Project Search Options
Enter one or more search options below then click the Search button.
Click on a project's title to view more details.
Christopher Schell - Professor, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Rapid urbanization is a major driver of the transition to the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch in which ecosystems are dominated by human influence. Urban regions have been drastically transformed compared to their historical antecedents, and though many species have been unable to persist in these altered landscapes, a surprising...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesStefano Schiavon - Professor, Architecture
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
It is widely known that providing occupants with a “good” view to the outdoors offers measurable benefits, including higher property values and improved mental, physical, and emotional health. However, the selection and design of fenestration materials can significantly degrade this visibility, and we still have a limited understanding of how...
Engineering, Design & TechnologiesEric Schickler - Professor, Political Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Union members have increasingly left the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party. Despite this, many labor union leaders still prominently support the Democratic Party with a few exceptions. How is that the case when labor unions are ostensibly democratically designed? Specifically, why are union leaders so overwhelmingly supportive of...
Social SciencesEric Schickler - Professor, Political Science
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
State parties regularly produce platforms that outline their positions on major issues facing the state and nation. These platforms have been used by scholars to understand the development of party polarization, changes in party positions on major issues, and dynamics of accountability and responsiveness in the U.S. political system. They...
Social SciencesHilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. In a recent collaborative work, we found that the transcription factor Ikaros is expressed in medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTEC), and important for the...
Biological & Health SciencesHilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. We have found that the transcription factor Ikaros is important in development of eosinophils, a type of white blood cell that is part of...
Biological & Health SciencesHilde Schjerven - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Schjerven Lab at UCSF studies the transcription factor Ikaros (encoded by the Ikzf1 gene) and its different biological roles in immune cell development and disease. Ikaros is an important tumor suppressor in B-cell lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia, and we have multiple projects in our lab to study how...
Biological & Health SciencesCarlos Schmidt-Padilla - Professor, Public Policy
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Secure and well-functioning property rights are a core institution behind investment, access to credit, and local development—yet in much of Latin America, property records are fragmented across registries and cadastral offices, and the quality of titling and enforcement varies widely across space and time. This project assembles and...
Social SciencesMarieka Schotland - Executive Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Innovations for Youth (i4Y) is a cross-disciplinary research-action center that catalyzes on innovative interventions, practices and policies to improve equity and well-being for youth locally and worldwide. Our current portfolio includes work on marginalized youth, youth voice, youth participatory action research, and student mental health and wellbeing...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Founded in 2004, the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) conducts experiment-based investigations of issues of interest to social scientists. Xlab supports UC Berkeley’s world class research by providing resources such as access to participant pools, experiment coordination, payment support, access to softwares, and more. It also provides technical and...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Technology is rapidly changing, giving humans more options than ever to decide how to communicate with each other. Whereas online options to engage with others are expanding, in-person contact seems to be decreasing. How are these changes affecting the way people connect with each other? How does this affect...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
If humans are social animals, then why do they choose to remain disconnected with people sometimes? Here we explore when people don’t want to connect with others, such as when they are strangers. In one set of studies, we asked strangers to have conversations on public transportation (e.g., buses, cabs...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyJuliana Schroeder - Professor, Business, Haas School, Psychology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Human-GAI Interaction is inevitably becoming more common. We seek to address the following research questions: 1. What are the pros and cons of mandatory disclosure of non-political deepfake commercials? Would the disclosure affect people's trust towards the political information they see? 2. How could GAI aid crowd-based...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyThomas Schutzius - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project aims to apply supervised machine learning techniques to optimize the performance of photovoltaic (PV) systems. By analyzing real-world operational data such as weather conditions, soiling levels, shading patterns, and energy output, we will develop predictive models that can accurately forecast PV performance and identify factors that reduce...
Thomas Schutzius - Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project aims to apply supervised machine learning to understand and predict the ice growth process in various solutions. Beyond modeling the overall freezing rate, we seek to capture detailed aspects of ice crystal morphology — such as tip radius, dendrite arm spacing, and branching patterns — under different thermal and chemical...
David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Constructed wetlands can passively treat pollutants including nitrogen, pathogens, and trace organic chemicals. Given their low-maintenance and design flexibility, treatment wetlands are appropriate for rural, decentralized, and low-resource settings, and can provide effective, environmentally friendly water-treatment in urban areas. As part of our research, we are conducting...
David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
My project aims to determine the fate of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a subsurface wetland system receiving treated wastewater. I use geomedia sorbents, like activated carbon, to sequester PFAS below ground as water flows through our field site, which we call the Horizontal Levee. I am working to...
David Sedlak - Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
My project aims to determine the fate of trace metals in a subsurface wetland system (the “Horizontal Levee”) receiving treated wastewater and municipal wastewater reuse concentrate. This system relies on redox gradients and geomedia sorbents, such as granular activated carbon, to immobilize trace metals below ground as water flows through...
Youngho Seo - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Full- no new appr needed 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: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Keywords: image processing, image analysis, segmentation, medical imaging, PET, MRI, cardiac efficiency Myocardial injury causes how the heart muscle consumes energy and converts it to the work required for heart function. This damage could be either localized or global; however, to gain this knowledge, we should compute the local myocardial...
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: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Most, if not all, animals harbor extensive microbial communities, which contribute to host health and fitness. In humans, the gut microbiome holds ~100 times more genes than the host genome, encoding diverse functions. This is a theme in most animals, and raises the question of what is the significance of...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichael Shapira - Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Nectar-feeding birds rely on extremely high metabolic rates and often accumulate fat as an adaptive strategy for migration, fasting, or periods of limited food availability. Recent work across animals suggests that gut microbes play an important role in regulating host metabolism and fat accumulation. In particular, the dietary compound...
