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2024 Faculty Research List

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


 


 

  • 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

    https://chenlab.ucr.edu

    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. 

    https://liulab.engr.ucr.edu

    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 Eldawy

    Research: 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

    https://hangqiu.github.io/

    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

    http://alexgreaney.com/

    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

    https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rwilson

  • 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

    www.carlodavia.com

    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 Gonzalez

    Research: 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

    https://www.ballardlab.org

    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

    https://www.childcoglab.org/

    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

    https://dzlab.ucr.edu/

    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

    www.amandajeanlucia.com

    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

    https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/rootpark

  • 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

    Genereuxlab.ucr.edu

    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

    http://www.trilobyte.ucr.edu

    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 Gerry

    Research: 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

    harmslab.org

    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)

    https://www.samuklab.com/

    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

    https://arratialab.ucr.edu/

    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

    https://joelab.ucr.edu

    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, 

    https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/weixiny

  • 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

     

  • 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


     

  • 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

    http://godziklab.org/pages/

    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

    https://zhenglab.ucr.edu/

    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

    https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/acheney
     

  • SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY

    Faculty Mentor: Mehdi Nemati     

    Research: Environmental Economics, Water resources economics

    https://waterdialogue.ucr.edu/

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)

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