Faculty and Staff
Director
PI and Associate Dean in the College of Natural and Social Sciences
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2008
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Her research is focused on variability and change in atmospheric water vapor, precipitation characteristics, snow accumulation, river discharges and their connections to major atmospheric circulation patterns and sea surface temperature anomalies. For more information please visit: /faculty/hengchun-ye
Publications are available from Research Gate site at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hengchun_Ye/publications
Acting Director
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2224
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Faculty
Professor in Curricula and Instruction
Phone/Ext: 323-343-5657
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Dr. Arvedson is in-charge of K-12 outreach and education training. For more information please visit: /faculty/paula-arvedson
Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Phone/Ext: 323-343-5218
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Dr. Eshraghi is one of the research faculty advisors in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Eshraghi's research interests are in the areas of Materials Science, Manufacturing, and Computational Modeling. His current research works include Computational Materials Engineering and Additive Manufacturing. For more information please visit: /faculty/mohsen-eshraghi-kakhki-0
Professor in Computer Science
Phone/Ext: 323-343-6674
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Dr. Guo is one of the research faculty advisors in Computer Science. His research specialty is in Cloud Computing, Big Data, Data Mining, Web-based System, Distributed Object Computing, and Software Architecture. For more information please visit: /faculty/prof-jiang-guo
Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering
Phone/Ext: 323-343-4453
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Dr. Khodayari is one of the research faculty advisors in Civil Engineering. Dr. Khodayari's research interests are in the areas of Climate Modeling and Climate Change Analysis, Climate Processes and Interactions, Integrated Assessment of Climate Change, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Air Quality Modeling, and Energy and Sustainability. For more information please visit: /faculty/arezoo-khodayari
Assistant Professor in Geosciences and Environment
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2224
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Dr. Li is one of the research faculty advisors in Remote Sensing and Hydrology. Her research is specialized in remote sensing, precipitation error analysis, image processing, hydrologic modeling, GISbased modeling of watershed-scale processes. For more information please visit: /faculty/jingjing-li
Professor in Mathmatics
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2161
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Dr. Liu is one of the research faculty advisors and one of the pre-trainee mentors. Her research specialty is in Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algebraic Topology. For more information please visit: /faculty/daphne-der-fen-liu
Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering
Phone/Ext: 323-343-4455
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Dr. Lopez is one of the research faculty advisors in Civic Engineering. Her research interest is in developing methods to ascertain the impacts climate variability has on long-term surface and subsurface water, water storage, ecosystems and water quality using novel modeling techniques and the integration of advanced observation data. Performing modeling studies with the inclusion of local sustainable technologies using both physically-based and conceptually-based hydrologic models. For more information please visit: /faculty/sonya-lopez
Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2102
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Dr. Nerenberg is one of the research advisors in Physics & Astronomy and Biological Sciences and one of the pre-trainee mentors. His research group uses molecular dynamics simulations to investigate questions related to the structure and thermodynamics of proteins, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules. For more information please visit: /academic/biol/ftfaculty.php
Assistant Professor in Computer Science
Phone/Ext: 323-343-6688
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Dr. Pourhomayoun is one of the research faculty advisors in Computer Science. His research interests include data science, predictive analytics/big data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning in image and video processing, artificial neural networks and deep learning, and risk prediction for healthcare and medical applications. For more information please visit: /faculty/mohammad-pourhomayoun
Assistant Professor
Phone/Ext: 323-343-5213
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Dr. Shen is one of the research faculty advisors in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of robotics and instrumentation, dynamics and control, modeling& and simulation, as well as image processing and computer vision. The applications are in soaring flight control of small unmanned aircraft, perception-control-manipulation on various robotic platforms (humanoid, multi-legged robots, and submarine robot), and high-efficiency wind energy systems. For more information please visit: /faculty/he-shen
Professor in Astronomy
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2132
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Dr. Terebey is one of the research faculty advisors in Applied Astronomy. Her research is in both observation and theory of star and planet formation, protostellar disks and winds, the interstellar medium, and Galactic structure. Extensive experience with computational physics, radio interferometers, infrared satellite data, near-infrared imaging and image reconstruction techniques. For more information please visit: /faculty/susan-terebey
Assistant Professor in Mathematics
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2150
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Dr. Zhong is one of the research faculty advisors in Mathematics. His research interests are in the areas of probability theory and stochastic processes, stochastic PDEs; control theory, machine learning, and mathematical finance. For more information please visit: /academic/math/faculty
Supportive Staff
Program Coordinator
Phone/Ext: 323-343-2220
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