Xiaochun Li

Xiaochun Li Professor Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Stanford University

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Professor Li is the Raytheon Chair in Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department. His research interests are: scifacturing, interdisciplinary areas of innovative manufacturing and materials processing, solid freeform fabrication, nanoscience and nanotechnology, laser micro/nanomaterials processing, and process/system integration.

Ali Mosleh

Ali Mosleh Professor Reliability Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles M.S. University of California, Los Angeles B.S. Sharif University

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Dr. Ali Mosleh is Distinguished Professor and holder of the Evelyn Knight Chair in Engineering at the University of California in Los Angeles.  Prior to that he was the Nicole J. Kim Eminent Professor of Engineering and Director of the Center for Risk and Reliability at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Mosleh is also a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, and the American Nuclear Society, recipient of several scientific achievement awards, and consultant and technical advisor to numerous national and international organizations. In 2004 he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. He continued to serve on the board under President Obama until 2012.

Arash Naeim

Arash Naeim Professor David Geffen School Of Medicine M.D. University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D. RAND Graduate School B.S. University of California, Los Angeles

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Dr. Arash Naeim, M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Medicine in both Divisions of Hematology-Oncology and Geriatric Medicine at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine. He is Associate Director for the Clinical Translational Science Institute, and Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Research for the UCLA Campus and Health System. His research interests included outcomes research, cost-effectiveness analysis, modeling of health and frailty, and clinical trial design. His focus of research for the majority of his publications and research grants has been in breast cancer and cancer in the elderly. He is the UCLA Principal Investigator for the Athena Breast Health Network and NIH grant that aims to use sensor technology and analytics to reduce risk, integrate innovative technology, and advance precision medicine.

Ramin Ramezani

Ramin Ramezani Adjunct Associate Professor Computer Science Ph.D. Imperial College London M.S. Lancaster University B.S. Bangalore University

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Dr. Ramin Ramezani is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science. He previously served as a Research Scientist at the Center for Smart Health, UCLA, and as the Managing Technical Director at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) within the David Geffen School of Medicine. Formerly, he was the Chief Technologist in the Big Data and Analytical Unit of the Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London. He holds a Ph.D. in AI from Imperial College London working on automatic reformulation of AI problems and combined reasoning. His research focuses on transforming healthcare through artificial intelligence.

Izhak Rubin

Izhak Rubin Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. Princeton University M.S. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology B.S. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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Dr. Rubin's research and teaching interests include communications/telecommunications, computer networks, multimedia IP networks, UAV/UGV-aided networks, integrated system and network management, C4ISR systems and networks, optical networks, network simulations and analysis.

Gaurav N. Sant

Gaurav N. Sant Assistant Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. Purdue University M.S. Purdue University B.S. Purdue University

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Dr. Sant is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and holder of the Edward K. and Linda L. Rice Endowed Chair in materials science. His research is focused on elucidating structure-property relations in inorganic materials including metallic, and non-metallic materials, and specifically understanding how reaction processes are formative, and/or destructive of microstructure. As thrust areas, the research, which spans from "atoms to infrastructure", seeks to: (i) quantify solute-solvent reaction dynamics at interfaces, (ii) monitor, manipulate and mitigate electrochemical corrosion processes and (iii) quantify and simulate coupled mass and ion transport processes in random porous media.

Majid Sarrafzadeh

Majid Sarrafzadeh Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Professor Sarrafzadeh's research interests are: Wireless Health and Biomedical Devices, Embedded and Reconfigurable Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, and Data Analytics.

Frederic Paik Schoenberg

Frederic Paik Schoenberg Professor Statistics Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley B.S. Brown University

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Jason L. Speyer

Jason L. Speyer Professor Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Harvard University B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dr. Speyer performs research on stochastic and deterministic optimal control and estimation with application to aerospace systems; guidance, flight control, and flight mechanics. Some of his projects include fault detection and identification for ground vehicles, autonomous formation flight, and management of air vehicles systems. 

Jonathan P. Stewart

Jonathan P. Stewart Professor Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley B.S. University of California, Berkeley

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Dr. Stewart's primary research interests are in geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, with emphases on seismic soil-structure interaction, earthquake ground motion characterization, seismic ground failure, and the seismic performance of earth structures including structural fills and levee embankments. His research has involved: interpretation of earthquake strong motion data to gain insight into soil-structure interaction effects, characterize site effects, and to produce practical models for the prediction of ground motion intensity measures; cyclic field testing of earth structures and full-scale foundation components including shallow foundations, drilled shafts, and bridge abutment walls; advanced dynamic testing of soils in the laboratory; and case history studies of the seismic field performance of infrastructure in California, Taiwan, Turkey, Japan, Greece, Italy, and India. Results from his research group are widely utilized in engineering practice, including a 2012 NIST guidelines document for soil-structure interaction, ground motion prediction equations used for the USGS National Seismic Hazard Maps, ASCE-7 (for new structures), ASCE-41 (existing structures) and additional guidelines documents for landslide risk and tall building design.

