Jiaqi Ma

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Jiaqi Ma
Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ph.D. University of Virginia
M.S. University of Virginia
B.S. Beijing Jiaotong University

Dr. Jiaqi Ma is an Associate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Prior to that, he was Assistant/Associate Professor and Academic Director of the University of Cincinnati Advanced Transportation Collaborative, Project Manager and Research Scientist with Leidos working at the Federal Highway Administration Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center, and a contractor researcher at the Virginia Transportation Research Council of the Virginia Department of Transportation (DOT). He has led and managed many research projects funded by U.S. DOT, National Science Foundation, state DOTs, and other federal/state/local programs covering areas of smart transportation systems, such as cooperative driving automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), connected vehicles, shared mobility, and large-scale smart system modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence and advanced computing applications in automated transportation. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is Member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, Member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications, Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Connected & Autonomous Vehicles Impacts Committee, Co-Chair of the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Smart Mobility and Transportation 5.0, and Member of the Academic Advisory Council of Partners for Automated Vehicle Education (PAVE).

Mekonnen Gebremichael

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Mekonnen Gebremichael
Associate Professor
Engineering Hydrology

Ph.D. University of Iowa
M.S. Twente University, the Netherlands
B.S. Haromaya University, Ethiopia

My research interests are understanding and prediction of hydrological fluxes on a range of spatial and temporal scales, advancing the use of satellite observations for water resource applications, uncertainty analysis of hydrological estimations and forecasts, transboundary river basin management, water resource management and governance in developing countries, and impact of hydrological and climate changes on vector-borne diseases.

David Jassby

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David Jassby
Associate Professor
Engineering Hydrology

Ph.D. Duke University
M.S. University of California, Davis
B.S. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Biology

Dr. Jassby joins C&EE in 2017-2018. Previously he was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Jassby received his B.S. in Biology from Hebrew University (2002), a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Davis (2004), and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Duke University (2011). 

Miryung Kim

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Miryung Kim
Associate Professor
Computer Science

Ph.D. University of Washington
M.S. University of Washington
B.S. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Professor Kim is an expert on software engineering, with focus on designing techniques to evolve large software systems and to improve software quality. Her research group, Software Evolution and Analysis Laboratory, develops sofware analysis algorithms and development tools to make it easier to develop and evolve large scale software systems. she also has extensive background in automated program transformation, user studies with professional engineers, and statistical analysis of open source project data to allow data-driven decisions for designing novel software tools. 

She is a recipient of an NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, Microsoft SEIF Award, IBM Jazz Innovation Award, and Google Faculty Award. She has a strong track record of building scalable and practical tools for program transformation, refactoring, and mining software repository data.

Yuval Tamir

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Yuval Tamir
Associate Professor
Computer Science

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

Professor Tamir founded and is currently directing the UCLA Concurrent Systems Laboratory. His research interests include hardware, software, and algorithmic issues related to the design and implementation of computer systems. Most of his work is focused on techniques for achieving high performance and high reliability for parallel and distributed systems. Current research projects include: resilient virtualization, fault injection, fault-tolerant cluster managers, fault tolerance for distributed applications, networks-on-a-chip for chip multiprocessors, hardware support for checkpointing, memory hierarchy in multicore chips.

Jian Zhang

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Jian Zhang
Associate Professor
Structural Engineering

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.S. University of California, Berkeley
B.S. Nanjing Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute, China

My research interests are earthquake engineering, structure dynamics and mechanics, with an emphasis on the modeling, analysis and protection of structural systems under seismic excitations. The main goals of my research are to understand the seismic performance of bridges and buildings by experiments and model-based simulations; to develop seismic response models and analysis procedures validated by measurements from instrumented structures; to improve the structural performance and mitigate earthquake hazards by using innovative devices, systems and technologies.