This page provides a list of faculty that participated in the 2021 program. We suggest reviewing recent intern projects for more information, and discussing your interests on your application.
Jeffrey Bokor
Dr. Bokor is the Principle Investigator of the Transfer-to-Excellence Program. He studies physical Electronics and nanomagnetics.
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Tsu-Jae King Liu
Research Areas: Nanometer-scale semiconductor devices and technology, Novel non-volatile memory devices and technology, M/NEMS technology for ultra-low-power integrated circuits
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Felix Fischer
Dr. Fischer supervises research in organic and inorganic materials chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, polymer chemistry, and molecular electronics. In 2021, he is seeking an intern interested in computational theoretical work.
Department: College of Chemistry
Anca Dragan
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence; Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics; Human-Computer Interaction
Department: Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Ming Wu
Research Areas: Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems, Physical Electronics, Silicon photonics, Optoelectronics, Nanophotonics, Optical MEMS, Optofluidics
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Jamie Cate
Research Areas: Structural Biology, Biophysical Chemistry and Systems Biology – The mechanisms of the regulation of human translation, bacterial protein synthesis, and fungal growth on plant biomass are being probed by cryo-EM, x-ray crystallography, biophysical chemistry, genomics, proteomics, and enzymology.
Department: College of Chemistry
Ken Goldberg
Dr. Goldberg studies artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation.
Department: Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Ali Javey
Research Areas: Physical Electronics, Energy, Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems, Nanomaterials, and Nanoelectronics
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Armando Fox
Research Areas: Programming Systems, Education, Human-Computer Interaction
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Shawn Shadden
Research Areas: Cardiovascular Biomechanics, Computational Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Dynamical Systems, Fluid Dynamics, Lagrangian Coherent Structures, Mathematical Modeling, Thrombosis. Often hires TTE interns for computer science research.
Department: Mechanical Engineering
John Canny
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics, Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction, Security
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Laura Waller
Research Areas: Physical Electronics, Signal Processing, Biosystems & Computational Biology, Graphics, Computational Imaging, and Optics
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Sayeef Salahuddin
Research Areas: Physical Electronics, Design, Modeling & Analysis, Energy, Scientific Computing, Nanomagnetics
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kosa Goucher-Lambert
Research Areas: Design theory, methodology, and automation: decision-making applied to engineering teams and individuals; ideation and creativity; analogical reasoning in design; preference modeling and design attribute optimization; design cognition; neuroimaging methods applied to design; sustainable design; new product development; crowdsourcing and collaboration.
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Romy Chakraborty
Dr. Chakraborty studies anaerobic microbial physiology, microbialecology, plant-microbe interactions, and the recovery and bioremediation of oil and other contaminants thought microbes.
Department: Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Zakaria Al Balushi
Research Areas: Professor Al Balushi’s research concerns the creation of novel synthesis and integration schemes for emerging electronic and photonic low-dimensional materials, and the development of new instrumentation that will ultimately aid in the discovery of new materials for optoelectronics and viable quantum technologies.
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Niloufar Salehi
Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Computer-mediated Communication, Social Computing, Participatory and Critical Design
Department: School of Information; Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Alex Zettl
Research Areas: Growth and characterization of novel 2D materials for electronics, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
Departments: Physics and Engineering Science
Koushil Sreenath
Dr. Sreenath studies hybrid dynamic robotics, applied nonlinear control, dynamic legged locomotion, and dynamic aerial manipulation. In 2021, he is seeking an intern interested in robotics and controls.
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Björn Hartmann
Research Areas: Human-Computer Interaction, Programming Systems, Cyber-Physical Systems and Design Automation, Graphics
Department: Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
Steven G. Louie
Research Areas: Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science
Department: Physics
Junqiao Wu
Research Areas: Synthesis and properties of small dimension semiconductors, Materials interfaces, membranes & composites,
Department: Materials Science and Engineering and Engineering Science