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Home > Admissions > Undergraduate admissions > Junior transfers > Transfer-to-Excellence > TTE faculty

Transfer-to-Excellence faculty hosts

The list of 2023 faculty hosts is a work in progress. Faculty participation is subject to change until application decisions are released in April. 

2023 hosts and research areas

Zakaria Al Balushi

Zakaria Al Balushi
Materials science & engineering

Research area: creation of novel synthesis, processing and integration schemes for emerging electronic and photonic materials; development of new instrumentation that will ultimately aid in the discovery of new materials for microelectronics, optoelectronics and quantum technologies

James Analytis

James Analytis
Physics

Research areas: Quantum criticality; Spintronics; Quantum magnetism; Unconventional superconductivity

Anil Aswani

Anil Aswani
Industrial engineering & operations research

Research area: Data-driven decision making, with particular emphasis on addressing inefficiencies and inequities in health systems and physical infrastructure.

Thomas AZWELL

Thomas Azwell
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology

Research Areas: Environmental science; Bioremediation technologies for hydrocarbons and toxins found in crude oil and sediments; Development; Renewable technology; Sustainable development.

Romy Chakraborty

Romy Chakraborty
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research areas: Anaerobic microbial physiology; microbial ecology; plant-microbe interactions; recovery and bioremediation of oil and other contaminants through microbes

Maria Laura Delle Monache

Maria Laura Delle Monache
Civil & environmental engineering

Research area: Intersection of transportation engineering, control theory and mathematics to make transportation systems more performant and sustainable

Sanjam Garg

Sanjam Garg
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Cryptography and its applications to security and privacy

Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Kosa Goucher-Lambert
Mechanical engineering

Research areas: Design theory, methodology, and automation: decision-making applied to engineering teams and individuals; ideation and creativity; analogical reasoning in design; preference modeling and design attribute optimization; design cognition; neuroimaging methods applied to design; sustainable design; new product development; crowdsourcing and collaboration

Grace Gu

Grace Gu
Mechanical engineering

Research areas: Composites; additive manufacturing; fracture mechanics; topology optimization; machine learning; finite element analysis; bioinspired materials

Tsu-Jae King Liu

Tsu-Jae King Liu
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Nanometer-scale semiconductor devices and technology; Novel non-volatile memory devices and technology; M/NEMS technology for ultra-low-power integrated circuits

Dean of the College of Engineering

Dan Klein

Dan Klein
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Artificial intelligence; natural language processing; computational linguistics; machine learning

The TTE Intern will work with a graduate student co-advised by Professor Klein and Professor Darrell.

Mark W. Mueller

Mark W. Mueller
Mechanical engineering

Research areas: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; dynamics and control; motion planning and coordination; state estimation and localization.

Grace O’Connell

Grace O’Connell
Mechanical engineering

Research areas: Biomechanics of cartilage and intervertebral disc; tissue engineering; continuum modeling of soft tissues; intervertebral disc function, degeneration, and regeneration

 

Amy Pickering

Amy Pickering
Civil & environmental engineering

Research areas: Uses tools from epidemiology, genomics, and engineering to understand enteric disease transmission pathways among households in low-income settings and to develop effective, equitable, and scalable interventions to interrupt them.

Sayeef Salahuddin

Sayeef Salahuddin
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Spintronics; Negative capacitance; Voltage driven magnetism; Quantum transport modeling

Niloufar Salehi

Niloufar Salehi
School of Information; Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: social computing; participatory and critical design; human-centered AI; human-computer interaction.

Mary Scott

Mary Scott
Materials science & engineering

Research areas: Atomic resolution tomography; Machine learning for high throughput analysis; Characterization of energy materials; Structural studies of amorphous materials; Helical and chiral nanostructures

Sanjit A. Seshia

Sanjit A. Seshia
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Cyber-physical systems and design automation; programming systems; artificial intelligence; control, intelligent systems, and robotics; security; theory; dependable computing; computational logic; formal methods.

 

Alp Sipahigil, EECS professor

Alp Sipahigil
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Physical electronics; quantum devices; integrated circuits; Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Evan Variano

Evan A. Variano
Environmental Engineering

Research areas: Environmental fluid dynamics; novel imaging for flow measurements; mixing and transport by turbulence; flow and transport in wetlands; hydrodynamic effects on aquatic organisms; aerosol transport; inquiry education; inclusive education; mental wellness

Laura Waller

Laura Waller
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Physical electronics; signal processing; biosystems and computational biology; graphics; computational imaging; optics

 

Dimitrios Zekkos

Dimitrios Zekkos
Civil & environmental engineering

Research areas: Geotechnical engineering; landslides; drones; satellites; earthquakes; natural hazards; infrastructure resilience; informatics, geoenvironmental engineering; landfills

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Past TTE Projects

You can view examples of past intern projects done with these faculty members (and others).

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