UC Santa Cruz

Yi Zhang is an Assistant Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include information retrieval, text mining, statistical machine learning, and natural language processing. She has collaborated with start-ups, large corporations and government agencies on related topics. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. She is working with SSRC on the Distributed Metadata Management project, focusing on how to use rich key-value metadata to allow users to interactively navigate and search distributed file systems.

Jim Whitehead is an Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he helped create the Computer Game Design program. He is also the founder and board chair of the Society for the Advancement of the Science of Digital Games, which hosts the yearly Foundations of Digital Games conference. Jim’s research interests in the area of games include level design and procedural content generation. In the field of software engineering, Jim performs research on software bug prediction, software repository mining, and software evolution.

Professor John Vesecky’s technical interests are in the areas of remote sensing of the ocean surface; ocean current measuring radar for coastal ecology and oceanography, radar and radar systems, especially synthetic aperture radar (SAR); wave scattering; remote sensing and public health; global change. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSC he was a Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Anujan Varma is a Professor and Graduate Director in the Computer Engineering Department at UCSC. He holds a Masters in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California. He was previously employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1986 to 1991.

Research Interests

Computer architecture with focus on complexity, temperature, reliability. To gain further insights systems (SCOORE) are built on FPGAs and ASICs.

Raquel Prado is Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at UCSC. Her current research is in non-stationary and multivariate time series analysis. Her book, Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference was published earlier this year.

Research Areas

Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing and statistical genetics.

A.B., Mathematics, Cornell University Ph.D., Computer Science, Stanford University, Fellow of the ACM

Ira Pohl is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The department is part of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering. His current research is in object-oriented programming and topics in software methodology. He has written widely on programming in C, C++ C# and Java.

Research Areas

File systems, operating systems, storage, programming languages

Dr. Alex Pang is interested in uncertainty visualization and tensor visualization.

John Musacchio is an associate professor with the new Technology and Information Management Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Professor Musacchio’s research interests include network economics, game theory, stochastic modeling and control of queuing networks with applications in communications networks.

Professor Ethan Miller is a Professor of Computer Science in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, and is the Associate Director of the Storage Systems Research Center. He was a member of the RAID project at UC Berkeley, where he did his PhD on a decentralized parallel file system for high-end scientific computing. His current research interests include petabyte-scale file systems, archival storage systems and file systems and scalable view-based metadata management for storage-class memories.

Charlie McDowell is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

I run the Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz, where we explore the intersection of artificial intelligence, art and design. Our goal is to create compelling new forms of interactive art and entertainment that provide more deeply autonomous, generative and dynamic responses to interaction. A major thrust of this work is advanced AI for videogames, including autonomous characters and interactive storytelling.

My goal in teaching is to instill in students a sense of wonder about mind and behavior and how questions can be tackled using critical thinking and scientific principles. To impress upon students and peers the fallacies that so easily entrap us, I created a Survey of Psychological Literacy that reveals these entrapments. Several of my courses and my scholarship activities are aimed at not only revealing these entrapments but also providing strategies of critical thinking to overcome them.

Professor Marc Mangel was educated at the University of Illinois (BS in Physics 1971 with High Honors, MS in Biophysics 1972), where he was an EJ James Scholar, NIH Trainee in biophysics and elected to Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Beta Kappa, and the University of British Columbia (PhD in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, with a focus on Mathematical Biology, 1978). He worked for the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA, the research and development center for the US Navy) from Nov 1977-Aug 1980.

Carlos Maltzahn is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, Director of the UCSC Systems Research Lab, Associate Director of the UCSC/Los Alamos Institute for Scalable Scientific Data Management, co-PI of the Petascale Data Storage Institute, and a faculty member of the Storage Systems Research Center, all at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Suresh K. Lodha is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His current research interests include geospatial and data visualization, imaging and lidar sensors, and sensor vision. He received an M. S. degree in Engineering-integrated Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and an M. A. degree in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained the Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from Rice University, Houston, Texas. in 1992.

Dr. Larrabee is the Associate Vice Provost for UCSC Silicon Valley Initiatives. Dr. Larrabee will be the academic point of contact for UCSC’s Silicon Valley Initiatives and will oversee the University Affiliated Research Center and the Advanced Studies Laboratory, including the Bio-Info-Nano Research and Development Institute. On the UCSC campus, she will concentrate on serving the needs of the arts, engineering, and physical and biological sciences divisions.

Sri Kurniawan’s work focuses on interactive systems to help older persons, people with disabilities, children, people in developing countries and people with low socioeconomic status. The Web browsing interface that her research group developed is one of the most widely used application by blind people in the UK. She had worked with a research lab in Czech Republic to build a humming-operated mouse and keyboard for people with combined motor and speech impairment and with a research lab in Malaysia to help Malay-speaking stroke survivors.