IEE - Key Persons


Adel Saleh

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
Dr. Saleh is a Researcher and an Adjunct Professor in the ECE Department at UCSB since October 2011, conducting research on optical networking and photonics technology for chip-scale to global-scale applications. From 2005 to 2011, he was a DARPA Program Manager, where he initiated research in various areas of optical networking. From 1999 to 2004, he held various leadership positions in the optical networking industry, including Corvis, the first company to commercialize core all-optical networks. From 1970 to 1999, he was with Bell Labs / AT&T Labs Research, conducting and leading research on optical and wireless networks. Between 1992 and 1999, he led the AT&T effort on several cross-industry DARPA-funded consortia that pioneered the vision of all-optical networking in backbone, regional, metro and access networks. He served on the OFC Technical Program Committee from 1995 to 1998, and served as Technical Program Co-Chair in 1999, General Program Co-Chair in 2001, and Member of the Steering Committee from 2001 to 2006. He has more than 100 publications and 25 patents.

Alan Heeger

Job Titles:
  • Physics & Materials
  • Physics & Materials / Research
  • Professor
Alan Heeger and his colleagues discovered conducting polymers (for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize), a novel class of materials with electrical and optical properties like metals and semiconductors coupled with the mechanical and processing advantages of polymers. Heeger continues to study aspects of the science and technology of these materials with a focus on the gate-induced insulator-to-metal transition in polymer Field Effect Transistors, understanding the detailed operation of bulk heterojunction "plastic" solar cells, and improving the efficiency of low-cost organic solar cells based on plastic and small molecule semiconductors. Heeger was a member of the Physics Department at the University of Pennsylvania from 1962-82. In 1982, he moved to UC Santa Barbara to become Professor of Physics. He was one of the founding members of the Materials Department and currently holds a joint appointment in Physics and Materials.

Alfred P. Sloan

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Amanda Miller

Job Titles:
  • Contract & Grant Analyst

Amr El Abbadi

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Computer Science Department at the University of California
Amr El Abbadi is a Professor of Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prof. El Abbadi was Chair of the Computer Science Department at UCSB from 2007 to 2011. He has served as a journal editor for several database journals, including, currently, The VLDB Journal and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He has been Program Chair for multiple database and distributed systems conferences. He has served as a board member of the VLDB Endowment from 2002-2008, and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Technical Committee of Data Engineering (TCDE). He has published over 300 articles in databases and distributed systems.

Anton Van der Ven

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor / Materials
  • Associate Professor in the Materials Department at UCSB
  • Research Areas
Anton Van der Ven is interested in understanding and predicting equilibrium and non-equilibrium materials properties from first-principles. He combines electronic structure methods (density functional theory) with techniques from statistical mechanics to calculate thermodynamic and kinetic properties of new materials, including oxides and structures of assembled nano-particles for battery and fuel cell components, metallic alloys, alloy surfaces for catalysis and organic electronic materials. Biography Anton Van der Ven is associate professor in the Materials Department at UCSB. He joined the University of Michigan as an assistant professor in 2005, following a post doc at MIT. Van der Ven joined the Materials Department at UCSB in the summer of 2013. Education BS: Metallurgy and Applied Materials Science, University of Louvain

Arthur Gossard

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Materials and Electrical
  • Research Professor, Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Arthur Gossard's special interests are molecular beam epitaxy, the growth of quantum wells, superlattices, magnetic semiconductors and metal/semiconductor nanocomposites and their applications to high performance electrical and optical devices and the physics of low-dimensional structures. A member of the Center for Energy Efficient Materials (CEEM), Gossard contributes to research on metal/semiconductor nanocomposites that will allow the modification of intrinsic material properties that are important for high efficiency thermoelectrics. Arthur Gossard is a Professor of Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. He was formerly a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff of AT&T Bell Laboratories. Gossard grew the first alternate monolayer artificial superlattices in semiconductors and the first modulation doped quantum wells. He was also co-discoverer of the quantum confined Stark effect and the fractional quantization of the Hall Effect.

