Speaker Profiles

Kevin Almeroth, Computer Science

Kevin C. Almeroth is currently a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UC-Santa Barbara where his main research interests include computer networks and protocols, wireless networking, and large-scale multimedia systems. At UCSB, Dr. Almeroth is the Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS), a founding faculty member of the Media Arts and Technology (MAT) Program, Technology Management Program (TMP), and the Computer Engineering (CE) Program.

In the research community, Dr. Almeroth has authored more than 125 refereed papers. He is the chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM Network and System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV) workshop; on the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Network, ACM Computers in Entertainment, and AACE Journal of Interactive Learning Research; has co-chaired a number of conferences and workshops including the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS), IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS), the International Workshop On Wireless Network Measurement (WiNMee), the Network Group Communication (NGC) workshop, and the Global Internet Symposium; and has been on the program committee of numerous conferences. Dr. Almeroth is the former chair of the Internet2 Working Group on Multicast, and is active in several working groups of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). He also serves on the boards of directors and/or advisory boards of several startups. He is a Member of the ACM and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Gui Bazan, Director, Center for Polymers and Organic Solids

Professor Bazan received his Ph.D. from MIT in Inorganic Chemistry in 1991. After a postdoctoral appointment at Caltech, he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Rochester in 1992. He joined UCSB in 1998. His current research programs are concerned with the photophysics and morphology of the organic solid state and the polymerization of olefins via homogenous catalysis. Of particular interest are strategies that control the organization of intermediate size organic chromophores in the solid state. Such methods are desirable since the relative orientation and distance of conjugated molecules control important useful properties such as conductivity and the photon processing ability of the material. Unfortunately, reliable guidelines that optimize the spatial relationship of organic molecules, especially in circumstances where hydrogen bonding is not an option, are woefully lacking. One ultimate goal is to program the maximum "best" morphology from the organization of atoms in the individual molecule. In the area of catalysis, the Bazan group is optimizing a multiple catalysts approach to highly branched polyethylene.

Dan Blumenthal, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Tim Cheng, Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. He worked at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1993 and joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993 where he is currently Professor and Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He was the founding director of UCSB's Computer Engineering program. His current research interests include design verification, testing and multimedia computing. He has published over 250 technical papers, co-authored three books and holds nine U.S. Patents in these areas. He has also been working closely with US industry and government agencies for projects in these areas.

Cheng serves on the Executive Committee of the MARCO/DARPA Gigascale System Research Center (sponsored by the Semiconductor Industry Association, U.S. semiconductor equipment, materials, software and services industries, and the U.S. Dept. of Defense) and Co-Director of the International Center of SoC (jointly sponsored by National Science Foundation, USA, National Science Council, Taiwan and Chinese National Science Foundation, China) and leading their design, test and verification research efforts.

Cheng, a fellow of IEEE, received Best Paper Awards at the 1994 Design Automation Conference and 1999 Design Automation Conference, 2001 Annual Best Paper Award in Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Best Paper Award in 2003 Conference of Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2003), and the Best Paper award at 1987 AT&T Conference on Electronic Testing. He currently serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Design and Test of Computers, Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Editor for Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, and Editor for Foundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation. He had also served on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design. He has been General Chair and Program Chair of IEEE International Test Synthesis Workshop, Program Co-Chair of International Mixed-Signal Test Workshop and served on the technical program committees for a number of international conferences on design, design automation and test.

Andrew Cleland, Physics

Patrick Daugherty, Chemical Engineering

Patrick Daugherty, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Prof. Daugherty was a Virology-Oncology Senior Research Fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center from 1999-2001, and subsequently joined the faculty at UC-Santa Barbara. He research interests focus on the development of combinatorial technologies for engineering molecular recognition in therapeutic and diagnostic applications. Daugherty is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award (2005), and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2006).

Steve DenBaars, Executive Director, Solid State Lighting & Display Center

Frank Doyle, Chemical Engineering

Frank Doyle received his Ph.D. Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1991, C.P.G.S. Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University in 1986 and B.S.E. Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1985. Before arriving to UCSB, Doyle was on the faculty at the University of Delaware, Purdue University and has held Visiting Scientist positions at the DuPont Company and Weyerhaeuser. At UCSB, his research is focused on unraveling the regulatory architectures of complex biological systems.

David Gay, Institute of Collaborative Biotechnologies

David Gay received his B.S., Chemical Engineering, from Rice University and later obtained his Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, from the University of Wisconsin in 1989.

