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Home > Admissions > Undergraduate admissions > Junior transfers > Transfer-to-Excellence > TTE faculty

Transfer-to-Excellence faculty hosts

The list of 2023 faculty hosts is a work in progress. Faculty participation is subject to change until application decisions are released in April. 

2023 hosts and research areas

James Analytis

James Analytis
Physics

Research areas: Quantum criticality; Spintronics; Quantum magnetism; Unconventional superconductivity

Romy Chakraborty

Romy Chakraborty
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Research areas: Anaerobic microbial physiology; microbial ecology; plant-microbe interactions; recovery and bioremediation of oil and other contaminants through microbes

Kosa Goucher-Lambert

Kosa Goucher-Lambert
Mechanical engineering

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

Grace Gu

Grace Gu
Mechanical engineering

Research areas: Composites; additive manufacturing; fracture mechanics; topology optimization; machine learning; finite element analysis; bioinspired materials

Dan Klein

Dan Klein
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Artificial intelligence; natural language processing; computational linguistics; machine learning

The TTE Intern will work with a graduate student co-advised by Professor Klein and Professor Jack Gallant.

Mark W. Mueller

Mark W. Mueller
Mechanical engineering

Research areas: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; dynamics and control; motion planning and coordination; state estimation and localization.

Grace O’Connell

Grace O’Connell
Mechanical engineering

Research areas: Biomechanics of cartilage and intervertebral disc; tissue engineering; continuum modeling of soft tissues; intervertebral disc function, degeneration, and regeneration

 

Sayeef Salahuddin

Sayeef Salahuddin
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Spintronics; Negative capacitance; Voltage driven magnetism; Quantum transport modeling

Niloufar Salehi

Niloufar Salehi
School of Information; Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: social computing; participatory and critical design; human-centered AI; human-computer interaction.

Sanjit A. Seshia

Sanjit A. Seshia
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Cyber-physical systems and design automation; programming systems; artificial intelligence; control, intelligent systems, and robotics; security; theory; dependable computing; computational logic; formal methods.

 

Laura Waller

Laura Waller
Electrical engineering & computer sciences

Research areas: Physical electronics; signal processing; biosystems and computational biology; graphics; computational imaging; optics

 

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Past TTE Projects

You can view examples of past intern projects done with these faculty members (and others).

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