| Name
|
Department
|
Interest
Area |
Contacts
and Web Address |
| Abeer
Alwan |
Electrical
Engineering, UCLA |
Signal
processing, mathematical modeling of human speech
production & perception mechanisms, and applications
to speech processing algorithms and devices. |
310-206-2231;
310-206-4304
alwan@icsl.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Marvin
Bergsneider |
Neurosurgery,
UCLA |
Pathobiology
of the metabolic responses (PET) to traumatic brain
injury and computer modeling of the hemodynamics
of intracranial pressure physiology. |
310-206-4100
mbergsneider@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
|
James
Bisley |
Neurobiology,
UCLA |
Neural
mechanisms underlying visual perception, visual
attention, and visual memory |
310-267-3467
jbisley@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link |
|
H.
Tad Blair |
Psychology,
UCLA |
Neurophysiological
and behavioral studies of learning, memory, and
motivation |
310-825-5463
blair@psych.ucla.edu
faculty
link |
| Susan
Bookheimer |
NPI
& H-
Brain
Mapping, UCLA
|
Functional
MRI of language and memory in normal volunteers
and patients with Alzheimer's, brain tumors, and
developmental language difficulties.
|
310-794-6386
sbook@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Jeffrey
Bronstein |
Neurology,
UCLA |
Molecular
biology of glia and glial tumors; development of
immunotherapy for glioma; clinical research in Parkinson’s
disease. |
310-794-2158
jbronste@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Dean
Buonomano |
Neurobiology,
UCLA |
Neural
basis of temporal information processing; how neurons
develop selective responses to temporal characteristics
such as the order, duration and intervals of different
stimulus features. |
310-794-5009;
310-794-5012
dbuono@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Marie-Francoise
Chesselet |
Neurology,
UCLA |
Molecular
mechanisms of dysfunction and neurodegeneration
in the basal ganglia. |
310-267-1781
mchesselet@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Mark
Cohen |
Neurology/Radiological
Science/Psychiatry, UCLA |
Use
of MRI to understand-structure function relationships
in the human brain. Development of acquisition and
analysis technologies; utilization of these tools
with a particular focus on cognitive aspects of
sensory perception & imagery |
310-206-5437
mscohen@ucla.edu
faculty
link |
| Antonio
DeSalles |
Neurosurgery,
UCLA
|
Functional
Neurosurgery: Clinical aspects of Parkinson's disease
after pallidotomy and basic research in Parkinsonism
MPTP model including cell transplantation
and growth factor injections in
basal ganglia; Radiosurgery: Clinical research on
application of radiosurgery for brain tumors, epilepsy,
and chronic pain, and basic research on effects
of ionizing radiation to cerebral vasculature and
neuronal firing. |
310-794-1221
adesalles@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Joseph
DiStefano |
Computer
Science, UCLA |
Biocybernetics,
bioengineering, modeling and simulation, modeling
theory and methodology, artificial intelligence/knowledge
based systems, dynamic systems optimization, estimation,
identification, and control. |
310-825-7482;
310-825-4033
joed@cs.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Bruce
Dobkin |
Neurology,
UCLA |
Translation
of work in motor control and learning from basic
neuroscience to clinical rehabilitation. |
310-206-6500
bdobkin@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Bruce
Dunn |
Material
Science & Engineering, UCLA |
Electrical
and optical properties of inorganic solids; organic/inorganic
hybrid materials; encapsulation of enzymes and other
proteins in sol-gel materials, biomedical and chemical
sensors, solid electrolytes and ion transport. |
310-825-1519
bdunn@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Reggie
Edgerton |
Physiological
Science; Neurobiology, UCLA |
Neuromuscular
plasticity in response to altered function, growth
factors and hormones. |
310-825-1910
vre@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Jack
Feldman |
Neurobiology,
UCLA |
Systems
neurobiology. |
310-825-0954;
310-825-2123
feldman@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Joaquin
Fuster |
Psychiatry
& Biobehavioral Science, UCLA |
Cortical
physiology of perception and memory.
|
310-825-0247;
310-825-5528
joaquinf@ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Alan
Garfinkel |
Physiological
Science, UCLA |
Mathematical
models of physiological systems, especially in cell
and tissue electrophysiology. Data analysis using
methods of nonlinear dynamics (“chaos theory”).
|
310-794-7214
agarfinkel@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
| Robert
Greenberg |
Electrical
Engineering, UCLA |
Electrical
stimulation of the retina, especially modeling and
electrophysiology with the goal of creating a retinal
prosthesis for patients blind from outer retinal
degenerations (such as retinitis pigmentosa.
|
310-206-1137;
661-775-3990 x3338-off campus
bob@2-sight.com
unavailable
|
| Warren
Grundfest |
Biomedical
Engineering, UCLA |
Development
of excimer lasers for medical applications, minimally
invasive surgery, angioscopic evaluation of intravascular
disease processes, magnetic-guided interventional
procedures, laser lithotrispsy, microendoscopy,
spectroscopy. |
310-794-5550
warrenbe@seas.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
Chih-Ming
Ho |
Mechanical
& Aerospace Engineering, UCLA |
Micro
tranducers, fluid dynamics and biomechanics. |
|
| Larry
Hoffman |
Surgery/Division
of Head & Neck Surgery, UCLA |
Coding
of dynamic sensory stimuli, principally by the vestibular
sensory epithelia within the inner ear. |
310-825-9823
lfh@ucla.edu
faculty
link |
Jack
Judy |
Electrical
Engineering, UCLA |
Micromachining,
MEMS, new technologies for the neural-electronic
interface, and neural prosthetics. |
|
William
Kaiser |
Electrical
Engineering, UCLA |
Concentration
on the development of a distributed network sensor
technology, low power analog and digital electronics,
and low power RF communication. |
|
| Daniel
Kamei |
Bioengineering,
UCLA |
Molecular
cell bioengineering |
310-206-4826
kamei@seas.ucla.edu
faculty
link
|
CJ
Kim |
Mechanical
& Aerospace Engineering, UCLA |
MEMS,
especially the issues related to mechanical engineering,
including design and fabrication of microstructures
microactuators and systems, physics in microscale,
and micromanufacturing. |
|
Michael
Levine |
Psychiatry
& Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA |
Neurophysiology
of basal ganglia. |
|
Jia-Ming
Liu |
Electrical
Engineering, UCLA |
The
areas of nonlinear optics, ultrafast lasers, nonlinear
and dynamic processes in materials and devices,
and numerical simulations of photonic devices and
systems. |
|
Xin
Liu |
Pathology
& Laboratory Medicine, UCLA |
Molecular
genetics of mammalian neurodevelopment, neurological
disease, and biological clock.
