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Shlomo Benartzi is a behavioral economist interested in combining the insights of psychology and economics to solve big societal problems. His goal is to help people make better decisions on a very large scale. He is a...
University of California, Los AngelesUSMaterials Science and Engineering
The 2nd quantum revolution promises lossless electronics and fault-tolerant quantum computers—but key materials and devices are still missing. Shafayat's Q MIND Lab aims to bridge that gap and turn quantum potential...
University of California, Los AngelesUSKorean Studies
Torquil Duthie is a professor in the Asian Languages & Cultures Department at UCLA. He holds a Ph.D. in premodern Japanese literature from Columbia University, completed in 2005, with a dissertation focused on poetry...
University of California, Los AngelesUSNuclear Medicine & Theranostics
Begonya Comin-Anduix is a professor in the Pharmacology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focus is on cancer immunotherapy and the use of radioligands for theranostics. She is...
Professor | Carole Goldberg Endowed Chair of Native American Law; Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs; Director, Native Nations Law & Policy Center
University of California, Los AngelesUSAmerican Indian Studies
Angela Riley is a legal scholar specializing in indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance. She holds the Carole Goldberg Endowed Chair of Native American Law and...
Simon Board is a professor of economics at UCLA Anderson. He is a microeconomic theorist with interests in contract theory, industrial organization, and labor economics. His recent research includes the design of...
William Summerhill studies the economic and political history of Brazil. From 2016 to 2019 he was the Dr. E. Bradford Burns Term Chair in Latin American Studies. Author of Inglorious Revolution (Yale Press, 2015), and...
University of California, Los AngelesUSAnatomy and Cell Biology
Within the frameworks of evolutionary and developmental biology, my research focuses on maternal and grandmaternal transgenerational transmission of phenotypes, life-history patterns, and disease risk. I synthesize...
University of California, Los AngelesUSAmerican Indian Studies
Erin Debenport is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist and an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. Her research focuses on technologies of language circulation, secrecy and (in)visibility, indigeneity...
University of California, Los AngelesUSComputer Science
Quanquan Gu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. His research interests include machine learning, data mining, optimization algorithms, and computational...
My name is Teofilo F. Ruiz, but everybody calls me Teo. I was born in Cuba many (far too many) years ago. My family supported the Cuban revolution because the government that preceded Castro was a crude, violent, and...
University of California, Los AngelesUSAnatomy and Cell Biology
Robert Lemelson is a psychological anthropologist and adjunct professor at UCLA, with extensive experience working in Southeast Asia, particularly on the islands of Bali and Java in Indonesia. His research explores the...
Noa Pinter-Wollman is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA. Her research focuses on understanding how complex biological systems emerge from interactions among multiple agents...
Anand V. Bodapati is an Associate Professor of Marketing at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research is at the intersection of consumer psychology, decision making, statistics, marketing, and computer science....
University of California, Los AngelesUSPharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Antoni Ribas, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-scientist conducting laboratory and clinical research in malignant melanoma. His work focuses on gene engineered T-cells, PD-1 blockade therapy, and BRAF targeted therapies. His...
University of California, Los AngelesUSAsian American Studies
Kyeyoung Park is a Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is a sociocultural anthropologist whose lifelong scholarly interest centers on the question of inequality, social justice, social...
University of California, Los AngelesUSCellular and Integrative Physiology
Dr. Patricia Phelps received her BS and BA degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the Department of Anatomy at UCLA. She completed her postdoctoral training in the Neuroscience Division at the...
The Medina Lab studies the ecology and evolution of host–microbe interactions, with a focus on cnidarian systems, using approaches that span genomics, developmental and cell biology, and organismal physiology.
University of California, Los AngelesUSComparative Literature
Kathleen L. Komar is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, obtained in 1977. Her academic interests include...