Arturo A. Keller

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Areas
Professor Keller's research and teaching interests focus on the fate, transport and remediation of pollutants in the environment. His research is directed towards understanding the process through which contaminants may accumulate or transform in soil, air or water, as well as in the biota, with an emphasis on developing better management strategies for dealing with pollutants in the environment. His group also works on developing and applying numerical models for predicting fate and transport of pollutants, and developing technologies for containment, remediation, and monitoring of organic pollutants. Current projects involve (1) developing remediation techniques/strategies for DNAPLs and MTBE; (2) the detection and movement of chlorinated organic pollutants through soil and groundwater; (3) understanding at the pore scale the fate and transport of viruses in saturated and unsaturated soils; (4) bioavailability in the vadose zone; and (5) the loading of chemicals from various land-uses to the receiving water bodies. Keller has fifteen years of experience in developing management strategies in the private sector.

Bassam Bamieh

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Mechanical Engineering
  • Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California
Bassam Bamieh's research interests are in the fundamentals of control and dynamical systems, as well as the applications of systems and feedback techniques in several physical and engineering systems. These areas include robust and optimal control, distributed control and dynamical systems, and shear flow transition and turbulence. Bamieh is a one of a group of researchers at the Center for Energy Efficiency Design that has been investigating power generation devices which are much more efficient and reliable than traditional piston or turbine based systems. Bamieh works on thermoacoustic energy conversion devices, a relatively new class of devices for refrigeration and electric power generation that have very high operating efficiencies. In these devices, sound waves are generated by temperature gradients and this acoustic instability can be a useful energy conversion mechanism to create heat pumps (e.g. refrigerators with no moving parts), or converted to electric power using a variety of schemes including energy harvesting. Bamieh is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Prior to joining UCSB in 1998, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1991-98). Bamieh has co-authored over 100 refereed publications in Systems and Controls and allied fields.

Brad Paden

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor at the University of California
  • Research Areas
Professor Paden's research is directed at understanding the dynamics and control of electromechanical systems. Applications of interest are biomedical systems, precision machine control, control of flexible robots, MEMS, and magnetic bearings. A substantial fraction of his research deals with theoretical developments in nonlinear tracking control. Nonlinear control of periodic motions by methods known as repetitive controllers and learning controllers is one current topic. Applied research is focused on robust design and control of MEMS oscillators, and the control of artificial hearts, and biomedical systems, is an emerging research activity in Professor Paden's group. Paden is currently a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Mechanical Engineering Department with a joint appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research interests focus on nonlinear control theory and its application to electromechanical systems. He was a visiting fellow at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia in 1988. He has consulted for industry on the design and control of magnetic bearings, design of medical devices, and has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Robotic Systems. He is co-founder and president of LaunchPoint Technologies - a systems firm specializing in venture engineering.

Bradley Chmelka

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Bradley Chmelka's research in nanotechnology explores new materials for energy conversion (e.g., batteries, fuel cells). His research is motivated by the need to understand at a molecular level the fabrication and functions of new catalysts, adsorbents, porous ceramics, and heterogeneous polymers. These categories of technologically important materials are linked by their crucial dependencies on local order/disorder, which often governs macroscopic process or device performance. Chmelka is broadly interested in heterogeneous solids, whose sizable variations in local ordering and dynamics have pronounced influences on the adsorption, reaction, optical, or mechanical properties of these materials. The development and application of state-of-the-art techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy allow him to observe many common molecular features among these diverse systems, which provide new insights and design intuition for materials chemistry and engineering objectives.

Brandon Kuczenski

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Researcher
Dr. Kuczenski is interested in the resource requirements and environmental impacts of industrial technologies. His research focuses on how researchers, firms and policy makers manage information about processes and products for sustainability reporting and life cycle assessment, and how they communicate their findings to the public. Major issues include data quality assessment, interactive sensitivity analysis, and distributed management of life cycle data. He is also concerned with the tension between the need for transparency and accountability in decision making and the demand for privacy protection and confidentiality among data providers. His main contributions have been in characterizing the performance of recycling systems, such as disposable bottles and used motor oil, for California agencies. He is also interested in green chemistry, toxics use reduction, and alternatives assessment for safer product development.

