UC Merced

Ming-Hsuan Yang is an assistant professor in EECS at University of California, Merced. He received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He studied computer science and power mechanical engineering at the National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, computer science and brain theory at the University of Southern California, and artificial intelligence and operations research at the University of Texas at Austin.

The elegant swirls and arcs of solar coronal loops may enchant space fans, but the math that helps explain them is the territory of Professor Mayya Tokman. Among her many areas of interest in applied mathematics, she has worked on modeling large-scale behavior of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas, including the evolution of solar coronal loops in the solar atmosphere.

Tokman also works to develop mathematical approaches to other problems in science and engineering, including models of experimental manipulations of the biomolecular structure of living cells.

David C. Noelle has recently joined the faculty of the University of California, Merced as an Assistant Professor with appointments in computer science and cognitive science. Only a few short months ago, he was Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Vanderbilt University and an investigator at Vanderbilt’s Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience. Prior to his appointment at Vanderbilt, he held a postdoctoral research position at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint project between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.

Born and raised in Germany, he completed his undergraduate degree at the Technical University of Munich. After he finished his Ph.D., Modest spent two years at NASA’S Johnson Space Center in Texas as a postdoctoral research associate. He returned to the Bay Area for a year after landing a lecturer position at San Francisco State University. After that, Modest held teaching positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York and the University of Southern California before he was offered a position at Penn State.

Teenie Matlock is Founding Faculty, Professor of Cognitive Science, and McClatchy Chair of Communications in the Cognitive and Information Sciences Program at University of California, Merced. She is also Affiliate Faculty in the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at UC Berkeley, and Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Computer Science. Her research is a combination of cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, and human-computer interaction.

Research Interests

Professor Lu’s research is focused on the synthesis of novel functional nanomaterials, particularly employing self-assembled macromolecules as templates to control and scale these nanostructures and explore their applications in biosensing and renewable energy. One of her current topics is to create catalytically active nanoparticles with controlled size and composition at spatially defined locations to promote rational synthesis of carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires.

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Tom Harmon is Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering and Founding Faculty member at the University of California, Merced. He is also affiliated with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He directs contaminant transport observation and management research for the National Science Foundation Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA, and maintains an adjunct position in the UCLA Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Professor Harmon earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, and M.S. and Ph.D.

Gerardo Diaz is currently an Associate Professor at the University of California, Merced. His research interests include renewable energy conversion, dynamic simulation and control of thermal systems, biomass gasification, SOFCs, and artificial neural networks. 

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Miguel Á. Carreira-Perpiñán is a professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Merced.

Roger Bales is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Merced.