Prior to acquiring his current position as the Director of Technology within the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, David Gay established an extensive research career. From his industrial experiences, Gay has held various managerial R&D positions at companies such as DuPont and INVISTA Incorporated from 2000 to 2004. During his time at DuPont and INVISTA, Gay managed several multimillion dollar projects involving resources across the United States, China, Northern Ireland, Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore and Shanghai.

Glenn Fredrickson, Director, Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials

Glenn Fredrickson obtained his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1984 and subsequently joined AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he was named Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 1989. In 1990 he moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), joining the faculties of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Departments. He served as Chair of Chemical Engineering from 1998 to 2001 and in 2001 founded the Mitsubishi Chemical Center for Advanced Materials (MC-CAM) at UCSB.

Professor Fredrickson currently holds the Mitsubishi Chemical Endowed Chair in Functional Materials and serves as MC-CAM Director, Director of UCSB's Complex Fluids Design Consortium (CFDC), and Associate Director of the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL). He has approximately 200 publications, 8 patents, and has a long-standing interest in the statistical mechanics of complex fluids, including polymers, colloids, and glasses. His research is primarily theoretical and computational and has been most recently focused on developing novel field-based computer simulation strategies to assist the design of multi-component plastics and polymer solution formulations. Honors include an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Fellowship, the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society (APS), Fellowship in the APS, the Alpha Chi Sigma Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, and election to the National Academy of Engineering.

Joao Hespanha, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Joao Hespanha received his PhD and MS at the Yale University in Electrical and Applied Science and another MS in electrical and computer engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include hybrid and switched systems; the modeling and control of communication networks; distributed control over communication networks (also known as networked control systems); the use of vision in feedback control; stochastic modeling in biology; and game theory.

Raymond J. Huey, CEO, Z-Medica

Ray Huey joined Z-Medica in 2004, part of an expansion of the management team in order to proactively address a spike in demand for QuikClot(r), as well as planned growth in existing and future markets. Huey sets the company's strategic direction. He is directing development of products that include hemostatic agents for in-hospital use, evolving beyond the company's original military and first responder markets.

Huey's career achievements include innovative product development, operations management, executive leadership and quality systems. An engineer by training and a veteran of the medical device industry, Huey led a $150 million division of General Electric Medical Systems, and was widely acknowledged as maintaining one of the global giant's most efficient manufacturing facilities. He is a Master Black Belt in GE's Six Sigma program. Prior to his years at GE, he was Site Manager for American Home Products' Connecticut-based Corometrics Medical Systems Division.

Richard Kemmerer, Computer Science

Richard A. Kemmerer is a Professor and past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Computer Society, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the IFIP Working Group 11.3 on Database Security, and a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. He leads the Reliable Software Group at UCSB. Under his direction the Reliable Software Group has addressed the need for better languages and tools for designing, building, validating, and securing software systems.

He is a past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and served on the board of the ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Security and Privacy magazine. He is a past Vice President of the IEEE Computer Society, and he currently serves on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society and Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board.

Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, Mitsubishi Chief Technology Officer

Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, received a Master degree of Science and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He studied radiation Physics in Israel and Italy, after that, joined Mitsubishi Chemical Industry Limited (the previous name before merger with Mitsubishi Petrochemical Company) in 1974. He started his service developing heterogeneous catalysts at the Yokohama Research Center and jumped into the world of Optical Recording Media in 1984. Dr. Kobayashi was General Manager of Information Storage Products Department and served as a President of Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM), CEO of MKM, and was Executive officer of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

He has been a Chief Technology Officer and a Managing Executive officer of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and also a President of Mitsubishi Chemical Group Science and Technology Research Center Inc since 2005.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation is the largest integrated chemical company in Japan and one of the world's largest. In October 2005, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation jointly established a holding company, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation by a stock-for-stock exchange. www.m-kagaku.co.jp/index_en.htm.

Mark Lucovsky, Google, Inc.

Mark Lucovsky is a Technical Director of Engineering at Mountain View, California-based Google, Inc. Mark has held this position at Google since November 2004. Before joining Google, Mark was a Distinguished Engineer at Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corporation. While at Microsoft, Mark was a founding member and principal architect of the 32-bit Windows team where he designed and coded major portions of the Windows operating system. Prior to Microsoft, Mark has designed and coded operating system internals for a variety UNIX and proprietary os based mini-computers, mini-supercomputers, mainframes, pcs, and workstations.