Bryan Eisenhower

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director / Center for Energy Efficient Design
  • Associate Director / Center for Energy Efficient Design / Research
  • Associate Director of the Center for Energy Efficient Design
Bryan Eisenhower is interested in cutting edge research in design and optimization of mechanical systems ranging from heating and cooling equipment, to power generation and whole-building systems. Biography Bryan Eisenhower is Associate Director of the Center for Energy Efficient Design at the University of California Santa Barbara and an active consultant in the fields of building energy modeling and data analysis. Bryan received degrees from Virginia Tech prior to joining United Technologies Research Center where he developed design and operational tools for energy intensive equipment ranging from jet engines, to fuel cells, transcritical heat pumps, and combined heat and power systems.

Carl Meinhart

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Mechanical Engineering
Professor Meinhart's research group investigates fundamental fluid mechanics problems at the micro-scale and nano-scale, with special emphasis on transport issues in MEMS-based sensors for detection of specific biological molecules. The BioMEMS research is highly interdisciplinary and involves the development of InP-based integrated lasers that are flip-chip bonded to Si-based microfluidic flow channels, and the use of dielectrophoresis to enhance binding reactions near a laser sensor. This project involves collaborations with Prof. Larry Coldren's group in ECE for developing integrated lasers, and with Prof. Kimberley Turner's group in MEE for microfabrication of the flow structures .The group also works closely with ThauMDx, a local biotechnology company in Santa Barbara.

Carlos G. Levi

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Materials, Mechanical Engineering
  • Research Areas
The overarching theme of Carlos Levi's research is the fundamental understanding of microstructure evolution, with emphasis on structural alloys and ceramics, and the application of this understanding to the chemical and microstructural design of coatings, composites and monolithic systems. Much of his current research focuses on materials which would enable more efficient and environmentally cleaner energy and transportation technologies. He also has had a long-standing interest on metastable structures evolving from processes characterized by large departures from equilibrium, starting with rapid solidification and currently emphasizing vapor deposition and synthesis of inorganics from precursors.

Cassandra Tai

Job Titles:
  • Academic Personnel & Fellowships Analyst

Chandra Krintz

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Research Areas
Chandra Krintz's research interests include automatic and adaptive compiler, programming language, virtual runtime, and operating system techniques that improve performance (for high-end systems) and that increase battery life (for mobile, resource-constrained devices). She contributes to the field of energy-aware computing through her research in virtualization technology: a powerful tool with which to migrate and consolidate computations when used in conjunction with models and control of cooling technologies. Krintz's recent work focuses on programming language and runtime support for cloud computing. Her research group has recently developed and released AppScale -- an open-source platform-as-a-service cloud computing system that implements the Google App Engine (GAE) APIs and that facilitates next-generation cloud computing research. Chandra Krintz joined the UCSB faculty as an Associate Professor in 2001. Krintz has supervised and mentored over 40 students, has published her work in a wide range of ACM venues including CGO, ECOOP, PACT, PLDI, OOPSLA, ASPLOS, and others, and leads several educational and outreach programs that introduce computer science to young people, particularly those from underrepresented groups.

Chris Van de Walle

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Environmental Science & Management Team
  • Distinguished Professor of Materials
Chris Van de Walle's research interests lie in novel electronic materials and energy storage. He studies wide-band-gap semiconductors (III-V nitrides, II-VI compounds, and complex oxides) with applications in solid-state lighting, photovoltaics, and high-power electronics. Van de Walle investigates the interplay between structural and electronic properties of surfaces, addresses problems related to doping and defects, and investigates loss mechanisms in light emitters. Other areas of interest include the physics and chemistry of hydrogen interactions with solids, the storage, production and utilization of hydrogen (photoelectrochemical cells and fuel cells), and quantum information science. Chris Van de Walle is a Distinguished Professor of Materials and the Herbert Kroemer Chair in Materials Science. Before joining the Materials Department in 2004, Chris Van de Walle was a Principal Scientist in the Electronic Materials Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He was a postdoctoral scientist at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York (1986-1988); a Senior Member of Research Staff at Philips Laboratories in Briarcliff Manor, New York (1988-1991); and an Adjunct Professor of Materials Science at Columbia University (1991). He has published over 400 research papers, holds 24 patents, and has given over 160 invited and plenary talks at international conferences.

