Professors

Cluster 1: Exploring the Use of Data Science in the Health Sciences

Dr. Babak Shahbaba, Professor, UCI Chancellor’s Fellow, Department of Statistics, UCI
Dr. Zhaoxia Yu, Professor, Department of Statistics, UCI

Cluster 2: Decoding the Universe: Physics, Big Data, and Computation

Dr. Albert Siryaporn, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UCI
Dr. Luis Jauregui, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UCI

Cluster 3: Tissue and Tumor Biology and Mathematical/Computational Modeling

Dr. John Lowengrub, Chancellor’s Professor, Mathematics, UCI
Dr. Felix Grun, Director, Mass Spectrometry Facility, Department of Chemistry, UCI

Cluster 4: Explorations of the Subatomic World and the Expanding Universe

Dr. Manoj Kaplinghat, Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UCI

Cluster 5: Sustainable Aviation Systems

Dr. Jacqueline Huynh, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCI
Dr. Iryna Zenyuk – Associate Director, NFCRC (National Fuel Cell Research Center),
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UCI

Cluster 6: Genes, Genomes, and Skeletal Muscle Dystrophies

Dr. Ali Mortazavi, Professor, Developmental & Cell Biology, UCI
Dr. Kyoko Yokomori, Professor, Biological Chemistry, UCI School of Medicine

Cluster 7: BioEngineering Your Brain: Controlling the World with Your Brainwaves

Dr. Christine King, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Biomedical Engineering, UCI

Cluster 8: BioEngineering and Characterizing Human Skin Organoids

Dr. Scott Atwood, Associate Professor, Developmental and Cell Biology, UCI
Dr. Yoonjin Won, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCI

Cluster 9: Stressed Out Bugs: How Bacteria Respond to Changing Environments

Dr. Allon I. Hochbaum, Assistant Professor, Chemistry;
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, UCI
Dr. Elizabeth N. Bess, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, UCI