*HDSI Founding Faculty
Henry Abarbanel*
Professor
Physics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ian Abramson*
Professor
Mathematics
John Ahlquist*
Associate Professor
Global Policy & Strategy
Amy Alexander*
Associate Professor
Visual Arts
Ludmil Alexandrov*
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Ilkay Altintas*
Chief Data Science Officer
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Christine Alvarado*
Associate Teaching Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Rommie Amaro*
Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Ery Arias-Castro*
Professor
Mathematics
Terrence August*
Associate Professor
Rady School of Management
Vineet Bafna*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Natasha Balac*
Qualcomm Institute
Nuno Bandeira*
Computer Science & Engineering
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Randolph Bank*
Professor
Mathematics
Chaitan Baru*
Distinguished Scientist
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Brendan Beare*
Associate Professor
Economics
Eric Bennett*
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Leon Bergen*
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Eli Berman*
Chair
Economics
Dinesh Bharadia*
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cinnamon Bloss*
Associate Professor
Family Medicine & Public Health
Timothy Brady*
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Benjamin Bratton*
Professor
Visual Arts
James Brewer*
Professor and Chair
Neurosciences
Sheldon Brown*
Professor
Visual Arts
Floor Broekgaarden
Assistant Professor
Astronomy
Jennifer Burney*
Global Policy & Strategy
Craig Callender*
Professor
Philosophy
Richard Carson*
Professor
Economics
Gert Cauwenberghs*
Professor
Bioengineering
Bioengineering Neural Computation
Manmohan Chandraker*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Kamalika Chaudhuri*
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Eddy Keming Chen
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Li-Tien Cheng*
Professor
Mathematics
Alex Cloninger*
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Todd Coleman*
Professor
Bioengineering
Bruce Cornuelle*
Researcher
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jordan Crandall*
Professor
Visual Arts
Jade D’Alpoim Guedes*
Assistant Professor
Anthropology
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Anders Dale*
Professor
Neurosciences
Sanjoy Dasgupta*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Virginia de Sa*
Associate Professor
Cognitive Science
Tom Defanti*
Research Scientist
Qualcomm Institute
Scott Desposato*
Professor
Political Science
Massimiliano Di Ventra*
Professor
Physics
Fernando Domínguez Rubio*
Assistant Professor
Communication
Steven Dow*
Assistant Professor
Cognitive Science
Shlomo Dubnov*
Professor
Music
Peter Ebenfelt*
Professor
Mathematics
Graham Elliott*
Professor
Economics
Jeff Elman*
Professor
Social Sciences
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh*
Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Lisa Eyler*
Professor
Psychiatry
Christine Fennema-Notestine*
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
Radiology
Victor Ferreira*
Professor
Psychiatry
James Fowler*
Professor
Medicine
Political Science
Yoav Freund*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
George Fuller*
Distinguished Professor
Physics
Sicun Gao*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Teevrat Garg*
Global Policy & Strategy
Kelly Gates*
Associate Professor
Communication & Science Studies
Peter Gerstoft*
Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Philip Gill*
Professor
Mathematics
Michael Goldbaum*
Professor
Ophthalmology
Ran Goldblatt*
Remote Sensing Scientist
Global Policy & Strategy
Joshua Graff Zivin*
Professor
Global Policy & Strategy
Economics
John Graham*
Senior Development Engineer
Qualcomm Institute
Olivia Graeve
Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanoengineering
Ron Graham*
Distinguished Research Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Barry Grant*
Assistant Teaching Professor
Biological Sciences
William Griswold*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Design Lab
Philip Guo*
Assistant Professor
Cognitive Science
Amarnath Gupta*
Research Scientist
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Rajesh Gupta*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Melissa Gymrek*
Assistant Professor
Medicine
Computer Science & Engineering
James Hamilton*
Professor
Economics
Gordon Hanson*
Professor
Economics
John Hildebrand*
Distinguished Professor
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Seth Hill*
Associate Professor
Political Science
Jim Hollan*
Distinguished Professor
Cognitive Science
Computer Science & Engineering
Design Lab
Michael Holst*
Professor
Mathematics
Physics
Jan Hughes-Austin*
Assistant Professor in Residence
Orthopedic Surgery
Trey Ideker*
Professor
Health Sciences
Engineering
Lilly Irani*
Assistant Professor
Communication & Science Studies
Tara Javidi*
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Terry Jernigan*
Professor
Cognitive Science
Psychiatry
Andrew Kahng*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Daniel Kane*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Mathematics
Uma Karmarkar*
Assistant Professor
Global Policy & Strategy
Rady School of Management
Ryan Kastner*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Dusan Keres*
Associate Professor
Physics
Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences
Young-Han Kim*
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Scott Klemmer*
Professor
Cognitive Science
Computer Science & Engineering
Rob Knight*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Takaki Komiyama*
Associate Professor
Neurobiology & Neurosciences
Vish Krishnan*
Professor
Rady School of Management
Sergey Kryazhimskiy*
Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Arun Kumar*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Grace Kuo*
