2024 Faculty Research
The following faculty research projects are organized by colleges, and then alphabetically by department. Students are encouraged to look at related fields, as well as within their major departments for research projects, which might be interesting to them. For example, the research project in the theater department might also be interesting to sociology or education majors.
Please note that this list is non-exhaustive, as students may work with Faculty mentors not included on this list
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BOURNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Bioengineering
Faculty Mentor: Juhong Chen
Research: My research program will develop advanced and innovative Bioengineering and Biosensing approaches that can be used to detect emerging infectious diseases in food, environmental, and clinical samples
Faculty Mentor: Elena Kokkoni
Research: Assistive Technology, Pediatric Rehabilitation, Child-Robot Interaction, Movement Biomechanics
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/elenak
Faculty Mentor: Huinan Liu
Research: Design, fabrication, and evaluation of novel biomaterials for tissue regeneration, controlled drug delivery, and implant applications
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/huinanl
Faculty Mentor: Rob McKee
Research: Engineering Pedagogy (but grad work was on kidney regeneration, post doc on blood enzymes and ex vivo organ perfusion/ventilation)
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rmckee
Faculty Mentor: Giulia Palermo
Research: CRISPR-Cas9 mechanism, computational bioengineering, biophysics, genome editing
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/giuliap
Faculty Mentor: Joshua Morgan
Research: Novel therapeutics to ameliorate degeneration associated with aging and increase the quality of life of geriatric patients
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/morganj1
Faculty Mentor: Vasileios Christopoulos
Research: Functional ultrasound imaging, clinical neuromodulation, biomarkers for psychiatric and neurological disorders, deep brain stimulation
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/christov
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Georgios Karavalakis
Research: Air quality, non-exhaust emissions from mobile sources
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/georgios
Faculty Mentor: Jiamin Zhang
Research: The research focus of my lab is engineering education. Specially I'm interested in virtue-based character education for teaching engineering ethics and teaching students expert-like problem-solving skills. Undergraduate students in my group will be mentored by me directly and will learn qualitative (e.g., conduct interviews, analyze survey results) and quantitative (e.g., statistical analysis) research skills.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jiaminz
Faculty Mentor: Yujie Men
Research: Interactions between environmental microorganisms and the contaminants of emerging concerns
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/yujiem
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Rupiper
Research: water reuse and water loss, water-energy efficiency
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-rupiper-2a515751
Faculty Mentor: Ke Du
Research: Computer vision for pathogen detection; 3-D printing of microneedles for drug delivery; Nanoscale antimicrobial surface; Microalgae interaction with cells
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/kdu
Faculty Mentor: Haizhou Liu
Research: Water chemistry, water reuse, desalination, environmental remediation, electrochemistry and catalysis.
Faculty Mentor: Ian Wheeldon
Research: Synthetic Biology
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wheeldon
Faculty Mentor: Roxue Yan
Research: Biosensing, Waste Water Treatment
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ruoxuey
Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Abbas Mazloumi
Research: Accelerating graph algorithms by developing modern graph processing frameworks.
https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~amazl001/
Faculty Mentor: Amey Bhangale
Research: Algorithms
https://sites.google.com/view/amey-bhangale
Faculty Mentor: Philip Brisk
Research: FPGA programming; computer architecture; computer system design and evaluation; emerging technologies; microfluidics.
#1 Machine learning models to predict the performance of applications on under-development CPUs and GPUs, #2 Use FPGAs to accelerate applications of interest, including machine learning algorithms and cryptography. #3 Novel DNA-based computing models and programmable microfluidic microprocessors that can synthesize DNA and run DNA-based programs
I am available to supervise students majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering. I could supervise a Bioengineering student for Project #3 as well.
