Affiliated Faculty
Juan Jose Alonso
Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Research interests: The development of techniques and environments to perform multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) of aerospace systems. The work in our group attempts to reach this goal using high-fidelity modelling such as field CFD methods for aerodynamics and FEM models for structural calculations.
Durand 365 | MC: 4035
Tony Burgos
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
MC: 5731
650-724-8032
Albert Camarillo
Professor of History
Area of specialization: comparative urban history of Mexican Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Euro-Americans; also, the study of how race, culture, class and ideology have shaped the Chicano experience.
Other research interests: social history of Chicanos in California cities; biographies of Latina civil rights and labor activists Luisa Moreno and Josefina Fierro; race and ethnicity in the American experience; poverty and homelessness.
Teaching/service prizes: Dinkelspiel Award (1988), Gores Award (1994), Bing Award (1997).
Bldg. 200-319 | MC: 2024
650-723-4452
Victor G. Carrion
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Research interests: The interplay between brain development and stress vulnerability via a multi-method approach that includes psychophysiology, neuroimaging, neuroendocrinology and phenomenology. Treatment development that focuses on individual and community-based interventions for stress related conditions in children and adolescents that experience traumatic stress.
MC: 5719
650-498-5164
Ricardo Castillo
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Area of specialization: nutrition and health status of Mexican American youth.
SUH G307 | MC: 5208
650-723-5070
Enrique Chagoya
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Special interests: Printmaking, Painting and Collage
Cummings Art Building | MC: 2018
650-725-0132
Mariano-Florentino Cuellar
Associate Professor of Law
Research interests: Federal and international criminal law; design and evaluation of public institutions; law and international security; administrative law; regulatory policy.
Law School | MC: 8610
650-723-9216
Myriam J. Curet
Associate Professor of Surgery
SHS H3591 | MC: 5655
650-723-1613
Raymond R. Gaeta
Associate Professor of Anesthesia
Area of specialization: Analgesic drug trials, Outcomes in Pain Management, Visceral Pain
650-725-5852
Gabriel Garcia
Professor of Liver Transplant Medicine/Gastroenterology
Research interests: diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of liver disease. Dr. Garcia has conducted collaborative studies with laboratory investigators interested in biologic correlates of liver disease. Specific research interests include chronic viral hepatitis and liver transplantation.
750 Welch Rd, #210 | MC: 5404
Hector Garcia-Molina
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Area of specialization: distributed computing systems and database systems.
Gates Hall, Room 434
650-723-0685
James O. Lecky
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of specialization: toxic substances and children; issues concerned with the exposure of Mexican American/Latino children to hazardous substances in their ambient living environment.
Other research interests: exposure and risk analysis; low temperature aqueous geochemistry of trace metals; surface chemistry of mineral surfaces.
Terman M25 | MC: 4020
650-723-2524
Jaime Lopez
Associate Professor of Neurology
Research interests: Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring and postoperative neurological outcome, clinical neurophysiology and anesthetic effects on evoked potentials.
300 Pasteur Dr, A343 | MC: 5235
650-723-1975
Yvonne A. Maldonado
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Area of specialization: Regional, cohort-based active surveillance program for perinatal HIV infection in Northern California. The epidemiology of poliovirus infection among rural Mexican children and characterization of the humoral immune response to oral trivalent poliovirus vaccine (OPV). The ontogeny of the immune responses to measles virus in young infants.
SUMC G312B ID | MC: 5208
650-723-5682
Olivia M. Martinez
Associate Professor of Surgery (Multi-Organ Transplantation)
Research Interests: Cytokine regulation of alloreactivity, growth and survival of EBV lymphomas, cytokine signal transduction pathways.
MSLS P312, | MC: 5492
Fernando Mendoza
Professor of Pediatrics
Research interests: Latino and Immigrant child and adolescent health--growth problems, chronic illness, environmental health risk factors; minority medical education.
750 Welch Rd, No. 325 | MC: 5731
Eduardo Miranda
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Area of specialization: Earthquake engineering.
Research interests: Engineering/construction integration, which involves research on modeling, design, construction and simulation of facility engineering products and processes.
Terman Rm 293 | MC: 4020
650-723-4450
Paula Moya
Associate Professor of English
Fields: 20th-century American fiction; Chicana/o cultural studies; feminist theory
Special Interests : Writings by women of color; U.S. Latina/o literature
Bldg. 460-309 | MC: 2087
650-723-0034
Amado Padilla
Professor of Education
Area of specialization: immigrant education; problems faced and the importance of adult education and learning English as a second language. The problems of the educational system as a whole and the effects of policies on the educational status of Latino immigrants. Intends to review the education of all immigrant groups in California.
CERAS 203 | MC: 3084
650-723-9132
William D. Rhine
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Area of specialization: neonatology.
Other research interests: neonatal brain injury; ECMO (heart-lung bypass) support for children; nitric oxide; development of low-tech medical applications for developing countries as related to neonatal care.
750 Welch Rd., #315 | MC: 5119
650-723-5711
Ramon Saldivar
Professor of English
Area of specialization: literary criticism and literary theory, the history of the novel, 19th and early 20th century literary studies, cultural studies, Chicano narrative and post-colonial literature and theory, Chicano modernity and post-modernity.
Other research interests: authority of meaning in novel, the history of the development of Chicano narrative forms.
Bldg. 1, | MC: 2070
723-3235
Juan G. Santiago
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering / Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Prof. Santiago's group studies the micro-scale fluid mechanics of devices fabricated using micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology and advanced meso-scale fabrication technologies.
650-723-5689
Guadalupe Valdes
Professor of Education & Spanish and Portuguese
Area of specialization: English-Spanish bilingualism
Other research interests: language use in Chicano communities, Spanish language maintenance, education of Mexican-origin students.
Education, 325
650-725-1469
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Professor of Spanish
Area of specialization: Chicana/o cultural studies, focusing on the interplay of race, gender, sexuality and nation in Chicana/o/Latina/o representations with an interdisciplinary approach that covers both visual and verbal art, as well as everyday cultural practices.
Bldg. 260-227 | MC: 2014
650-723-4219