhealthy changes in the cellular, molecular and structural composition of adipose tissue. “Much of our lab’s research is technology driven and exploratory by nature which means there i…
Aarti Sethi
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
Agrarian Anthropology; Rural Life; Feminist Anthropology; Political Economy; Comparative Religion; South Asia; Debt and Capitalism; Cinema and Media Culture; Ecstatic Experience, Embodiment and Aesthetics; Theories of Mind, Language and Subjectivity; Caste, Structural Violence an…
Abby Dernburg
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Abby Dernburg
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology · College of Letters and Science
chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis, chromosome structure and function, higher order chromosome structure, cell cycle controls, spatial pattern formation in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells
Adam Arkin
Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor of Bioengineering · Center for Computational Biology
Ecological Modeling, Evolutionary Biology and Phylogenetics, Genomics and Genetics, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Network and Systems Biology
Adam Benkato
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Associate Professor, Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies Associate Professor, Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies I'm currently an Associate Professor, and holder of the Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies, in MELC. Before coming…
Adam Yala
Below The Line Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Health
Adele Cutler
Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adina Merenlender
Professor of Cooperative Extension in Conservation Science · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Conservation Science
Climate Stewardship
Climate-wise Habitat Connectivity
Working Lands Conservation
Community Science
Aditi Krishnapriyan
Bruce & Susan Stangeland Professor · College of Chemistry
Development of new physics-inspired machine learning methods, geometric deep learning, differentiable physics, dynamical systems, numerical methods, computational geometry, optimization
Aditya Parameswaran
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Database Management Systems (DBMS), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Adrian Aguilera
Professor · School of Social Welfare
digital health, depression interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy, health equity, machine learning, implementation science
Adrian Aguilera
Associate Professor · School of Social Welfare
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Adrian Lee
Professor · College of Letters and Science
My field of observational cosmology is really exciting right now. New data are coming in at a rapid pace, answering some questions and raising yet more. Currently, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is the primary focus of my research. We can now make accurate maps of the smal…
Adrienne Correa
Associate Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Global change microbial ecology, symbiosis, environmental virology, coastal ecology, coral reefs, community-driven research, ocean solutions
Aglaya Glebova
Associate Professor of Art History · College of Letters and Science
Aglaya Glebova specializes in modern art, with an emphasis on interwar European avant-gardes and Soviet art, and the history and theory of photography. Her research interests include the politics of modernism, realism, and figuration between 1900 and the Cold War; avant-garde exp…
Agustin Palacios
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ahmad Nabhan
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ahmed Alaa
Below The Line Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ahmed Badruzzaman
Professional Faculty · Haas School of Business
Ahmed Badruzzaman is a Bangladesh-born American energy scientist with contributions in research, development, and deployment of nuclear, petroleum technologies, and small energy systems suitable for developing countries via a 45 year journey through several U.S. R&D and education…
Ahmet Yildiz
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology · College of Letters and Science
single molecule biophysics, molecular motors, telomeres, Cas9
Ai-Ko Liu
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
Symplectic geometry, enumerative geometry
Aihwa Ong
Professor in Anthropology Amerita · College of Letters and Science
I conduct ethnographic research at the intersection of socio-cultural anthropology, urban studies, science, technology & medicine, and contemporary art. Key areas of research are: the anthropology of knowledge and expertise, the ethnography of governance and urban change, and the…
Al-An deSouza
Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alain de Janvry
Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Poverty analysis, rural development, quantitative analysis of development policies, impact analysis of social programs, technological innovations in agriculture, and the management of common property resources. Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle-East, and the Indian su…
Alan Edelman
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Numerical linear algebra, parallel computing, random eigenvalues
Alan H. Schoenfeld
Distinguished Professor · Berkeley School of Education
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alan Hammond
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Statistical mechanics, studied rigorously via modern techniques from mathematical probability
Alan Hubbard
Professor and Chair of BioStatistics, School of Public Health · University of California, Berkeley
Hubbard’s research interests encompass causal inference, statistical issues in infectious disease, bioinformatics, data adaptive target parameters, and prediction and variable importance in trauma.