Christopher Costello

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
  • Research Areas
Christopher Costello is Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara. His research is primarily in the area of natural resource management and property rights under uncertainty, with a particular emphasis on information, its value, and its effect on management decisions. He is also interested in the process and design of adaptive management programs in which learning (to resolve uncertainty or asymmetric information) is actively pursued. Topical interests include fisheries management, biological diversity, introduced species, regulation of polluting industries, and marine policy. Costello frequently collaborates with researchers outside of economics such as statistics, ecology, biogeography, and mathematics.

Claude Weisbuch

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor
  • Professor / Materials
Claude Weisbuch's research activities deal mainly with optics of semiconductors, and physics and applications of low-dimensional structures such as quantum-well and quantum-dot lasers. His research contributions to the Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center are in the area of blue laser diodes and micro cavity LEDs. Recent research is on fundamental properties of coupled semiconductors and optical fields in microcavities and photonic crystals, as well as applications to new families of high performance light emitters. Claude Weisbuch is a distinguished professor in the Department of Materials at UC Santa Barbara. He has been a researcher at the Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée at the Ecole Polytechnique as a Director of Research for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) since 1997. He is co-author of Quantum Semiconductor Structures: Physics and Applications (1991), a widely used, graduate-level text, and co-editor of five other books: Physics and Fabrication of Microstructures and Microdevices (1986); Physics, Fabrication and Applications of Multilayered Structures (1988); Confined Electrons and Photons: New Physics and Applications (1995); Microcavities and Photonic Bandgaps (1997); and Confined Photon Systems (1999).

Clint L. Schow

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
  • Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering / Research
  • Research Areas
Professor Schow's research focuses on closely integrating electronics and photonics to push the boundaries of speed and efficiency for the photonic links and optical networks that data centers and computers increasingly depend upon to share and move data. Clint L. Schow received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1999, Dr. Schow joined IBM in Rochester, MN, assuming responsibility for the receivers used in IBM's optical transceiver business. From 2001 to 2004, he was with Agility Communications in Santa Barbara, CA, developing high-speed optoelectronic modulators and tunable laser sources. In 2004, Dr. Schow joined the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, and became manager of the Optical Link and System Design group in 2011. He has led numerous international R&D projects and has directed DARPA-sponsored programs spanning chip-to-chip optical links, VCSEL and Si photonic transceivers, nanophotonic switches, and new system architectures enabled by high-bandwidth, low-latency photonic networks. In 2015, Dr. Schow joined the faculty of the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is a Senior Member of the OSA and the IEEE.

Craig Hawker

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Craig Hawker is interested in the interface between organic and polymer chemistry with emphasis on the design, synthesis, and application of well-defined macromolecular structures in biotechnology, microelectronics and surface science. Energy efficiency research interests include the use of nano-imprint lithography to create organic photovoltaics and the use of block co-polymer lithography nanotechnology to create smaller, faster and more efficient microprocessors. Additional research interests include macromolecular synthesis (thiol-ene dendrimers for "click chemistry," ketene functionality and hydrogel-based microarray systems) and polymer nanoparticle applications in drug delivery, medical diagnostics and therapeutics.

Daniel Blumenthal

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor
  • Professor
Daniel Blumenthal's research interests are in optical communications, photonic packet switching and all-optical networks, all-optical wavelength conversion and regeneration, ultra-fast communications, InP (indium phosphide) Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICS) and nanophotonic device technologies. In addition to his research in energy-efficient photonics for communications, he directs the LASOR (Label-Switched Optical Router) Project, which aims to move more network router processing into the optical domain, thereby saving power and reducing the necessity of costly high-speed electronics. Dr. Blumenthal is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of ECE at UCSB, Director of the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center and heads the Optical Communications and Photonics Integration group. He holds 23 patents and has published over 480 papers in the areas of optical communications and optical packet switching, ultra-narrow linewidth integrated lasers, optical gyro sensors, and photonic integration integrated circuits, integrated atom cooling photonics, nano-photonics and microwave photonics. He is Co-Founder of Packet Photonics Inc. and Calient Networks and co-author of Tunable Laser Diodes and Related Optical Sources (New York: IEEE-Wiley, 2005).

