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This directory includes regular CS Department faculty, adjunct faculty and faculty with joint appointments. All email addresses are at cs.ucla.edu, unless indicated otherwise.
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Algirdas Avizienis, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1960) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
IEEE Fellow; IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award
Research: computer system architecture and design; fault-tolerant computing; digital arithmetic
email: aviz | office: BH 4731F | tel: 310-825-3028 | fax: 310-825-2273
Rajive Bagrodia, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1987) University of Texas, Austin
Research: wireless networks; mobile computing and communications; network simulation and analysis; parallel and distributed computing
email: rajive | office: BH 3531G | tel: 310-825-0956 | fax: 310-794-5056
Bertram Bussell, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science (Deceased)
PhD (1962) UCLA
Research: electric circuit theory; heat transfer; computer system architecture; computer graphics
email: bussell | office: BH 4731A | tel: 310-397-2279 | fax: 310-825-2273
Alfonso F. Cardenas, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1969) UCLA
Research: database management; distributed heterogeneous and multimedia systems; information systems; medical informatics; legal and IP issues; software engineering
email: cardenas | office: BH 3732E | tel: 310-825-7550 | fax: 310-825-7578
Jack Carlyle, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1961) University of California, Berkeley
Research: communication; computation theory and practice; algorithms and complexity; discrete system theory; developmental and probabilistic systems
email: jwc | office: BH 3731G | tel: 310-825-8807 | fax: 310-825-7578
Junghoo (John) Cho, Associate Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2002) Stanford University
Research: internet search engines; database systems; information management systems; digital libraries; large-scale internet data management
email: cho | office: BH 3532E | tel: 310-571-8240 | fax: 310-794-5056
Wesley Chu, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1966) Stanford University
IEEE Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow; IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award
Research: distributed processing and distributed database systems; intelligent information systems
email: wwc | office: BH 3731H | tel: 310-825-2047 | fax: 310-825-7578
Jason (Jingsheng) Cong, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1990) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow; IEEE CASS Technical Achievement Award
Research: computer-aided design of VLSI circuits; fault-tolerant designs of VLSI systems; design and analysis of algorithms
email: cong | office: BH 4731J | tel: 310-206-2775 | fax: 310-825-2273
Adnan Darwiche, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1993) Stanford University
AAAI Fellow
Research: probabilistic and logical reasoning and its applications, including diagnosis, planning, and system design and analysis
email: darwiche | office: BH 4532D | tel: 310-206-5201 | fax: 310-794-5057
Joseph Distefano III, Distinguished Prof of Computer Sci, Medicine & Biomed Engrg
PhD (1966) UCLA
Research: biocybernetics, computational systems biology and physiology; biomedical systems modeling and control; integrative cancer biology; optimal drug therapy; intelligent software for automated biomodeling
email: joed | office: BH 4711 | tel: 310-825-7482 | fax: 310-825-2273
Michael G. Dyer, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1982) Yale University
Research: processing and acquisition of natural language through symbolic, connectionist and genetic algorithm techniques
email: dyer | office: BH 4532F | tel: 310-206-6674 | fax: 310-794-5057
Paul Eggert, Lecturer of Computer Science
PhD (1980) UCLA
Research: software design and engineering; programming language design and implementation; software internationalization
office: BH 4532J | tel: 310-267-2254 | fax: 310-794-5057
Jason Ernst, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Computer Science
PhD (2008) Carnegie Mellon University
Research: computational biology; bioinformatics; machine learning
email: jason.ernst at ucla dot edu | office: BSRB 314 | tel:310-825-3658| fax: 310-206-5272
Milos D. Ercegovac, Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair
PhD (1975) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
IEEE Fellow, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Member
Research: computer arithmetic and hardware-oriented algorithms; design of digital and reconfigurable systems
email: milos | office: BH 4731H | tel: 310-825-5414 | fax: 310-825-2273
Eleazar Eskin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2002) Columbia University
Research: bioinformatics; computational biology; machine learning
email: eeskin | office: MS 2915 | tel: 310-825-3886 | fax: 310-825-2273
Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science, Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks
PhD (1985) MIT
AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Research: embedded networked sensing; wireless sensing applications; environmental monitoring; network protocols
email: destrin | office: BH 3531H | tel: 310-206-3923 | fax: 310-206-3053
Gerald Estrin, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science (Deceased)
PhD (1951) University of Wisconsin
IEEE Fellow
Research: computer systems architecture; methodology and supporting tools for design of concurrent systems; automating design teamwork; restructurable architectures
email: estrin | office: BH 4731C | tel: 310-825-2786 | fax: 310-825-7578
Thelma Estrin, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1951) University of Wisconsin
AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AIMBE Fellow
Research: biomedical engineering; application of technology and computers to health care; computer methods in neuroscience; engineering education
email: testrin | office: BH 4731C | tel: 310-825-2786 | fax: 310-825-7578
Eliezer Gafni, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1982) MIT
Research: distributed algorithms; mathematical programming with application to data networks; computer science theory
email: eli | office: BH 3731F | tel: 310-825-3211 | fax: 310-825-7578
Mario Gerla, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1973) UCLA
IEEE Fellow
Research: wireless ad hoc networks; peer to peer communications; dynamic spectrum access; wireless security; mobile health system
email: gerla | office: BH 3732F | tel: 310-825-4367 | fax: 310-825-7578
Sheila Greibach, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1963) Harvard University
Research: algorithms and computational complexity; program schemes and semantics; formal languages and automata theory and computability
email: greibach | office: BH 3731D | tel: 310-825-1617 | fax: 310-825-7578
David Heckerman, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1979) University of California Los Angeles
Research: I am interested in learning from data. The models and methods I use are inspired by work in the fields of statistics and data analysis, machine learning, probability theory, decision theory, concentrated on using graphical models for data analysis and visualization in biology and medicine with a special focus on the design of HIV vaccines and genome-wide association studies.
email: heckerma@microsoft.com | office: BH 4732 | tel: 310-824-0458
Van Jacobson, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1972) University of Arizona
Research: I Architecture Named Data Network (NDA), Content-Centric Networking.
email: van@google.com | office: BH 4732 | tel: 650-529-0233
Alan Kay, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1969) University of Utah
ACM A.M. Turing Award, Kyoto Prize; AAAS Fellow, NAE Fellow, RSA Fellow
Research: object-oriented programming; personal computing; graphical user interfaces
email: alan.kay@squeakland.org | office: BH 3732J | tel: 310-825-9219 | fax: 310-825-7578
Leonard Kleinrock, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1963) MIT
AAAS, NAE Member, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow; L.M. Ericsson Prize, NAE Charles Stark Draper Prize
Research: queueing theory; packet switching networks; packet radio networks; local area networks; broadband networks; nomadic computing; peer-to-peer networks; intelligent agents
email: lk | office: BH 3732G | tel: 310-825-2543 | fax: 310-825-7578
Allen Klinger, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1966) University of California, Berkeley
IEEE Fellow
Research: image analysis; pattern analysis; database systems; computer education
email: klinger | office: BH 4532K | tel: 310-825-7695 | fax: 310-794-5057
Boris Kogan, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science (Deceased)
PhD (1945) Moscow Institute of Automation and Telemechanics
Research: simulation of dynamic phenomena in excitable biological tissues; massively parallel multiprocessor systems
email: kogan | office: BH 4731E | tel: 310-825-7393 | fax: 310-825-2273
Eddie Kohler, Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2001) MIT
Research: operating systems; software architecture; network measurement; network protocol design; programming language techniques for improving systems software
email: kohler | office: BH 4531C | tel: 310-267-5450 | fax: 310-794-5057
Richard Korf, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1983) Carnegie-Mellon University
AAAI Fellow
Research: artificial intelligence, including problem-solving, heuristic search, planning and parallel processing
email: korf | office: BH 4532E | tel: 310-206-5383 | fax: 310-794-5057
Christopher Lee, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Professor of Computer Science
Ph.D. (1993) Stanford University
MIT Technology Review TR100 Award, Searle Scholar Award
Research: Bioinformatics; statistical inference
email: leec@chem.ucla.edu | office: 601A Boyer | tel: 310-825-7374 | fax: 310-206-4038
Leon Levine, Emeritus Senior Lecturer of Computer Science
MS (1949) MIT
Research: computer methodology
email: levine | office: BH 4531A | tel: 310-206-7073 | fax: 310-794-5057
Songwu Lu, Professor of Computer Science and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies
PhD (2003) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research: wireless networking; mobile computing; network security; sensor networks; network middleware
email: slu | office: BH 4731C | tel: 310-794-9289 | fax: 310-825-2273
Rupak Majumdar, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2003) University of California, Berkeley
Research: formal verification and control of systems; software verification and programming languages; game theoretic problems in verification; logic and automata theory
email: rupak | office: BH 4531E | tel: 310-825-8127 | fax: 310-794-5057
Michel A. Melkanoff, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1955) UCLA
Research: programming languages; data structures; database design; relational models; simulation systems; robotics; computer-aided design and manufacturing; numerical-controlled machinery
email: melkanoff | office: BH 3531E | tel: 310-794-0009 | fax: 310-794-5056
Todd Millstein, Associate Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2003) University of Washington
Research: programming language design; static type systems; program analysis; software model checking; formal methods; compilers
email: todd | office: BH 4531D | tel: 310-825-5942 | fax: 310-794-5057
Richard R. Muntz, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1969) Princeton University ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Research: distributed and parallel database systems; temporal data models and query processing; knowledge discovery in database systems; computer performance evaluation
email: muntz | office: BH 3277 | tel: 310-825-3546 | fax: 310-794-5056
Carey Nachenberg, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
MS (1995) UCLA
Research: Anti-virus and intrusion detection technology
email: kip | office: BH 4531N | tel: 424- 750-7519
Ani Nahapetian, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2007) UCLA
Research: Hardware-Based System Security, Embedded Systems, Mobile and Wireless Health Systems, Algorithms for Reconfigurable Computing
email: ani | office: BH 3532E | tel: 310-206-5097 | fax: 310-794-5056
Stanley Osher, Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1966) New York University
NAS Member; SIAM Kleinman Prize, ICIAM Pioneer Prize
Research: applied mathematics; numerical methods for PDEs; level set methods; applications to image processing
email: sjo@math.ucla.edu | office: MS 7619F | tel: 310-825-1758 | fax: 310-206-6673
Rafail Ostrovsky, Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Mathematics
PhD (1992) MIT
Research: theory of computation; cryptography and security; distributed algorithms; high-dimensional search; routing and flow control in communication networks
email: rafail | office: BH 3732D | tel: 310-206-5283 | fax: 310-825-7578
Jens Palsberg, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1992) University of Aarhus
Research: compilers; embedded systems; programming languages; software engineering; information security
email: palsberg | office: BH 4531K | tel: 310-825-6320 | fax: 310-794-5057
Peter S. Pao, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1975) University of Michigan
Research: System engineering
email: peterspao@ucla.edu | office: 38-137H
D. Stott Parker, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1978) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research: Data Mining; Bioinformatics; Database Management and Scientific Data Management; Modeling
email: stott | office: BH 3532H | tel: 310-825-6871 | fax: 310-794-5056
Giovanni Pau, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1998) University of Bologna
email: gpau | office: BH 3803A | tel: 310-206-3212 | fax: 310-794-5056
Judea Pearl, Emeritus on recall Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1965) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
ACM A.M. Turing Award, AAAS Fellow, Technion Harvey Prize, Rumelhart Prize, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Allen Newell Award, IEEE Fellow; AI Research Excellence Award, AAAI/NAE Member
Research: artificial intelligence and knowledge representation; probabilistic and causal reasoning; nonstandard logics; learning strategies
email: judea | office: BH 4515 | tel: 310-825-3243 | fax: 310-794-5057
Miodrag Potkonjak, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1991) University of California, Berkeley
Research: complex distributed systems; embedded systems; communication designs; computer-aided design; ad hoc sensor networks; computational security; electronic commerce; IP protection
email: miodrag | office: BH 3532G | tel: 310-825-0790 | fax: 310-794-5056
Peter Reiher, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1987) UCLA
Research: file systems; network and computer security; distributed operating systems; ubiquitous computing; optimistic methods in computing; parallel discrete event simulation
email: reiher | office: BH 3564 | tel: 310-825-8332 | fax: 310-794-5056
Glenn Reinman, Associate Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2001) University of California, San Diego
Research: processor architecture design and optimization; speculative execution; profile-guided optimization; finding and exploiting instruction-level parallelism
email: reinman | office: BH 4731G | tel: 310-794-9755 | fax: 310-825-2273
