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.