PhD Advisors at University of California, Santa Barbara 加州大学圣塔芭芭拉分校 US
Quick answer: University of California, Santa Barbara in the US has 463 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 3 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, 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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Professors at University of California, Santa Barbara with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Andrew Plantinga
Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
⭐ PhD program applicants: I work only with PhD students whose primary focus is economics.
Resource Economics, Land Use Economics
Dorota Dutsch
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
⭐ Graduate supervision: Dorota Dutsch welcomes inquiries from prospective students on gender studies, especially women in ancient philosophy, Roman drama, and reception.
gender and knowledge in literary texts ranging from Greek philosophical prose to Roman comedy; women's contributions to global philosophical traditions; ancient ideas about the gender of knowledge
Jessica K. Ivani
Alumni Professors · University of California, Santa Barbara
⭐ If you are interested in working with me as an undergraduate student: you must have taken LING181 and/or LING109 to join my lab. Email me to get in touch.
If you are interested in working with me as a graduate student: email me to get in touch.
Linguistic typology; quantitative typology and data structuring in language science; typological databases; morphosyntax and complex syntax; areal linguistics (South Asia); Tibeto-Burman languages of the Indo-Myanmar border; Gallo-Italic and Extreme Southern Italian languages; Ea…
All Faculty at University of California, Santa Barbara (197)
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
Adam Waterbury is a faculty member in the Statistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is now an Assistant Professor at Denison University. His primary research interests are in statistics.
Alan Murray
Yardi Chair in Geography | Yardi Professor of Geography · College of Letters and Science
Alan Murray is the Yardi Chair in Geography and Yardi Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include location science and regional science, with a focus on urban dynamics and modeling. He has been recognized with a 2025 UCGIS…
Alex Shkolnik
Assistant Professor · College of Creative Studies
Alex Shkolnik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include statistical estimation, particularly James-Stein estimation for principal component analysis, as well as …
Alex Shkolnik
Assistant Professor · Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research - UC Santa Barbara
Alex Shkolnik is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include financial mathematics, statistics, and computational methods, with work spanning topics such as cryptocurrency economics, covariance matrix estimation, and the a…
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 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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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 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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Carter
Associate Professor and Graduate Vice Chair · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew Jayich
Associate Professor · College of Creative Studies
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Andrew MacDonald
Assistant Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Global Change Ecology, Disease Ecology, Environmental and Human Health
Andrew Teel
Distinguished Professor
Andrew Teel is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on control and systems engineering, with specific interests in nonlinear control systems and Lyapunov functions. He is a Fellow of …
Angela Pitenis
Associate Professor
Angela Pitenis is an Associate Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she leads the Interfacial Engineering Laboratory. Her interdisciplinary research, situated at the intersection of materials science, physics, chemistry, and …
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.
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
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
Arnab Mukherjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where his research lab was established in 2018. His work focuses on bioengineering, particularly the development of imaging technologies that use pr…
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
B.S. Manjunath
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Communications & Signal Processing, Visual Computing and Interaction
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
Associate Professor of Computer Science · University of California, Santa Barbara
Ben Hardekopf is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, within the Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering. His research focuses on computer science topics, including JavaScript and programming language analysis, with a particul…
Benjamin Brecher
Professor, Voice · University of California, Santa Barbara
Benjamin Brecher is a Professor of Voice and Area Head for the Voice Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A tenor, he is well known to Opera Santa Barbara audiences and maintains an active opera and concert performance schedule in the United States and abroad.
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
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Bradley Chmelka
Distinguished Professor
Bradley Chmelka is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been on the faculty since 1992. His research interests are in chemical engineering and materials science, and he has authored more t…
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 Bowler
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Tracing how planets form and evolve with direct imaging, spectroscopy, dynamics, and variability.
