- Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox was named the seventh Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry of the University of California, San Diego in April 2004 by the University of California Board of Regents. Previously, Fox was chancellor and distinguished university professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, a post she held since 1998.
- Larry Smarr
Larry Smarr is the founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology and Harry E. Gruber professor in the Jacobs School's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. Smarr is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project and is Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype.
- Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. His book "The Language of New Media" has received over 50 reviews in the USA and was translated into Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Chinese.
- Roger Reynolds
American composer and teacher at the University of California at San Diego Roger Reynolds was born July 18, 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. He received an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Michigan and was a founding member ONCE Group with Robert Ashley. His works most often include text and electronic elements, he is especially a pioneer in multichannel spatial explorations.
- Roger Revelle
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. The six-foot-four Revelle was often referred to as a "scientific giant," both literally and figuratively. UC San Diego's first college was named Roger Revelle College in his honor.
- Chalmers Johnson
Chalmers Ashby Johnson is an author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He is also president and co-founder of the Japan Policy Research Institute, an organization promoting public education about Japan and Asia. He has written numerous books including, most recently, three examinations of the consequences of American Empire, " Blowback", "The Sorrows of Empire", and "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic".
- Miller Puckette
Miller Puckette received his B.S. in mathematics from MIT in 1980. As an undergraduate he was the top scorer in the 1979-1980 William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition. He was awarded Putnam and NSF fellowships for graduate study at Harvard, where he finished his Ph.D. in 1986. From 1979 through 1986 Puckette also studied computer music at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in real-time techniques for live music performance.
- Steven Schick
Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past twenty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher. He studied at the University of Iowa and received the Soloists Diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule fr Musik in Freiburg, Germany.
- Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson is arguably the country's most respected scholar writing about newspapers and their relationship to society, politics and culture. He is the author of five books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media including the seminal " Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers a; " The Power of News "; " The Sociology of News "; " Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion "; and " Rethinking Popular Culture ."
- Clive Granger
Sir Clive William John Granger (born September 4, 1934) is a Welsh-born economist, and Professor Emeritus at the University of California at San Diego, USA. Along with Robert Engle of New York University he shared the 2003 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
- James H. Fowler
James H. Fowler (born 1970) is an American political scientist who specializes in social networks, cooperation, and political participation. He earned a Bachelors degree from Harvard College in 1992, a Masters degree in International Relations from Yale University in 1997, and a PhD in Political Science from Harvard University in 2003. He was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador from 1992 to 1994.
- J. Andrew McCammon
James Andrew McCammon is an American physical chemist known for his application of principles and methods from theoretical and computational chemistry to biological systems. A professor at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), McCammon's research focuses on the theoretical aspects of biomolecular and cellular activity. Dr. McCammon co-authored the "Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids" (Cambridge University Press, 1987), …
- Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes came to UCSD in 1992 after a 22-year career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. He subsequently became Chairman of the Department of Physics and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He became Chancellor in July 1996. Dynes is also active in the national scientific arena and in San Diego civic organizations. source
- Patricia Churchland
Patricia Smith Churchland (born July 16, 1943, was born in Oliver, British Columbia, Canada, which is in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley) is a Canadian-American philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego since 1984. She is currently chair of the UCSD Philosophy Department, an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and an associate of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory (Sejnowski Lab) at the Salk Institute.
- Donald Norman
Donald A. Norman is a professor emeritus of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego and a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, but nowadays works mostly with cognitive science in the domain of usability engineering. He also teaches at Stanford University and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. He currently splits his time between consulting and his teaching and research at Northwestern and Stanford.
- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. "Rama" Ramachandran (born 1951) is a neurologist best known for his work in the fields of behavioral neurology and psychophysics. He received a degree in medicine from Stanley Medical College in Madras, India, and later, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He is currently a professor of psychology and neuroscience at University of California, San Diego, the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, and scientific advisor to the Beckley Foundation.
- George Lewis
George Lewis (born 1952 in Chicago) is a jazz trombone player and composer. In addition to his own recordings, he has recorded or performed with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Conny Bauer and others. He is a contemporary and colleague of trombonist Ray Anderson. He also has a feature segment on Laurie Anderson's album "Big Science". Lewis has long been active in creating and performing with interactive computer systems, most notably his software called Voyager, …
- Fan Chung
Fan Rong K Chung Graham (born October 9, 1949 in Kaohsiung), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and complex networks (see graph theory for the general article). She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, under the direction of Herbert Wilf. She is currently the Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics at the University of California, …
- Robert F. Engle
Robert F. Engle (born November 10, 1942 in Syracuse, New York) received the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics, sharing the award with Clive Granger, "for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)". He graduated from Williams College with a BS in physics. He got his M.S. in physics and his Ph.D. in Economics, both from Cornell University in 1966 and 1969 respectively, and was a MIT Professor of Economics from 1969 to 1977.
