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ADRIAN BORSA
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Cryosphere and Polar Science, Geodesy and Lithospheric Deformation, Instrumentation and Observational Networks, Remote Sensing, Land Surface Hydrology
AFZALI GOROOH, VESTA
Research Professional · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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ALDEN, DOUGLAS
R&D ENGINEER · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Remote Sensing, Climate Sciences, Ocean Instrumentation and Technology, Remote Sensing and Satellite Oceanography
ALEC BRENNER
Assistant Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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ALFORD, MATTHEW
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Coastal Oceanography, Internal Waves and Ocean Mixing, Ocean Instrumentation and Technology, Physical Oceanography, Upper Ocean and Submesoscale Processes
ALICE GABRIEL
Associate Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Seismology and Earthquake Physics
ALLARD, SARAH
Academic (Project Scientist) · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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ALMALITI, JEHAD
Visitor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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ALUWIHARE, LIHINI
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Organic matter composition and cycling
Analytical techniques for examining complex mixtures
Isotopes as tracers of organic matter source and residence time
Diversity of microbial metabolisms in aquatic environments
ANDREAS ANDERSSON
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Biogeochemistry, Coastal Processes, Low Temperature Geochemistry, Marine Chemistry, Ocean Acidification
ANDREW ALLEN
Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics, Marine Microbiology, Phytoplankton Biology and Algal Biofuels, Plankton Ecology and Food-Web Interactions, Polar Ecology, Population and Community Ecology, Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Biogeochemistry, Coastal Oceanogra…
ANDREW BARTON
Associate Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Marine ecology, Marine ecosystems, Macroecology, Biogeography, Biodiversity, Climate impacts, Biogeochemistry
APOSTOL, ROMALYN
EVENTS SPEC · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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ARCILA, DAHIANA
Assistant Professor · Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Deep-Sea Biology, Genomics, Metagenomics, and Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics, Systematics and Biogeography, Population Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Past Climate Change
Aaron Coleman
· School of Biological Sciences
Biology Education Research; Teaching Scientific Reasoning; Research on Fibroblast Growth Factor Signal Transduction
Aaron Rosengren
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Astrodynamics, Celestial Mechanics, and Dynamical Astronomy; Orbital Debris and Space Situational Awareness; Applied and Computational Mathematics; Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaotic and Complex Systems.
Aaron Schulman
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Aarons, Sarah Miranda
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Abdoulaye Ndao
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Nanophotonics, integrated optics, nanomaterial/structure design, bio photonics
Abhishek Saha
Associate Professor
Combustion, fluid mechanics, propulsion, flame dynamics, droplet dynamics
Achyuta Adhvaryu
Tata Chancellor’s Professor of Economics; Director, 21st Century India Center · School of Global Policy & Strategy
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Adah Almutairi
Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry · Jacobs School of Engineering
Nanomedicine, nanotechnology, chemistry and polymer science
Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Adam Feist
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Systems Biology; Laboratory Automation; Adaptive Laboratory Evolution (ALE); Genome-Scale Modeling; Synthetic Biology; Metabolic Engineering; Biomanufacturing; Microbial Physiology
Adam J. Engler
Professor and Department Chair, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Cardiovascular and Cancer Mechanobiology
Adele Edling Shank
Miriam Novotny | Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University · UC San Diego
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Adrian Jinich, Ph.D
Assistant Professor · Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
The Jinich laboratory is a mixed computational and experimental group. The overarching goal of the Jinich lab is to develop computational methods that predict enzyme substrate chemical structure based on amino acid sequence, thereby unveiling previously unknown enzyme functions a…
Aftab Jassal
anthropology of religion; ritual and performance studies; human-nonhuman relations; illness and healing; environmental anthropology; theories of space and place; narrative and storytelling; ethnography; caste; Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism; South Asia
Aga Kendrick
· School of Biological Sciences
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Ahmed-Waeil Elgamal
PhD Student · Jacobs School of Engineering
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Aila M. Matanock
Associate Professor · School of Global Policy & Strategy
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Akos Rona-Tas
Horst A. von Recum | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · UC San Diego
economic sociology, risk and uncertainty, rational choice theory, and statistical and survey methodology
Alan Saghatelian
· School of Biological Sciences
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Alan Schneider
Faculty In Memoriam · UC San Diego
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Albert Chern
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Albert Pisano
Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering; Special Adviser to the Chancellor for Campus Strategic Initiatives; Professor, MAE; Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
Micro-electro-mechanical systems, MEMS, manufacturing, wireless sensors for harsh environments, low-cost sensors.
Albert R. Chern
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Numerical analysis, differential geometry, algebraic topology, differential equations, computational mathematics
Alessandro Marinoni
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Magnetically controlled nuclear fusion, plasma, advanced modeling
Alessandro Palermo
Professor, Structural Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Structural engineering, bridge engineering, timber engineering, novel cementitious materials, non-metal reinforcement, digital fabrication
Alex Gantman
Professor of Practice · Jacobs School of Engineering
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Alex Orailoglu
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Alex Orailoglu
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Electronic design automation, VLSI testing, and synthesis of fault-tolerant integrated circuits (ICs).