Biological & Health Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful particle accelerator ever built and researchers use its data to study what the universe was like shortly after the big bang. Researchers at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) play a key role in all aspects of the ATLAS...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesMarjorie Shapiro - Professor, Physics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
LBNL researchers developed a novel method to restore early sound recordings using methods from precision optical metrology and data analysis (see: irene.lbl.gov). These methods have been applied to a number of important historical collections of early recorded sound. Over the past two years a project at the Smithsonian Institution in...
Mathematical and Physical Sciences Arts & HumanitiesValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
A statewide effort was launched in 2020 to respond to pandemic-accelerated social and emotional needs of young people in schools. This project aims to build capacity at County Offices of Education around California to become regional hubs to support the delivery of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research doesn’t always involve the youth themselves. This project will train and support undergraduate students to create SEL tools for a statewide youth program: Friday Night Live. Specific...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyPrayash Sharma Pyakurel - Research Scientist, Space Sciences Laboratory
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Magnetic reconnection in current sheets is an energy conversion process that rapidly converts magnetic energy into particle energy. In turbulent plasmas, which contain a large number of intense current sheets, reconnection has long been suggested to play an important role in the dissipation of turbulence energy at kinetic scales. The...
Mathematical and Physical SciencesKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
The Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology is a research unit in the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies for our excavation and research program at the Sanctuary of Zeus in Nemea, Greece. The Center archive houses a photographic and text archive that is in the process of being re...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesKim Shelton - Professor, Classics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
MYCENAE, largest and wealthiest of the palatial citadels of the Late Bronze Age, has been under investigation for more almost 150 years. The site, Petsas House, is a large building complex in the largely unexplored main settlement area. The current project was initiated in 2000 and has uncovered at least...
Social Sciences Arts & HumanitiesNa'ama Shenhav - Professor , Public Policy
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Beyond being a source of income, jobs can potentially convey information about a worker’s abilities, personality, or values. For example, individuals may assume that a person who is a teacher is empathetic, or that a lawyer is assertive. In turn, this could imply that a person’s job may affect how...
Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesMichal Shuldman - Assistant Teaching Professor, Integrative Biology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project looks at how undergraduate biology students perceive their instructors' practices in introductory courses at a large research university. While most education reform efforts in biology focus on “inclusive teaching” have been defined by instructors and researchers, there hasn’t been much focus on how students themselves view inclusion. We’re...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesMichael Silver - Professor, Optometry
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP) is conducting clinical trials with human subjects to investigate how psilocybin impacts the human brain and mind. We are currently running two FDA-regulated trials that aim to provide mechanistic insights that may inform the development of future treatments for...
Biological & Health SciencesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
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
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
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
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesPark Sinchaisri - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Our lab works on human-AI interfaces for applications in the future of work. The overarching goals are to (i) understand how humans learn and make decisions in complex environments, (ii) design interpretable algorithms that improve human decision-making, and (iii) apply our frameworks in real-world settings, taking into...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Mathematical and Physical Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesSarah Singh - Professor, Optometry
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Myopia (nearsightedness) is a common vision condition that results in the need for glasses or contact lenses in order to see distant objects clearly. Myopia is caused by the eyes growing longer than they are supposed to, and so there are also many negative eye health consequences associated with myopia...
Biological & Health SciencesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor Jennifer Skeem...
Social SciencesJennifer Skeem - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
About Us Risk-Resilience Research (RRR) is a fun, dynamic, interdisciplinary team of students, staff, and scholars at the University of California, Berkeley. Our mission is to improve justice, safety, and well-being for people and communities at risk, through policy-relevant research. The RRR lab is directed by Professor...
Social SciencesCailin Slattery - Professor, Business, Haas School
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This URAP project exposes students to one or more of the ongoing projects in industrial organization and political economy, including topics on lobbying, state government, and business subsidies. Examples of ongoing projects include work on regulations that prevent Tesla from selling cars directly to consumers, and the state's use of...
Social SciencesCarolyn Smith - Professor, Anthropology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) at UC Berkeley has a collection of literature and assessments related to Native American cultural heritage and the history of archaeological work in the western US states. The goal of this project is to catalog the collection of ARF literature and reports in order to...
Jae Ho Sohn - Professor, UC San Francisco
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Radiologists are doctors who specialize in extracting clinically useful information from medical images (such as CT, chest X-ray, and MRIs) and communicating these findings with other doctors. We leverage abstract clinical reasoning and visual pattern recognition skills to extract hidden information in the images that may be important for...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDawn Song - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in diverse and critical applications, ranging from customer service to decision support systems. As these agents become more integral to various domains, ensuring their safety and trustworthiness is paramount to prevent misuse, unintended behaviors, and to build user confidence. This project focuses...
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 AI models become more complex, understanding their internal decision-making processes becomes increasingly challenging. This project aims to advance the interpretability of AI systems, making their operations transparent and their decisions explainable to users and developers alike. Areas of focus include: - Explainable AI Techniques: Developing methods such as attention...
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
The intersection of AI and software security presents unique opportunities and challenges. This project focuses on leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance secure code generation and protect software systems from vulnerabilities. Key objectives include: - Secure Code Generation: Developing AI models that can generate code snippets with built-in security best practices...
Engineering, Design & Technologies