https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~philip
Faculty Mentor: Emiliano De Cristofaro
Research: privacy, disinformation
https://emilianodc.com
Faculty Mentor: Ahmed EldawyResearch: Geospatial data exploration and visualization.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/eldawy
Faculty Mentor: Elaheh Sadredini
Research: Security, machine learning, hardware acceleration
https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~elaheh/
Faculty Mentor: Neftali Watkinson Medina
Research: Creating a virtual artificial agent that will serve as a teaching device by emulating famous historical figures. This work will use applied artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and digital art. Prior experience in these areas are not required, but motivation and creativity are a must in order to succeed
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/neftaliw
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Alexander Khitun
Research: Nanoelectronics, Spontronics
https://balandingroup.ucr.edu/alexander_khitun.html
Faculty Mentor: Salman Asif
Research: Machine learning, computer vision, computational imaging
https://www.ece.ucr.edu/~sasif
Faculty Mentor: Ran Cheng
Research: Solving Landau-Lifshitz equations with analytical and numerically tools to understand the intricate interplay between electricity and magnetism in various topological materials. This project creates critical knowledge enabling the electrical manipulation of magnetic materials
https://terahertzspin.engr.ucr.edu/
Faculty Mentor: Elaine Haberer
Research: Using biomolecules to synthesize new, multi-component nanoscale materials and devices to address challenges in the area of solar power generation, photocatalysis, and biosensing. Electrospun optical biosensors; viral-templated nanomotors
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/haberer
Faculty Mentor: Konstantinos Karydis
Research: Robotics
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/karydis
Faculty Mentor: Jianlin Liu
Research: Semiconductor materials and devices
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jianlin
Faculty Mentor: Shaolei Ren
Research: Optimizing machine learning models on tiny devices.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/shaolei
Faculty Mentor: Fariborz Kargar
Research: Optics and light scattering of quantum materials; Thermal interface materials for electronic cooling; Material characterization such as atomic force microscopy, etc
https://balandingroup.ucr.edu/fariborz_kargar.html
Faculty Mentor: Hang Qiu
Research: Autonomous driving, edge ML systems
Materials Science and Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Elaine Haberer
Research: Using biomolecules to synthesize new, multi-component nanoscale materials and devices to address challenges in the area of solar power generation, photocatalysis, and biosensing. Electrospun optical biosensors; viral-templated nanomotors
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/haberer
Faculty Mentor: Richard Wilson
Research: Energy Processing, Nano & Micro Scale Engineering, Materials Properties & Processing
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rwilson
Faculty Mentor: Bryan Wong
Research: We do computational simulations of energy materials including solar cells, batteries, and computational chemistry
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/brwong
Faculty Mentor: Roxue Yan
Research: Biosensing, Waste Water Treatment
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ruoxuey
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty Mentor: Alex Greaney
Research: Computational materials science and machine learning
Faculty Mentor: Chen Li
Research: Phonon Model Optimization
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/chenli
Faculty Mentor: Jonathan Realmuto
Research: Soft Robotics, Rehab/Assistive/Wearable Robotics, Human Sensorimotor Behavior
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jrealmut
Faculty Mentor: Jun Sheng
Research: Design, fabricate, and control continuum robots with applications to surgery, rehabilitation, and agriculture.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/juns
Faculty Mentor: Richard Wilson
Research: Energy Processing, Nano & Micro Scale Engineering, Materials Properties & Processing
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COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES, ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Comparative Literature & Languages
Faculty Mentor: Carlo DaVia
Research: Classics: ancient Greek language, ancient Greek history and culture; Latin language, Roman history and culture
Economics
Faculty Mentor: Veronica Sovero