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
Family Medicine & Public Health
Melvin Leok*
Professor
Mathematics
Kevin Lewis*
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Bo Li*
Professor
Mathematics
Thomas Liu*
Professor
Center for fMRI, Radiology
Psychiatry
Bioengineering
Shachar Lovett*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Jian Luo*
Professor
NanoEngineering
Materials Science & Engineering
Scott Makeig*
Research Scientist
Neural Composition
Prashant Mali*
Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Sonia Martinez*
Professor
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Julian McCauley*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
J. Andrew Mccammon*
Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Pharmacology
Gordon Mccord*
Assistant Professor
Global Policy & Strategy
Jill Mesirov*
Professor
Medicine
Karen Messer*
Professor
Family Medicine & Public Health
Improving Quality of Life
Siavash Mirarab*
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Paul Mischel*
Professor
Pathology
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
David Moore*
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
Eran Mukamel*
Cognitive Science
Ndapa Nakashole*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Dana Kay Nelkin*
Professor
Philosophy
Mai Nguyen*
Senior Data Scientist
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Jiawang Nie*
Professor
Mathematics
Vincent Nijs*
Associate Professor
Rady School of Management
Michael Norman*
Director
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Alexander Norbash*
Professor
Radiology
Don Norman*
Professor
Design Lab
Lucila Ohno-Machado*
Professor
Medicine
Shyue Ping Ong*
Associate Professor
NanoEngineering
Alex Orailoglu*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Alon Orlitsky*
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Francesco Paesani*
Professor
Chemistry
Biochemistry
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Piya Pal*
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Yannis Papakonstantinou*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Juan Pablo Pardo Guerra*
Assistant Professor
Sociology
Rahul Parhi
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tod Pascal*
Assistant Professor
NanoEngineering
Pavel Pevzner*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Dimitris Politis*
Professor
Mathematics
Leo Porter*
Assistant Teaching Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Kim Prather*
Distinguished Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Bhaskar Rao*
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Ramesh Rao*
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Pamela Reinagel
Associate Professor
Neurobiology
Bing Ren*
Professor
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Samuel C. Rickless*
Professor
Philosophy
Molly Roberts*
Assistant Professor
Political Science
Akos Rona-Tas*
Professor
Sociology
Tajana Rosing*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Rayan Saab*
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Debashish Sahoo*
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics
Computer Science & Engineering
Lawrence Saul*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Armin Schwartzman*
Associate Professor
Biostatistics
Terrence Sejnowski*
Professor
Neurobiology
Nambi Seshadri*
Professor of Practice
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Paul Siegel*
Distinguished Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Alan Simmons*
Psychiatry
Veteran Affairs
Beth Simon*
Associate Teaching Professor
Education Studies
Larry Smarr*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Nick Spitzer*
Distinguished Professor
Neurobiology
Brett Stalbaum*
Associate Teaching Professor
Visual Arts
Deian Stefan*
Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
George Sugihara*
Professor
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Shankar Subramaniam*
Professor
Bioengineering
Yixiao Sun*
Professor
Economics
Wesley Thompson*
Associate Professor
Biostatistics
Family Medicine & Public Health
Zhuowen Tu*
Associate Professor
Cognitive Science
Xin Tu*
Professor
Biostatistics
Family Medicine & Public Health
Alexander Vardy*
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Manuel Vargas*
Professor
Philosophy
Nuno Vasconcelos*
Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Frank Vernon*
Researcher
Geophysics
Planetary Physics
Victor Vianu*
Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Kamala Visweswaran*
Professor
Ethnic Studies
Bradley Voytek*
Assistant Professor
Cognitive Science
Neurosciences
Ed Vul*
Associate Professor
Psychology
Data Science in Society
Edward Wang
Assistant Professor
ECE & Design Lab
Wei Wang*
Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Molecular Medicine
Sam Ward*
Professor
Radiology
Robert Weinreb*
Distinguished Professor
Ophthalmology Residency
David Wiens*
Associate Professor
Political Science
Ken Wilbur*
Associate Professor
Rady School of Management
Ruth Williams*
Distinguished Professor
Mathematics
Eric Wong*
Professor
Radiology & Psychiatry
Frank Wuerthwein*
Professor Physics
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Pengtao Xie
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ronghui (Lily) Xu*
Professor
Mathematics
Family Medicine & Public Health
Yiqing Xu*
Assistant Professor
Global Policy & Strategy
Avi Yagil*
Professor
Physics
Kesong Yang*
Assistant Professor
NanoEngineering
Angela Yu*
Associate Professor
Cognitive Science
Pinar Yoldas*
Assistant Professor
Visual Arts
Linda Zangwill*
Professor
Ophthalmology
Danna Zhang*
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Xinyu Zhang*
Assistant Professor
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Kun Zhang*
Professor
Bioengineering
Sheng Zhong*
Professor
Bioengineering
Wenxin Zhou*
Assistant Professor
Mathematics