Alan J. Smith
Society Awards and Fellowships · College of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alan Karras
Professor · College of Letters and Science
eighteenth-century Atlantic world, global interactions, transnational crimes such as smuggling, fraud and corruption
Alanna Schepartz
Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, The T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Chair in Chemistry · College of Chemistry
Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Organic Chemistry, Biophysics. Professor Schepartz's research group is interested in questions that span the chemistry-biology continuum. We seek to establish new knowledge about the chemistry of complex cellular processes and apply this knowl…
Alastair Iles
Professor of Sustainability Transitions · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Chemicals policy and politics (including green chemistry, chemicals testing, biomonitoring) II sustainable food systems (including agroecology, policies for diversified farming systems, food sovereignty) II environmental STS II sustainability transitions II sustainability learnin…
Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Professor · College of Engineering
Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation (CPSDA); Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR), Hybrid systems; Design methodologies and tools; Artificial Intelligence (AI), formal methods for AI, falsification
Alberto Ledesma
Graduate Diversity Director · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alejandra Echeverri
Assistant Professor of Conservation Science · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Neotropical ornithology, Biocultural conservation, Conservation psychology and conservation marketing, Women, Latinx, and youth in STEM
Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa
Assistant Professor of Conservation Science · Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Conservation Science, Neotropical Ornithology, Conservation psychology, Community Ecology, Cultural Values of Nature, Women/Latinx in STEM
Alessandra Lanzara
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Alessandra Lanzara is a Professor in the Department of Physics. Alessandra Lanzara was a 2023 Bakar Prize Recipient. There is a worldwide race to build quantum computers that will allow for complex and currently impossible calculations, such as in cryptography and protein modelin…
Alex Dimakis
Professor · College of Engineering
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative Models, Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Information Theory
Alex Marson
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology (UCSF) · Center for Computational Biology
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Alex Saum-Pascual
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Digital media and literature in the Spanish-speaking world, electronic literature, digital humanities, media studies, environmental studies, decolonial thought, digital materiality, algorithmic culture, creative writing with digital tools, generative AI.
Alexander Huth
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
language neuroscience, fMRI, semantic modeling, decoding/encoding models, computational neuroscience
Alexander Katz
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering · College of Chemistry
Molecular Engineering of Single-Site Solid Catalysts and Functional Materials
We are a catalysis group that focuses on understanding how catalysts functions given a certain molecular active-site structure. This approach enables and is invaluable to the rational design of catalys…
Alexander von Rospatt
Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Buddhist and South Asian Studies · College of Letters and Science
Alexander von Rospatt is Professor for Buddhist and South Asian Studies, and Director of the Group in Buddhist Studies. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism, the only Indic Mahayana tradition that continues to persist in its original S…
Alexandra Lossada
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
Immigration, citizenship, and language in contemporary American ethnic literatures, especially in Latinx and Chicanx writing.
Alexandre Bayen
Professor · College of Engineering
Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR); Artificial Intelligence (AI); Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation (CPSDA)
Alexandro Gradilla
Associate Professor/ Dual Chair · College of Letters and Science
Associate Professor/ Dual Chair Associate Professor/ Dual Chair Chicana/o Studies/African American Studies Department at California State University, Fullerton Chicana/o Studies/African American Studies Department at California State University, Fullerton
Alexei Efros
Professor · College of Engineering
computer vision, computer graphics, computational photography, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Alexei Yurchak
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Communism and post-communism, Political Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology, Media and Mediation, Utopias, History, Cold War, Discourse, Subject, Ideology, Sovereignty, Russia, Soviet and post-Soviet world, Irony, Performance and performativity.
Alexis T. Bell
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Chemistry
Understanding the fundamental relationships between the structure and composition of heterogeneous catalysts and their performance.