Paulo Tabuada

Paulo Tabuada Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. Instituto Superior Técnico M.S. Instituto Superior Técnico B.S. Instituto Superior Técnico

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Paulo Tabuada's main research interests cover a range of topics which could be described as a modern systems theory. In particular, he is interested in modeling, analysis, and control of real-time, embedded, networked and distributed cyber-physical systems. Dr. Tabuada also directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (CyPhyLab), which conducts research at the intersection of computation, communication, and control. 

Ertugrul Taciroglu

Ertugrul Taciroglu Professor and Chair Civil And Environmental Engineering Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.S. Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey

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Professor Taciroglu's research interests lie within the broad area of computational solid and structural mechanics. He is currently working on topology optimization of smart material systems, soil-structure interaction in deep and shallow foundation systems, wave propagation in continuous media, inverse problems—with various applications in system identification, structural health monitoring as well as surveillance—and simulation of structural response under extreme loadings such as explosions, and ballistic impact.

Yuval Tamir

Yuval Tamir Associate Professor Computer Science Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

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Professor Tamir founded and is currently directing the UCLA Concurrent Systems Laboratory. His research interests include hardware, software, and algorithmic issues related to the design and implementation of computer systems. Most of his work is focused on techniques for achieving high performance and high reliability for parallel and distributed systems. Current research projects include: resilient virtualization, fault injection, fault-tolerant cluster managers, fault tolerance for distributed applications, networks-on-a-chip for chip multiprocessors, hardware support for checkpointing, memory hierarchy in multicore chips.

Mladen Vucetic

Mladen Vucetic Professor Geotechnical Engineering Ph.D. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute M.S. University of Zagreb, Croatia B.S. University of Zagreb, Croatia

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Mladen Vucetic is professor of civil engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, who teaches and conducts research in the field of geotechnical engineering, with an emphasis on the cyclic and dynamic behavior of clays, silts and sands. Vucetic has studied the reponse of marine clays to cyclic ocean wave loads in connection with offshore oil explorations.

Roger Wakimoto

Roger Wakimoto Vice Chancellor for Research Atmospheric Scientist Ph.D. University of Chicago B.S. San Jose State University

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He is an accomplished atmospheric scientist specializing in research on mesoscale meteorology, particularly severe convective storms and radar meteorology. He is a former member of UCLA atmospheric sciences faculty in 1983 – 2005, serving as department vice chair in 1993-96 and chair in 1996-2000. After his initial tenure at UCLA, Vice Chancellor Wakimoto served as the director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory from 2005-2010 and subsequently as director of NCAR from 2010-2013. He most recently served as assistant director of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Geosciences from 2013-2017, where he led a division that supported atmospheric, geospace, polar, earth, and ocean sciences with a $1.3 billion annual budget.

John W. Wallace

John W. Wallace Professor Structural Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley B.S. University of Vermont

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Wei Wang

Wei Wang Professor Computer Science Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles M.S. State University of New York

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Wei Wang is the Leonard Kleinrock Chair Professor in Computer Science and Computational Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAi). She is also a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Graduate Program. She received her PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999.

Jason Woo

Jason Woo Professor Electrical And Computer Engineering Ph.D. Stanford University M.S. Stanford University B.S. University of Toronto

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Professor Woo's research interests are wave and solid state electronics, CMOS and bipolar device/circuit optimization, novel device design and modeling of integrated circuits, VLSI fabrication.

Chee Wei Wong

Chee Wei Wong Professor Electrical And Computer Engineering Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.A. University of California, Berekely

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Professor Wong advances the control of photons in mesoscopic systems, involving nonlinear, ultrafast, quantum and precision measurements.

Jian Zhang

Jian Zhang Associate Professor Structural Engineering Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley M.S. University of California, Berkeley B.S. Nanjing Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute, China

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My research interests are earthquake engineering, structure dynamics and mechanics, with an emphasis on the modeling, analysis and protection of structural systems under seismic excitations. The main goals of my research are to understand the seismic performance of bridges and buildings by experiments and model-based simulations; to develop seismic response models and analysis procedures validated by measurements from instrumented structures; to improve the structural performance and mitigate earthquake hazards by using innovative devices, systems and technologies.