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…
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
Carolyn Mills
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
Bioengineering, Systems Biology
Cathy Thomas
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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
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 …
Chetan Nayak
Data Scientist · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Chris G. Van de Walle
NAE Kroemer Professor of Materials Science
Chris G. Van de Walle is a professor in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he holds the title of Herbert Kroemer Distinguished Professor. His research focuses on semiconductor materials and their properties, including topics such as ban…
Chris Palmstrøm
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Chris Palmstrøm is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he leads a research group focused on advanced materials and devices. His research interests include the growth and study of low-dimensional hybrid systems, such as nanowires and quantum well stru…
Chris Palmstrøm
Distinguished Professor · College of Engineering
Electronic and Photonic Materials
Christina Tague
Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Ecohydrology and Ecoinformatics
Christine Beckman
Professor · College of Engineering
Beckman's current research examines social innovation, entrepreneurship, and technology and work. She is the current editor at Administrative Science Quarterly.
Christopher Costello
Distinguished Professor; emLab Director · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Resource Economics
Christopher Kruegel
Professor · College of Engineering
Security and Cryptography, Social Network Modeling, Data Security
Christopher M. Bates
Associate Professor
Christopher M. Bates is a faculty member in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been an Assistant Professor since 2016. His research sits at the intersection of chemistry and materials science, using synthetic and physical experim…
Christopher M. Bates
Associate Professor, Materials · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christopher Ograin
Undergraduate Vice Chair, Faculty · University of California, Santa Barbara
Applied Math, Math Education
Chuan-Hsiang (Sean) Han
Associate professor · National Tsing Hua University
Applied Probability, Financial Mathematics, Monte Carlo methods, Fintech and Blockchain.
Claude Weisbuch
Distinguished Professor, Materials · College of Engineering
Research activities deal mainly with optics of semiconductors. Recent research is on fundamental properties of nitride materials, high efficiency LEDs, novel materials architectures, high carrier density effects, fundamentals of materials disorder.
Claudia Tyler
Energy Systems Engineering Institute at Lehigh University, graduate and undergraduate engineering and sciences · College of Creative Studies
Claudia Tyler is a professor in the biology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she joined the College of Creative Studies faculty in 2004. Her teaching includes courses in introductory biology, field studies in ecology, and conservation ecology, and …
Claudio Campagnari
Mark Griswold | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Santa Barbara
In essence particle physics is the study of the properties of the building blocks of matter and their fundamental interactions. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is the primary tool to explore this physics at the highest energies or, equivalently, the shortest distances.
S…
Clifford Johnson
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
His research focus is in quantum gravity, superstring theory, quantum field theory, and particle physics, specifically related to strongly coupled phenomena.
Clint Schow
Professor and Vice Chair · College of Engineering
Schow's research focuses on closely integrating electronics and photonics to push the boundaries of speed and efficiency for the photonic links and optical networks that data centers and computers increasingly depend upon to share and move data. His primary research areas include…
Craig Hawker
Faculty · College of Engineering
Current interests include design and synthesis of nanoscopically defined materials for applications ranging from next-generation microelectronic devices to polymer-based therapeutics. Major emphasis is on development of methods for facile synthesis of functionalized macromolecule…
Craig Hawker
Distinguished Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Synthetic Polymer Chemistry, Nanotechnology -- Materials science that integrates fundamental studies with the development of nanostructured materials for advances properties and functions in microelectronics and biotechnology.