David A. Rennels, Emeritus Associate Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1973) UCLA
Research: computer systems architecture; fault-tolerant computing; modular architectures for VLSI implementation
email: rennels | office: BH 4731G | tel: 310-825-1484 | fax: 310-825-2273
Amit Sahai, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2000) MIT
Sloan Research Fellow
Research: theoretical computer science; foundations of cryptography; computer security
email: sahai | office: BH 3731E | tel: 310-267-4982 | fax: 310-825-7578
M.Y. "Medy" Sanadidi, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1982) UCLA
Research: congestion control and adaptive multimedia streaming in heterogeneous networks; analytic modeling of computer and communications systems
email: medy | office: BH 3531F | tel: 310-206-0767 | fax: 310-794-5056
Majid Sarrafzadeh, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1987) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
IEEE Fellow
Research: embedded and reconfigurable computing; VLSI CAD; design and analysis of algorithm
email: majid | office: BH 3532C | tel: 310-794-4303 | fax: 310-794-5056
Alexander Sherstov, Assistant Professor
PhD (2009) University of Texas at Austin
Research: theoretical computer science
email: sherstov | office: BH 3731J | tel: 310-267-0866 | fax: 310-825-7578
David Smallberg, Lecturer and Vice-Chair of Computer Science
MS (1978) UCLA
Research: computer science education; programming languages; generic programming; student software analysis
email: das | office: BH 4532G | tel: 310-267-4665 | fax: 310-794-5057
Stefano Soatto, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1996) California Institute of Technology
IEEE Fellow, David Marr Prize
Research: computer vision; nonlinear estimation; control theory
email: soatto | office: BH 3531D | tel: 310-825-4840 | fax: 310-794-5056
Mani Srivastava, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1992) University of California, Berkeley
IEEE Fellow
Research: wireless networked and embedded systems; DSP VLSI
email: mbs@ucla.edu | office: BH 6731H | tel: 310-267-2098
Yuval Tamir, Associate Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1985) University of California, Berkeley
Research: parallel and distributed systems; fault-tolerant computing; multicore architectures; virtualization; cluster computing (OS, middleware); interconnection networks and switches; reliable network services
email: tamir | office: BH 4531J | tel: 310-206-2852 | fax: 310-794-5057
Demetri Terzopoulos, Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1984) MIT
FRSC, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, European Academy of Sciences Member; Academy Award
Research: computer graphics, computer vision, medical image analysis, computer-aided design, artifical life/intelligence
email: dt | office: BH 4531G | tel: 310-206-6946 | fax: 310-794-5057
Zhuowen Tu, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2002) Ohio State University
David Marr Prize
Research: medical imaging; machine learning; statistical modeling and computing; computer vision
email: ztu@loni.ucla.edu | office: 225K, 635 Charles E. Young Drive | tel: 310-267-5121
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
PhD (2009) University of Pennsylvania
Research: machine learning, learning theory, algorithmic economics, and social computing
email : jenn | office : BH 4532H | tel : 310-825-2858 | fax: 310-794-5057
Jacques Vidal, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1961) University of Paris
Research: neuromimetic information processing; pattern recognition; neural networks, fuzzy systems and genetic search; multimedia communication for engineering and science education
email: vidal | office: BH 4532N | tel: 310-825-4033 | fax: 310-794-5057
Wei Wang, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1999) University of California, Los Angeles
Research: Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Database Systems.
email: weiwang | office: BH 3531G | tel: 310-794-0009 | fax: 310-794-5056
Alan Yuille, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1981) University of Cambridge
IEEE Fellow; David Marr Prize
Research: computer vision; statistical modeling and computing; machine learning
email: yuille@stat.ucla.edu | office: MS 8967 | tel: 310-267-5383 | fax: 310-206-5668
Carlo Zaniolo, N.E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1976) UCLA
Research: knowledge-based systems; database systems; non-monotonic reasoning; spatio/temporal reasoning; scientific databases
email: zaniolo | office: BH 3532D | tel: 310-825-8137 | fax: 310-794-5056
Lixia Zhang, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1989) MIT
ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow
Research: Internet architecture and protocol designs; security in large scale and open systems
email: lixia | office: BH 3713 | tel: 310-825-2695 | fax: 310-825-7578
Song Chun Zhu, Professor of Statistics, Professor of Computer Science
PhD (1996) Harvard University
David Marr Prize
Research: computer vision; statistical modeling and computing; vision and visual arts; machine learning
email: sczhu | office: BH 9494 | tel: 310-206-8693 | fax: 310-206-8693
