Faculty

Eric Baković

Professor and Department Chair of Linguistics
ebakovic@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-1159

Phonological Theory and Computational Phonology

Leon Bergen

Assistant Professor of Linguistics
lbergen@ucsd.edu
(858) 246-2757

Pragmatics, Computational Modeling and Experimental Methods

Timothy Brady

Associate Professor of Psychology
timbrady@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-453

Computational Cognitive Science, Bayesian Models of Cognition, Computational Models of Human Memory, Human Visual Perception and Memory

Richard Carson

Distinguished Professor of Economics
rcarson@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-2262

Environmental Valuation, Climate Change, Environment and Development, Fisheries

Virginia de Sa

Professor of Cognitive Science
desa@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-5095

Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Brain-Computer Interfaces

Scott Desposato

Professor of Political Science
swd@ucsd.edu
(858) 246-5455

Comparative Politics (Latin America), Democratic Institutions, Research, Ethics, and Methodology

Steven Dow

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
spdow@ucsd.edu

Human-Computer Interaction, Social Computing, Design

Graham Elliott

Professor and Department Chair of Economics
grelliott@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4481

Econometrics

Judith Fan

Assistant Professor of Psychology
jefan@ucsd.edu

Visual Communication, Learning, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience

Victor Ferreira

Professor of Psychology
vferreira@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-6303

Psycholinguistics and Language Production, Computational Modelling

James Fowler

Professor of Political Science
fowler@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-6807

Social Networks, Evolution, Politics, Genetics, Big Data

Patrick Keolu Fox

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
pkfox@ucsd.edu

Genome Sequencing, Genome Engineering, Computational Biology, Evolutionary Genetics, Paleogenetics, Indigenizing Biomedical Research

Erik Gartzke

Professor of Political Science
egartzke@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-8211

International Security, Security Studies, Peace & Conflict Studies, International Relations Theory, International Politics, Diplomacy, Geopolitics, Economic Development

Kelly Gates

Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies
Kagates@ucsd.edu

Critical Analysis of Digital Media Technologies, Politics and Social Implications of Computerization and the Automation of Surveillance in the United States from the mid-Twentieth Century to Present

Stuart Geiger

Assistant Professor of Communication and Halicioglu Data Science Institute
sgeiger@ucsd.edu

Social, Cultural, and Political Aspects of Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI; Governance and Moderation of Online Platforms; Text Analysis & NLP; Mixed Methods; Community-Centered Design; Digital Ethnography; Auditing of Machine Learning Models

Timothy Gentner

Professor of Psychology
tgentner@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-6763

Behavioral Neurobiology, Auditory Perception and Cognition, Animal Communication

Jade d’Alpoim Guedes

Associate Professor of Anthropology
jguedes@ucsd.edu

Archaeology, Climate Change, Agriculture, Modeling, Climate Projection

Philip Guo

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
pjguo@ucsd.edu

Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Online Learning, Computing Education, Programmer Productivity

Seth Hill

Professor of Political Science
sjhill@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3341

American Politics, Campaigns and Elections, Political Methodology, Bayesian Statistics and Computation; Decision Theory

Jim Hollan

Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science
hollan@ucsd.edu

Cognitive Ethnography, Distributed and Embodied Cognition, Human-Computer Interaction, Multimodal Interaction

Lilly Irani

Associate Professor of Communication
lirani@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3572

Labor, Surveillance, Ethics, Democratic Shaping of Technology

Terry L. Jernigan

Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
tjernigan@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-1548

Human Brain and Behavioral Development, Developmental Population Neuroscience

Andrew Kehler

Professor of Linguistics
kehler@ling.ucsd.edu
(858) 534-6239

Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Discourse Interpretation

Kevin Lewis

Associate Professor of Sociology
lewis@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-5423

Culture, Social Networks, Social Psychology, Inequality, Family

Xinwei Ma

Assistant Professor of Economics
x1ma@ucsd.edu

Non/Semiparametric econometrics, Causal Inference, Program Evaluation

Isaac William Martin

Professor, Chair of Urban Studies & Planning
iwmartin@ucsd.edu

Housing Policy, Municipal Taxation, Political Economy of Inequality

Marcelo Mattar

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science
mmattar@ucsd.edu

Reinforcement Learning, Planning, Memory, Network Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Probabilistic Inference

Eran Mukamel

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
emukamel@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-3713

Neuroscience, Genomics, Bioinformatics

Douglas Nitz

Professor and Chair of Cognitive Science
nitz@cogsci.ucsd.edu
(858) 534-1132

Neural Basis of Spatial Cognition and Episodic Memory, Hippocampus, Parietal Cortex, Premotor Cortex

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

Associate Professor of Sociology
jpardoguerra@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-5641

Economic Sociology, Sociology of Markets, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Sociology, Financial Markets, Art Markets, Public Valuations, Innovation

Margaret (Molly) Roberts

Associate Professor of Political Science
meroberts@ucsd.edu

Political Science, Statistics, Comparative Politics, Political Methodology

Akos Rona-Tas

Professor of Sociology
aronatas@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4699

Predictions, Time, Uncertainty

John Serences

Professor of Psychology
jserences@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3686

Attention and Perceptual Decision Making

Beth Simon

Associate Teaching Professor of Education Studies
bsimon@ucsd.edu
(858) 246-2592

Computing Education, Active Learning, Online Education, Technology-Enhanced Education, Peer Instruction

Kaare Strom

Distinguished Professor of Political Science
kstrom@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-0793

Comparative Politics, National Legislatures, Legislator Careers, Coalition Bargaining

Will Styler

Assistant Teaching Professor of Linguistics
wstyler@ucsd.edu
Computational Linguistics, Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Perception

Yixiao Sun

Professor of Economics
yisun@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4692

Time Series Econometrics, Nonparametric Econometrics, Causal Inference and Machine Learning

Alexis Akira Toda

Associate Professor of Economics
atoda@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3383

Computational Economics, Discretization, Interpolation

Bradley Voytek

Professor of Cognitive Science
bvoytek@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-0002

Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Data Science

Ed Vul

Associate Professor of Psychology
evul@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-4401

Probabilistic Inference Under Cognitive Limitations

Drew E. Walker

Assistant Teaching Professor of Cognitive Science
dehoffma@ucsd.edu

Social Cognition; Teaching and Learning

David Wiens

Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Fellow for the Center on Global Justice
dwiens@ucsd.edu

Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Social Science, Formal Political Theory

John Wixted

Distinguished Professor of Psychology
jwixted@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3956

Human Memory, Animal Cognition, Psychopathology

Kaspar Wuthrich

Assistant Professor of Economics
kwuthrich@ucsd.edu
(858) 534-3383

Quantile Methods, Synthetic and Sounterfactual Controls, High-Dimensional Prediction and Inference, Inference in Experiments, Detecting P-Hacking

Haijun Xia

Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science
haijunxia@ucsd.edu

Human-Computer Interaction, Creativity Support Tools, Augmented/Mixed/Virtual Reality, Multimodal Interaction, Information/Data Visualization

Angela Yu

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
ajyu@ucsd.edu
(858) 822-3317

Decision Making, Learning, Social Perception, Social Cognition, Face Processing, Attention, Bayesian Modeling, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning/AI, Control Theory

Ying Zhu

Assistant Professor of Economics
yiz012@ucsd.edu

High-Dimensional Estimation and Inference, Nonasymptotic Statistics, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods, Panel/Longitudinal Data Analysis (with Both i.i.d. and Temporal Features), Integration of Economic Models and Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Bayesian Methods