PhD Advisors at University of California, Santa Barbara 加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校
Research-focused faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara, 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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Adam Sabra
Loubat Professor of American Archaeology · University of California, Santa Barbara
Poverty and charity, legal history, family history, Islamic mysticism
Adam Waterbury
Now Assistant Professor at Denison U · Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research - UC Santa Barbara
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Adrienne Tsikewa
· University of California, Santa Barbara
Language documentation, description, and revitalization, applied linguistics, sociocultural linguistics, language ideologies, language and identity, language acquisition, community based linguistics, Native American languages, in particular Zuni
Aiden C. VanderStouwe
PhD Student · University of California, Santa Barbara
I am interested in the ways that individuals and communities use language to construct identity and sexuality. I have worked with Marriage Equality, USA since 2008 doing data and discourse analysis on survey responses from the Proposition 8 Campaign in California, and am beginnin…
Akiyo Maruyama Cantrell
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Alan Murray
Yardi Chair in Geography | Yardi Professor of Geography · College of Letters and Science
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Albert Ventayol-Boada
· University of California, Santa Barbara
Language documentation; Languages of Siberia; Yukaghir; Morphosyntax; Corpus Linguistics; Computational Methods; Language Maintenance; Games for Language Learning
Alex Shkolnik
Assistant Professor · College of Creative Studies
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Alex Shkolnik
Assistant Professor · Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research - UC Santa Barbara
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Alexander Franks
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
causal inference, Bayesian statistics, covariance estimation, missing data and measurement error, high throughput applications in biology (“omics”), sports.
Alexander Sabater
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Alexander Wahl
Ph.D. · University of California, Santa Barbara
Corpus-based research on collocation strength and prosodic boundary placement; Computational approach to distributional learning of multi-word units/constructions from corpora
Alexia Cabral
Front Desk Assistant · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Alfredo Ramirez
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Alice O'Connor
Professor and Director, UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy · University of California, Santa Barbara
I am a historian of inequality and public policy in the 20th and early 21st century United States. My research and teaching focus on the dynamics of wealth and poverty, social and urban policy, the politics of knowledge, the history of organized philanthropy, and the political ec…
Aline Alves Ferreira
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Cognitive aspects of translation
Amanda Joyce Hall
Assistant Professor of History
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Ambuj Singh
Professor · College of Engineering
Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, Database and Information Systems
Amit Shilo
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Athenian tragedy (especially Aeschylus), Plato, Homer, Greek political thinkers, Seneca, Hebrew Bible, Kafka, ethical philosophy in literature, political philosophy, environmental humanities, digital humanities, NLP, collective translation, comparative mythology and religion.
Amr El Abbadi
Distinguished Professor · College of Engineering
Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, Database and Information Systems
Amrah Salomón J.
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
c. 1800-1945, c. 1945-present, American Literature, American Race and Ethnic Studies, Creative Writing and/or Performance, Environment and Ecocriticism, Genders and Sexualities, Global Literatures, Indigenous and/or Decolonial Studies, Latinx and/or Chicanx Studies, Media Studies
Amy Frazier
Professor, Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Conservation Science · College of Letters and Science
Remote sensing, GIS, landscape ecology, global environmental change, biodiversity, ecosystem services
Amy Kyratzis
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Language and communicative development, gender differences in language and cognition, language Socialization, cognitive science
Ananya Renuka Balakrishna
Assistant Professor, Materials · College of Engineering
Professor Renuka Balakrishna’s research is at the intersection of Mechanics and Materials Science. Her research is centered on the observation that the interplay between microstructures, instabilities, and material constants can profoundly affect a material's physical properties.…
Andrea Berez-Kroeker
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Andrea Young
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Quantum electronics in two dimensional systems
Andreas Ludwig
Harihara Baskaran | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Andrew Carter
Associate Professor and Graduate Vice Chair · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Andrew Jayich
· College of Creative Studies
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Andrew MacDonald
Assistant Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Global Change Ecology, Disease Ecology, Environmental and Human Health
Andrew Plantinga
Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
⭐ Possibly hiring PhD students
Resource Economics, Land Use Economics
Andrew Tholl
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Andrey Sarantsev
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Andy Radford
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Angela Pitenis
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Angela Pitenis
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Bioengineering, Systems Biology, Materials & Interfaces, Energy Efficiency & Sustainability
Ania Bleszynski Jayich
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
We develop quantum technologies based on solid-state spins, photons, and phonons to probe fundamental questions in quantum science and condensed matter.
