PhD Advisors at University of California, Santa Cruz 加州大学圣克鲁兹分校 US
Quick answer: University of California, Santa Cruz in the US has 47 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 6 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 Cruz, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
Showing 47 professors at University of California, Santa Cruz.
⭐ Currently Hiring PhD Students (6)
Professors at University of California, Santa Cruz with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Andy Yeh
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ Post-doctoral candidates should send a single email containing your CV, a short statement describing your research interests, as well as contact information for three references to Dr. Andy Yeh (hsyeh@ucsc.edu). Lab technicians/assistants with an undergraduate degree in biology, chemistry, engineeri…
Biotechnology
Chemical Biology
Biomedical Sciences
Design
Scientific Method
Cihang Xie
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ I am co-leading the Vision · Learning · Assured Autonomy (VLAA) Lab with Professor Yuyin Zhou. Our lab has multiple openings for summer interns and visiting students with flexible starting times. If you are interested in these opportunities, please complete this form.
My research interest lies at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning, with the goal of building human-level computer vision systems. I am particularly interested in securing model performance under distribution shifts, and developing deep representation learning …
Norman Makoto Su
Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Human Computer Interaction · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ We are always looking for new collaborators. If you are interested in doing research with us, please contact Professor Norman Makoto Su.
Human Computer Interaction
Peter A Alvaro
Associate Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ If you are a UCSC undergraduate or Masters student interested in collaborating, please send me an email describing your research interests. PhD admission decisions are made by committee. However, if you are a PhD applicant and are interested in working on one of the projects above, make sure to ment…
Data management systems
Distributed systems
Logic programming
Yihsu Chen
Professor, Professor, Technology Management in Sustainability · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ Looking for self-motivated (Ph.D., MS. & undergraduate) students to work on energy-, transportation-, and water-related projects. Students can apply and enroll either in Electrical & Computer Engineering or Environmental Studies programs. If interested, please send me an email to yihsuchen (at) ucsc…
Energy
Environmental Policy
Economics
Water
Economics and policy in energy
Water resources and transportation sectors
Yuanchao Xu
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ I am always looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students interested in these areas. Feel free to contact me at yxu314@ucsc.edu if you are interested in working with me!
computer architecture, security, and ML systems and architecture
All Faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz (41)
Nikos Tziavelis
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ I am actively looking for motivated PhD students to join my group. If you have a strong background in databases/systems, or if you are excited about designing algorithms for problems that come up in data processing systems, apply to the <a href="https://grad.soe.ucsc.edu/cse">PhD program</a> of UC S…
Database systems
Database theory
Yuyin Zhou
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
⭐ We are always actively looking for self-motivated PhD/interns. Welcome to apply from <a href="https://ucsc-vlaa.github.io/opening.html">here</a> and drop me an <a href="mailto:yzhou284@ucsc.edu">email</a>. The official PhD application portal is <a href="https://grad.soe.ucsc.edu/admissions">here</a>…
Artificial Intelligence
Abel Souza
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Cloud Computing<br />Sustainability<br />Energy
Ahmet A Yanik
Associate Professor · Crown College
Nanoplasmonics and metamaterials
Lab-on-chip systems: optofluidic bionems, nanofluidics and label free biosensors
Nanospectroscopy: plasmonic nanoantennas and single molecule vibrational dynamics
Rare cell isolation and single cell analysis: circulating tumor cells, plasmonic nan…
Alexander Lee Wolf
Dean<br />Distinguished Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Engineering of large and/or complex software systems:
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<li>experimental computer science</li>
<li>distributed systems and networks (publish/subscribe communication, information-centric and content-based networking, cloud data-center computing)</li>
<li>software engineering (s…
Alvaro Cardenas
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
security and privacy of cyber-physical systems and emerging technologies, with applications to autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial control systems, and critical infrastructure; security of embodied AI systems; use of machine learning and AI agents to automate cybersecurity ta…
Angela N Brooks
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Cancer
RNA Biology
Biology
Biomedical Sciences
Diversity
Ashesh Kumar Chattopadhyay
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
scientific machine learning, deep learning theory, dynamical systems, fluids, climate
Chenguang Wang
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christina Chung
Associate Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Christopher S Vollmers
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
DNA sequencing tools to analyze B cells on a population and single cell level
Daniele Venturi
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) and computational probability
Multi-fidelity stochastic modeling and data-driven stochastic multiscale mathematics
Numerical analysis and high-performance scientific computing
Probability density function methods for forward and inverse UQ problems…
Elin Carstensdottir
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Game and human-computer interaction, interactive narrative, interaction design, user experience, game user research, player agency, social behavior simulation
Emmet James Whitehead
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Experience<br />Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Game Design<br />Computer Science<br />Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies<br />Software<br />Software Engineering<br />Game Technology
Evangelos Chatziafratis
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Algorithms, Machine Learning Theory
Hao Ye
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Wireless communication
Machine learning
Edge AI
Multi-agent system
Internet of Things
Hongyun Wang
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Single molecule studies and biophysics
Statistical physics
Stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations
Classical analysis
Numerical analysis
Ioannis Demertzis
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Ishtiyaque Ahmad
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
My research interest lies in the intersection of distributed systems, data management, and applied cryptography. More specifically, my research goal is to break the prevailing tension between scalability and privacy in present days' technological solutions.