Craig Montell
Duggan Professor of Mathematical, Life, and Physical Sciences and Distinguished Professor · College of Letters and Science
Mosquitoes are the world’s deadliest animals, which spread the parasites and viruses that cause malaria, dengue and other diseases afflicting hundreds of millions of people each year. Craig Montell’s lab focuses principally on Aedes aegypti, which due to climate change and worldw…
Cristine Donham
CCS Biology Faculty · College of Creative Studies
Cristine Donham is a faculty member in the College of Creative Studies (CCS) Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she holds the title of Assistant Professor. Her research interests center on immunology, with her doctoral work in this field completed at th…
Crystal Martin
Michael Keith | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Santa Barbara
Galactic Winds, the Galaxy - Circumgalactic Medium Ecosystem, Galactic Star Formation Histories, and Cosmic Reionization
Cyrus R. Safinya
Distinguished Professor, Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology · College of Engineering
Current research is centered on (i) elucidation of interactions/forces between proteins derived from neurons with the goal of relating assembled architectures/structures to function, (ii) development of synthetic carriers of nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) for gene delivery and silencin…
Cyrus Safinya
Christopher Pulliam | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Dahlia Malkhi
Professor · College of Engineering
Security and Cryptography, Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
Daina Ramey Berry
Professor and Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Daniel Lokshtanov
Director for Engineering Innovation · College of Creative Studies
Daniel Lokshtanov is a faculty member in Computing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, affiliated with the UCSB College of Creative Studies. His research focuses on computer science, with a strong emphasis on computational theory and mathematics, particularly in the a…
Daniel Lokshtanov
Professor and Vice Chair · College of Engineering
Algorithms and Theory, Distributed Algorithms
Daniel Oropeza
Assistant Professor, Materials · College of Engineering
Prof. Oropeza's research aims to understand the influence of manufacturing processes on material microstructure and performance, with the purpose of informing process optimization and developing novel techniques to control material behavior. His work couples fundamentals from mat…
Daniel Reeve
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
c. 1500 and earlier; Genders and Sexualities
Daniel S. Gianola
Professor and Vice Chair, Materials · College of Engineering
Gianola's research topics include: Nanomechanical behavior and deformation mechanisms in ultra-strong materials | Mechanics of disordered materials | Elastic strain engineering of transport phenomena | Tunable and efficient solid state energy conversion | Interface engineering of…
Darby Feldwinn
Professor of Teaching · University of California, Santa Barbara
Chemical Education
Curriculum Development
Teacher Professional Development
David Berenstein
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
I work mostly on quantum field theories and their equivalence to quantum gravity in higher dimensions (AdS/CFT correspondence).
David Caratelli
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
My research focuses on experimental particle physicists studying neutrinos to understand the fundamental laws of nature and evolution of the universe.
David Gross
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
High Energy Physics, Quantum Field Theory, String Theory
David Low
Professor · College of Creative Studies
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David Marshall
Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature · University of California, Santa Barbara
Enlightenment literature, aesthetics, and moral philosophy; novel and narrative theory; autobiography; theater and theatricality; higher education and public education.
David Morrison
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
David Novak
Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology Program · University of California, Santa Barbara
Popular Music, Globalization, Media Circulation, Japan, Southeast Asia, Sound Studies, Ethnomusicology Program
David Stein
Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences · University of California, Santa Barbara
Modern U.S. History, Political Economy, Social Movements, Public Policy, Civil Rights Movement, Mass Incarceration
David Tilman
Distinguished Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Ecology, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning
David Valentine
Distinguished Professor · College of Letters and Science
David Valentine is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he conducts research as an earth science professor. His work focuses on marine microbiology and geochemistry, including the study of natural oil seeps, the microbial degradation of …
David Weld
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Current research interests of the Weld group include quantum simulation, quantum thermodynamics, kicked quantum matter, Floquet engineering, quasicrystals, quantum emulation of ultrafast phenomena, anyon synthesis, atom interferometry, viscophoresis, and defect-adsorbate quantum …
Davit Harutyunyan
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Davit Harutyunyan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include topics such as tensor analysis, interpolation inequalities, and the geometric rigidity of thin domains.
Deandre Miles-Hercules
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Deandre Miles-Hercules is a doctoral researcher and Ph.D. student in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Their research interests include language at the intersections of race, gender, and other social categories, with work on topics such as the displaceme…
Debra Blumenthal
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
I am an historian of late medieval and early modern Iberia whose research interests include Muslim, Christian and Jewish relations; the history of slavery and race in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world; gender history; and the history of medicine and women's health…
Dennis Assanis
Chancellor, UC Santa Barbara · College of Engineering
Assanis’ research interests lie in the thermal sciences and their applications to energy conversion, power and propulsion, and automotive systems design. His research focuses on analytical and experimental studies of the thermal, fluid and chemical phenomena that occur in intern…
Derek Katz
Anthony Bucaro | Weatherhead School at Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Santa Barbara
Czech Music, Opera, Nationalism and Modernism, Musicology Program
Dirk Bouwmeester
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Investigates topics related to quantum information science and quantum decoherence using optomechanical systems such as phononic crystal membranes made out of silicon nitride and diamond, and on-chip optical waveguides coupled to superfluid Helium.
