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Areas of expertise: Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

Scott Brandt is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. From 2013 to 2021 he served as UCSC's Vice Chancellor for Research and before that, from 2012-2013, as the Baskin School of Engineering's Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. He founded UCSC's Systems Research Lab and co-founded the UCSC / Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management and UCSC Storage Systems Research Center. Scott's research is in the area of Computer Systems. He specializes in both stor... more »


Areas of expertise: Digital Arts, Digital Media, New Media, Science Studies, History of Science, Philosophy of Science, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Democracy


Biography, Education and Training

  Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion.  His artwork and research has been support by grants and fellowships from the NSF, the ACLS, Sunlight Foundation, and the IAS of Paris.  His artwork has been exhibited at SFMOMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the ZKM.  He has a BA from Yale College and a PhD from the MIT Media ... more »

Ike Nassi

Ike Nassi

Adjunct Professor, IEEE Life Fellow, Co-Founder and Trustee, Computer History Museum

Computer Science and Engineering

Areas of expertise: Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

see http://www.nassi.com


Areas of expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Game Studies, Science and Technology


Biography, Education and Training

 Ira Pohl is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the ACM (2000) and a member of AAAI.

Ethan L. Miller

Ethan L. Miller

Professor Emeritus, Veritas Presidential Chair in Storage, Director Emeritus, NSF IUCRC Center for Research in Storage Systems

Computer Science and Engineering

Press Contact

Cynthia McCarley

cynmccar@ucsc.edu

(831) 459-2817


Areas of expertise: Computer Engineering, Computer and Network Security, Software, Cloud Computing, Supercomputing, Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

Ethan L. Miller is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he holds the Veritas Presidential Chair in Storage.  He is the Founding Director of the NSF IUCRC Center for Research in Storage Systems (CRSS), where he served as Director for seven years, and was a founding member of the Storage Systems Research Center (SSRC) at UC Santa Cruz. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an ACM Distinguished Scientist, and his public... more »

Frank Bäuerle

Frank Bäuerle

Teaching Professor, Undergraduate Vice Chair

Mathematics Department

Areas of expertise: Mathematics, Logic, Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

Frank Bäuerle did his undergraduate work in Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany, after which he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego. Frank did his research work in Recursion Theory and Complexity Theory, an area lying at the intersection of Applied Logic and Theoretical Computer Science. He is currently a Teaching Professor in the Mathematics Department at UC Santa Cruz. Together with his colleague ... more »

Darrell Long

Darrell Long

Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair Professor, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Engineering

Baskin School of Engineering

Areas of expertise: Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer and Network Security, Intellectual Property


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Darrell D.E. Long is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He holds the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Chair of Storage Systems Research and is Director of the Storage Systems Research Center. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from San Diego State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. While in graduate school, he served as a Lecturer in mathematics at San Diego State University and in computer science at ... more »


Areas of expertise: Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Information Technology Management, Language Processing


Biography, Education and Training

Professor Zhang's research interests are artificial intelligence, informational  search and recommendation, natural language processing, machine learning and data mining and computational economics. She has received various awards, including ACM SIGIR Best Paper Award, National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, Google Research Award, Microsoft Research Award, and IBM Research Fellowship. She has served as program chair, area chair and PC member for... more »

Jim Whitehead

Jim Whitehead

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Experience, Professor

Computational Media

Areas of expertise: Game Design, Computer Science, Video Games, Game Design, Game Studies, Software, Software Engineering, Game Technology


Biography, Education and Training

PhD, Information and Computer Science, Univ. of California, Irvine, 2000. MS, Information and Computer Science, Univ. of California, Irvine, 1994. BS, Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1989.