Research: Economics of higher education, labor economics, social networks
https://sites.google.com/site/vsovero/home
English
Faculty Mentor: Corinne (Cori) Knight
Research: American American history/literature/pop culture, comics/graphic novels, disability and accessibility in higher education, disaster preparedness/mitigation
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/cknig002
Faculty Mentor: Richard Rodriguez
Research: Latinx studies; film and visual culture; queer studies; popular music
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rickyr
Ethnic Studies
Faculty Mentor: Paul Green
Research: Educational politics, social policy, law, race, segregation, desegregation, integration, educational opportunity for poor youth and children of color
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/pgreen
Faculty Mentor: Jasmin Young
Research: Intellectual history of Black women, state violence and resistance, and radical Black feminism.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jasminy
Hispanic Studies
Faculty Mentor: Claudia Holguin Mendoza
Research: Spanish linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Critical Literacy and bilingualism
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/cholguin
Faculty Mentor: Maria Covadonga Lamar-Prieto
Research: Spanish in the US/ California; Bilingualism in social media
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/covad
Faculty Mentor: Alejandra Dubcovsky
Research: US History, early period. Early Latin America.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/adubcovs
Faculty Mentor: Carlos Varon GonzalezResearch: Spanish and Latin American Culture, political philosophy, popular culture (soccer, music)
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/cvarongo
Media and Cultural Studies
Faculty Mentor: Richard Rodriguez
Research: Latinx studies; film and visual culture; queer studies; popular music
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rickyr
Music
Faculty Mentor: Bradley Butterworth
Research: Popular music production, recording, mixing, mastering live sound, post production audio
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/bradleyb
Faculty Mentor: Dana Kaufman
Research: A composer of primarily vocal/operatic music, Kaufman has also focused on composing for trans voices and pushing for inclusivity in opera.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/danak
Political Science
Faculty Mentor: John Laursen
Research: Political theory, history of political ideas, famous philosophers, beautyism, heightism, weightism, philosophical skepticism, cynicism
https://profiles.ucr.edu/john.laursen
Psychology
Faculty Mentor: Ian Ballard
Research: Running a behavioral study on learning, decision-making, and memory
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Davis
Research: Children's emotional functioning, psychopathology, emotion regulation, physiology
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/eldavis
Faculty Mentor: Rachel Wu
Research: Cognitive aging, COVID-related well-being. Learning in older adulthood or attention and learning in young adulthood using EEG
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rachelw
Faculty Mentor: Tuppett Yates
Research: Risk and resilience among adversity-exposed children and adolescents; Foster youth research
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/tuppett
Faculty Mentor: John Franchak
Research: How people gather and use perceptual information to guide motor actions, observe their surroundings, and engage in social interactions.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/franchak
Faculty Mentor: Rebekah Richert
Research: Children and religion, children and fantasy
Faculty Mentor: Weiwei Zhang
Research: Perception, attention, memory, and higher cognition in healthy and clinical populations using multiple Cognitive Neuroscience methods
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wwzhang
Faculty Mentor: Halle Dimsdale-Zucker
Research: human episodic memory
Religious Studies/Gender and Sexuality Studies
Faculty Mentor: Sahin Acikgoz
Research: Queer and Trans Studies in Islam, Slavery, Trans of Color Critique, Global South, Transnational Feminisms, and Gender Politics, Continental Philosophy and Cultural Studies.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/sahina
Faculty Mentor: Matthew King
Research: Buddhism, religion and science, Inner Asian religious history, history and critique of Orientalism
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mking
Faculty Mentor: Amanda Lucia
Research: Religion, transnationalism, globalization, cults, South Asia, Hinduism, gurus, gender, ethnicity, immigration, American West
Sociology
Faculty Mentor: Tanya Nieri