- George Varghese
George Varghese is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego where he leads the Internet Algorithms Lab and also works with the Center for Network Systems and the Center for Intenet Epidemiology. He is the author of the textbook "Network Algorithmics" published by Morgan-Kaufman in 2004.
- Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates (July 26, 1947 - December 13, 2003) was professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Bates was a founding member of the UCSD department of Cognitive Science, the first such department in the United States. She was also the director of the UCSD Center of Research in Language and the co-director of the SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communication Disorders.
- Diana Deutsch
Diana Deutsch is a perceptual and cognitive psychologist, born in London, England. She is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and is one of the most prominent researchers on the psychology of music. She is probably most famous for the musical and auditory illusions that she has investigated, which include the octave illusion, the scale illusion, the glissando illusion, the tritone paradox, and the cambiata illusion, among others.
- Arend Lijphart
Arend d'Engremont Lijphart (b. 17 August 1936, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands) is a world renowned political scientist specializing in comparative politics, elections and voting systems, democratic institutions, and ethnicity and politics. He is currently Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Dutch by birth, he has spent most of his working life in the United States and is an American citizen.
- Barry Naughton
Barry Naughton is the So Kwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He specializes in the Chinese economy and is a recognized expert in the field. His 1995 book "Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978–1993" won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.
- Charles Zuker
Charles Zuker is an American biologist of Chilean descent who has shown that human and animal tongues have special receptors that respond to umami, the fifth taste. Zuker is a researcher at the University of California, San Diego.
- Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January, 1943 in Coventry) is an English composer.
- Allan Kaprow
Allan Kaprow studied at New York University (art at the undergraduate level, philosophy at the graduate) and received his MA from Columbia in art history. He also studied at the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts in New York City and later with John Cage . His teaching career has included faculty positions at Rutgers, Pratt Institute, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the California Institute of the Arts (Associate Dean).
- Paul Churchland
Paul Churchland (born 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a philosopher working at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, under the direction of Wilfrid Sellars. He is the husband of philosopher Patricia Churchland and particularly noted for his work in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. He is a major proponent of eliminative materialism, which claims that everyday mental concepts such as beliefs, …
- Henrik Wann Jensen
Henrik Wann Jensen (b. 1969) is a Danish computer graphics researcher. He is best known for developing the photon mapping technique as the subject of his PhD thesis, but has also done important research in simulating subsurface scattering and the sky.
- Ronald Graham
Ronald Lewis Graham (born October 31, 1935) is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society with being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years"[1]. He has done important work in scheduling theory, computational geometry, Ramsey theory, and quasi-randomness.
- Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein is Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California, San Diego and Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He receives grant funding from the NIH, the Johns Hopkins ALS Center, the HighQ Foundation, and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Goldstein received his B.A. degree in biology and genetics from UCSD in 1976 and his Ph.D. degree in genetics from the University of Washington, …
- Carol Padden
Carol Padden (born 1955 in Washington, D.C.) is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, where she has been teaching since 1983.
- Peter Gourevitch
Peter Gourevitch is a Harvard University trained political scientist with expertise in international relations and comparative politics. In 2005-06, he was a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation where he worked on a book comparing managerial oversight with institutional investors from four countries. Concurrently, he was a fellow at The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- Bertram Turetzky
Bertram Turetzky is a contemporary double bass soloist, teacher and author of "The Contemporary Contrabass", a book that looks at a number of new and interesting ways of playing the double bass. He plays jazz, classical, and contemporary music. Turetzky has also been instrumental in commissioning a large number of modern works for the double bass and is the most recorded contrabass soloist in America.
- William Bechtel
William Bechtel is a professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and the Science Studies Program at the University of California, San Diego. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis from 1994 until 2002. Bechtel was also the chair of the Philosophy Department from 1999 until 2002 and was heavily involved with the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience program, serving at different times as Assistant Director and Director.
- Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter (born 1963) is an American professor of law and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has been teaching since 1995. Before this he taught for two years in the law school at the University of San Diego, and was also a visiting professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Princeton University and both his J.D. and Ph.D. (in philosophy) from the University of Michigan.
- Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier (pronounced) (born August 19, 1944) is a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, currently working in the US. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Cognitive Science. His work with Mark Turner founded the theory of conceptual blending.
- Joseph Goguen
Joseph Amadee Goguen was a computer science professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, USA, who helped develop the OBJ family of programming languages. He was author of "A Categorical Manifesto" and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consciousness Studies. Standard implication in product fuzzy logic is often called "Goguen implication".
- Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout (born 13 April 1947) is an American poet generally associated with the Language Poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published nine books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics. Armantrout was a member of the original West Coast Language group.
- Edwin Hutchins
Prof. Edwin Hutchins earned his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California in 1978. He joined the Department of Cognitive Science at UCSD in 1988. His research focuses on the nature of cognitive activity in real-world settings. This is well illustrated in his groundbreaking book, "Cognition In the Wild" (1995, MIT Press). In 1985 Prof. Hutchins was awarded a John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.