People
Lise Getoor
Director, D3
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 341B
Phone: 831-459-1489
Research Interests: Machine learning for structured data and graphs, data integration, probabilistic modeling
Abel Rodriguez
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Engineering, Room 351
Phone: 831-459-1047
Research Interests: Bayesian statistical methods, network and relational data, hierarchical and structured models, data visualization
S V N Vishwanathan
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 341A
Phone: 831-459-1721
Research Interests: Machine learning, algorithms for massive datasets, large scale optimization, recommender systems
Dimitris Achlioptas
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 343A
Phone: 831-459-1081
Research Interests: Algorithms, Machine Learning, Random Structures, Applications of Probability to Computer Science
Luca de Alfaro
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 339A
Phone: 650-248-2856
Research Interests: Reputation systems, Crowdsourcing, Game Theory, Formal Methods for System Design and Verification
Eric Aldrich
Assistant Professor, Economics
Engineering 2, Room 435
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, finance, computational economics, financial econometrics
Peter Alvaro
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Phone: 831-459-1304
Research Interests: Data management systems, distributed systems, logic programming
Douglas Bonett
Director of the Center for Statistical Analysis in the Social Sciences
Professor of Psychology
Social Sciences 2, Room 150
Research Interests: Quantitative psychology, with recent work on interval estimation problems, the analysis of categorical data, statistical methods for combining and comparing results from multiple studies, and sample size planning
Scott Brandt
Vice Chancellor for Research
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 347B
Research Interests: Operating systems, storage systems, real-time systems
Nicholas Brummell
Chair, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Baskin Engineering, Room 357A
Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, numerical simulations of geophysical and astrophysical dynamics, especially solar interior physics, supercomputing
Seshadhri Comandur
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 347A
Phone: 831-502-8036
Research Interests: Data Sciece, Mathematical Foundations of Big Data, Massive Graph Analysis,Scalable Graph Algorithms, Sublinear Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms
Carlos Dobkin
Professor, Economics
Engineering 2, room 441
Phone: 831-459-2079
Research Interests: Public health, public policy, and econometrics
David Draper
Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Baskin Engineering, Room 357C
Phone: 831-459-1295
Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, hierarchical modeling, Bayesian nonparametric methods, model specification and model uncertainty, quality assessment, risk assessment, statistical applications in the environmental, medical, and social sciences
Robert Fairlie
Professor, Economics
Department Chair, Economics
Engineering 2, Room 443
Research Interests: Labor economics, entrepreneurship, education, applied econometrics
Cormac Flanagan
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 367
Research Interestes: Programming languages, computer security, concurrency, verification, type systems, dynamic and static program analysis
Daniel Friedman
Professor, Technology Management
Engineering 2, Room 417
Research Interests: Applied economic theory, with emphasis on learning and evolution, laboratory experiments, and financial markets; market design and performance; evolutionary dynamics of continuous strategies or traits
Phokion G. Kolaitis
Distinguished Prof. Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 345A
Phone: 831-459-4768
Research Interests: Principles of Database Systems, Logic in Computer Science. Computational Complexity
Athanasios Kottas
Director, Graduate Program, Statistics & Applied Mathematics
Professor of Statistics
Baskin Engineering, Room 365A
Phone: 831-459-5536
Research Interests: Bayesian nonparametrics, Nonparametric regression, Mixture models, Modeling and inference for point processes, Survival analysis, Applications in biometrics, ecology, and the environmental sciences
Herbert Lee
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Campus Diversity Officer for Faculty
Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Baskin Engineering, Room 373
Phone: 831-459-1655
Research Interests: Bayesian statistics, computer simulation experiments, spatial statistics, optimization, inverse problems, nonparametric regression, classification and clustering
Darrell Long
Kumar Malavalli Endowed Professor of Storage Systems Research
Professor, Computer Engineering
Director of SSRC
Engineering 2, Room 371
Phone: 831-459-2616
Research Interests: Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems
Carlos Maltzahn
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science
Director of ISSDM, SRL and CROSS
Engineering 2, Room 369
Research Interests: Scalable file system data and metadata management, storage QoS, data management games, network intermediaries, information retrieval, and cooperation dynamics
Ethan Miller
Professor, Computer Engineering
Symantec Presidential Chair in Storage and Security
Director, NSF I/UCRC Center for Research in Storage Systems
Engineering 2, Room 365
Phone: 831-459-1222
Research Interests: Archival storage systems, non-hierarchical file systems and metadata management, non-volatile memory and next-generation storage, scalable file systems, reliable and secure storage, distributed systems, information retrieval, computer security
Raquel Prado
Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Baskin Engineering, Room 365C
Phone: 831-459-1488
Research Interests:
Bayesian non-stationary time series modeling, multivariate time series, biomedical signal processing and statistical genetics
Hamid Sadjadpour
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Engineering 2, Room 245B
Phone: 831-459-1483
Research Interests: Wireless communications, analysis of networks and protocols, network coding, interaction between social and communication networks
Bruno Sansó
Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
Baskin Engineering, Room 361C
Research Interests: Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling, environmental and geostatistical applications, modeling of extreme values, statistical assessment of climate variability
Wang-Chiew Tan
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 343B
Phone: 831-459-3709
Research Interests: Data Management, Information Integration, Data Provenance, Data Cleaning, Crowdsourcing
Daniele Venturi
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
Baskin Engineering, Room 353B
Phone: 831-502-7249
Research Interests: Stochastic modeling and uncertainty quantification, numerical analysis and high-performance, scientific computing, reduced-order modeling, Mori-Zwanzig formulation, numerical approximation of functional differential equations, theoretical and computational fluid dynamics
Marilyn Walker
Professor, Computer Science
Graduate Program Director, Computational Media
Engineering 2, Room 267
Phone: 831-459-1058
Research Interests: Natural language processing, Social Media Analytics, Computational Models of Dialogue
Manfred K. Warmuth
Professor, Computer Science
Engineering 2, Room 357
Phone: 831-459-4950
Research Interests: Online learning, Machine Learning, Statistical Decision Theory, Game Theory, Analysis of Algorithms