Daniel Morse

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Daniel Morse conducts research at the intersection of biotechnology and nanotechnology in a new interdisciplinary collaboration that combines the approaches of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology with Materials Engineering, Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He and his laboratory are discovering the molecular mechanisms governing biomineralization, and are using these mechanisms to develop new strategies for the synthesis of high-performance, nanostructured composite materials for tomorrow's advanced optoelectronics, microelectronics, catalysts, sensors and energy transducers. Together with colleagues at the Center for Energy Efficient Materials, Morse is working on bio-inspired solar products and high-power batteries by improving our understanding and control of heterogeneous materials that are engineered or templated at the nanoscale. These developments offer tremendous opportunities for future improvements in the performance and cost of photovoltaics and energy storage.

Daniel P. Burnham

Job Titles:
  • Retired Chairman & CEO / Raytheon

David Auston

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials
  • Researcher in the Institute for Energy Efficiency
David Auston is a researcher in the Institute for Energy Efficiency and Director of the TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project at the University of California Santa Barbara, and has appointments of Adjunct Professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials. His current activities are focused on climate change mitigation. He is a member of the University of California President's Global Climate Leadership Council, and co-chairs its Working Group on Applied Research. The UC President recently designated him the first recipient of the University of California System-wide Sustainability Champion award, in recognition of his contributions to the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative. Prior to joining UCSB, he was the first President of the Kavli Foundation, dedicated to supporting basic scientific research in astrophysics, neuroscience, nanoscience, and theoretical physics. He has been a member of the technical staff and department head at AT&T's Bell Laboratories (now Alcatel-Lucent Technologies), Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, Provost of Rice University, and President of Case Western Reserve University. David Auston has contributed to research in the fields of lasers, nonlinear optics, and solid-state materials. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Optical Society of America, and the American Physical Society. A native of Toronto, Canada, David Auston earned bachelors and masters degrees in engineering physics and electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

David Erne

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director of the Energy Assessments Division, California Energy Commission

David Weld

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Debra Perrone

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor of UCSB 's Environmental Studies Program
Biography Debra Perrone is an Assistant Professor of UCSB's Environmental Studies Program. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of California, Debra was a postdoctoral research scholar at Stanford University with a dual appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Woods Institute for the Environment. She received her PhD in Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt University in 2014 and was awarded first honors as the Graduate School's Founder's Medalist. Debra has been awarded fellowships from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Science Foundation for her work studying the growing water scarcity challenges and tradeoffs facing society. Deb integrates research methods from engineering, physical science, and law to inform water sustainability and policy; she uses a wide-spectrum of outlets to disseminate her research, including peer-reviewed journals, policy briefs, and interactive-online dashboards. Debra is a co-author of a textbook for undergraduate students that focuses on the challenges and opportunities surrounding our global water resources by providing a foundation in water science and policy. Education 2014 Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2010 M.S., Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 2008 B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania

Divyakant Agrawal

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Divyakant Agrawal's long-term research activities have been in the area of designing and developing innovative solutions, systems, and algorithms for large-scale systems such as databases, transaction processing systems, data warehouses, and digital libraries. His current activities are focused on energy-efficient designs of algorithms and solutions for data-intensive environments, large-scale data management in cloud computing infrastructures, and highly parallel implementations of database and data stream operators leveraging multi-core architectures. Biography From August 1979 - December 1979, Agrawal served as Project Assistant in the Department of Electronics in New Delhi, India. In September 1982, he came to the United States and first worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Computer Science at SUNY at Stony Brook. Since July 1998, Agrawal has served as Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of California at Santa Barbara.

