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Michael Saul Isaacson

Michael Saul 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 »


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Material Science, Energy


Biography, Education and Training

B.Sc. (1999), Ph.D. (2002), The University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2003), The University of Hong Kong Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2007), Harvard University


Areas of expertise: Climate Change, Law and Policy, Environmental Policy, Energy, Water Policy and Management


Biography, Education and Training

A.B., Human Biology (Energy and Environment: Planning and Policy), Stanford University M.S., Civil Engineering (Infrastructure Planning and Management), Stanford University Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Energy and Environmental Planning), Stanford University J.D., School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley (Environmental Law Certificate)


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Material Science, Energy


Biography, Education and Training

B.S. University of Science and Technology of China, 1991 M.S. Cornell University, 1993 Ph.D. Cornell University, 1996

Ronnie D Lipschutz

Ronnie D Lipschutz

Emeritus Professor of Politics, President & Co-director, Sustainable Systems Research Foundation

Politics Department

Areas of expertise: Energy, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, Globalization, International and Global Affairs, Politics, Science and Technology


Biography, Education and Training

Ronnie D. Lipschutz received his Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from UC-Berkeley in 1987 and an SM in Physics from MIT in 1978. He was a faculty member in the Politics Department from 1990-2020. He is now President and Co-director of the Sustainable Systems Research Foundation in Santa Cruz. From 2012-18, Lipschutz was Provost of Rachel Carson College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. During Fall term 2011, he was a Velux Visiting Professor in the Department of Business and Polit... more »

Yihsu Chen

Yihsu Chen

Professor, Professor, Technology Management in Sustainability

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Areas of expertise: Energy, Environmental Policy, Economics, Water


Biography, Education and Training

Yihsu Chen is an associate professor at Department of Technology Management, University of California Santa Cruz. Prior to joining UCSC, he held a faculty position at University of California Merced with a joint appointment with School of Engineering and School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. He is also affiliated with UCE3 (University of California Center for Energy and Environmental Economics). Professor Chen's main research focuses on studying the impact of public policies on energy,... 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 »

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Abel Souza

Assistant Professor

absouza@ucsc.edu


Areas of expertise: Cloud Computing, Sustainability, Energy


Biography, Education and Training

  I am an Assistant Professor in the CSE Department at UC Santa Cruz. My research focuses on advancing the understanding of computing systems, ranging from small embedded devices to large-scale data centers. It includes resource planning and the implementation of optimal strategies for distributed systems with extensive tests under real-world settings. Recently, my work has explored sustainable, carbon-aware approaches to the design and management of cloud data centers and cyber-physical s... more »

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