People: Faculty

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Martin Abadi Martin Abadi
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1489
Engineering 2, Room 347A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: On leave
Research Areas:

Computer and network security, principles of programming languages, specification and verification methods


Dimitris Achlioptas Dimitris Achlioptas
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1081
Engineering 2, Room 343A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays by appointment
Research Areas:

Analysis of algorithms, machine learning, random structures


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Scott Brandt
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-5042
Engineering 2, Room 347B
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: On Sabbatical, Winter 2011
Research Areas:

Operating systems, storage systems, real-time systems


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Don Chamberlin Don Chamberlin
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1891
Engineering 2, Room 547B
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Database languages and systems, document processing


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James Davis James Davis
Associate Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1841
Engineering 2, Room 363
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Monday 10:00-11:00am
Research Areas:

ICTD, technology for global social issues, human computation, computational photography, computer vision, computer graphics


Luca de Alfaro Luca de Alfaro
Professor, Computer Science

650-248-2856
Engineering 2, Room 339A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: See https://sites.google.com/a/ucsc.edu/luca/contact-information
Research Areas:

Reputation systems, crowdsourcing, game theory, formal methods.


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Cormac Flanagan Cormac Flanagan
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-5375
Engineering 2, Room 367
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Programming languages, computer security, web programming, concurrency, verification, type systems, dynamic analysis.


John Funge
Associate Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

Engineering 2, Room 263
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Artificial Intelligence (AI); game AI; computer games; machine learning; knowledge representation and democratic methods


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David Helmbold David Helmbold
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-2016
Engineering 2, Room 345B
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Research Areas:

Machine learning, computational learning theory, analysis of algorithms


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Arnav Jhala Arnav Jhala
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Engineering 2, Room 269
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By appointment (Schedule Appointment: http://tinyurl.com/meetarnav )
Research Areas:

Artificial Intelligence: storytelling in games, intelligent machinima generation, smart graphics, and intelligent user interfaces


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Phokion G. Kolaitis Phokion G. Kolaitis
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-4768
Engineering 2, Room 345A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday 4:00-5:00pm and Thursday 11:00am-12:00pm
Research Areas:

Principles of database systems, logic in computer science, and computational complexity.


Reiner Kraft
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

408-387-9471
Engineering 2, Room 349A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday, 3pm - 4pm

Thomas Kroeger
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

Mail Stop SOE3

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Bob Levinson Bob Levinson
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-2087
Engineering 2, Room 255
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: M2-4pm
Research Areas:

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, heuristic search, associative pattern retrieval, hierarchical reinforcement learning, semantic networks


Suresh Lodha Suresh Lodha
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-3773
Engineering 2, Room 361
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:15pm - 1:00pm and by appointment.
Research Areas:

Visualization, vision, innovation


Darrell Long Darrell Long
Kumar Malavalli Endowed Professor of Storage Systems Research
Director of SSRC
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-2616
Engineering 2, Room 371
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Storage systems, distributed computing systems, operating systems, mobile computing, performance evaluation, fault tolerance, computer security, multimedia, and video-on-demand systems.


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Wesley Mackey
Lecturer, Computer Science

Engineering 2, Room 253
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Mon/Wed/Fri 1:30 - 2:30pm

Carlos Maltzahn Carlos Maltzahn
Associate Director of SRL
Associate Director of ISSDM
Associate Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1627
Engineering 2, Room 369
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: By appointment
Research Areas:

Scalable file system data and metadata management, storage QoS, data management games, network intermediaries, information retrieval, and cooperation dynamics.


Michael Mateas Michael Mateas
Associate Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1789
Engineering 2, Room 373
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Monday and Wedneday 4:00 - 5:00PM
Research Areas:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for art and entertainment, game AI, AI and creativity, AI-based interactive storytelling, autonomous characters


Charlie McDowell Charlie McDowell
Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Affairs
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-4772
Engineering 2, Room 349B
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Programming languages, parallel computing, and computer science education


Ethan L. Miller Ethan L. Miller
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1222
Engineering 2, Room 365
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday 3-5 PM
Research Areas:

Archival storage systems, non-hierarchical file systems and metadata management, non-volatile memory and next-generation storage, scalable file systems, reliable and secure storage, distributed systems, information retrieval, computer security.


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Alex Pang
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-2712
Engineering 2, Room 359
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Uncertainty visualization, tensor visualization, scientific visualization, comparative visualization, collaboration software, virtual reality interfaces


Ira Pohl Ira Pohl
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-3648
Engineering 2, Room 349A
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday 1-2
Research Areas:

Artificial intelligence, programming languages, heuristic methods, educational and social issues, combinatorial algorithms


Neoklis Polyzotis Neoklis Polyzotis
Associate Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1304
Engineering 2, Room 353
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Databases, Online Database Tuning, Crowdsourcing, Scientific Data Management.


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Thomas Schwarz
Associate Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

Engineering 2
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Reliability and security in storage systems


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Wang-Chiew Tan Wang-Chiew Tan
Associate Professor, Computer Science

831-459-3709
Engineering 2, Room 343B
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: On Leave
Research Areas:

Database systems: data provenance, information integration


Patrick Tantalo Patrick Tantalo
Lecturer, Computer Science
Lecturer, Computer Engineering

831-459-3898
Engineering 2, Room 257
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Graph theory, combinatorics, optimization, algorithms


Balder Ten Cate Balder Ten Cate
Associate Adjunct Professor, Computer Science

831-459-3250
Engineering 2, Room 247B
Mail Stop SOE3

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Allen Van Gelder
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-4611
Engineering 2, Room 355
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Mon/Wed 2 - 3 pm
Research Areas:

Logic programming algorithms, parallel algorithms, complexity, programming languages, automated theorem proving, scientific visualization


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Marilyn Walker Marilyn Walker
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1058
Engineering 2, Room 267
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-4PM
Research Areas:

Dialogue Systems, Natural Language Processing, Computer games, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence


Noah Wardrip-Fruin Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Associate Professor, Computer Science

831-459-4131
Engineering 2, Room 271
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Winter office hours: Tuesdays 4pm in DARC 139 & Wednesdays 4pm in E2 271 (canceled Feb 7th and 15th, no office hours week of March 5th)
Research Areas:

Digital media, computer games, electronic literature, software studies


Manfred Warmuth Manfred Warmuth
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-4950
Engineering 2, Room 357
Mail Stop SOE3
Research Areas:

Online learning, machine learning, statistical decision theory, game theory,analysis of algorithms


Linda Werner Linda Werner
Adjunct Professor, Computer Science
Lecturer, Technology & Information Management

831-459-1017
Engineering 2, Room 249
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Tuesday 2-3pm, Thursday 1-2pm
Research Areas:

Software engineering, computer science education, testing, social issues


Jim Whitehead Jim Whitehead
Chair, Computer Science
Professor, Computer Science

831-459-1227
Engineering 2, Room 273
Mail Stop SOE3
Office Hours: Wednesday, 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment
Research Areas:

Software engineering, software evolution, software bug prediction, level design in computer games, procedural content generation


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Huahai Yang

Engineering 2, Room 257
Mail Stop SOE2

Joel Yellin
Emeritus Professor

Baskin Engineering, Room 173
Mail Stop SOE2
Research Areas:

Classical and quantum information lattice dynamics, nonlinear waves; classical and quantum information theory; engineering, economics, and policy issues to the Internet


Christopher Yonge Christopher Yonge
Lecturer, Computer Science

Engineering 2, Room 259
Mail Stop SOE3

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