Noel MacDonald, Mechanical Engineering

B.S. Manjunath, Director, Center for Bio-Image Informatics

B. S. Manjunath received this Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1991. He is now a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for Bio-Image Informatics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His current research interests include image processing, computer vision, multimedia databases and bio-image informatics. He has published over 150 articles in leading, peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and is a co-inventor on 15 US patents. He was the lead editor of the book on Introduction to MPEG-7, published by Wiley (2002). He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Eric McFarland, Chemical Engineering and GRT Inc.

Dr. McFarland is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. During a leave of absence from UCSB, he was a founding technical Director of Symyx Technologies where he helped to build and lead a team of scientists and engineers in the development of combinatorial chemistry methods for materials science, which resulted in the development of a number of technologies spanning the entire chemical industry. Dr. McFarland is presently the President and C.E.O. of GRT, Inc. a start-up company developing technology for natural gas conversion to liquids. He has published over 100 scientific papers and holds over 25 U.S. patents.

Sherylle Mills Englander, Director, Office of Technology & Industry Alliances

Sherylle Mills Englander is the Director of the Office of Technology & Industry Alliances at UC Santa Barbara. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and a Bachelors of Music from the Eastman School of Music. Prior to joining UCSB in 1999, she was a litigator specializing in entertainment law in Los Angeles, then served the Smithsonian Institution, negotiating copyright and trademark licensing agreements.

Samir Mitragotri, Chemical Engineering

Samir Mitragotri received his Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His primary research objective is to develop novel methods of drug delivery in order to provide patient-friendly and easy-to-use means of disease management.

Martin Moskovits, Dean, MLPS Division of Letters and Sciences College

After receiving his B.Sc. Moskovits co-founded OHM Distributors and Manufacturers Ltd., an electronics manufacturing company which was sold in 1968. He worked at Alcan Research and Development (later re-named Alcan International) in Kingston during 1970-71 and returned to the University of Toronto attaining the rank of Professor of Chemistry in 1982. From 1993-1999 he was Chair of the Department of Chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and was founding Director of its Nanoelectronics Program. Additionally, Moskovits has authored or co-authored ca 230 technical papers, edited or co-edited 3 books and holds 11 patents. Over 80 graduate students and postdocs completed their studies under his supervision. These individuals are currently employed in industry, government and academia. He has also hosted several international scientists as sabbatical guest in his laboratory. He has received over 270 invitations to speak at international conferences and meetings.

Mario Paniccia, Intel’s Photonics Technology Lab

Dr. Mario Paniccia is a Senior Principal engineer and Director of the Photonics Technology Lab at Intel Corporation. Mario currently directs a research group with activities in the area of Silicon Photonics. The team is focused on developing silicon-based photonic building blocks for future use in enterprise and data center communications.

Mario has worked in many areas of optical technologies during his career at Intel including optical testing for leading edge microprocessors, optical communications and optical interconnects. His teams pioneering activities in silicon photonics have led to first silicon modulator with bandwidth >1GHz 2004) and the first continuous wave Silicon laser breakthrough (2005).

Mario has won numerous including in November 2004 Mario was awarded by Scientific American to be one of the top 50 researchers for his teams work in the area of silicon photonics. He has published numerous papers, including 3 Nature papers, 2 book chapters, and has over 65 patents issued or pending. He is a senior member or IEEE and a fellow of OSA. Mario earned a B.S. degree in Physics in 1988 from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from Purdue University in 1994.

Kevin Plaxco, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Kevin Plaxco’s doctoral work in Molecular Biology, performed under Goddard at Caltech, concerned theoretical calculations of protein-DNA interactions, macromolecular hydration and protein dynamics. He then moved into experimental studies of protein folding at the University of Oxford and University of Washington before joining UCSB's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 1998.

Mark Rodwell, Director, National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network

Mark Rodwell is Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSB. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1988. He also directs the UCSB Nanofabrication laboratory and its participation in the NSF National Nanofabrication Infrastructure Network (NNIN). He worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories during 1982-1984.

Christy Ross, Assistant Dean for Corporate Programs, Engineering and Sciences

Christy Ross is currently the Assistant Dean for Strategy and Corporate Programs for UC Santa Barbara Engineering and the Sciences. In this role, she is responsible for creating and overseeing a Corporate Relations Program across the College of Engineering and Sciences. She also oversees strategic marketing and communications including media relations and publications. Christy brings significant industry experience to her role. She has over 15 years of management experience in firms ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations and across diverse industries, including technology, healthcare, banking, and consumer products. Christy brings expertise in the areas of new venture creation, business strategy, product development, marketing and sales, financial analysis, and organizational development. She has raised over $40 million from venture capitalists and lending institutions to fund past ventures. Christy has also successfully launched new businesses in the areas of Online Banking and developed and oversaw Quicken.com, the financial website portal, for Intuit Inc. as well as a created a corporate financial payment system for First Interstate Bancorp.