Areas of expertise: Computer Science, Data Studies


Biography, Education and Training

Prof. Lodha is interested in data curation (accessing and identifying relevant and reliable data) and visualization of socio-economic data. He is co-authors of The Atlas of Global Inequality and The Atlas of California. He is interested in an teaching data analytics and visualization at both undergraduate and graduate level. He is interested in equity-oriented community-engaged collaborative research to empower society using software and technology. He mentors both undergraduate and graduate s... more »


Areas of expertise: Computer Science, Game Studies, Science Education, Software Engineering


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, San Diego M.S. Computer Science, University of California, San Diego B.A. Mathematics, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

Matthew Guthaus

Matthew Guthaus

Professor, Computing Association of Hispanic Serving Institutions, Partner

Computer Science and Engineering

Areas of expertise: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Architecture, Programming


Biography, Education and Training

Matthew Guthaus is a Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California Santa Cruz. He received his BSE in Computer Engineering and MSE and PhD in Electrical Engineering, all from The University of Michigan. Prof. Guthaus is a Senior Member of ACM and IEEE and a member of IFIP Working Group 10.5. His research interests are in low-power computing and electronic computer-aided design including new circuits, architectures, algorithms, and software to address challenges in... more »


Areas of expertise: Computer Science, Game Theory, Ecology, Machine Learning


Biography, Education and Training

I am a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at UCSC. I have been at UCSC since 2001. Prior to that, I was an undergraduate student in Torino, Italy, then a Ph.D. student at Stanford, and then a postdoc at UC Berkeley. For three years, while on leave from UCSC, I was at Google, first as a visiting faculty, then eventually as a Staff Research Scientist. I co-founded two companies; SSB Progetti in Italy, and Camio in the US.      

Press Contact

Suz Howells

Director of Communications, Baskin Engineering

slhowell@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Linguistics


Biography, Education and Training

Marilyn Walker, is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), in recognition of her for fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog. She is the Founder and  Director of the Natural Language Processing Professional M.S. Program at UCSC Silicon Valley. Her current research includes work on computational models of dialogue inte... more »


Areas of expertise: Computer Networks, Network Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematical Modeling


Biography, Education and Training

J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He is a Canada Excellence Research Chair and Professor in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Computing Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City, Mexico. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Ibe... more »

Jose Renau

Jose Renau

Department Chair, Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

Areas of expertise: Computer Architecture, Computer Engineering, Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

Jose Renau (http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~renau) is a professor of computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on computer architecture, including design effort metrics and models, infrared thermal measurements, low-power and thermal-aware designs, process variability, thread level speculation, FPGA/ASIC design, Fluid Pipelines, Pyrope a modern hardware description language, and Live flows improve the productivity of hardware designs. Renau has a PhD in Co... more »


Areas of expertise: Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

Shel Finkelstein has been a Lecturer at UC Santa Cruz since January 2014, teaching courses in database and other areas. Shel joined SAP in 2006 where he was Vice President, Applied Research Fellow and a Chief Technology Architect, working on data management and applications. Prior to SAP, Shel was at Sun Microsystems, where he managed architecture and partnership relationships for Enterprise Java (J2EE, now JEE) when it was created, and was a Technical Director in Sun´s CTO office, ... more »


Areas of expertise: Art, Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

Wes Modes is a California artist and educator focused on new media, social practice, sculpture, and performance. Their pioneering social practice work with the people who live in American river communities has been nationally recognized and reported worldwide. Their multidisciplinary work Secret History of American River People combines social practice, oral history, video, photography, sculpture, new media, and adventurous fieldwork on American rivers since 2014.

Pankaj Mehra

Pankaj Mehra

Adjunct Associate Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

Areas of expertise: Computer Science


Biography, Education and Training

PANKAJ MEHRA founded Elephance Memory, a company that builds software to optimize disaggregated data center memory for data infrastructure and applications. Pankaj has held executive positions in the Memory industry since 2013 when he took over as SVP and WW CTO of Fusion-io, later serving as VP and Senior Fellow at both acquirers SanDisk and Western Digital. Pankaj Mehra led SmartSSD (as VP of Product Planning) and other workload-optimized flash storage products (as VP of Storage Pathfinding) a... more »

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