James Edward Davis
Professor, Sage Weil Presidential Chair, Director of Center for Research in Open Source Software · Baskin School of Engineering
ICTD
Technology for global social issues
Human computation
Computational photography
Computer vision
Computer graphics
Joshua M Stuart
Professor; Jack Baskin Endowed Chair of BME · Baskin School of Engineering
Computational genomics
Computational systems biology
Computational models for gene function prediction and regulation
Keith Allen Corzine
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Luca De Alfaro
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Computer Science; Game Theory; Ecology; Machine Learning
Marcela Alfaro Cordoba
Associate Professor of Teaching · Baskin School of Engineering
Spatial-temporal statistics and climate science applications; Spatial-temporal statistical methods for Climate models; Design of Experiments applied to Biophysics; Functional Data Analysis applied to Spectrophotometry; Reproducibility and Open Science; working with researchers fr…
Mircea Teodorescu
Associate Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Bioengineering
Biotechnology
Robotics
Nicholas H Brummell
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
My interests lie in astrophysical and geophysical fluid dynamics. I concentrate on the highly nonlinear, turbulent flow regimes, using high resolution numerical simulations for such studies. In particular, my research is currently focussed on dynamos, where turbulence in an elect…
Noah G Wardrip-Fruin
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies
Fiction
Digital Media
Digital Humanities
Digital Arts
Game Studies
Game Technology
Game Design
Artificial Intelligence
New Media
Owen Arden
Associate Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Security
Programming languages
Decentralized and Distributed systems
Authorization logic
Ram Sundara Raman
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Computer Security, Privacy, Networking, and Systems
Russell Brendan Corbett-Detig
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Population and evolutionary genomics
Bioinformatics
Scott A Brandt
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Operating systems, Storage systems, Real-time systems
Scott Beamer
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Computer architecture, Agile and open-source hardware design, Graph processing, Data movement optimization
Seshadhri Comandur
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Computer Science
Data science
Mathematical foundations of big data
Massive graph analysis
Scalable graph algorithms
Sublinear algorithms
Randomized algorithms
Shiva Abbaszadeh
Associate Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Imaging detector technology; Biomedical sensors; Image processing and statistical performance assessment; Instrumentation for emission tomography (PET and SPECT); Liquids and glassy materials; Nanomaterial-mediated radiation therapy; Novel isotope identification algorithms; Radio…
Soumya Bose
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Ultra-Low-Power (ULP) Intelligent Systems, Energy Harvesting, Wearable Biosensing, Environmental Monitoring, Hetereogeneous Integration of Semiconductor Chips with Novel Devices, Materials, and Photonics.
Tyler R Sorensen
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Xiang Yue
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
No research summary on file — use the link to visit this professor’s homepage.
Xin (Eric) Wang
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Embodied AI, Machine Learning
Yi Zhang
Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Human Computer Interaction
Information Technology Management
Language Processing
Information retrieval
Recommendation systems
Social media analysis
Natural language processing
Data mining
Machine learning
Artificial intell…
Yu Zhang
Associate Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Energy systems, smart grids, data centers, wireless networks, AI/ML, optimization, operations research, control, and signal processing
Zhicong Yu
Assistant Professor · Baskin School of Engineering
Zhicong Yu has more than a decade of experience in advanced CT imaging research and new product development for applications in diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology and radiation oncology. His research interests and expertise include advanced CT image reconstruction, co…
Frequently asked questions
How many professors at University of California, Santa Cruz are hiring PhD students in 2026?
As of 2026-10-19, 6 professors at University of California, Santa Cruz, a US university, show active PhD hiring signals in phd-match's faculty database.
How many faculty profiles does phd-match have for University of California, Santa Cruz?
phd-match lists 47 faculty profiles at University of California, Santa Cruz, each with research interests, department, and a link to the professor's homepage.
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No. University of California, Santa Cruz is one of 174 universities phd-match covers across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore (US 97, UK 17, AU 10, CN 26, HK 8, CA 10, SG 6).
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Data last updated: 2026-10-19 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.