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Keiko Nomura
Professor
Keiko Nomura joined the faculty of UCSD in 1994 after completing her Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC Irvine. She also held a development engineer position with...
Carl H. Gibson
Professor
Carl H. Gibson received his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University in 1962. He then joined the Peace Corps and served as a volunteer for two years in the Chemical Technology Dep...
Robert Bitmead
Professor
Robert Bitmead joined the Jacobs School's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department in 1999 after more than 16 years at the Department of Systems Engineering at The Australian National Un...
Kalyanasundaram Seshadri
Professor
Professor Seshadri received his BE degree from Coimbatore Institute of Technology (India) in 1970, his MS degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1973, and his PhD degree from t...
Carlos Coimbra
Professor/Chair
Professor Coimbra received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He joined the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego in July of 2011, and ...
Hidenori Murakami
Professor
Hidenori Murakami received his Ph.D. in applied mechanics from UCSD in 1978; he joined the faculty in 1982. His research has been concerned with 1) the development of advanced continuum models for het...
Stanford Penner
Prof Emeritus
Stanford S. Penner worked during World War II at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory on solid rocket propulsion systems. He received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Wisconsin in...
David Saintillan
Professor
Professor David Saintillan received a B.S. in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 2001, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2006. He ...
Paul Libby
Prof Emeritus
Professor Libby received his bachelors degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1942. After working as an Apprentice Engineer at Chance Vought Aircraft in Stratford, Connecticut for two ye...
Robert Skelton
Prof Emeritus
Robert E. Skelton is the Daniel L. Alspach Professor of Dynamics Systems and Controls at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering. He joined UC San Diego in 1996, after serving as a professor of aeronau...
Frank E. Talke
Professor
Frank Talke came to UCSD in 1986 after seventeen years at the IBM Research and Development Laboratories in San Jose, CA. He was the chairman of the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineer...
George Tynan
Professor
George R. Tynan received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He then spent several years studying t...
Joe Goddard
Professor Emeritus
Joe Goddard received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962. In 1963 he joined the chemical engineering faculty of the University of Michigan, and in 197...
Alexey Arefiev
Asst Professor
Alexey Arefiev joined the faculty at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering in 2017. He received his B.Sc. in physics from Novosibirsk State University (Russia) in 1998 and his Ph.D in physi...
Padmini Rangamani
Assoc Professor
Rangamani was a Chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biolgoy and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2013-14. She earned her Ph.D...
Alan Schneider
Prof Emeritus
Alan M. Schneider received the Sc.D. degree in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at MIT in 1957. He worked at the Instrumentation Laboratory at MIT and at the Aerospace Systems Division of RCA, ...
Juan Lasheras
Professor
Juan C. Lasheras is the Stanford S. and Beverly P. Penner Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He is a distinguished professor of Mechanic...
Maziar Ghazinejad
Asst Teaching Prof
Maziar Ghazinejad joined the faculty of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego in 2018. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UC Riverside (2012) and holds M.S. degrees in mec...
Prabhakar Bandaru
Professor
Prabhakar Bandaru received his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the UC, Berkeley in 1998, with a graduate thesis on the thermodynamics of phase transformations in magneto-optic thin films. From 1998-1999...
Xanthippi Markenscoff
Professor
Professor Markenscoff received her Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has been research Associate at...
John Hwang
Asst Professor
Hwang earned his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, where he also served as a postdoctoral researcher. He joined UC San Diego in 2018 after working as a research engineering...
William McEneaney
Professor
William McEneaney began working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1984 as a member of the Future Missions Group. In 1989 he returned to academia, and received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from B...
Antonio Sanchez Perez
Professor
Antonio L. Sánchez is a UC San Diego alumnus, having received his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences (now mechanical and aerospace...
Daniel Tartakovsky
Professor
Daniel Tartakovsky is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Hydrology from the Departmen...
Vitali Nesterenko
Professor
Vitali F. Nesterenko received his Ph.D. in 1975 and Doctor in Physics and Mathematics in 1989 from Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Novosibirsk. He held positions of Head of Research Department i...
Juan Carlos del Alamo
Professor
Dr. del Alamo received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering in June 2005 at the E.T.S. de Ingenieros Aeronauticos in Madrid, Spain. After completing his Ph.D., Juan Carlos served as a Postdoctoral Re...
Eugene R. Pawlak
Professor
Before joining the Jacobs School of Engineering, Pawlak served as an associate professor in the Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Pawlak is a UC Sa...
Joanna Mckittrick
Professor
Joanna McKittrick received her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from MIT, with a concentration in ceramic science, in 1988 and then joined the UC San Diego faculty.
Miroslav Krstic
Professor
Miroslav Krstic is Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, holds the Alspach endowed chair, and is the founding director of the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics a...
Abhishek Saha
Asst Professor
Saha received his master's and Ph.D. degrees, both in mechanical engineering, from the University of Central Florida in 2010 and 2012, respectively. He was the recipient of the Outstanding Di...
Sergei Krasheninnikov
Professor
Sergei I. Krasheninnikov received his Ph.D. in 1980 and Doctor in Physics and Mathematics in 1992 from the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, Russia. He held positions of Leading Scienti...
Nicholas Gravish
Asst Professor
Before joining UC San Diego, Gravish was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard under Professors Robert J. Wood and Stacey A. Combes. He was the re...
Renkun Chen
Assoc Professor
Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008, followed by a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in Materials Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley Nat...