Alex Snoeren
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Alex Steiny Wellsjo
Assistant Professor of Economics and Strategy · Rady School of Management
Behavioral Economics
Applied Microeconomics
Health Economics
Household Finance
Organizational Economics
Alex Warstadt
Assistant Professor in Linguistics and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (joint appointment) · UC San Diego
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Alexander Fattal
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
visual and multimodal anthropologist whose scholarly and creative work has focused on the Colombian armed conflict and efforts to forge a less violent future in that Andean nation. His work spans traditional academic publications, books and peer-reviewed articles, as well as comm…
Alexander Gelber
Clinical Instructor · School of Global Policy & Strategy
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Alexander W. Kocurek
assistant professor · UC San Diego
philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. Specifically, my research focuses on counterfactuals, identity, hyperintensionality, chance, expressivism, metalinguistic negotiation, conceptual engineering, and metametaphysics.
Alexandra Heaney
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Alexandra Jazz Dickinson
· School of Biological Sciences
Organ development requires regulated spatial and temporal coordination of stem cell division, tissue differentiation, and cellular maintenance. Accordingly, dysregulation of this balance can lead to defects in cell behavior, tissue morphogenesis, and organ function. How stem cell…
Alexandro Segade
Associate Professor · UC San Diego
Performance Art, Video Art, Queer Art, Latinx and Caribbean Art, Experimental Film, Writing for Camera, Contemporary Art Theory, Exhibition Design, Comics Studies, Surrealism and Science-Fiction
Alexey Arefiev
Professor and Chair · Jacobs School of Engineering
Computational and theoretical plasma physics with the focus on high-intensity laser-plasma interactions, high energy density physics, and kinetic plasma phenomena; Numerical algorithms for kinetic plasma simulations.
Alin Deutsch
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Semistructured and XML data, data security, adaptive distributed query design, and the design and optimization of query languages.
Alisa Huffaker
· School of Biological Sciences
Like animals, plants continually interact with a plethora of other organisms in their environment, including potentially pathogenic microbes and herbivorous insects that can cause disease or damage. To minimize the detrimental impact of invading organisms, plants must mount a rap…
Alison O'Daniel
Associate Professor, Suraj Israni Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts · UC San Diego
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Alistair Russell
· School of Biological Sciences
Nearly every cell in the human body has the capacity to respond to a viral infection with the production of interferons—critical components of cell intrinsic immunity that drive resolution of disease, and, unfortunately, much of the resultant immunopathology. Unsurprisingly, viru…
Allan Havis
Playwriting Faculty · UC San Diego
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Allan Timmermann
Dr. Harry M. Markowitz Endowed Chair in Finance and Investing, Distinguished Professor of Finance · Rady School of Management
Asset Pricing
Portfolio Management and Evaluation
Time-series and Panel Econometrics
Economic Forecasting
Alon Orlitsky
Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
Communications and information theory, with particular interests in signal processing, data compression, speech recognition and learning theory.
Alon Orlitsky
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Amanda Batarseh
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
Palestinian literature, Arabic literature, Arab American and Arab diaspora literature, Indigenous studies, Mediterranean studies and comparative literature
Amarnath Gupta
Sean Abbott-Klafter | Case School of Engineering | School of Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · Jacobs School of Engineering
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Ameeth Vijay
PhD Student · School of Arts & Humanities
global anglophone literature, modern and contemporary British literature, postcolonial studies and urban studies
Amelia Glaser
Professor · UC San Diego
Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish literature, translation studies, transnational literary theory, intersection of Slavic and Jewish literatures, poetics of leftist internationalism
Amin Vahdat
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Amir Zarrinpar
Professor · School of Biological Sciences
At the Zarrinpar Lab, we are pioneering the study of the gut microbiome and its impact on human health. We explore the intersection of circadian biology, gut physiology, and the gut microbiome to understand their collective influence on a number of diseases, such as obesity, type…
Amna Salam
Assistant Professor of Political Science · UC San Diego
American political institutions using formal models and empirical methods. In particular, her work looks at how actors within the legal system can work strategically to advance their political and ideological objectives. Currently, she is working on various projects considering t…
Amrita Dhar
Assistant Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
early modern literature, disability studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, migration studies, and the environmental humanities
Amy Adler
Professor · Visual Arts, UC San Diego
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Amy Alexander
Professor · UC San Diego
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Amy Kiger
· School of Biological Sciences
Cellular remodeling: Investigating membrane regulation of dynamic cell organization & shape. Cells must continuously maintain integrity and compartmentalization with changes in cell size and shape that occur in development, immunity, aging and disease. How cellular spatiotemporal…
Amy L. Non
Professor · UC San Diego
Dr. Non's overall research goals are to understand mechanisms driving health disparities across varying racial/ethnic groups and social classes. She examines biological mechanisms beyond the genome through which sociocultural experiences, often early in life, and even prenatally,…
Amy Ousterhout
Assistant Professor · Jacobs School of Engineering
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Amy Ousterhout
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Operating systems and networks
Amy Pasquinelli
· School of Biological Sciences
The discovery that regulatory RNAs control almost every biological pathway has revolutionized our understanding of gene expression. At the forefront, microRNAs (miRNAs) have proven to be an abundant and essential class of RNA molecules in plants and animals. The numerous examples…
Amy Sara Carroll
Professor · UC San Diego
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Ananda Goldrath
· School of Biological Sciences
Immunological memory ensures that, once infected by a particular virus or bacteria, individuals are generally protected from a second encounter with that same pathogen. This ability of lymphocytes to "remember" is the basis for protection following vaccination. Little is known ab…
Anastasia Kiyonaga
Assistant Professor
How the brain generates and maintains transient mental representations to guide behavior. How the active content of thought intersects with perception, attention, and action.