Dmitri Strukov

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Doug Baney

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Director of Education, Keysight Technologies

Eckart Meiburg

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Mechanical and Environmental Engineering

Elizabeth Belding

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Elliott Hong

Job Titles:
  • Financial Manager

Eric Matthys

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Mechanical Engineering

Eric McFarland

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Forrest Brewer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Fred Wudl

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Chemistry & Materials

Fredric E. Steck

Job Titles:
  • Advisory Director of Private Wealth Management / Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Frédéric Gibou

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Gabriel Ménard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Environmental Science & Management Team
  • Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

Galan Moody

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering

Galen Stucky

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Gary Barsley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager, Southern California Edison

Gary Libecap

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Environmental Science & Management

George W. Holbrook Jr. - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner

Glenn Duval

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Challenger Cable Sales

Glenn Fredrickson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Guillermo Bazan

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Materials

Heather Zheng

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Henry Yang

Job Titles:
  • Chancellor, Professor

Igor Mezic

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Environmental Science & Management Team

James Buckwalter

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

James Dehlsen

Job Titles:
  • Innovation and System Architecture

James Speck

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Materials

Jeffrey Moehlis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jeffrey O. Henley

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chairman / Oracle Corporation
  • Vice Chairman of Oracle Corporation
Jeffrey O. Henley is vice chairman of Oracle Corporation. He served as Oracle's chief financial officer and an executive vice president from 1991 to 2004, and has been a member of Oracle's board of directors since 1995. Henley was chairman of Oracle from 2004 until 2014. He also serves on Oracle's Executive Management Committee. Prior to joining Oracle in 1991, Henley served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Pacific Holding Company, a privately held company with diversified interests in manufacturing and real estate, and as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Saga Corporation, a multibillion-dollar food service company. He also served as director of finance at Memorex Corporation in its large-storage division, and as controller of international operations at Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation. Henley is a member of the board of governors for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and serves on both the Chancellor's Advisory Council and the International Advisory Council of the Engineering College for the University of California at Santa Barbara. He also serves on the Advisory Board of InTouch Health, a provider of remote presence solutions for healthcare providers.

Jenna Craig

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

John Bowers

Job Titles:
  • Director, IEE / Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

John Gilbert

Job Titles:
  • Professor

John MacFarlane

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Former CEO / Sonos, Inc.

John Marren - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Chairman of the Board / MEMC Electronic Materials

Jon Schuller

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jonathan Balkind

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jonathan Klamkin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

João Hespanha

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Katharine Schmidtke

Job Titles:
  • Director, Facebook

Kaustav Banerjee

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kerem Camsari

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Lei Li

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Luke Theogarajan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Member of the Environmental Science & Management Team

Mahnoosh Alizadeh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Malgorzata Marek-Sadowska

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Mark Abel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Mark Bertelsen

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Mark Rodwell

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Martin Moskovits

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Mel Manalis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer / Environmental Science

Michael Chabinyc

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Associate Chair / Materials

Mike Doherty

Job Titles:
  • UCSB Chemical Engineering Department Chair, Professor

Phillip Christopher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Chemical Engineering

Pierre Petroff

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Rachel Segalman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ram Seshadri

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Ramtin Pedarsani

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Ranjit Deshmukh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Raphaële Clément

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Materials

Ray Beausoleil

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow, HP Enterprise

Reece Duca - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder

Richard Whited

Job Titles:
  • Endowed Chair in Interdisciplinary Science 2011 - 2017

Richard Wolski

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robert W. Duggan

Job Titles:
  • Founder / Robert W. Duggan & Associates

Robert Wilkinson

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor, Water Policy

Roland Geyer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / Environmental Science

Scott Shell

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair

Shuji Nakamura

Job Titles:
  • Professor / Materials

Sriram Krishnamoorthy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Materials

Steven Buratto

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Chair / Chemistry and Biochemistry

Steven DenBaars

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Sumita Pennathur

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / Mechanical Engineering

Suryaansh Dongre

Job Titles:
  • Marketing & Administrative Student Assistant

Susannah Scott

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemical Engineering

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Professor

Timothy Sherwood

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Umesh Mishra

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Upamanyu Madhow

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Venkatesh Narayanamurti

Job Titles:
  • Venkatesh Narayanamurti Chair

Volkan Rodoplu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Wenbin Jiang

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Cytek

William Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Xifeng Yan

Job Titles:
  • Venkatesh Narayanamurti Chair

Yangying Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor / Mechanical Engineering

Yufei Ding

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Zheng Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor