W. Martin Usrey’s laboratory uses anatomical and physiological tools to study the functional organization of the mammalian visual system. In particular, his lab is interested in how visual information is processed and transmitted from one level of the visual pathway to the next.
Researchers at CITRIS
Susan Ustin
Interests: Remote sensing of environmental properties and landscape analysis utilizing optical, microwave, and thermal scanners; radiation interactions in plant canopies and application to hydrological and […]
C. P. van Dam
Warren and Leta Giedt Professor and Department Chair
UC Davis
Evan Variano
Professor Variano’s teaching and research focus on environmental fluid mechanics & the physics of fluid motion in the environment. This includes a variety of phenomena on a variety of scales, from microscopic mixing to the coupled ocean-atmosphere system that transports heat and Carbon Dioxide around the globe. An understanding of fluid mechanics is crucial for an engineer whose goal is to restore or preserve a natural environment (e.g., wetlands, rivers, or the ocean) or design a system in which water or air flow must be controlled (e.g., ventilation, treatment, or turbomachinery).
Professor Ajujan Varma
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.
Steven Velinsky
My research interests are in mechanical systems analysis and design.
I have been involved in the analysis and design of a wide variety of systems including: wire ropes and cables, vehicles, air bearings, ballscrew mechanisms, eye surgery, and automated highway maintenance and construction machinery.
Rao Vemuri
Professor Vemuri’s research interests are in the areas of digital media, soft computing, neural networks, genetic algorithms, digital communications, signal processing, simulation and modeling, and numerical methods. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
Professor, B. E. Electrical Engineering, (1958); Ph.D., Engineering, UCLA, (1968); Assistant Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (1970-73); Associate Professor, SUNY, Binghamton, NY (1973-81); Sub Project Manager, TRW, Redondo Beach (1981-86)
John Vesecky
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.
Joshua Viers
CITRIS at UC Merced Director Emeritus
Pat Virtue
Assistant Teaching Professor School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University pvirtue@cs.cmu.edu Office: 6001 Gates Hillman Complex (GHC) https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pvirtue/
S V N Vishwanathan
Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz
Stavros G. Vougioukas
Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu
Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu did his undergraduate studies in Physics, with a major in Biophysics at the Bucharest University, Romania. In 2000 he received his PhD in Experimental Physics from Humboldt University/Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, where he used time-resolved Raman/CARS spectroscopy to investigate elementary chemical reactions.
Professor David Wagner
Professor Wagner is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley with extensive experience in computer security and cryptography. Dr. Wagner is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and a CRA Digital Government Fellow. Dr. Wagner was a co-designer of one of the Advanced Encryption Standard finalists, and he remains active in the areas of computer security, cryptography, and e-voting.
Martin Wainwright
He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from University of Waterloo, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), for which he was awarded the George M. Sprowls Prize from the MIT EECS department, 2002. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in Fall 2004, with a joint appointment between the Department of Statistics and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He has received an NSF-CAREER Award (2006), an Alfred P.
Joan Walker
Joan Walker’s research focus is behavioral modeling, with an expertise in discrete choice analysis and travel behavior. She works to improve the models that are used for transportation planning, policy, and operations.
Marilyn Walker
Marilyn Walker, is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), in recognition of her for fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog. Her current research includes work on computational models of dialogue interaction and conversational agents, analysis of affect, sarcasm and other social phenomena in social media dialogue, acquiring causal knowledge from text, conversational summarization, interactive story and narrative generation, and statistical methods for training the dialogue manager and the language generation engine for dialogue systems.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Noah Wardrip-Fruin is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he co-directs the Expressive Intelligence Studio, one of the world’s largest technical research groups focused on games. He also directs the Playable Media group in UCSC’s Digital Arts and New Media program. Noah’s research areas include new models of storytelling in games, how games express ideas through play, and how games can help broaden understanding of the power of computation.
Anne Warlaumont
Research Interests
Speech development
Evolution of communication
Vocal motor control
Neural networks
Education
Ph.D., 2012 (expected) — University of Memphis
B.A., 2006 — Cornell University
Steven Weber
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Long Term Cybersecurity, UC Berkeley
Linda Werner
Linda Werner is a associate researcher in Computer Science and a lecturer in Computer Science and Information Systems Management at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Her areas of interest include computer science education, pair programming, software engineering, and social issues.
She received her B.A. in mathematics in 1973 from Clark University in Worcester, MA. After working in industry for many years, she returned to school and received her M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, San Diego.
David Wessel
Director CNMAT, Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Anthony Wexler
My research focuses on understanding the atmospheric processes that transport and transform particulate pollutants in the atmosphere and in lungs. Experimental and modeling approaches are employed. Focus is on urban and regional smog and global climate change. Experimental work includes developing new instruments and deploying them in the field. Modeling work includes simulation of particle dynamics in the urban and regional atmosphere related, vehicle emissions, and deposition in human airways.
Birgitta Whaley
Research Interests
Quantum Information and Computation, Quantum mechanics of clusters and nanomaterials, Chemical Physics.
Alexander Whalley
Professor Whalley’s research focuses on the economics of the public sector. In recent work, he has studied the impacts of research universities on local economic development, how transportation infrastructure affects air quality, the effects of public official accountability on their performance.
His research focuses on the economics of the public sector. He has studied the role of political institutions in policymaking, the effects of universities on regional growth, and the effects of urban mass transit on air quality.
Richard White
Received a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in Applied Physics. He conducted microwave device research at General Electric before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962. He is a Founding Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (1986). He holds numerous U.S. patents, has co-authored texts and reference books on Solar Cells (1983), Acoustic Wave Sensors (1997), and Electronics (2001). In addition to the 2003 Rayleigh Award of the IEEE for seminal contributions to surface acoustic wave technology, Prof.