Andrea Chiba
Professor · UC San Diego
Spatial attention, associative learning, acetylcholine, amygdala.
Andrea Mendoza
Professor of Ancient Studies · School of Arts & Humanities
20th and 21st century Japanese and Latin American literary and visual texts; intellectual history and philosophy; critical gender studies; critical race studies; and decolonial critique
Andrea R. Tao
Professor, Chemical and Nano Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Functional nanostructured materials, nanowires, nanophotonics, and biomimetic materials. She works in nanophotonics and optics at the nanoscale, in the synthesis and assembly of platonic nanocrystals, and in developing nanowires for sensing applications.
Andreas Ernst
· School of Biological Sciences
Cells face a daunting logistical challenge, with thousands of reactions taking place each second to sustain their growth and viability. To address this challenge, eukaryotic cells organize their interior into a set of membrane-enclosed compartments, referred to as organelles or t…
Andrew B. Kahng
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Andrew Barton
· School of Biological Sciences
Marine phytoplankton are microscopic photosynthetic organisms living in the ocean surface. They form the base of the marine food chain, and can thus impact larger marine organisms, from zooplankton to commercially important fish and even whales. Phytoplankton also play instrument…
Andrew Chisholm
Professor · School of Biological Sciences
How the skin and nervous system maintain and repair themselves. The skin (epidermis) and the nervous system are each capable of regenerative responses to injury. Epidermal epithelia undergo robust wound healing responses in response to physical injury, related to the skin's abili…
Andrew D. McCulloch
Distinguished Professor, Bioengineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
In-vitro, in-vivo and computational cardiac mechanics and physiology in health and disease.
Andrew J. Lucas
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · Jacobs School of Engineering
Biogeochemical/Physical control of phytoplankton productivity and community structure; internal waves; submesoscale physical dynamics; air/sea interactions; physical/biological interactions; autonomous vehicle development;low power wave and ocean current energy generation
Andrew Kahng
Distinguished Professor, CSE; Distinguished Professor, ECE · Jacobs School of Engineering
Professor Kahng is an expert on the physical design of Very Large Scale Integrated circuits (VLSI), along with the VLSI design-manufacturing interface, the application of AI and machine learning to chip design, and the technology roadmap for semiconductors and semiconductor-based…
Andrew Kehler
Professor · UC San Diego
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Andrew Muroyama
· School of Biological Sciences
The complex and beautiful biological forms that surround us are created by the coordinated actions of individual cells. How this coordination is achieved is one of the central questions in developmental biology. We are interested in understanding the myriad ways that cells encode…
Andrew Shiau
· School of Biological Sciences
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Andrew deWaard
Associate Professor
Broadly defined, my research analyzes the relationship between culture and commerce, focusing on media systems, the social processes that shape them (capitalism, financialization, racialization, digitalization), and the roles of agents within them (institutions, corporations, wor…
Angela Booker
Associate Professor and Provost of Eighth College · Eighth College
Youth Civic and Political Participation; Learning in Informal Settings; Media and Technology for Learning; Mathematics in Context; Parent Advocacy; Anthropology and Education; Qualitative Research Methods
Angela J. Yu
· Jacobs School of Engineering
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Ania Jaroszewicz
Assistant Professor of Marketing · Rady School of Management
Combining consumer behavior and behavioral economics, her research is guided by the goal of improving public policy and consumer well-being. She is particularly interested in topics related to poverty, financial decision-making, and the psychology of asking and rejection.
Anna Joy Springer
Associate Professor · School of Arts & Humanities
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Anne Beatty-Martínez
Assistant Professor
How does cognition support language use? How does language use impact cognition? My research agenda capitalizes on the diversity and variability in language experience to better understand adaptive change in cognition and in behavior. The primary aim is to lay a theoretical and e…
Anne Elizabeth White
Assistant Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Science · Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
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Anthony J. Harb
Assistant Professor · UC San Diego
My research brings together theories and methodological tools from sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, education, media, and ethnic studies to better understand how discursive and linguistic practices shape, and are shaped by, identity work. My interdisciplinary work conte…