Professor Bell studies reaction mechanisms in order to identify factors limiting the activity and selectivity of catalysts. Reaction systems being …
Alfred L. Foster
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Universal algebra; structure theory and applications
Ali Javey
Professor · College of Engineering
Wearable sensor technologies, personalized medicine, sweat sensors, flexible sensors, integrated circuits, real-time diagnostics
Ali Mesbah
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering · College of Chemistry
Learning-based predictive control; uncertainty quantification; plasma processing; manufacturing systems
Ali Niknejad
Professor · College of Engineering
Integrated Circuits (INC), Microwave and mm-Wave Circuits and Systems, Physical Electronics (PHY), Signal Processing (SP), Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Design, Modeling and Analysis (DMA), Applied Electromagnetics
Alice Agogino
ME Professor · College of Engineering
Andrea Goldsmith(B.S.’86, M.S.’91, Ph.D.’94 EECS), dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and an electrical engineering professor at Princeton University, became the first woman to receive the Marconi Prize, the highest honor in telecommunications research. Her res…
Alison Gopnik
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters and Science
Cognitive development, causal learning, psychology and philosophy
Alison Post
Associate Professor · Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Comparative political economy, environmental policy, regulation, urban politics and policy, Latin America, South Asia.
Alistair Sinclair
Professor · College of Letters and Science
algorithms, applied probability, random walks, Markov chains, computational applications of randomness, Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical physics, combinatorial optimization, nonlinear dynamical systems
Allan Sly
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Allison Harvey
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Adults and adolescents, particularly sleep disorders and mental illness. Comorbidity and complexity. Transdiagnostic approaches. Treatment development. Behavior change. Cognitive behavior therapy. Community mental health. Dissemination and implementation science.
Alp Sipahigil
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics Experimentalist, Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Experimentalist, Quantum Physics Experimentalist
Alva Noë
Professor of Philosophy · College of Letters and Science
(B.A., Columbia; B.Phil., Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard). Noë is a philosopher whose focus is perception and consciousness, as well art and the aesthetic. His most recent bookThe Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Arewas published by Princeton in 2023. He is currently…
Alvin Cheung
Professor · College of Engineering
Database Management Systems (DBMS), Programming Systems (PS)
Alvin Cheung
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
program analysis, program synthesis, database application performance, big systems, big data, database management, database management systems, database design and construction, programming languages and compilers, programming languages
Amalia Cabezas
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside Media and Cultural Studies Department at UC Riverside
Amanda Jo Goldstein
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Enlightenment and Romantic literature and science, rhetoric and poetics, pre-Darwinian biology, materialist theories of history, poetry, and nature
Amy E. Herr
Professor · College of Engineering
2024Zhang, Yizhe; Naguro, Isao; Ryuno, Hiroki; Herr, Amy E.ContactBlot: Microfluidic Control and Measurement of the
Cell-Cell Contact State to Assess Contact-Inhibited ERK SignalingJournal ArticleIn:ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY,vol. 96,no. 38,pp. 15330-15337,2024,ISSN: 0003-2700.Li…
Amy Freund
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Amy Freund (2005) is an associate professor and Kleinheinz Endowment for the Arts and Education Endowed Chair in art history at Southern Methodist University. Her first book, Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France (Penn State University Press, 2014), examines the uses o…
Amy Herr
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
microscale biomarker detection technology
Amy Rose Deal
Associate Professor of Linguistics · College of Letters and Science
Formal semantics, generative syntax, and their interaction, with special attention to modeling crosslinguistic variation and language universals. Recent work addresses the semantics and syntax of modals, embedded indexicals and indexical shift, the de re/de dicto distinction, and…
Ana Claudia Arias
Professor · College of Engineering
2001, Ph.D., Physics, University of Cambridge, UK 1997, M.S., Physics, Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil 1995, B.S., Physics, Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil Flexible and Printed Electronics
Anant Sahai
Professor · College of Engineering
Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Information Theory, Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Sharing, Wireless Protocols; Artificial Intelligence (AI), Learning for collaboration and coordination; machine learning; Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (C…
Anastasios Melis
The Grace Kase and Harry Y. Tsujimoto Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Photosynthesis, Metabolic Engineering, Synthetic Biology, Bioproduction R&D
Anca Dragan
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Anca Dragan
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
robotics, human-robot interaction, human-compatible artificial intelligence
Anders Näär
Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
gene expression, microRNAs, mammalian cell metabolism, Metabolic Diseases, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, NAFLD/NASH, cancer therapies
Anders Näär
Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Dr. Anders Näär is a Professor in the Department of Nutritional Science and Toxicology. Joint project with Matt Springer The Springer lab has decades of experience applying cell/gene/drug therapeutic approaches to cardiovascular diseases, and the Näär lab has uncovered several mi…
Anders Rygh Swensen
Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrea Gomez
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology · College of Letters and Science
neurobiology, RNA splicing, synaptic plasticity, electrophysiology, two-photon imaging, molecular genetics, molecular biology
Andreas Floer
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Symplectic geometry, nonlinear analysis, topology
Andreas Martin
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology · College of Letters and Science
proteasome
Andreas Schaab
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
Andreas Schaab is a macroeconomist and an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Andreas grew up in Germany and graduated from Harvard University (AB ‘15, PhD ‘21). He works on monetary policy and business cycle fluctuations, with a particular focus on the implications of inequality…
Andrei Okounkov
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Representation theory (of combinatorial flavor) and its application to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, probability, special functions, and other fields
Andreja Novakovic
Graduate Advisor · College of Letters and Science
19th and 20th century European philosophy, primarily Hegel and German Idealism, and additionally Beauvoir and Nietzsche
Andreu Mas-Colell
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Mathematical economics, general equilibrium in topological vector lattices
Andrew Dillin
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Thomas and Stacey Siebel Distinguished Chair in Stem Cell Biology and Professor of Immunology and Molecular Medicine · College of Letters and Science
endocrinology, genetics of aging
Andrew E. Barshay
Professor · College of Letters and Science
“The Protestant Imagination: Robert Bellah, Maruyama Masao, and the Study of Japanese Thought,” in M. Bortolini (ed.),The Anthem Companion to Robert Bellah(Anthem Press, 2019), pp. 191-213. Revised and expanded version of “The Protestant Imagination: A Note on Maruyama Masao, Rob…
Andrew Gelman
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Jackson
Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Plant viruses and disease control in transgenic plants; Plant rhabdoviruses; Biological properties of the hordeiviruses
Andrew Majda
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Partial differential equations, shock waves, combustion, incompressible flow, vortex dynamics, atmospheric science
Andrew Matsas
Architecture and Design Librarian · College of Environmental Design
Architecture and Design Librarian Master of Library and Information Science, Chicago State University, 2023 Master of Urban and Regional Planning, UCLA, 2016 Bachelors of Arts in Cultural Anthropology, Boston University, 2012
Andrew Shanken
Associate Professor of Architecture · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Way Leong
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
20th- and 21st-Century American, Asian American, 19th-Century American, Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Critical Theory
André Dombrowski
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
(Ph.D. 2006) organized the conference "Manet: Then and Now" at the ICA, University of Pennsylvania, which many friends and colleagues associated with Berkeley attended, including the presenters Huey Copeland, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Kaja Silverman. After lecturing on Monet in …
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics · College of Letters and Science
International Trade, Development Economics, Macroeconomics
Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics · College of Letters and Science
Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics International Trade, Development Economics, Macroeconomics Gains from trade; economic growth; multinational production and technology diffusion; industrial policy Rodríguez-Clare is a professor of economics at the University of…
Angelica Stacy
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Chemistry
Professor of the Graduate School Professor of the Graduate School Chemistry Professor of the Graduate School Chemistry Professor of the Graduate School
Angjoo Kanazawa
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
Angjoo Kanazawa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. She leads the Kanazawa AI Research (KAIR) lab under BAIR and serves on the advisory board of Wonder Dynamics. She earned her BA i…
Ann M. Kring
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters and Science
Developmental predictors of clinical, social, cognitive, and emotional functioning in late life; Emotional features of schizophrenia, the linkage between emotion, cognitive and social deficits in schizophrenia
Ann Swidler
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters and Science
Culture, religion, theory, institutionalization, social ecologies of religion in Africa; chieftaincy, congregational religion and capacities for collective action
Anna Björklund
Linguistic Engineer · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anna Livia Brand
Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning · College of Environmental Design
My research and teaching focus on racial landscapes and on the geographical implications of racial justice. I am interested in the ways that planning and design disciplines enact and codify racial oppression in urban landscapes and how redevelopment paradigms in the 21 st century…
Anna Stilz
Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science · College of Letters and Science
history of political thought (particularly Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, and Marx); democratic theory; nationalism; political obligation, authority, and state legitimacy; rights to sovereignty and territory; the ethics of migration and borders; climate change and climate justice; and th…
Annaliese Beery
