
Engineers have the power to create new things and the responsibility to use our knowledge for good. Our faculty and students pursue novel, visionary research that leads to positive societal impact. Explore some of the areas of research in which we excel, and watch videos from our some of our faculty labs.
Experience some of our research activities through these video highlights:

Dejan Milutinović and his graduate students study the control of robotic and autonomous vehicle systems, especially in the presence of uncertainty.

In 2000, UC Santa Cruz made history with the Human Genome Project. Today, we're using the power of genomics to benefit people and the planet.

Robotics and Control Engineering is among the most interdisciplinary specialities offered at UCSC.

Professor Ricardo Sanfelice and his Hybrid Systems Lab work to develop Cyber Physical Systems that incorporate networks, computers, and physics, applied to aerial vehicles.

Meet one of the top Bayesian Statistics groups in the world and see how they use statistical models to create real world applications and solutions from massive amounts of data.

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Marco Rolandi and his lab research the use of technological devices to mimic biological processes.

Experience how faculty and students in the Computer Science and Engineering Department are researching and developing applications that will enable the internet to evolve and advance to the next level.

Learn how Sri Kurniawan is leading her students in researching and developing games and assistive technologies to help people with special needs.

Join Professor Holger Schmidt for a tour of his optofluidics labs. Working together, Schmidt and his students and campus colleagues have discovered important biomedical applications for these technologies.

See how we are using mathematical methods and reasoning to solve real-world scientific problems of a scientific and decision-making challenges.

Learn about how genomics researchers are finding the common ancestor of birds and crocodilians.

This partnership between academic and industry explores develop new technologies and techniques to improve the manageability, scalability, security, reliability, longevity, and performance of storage systems.

Meet Computational Media professor Katherine Currie Isbister and see how she and her students use games to explore how technology can influence emotional experiences in humans.