Christy holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from the University of Arizona, with a minor in Molecular Biology.

Carrington Smith, Manager for Air Products, Licensing and Venture Development

Dr. Carrington Smith joined the licensing team at Air Products and Chemicals in the fall of 2005. Previously Smith worked in Electronics at Air Products as New Business Development Manager identifying and evaluating potential venture companies for inclusion in the business venture portfolio. Currently he's Venture Development Manager at Air Products working in the Corporate Technology Partnerships Group. He has also filled a position with NGEN Partners since 2003 as an Associate seconded from Air Products and Chemicals. In this role, Carrington assists the fund in its investment decisions via technical due diligence and identifies potential new venture opportunities for the fund. Carrington worked at Air Products for a decade within R&D and business development including activities in polymer gas separation membranes, polymeric materials for electronics applications, polymer emulsions for adhesives and coatings, supercritical CO2 processing of materials, surfactant design and activity, and polymer physical testing methods.

Carrington received his B.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University, Ph.D. in Chemistry at Virginia Tech and conducted post-doctoral work with L'Institut Francaise du Petrole in Lyon, France. He's author of several patents and publications around his technical work.

Tom Soh, Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Hyongsok (Tom) Soh is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Departments. He earned his B.S. (1992) with a double major in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science with Distinction from Cornell University. He received his M.S. (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Prior to joining UCSB in 2003, Prof. Soh served as the technical manager of MEMS Device Research Group at Bell Laboratories and MEMS R&D group at Agere Systems. His current research interests are in analytical biotechnology, especially in high throughput screening, directed evolution and integrated biosensors. He is the recipient of the MIT Technology Review’s "TR 100" Award (2002), ONR Young Investigator Award (2004), and Beckman Young Investigator Award (2005).

Jim Speck, Chair, Materials Department

James Speck received his B.Sc.Engineering at the University of Michigan in 1983. He later obtained from MIT his S.M. Metallurgy in 1985 and Sc.D. Materials Science in 1989. Speck’s research focuses on the relationship between thin film electronic materials growth, microstructure, and the relation between microstructure and physical properties. Speck is a member of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, and the Microscopy Society of America.

Todd Squires, Chemical Engineering

Todd M. Squires is Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his B. S. in Physics and B. A. in Russian Literature from UCLA in 1995, studied as a Winston Churchill Scholar at Cambridge University to earn a Certificate of Advanced Study (Part III of the Mathematics Tripos), and as an NDSEG Fellow to earn a Ph. D. in Physics from Harvard in 2002. He spent three years at Caltech as a Lee A. Dubridge Postdoctoral Fellow and NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, and joined the faculty at UCSB in 2005. His research interests involve a variety of topics involving small-scale fluid flows: microfluidics, colloidal hydrodynamics, electrokinetics and microrheology. Combining theoretical and experimental research, he seeks to understand the physical phenomena that occur on the micron scale, and to then harness such understanding towards novel applications in microfluidic and microrheological systems. His recent publications include a comprehensive review of microfluidic physics and the variety of ways in which it has been exploited.

Galen Stucky, Professor, Materials

Galen Stucky is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and in the Materials Department, and a member of the Interdepartmental Program in Biomolecular Science and Engineering. He has also published over 600 scientific articles and has been awarded 13 patents. Recent honors include the ACS Award in Chemistry of Materials (2002) and the IMMA (International Mesostructured Materials Association) Award (2004). He was elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. His research interests include molecular assembly of nanoscale to macroscale components of composite systems; the interface of inorganics with biomolecules; chemistry associated with the efficient utilization of energy resources; gradient materials and interfaces; understanding Nature's routes to organic/inorganic bioassembly.

Matthew Tirrell, Dean, College of Engineering

Matthew Tirrell received his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in 1977 in Polymer Science from the University of Massachusetts. He is currently Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1977 to 1999 he was on the faculty of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, where he served as head of the department from 1995 to 1999. His research has been in polymer surface properties including adsorption, adhesion, surface treatment, friction, lubrication and biocompatibilty. He has co-authored about 265 papers and one book and has supervised about 60 Ph.D. students.

Professor Tirrell has been a Sloan and a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and has received the Allan P. Colburn, Charles Stine and the Professional Progress Awards from AIChE. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997, became a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers in 1998, was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000 and was named Institute Lecturer for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in 2001.