|
|
John
Mazziotta |
Neurology,
UCLA |
Develop,
refine, validate and distribute tools and data to
measure brain structure and function in both health
and disease. |
|
Walter
Metzner |
Molecular,
Cellular and Integrative Physiology |
Behavioral
Neuroscience (Neuroethology). How the central nervous
system transforms sensory signals into motor commands
that control adaptive behavior. |
|
Istvan
Mody |
Neurology,
UCLA |
Long-term
changes in neuronal excitability through regulation
of voltage- and ligand-gated channel function. |
|
Harold
Monbouquette |
Chemical
Engineering, UCLA |
Biosensors;
thermostable redox enzymes for chiral synthesis
and for diagnostics. |
|
Carlo
Montemagno |
Biomedical
Engineering & Mechanical Engineering UCLA |
Integrate
life processes with engineered systems at the nano-
and atomic scale. The research currently being conducted
in our laboratory can be divided into four fundamental
research thrusts: Biomolecular Motor-Powered Nanodevices,
Applied Nanotechnology and Engineering, Photoluminescent
Volumetric Imaging, Environmental Pathogen Monitoring.
|
|
| Peter
Narins |
Physiological
Science, UCLA |
Understanding
the neural, biophysical and behavioral adaptations
exhibited by vertebrates in processing auditory
and vibratory signals in background noise. |
|
Ichiro
Nishimura |
Oral
Biology, School of Dentistry, UCLA |
Genetic
control of aging; Molecular mechanisms of cell phenotype
determination; Tissue engineering of normal and
functional tissues of the face; Biotechnology application
to wound healing and chronic pain syndrome. |
|
Thomas
Otis |
Neurobiology,
UCLA |
Excitatory
synaptic transmission; cerebellum. |
|
| William
Pardridge |
Medicine-Endocrinology,
UCLA |
Blood-brain
barrier; drug targeting to brain, brain gene therapy |
310-825-8858;
310-206-8305
wpardridge@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link |
|
Russell Poldrack |
Psychology, UCLA |
Cognitive neuroscience of human learning and memory |
310-
794-1224
poldrack@ucla.edu
faculty link |
Dario
Ringach |
Neurobiology;
Psychology, UCLA |
Visual
neurophysiology and psychophysics. |
|
| Jacob
Schmidt |
Bioengineering,
UCLA |
Research
combines physical and biological nanofabrication
techniques with protein engineering to make new
kinds of hybrid devices |
310-825-4451
schmidt@seas.ucla.edu
faculty
link |
Felix
Schweizer |
Neurobiology,
UCLA
|
Synaptic
transmission. |
|
Desmond
Smith |
Molecular
& Medical Pharmacology, UCLA |
Neural
functional genomics. |
|
Michael
Sofroniew |
Neurobiology,
UCLA |
Neural
injury and repair. |
|
Igor
Spigelman |
Oral
Biology and Medicine, School of Dentistry, UCLA
|
Basic
mechanisms and treatment of chronic pain and neurodegenerative
conditions such as epilepsy, stroke and brain trauma.
|
|
Paul
Thompson |
Neurology,
UCLA |
Neuroimaging
and brain mapping. |
|
Arthur
Toga |
Neurology;
Brain Mapping, UCLA |
Brain
mapping, morphometric variability in humans, optical
intrinsic imaging for the study of neurovascular
coupling and cortical activation in humans and animal
models. |
|
| Joshua
Trachtenberg |
Neurobiology,
UCLA |
Structural
basis of functional plasticity in the cerebral cortex. |
310-825-0873
jtrachtenberg@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link |
| Julio
Vergara |
Physiology,
UCLA |
Skeletal
muscle excitation-contraction coupling and synaptic
transmission, and regulation of intracellular Ca+
homeostatis. |
310-825-9307
jvergara@mednet.ucla.edu
faculty
link |
| John
Villasenor |
Electrical
Engineering, UCLA |
Research
interests are in joint source and channel coding,
lattice vector quantization, wavelet filter design,
wireless multimedia communications, and low complexity
image and video coding architectures and algorithms. |
310-825-0228
villa@icsl.ucla.edu
faculty
link |
James
Weiss |
Earth
& Space Science Division, JPL |
Robotic
surgical tools and exoskeleton technology; micro
devices for in situ chemistry and neuromuscular
stimulation; fiber optic delivery systems; computational
modeling. |
|
Benjamin
Wu |
Materials
Science & Engineering; Biomedical Engineering,
UCLA |
Tissue
engineering and neural repair. |
|
Richard
Zimmer |
Organismic
Biology, Ecology & Evolution |
Design
and fabrication of chemical sensors, signal processing
and identification of chemosensory information within
natural aquatic habitats. |
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