Research: Relation of ethnic-racial socialization (ERS) to young adult outcomes
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/tanyan
Theatre, Film, and Digital Production
Faculty Mentor: Keunpyo Park
Research: Director for screen and stage, and actor. Works include The LA Riots 1992: Reflection on Our Future and Footsteps of Korean Americans
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COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
Botany and Plant Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Danelle Seymour
Research: The research in the Seymour Lab is focused on the genetic improvement of citrus. We are generally interested in understanding how plant genome evolution shapes the genetic basis of trait variation. In particular, we seek to leverage this knowledge to develop genetically superior varieties for citrus growers in California. We exploit modern genetic and statistical genomic tools to ensure that citrus varieties will withstand future shifts in biotic and abiotic conditions while maintaining desirable agronomic and consumer fruit quality traits.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dseymour
Faculty Mentor: Devinder Sandhu
Research: Salinity tolerance in plants
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hgUTSzIAAAAJ&hl=en
Chemistry
Faculty Mentor: Gregor Blaha
Research: Exploring transcription-translation coupling in bacteria. Crystallizing kRas modified with possible anti-cancer drugs.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/gregorb
Faculty Mentor: Joshua Hartman
Research: Computational chemistry, molecular crystal structure, nuclear magnetic resonance, chemistry education
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jhart005
Faculty Mentor: Joseph Genereux
Research: Which environmental stressors cause proteins to mistarget to the cytosol, and consequences of this mistargeting
Faculty Mentor: Feng Tang
Research: Chemical proteomic approaches toward characterizing novel functions of translesion synthesis DNA polymerases, including their genome-wide
occupancy and interactomes. Next-generation sequencing methods for mapping the genome-wide distributions of DNA damage in human cells.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BR794iZ_vkIHGlKzSyromhidZ_tweJ19/view?usp=sharing
Faculty Mentor: Yadong Yin
Research: understanding the formation, assembly, and properties of nanostructures, designing nanostructure-based functional materials
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/yadongy
Factory Mentor: Jingsong Zhang
Research: Atmospheric chemistry, air pollution monitoring, chemical kinetics, combustion chemistry
https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/zhanggroup/home
Faculty Mentor: Haofei Zhang
Research: Environmental Chemistry, Multiphase Organic Aerosol Formation, Air Pollution
https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/hzhang/home
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Andrey Bekker
Research: Geochemical analyses of ancient sedimentary rocks to reconstruct atmospheric and ocean composition, evolution of life, links between surface conditions and interior of the Earth
https://profiles.ucr.edu/andrey.bekker
Faculty Mentor: Heather Ford
Research: Geophysics; Seismology; Crust; Mantle; Earthquakes
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/heatherf
Faculty Mentor: Gareth Funning
Research: Earthquakes and faulting; Remote sensing/satellite imagery; Seismology and data mining
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/gareth
Faculty Mentor: Nigel Hughes
Research: Research on the systematics and evolution of dikelocephalid trilobites
Faculty Mentor: Wei Liu
Research: The ocean's role in climate change and climate variability
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/weiliu
Entomology
Faculty Mentor: Boris Baer
Research: There are honey bees that are better able to cope with environmental stressors, because they survive and thrive without continuous human support. We keep and study such bees that are better able to deal with hot temperatures, defend themselves against Varroa mites or kill fungal Nosema spores with high efficiency. An understanding of the molecular and genetic basis that allow these honey bees to be more healthy and more successful offers the possibilities to breed honey bee stock with increased tolerance. To achieve this we combine the genetic studies into bee health with artificial insemination, which allows us to conserve and propagate honey bees with desirable traits. You will join our team of more than 40 researchers at UCR and conduct a project to understand how honey bees are capable to deal with various environmental stressors. All our projects are done in collaboration with local beekeepers.