Albert Pisano
Dean-Jacobs Sch Engr
In his role as Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, Albert P. Pisano is responsible for strategic planning and programmatic development. His responsibilities include School-wide research initi...
Forman A. Williams
Professor Emeritus
Forman A. Williams received his Ph.D. in engineering science from the California Institute of Technology in 1958. He was an assistant professor at Harvard until 1964, at which time he came to UCSD. In...
Eric Lauga
Assoc Professor
Eric Lauga received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2005. From 2005 to 2006, he was the Hock Tan postdoctoral fellow at MIT in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He ...
Thomas Bewley
Professor
Thomas Bewley joined the Dynamic Systems and Control Program of MAE in 1998, after completing his Ph.D. at Stanford University. His several research interests lie at the intersections of control an...
Oliver Schmidt
Asst Professor
Oliver Schmidt joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego in the fall of 2018 after completing his postdoctoral fellowship in the Computational Flow Physics Group at...
Michael Baskes
Adjt Professor
Baskes, now an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is also a laboratory associate-fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was a staff member at Sandia ...
Robert J. Cattolica
Professor
Robert J. Cattolica, Associate Director of the Jacobs Schools' Center for Energy Research, received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1...
David Miller
Prof Emeritus
David R. Miller received his BS (Chem Eng) from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D (Chem Eng) from Princeton University , before joining the faculty at UCSD in 1966 as an Assistant Professor in the AME...
Jorge Cortes
Professor
Jorge Cortés joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCSD in 2007. He received the Licenciatura degree in mathematics from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Zar...
Ratneshwar Lal
Professor
Lal is a professor of Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science & Engineering, and Co-Director of Center for Excellence in Nanomedcine and Engineering at UC San Diego. He receive...
Michael Frazier
Asst Professor
Michael Frazier joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego in the Fall of 2017 after completing his postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technol...
Nicholas Boechler
Asst Professor
Boechler earned his Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007, his Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering from the California Institute of T...
James Friend
Professor
Before joining UC San Diego, Friend was a professor and vice chancellor’s senior research fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, establishing a $35-million Micro Nano Research Facility as it...
Michael Tolley
Asst Professor
Before joining the mechanical engineering faculty at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, Tolley was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically...
Javier Garay
Professor
Javier E. Garay received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (1999), M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (2002) and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (2004) all from the University of...
Raymond de Callafon
Professor
Raymond de Callafon received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in October 1998. After one year as a research assistant at UCSD in 1997, he...
Sutanu Sarkar
Professor
Sutanu Sarkar received his Ph.D. from the Mechanical Aerospace Engineering Department at Cornell University in 1988. He spent the following years until 1992 as a staff scientist in the Institute fo...
Sonia Martínez
Professor
Sonia Martínez joined the Jacobs School faculty in 2005 after completing a two-year Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and UC Santa Barbara,...
Mark Anderson
Assoc Teaching Prof
Anderson serves as the primary instructor and coordinator of the capstone senior aerospace design sequence within MAE. Vehicle design, navigation, and control.
Padma K. Shukla
Adjt Professor
Professor Padma Kant Shukla was born in 1950 in the village Tulapur, Uttar Pradesh (UP), India and was educated there. After his Ph. D. in Physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi, I...
Siavouche Nemat-Nasser
Dir-CEAM/Prof
Siavouche "Sia" Nemat-Nasser received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1964. In 1966 he came to UCSD. From 1970-85 he was professor of applied mechanics and applied mathematics at Northwestern University...
Shengqiang Cai
Assoc Professor
Prof. Cai was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2011 to 2012. He earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Harvard University in 2011, after earning a mast...
Sungho Jin
Prof Emeritus
Sungho Jin joined the UCSD faculty in July 2002 after a long and illustrious career at Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies. He is the first holder of the Kazuo Iwama Endowed Chair for Materials Science, end...
Olivia A Graeve
Professor
Olivia A. Graeve received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 2001 and her bachelor’s in Structural Engineering from UC San Diego in 19...
Alison Marsden
Adj Assoc Prof
Alison Marsden joined the Jacobs School faculty in 2007. Pursuing studies in Mechanical Engineering, she received her B.S.E. from Princeton University in 1998 and an M.S.E from Stanford University in ...
Paul F. Linden
Prof Emeritus
Paul Linden is the G. I. Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. http://web.me.com/pfl4/PFL/Welcome.html...
Tania Morimoto
Asst Professor
Before joining UC San Diego in the fall of 2018, Morimoto earned a Ph.D. and Master's from Stanford University in the CHARM (Collaborative Haptics and Robotics in Medicine) Laboratory. At Stanford...
Stefan Llewellyn Smith
Professor
Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1996. He was a research fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 1999, working ...
Harold W. Sorenson
Prof Emeritus
Harold W. Sorenson arrived at UCSD in 1968 as a founding faculty member. He started the System Science Program two years later. In 1972, he helped found and run Orincon, the systems integration compan...
Farhat Beg
Professor
Farhat Beg became an assistant professor at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering in 2003. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London's Imperial College, focusing on optical and X-ray studie...
Jan Kleissl
Professor
Jan Kleissl received a Ph.D. in 2004 from Johns Hopkins University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Michigan Technological University from January 2004 to October 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow...
James Rottman
Adjunct Prof
James W. Rottman received his Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences at the University of California, San Diego in 1978. Since then he has held ...
Nathan Delson
Assoc Teaching Prof
An alumnus of UC San Diego, Delson received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and then went on to get a doctorate in mechanical engineering from MIT. Since he returned to UC San Di...
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