People: Faculty

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Victoria Bellotti Victoria Bellotti

Research Areas:

Ethnography, strategic innovation, user experience design and evaluation, personal information management, context-aware computing, persuasive computing.


Alexandre Brandwajn
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-4023
Engineering 2, Room 223
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Areas:

Performance modeling, queueing network models of computer systems and operating systems, computer architecture


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Jas Condley

Mail Stop SOE3

Renwick Curry Renwick Curry
Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

831-466-3332
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Areas:

Control and optimization with special attention to aviation; air-traffic control; and collision-avoidance system design and analysis


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Andrea Di Blas Andrea Di Blas
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-4193
Engineering 2, Room 217
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Parallel computer architectures, parallel applications and programming models, combinatorial optimization


William Dunbar William Dunbar
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-1031
Engineering 2, Room 325
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday, 10AM-12PM
Research Areas:

Theory and application of feedback control, single molecule biophysics, nanopore sensors, dynamics and control of biomolecules


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Gabriel Hugh Elkaim Gabriel Hugh Elkaim
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-3054
Engineering 2, Room 337B
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 12-2PM
Research Areas:

Embedded systems; robust software architectures for real-time reactive systems; sensor fusion; guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) system identification; robust and advanced control schemes; feedback control systems; robotics; unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs) and cooperative control


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Joel Ferguson Joel Ferguson
Professor, Computer Engineering
Provost of Crown College

831-459-2411
Engineering 2, Room 329 and Crown Provost Office
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Friday 10:00-11:30 and by appointment, at Crown Provost Office
Research Areas:

Fault diagnosis, failure analysis, logic fault modeling, digital test pattern generation, design-for-test of digital circuits and systems


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J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves
Chair, Computer Engineering
Jack Baskin Endowed Professor, Computer Engineering
Director of Networking Sciences Institute (NSI)

831-459-4153 (Office)
Engineering 2, Room 317
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By appointment.
Research Areas:

Computer communication, wireless networks, Internet, network science, mobile computing


Matthew Guthaus Matthew Guthaus
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering

831-406-1851 (VoIP)
Engineering 2, Room 225
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Spring 2013: Monday 4-5pm
Research Areas:

VLSI, CAD, design for reliability and variability, resonant clocking, sub-threshold circuits


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Richard Hughey Richard Hughey
Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
Chair, B.S. in Bioengineering
Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-4908
Kerr Hall
Office Hours: By appointment: mfaluffi@ucsc.edu
Research Areas:

Bioinformatics, Hidden Markov Models, Computer Architecture, Parallel Computation


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Sri Kurniawan Sri Kurniawan
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-1037
Engineering 2, Room 331
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By email appointment
Research Areas:

Human-computer interaction, human factors and ergonomics, accessibility, assistive technology, usability, empirical studies, human-centered design


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Tracy Larrabee Tracy Larrabee
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-3476
Engineering 2, Room 337A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Areas:

Test pattern simulation and generation, fault modeling, fault diagnosis, design verification, technical writing, logic simulation.


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Roberto Manduchi Roberto Manduchi
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-1479
Engineering 2, Room 327
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Wednesday, 3-4pm
Research Areas:

Computer vision and sensor processing, with application to assistive technology for the visually impaired.


Patrick Mantey
Associate Dean for Industry Programs
CITRIS Campus Director
Director of ITI
Jack Baskin Endowed Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-2720
Engineering 2, Room 595J
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Thursday 4-6 PM and by appointment
Research Areas:

Multimedia systems, digital signal processing, sensor systems and networks, real-time monitoring and control, image systems, image processing, visualization, geographic information systems, decision support systems


Gene Moriarty
Visiting Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-1653
Engineering 2, Room 339B
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Research Areas:

Ethics,Philosophy of Technology,Philosophy of Engineering,Systems Theory,Control Systems


Gerald Moulds Gerald Moulds
Lecturer, Computer Engineering

831-459-5286
Engineering 2, Room 237A
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Technical writing, professional communications


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Katia Obraczka Katia Obraczka
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-4308
Engineering 2, Room 323
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Computer networks, distributed systems, operating systems, Internet information systems, mobile computing, wireless networks


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David Pease David Pease
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-5879
Engineering 2, Room 549A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Thurs 11:00am - 12:00pm
Research Areas:

File systems, operating systems, storage, programming languages


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Jose Renau Jose Renau
Associate Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-1847
Engineering 2, Room 227
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Monday, 3:30PM to 4:30PM
Research Areas:

Computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements, thermal modeling, process variability, energy efficient data-centers, thread level speculation, and FPGA/ASIC design


Jacob Rosen Jacob Rosen
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-5302
Engineering 2, Room 231
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Open Door Policy - All day; Every day; As long as the door is open
Research Areas:

Biorobotics; Human centered robotics, medical robotics (surgery and rehabilitation), wearable robotics (exoskeleton), teleoperation, haptics and virtual reality, biomechanics, neuromuscular control, and human-machine interfaces


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Bruce Sawhill Bruce Sawhill
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-4879
Engineering 2, Room 333
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

multi-agent systems, traffic physics, phase transitions, agent-based modeling, airspace management and control


Martine Schlag
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-3243
Engineering 2, Room 219
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Spring 13: M 1-2pm Th 12-1pm. After: to be determined
Research Areas:

VLSI design tools and algorithms, VLSI theory, field-programmable gate arrays, FPGA-based computing engines


Brad Smith Brad Smith
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-2370
Engineering 2, Room 595K
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Computer communications, distributed systems, policy-based routing, routing protocols,security and trust in distributed systems


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Mircea Teodorescu Mircea Teodorescu
Associate Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

Engineering 2, Room 237b
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By email appointment
Research Areas:

Dynamics, Vibrations, Contact Mechanics, Biomechanics


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Anujan Varma Anujan Varma
Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-3505
Engineering 2, Room 221
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Computer networking, computer architecture, optical networks


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Cedric Westphal Cedric Westphal
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Computer Engineering

Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Internet working and wireless networks, with special attention to analytical modeling


Donald M. Wiberg Donald M. Wiberg
Professor Emeritus, Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Research Professor, Computer Engineering

831-459-5560 (office)
831-246-3763 (cell)
Engineering 2, Room 241A
Mail Stop SOE2
Office Hours: by appointment only
Research Areas:

Control systems, Kalman filtering, system parameter estimation, adaptive optics for large telescopes, and biomedical system modeling


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