Researchers

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• Robin AbuShumays

  • roabu@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Staff Research Associate - Biomolecular Engineering
  • 831-459-5537
  • Baskin Engineering, Room 205
  
  

• Dr. Ali Adabi

  • aadabi@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate
  • 831-459-2127
  • E2-543A
  • AI and ML (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
  • Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things (IOT)
  • Energy Management Systems (EMS)
  • Signal Processing
  
  

• Adeel Akhtar

  • adakhtar@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist
  • Baskin Engineering, E2, Room 515
  • Geometric Controls
  • Hybrid Systems
  • Robotics
  • Set Stablization
  
  

• Berk Altin

  • berkaltin@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • (831) 459-2939
  • Engineering 2, Room 233
  
  
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  Eric Anderson

  • eriq@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
  • Statistical methods in fisheries management and ecology, parentage inference, inference of species hybrids, genetic stock identification
  
  

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• Tamara Ball

  • tball@soe.ucsc.edu
  
  

• Kimberly Michelle Ballare

  • kim.ballare@gmail.com
  
  

• Gill Bejerano

  • jill@soe.ucsc.edu
  
  

• Suman Kalyan Bera

  • sbera@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • E2 489
  
  

• Pauline Marie-Emma Bernard

  • pmbernar@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Lon Blauvelt

  • lblauvel@ucsc.edu
  • Software Engineer (BP3)
  • Python Dev
  • Human Aging and Genetics
  
  

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• Molly R Cassatt-Johnstone

  • mcassatt@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Patricia Chan

  • pchan@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Associate Project Scientist, Biomolecular Engineering
  • 831-459-2684 (Office)
  • 831-459-5128 (Wet Lab)
  • Physical Sciences Rm 319
  • Transfer RNA gene predictions, expression, processing, and regulation
  • RNA-seq analysis
  • UCSC microbial genome browser development
  • Non-coding RNA biology in eukaryotes and archaea
  
  

• Melissa Cline

  • mcline@ucsc.edu
  • Project Scientist
  • 831-459-1477
  • Engineering 2, Room 507A
  
  

• Aaron Cozen

  • acozen@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate
  
  

• Sarah E. Crump

  • secrump@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Dr. Bruce Damer

  • bdamer@ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate - Biomolecular Engineering
  • My research areas focus on: 1) Chemical models for the origins of life set in inland hydrothermal springs or pools in the early Archaean. 2) Lipid and amino acid chemistry subject to cycles of hydration and dehydration. 3) Application of computational and complexity theory models to emergent function within chemical systems. 4) Design of spacecraft missions for asteroid and comet sample return.
  
  

• Hongxu Ding

  • hding16@ucsc.edu
  
  

• John Vincent Dzimianski

  • jdzimian@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Baskin Engineering, Room 292
  
  

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• Merly Mayela Escalona Fermin

  • mmescalo@ucsc.edu
  • Biomedical Sciences Building. Lab suite 155-165. Room 165 B
  
  

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• John Michael Felts

  • jfelts@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Natalie Filippi

  • nfillipi@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Alexander John Aspiras Flora

  • aflora@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Adrian Everett Fraser

  • adfraser@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Fluid/plasma instabilities
  • Turbulence
  • Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Shear flows
  • Double-diffusive instabilities
  
  

• Stephen Freund

  • freund@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate, Computer Science
  • 831-459-2052
  
  

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• Nick R. Grunloh

  • grunloh@soe.ucsc.edu
  • NMFS/CSTAR at Long Marine Lab
  • BE 357B
  
  

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• Maximilian Haeussler

  • mhaeussl@ucsc.edu
  • Assoc research scientist, Biomolecular Engineering
  • 8312950653
  • Westside Research Complex
  • Single-cell sequencing
  • Genomics
  • Crispr/Cas9
  • Genome Browser
  • Cloud Computing
  
  

• Dr. Peter D. Heintzman

  • pheintzman@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • Biomedical Sciences Building, Room 140
  
  

• Kaitlin Hellier

  • khellier@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • E2 479
  • Materials Science
  • Optoelectronics
  • Radiation Detection
  
  

• Eva Hrabeta-Robinson

  • evarobin@ucsc.edu
  • Associate Specialist, Biomolecular Engineering
  • Lab Manager
  • Researcher
  • 831-502-8180
  • 144 Sinsheimer
  • My interests are centered around understanding the regulation of gene expression during disease and how cancer cells communicate with other cells and the tumor microenvironment.
  
  

• HAO-CHIEH HSIEH

  • hahsieh@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Kleoni Ioannidou

  • kleoni@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate, Computer Science
  • Engineering 2, Room 261
  
  

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• Frank Jacobs

  • fmjjacobs@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
  
  

• Mohammad Jafari

  • mjafari1@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  
  

• Miten Jain

  • miten@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Assistant Research Scientist
  • 8314592315
  • JBE#260
  • JBE#217
  • JBE#205
  
  

• Matthew Jared Jobin

  • mjjobin@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Arthur Keller

  • ark@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate, Technology & Info Management
  • 831-459-1485
  • Voting systems, entrepreneurship, electronic commerce, intellectual property.
  
