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Albert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Intermittent streams, or those that temporarily cease to flow or dry completely, are subject to summer droughts which can vary in timing and intensity from year to year. Fish and invertebrates in these ecosystems posses drought-response mechanisms that are broadly categorized into resistance and resilience strategies. Resistant strategists persist...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAlbert Ruhi Vidal - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Water conservation policies in Southern California are promoting the recycling of effluent, but reductions in these discharges may lead to stream drying and alteration of river food webs. Environmental managers are grappling with how much they should reduce discharges to some reaches of the Santa Clara and Los Angeles Rivers...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Location: On Campus
A remarkable development in the recent years has been the demonstration that a nanoscale magnet can be switched by a spin-polarized current, without having to apply any external magnetic field. It is a fascinating phenomenon from two different perspectives. Firstly, this effect is purely mediated by quantum mechanics, but...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed
It is widely believed that the rate of change in current in conventional MOSFETs cannot be decreased below 60 mV/decade. This means that to change every decade of current one must apply at least 60 mV. As a result, the power supply voltage in modern MOSFETs cannot be reduced...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesSayeef Salahuddin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Artificial Intelligence is becoming prevalent in many applications. In this research effort we are investigating new ideas of learning and inference. In addition to develop fundamental understanding of the algorithms, we are also designing novel hardware solutions that are specifically suitable for these Learning Machines, going beyond mere implementation of...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesStefano Schiavon - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Findings from the Center for the Built Environment demonstrate that having a “good” window view can enhance occupants' well-being and alleviate discomfort. While several metrics are used to evaluate different aspects of indoor environmental quality, there is no reliable index to quantify window view. The...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Keywords: cancer, radiopharmaceutical therapy, targeted alpha therapy, alpha particles, image processing, dosimetry, machine learning, digital autoradiography Radiopharmaceutical therapy with alpha-particle emitters (⍺RPT) is an emerging cancer treatment method that has demonstrated high efficacy in clinical trials for several types of cancer. Improvement of these drugs requires thorough pre-clinical...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Molecular imaging is a powerful method of interrogating biochemical properties of imaging subjects. Particularly in research, we use small animal positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), which are combined with x-ray computed tomography (CT). More commonly, these imaging modalities are known as microPET/CT...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Radiotherapy with alpha-emitting nuclides is an extremely promising technique in cancer therapy. The very short range of alpha particles compared to beta particles allows to deliver a much higher therapeutical dose to the lesion, sparing healthy tissue. A fundamental problem with this technique is the inability of current radiation...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesYoungho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Keywords: deep learning, artificial intelligence, prediction, Alzheimer's disease, positron emission tomography, PET, image processing, FDG, glucose metabolism, amyloid Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia, and a debilitating condition that affects a large number of aging populations. When symptoms occur, there are a very limited set of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesCarlo Sequin - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Students will participate in the development of JIPCAD, a design environment that can describe geometrical shapes (e.g., abstract sculptures by famous artists such as Charles Perry, Eva Hild, or Robert Engman) either through a simple procedural language or through an interactive graphical user interface. The typical workflow would start with...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Toxins play important roles in inter-species interactions, and the ability to overcome them can open new niches. The potential of animal genomes to facilitate such adaptations is limited; instead, toxin resistance in animals is often provided by gut bacteria. Human activity and industry has dramatically increased the prevalence of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Animal microbiotas are increasingly recognized as essential for host health. The gut microbiota is the richest, and was shown to contribute to diverse host functions. Perturbations in microbiota composition are associated with human disease, raising interest in manipulating the microbiota to promote healthier living or treat pathology. However, current understanding...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Aging involves a multi-system physiological deterioration. In addition to affected tissues, and likely as a consequence, aging also affects the gut microbiota, an extensive microbial community which contributes to diverse host functions. Imbalances in microbiota composition, or dysbiosis, are often associated with pathology, and recent reports indicate that aging...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesOswald Siegmund - Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Experimental Astrophysics Group at the Space Sciences Laboratory is the world leader in space-borne UV detector technology for applications in astronomical and biological research. We are currently seeking undergraduates who would like to learn about, and gain hands-on experience of, the assembly and testing of microchannel plate...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical SciencesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] Our lab is currently working on multiple research projects of various stages on the topics of human-AI interfaces for various applications in operations management. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
