Faculty

Faculty

We integrate faculty and students with differing expertise to address specific industry problems.

 

Leadership

Tara Javidi Photo
Tara Javidi

Center Co-Director
Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Practical solutions with theoretical guarantees for information acquisition, processing, and communication

Tara Javidi's Website 

Farinaz Koushanfar
Farinaz Koushanfar

Center Co-Director
Electrical and Computer Engineering professor
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Accelerated and domain-specific machine learning (ML), safe and secure ML, private ML, embedded and hardware systems, security and trust.

Farinaz Koushanfar's Lab 

Analytics and Computing

Ilkay Altintas
Ilkay Altintas

Chief Data Science Officer
Computer Science and Engineering

Center of Excellence in Workflows for Data Science, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
Reusable, Scalable and Reproducible Big Data Computing Through Methods and Tools for Workflows for Problem Solving

Ilkay Altintas 

Kamalika Chaudhuri
Kamalika Chaudhuri

Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Trustworthy Machine Learning, Learning and Active Learning Theory

Kamalika Chaudhuri 

Pamela Cosman
Pamela Cosman

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Image and Video Compression, Processing, and Wireless Communications

Pam Cosman 

Siavash Mirarab
Siavash Mirarab

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Scalable Analysis of Large-scale Biological Datasets

Siavash Mirarab 

Truong Nguyen
Truong Nguyen

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Image and Video Processing on Low-power Low-cost Systems

Nguyen's Video Processing Lab 

Alon Orlitsky
Alon Orlitsky

Qualcomm Chair Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Estimation, Learning, and Speech Processing

Alon Orlitsky 

Piya Pal
Piya Pal

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

High Dimensional Statistical Signal Processing, High Resolution Imaging

Piya Pal 

Bhaskar Rao
Bhaskar Rao

Ericsson Chair Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Signal Processing, Estimation Theory, Speech Processing

UCSD DSP Lab 

Yuanyuan Shi
Yuanyuan Shi

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Data Driven Control, Energy Systems and Cyberphysical Systems

Yuanyuan Shi Personal Website 

Behrouz Touri Image
Behrouz Touri

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dynamics and Controls over Complex Networks, Distributed Optimization and Computation

Behrouz Touri 

Nuno Vasconcelos
Nuno Vasconcelos

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Statistical Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Multimedia

Statistical Visual Computing Lab 

Tsui-Wei (Lily) Weng
Lily Weng

Assistant Professor
Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Robust and Safe Machine Learning, Trustworthy Machine Learning, Uncertainty Quantification, Robust Optimization of System Design

Tsui-Wei (Lily) Weng 

Rose Yu
Rose Yu

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Large-Scale Spatiotemporal Learning, Deep Learning, Tensor Methods, and their applications.

Qi (Rose) Yu's Website 

Computer Architecture and Systems

Nicholas Antipa
Nicholas Antipa

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computational Optical Imaging Systems Design

Nicholas Antipa's Website 

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Halıcıoğlu Chair Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Algorithm- defined Domain-specific Computational Stacks from Programming Languages down to Circuits

Alternative Computing Technologies (ACT) Lab 

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Massimo Franceschetti

Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Physical and information-based foundations of communication and control systems

Massimo Franceschetti's website 

Andrew Kahng
Andrew Kahng

High Performance Computing Chair Professor
Computer Science and Engineering & Electrical and Computer Engineering

Design Automation, Software-hardware Co-design

UCSD VLSI CAD Laboratory 

Mingu Kang
Mingu Kang

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Vertically-integrated VLSI information processing for energy- and latency-efficient machine learning and signal processing systems

Vertically-integrated VLSI Information Processing 

Ryan Kastner
Ryan Kastner

Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Embedded Security; Hardware and FPGA Acceleration; FPGAS; Reconfigurable Computing

Kastner Research Group 

Duygu Kuzum
Duygu Kuzum

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Materials and Devices for Brain-inspired Computing

Neuroelectronics Group 

Hanh-Phuc Le
Hanh-Phuc Le

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Integrated/miniaturized power electronics, delivery, and management for All

Integrated Power Electronics and Energy-Efficient Systems Lab 

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Imani N.S. Munyaka

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Issue identification and solution testing to improve the human experience with security and privacy-related tools.

Imani N.S. Munyaka's Website 

Tajana Simunic Rosing
Tajana Simunic Rosing

Fratamico Chair Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Embedded System Design and Software Optimization, Power Management

System Energy Efficiency Lab 

Deian Stefan
Deian Stefan

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Systems, Security, and Programming Languages

Deian Stefan 

Yatish Turakhia
Yatish Turakhia

Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Algorithms and hardware-accelerators for computational biology

Yatish Turakhia 

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Jishen Zhao

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering

Memory and Storage Architecture and Systems, Domain-specific Acceleration, Software/Hardware Co-design

Jishen Zhao 

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