Anna Bax
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Anna James
· College of Creative Studies
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Annette R. Harrison
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Annie Lamar
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
archaic Greek; Homeric epic; computational linguistics; digital humanities; machine-learning
Anthony Barbieri
Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts · University of California, Santa Barbara
Ancient China
Chinese Archaeology and Epigraphy
Egyptology
Anthony Zee
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Applications of Quantum Field Theory in Physics and Biophysics
Anton Van der Ven
Professor, Materials · College of Engineering
Prof. Van der Ven's research seeks to develop first-principles descriptions of non-equilibrium processes in the solid state with a particular goal of generating an understanding of the mechanisms of phase transformations that couple diffusion and structural changes. His group dev…
Antony Millner
Associate Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
intertemporal choice and discounting, decision-making under uncertainty, the economics of long-run global risks, and political and behavioral economics
Argyro Katsika
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Phonetics; speech production; laboratory phonology; articulatory phonology; prosody
Armand Kuris
· College of Creative Studies
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Armen Zakarian
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Organic & Bioorganic, Molecular Design & Synthesis, Biomedical Sciences, Biology-Inspired Chemistry & Physics, Energy, Catalysis & Green Chemistry
Arnab Mukherjee
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Arpit Gupta
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Security and Cryptography, Machine Learning and Data Mining
Arturo Keller
Distinguished Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Fate and Transport, Watershed Management, Remediation, Pollution Prevention
Ashley Larsen
Associate Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Agricultural Ecology, Land Use, Landscape Ecology
Audrey Lopez
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Ayla Bozkurt Applebaum
· University of California, Santa Barbara
Phonetics and Phonology of Kabardian Spoken in Turkey; Languages and Genes in the North West Caucasus; Turkish English Bilingualism
B.S. Manjunath
Kristin Anne Goss | Scholars@Duke Profile · College of Engineering
Communications & Signal Processing, Visual Computing and Interaction
Barbara Kelly
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Bassam Bamieh
Professor · College of Engineering
Dynamic Systems and Control, Thermal Sciences & Fluid Mechanics, Micro & Nano Technology, Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
Ben Halpern
Professor; NCEAS Director · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Marine Ecology, Conservation Planning
Ben Hardekopf
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Ben Hardekopf
Associate Professor of Computer Science · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Ben Olguín
· College of Creative Studies
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Benjamin Brecher
Professor, Voice · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Benjamin Levy
Associate Professor, Theory Program; Vice Chair · University of California, Santa Barbara
Music Theory specializing in Contemporary Music; Undergraduate Advisor
Benjamin Mazin
Fredy Zypman | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Santa Barbara
Building the most powerful optical and near-IR detectors in the world to directly image exoplanets.
Bernadette Andrea
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
c. 1500 and earlier
c. 1500-1800
c. 1800-1945
British Literature
Genders and Sexualities
Global Literatures
Marxism, Critical Theory, and/or Historical Materialism
Postcolonial, Migration, and/or Diaspora Studies
Bishnupriya Ghosh
Professor of English and Global Studies · University of California, Santa Barbara
c. 1945-present, Environment and Ecocriticism, Global Literatures, Media Studies
Bolin Liao
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Micro- and Nanoscale Engineering, Electronic and Photonic Materials, Thermal Sciences & Fluid Mechanics, Micro & Nano Technology
Bongjin Kim
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
Secure Hardware Design, Machine Learning and Data Mining
Boris Shraiman
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Brad E. Paden
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Bradley Chmelka
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Bradley McDonnell
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Brandon Greene
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Biomedical Sciences; Biologically Inspired Chemistry & Physics; Energy, Catalysis & Green Chemistry; Structural Chemistry, Spectroscopy & Advanced Analysis; Inorganic & Organometallic; Physical Chemistry; Biochemistry & Biophysics.
Brendan Barnwell
· University of California, Santa Barbara
Lexical specificity in the acquisition of grammatical structure; The perception of intonation; Cross-modal priming of simulation semantics
Brendan Bowler
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Tracing how planets form and evolve with direct imaging, spectroscopy, dynamics, and variability.
Brendon Yoder
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Brent Wilson
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Brice Erickson
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Archaeology of ancient Greece, Archaic and Classical ceramic sequences, ancient Greek history, religion, and identity
Bruce H. Lipshutz
Distinguished Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Organic & Bioorganic, Molecular Design & Synthesis, Biomedical Sciences, Energy, Catalysis & Green Chemistry
Bruce Kendall
Professor; Associate Dean · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Conservation Biology, Population Ecology, Ecological Modeling
Butch Ware
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
West Africa, Islamic Knowledge & Spirituality, African Diaspora
Caitlin Casey
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
I’m an observational astronomer with expertise in high-redshift galaxies. I use the most massive and unusual galaxies at early times to test fundamental properties of galaxy assembly (including their gas, stars, and dust) within a ΛCDM cosmological framework. Research: I am an ob…
Caren Converse
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Carl Meinhart
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Carl Rubino
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Carla D'Antonio
Arent and Jean Schuyler Chair in Environmental Studies | Professor Arent H. Schuyler, Jr. ’61 and Jean K. Schuyler H’13; Schuyler Professor of Environmental Studies · College of Letters and Science
Botany
Ecology
Ecosystem Ecology
Population and Community Ecology
Carlos Nash
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Carmen Jany
· University of California, Santa Barbara
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Carolyn Mills
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
Bioengineering, Systems Biology
Cathy Thomas
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
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Cenke Xu
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Cenke's research concerns quantum many-body systems, where the interplay between quantum fluctuation and correlation effect leads to very rich possibilities. He is particularly interested in, for example, quantum criticality and quantum phase transitions, non-Fermi liquid states,…
Chadi Ben Youssef
PhD. · University of California, Santa Barbara
Corpus Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; Discourse and Grammar; Sociocultural Linguistics; Critical Discourse Analysis; Quantitative Methods; Tunisian Arabic; Quantitative analysis of low resource languages and unbalanced datasets
Chandra Krintz
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Charles Bazerman
· College of Creative Studies
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Chenhao Jin
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Chenhao Jin develops optical spectroscopy and imaging techniques to "watch" quantum phenomena in space and time. His current research interest lies in the interplay between dimensionality, many-body interaction, fluctuations and competing orders. Examples include two-dimensional …