To be considered, please also complete this form: https://bit.ly/45sjUZw ] We are interested in exploring and understanding worker behavior in the changing nature of work, from gig economy to freelancing to crowdsourcing to remote work. Recent technologies create and accelerate new work arrangements that provide workers with flexibility in...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Secure computation is a powerful abstraction, protecting the integrity and confidentiality of computations over confidential data. While there are already many applications for secure computing, it is continuing to grow in importance. Secure enclaves can provide a solution to the challenge of secure computation with little or no performance overhead...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours
Deep-learning has revolutionized AI, and achieves human-level accuracies in many tasks such as image recognition. Development on the optimization techniques and the availability of large amount of data make training a large architecture possible, which also opens up many intriguing problems to answer. In this project, we are...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
As we tread the path of rapid evolution in the domain of Language Learning Models (LLM), this project seeks to address the major challenges of integrating personal privacy into this rapidly expanding field. The critical question we aim to answer is: how can LLMs safely and effectively utilize private user...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Blockchain is an example of a fast-rising decentralized, autonomous system. There are new the opportunities this new model of computing brings us, including smart contracts, decentralized applications, etc...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate the sustainability of subsea cables--the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate the sustainability of subsea cables--the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesNicole Starosielski - Professor, Film Studies
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The project is called Sustainable Subsea Networks (https://sustainablesubseanetworks.com/). We investigate the sustainability of subsea cables--the backbone of global digital networks that carry over 99% of transoceanic internet traffic (satellite is responsible for less than 1%). There are currently no industry-wide metrics for the assessment of the sustainability...
Arts & Humanities Social Sciences Engineering, Design & Technologies Environmental IssuesAnthony Suen - Director, DSDP, Data Sciences, Division of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
PLEASE NOTE for this project ONLY: You do not need to submit an application through URAP! Please apply directly to the Data Science Discovery Program, the instructions are below. If you are accepted, you will be received research credit through a a separate course listing (not URAP). Please note: There...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This position involves coordinating and helping with the curation of comparative (non-human) skeletal specimens held in the Bear Bones Zooarchaeology lab. Specifically, this will involve supervised care, organization and accounting of mammals, fish, and bird skeletons. If desired, apprentices will also have the opportunity to assist with specimen prep...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Picuris Pueblo Collaborative Field Program is a community-based archaeological and anthropological project between the University of Arizona, Columbia University, Southern Methodist University, and Picuris Pueblo in New Mexico near Taos. The project is seeking to map and record the outlying field structures surrounding the present-day Pueblo. Melanie...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesJun Sunseri - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Bear Bones Lab Group is partnered in several community-based, collaborative relationships involving Berkeley archaeologists, Native communities in California such as the United Auburn Indian Community, the North Fork Mono, Mono Lake Kutzadika’a, and the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú and its Library and Cultural Center in northern New...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Social SciencesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
We are publishing an open digital textbook on art and expression in New Orleans. We have a particular focus on vernacular music traditions, especially jazz. The textbook will include original, extraordinary multimedia content produced by a collective of professors, writers, artists, archivists, activists, and community leaders. We are creating and...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project involves translating testimonies given by slaves accused of conspiring to revolt. The testimonies are in French and Spanish. We will be working mostly with typescripts and in some cases with original manuscripts. We will also be integrating the new translations into an online digital edition of primary materials...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
We will be collecting and annotating historical documents, photographs, songs, and videos related to the history, culture, and literature of New Orleans...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesBryan Wagner - Professor, English
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Students will help to produce an annotated bibliography of articles from African American historical newspapers addressing the transition from slavery to freedom...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesLaura Waller - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