Divyakant Agrawal
Distinguished Professor and Chair · College of Engineering
Big Data, Cloud Data, Distributed Algorithms, Social Network Modeling
Dmitri Strukov
Professor · College of Engineering
Solid-State Nanoionics, Emerging Electron Devices and Circuits, Non-Volatile Memories, Neuromorphic Computing
Dolores Casillas
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
U.S. Spanish-language media; Chicana and Latina Popular Culture; Radio & Sound Practices; Racial Politics of Language; Accent Studies; Langauge Learning Technologies; and Ethnic Studies within K-12 schools.
Don Mark Lipkin
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering · Texas A&M University
High-performance structural materials for extreme thermochemical environments; alloy and coating design; advanced synthesis and manufacturing; high-temperature physical property measurements; high-enthalpy/high-heat-flux testing to enable durable turbine and hypersonic components…
Donald Marolf
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Don Marolf studies black holes, gravitational aspects of string theory, and issues associated with gravity, entropy and entanglement. Black Hole information and baby universes form an important part of this work, including refinements of the so-called firewall paradox.
Another si…
Dorit Hanein
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Developing and employing protocols for correlative light and electron cryogenic microscopy and in situ cellular tomography
Elaheh Ahmadi
Associate Professor and Vice Chair · College of Engineering
Electronic and Photonic Materials
Elena Aronova
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
I am a historian of science working on topics ranging from the history of Lamarckian thought in biology to Cold War scientific spaces in the US and the Soviet Union, and from the history of "scientific humanities" to the history and politics of global data collection.
Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature · University of California, Santa Barbara
c. 1500-1800; c. 1800-1945; British Literature; Environment and Ecocriticism
Ellen Bartee
Specialization:Affiliation: SIL International Dissertation: A Grammar of Dongwan Tibetan · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Elliot Hawkes
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Solid Mechanics, Materials & Structures, Micro- and Nanoscale Engineering, Dynamic Systems and Control, Robotics
Emilio Capettini
Assistant Professor of Black Studies · University of California, Santa Barbara
Greek epic poetry, Greek tragedy, classical reception studies, ancient novel
Enda Duffy
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
c. 1945-present; British Literature; Postcolonial, Migration, and/or Diaspora Studies
Enoch Yeung
Associate Professor · College of Engineering
Systems Biology, Control Systems, Machine Learning and Data Mining
Eric Masanet
Professor and Mellichamp Chair in Sustainability Science for Emerging Technologies · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Energy System Analysis, Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainable Manufacturing, Data Centers & ICT
Eric Matthys
Professor · College of Engineering
Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Sciences & Fluid Mechanics
Eric McFarland
Professor
Eric McFarland is a professor in the Chemical Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a faculty member since 1991. His research focuses on sustainable energy, particularly hydrogen production and the fundamental mechanisms of surfa…
Everett Lipman
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Everett Lipman is an Associate Professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include protein folding and the application of single-molecule spectroscopy to study unfolded and intrinsically disordered proteins.
Felice Blake
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Creative Writing and/or Performance; Genders and Sexualities
Forrest Brewer
Professor · College of Engineering
Brewer's research includes VLSI design, as well as computer-aided design tools and analysis; VLSI design in highly-constrained environments; and high-performance asynchronous communication link design.
Francesc Castella
Assistant Professor · College of Creative Studies
Francesc Castella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests lie in number theory and representation theory, with recent work including topics such as the Tamagawa number conjecture for CM modu…
Francesca Biagini
Professor · Univ of Munich
Francesca Biagini is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is also affiliated with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research interests include fractional Brownian motion, life insurance, and optimal decision making under uncertainty.
Francis Dunn
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Greek tragedy, concepts of time, narrative theory
Frank Davis
Distinguished Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Landscape Ecology, Conservation Planning
Frank L. Brown
Scott P. Bruder | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · University of California, Santa Barbara
Research in my group is entirely theoretical/computational in nature. Our interests lie at the interface between physical chemistry and biophysics and we use a variety of tools spanning the traditional fields of statistical mechanics, hydrodynamics, elasticity theory and quantum …
Frank W. Zok
Distinguished Professor, Materials · College of Engineering
Research interests concern design, fabrication and performance of materials and structures. Emphasis is placed on fundamental understanding of performance-limiting mechanisms, through combined experimental, modeling and simulation studies. Topics of current interest include fiber…
Frédéric Gibou
Professor · College of Engineering
Solid Mechanics, Materials & Structures, Fluid Dynamics, Thermal Sciences & Fluid Mechanics, Computational Science and Engineering
Galan Moody
Professor · College of Engineering
Quantum Photonics and Optoelectronics; Integrated Photonics; Quantum Computing, Communications, and Networks; Hybrid Quantum Systems; Quantum Dots; 2D Materials
Gareth Peters
Professor and Janet & Ian Duncan Chair in Actuarial Science · Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research - UC Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Gareth W. Peters
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Gary Horowitz
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Classical and quantum gravity, especially properties of black holes and spacetime singularities.