Associate Professor of Neuroscience · College of Letters and Science
Mechanisms supporting affiliative social behavior between peers; neuroendocrinology of complex behavior
Anne Walsh
Professor and Department Co-Chair · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Anne-Lise François
Professor · College of Letters and Science
modern period, comparative romanticisms; lyric poetry; the psychological novel and novel of manners; gender and critical theory; literature and philosophy; and ecocriticism
Anneka Lenssen
Associate Professor · History of Art
Modern painting and contemporary visual practices, with a focus on the cultural politics of the Middle East. Her research examines problems of artistic representation in relation to the globalizing imaginaries of empire, nationalism, communism, decolonization, and Third World hum…
Antar Bandyopadhyay
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
My main research interest is in theoretical and applied probability mainly focusing on discrete problems arising out of combinatorics, statistical physics and computer science. In particular I am interested in random graphs, probability on tress, combinatorial optimization and st…
Anthony Cascardi
Professor, Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor · College of Letters and Science
Literature and Philosophy
Aesthetic Theory
Early Modern Literature
Cervantes
Anthony D. Joseph
Professor · College of Engineering
Genomics, Secure Machine Learning, Datacenters, mobile/distributed computing, and wireless communications (networking and telephony)
Anthony Joseph
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences · Center for Computational Biology
Anthony Joseph’s primary research interests are in Secure Machine Learning, Datacenters, mobile/distributed computing, and wireless communications (networking and telephony). He is part of the AMP Lab and explores these areas in current (Mesos, SecML, DETER, and SCRUB) and former…
Anton Kaes
Class of 1939 Professor of German and Film & Media · College of Letters and Science
Modernism/modernity; Weimar cinema and culture; trauma and memory; 20th century German literature, film, and avant-garde; film theory and media archaeology; Frankfurt School; German exiles; film noir; photography and temporality
Antonio Montalbán
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Mathematical logic, computability theory
Anushah Hossain
Assistant Research Linguist and Director of the Script Encoding Initiative · College of Letters and Science
Assistant Research Linguist and Director of the Script Encoding Initiative Assistant Research Linguist and Director of the Script Encoding Initiative
Anya Domlesky
Lifchez Professor of Practice in Social Justice · College of Environmental Design
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Apratim Guha
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Arash Komeili
Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Arash Komeili is a Professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. The traditional mining industry is facing a major crisis. Dwindling sources of easily accessible ores are increasing the costs of exploration and extraction of economically relevant metals. Meanwhile, …
Ariane Cruz
Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Penn State · College of Letters and Science
images of black female sexuality, black women and/in BDSM, black visuality, and race and representation
Arlene Keizer
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Armando Fox
Professor · College of Engineering
online education, MOOC, blended learning, parallel programming, software engineering, Web development
Armando Fox
Professor · Berkeley School of Education
applied statistical machine learning, Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing, highly-productive parallel programming, and online education, especially in programming and software engineering
Armando Lara-Millan
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Economy & Society, Law, Medicine, Historical Sociology, Ethnography
Arthur Lee
Arthur Lee - UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering · College of Engineering
Arthur Lee is Chevron Fellow and Principal Advisor, Environment and Climate Change, at Chevron Services Company, based in San Ramon, California. He has held positions of increasing responsibilities, including the corporation-wide formulation of strategic positioning and policy de…
Arthur Middleton
G.R. and W.M. Goertz Professor of Wildlife Management, UC Berkeley · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Wildlife ecology, management, and policy; Conservation policy; Landscape conservation; Science communication and outreach
Arturo Aldama
Associate Professor and Director of CSERA · College of Letters and Science
Associate Professor and Director of CSERA Associate Professor and Director of CSERA Ethnic Studies Department at University of Colorado, Boulder Ethnic Studies Department at University of Colorado, Boulder
Ashia Wilson
Assistant Professor at MIT · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ashley Wolf
Assistant Professor, Public Health Division of Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology and Center for Computational Biology · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Gut Microbiome
Ashok Ajoy
Assistant Professor · College of Chemistry
physical chemistry, nanoscale NMR spectroscopy
Ashok Gadgil
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering · College of Engineering
Water research, development engineering, water disinfection, arsenic and fluoride removal, lead pipe treatment, chromate removal
Asia Leeds
Assistant Professor, Spelman College · College of Letters and Science
Afro-Latin America, gender and Pan-Africanism, Caribbean migration, and the racial politics of citizenship and belonging in Central America
Asma Kazmi
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Research-based art combining virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity, colonialism, post-colonial contexts, Islam, Muslim culture, trade routes, global flows, labor, colonial and indigenous knowledge systems, interspecies entanglements.
