Affiliated Faculty

Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research interests: The development of techniques and environments to perform multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) of aerospace systems. The work in our group attempts to reach this goal using high-fidelity modelling such as field CFD methods for aerodynamics and FEM models for structural calculations.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

MC: 5731

650-724-8032

Professor of History

Area of specialization: comparative urban history of Mexican Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Euro-Americans; also, the study of how race, culture, class and ideology have shaped the Chicano experience.

650-723-4452

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Research interests: The interplay between brain development and stress vulnerability via a multi-method approach that includes psychophysiology, neuroimaging, neuroendocrinology and phenomenology. Treatment development that focuses on individual and community-based interventions for stress related conditions in children and adolescents that experience traumatic stress.

650-498-5164

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Area of specialization: nutrition and health status of Mexican American youth.

650-723-5070

Associate Professor of Art and Art History

Special interests: Printmaking, Painting and Collage

Cummings Art Building | MC: 2018

650-725-0132

Associate Professor of Law

Research interests: Federal and international criminal law; design and evaluation of public institutions; law and international security; administrative law; regulatory policy.

650-723-9216

Associate Professor of Surgery

SHS H3591 | MC: 5655

650-723-1613

Associate Professor of Anesthesia

Area of specialization: Analgesic drug trials, Outcomes in Pain Management, Visceral Pain

Professor of Liver Transplant Medicine/Gastroenterology

Research interests: diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of liver disease. Dr. Garcia has conducted collaborative studies with laboratory investigators interested in biologic correlates of liver disease. Specific research interests include chronic viral hepatitis and liver transplantation.

Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Area of specialization: distributed computing systems and database systems.

Gates Hall, Room 434

650-723-0685

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Area of specialization: toxic substances and children; issues concerned with the exposure of Mexican American/Latino children to hazardous substances in their ambient living environment.

650-723-2524

Associate Professor of Neurology

Research interests: Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring and postoperative neurological outcome, clinical neurophysiology and anesthetic effects on evoked potentials.

650-723-1975

Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)

Area of specialization: Regional, cohort-based active surveillance program for perinatal HIV infection in Northern California. The epidemiology of poliovirus infection among rural Mexican children and characterization of the humoral immune response to oral trivalent poliovirus vaccine (OPV). The ontogeny of the immune responses to measles virus in young infants.

650-723-5682

Associate Professor of Surgery (Multi-Organ Transplantation)

Research Interests: Cytokine regulation of alloreactivity, growth and survival of EBV lymphomas, cytokine signal transduction pathways.

Professor of Pediatrics

Research interests: Latino and Immigrant child and adolescent health--growth problems, chronic illness, environmental health risk factors; minority medical education.

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Area of specialization: Earthquake engineering.

650-723-4450

Associate Professor of English

Fields: 20th-century American fiction; Chicana/o cultural studies; feminist theory

650-723-0034

Professor of Education

Area of specialization: immigrant education; problems faced and the importance of adult education and learning English as a second language. The problems of the educational system as a whole and the effects of policies on the educational status of Latino immigrants. Intends to review the education of all immigrant groups in California.

650-723-9132

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Area of specialization: neonatology.

750 Welch Rd., #315 | MC: 5119

650-723-5711

Professor of English

Area of specialization: literary criticism and literary theory, the history of the novel, 19th and early 20th century literary studies, cultural studies, Chicano narrative and post-colonial literature and theory, Chicano modernity and post-modernity.

723-3235

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering / Department of Mechanical Engineering

Research interests: Prof. Santiago's group studies the micro-scale fluid mechanics of devices fabricated using micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and advanced meso-scale fabrication technologies.

Professor of Education & Spanish and Portuguese

Area of specialization: English-Spanish bilingualism

650-725-1469

Professor of Spanish

Area of specialization: Chicana/o cultural studies, focusing on the interplay of race, gender, sexuality and nation in Chicana/o/Latina/o representations with an interdisciplinary approach that covers both visual and verbal art, as well as everyday cultural practices.

650-723-4219