Campus Directory

Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Computer Science and Engineering

Title Professor Emeritus

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Academic Senate

Faculty Type Emeriti

Areas of Expertise Computer Science
Data Studies

Web Site

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
Engineering 2, 361

Additional Location(s) Engineering 2, Room 386

Office Hours Spring 2022: MW 7:15-8:00pm and by appointment

Mail Stop SOE3

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 students interested in multidisciplinary e-research focusing on capacity building and nurtures them into co-authoring research monologues. He is interested in collaborating with students with shared interests at a wide range of universities internationally and remotely. He collaborates with research scholars and organizations with a focus on policy analysis and impactful research.

Research Interests

• Data analytics and visualization
• Computational social science
• Technology for social good
• Data journalism