Gary Hughes
Assistant Researcher · University of California, Santa Barbara
Numerical and data analysis, with applications in astronomy, planetary science, geology and infrared imaging
Geoffrey Raymund
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Conversation Analysis, Ethnomethodology, Policing
Giorgia Troiani
Ph.D. · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Giovanni Vigna
Professor · College of Engineering
Security and Cryptography, Data Security, Secure Hardware Design
Giuliana Perrone
Associate Professor; Faculty Director History of Policy, Law, and Governance · University of California, Santa Barbara
Slavery & Abolition in North America
Legal History
The Civil War & Reconstruction
19th Century U.S. History
U.S. History
Glenn Beltz
Professor, Mechanical Engineering · College of Engineering
Solid Mechanics, Materials & Structures, Micro- and Nanoscale Engineering, Micro & Nano Technology
Glenn H. Fredrickson
Senior Research Associate · College of Engineering
Glenn H. Fredrickson is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also holds the Mitsubishi Distinguished Professorship in Functional Materials. His research broadly focuses on the statistical mechanic…
Grace Han
Assistant Professor of Engineering - Professor Hixon's research focuses on tissue engineering/regenerative medicine strategies to improve treatment and… · University of California, Santa Barbara
The major goal of my research is to develop functional organic material systems that exhibit phase transitions, solubility changes, and nanoscale mechanical changes, triggered by external stimuli, notably light. These photo-controlled materials have a game-changing potential in w…
Grace Wu
Assistant Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Sustainable Land Use, Climate Change Mitigation, Renewable Energy Planning, Land Systems Science
Greg Mazur
Professor · College of Engineering
Mazur's research focuses on mesoscopic superconductivity and quantum devices built from semiconductor–superconductor hybrids and quantum dots. He develops fabrication methods and low-temperature transport techniques to engineer and probe proximity effects across superconductor–se…
Guo Yu
Assistant Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Haewon Jeong
Assistant Professor · College of Engineering
Machine Learning and Data Mining, Social Computing
Harry Nelson
Professor · College of Creative Studies
Harry Nelson is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has played a major role in multi-institution experiments searching for dark matter. His research focuses on advancing the detection of elusive dark matter particles, contributing to efforts that …
Helen Morales
James and Sarah Argyropoulos Professor in Hellenic Studies · University of California, Santa Barbara
The ancient novel, Greek imperial poetry, mythology, literary criticism, sexual ethics, diversity, and pilgrimage. These interests are always connected to major contemporary concerns – leadership, class, race, sexual politics, aesthetics, law – a better understanding of which, in…
Henry T. Yang
Professor
Henry T. Yang is an American mechanical engineer and academic administrator who has served as the fifth and current chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1994. His research contributions include work on orthotropic materials and stiffness matrices.
Herb Kroemer
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Semiconductor heterostructures, high-speed electronics, opto-electronics, molecular beam epitaxy
Hilary Bernstein
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
My research interests focus on early modern France, with particular focuses on erudition, family memory, and the urban culture of French provincial cities in the sixteenth through the late seventeenth centuries. My first book, Between Crown and Community, investigated the politic…
Hillary Young
Energy Systems Engineering Institute at Lehigh University, graduate and undergraduate engineering and sciences · College of Creative Studies
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Horia Metiu
Distinguished Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
My group is performing quantum mechanical computations and experiments (in collaboration with Professors Buratto, Gordon, and McFarland) to search for new catalysts for converting natural gas or CO2 into useful chemicals.
