Affiliated Faculty

Carter Butts, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic
Research Interests: mathematical sociology, social networks, quantitative methodology, human judgment and decision making, economic sociology
Email: buttsc@uci.edu


Zhongping Chen, Ph.D.

Professor of Sociology; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Statistics
Research Interests: biomedical optics, optical coherence tomography, bioMEMS, biomedical devices
Email: z2chen@uci.edu 
 

Brian Demsky, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: software reliability, security, software engineering, compilation, parallel software, program analysis, and program understanding
Email: bdemsky@uci.edu 


Alfred Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
Research Interests: network and systems security, and the major research theme is addressing security challenges through systematic problem analysis and mitigation 
Email: alfchen@uci.edu 
 

Nikil Dutt, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: embedded systems, computer architecture, electronic design automation, software systems, brain-inspired architectures and computing
Email: dutt@uci.edu


Aleksandr Figotin, Ph.D.

Professor of Physical Sciences; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: applied and computational mathematics, mathematical physics
Email: afigotin@uci.edu


Roy Fox, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: theory and applications of control learning — reinforcement learning, algorithmic game theory, information theory, and robotics
Email:  royf@uci.edu


Michael Franz, D.Sc.

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: computer security, systems software, particularly compilers and virtual machines, software engineering
Email: franz@uci.edu
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Gultekin Gulsen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor in Residence of Radiological Sciences;  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; School of Physical Sciences; Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests: 
Email: ggulsen@uci.edu
 

Arash Kheradvar, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, of Biomedical Engineering, and Medicine (Cardiology); Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
Research Interests: research is focused on cardiovascular engineering with emphasis on cardiac mechanics, cardiac imaging and cardiovascular devices 
Email: arashkh@uci.edu 


Scott Jordan, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: pricing and differentiated services in the Internet, resource allocation in wireless networks, telecommunications policy
Email: sjordan@uci.edu
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Michelle Khine, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: development of novel nano- and micro-fabrication technologies and systems for single cell analysis, stem cell research, in-vitro diagnostics
Email: mkhine@uci.edu


Marco Levorato, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests:
Email: levorato@uci.edu
 

Michael McCarthy, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: design of mechanical systems, computer aided design, kinematic theory of spatial motion
Email: jmmccart@uci.edu


Sabee Molloi, Ph.D.

Professor of Radiological Sciences; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: quantitative aspects of medical x-ray imaging and its applications to cardiac and breast imaging
Email: symolloi@uci.edu


Zoran Nenadic, Ph.D.

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: neuroengineering, Biomedical signal processing and pattern recognition, biological neural network models, biomedical devices and sensors
Email: znenadic@uci.edu


Eric Potma, Ph.D.

Professor of Chemistry; Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic; School of Medicine; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: quantitative biomedical imaging with nonlinear optical microscopy, nonlinear imaging of individual molecules and nanostructures, sharpening imaging contrast in nonlinear optical microscopy
Email: epotma@uci.edu
 

Amir Rahmani, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Nursing; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: e-health, wearable internet-of-things,healthcare/nursing informatics, embedded systems
Email: a.rahmani@uci.edu


Andrei Shkel, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: design and advanced control of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), precision micro-sensors and actuators for telecommunication and information technologies, MEMS-based health monitoring systems, disposable diagnostic devices, prosthetic implants
Email: ashkel@uci.edu
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Sameer Singh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Computer Science; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests: artificial intelligence and machine learning, databases and data mining, scientific and numerical computing
Email: sameer@uci.edu


Camilo Vélez Cuervo, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research Interests:  micro/nano robotics, micro/nano device fabrication, microfabrication of magnetic microsystems, magnetic micro/nanostructures
Email: cvelezcu@uci.edu


Yoonjin Won, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:  multi-scale structures for thermal and energy applications, in particular fabrication, characterization, and integration of structured materials
Email: won@uci.edu