Matthew Turk, Chair, Media Arts and Technology Program

Matthew Turk received a B.S. from Virginia Tech in 1982, then an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. His masters work was in the area of robot fine motion planning. Matthew worked for Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace from 1984 to 1987, primarily on vision for autonomous robot navigation (part of DARPA's ALV program). In 1987 he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. from the Media Lab in 1991 for his work on automatic face recognition. A paper on this work received an IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in 1991; another paper from his thesis work received a "Most Influential Paper of the Decade Award" from the IAPR MVA2000 workshop. After a brief post-doc at MIT, in 1992 Matthew moved to Grenoble, France as a visiting researcher at LIFIA/ENSIMAG, then took a position at Teleos Research (in Palo Alto, CA) in 1993. In 1994, Matthew joined Microsoft Research as the founding member of the Vision Technology Group. In 2000, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is now a full Professor in the Computer Science Department and Chair of the Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program. He co-directs the Four Eyes Lab, where the research focus is on the "four I’s" of Imaging, Interaction, and Innovative Interfaces. He is a founding member and chair-elect of the advisory board for the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces.

Kimberly Turner, Co-Vice Chair, Mechanical Engineering

Kimberly Turner’s research interests span problems and applications focused on the mechanics of micro and nanoscale systems. In 1994 she earned her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, and her Ph.D. (1999) in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. She joined the department of Mechanical & Environmental Engineering at UCSB in August 1999, where she is currently an associate professor and vice-chair, and continues research in the areas of MEMS and nanosystems. Her group consists of 10 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and undergraduate researchers. She is the recipient of the 2005 UCSB Academic Senate Teaching award and was recently inducted into the Michigan Tech Presidential Council of Alumnae. She is a member of ASME, IEEE, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigma, Society of Women Engineers, and the Cornell Society of Engineers.

Michael Witherell, Vice Chancellor of Research

Vice Chancellor for Research Michael Witherell holds a University of California Presidential Chair in the Physics Department. He served as Director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the largest particle physics laboratory in the country, from July 1999 to June 2005, when he became Vice Chancellor at UCSB. From 1981 to 1999, Dr. Witherell was a faculty member in the UCSB physics department.

Dr. Witherell has done research in particle physics with accelerators at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and Cornell Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, in addition to Fermilab. In 1990, his work on an experiment at Fermilab studying charm quarks brought him the prestigious W. K. H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics, awarded annually by the American Physical Society.

Dr. Witherell was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 for his work in the application of new technologies that "profoundly influenced all subsequent experiments aimed at the study of heavy-quark states." In 2004 he received the U. S. Secretary of Energy’s Gold Award, the highest honorary award of the Department of Energy. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Witherell graduated from the University of Michigan in 1968 and earned his Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. He was a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at Princeton University from 1973 to 1981 before moving to UCSB.

Rich Wolski, Computer Science

Rich Wolski is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Having received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Davis (while he held a full-time research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) he has also held positions at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Tennessee. He is currently also a strategic advisor to the San Diego Supercomputer Center and an adjunct faculty member at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Patrick Yue, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Patrick Yue received his Ph.D. in EE from Stanford in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor in ECE at UC Santa Barbara. In 2003, he joined Carnegie Mellon University as an Assistant Professor in ECE where he continues to serve as an adjunct faculty. His current interests include high-speed CMOS analog design, cell-based RF/mm-wave CAD methodology and integrated biomedical sensors. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Consulting Assistant Professor position in Stanford’s EE Department. From 1998 to 2002, he assisted in founding Atheros Communications where he was instrumental to developing the first 802.11a CMOS transceiver. In 2002, he joined Aeluros, another Silicon Valley startup, to work on signal integrity and device modeling issues for 10-Gbps I/O’s.

Prof. Yue has contributed to over 50 technical papers, two book chapters and 11 U.S. patents. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 ISSCC Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award for demonstrating the first on-chip standing-wave clock distribution network. His 1998 paper titled “On-chip spiral inductors with patterned ground shields for Si-based RF ICs” is among the 38 all-time Top Cited Articles in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is a committee member of RFIC Symposium (RFIC), Asian Solid-State Circuit Conference (A-SSCC), International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), and IEEE Electron Devices Society VLSI Technology and Circuits Committee.

Joe Zasadzinski, Chemical Engineering and Materials

Joseph Zasadzinski received his Ph.D. Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 1985 and B.S. Chemical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 1980. Zasadzinski and his group's research deals primarily with experimental investigations of the relationships between structure, composition and function at the molecular scale in complex or self-assembling fluids using optical, electron, and scanning probe microscopies. His group is one of the few in the world to utilize all major microscopy techniques.