The University of California,San Diego is a public land-grant research university in San Diego,California,United States. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography,UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California,and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs,enrolling 33,096 undergraduate and 9,872 graduate students. The university occupies 2,178 acres (881 ha) near the coast of the Pacific Ocean,with the main campus resting on approximately 1,152 acres (466 ha).
Richard Chatham Atkinson is an American professor of psychology and cognitive science and an academic administrator. He is president emeritus of the University of California system,former chancellor of the University of California,San Diego,and former director of the National Science Foundation.
Jacob Ziv was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel.
UC San Diego Health is the academic health system of the University of California,San Diego in San Diego,California. It is the only academic health system serving San Diego and has one of three adult Level I trauma centers in the region. In operation since 1966,it comprises three major hospitals:UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest,Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla,and UC San Diego Health East Campus Medical Center in East County. The La Jolla campus also includes the Moores Cancer Center,Shiley Eye Institute,Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center,and Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion,and the health system also includes several outpatient sites located throughout San Diego County. UC San Diego Health works closely with the university's School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy to provide training to medical and pharmacy students and advanced clinical care to patients.
Irwin Mark Jacobs is an American electrical engineer and businessman. He is a co-founder and former chairman of Qualcomm,and chair of the board of trustees of the Salk Institute. As of 2019,Jacobs has an estimated net worth of $1.2 billion.
The University of California,San Diego School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of California,San Diego,a public land-grant research university in La Jolla,California. It was the third medical school in the University of California system,after those established at UCSF and UCLA,and is the only medical school in the San Diego metropolitan area. It is closely affiliated with the medical centers that are part of UC San Diego Health.
Henrik Iskov Christensen is a Danish roboticist and Professor of Computer Science at Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. He is also the Director of the Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego.
Pradeep Kumar Khosla is an Indian-American computer scientist and university administrator. He is the current chancellor of the University of California,San Diego since August 1,2012.
The Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering is an undergraduate and graduate-level engineering school offering BS,BA,MEng,MS,MAS and PhD degrees at the University of California,San Diego in San Diego,California. The Jacobs School of Engineering is the youngest engineering school of the nation's top ten,the largest by enrollment in the University of California system,as well as the largest engineering school on the West Coast and the ninth-largest in the country. More than thirty faculty have been named members of the National Academies. The current dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering is Albert P. Pisano.
Lise Getoor is a professor in the computer science department,at the University of California,Santa Cruz,and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland,College Park. Her primary research interests are in machine learning and reasoning with uncertainty,applied to graphs and structured data. She also works in data integration,social network analysis and visual analytics. She has edited a book on Statistical relational learning that is a main reference in this domain. She has published many highly cited papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. She has also served as action editor for the Machine Learning Journal,JAIR associate editor,and TKDD associate editor.
Ramesh R. Rao is currently the director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology,a division of the University of California,San Diego. He was appointed as the first holder of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies in 2004 in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Jacobs School of Engineering at University of California,San Diego where he has been a faculty member since 1984.
Cynthia Bailey Lee is a lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University from Palo Alto,California. Her research interests are in computer science pedagogy and the flipped classroom approach. She has advocated for the greater inclusion of women and minorities in computer science,and is known for her "ladysplaining" article addressing the author of the controversial Google memo.
Albert P. Pisano is an American academic. He serves as dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California San Diego,a position he has held since September 2013. Pisano publishes a monthly Dean's column that introduces the monthly news email from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. The January 2022 dean's column,"Math matters to all of us" triggered significant conversation on Pisano's LinkedIn feed.
JoAnn Trejo is an American pharmacologist,cell biologist,a professor,and also an assistant vice chancellor in the department of health sciences faculty affairs in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine at University of California,San Diego. She is also the assistant vice chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Trejo studies cell signalling by protease-activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). She is also actively involved in mentoring,education and outreach activities to increase the diversity of science.
Pamela Cosman is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California,San Diego. She has conducted a pioneering research on the quality of compressed images for application in medical diagnostic imaging. At UCSD,Cosman currently researches ways to improve wireless video transmission.
Ilkay Altintas is a Turkish-American data and computer scientist,and researcher in the domain of supercomputing and high-performance computing applications. Since 2015,Altintas has served as chief data science officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC),at the University of California,San Diego (UCSD),where she has also served as founder and director of the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence (WorDS) since 2014,as well as founder and director of the WIFIRE lab. Altintas is also the co-initiator of the Kepler scientific workflow system,an open-source platform that endows research scientists with the ability to readily collaborate,share,and design scientific workflows.
Olivia Graeve is a mechanical and aerospace engineer and Professor at University of California San Diego. She is also the Director of the CaliBaja Center for Resilient Materials and Systems at UC San Diego —a binational research institute on both sides of the California-Mexico border.
Shlomo Dubnov is an American-Israeli computer music researcher and composer. He is a professor in the Music Department and Affiliate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering and a founding faculty of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute in the University of California,San Diego,where he has been since 2003. He is the Director of the Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning (CREL) at UC San Diego's Qualcomm Institute.
Duygu Kuzum is a Turkish-American electrical engineer who is a professor at the University of California,San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering. She develops transparent neural sensors based on single-layer materials. She was awarded a National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award in 2020.