Atreyee Gupta
Assistant Professor · Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Visual and intellectual histories of twentieth-century art; the intersections among the Cold War, the Non-Aligned Movement, and art after 1945; new media and experimental cinema; and the question of the global as materially, intellectually, and politically constellated around dec…
Avishay Tal
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
computational complexity, analysis of boolean functions, circuit complexity, formula complexity, query complexity, pseudorandomness, learning, combinatorics, quantum computing, and the connections between algorithms and lower bounds
Aziza Suleymanzade
Assistant Professor, Robert J. Birgeneau Professorship in Physics · College of Letters and Science
Hybrid quantum systems that combine Rydberg atoms, superconducting circuits, and nanophotonics; creating novel quantum interfaces and generating entanglement resources for quantum information processing, communication, and sensing.
Babette Anne Brumback
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Balint Virag
Assistant Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Baoxia Mi
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Baoxia Mi is a Wood-Calvert Chair in Engineering and a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Mi’s research focuses on studying physicochemical processes with an emphasis on advanced membrane processes and nanotechnology to address some of the most chall…
Barbara A. Romanowicz
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters and Science
Deep earth structure and dynamics using seismological tools. Earthquake processes and scaling laws. Real time estimation of earthquake parameters. Development of modern broadband seismic and geophysical observatories on land and in the oceans. Planetary seismology.
Barbara Jacak
Professor of Physics · College of Letters and Science
Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics
Barbara Meyer
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development · College of Letters and Science
developmental biology, gene expression, genetic determination of sex, regulatory genes, chromosome dynamics, X-chromosome
Barry Eichengreen
George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science · College of Letters and Science
Economic history, international economics
Barry Stroud
Professor of Philosophy · College of Letters and Science
Memorial websiteMaintained by Barry’s family. Includes a video of the service, the welcome slide show, written remembrances, and a tour of the Stroud Room.
Beatriz Manz
Professor of the Graduate School · College of Letters and Science
Human Rights, Latin America, Migrations, Peasantry, Political/Social/Ethnic Conflict, Social movements
Behcet Acikmese
Professor · College of Engineering
Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
Ben Handel
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Industrial organization, health economics, applied microeconomics, information economics
Ben Safdi
Professor · College of Letters and Science
Dark matter, axion particles, high energy physics, theoretical physics, particle physics, cosmology
Ben Williams
Assistant Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Dr. Ben Williams is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. Ben Williams is seeking to unlock tissue and organ regeneration in engineered & gene edited plants, a complicated process that is currently the biggest bottleneck to crop improvement. Wil…
Ben Williams
Assistant Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Plant epigenetics and cell identity
Benjamin Blackman
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
evolution, adaptation, domestication, phenotypic plasticity, flowering time, evo-devo, genomics, plant biology
Benjamin Blonder
Associate Professor · Rausser College of Natural Resources
Ecology, Global change, Plant ecophysiology, Community ecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Useful plants, Machine learning, Eco-informatics, Mathematical modeling, Remote sensing
Benjamin Brinner
Professor, Ethnomusicology · College of Letters and Science
Although I retired on July 1, 2021, I intend to continue to teach a few courses and work with my graduate advisees who are completing their dissertations, while completing my own book on expert musical memory.
Over more than thirty years as a professor at Berkeley I have enjoyed…
Benjamin E. Hermalin
Thomas & Alison Schneider Distinguished Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics · College of Letters and Science
Economics of organization, industrial organization, contract theory, corporate governance
Benjamin Faber
Professor · College of Letters and Science
International trade, development economics
Benjamin James Morris
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Benjamin Recht
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Benjamin Safdi
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Astrophysics, Particle Physics
Benjamin Schoefer
Associate Professor · College of Letters and Science
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics
Benjamin W. Porter
Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology · College of Letters and Science
Archaeology, Middle Eastern Archaeology, Arid Environments, Heritage, Tourism, and Museum Studies
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