  

• JINHWAN KIM

  • jkim545@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Mikhail Kolmogorov

  • mkolmogo@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Houpu Li

  • hli322@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Gerrald Lodewijk

  • gjlodewi@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral scholar
  • 831-459-5869 (lab)
  • Biomed 425 (4th floor)
  
  

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• Bryce Manso

  • bmanso@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Joshua McVeigh-Schultz

  • jmcveigh@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Pankaj Mehra

  • pankaj@soe.ucsc.edu
  • SVP & CTO, Fusion-io
  • SanDisk Senior Fellow (Corporate Technology Strategy)
  • Western Digital Senior Fellow and VP (Advanced Technologies)
  • Persistent Memory
  • Context-Aware Computing
  • Scalable Storage
  • Data Centers
  • Data Center Interconnects
  • Machine Learning
  • Neural Networks
  
  

• Karen Hayden Miga

  • khmiga@ucsc.edu
  • Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
  • Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
  • Physical and Biological Sciences Building, Room 405D.
  • Centromere sequence characterization, satellite DNA evolution, epigenetic annotation of repeat-rich regions
  
  

• Cade Mirchandani

  • cmirchan@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Katherine Louise Moon

  • katielouisemoon@gmail.com
  
  

• Katherine Louise Moon

  • kmoon3@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Santanu Mukherjee

  • smukher5@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Chloe SJ Orland

  • orland.chloe@gmail.com
  
  

• Chloe Orland

  • corland@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Donna Poscablo

  • dposcabl@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Smrithi Rajendiran

  • srajendi@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoc - Employee, Biomolecular Engineering
  • 831-502-7317
  • Biomedical Sciences - 4th Floor
  • Stem Cells
  • Transplantation
  • Cancer Biology
  
  

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• Sofie Salama

  • ssalama@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Scientist in BIomolecular Engineering
  • HHMI Senior Scientist
  • 831-459-2814 (Office)
  • 831-459-1014 (lab)
  • Biomedical Sciences, Room 440
  • Molecular biology
  • Cell Biology
  • Stem Cells
  • Genomics
  • Neurobiology
  • Development
  • Cancer
  
  

• Jarrod A. Santora

  • jsantora@ucsc.edu
  • Associate Researcher
  
  

• Peter Schattner

  • schattner@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Associate, Biomolecular Engineering
  
  

• Jess Sevetson

  • jsevetso@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  
  

• Ali Shakouri

  • ali@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Visiting Professor, Electrical Engineering
  • Director, MURI Thermionic Energy Conversion Center
  • Quantum electronics, nano and microscale heat and current transport in semiconductor devices, thermoelectric/thermionic energy conversion, renewable energy sources, thermal imaging, micro refrigerators on a chip and optoelectronic integrated circuits
  
  

• Lily Shiue

  • lshiue@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Microarray Technology Specialist
  • 831-459-2612
  
  

• Jonas Andreas Sibbesen

  • jsibbese@ucsc.edu
  • Postdoctoral Scholar
  • PSB 405A
  
  

• Mandeep

  • msingh39@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Jouni Sirén

  • jlsiren@ucsc.edu
  • Assistant Research Scientist
  • Physical Sciences Building, Room 405A
  • Algorithm engineering
  • Bioinformatics
  • Data compression
  • Genome graphs
  • Space-efficient data structures
  • String algorithms
  
  

• Stephanie Smith-Berdan

  • stephaniesb@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Specialist, Biomolecular Engineering
  
  

• Megan Supple

  • msupple@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Benjamin Reyes Topacio

  • betopaci@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Simone Vincenzi

  • simonevincenzi@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics & Statistics
  • 831-420-3936
  • NMFS, CSTAR space, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz
  • Mathematical Biology; Ecology; Machine Learning Applied to Ecological and Biological Problems; Life-History Theory; Consequences of Weather Extremes on Natural Populations
  
  

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• Ming-Shan Wang

  • mwang153@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Marc Weiss

  • mweiss2@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• Baichen Xie

  • baxie@ucsc.edu
  
  

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• weigang YANG

  • wyang27@ucsc.edu
  
  

• Dr. Tom Yuzvinsky

  • yuzvinsky@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Project Scientist
  • Manager, SOE Cleanroom
  • Staff Scientist & Microscopist, Nanofabrication Facility
  • W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics
  • Baskin Engineering, Room 241
  
  

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• Jing-chun Zhu

  • jzhu@soe.ucsc.edu
  • Assistant Research Scientist, Cancer Genomics
  • 831-459-5232
  • Engineering 2, Room 507A
  
  

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