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Michael S Isaacson

Michael S Isaacson

Narinder Singh Kapany Professor Emeritus

Baskin School of Engineering

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Mike Isaacson

Narinder Singh Kapany Prof. Emeritus

msi@soe.ucsc.edu

607-283-3133


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Energy, Science Education, Optics, Sustainability, Bioengineering, Material Science


Biography, Education and Training

Michael Isaacson is the Narinder Singh Kapany Professor emeritus, professor of electrical engineering. He was Director of the Center for Sustainable Energy and Power Systems (CenSEPS) at UCSC and Acting Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC from 2006 to 2009. He is recipient of numerous awards including a Hertz Foundation Fellowship, a Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship, the Burton Medal from the Microscopy Society of America, an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award, the R... more »

Holger Schmidt

Holger Schmidt

Distinguished Professor, Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics, Narinder Kapany Chair of Optoelectronics

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Baskin School of Engineering

Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Optics, Physics, DNA, RNA, Proteins, Material Science, Bioengineering


Biography, Education and Training

Holger Schmidt received an M.S. degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After serving as a postdoctoral Fellow with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, he joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001. He is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and holds the Nari... more »


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering


Biography, Education and Training

Hamid Sadjadpour received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on communication theory from University of Southern California (USC) in 1996. During his Ph.D., he worked part-time at Lincom corporations between February 1994 and July 1995 as a member of technical staff. During this period, he worked on the design of communication systems for satellite applications. Since December 1995, he was with AT&T Shannon research Lab as a senior technical staff member. He was pr... more »

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Kevin Karplus

karplus@soe.ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Bioinformatics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Music


Biography, Education and Training

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Robert P Johnson

Robert P Johnson

Distinguished Professor

Physics Department

Areas of expertise: Particle Physics, Astrophysics, Physics, Electrical Engineering


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. University of Kansas Ph.D. Stanford University Fellow of the American Physical Society  


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Science and Technology, Statistics


Biography, Education and Training

EducationPh.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1976.M.S. Statistics, Stanford University, 1976.M.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1972.B.S. Electrical Engineering, Technion (Israel), 1968.Honors and Professional ActivitiesIEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000).Technical Achievement Award, Signal Processing Society (1989).Fellow of the IEEE (1987).Best Paper of the Year Award, EURASIP (1985).ASSP Senior Award, IEEE ASSP Society (1983).Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Soc... more »

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: Robotics, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering


Biography, Education and Training

I was born in Sousse, Tunisia. I spent a fair bit of my childhood moving around from place to place, as my father was a civil engineer working on infrastructure projects of various sorts around the world. I spent six years in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I went to high school. My undergraduate degree is from Princeton University, in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Following Princeton, I went to work for an international oilfield services company: Schlumberger. I spent a year in Algeria,... more »

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Karyn Skemp

Communications Director

kskemp@ucsc.edu

‭(831) 459-3651‬


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Optics, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Viruses and Microbes, Neuroscience, Material Science, Solid State Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Computational Modeling


Biography, Education and Training

Prof. Yanik's research focuses on Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) detection from human blood using nano-fluidic platforms for cancer diagnostics. His research interests includes nanoplasmonic and metamaterial devices for ultrasensitive infrared/terahertz spectroscopy of biomolecules/chemicals and high-throughput, cost effective, BioNEMS technologies for life sciences and point-of-care diagnostics. His expertise is in high-end nanolithography and bio-patterning as well as theory and engineering... more »


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering


Biography, Education and Training

Since 2000, Don has been teaching and researching at UCSC in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSC, and was a researcher in the Center for Adaptive Optics there (2001 - 2011). Don is a Life Fellow of IEEE. Don retired as Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA in 1994, after 29 years there. He was also Professor of Anesthesiology at UCLA. In 1995 he served as Sen. Tom Harkin’s (Dem. IA) Legislative Assistant in Defense ... more »


Areas of expertise: Electrical Engineering, Energy, Optimization, Machine Learning


Biography, Education and Training

Yu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department of UC Santa Cruz. Prior to joining UCSC, he was a postdoc at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Zhang's research interests span the broad areas of cyber-physical systems, smart power grids, optimization theory, machine learning and big data analytics. Yu Zhang has published in many of the leading journals in his r... more »


Areas of expertise: Computer Engineering, Agroecology and Agriculture, Sustainability, Computer Networks, Electrical Engineering


Biography, Education and Training

Colleen Josephson is an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Her research interests include wireless communication and sensing systems, with a focus on technologies to enable and improve sustainable practices. She is a research scientist at VMware and co-chair of the GreenG Working Group within the Atis NextG Alliance, which aims to position North America as the global leader in environmental sustainability of future generations of wireless ... more »

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