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
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
Physics
Research areas: Quantum criticality; Spintronics; Quantum magnetism; Unconventional superconductivity
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
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
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
Civil & environmental engineering
Research area: Intersection of transportation engineering, control theory and mathematics to make transportation systems more performant and sustainable
Sanjam Garg
Electrical engineering & computer sciences
Research areas: Cryptography and its applications to security and privacy
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
Mechanical engineering
Research areas: Composites; additive manufacturing; fracture mechanics; topology optimization; machine learning; finite element analysis; bioinspired materials
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
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
Mechanical engineering
Research areas: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; dynamics and control; motion planning and coordination; state estimation and localization.
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
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
Electrical engineering & computer sciences
Research areas: Spintronics; Negative capacitance; Voltage driven magnetism; Quantum transport modeling
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
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
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
Electrical engineering & computer sciences
Research areas: Physical electronics; quantum devices; integrated circuits; Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
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
Electrical engineering & computer sciences
Research areas: Physical electronics; signal processing; biosystems and computational biology; graphics; computational imaging; optics
Dimitrios Zekkos
Civil & environmental engineering
Research areas: Geotechnical engineering; landslides; drones; satellites; earthquakes; natural hazards; infrastructure resilience; informatics, geoenvironmental engineering; landfills
You can view examples of past intern projects done with these faculty members (and others).