We are building new microscopes that use computation to do things that microscopes normally can't, like 3D imaging, gigapixel imaging or phase imaging. We need motivated people with some of these (not all required): 1) signal processing experience (EE120) for programming our image processing algorithms in Matlab or C or...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Myopia or short-sightedness has become the focus of increasing concern as its prevalence steadily climbs. Figures of around 90% have been recorded for some Asian university student populations and a recent US-based study also reported a dramatic increase in the prevalence of myopia, especially among AfroAmericans. Myopia is...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This research has a number of different aspects. One aspect involves collection of optical images of the back of the eye, using an advanced high resolution SD-OCT imagining machine. Initial work will involve images already collected. It will involves working with large amounts of data in excel, using smoothing...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Myopia or short-sightedness has become the focus of increasing concern as its prevalence steadily climbs. Figures of around 90% have been recorded for some Asian university student populations and a recent US-based study also reported a dramatic increase in the prevalence of myopia, especially among AfroAmericans. Myopia is...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesChristine Wildsoet - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
There is increasing interest in the role of sunlight and light exposure in the development of myopia. In this project, we are using a wearable light sensor/activity monitor (Actiwatch), for human subjects. The sensor will record the intensity of light subjects are exposed to, and will allow us to...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project builds partnerships between community groups and academic researchers at studio.geo-?, an experimental mapping studio hosted out of the Department of Geography + the Berkeley Centre for New Media. It connects people and organisations who need cartographic assistance, from simple technical advice, access to geographic data + other resources to community...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In partnership with a wide range of Pacific-based organizations including Fåha’ Digital Media, Pacific Islanders in Communication, the Northern Marianas Humanities Council, and Blue Ocean Law, this wide-ranging research consists of two central projects: - Researching, compiling and mapping films about Pacific Islander stories, made by or in partnership...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
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Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceClancy Wilmott - Professor, Geography
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
General Description The breaking apart of the American state is as old as the concept of the United States itself. This project seeks to document the scale of state secessionist movements through time using primary and secondary sources. The broader context of this project is a study of the co...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Digital Humanities and Data ScienceMichael Yartsev - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project aims at describing the vocal behavior of the Egyptian fruit-bat. This social species of bats is known to emit a diversity of vocalizations in the wild, but its repertoire and vocal behavior still remains to be carefully described. At the Yarstev Lab we are particularly interested in...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Yartsev - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project aims at describing the vocal behavior of the Egyptian fruit-bat. This social species of bats is known to emit a diversity of vocalizations in the wild, but its repertoire and vocal behavior still remains to be carefully described. At the Yarstev Lab we are particularly interested in...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Yartsev - Professor, Bioengineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
In Full: High-quality video is an immensely powerful way to track and quantify behavior of animals in an environment. However, the curating and processing of this video is time-consuming and subject to individual bias. This project aims to leverage state of the art tools, primarily, DeepLabCut (see website...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In this project, we will develop methods to enable a drone to fly effortlessly among obstacles in outdoor environments such as forests. Our testing site is Cesar Chavez park in Berkeley Marina as well as Richmond Field Station. You will be working with an actual drone e.g. Bit Craze, or...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAvideh Zakhor - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
In this project, we will develop RL policies to teach a hexapod robot navigate in cluttered environments. We will initially develop separate policies for climbing joists, stairs, and squeezing under objects. Then we will distill and combine them using hierarchical RL. This work builds on top of existing work which...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
COSI, the Compton Spectrometer and Imager, is a NASA-funded gamma-ray telescope which is currently under development and scheduled for launch in 2027. It will observe Galactic nucleosynthesis and positron annihilation, as well as the most violent events in our Universe (supernovae, neutron star mergers) and the most extreme...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceAndreas Zoglauer - Staff Researcher, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) is a NASA high-altitude balloon mission designed to detect messengers of dark matter interactions in the galaxy. Apprentices are needed to participate in development and testing of both hardware and online software as GAPS prepares for a December 2024 launch from Antarctica. GAPS is...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Mathematical and Physical Sciences Digital Humanities and Data Science