UC Davis

Dr. Simon received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. Postdoctoral training in Immunology and Inflammation Biology was initiated at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, and was completed at the National Flow Cytometry Resource at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He then joined the faculty at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine’s Section of Leukocyte Biology, Dept of Pediatrics in Houston, TX, where he remained for 7 years. Dr.

A liquid, if it does not crystallize on cooling, can undergo a “glass transition”, a falling-out-of equilibrium in terms of motion and rearrangement of its molecular constituents. The rapid increase in viscosity near the glass transition temperature, Tg, transforms the flowing liquid into a rigid solid without the long-range order characteristic of crystals.

Research Interest

Traditional cell biology techniques monitor large cellular populations and report dominant trends while leaving contributions from smaller cell subsets unaccounted for. Our laboratory focuses on developing novel microsystems for cell cultivation and analysis. The research thrusts in the lab may be subdivided into the following categories.

Jim Quinn is a Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis, Director of the Information Center for the Environment (ICE), and leader of the California Information Node (CAIN) of the National Biological Information Infrastructure.

Professor Atul Parikh is a Professor of Applied Science and a faculty member of graduate groups in Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science at the University of California, Davis. He received his B.Chem. Eng. degree from the University of Bombay (UDCT) and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. Earlier, he was a postdoctoral scholar and then a technical staff member in the Chemical Science and Bioscience divisions at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1996 to 2001.

Innovative Micro/Nanofabrication Technologies

We keep seeking simple and creative solutions to manufacture 2D and 3D micro and nanoscale structures in an inexpensive and reproducible way. Learning from emerging technologies in both chemistry and electronics, we are extensively exploring novel top-down and bottom-up approaches to establish MEMS fabrication schemes for future biological and medical applications.

Bio-Inspired Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems

Dr. Deb Niemeier is a Professor in the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis. She joined UC Davis in 1994 as an Assistant Professor after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Her research interests span transportation-air quality modeling, energy consumption and land use interactions, sustainability and the project development process for major infrastructure projects.

A lifelong interest in art, science and technology has led me to a position that blends the three. As an undergraduate, I was a member of the first class of the Engineering and Society Program at McMaster University. It allowed me to combine a computer engineering degree with a drama minor and studies on the social and environmental impacts of technology. I completed both a Masters and a PhD (2005) as a member of the Dynamic Graphics Project, the computer graphics and interaction research group in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

Holds the Child Family Endowed Chair Professorship at University of California, Davis, where he has been since 1987, and served as Chairman of the Department of Computer Science during 1997 to 2000. He is Technical Program Co-Chair of the Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference 2009. He served as the Technical Program Chair of the IEEE INFOCOM ’96 conference. He is Editor of Springer’s Optical Networks Book Series. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of seven journals, most notable IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE Network.

Alan Meier teaches core energy efficiency courses and supervises graduate student activities at EEC. Dr. Meier is also a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research has focused on understanding how people (and machines) use energy and the opportunities that exist for them (and technologies) to conserve.

Using the tools of genetic engineering, recombinant proteins can be produced using a variety of expression systems and hosts, including microbial, mammalian, insect, plant or algal cells grown in bioreactors as well as transgenic animals and plants. Our laboratory is developing novel expression systems (i.e.

Research Interest
Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging, Biophotonic Technology Development:

The mission of our research laboratory is to promote better diagnostic, treatment and prevention of human diseases through advancements in biophotonic technology – a field at the interface of physical sciences, engineering, biology and medicine. This is accomplished through a series of interdisciplinary research projects that enable early diagnosis and intraoperative demarcation of tumors, prevention of stroke and heart attack, and cancer therapy.

Dr. Kwan-Liu Ma is a professor of computer science and the chair of the Graduate Group in Computer Science (GGCS) at the University of California, Davis. He leads the VIDI (Visualization and Interface Design Innovation) research group, and directs the DOE SciDAC Institute for Ultra-Scale Visualization. His research spans the fields of visualization, high-performance computing, and user interface design. Professor Ma received his PhD in computer science from the University of Utah in 1993. During 1993-1999, he was with ICASE/NASA Langley Research Center as a research scientist.

Jay Lund is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and currently the Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering. He is on the editorial board of several water resources publications, has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the 1998 and 2005 California Water Plan Updates, and has served as Convenor of the California Water and Environment Modeling Forum (CWEMF) and President of the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR).

Reginald Low is a nationally recognized clinical investigator in cardiology who incorporates the best of leading-edge technology with the highest quality of patient care. His research focuses on coronary artery disease and developing minimally invasive methods of diagnosis and treatment.

Professor Kunnath’s research interests include performance-based seismic engineering, nonlinear modeling of structural behavior, computational methods and software development for seismic analysis of structures, damage mechanics, fatigue behavior of structural materials, and experimental methods in support of model-based simulation.

Amit Kanvinde’s research interests focus on the seismic response of steel structures, with an emphasis on fracture and fatigue.

Andrew Hargadon is the Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis and a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.

Professor Hargadon’s research focuses on the effective management of innovation and entrepreneurship, particularly in the development and commercialization of sustainable technologies.

Research Interests
•Transportation and renewable energy infrastructure system modeling and optimization
•Critical transportation and energy infrastructure protection
•Adaptive network routing and resource allocation processes
•Stochastic and dynamic system modeling and computational methods

Raissa D’Souza is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, as well as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.