UC DAVIS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING - Key Persons
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- Director, Student Startup Center
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- Biomedical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Associate Dean
- Member of Awards Committee
- Associate Dean of Academic Personnel and Planning
- Ex Officio
Amit Kanvinde is responsible for the overall area of academic personnel and planning. In this role, he oversees academic merits and promotions for the College of Engineering. He is also responsible for new appointments and reappointments of academic personnel. Finally, he oversees planning and search processes for faculty hiring.
Kanvinde joined UC Davis in 2004 after earning his M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He led the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as chair from 2015-2020 during a period of significant faculty hiring that resulted in greater diversity.
Kanvinde's research focuses on the seismic response of steel buildings, and recent projects have developed methods to assess the fracture risk of existing buildings along with technologies for highly deformable structural connections for new buildings. He is the author or co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and is well-recognized for his research. Kanvinde has been awarded the American Society of Civil Engineers' Norman Medal (2008), Walter Huber Research Prize (2016) and State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award (2018), as well as the American Institute of Steel Construction's Special Achievement (2017) and T.R. Higgins Lectureship (2022) awards. In 2017, Kanvinde was selected by the National Academy of Engineering as one of "the nation's brightest young engineers" to participate in their Frontiers of Engineering program.
Education and Degree(s)
Ph.D. (2004), MS (2000), Stanford University
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- Biological and Agricultural Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Contracts and Grants Manager, Biomedical
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- Research Administrator, Civil and Environmental
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- Member of Awards Committee
- Electrical and Computer
- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Research Administrator, Computer Science
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- Chairman of the Committee
- Civil and Environmental
- Faculty Co - Chair / Civil & Environmental
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- Contracts and Grants Analyst, Biomedical
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Chemical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Contracts and Grants Analyst, Electrical and Computer
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- Computer Science / Meet This Expert
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- Dean
- Administrative Head of the College of Engineering and Oversees
- Ex - Officio / Engineering Dean
Dean Richard L. Corsi serves as the administrative head of the College of Engineering and oversees all its teaching, research and service activities, personnel, facilities and funding resources.
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- Professor and Associate Dean for Research
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- Staff Advisor / Engineering Dean
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Biological and Agricultural Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Research Administrator, Chemical Engineering Material Science and Engineering
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- Computer Science / Meet This Expert
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Student Advising Assistant
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Master 's Thesis Excellence Award
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- Biomedical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Member of Awards Committee
- Chemical Engineering / Meet This Expert
- Civil and Environmental
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- AHMCT Research Center, Mechanical and Aerospace
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- Biomedical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Member of Awards Committee
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- Dean 's Office, Information Technology
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- Associate Professional Researcher at UC Davis' Air Quality Research Center
Bein is an associate professional researcher at UC Davis' Air Quality Research Center. His work is helping us better understand the impacts of wildfire smoke on air quality and health. When a megafire takes hold in California, he loads up his mobile research lab and heads to the smoke, entering what can be at times the planet's worst air quality, so he can sample it.
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Computer Science
- Computer Science / Meet This Expert
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- Director of Advising and Policy for the College
Letia currently serves as the Director of Advising and Policy for the College of Engineering. Prior to this, Letia served as the Assistant Director of International Academic Advising in the College of Letters and Science, as well as one of the International Academic Advisors. Letia also previously served as the Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Mathematics.
Education and Degree(s)
Bachelor of Arts, Communication and Professional Writing, Southern New Hampshire University
Master of Arts, Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies, California State University - Sacramento
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- Contracts and Grants Analyst, Chemical Engineering Material Science and Engineering
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- Contracts and Grants Analyst, Biomedical
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- Biological and Agricultural Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Chemical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Computer Science / Meet This Expert
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- Grants and Contracts Analyst, Computer Science
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- Academic Advisor
- Dean 's Office, Undergraduate Studies
Meghan is committed to advising students on how to achieve and advance their educational engineering goals. She aims to support and advocate for students, as well as connect them to resources to best empower and prepare them all for success. Has held various roles in the realm of higher education with well over a decade of experience. Prior to joining the UC Davis Aggie community, she worked as the Assistant Director of Fellowship Advising and Study Abroad at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA.
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B.A. Global Studies, UC Santa Barbara
M.S. Higher Education Administration, National University
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Certificate, Cornell University
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- Dean 's Office, Marketing and Communications
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- Computer Science / Meet This Expert
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- Chemical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Member of Awards Committee
- Mechanical and Aerospace
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- Human Resources Analyst
- Dean 's Office, Administration and Finance
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- Academic Personnel Analyst
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Human Resources Business Partner
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- Executive Assistant Dean for Administration and Finance
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- Finance Officer, Mechanical and Aerospace
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean
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- Biomedical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Financial Analyst, Chemical Engineering Material Science and Engineering
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- Assistant Director of Advising and Policy
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- Biomedical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Chemical Engineering / Meet This Expert
The Ahn lab aims to investigate important biological systems and phenomena on an atomistic scale using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and develop enhanced sampling methods for MD simulations. Specifically, they look at various systems, from proteins to nanocrystals, using the weighted ensemble (WE) method to sample atomistic pathways and mechanisms efficiently. They also develop methods for WE to make it state-of-the-art, focusing on kinetic sampling. Moreover, the group works on computer-aided drug discovery or virtual screening for tuberculosis and other diseases that direly need better or new drugs and treatments.
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- Member of Awards Committee
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- Chemical Engineering / Meet This Expert
Bio
Vanessa has served in various academic advising capacities at UC Davis, she is currently working as one of the LEADR Program Advisors in the College of Engineering. In this role she provides holistic academic advising and mentorship to students in the program. She is committed to helping students achieve their highest potential.
Education and Degree(s)
Vanessa holds a B.A. degree from Saint Mary's College (CA) in Sociology with a Spanish Minor and an M.A. in Higher Education Leadership from California State University, Sacramento.
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Business Office Manager, Mechanical and Aerospace
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- Member of Awards Committee
- Materials Science and
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- Chairman of the Committee
- Co - Chair / Dean
- Director, Undergraduate Retention Programs
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- Biomedical Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert
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- Computer Science / Meet This Expert
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering / Meet This Expert