Hua Lee
Distinguished Professor · College of Engineering
Communications & Signal Processing. Lee's research topics include: imaging system optimization; high-performance image formation algorithms; synthetic-aperture radar and sonar systems; acoustic microscopy; microwave nondestructive evaluation; and dynamic vision systems.
Hugh Lippincott
Associate Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Hunter Lenihan
Professor · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Applied Marine and Fisheries Ecology
Ian Banta
Hillel Chiel | Biomedical Engineering | Case Western Reserve University · College of Creative Studies
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Igor Mezić
Professor · College of Engineering
Bioengineering, Systems Biology, Dynamic Systems and Control, Robotics, Micro & Nano Technology, Computational Science and Engineering
Irene J. Beyerlein
Mehrabian Interdisciplinary Endowed Professor; Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials · College of Engineering
Research will focus on the creation and design of advanced materials with unprecedented structural performance under extremes of strains, stress, and temperature. Commercially available materials typically have strength or toughness limitations and trade-offs and the overarchin…
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Professor, Area Head of Voice Program, Director of Graduate Studies · University of California, Santa Barbara
Voice, Director of Opera Theatre, Director of Opera Outreach, French Diction, Art Song and Opera Seminar Courses
J. Tyler Mefford
Arthur P. Armington Professor of Engineering · College of Engineering
Materials & Interfaces, Energy Efficiency & Sustainability, Modeling, Theory & Simulation
James B. Rawlings
Mellichamp Process Control Chair, Distinguished Professor · College of Engineering
Bioengineering, Modeling, Theory & Simulation. Chemical process monitoring and control: Chemical processes are inherently nonlinear and must operate at their design constraints to achieve optimal economic performance. We have developed methods of moving horizon estimation and mod…
James Buckwalter
Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
James Donelan
Professor · College of Creative Studies
James Donelan is a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, affiliated with the UCSB College of Creative Studies and the English department. His research and teaching interests include literary study, Mayan hieroglyphic writing and representations of indigeneity,…
James Grippo
Educator, Ethnomusicology Program · University of California, Santa Barbara
Ethnomusicology Program
Oud performance
James Kearney
Professor and English Department Chair
James Kearney is a faculty member at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include phenomenology, ethics, and early modern literature, with published work on topics such as Shakespeare's *King Lear* and the poetry of Edmund Spenser. He is also active…
James S. Speck
Seoul Viosys Professor of Solid State Lighting, Materials · College of Engineering
Prof. Speck's early work focused on epitaxial oxide films on semiconductors, ferroelectric thin films, and strain relaxation in highly misfitting epitaxial systems. He has worked extensively on the materials science of GaN and related alloys. Major aspects of his work on nitrides…
James Salzman
Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law · Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
Environmental Law
James Speck
Seoul Optodevice Distinguished Professor of Solid State Lighting · College of Engineering
Electronic and Photonic Materials
Janet Bourne
Associate Professor, Music Theory Program, Director of Undergraduate Studies · University of California, Santa Barbara
Music Theory
Jason Marden
Professor · College of Engineering
Control Systems; feedback control and systems theory; game theoretic methods for coordination of large scale distributed systems; application to distributed traffic routing, dynamic resource allocation, and sensor networks
Javier Read de Alaniz
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Cascade Rearrangements
Catalysis
Macromolecular Synthesis
Photochromic Material
High-Strain Rate Sensors
Jayajit Chakraborty
Professor & Mellichamp Chair in Racial Environmental Justice · University of California, Santa Barbara
Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, Disability Justice, Disaster Vulnerability
Jean Carlson
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
Jean Carlson is a Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on complex systems theory and its practical applications, including earthquakes, wildfires, and optimization and design in networks. She has also developed mathematical approaches to …
Jean-Pierre Fouque
CFMAR Co-Director · Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research - UC Santa Barbara
Jean-Pierre Fouque is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research (CFMAR) and is affiliated wit…
Jean-Pierre Fouque
Distinguished Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
My research is in the area of Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Financial Mathematics. More recently, I have investigated Reinforcement Learning algorithms for Mean Field and Control problems where agent are either in competition or collaborating. Very recently, my i…
Jeff Sakamoto
Professor
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jeff Sakamoto
Mehrabian Professor, Materials
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Jeffrey Richman
Professor · University of California, Santa Barbara
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
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