https://ciber.ucr.edu
Faculty Mentor: Alec GerryResearch: Diversity of blood feeding flies (biting midges) in the western United States
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/alecg
Faculty Mentor: Allison Hansen
Research: Evolutionary genomics of insect-microbe interactions
https://allisonhansenlab.weebly.com/
Faculty Mentor: Jedeliza Ferrater
Research: Sterile Insect Technique
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jedeliza-ferrater/
Faculty Mentor: Quinn McFrederick
Research: Symbiosis, bee biology, microbiology
https://melittology.ucr.edu/people/quinn-mcfrederick
Faculty Mentor: Kerry Mauck
Research: Biochemical mechanisms mediating plant pathogen transmission in complex ecological settings and their implications
https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/kerry-mauck
Faculty Mentor: Hollis Woodward
Research: Bumble bee research and conservation
https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/s-woodard
Environmental Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Peter Homyak
Research: Effects of wildfires on soil nutrient cycling and greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/phomyak
Faculty Mentor: Elia Scudiero
Research: Remote Sensing, GIS, Agriculture, Precision Agriculture, Agronomy, Ag Tech
https://sites.google.com/site/scudieroe/
Faculty Mentor: Francesca Hopkins
Research: Greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farms, urban greenhouse gas emissions, climate change impacts in the inland desert area of California. Trace gas emissions, terrestrial carbon cycle, isotope biogeochemistry
https://francescahopkins.ucr.edu/
Faculty Mentor: Tamara Harms
Research: Ecosystem ecology, catchment science, hydrology, fire, permafrost, nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle, environmental sensors, streams
Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology (EEOB)
Faculty Mentor: Kurt Anderson
Research: Freshwater ecology, conservation, population and community ecology, mathematical and computer modeling
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/kurta
Faculty Mentor: Theodore Garland
Research: Born to Run: Behavior and physiology of selectively bred High Runner mice
https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/garlandlab/home
Faculty Mentor: Joel Sachs
Research: How plants select beneficial bacterial symbionts from the soil, investigating the mechanisms of superior bacterial inoculants to improve crop sustainability
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/joels
Faculty Mentor: Kate Ostevik
Research: Evolutionary biology, speciation, hybridization, genome evolution, pollination biology, plant mating systems
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/kostevik
Faculty Mentor: Kieran Samuk
Research: Evolutionary response to climate change in natural populations of flies (field work & molecular lab work), Marker development for monitoring chromosomal inversions in natural populations (molecular lab work), Development of computer simulations to explore and test evolutionary theory (computer/coding work)
Faculty Mentor: Natalie Holt
Research: Effect of early life exercise on the musculoskeletal system, and the role of muscle elasticity in locomotor performance across thermal gradients.
https://theholtlab.weebly.com/
Faculty Mentor: Marko Spasojevic
Research: Forests play key roles in biodiversity maintenance and climate regulation. Globally, forests support over half of all described species and provide many valuable ecosystem functions and services such as timber, clear air, clean water, and carbon storage. However, forests worldwide are being threatened by habitat loss, drought, and changing fire regimes, which have all resulted in losses to biodiversity and alterations to key ecosystem functions and services. Understanding and predicting how forests will respond to ongoing and pervasive changes to the environment is critical for biodiversity conservation and for the management and maintenance of ecosystem services. To address this, the Spasojevic Ecology lab at UC-Riverside has established a 4ha Forest Dynamics Plot (FDP) adjacent to the James Reserve. Briefly, within the FDP every free-standing woody stem (live or dead) greater than 1cm in diameter has been identified to species, mapped, measured, and tagged for long term monitoring. In establishing this plot, we have observed that many of the Conifers are dead or dying and that there are few Conifers recruiting into this forest. On the other hand, very few Oaks have died and there are many Oaks recruiting into the forest. These patterns suggest a potential shift in the composition of the forest from a mixed Oak-Conifer Forest to a more Oak dominated system. This change in the composition of the forest can have important ramifications for carbon storage, as Oaks are slower growing than Pines, as well as implications for the rest of the plants and animals that depend on these species. We are seeking an student that is interested in plant ecology and climate change who is seeking to gain field experience (spending most of their research time in the field, we do no lab work).
https://mspaso.wixsite.com/traitecology
Mathematics
Faculty Mentor: Qixuan Wang
Research: Mathematical biology, multi-scale modeling, growth and regeneration, applied dynamical system, cell fate decisions. Computational modeling on skin biophysics
https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/qixuanwang/home
Faculty Mentor: Matthew Harper
Research: Mathematics of quantum computing, Knot theory, Representation theory and linear algebra
sites.google.com/view/matthewharper-math/home
Faculty Mentor: Russell Rockne
Research: Translating mathematics, physics and evolution-based research to clinical care.