Use our growing understanding of the Neanderthal genome to build a greater understanding of human evolution.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, engineers at UCSC were eager to join the fight to combat the disease's devastating effects. Learn about how they shifted their resources and research projects to address some of the most pressing problems of the current global crisis.
See Baskin Engineering Faculty Working in our Major Research Areas
Covid-19 Research
Algorithms, Logic, and Complexity
- Seshadhri Comandur, CSE
- Daniel Fremont, CSE
- Lise Getoor, CSE
- David Helmbold, CSE
- Phokion G. Kolaitis, CSE
- Allen Van Gelder, CSE
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Luca de Alfaro, CSE
- Jeffrey Flanigan, CSE
- Lise Getoor, CSE
- Abhishek Halder, AM
- David Haussler, BME
- David Helmbold, CSE
- Heiner Litz, CSE
- Yang Liu, CSE
- Michael Mateas, CM
- Narges Norouzi, CSE
- Adam Smith, CM
- Marilyn Walker, CSE
- Jim Whitehead, CM
- Yi Zhang, CSE
Bayesian Statistics
- David Draper, STAT
- Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, STAT
- Athanasios Kottas, STAT
- Herbert Lee, STAT
- Juhee Lee, STAT
- Zehang Richard Lee, STAT
- Marc Mangel, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, AM
- Raquel Prado, STAT
- Bruno Sansó, STAT
Bioinformatics and Genomics
- Genomics Institute
- Mark Akeson, BME
- David Bernick, BME
- Phillip Berman, BME
- Angela N. Brooks, BME
- Russell Corbett-Detig, BME
- David Deamer, Research Professor BME
- Camilla Forsberg, BME
- Richard Edward Green, BME
- David Haussler, BME - Director CBSE
- Richard Hughey, CSE, BME
- Kevin Karplus, BME
- Jim Kent, CBSE
- Daniel H. Kim, BME
- Todd M. Lowe, BME
- Benedict Paten, BME
- Nader Pourmand, BME
- Josh Stuart, BME
Communications, Signals, and Image Processing
- Sara Abrahamsson, ECE
- Farid Dowla, ECE
- Benjamin Friedlander, ECE
- J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, CSE
- Roberto Manduchi, CSE
- Patrick Mantey, ECE
- Katia Obraczka, CSE
- Hamid R. Sadjadpour, ECE
- Yu Zhang, ECE
- UCSC Broadband Communications Research Group
- SaraLab - Optical Microscopy and Bioelectronics
Computational Biology
- Angela N. Brooks, BME
- Richard Edward Green, BME
- Narges Norouzi, CSE
- Josh Stuart, BME
Computer Hardware: Architecture, Chip Design, FPGAs, and Design Automation
- Scott Beamer, CSE
- Matthew Guthaus, CSE
- Richard Hughey, CSE, BME
- Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang, ECE
- Tracy Larrabee, CSE
- Heiner Litz, CSE
- Ken Pedrotti, ECE
- Jose Renau, CSE
- Martine Schlag, CSE
- Anujan Varma, CSE
- Hardware Systems Collective, CSE
- Micro Architecture at Santa Cruz (MASC) Lab
- VLSI Design and Automation (VLSI-DA) Group
Computer Games
- Nathan Altice, CM
- Elin Carstensdottir, CM
- Katherine Isbister, CM
- Michael John, CM
- Sri Kurniawan, CM
- Michael Mateas, CM
- Edward Melcer, CM
- Adam Smith, CM
- Noah Wardrip-Fruin, CM
- Jim Whitehead, CM
- Center for Computational Experience
Computer Security and Privacy
- Owen Arden, CSE
- Ioannis Demertzis, CSE
- Darrell Long, SOE
- Ethan L. Miller, CSE
- Chen Qian, CSE
Computer Vision, Visualization, and Graphics
- James Davis, CSE
- Angus Forbes, CM
- Suresh K Lodha, CSE
- Alex Pang, CSE
- Allen Van Gelder, CSE
Cyber-Physical Systems
- Alvaro Cardenas, ECE
- Gabriel Elkaim, ECE
- J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, CSE
- Patrick Mantey, ECE
- Steve McGuire, ECE
- Dejan Milutinović, ECE
- Katia Obraczka, CSE
- Chen Qian, CSE
- Ricardo Sanfelice, ECE
- Mircea Teodorescu, ECE
- Yu Zhang, ECE
- Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center
- Energy, Data Analytics and Optimization Lab (eDAOL)
Database Systems
- Peter Alvaro, CSE
- Ioannis Demertzis, CSE
- Lise Getoor, CSE
- Phokion G. Kolaitis, CSE
- Faisal Nawab, CSE
Data Science
- Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba, STAT
- Peter Alvaro, CSE
- Seshadhri Comandur, CSE
- Lise Getoor, CSE
- Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, STAT
- David Helmbold, CSE
- Darrell Long, ENG
- Ethan Miller, CSE
- Faisal Nawab, CSE
- Rodney Ogawa, Education
- Abel Rodríguez, STAT
- Neel Sundaresan, CSE
- Yi Zhang, CSE
- Data Science Research Center
Distributed Systems
- Peter Alvaro, CSE
- Owen Arden, CSE
- Lindsey Kuper, CSE
- Heiner Litz, CSE
- Carlos Maltzahn, CSE
- Ethan Miller, CSE
- Faisal Nawab, CSE
- Alexander Wolf, CSE
Electronic Circuits
- Matthew Guthaus, CSE
- Sung Mo (Steve) Kang, ECE
- Patrick Mantey, ECE
- Ken Pedrotti, ECE
- Stephen Petersen, ECE
Human-Computer Interaction
- Angus Forbes, CM
- Katherine Isbister, CM
- Sri Kurniawan, CM
- David Lee, CM
- Roberto Manduchi, CSE
- Steve McGuire, ECE
- Leila Takayama, CM
- Michael Wehner, ECE
- Steve Whittaker, CM
Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis
- Nicholas Brummell, AM
- Pascale Garaud, AM
- Marcella Gomez/a>, AM
- Qi Gong, AM
- Abhishek Halder, AM
- Dongwook Lee, AM
- Zehang Richard Lee, STAT
- Hongyun Wang, AM
- Daniele Venturi, AM
- Michael Mateas, CM
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Ken Pedrotti, ECE
- Holger Schmidt, ECE
Natural Language Processing
- Jeffrey Flanigan, CSE
- Lise Getoor, CSE
- Marilyn Walker, CSE
- Yi Zhang, CSE
Networks
- Alvaro Cardenas, CSE
- J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, CSE
- Patrick Mantey, ECE
- John Musacchio, CSE
- Katia Obraczka, CSE
- Chen Qian, CSE
- Ricardo Sanfelice, ECE
- Brad Smith, CSE
- Anujan Varma, CSE
- Alexander Wolf, CSE
- Computer Communication Research Group (CCRG)
- Internetworking Research Group (i-NRG)
Photonics and Electronic Devices
- Shiva Abbaszadeh, ECE
- Sara Abrahamsson, ECE
- Nobuhiko Kobayashi, ECE
- Michael M. Oye, ECE
- Marco Rolandi, ECE
- Holger Schmidt, ECE
- Toshishige Yamada, ECE
- A. Ali Yanik, ECE
- Applied Optics Group
- Nanostructured Energy Conversion Technology and Research (NECTAR) Group
- Rolandi Group in Bioelectronics
- SaraLab - Optical Microscopy and Bioelectronics
- UCSC Nanoengineering Group
Power Systems and Energy Engineering
- Yihsu Chen, ECE
- Keith Corzine, ECE
- Patrick Mantey, ECE
- Leila Parsa, ECE
- Yu Zhang, ECE
Programming Languages
- Owen Arden, CSE
- Cormac Flanagan, CSE
- Lindsey Kuper, CSE
- Tyler Sorensen, CSE
- Allen Van Gelder, CSE
Real-time Systems
- Luca de Alfaro, CSE
- Scott Brandt, CSE
Remote Sensing and Environmental Technology
- Marc Mangel, Professor Emeritus & Research Professor AM
- Patrick Mantey, ECE
- John Vesecky, ECE
- Real-time Environmental Information Network and Analysis System (REINAS)
Robotics and Control
- Gabriel Hugh Elkaim, ECE
- Qi Gong, AM
- Abhishek Halder, AM
- Dejan Milutinović, ECE
- Steve McGuire, ECE
- Ricardo Sanfelice, ECE
- Leila Takayama, CM
- Mircea Teodorescu, ECE
- Michael Wehner, ECE
- Donald M. Wiberg, ECE
- Dynamics, Autonomous Navigation, Surface Engineering and Robotics (DANSER) Lab
- Hybrid Systems Lab (HSL)
- Robotics and Control Lab
Systems Biology
- Robert L. Coffman, BME
- Marcella Gomez, AM
- Josh Stuart, BME
Software Engineering
Stem Cells
Storage Systems
Vaccines and Antiviral Therapeutics
- Phillip Berman, BME
- Rebecca DuBois, BME