https://icqmb.ucr.edu/russell-rockne
Faculty Mentor: Heyrim Cho
Research: Modeling multi-scale biological systems, and characterizing effects of the underlying uncertainty for comprehensive mathematical modeling
https://icqmb.ucr.edu/heyrim-cho
Microbiology & Plant Pathology
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Borkovich
Research: Environmental sensing in fungi. Plant cell wall degradation and biofuels.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/katherib
Faculty Mentor: Ahmed El-Moghazy
Research: Development of antimicrobial materials for food safety and plant diseases applications
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/aelmogha
Faculty Mentor: Fatemeh Khodadadi
Research: Molecular interaction of fungal and bacterial diseases of nut and fruit trees.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatemeh-khodadadi-836a3253
Faculty Mentor: Alex Putman
Research: Pathogens of vegetables and some fruit crops. Diagnosing diseased plants and culturing the fungus from infected plants onto artificial media
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/aiputman
Faculty Mentor: Caroline Roper
Research: Plant pathology, functional genomics of bacterial plant pathogens
https://roperlaboratory.weebly.com/
Faculty Mentor: Setu Bazie Tagele
Research: Soil and plant microbiome
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BrX6dNUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Molecular, Cell, and Systems Biology
Faculty Mentor: Margarita Curras-Collazo
Research: Persistent organic pollutants in the indoor and outdoor environment contaminate breast milk and produce adverse effects on offspring’s cognitive ability, social behaviors and metabolic health that persist into adulthood. Using an in vivo mouse model we aim to characterize the reprogrammed phenotypes, at the molecular, neurochemical, circuit and behavioral level, produced by early developmental exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) that are relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and diabetes. Other studies are focused on gut-brain interactions that underlie chronic fatigue and cognitive impairments in a mouse model of Gulf War Illness (GWI). Using gut sensory deafferentation and probiotic therapy with our UCR collaborators we aim to clarify the pathophysiology/etiology underlying GWI.
https://mcurlab.ucr.edu/research
Faculty Mentor: Viji Santhakumar
Research: Novel directions examining the role of neuro-immune interactions and neurogenesis in development of neurocognitive dysfunction after brain injury.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/vijayas
Faculty Mentor: Weifeng Gu
Research: Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology (MCSB), Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Program, Small RNA mediated gene regulation.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/weifeng
Neuroscience:
Faculty Mentor: Weiwei Zhang
Research: Focuses on perception, attention, memory, and higher cognition in healthy and clinical populations using multiple Cognitive Neuroscience methods
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/wwzhang
Physics and Astronomy
Faculty Mentor: Miguel Arratia
Research: Data analysis of simulation data for future Electron-Ion Collider. Python programming, and may include artificial intelligence techniques
Faculty Mentor: Ran Cheng
Research: Solving Landau-Lifshitz equations with analytical and numerical tools to understand the intricate interplay between electricity and magnetism in various topological materials. This project creates critical knowledge enabling the electrical manipulation of magnetic materials.
https://terahertzspin.engr.ucr.edu/
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Joe
Research: Design of measurement equipment parts for electrical and optical parts, assembly of two-dimensional material devices for optical and electrical measurements
Faculty Mentor: Flip Tanedo
Research: Dark matter
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/flipt
Faculty Mentor: Bryan Wong
Research: computational simulations of materials
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/brwong
Faculty Mentor: Shawn Westerdale
Research: Dark matter investigation using direct detection and neutrino experiments.
https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/darkmatter/
Statistics
Faculty Mentor: Weixin Yao
Research: Mixture models, model-based clustering and classification, modal regression, nonparametric and semiparametric modeling,
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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Faculty Mentor: Thomas Kramer
Research: Consumer behavior / consumer psychology, focus on how irrational beliefs, such as superstitious, magic, or karmic beliefs impact consumer decision-making.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/tkramer
Faculty Mentor: Marlo Raveendran
Research: Formula 1 data project using machine learning
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/marlor
Faculty Mentor: Mohsen ElHafsi
Research: Operations and supply chain management, manufacturing and service operations, and production and inventory systems
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/melhafsi
Faculty Mentor: Hai Che
Research: Data-Driven Marketing Strategies based on Consumer Purchase and Social Activities.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/chehai
Faculty Mentor: Ye Li
Research: My research interests are in judgment and decision making and behavioral economics, with a particular interest in the role of time in decision making
https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/bedlab/home?authuser=0
Finance
Faculty Mentor: Mengmeng Dong
Research: Empirical asset pricing, international finance, behavioral finance and empirical corporate finance.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mdong
Information Systems
Faculty Mentor: Sanjoy Moulik
Research: Healthcare Informatics, Management and Leadership of IS, Persuasive Technology, Design Science Research. AI Chatbots for Chronic Disease Management.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/sanjoy.moulik
Faculty Mentor: Rich Yueh
Research: Artificial intelligence in business, education, or society
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/richyueh
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SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Faculty Mentor: Katherine Stavropoulos
Research: Neuroscience and autism spectrum disorder, electrophysiology to measure brain activity in children with and without autism spectrum disorder
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/katherst
Faculty Mentor: José Del Real Viramontes
Research: 1) The educational access, persistence, and graduation of Chicanx/Latinx students 2) How Chicanx/Latinx community college transfer students exercise their agency when confronting the ideological, structural, and institutional conditions of the transfer process 3) Transfer Receptive Culture for Chicanx/Latinx community college students 4) Chicanx/Latinx students in the community college 5) Chicanx/Latinx transfer students 6) Mentoring Chicanx/Latinx students in Higher Education.
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jdelreal
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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Biomedical Sciences
Faculty Mentor: Monica Carson
Research: neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/monicac
Faculty Mentor: Martin I. Garcia-Castro
Research: Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that govern the formation and differentiation potential of Neural crest cells (NCCs)
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/scottp
Faculty Mentor: Adam Godzik
Research: Insights from physics and biology to answer basic questions about the relation between the protein sequence and its structure and function
Faculty Mentor: Scott Pegan
Research: antiviral and anti-nerve agent therapy development. Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fevers virus, coronavirus, Infectious Disease ; Therapeutics Development
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/scottp
Faculty Mentor: Natalie Zlebnik
Research: Examine how drugs of abuse exploit neural mechanisms of motivated behavior to promote relapse and facilitate the transition to drug addiction
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/nataliez
Faculty Mentor: Sika Zheng
Research: RNA in neuroscience
Internal Medicine
Faculty Mentor: Femina Patel
Research: Internal medicine
https://profiles.ucr.edu/femina.patel
Social Med Population & Public Health
Faculty Mentor: Ann Cheney
Research: childhood asthma; early childhood obesity risk
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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
Faculty Mentor: Mehdi Nemati
Research: Environmental Economics, Water resources economics
Email Template to Potential Faculty Mentors
Possible Subject Line: Mentorship Inquiry for ______ (put the specific name, e.g. Mentoring Summer Research Internship, UC LEADS, etc)
Hello Dr. ____,
My name is _____ and I am a student from [Insert Home Campus] studying ______. I am applying for a fully-funded internship program where I will be paired with a faculty member who will mentor me during an 8-week research experience at UC Riverside! I am writing to ask whether you would consider mentoring me during this program. The program is called ______ [Insert Program Name Here] and it is housed in the office of Academic Preparation, Recruitment and Outreach within UCR's Graduate Division. If you aren't familiar with the program, it is designed to prepare undergraduate students for graduate school by providing a stipend for undergraduates to conduct research at UCR. The research findings will also be presented at a symposium in mid-August. You can read more about the program here: https://apro.ucr.edu/academic-preparation
I would love to work with you over the summer, specifically because of your research on _____ [insert relevant research topics]. [Write something about your interest in this research and maybe something about what motivates you!]
If you would like to meet with me and discuss the possibility of your mentoring me this upcoming summer, I can set up a zoom meeting or phone call. Please let me know when you are available, ideally in the next week or two. Once again, I would be fully funded during this program, so I would only be asking for your time and guidance on my summer research project!
Please let me know if you have any concerns or require any further information from me and/or from the program coordinators. If you have any questions about the program, you can email apro@ucr.edu.
Sincerely,
__________
(include your name, phone number, email)