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Faculty

Director

 
Roland Winston
Director, UC Solar
Distinguished Professor
School of Natural Sciences
School of Engineering
University of California, Merced
rwinston@ucmerced.edu
 

Co-Directors

 
Constance Chang-Hasnain
Co-Director, UC Solar
Professor
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley
cch@eecs.berkeley.edu
  Umesh Mishra
Co-Director, UC Solar
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
mishra@ece.ucsb.edu
         
Adam Moule 
Co-Director, UC Solar
Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
UC Davis
amoule@ucdavis.edu
  Gerardo C. Diaz
Co-Director, UC Solar
School of Engineering
UC Merced
gdiaz@ucmerced.edu
 
         
Renkun Chen
Co-Director, UC Solar
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC San Diego
rkchen@ucsd.edu
    Matthew Law
Co-Director, UC Solar
Assistant Professor
Chemistry
UC Irvine
matt.law@uci.edu
         
  Alfredo A. Martinez-Morales
Co-Director, UC Solar
Research Faculty
College of Engineering
UC Riverside
alfmart@cert.ucr.edu
    Michael Isaacson
Co-Director, UC Solar
Professor
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
msi@soe.ucsc.edu
         
 Ravi Prasher - Co-Director, UC Solar Ravi Prasher
Co-Director, UC Solar
Division Director
Energy Storage and Distributed Resources
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
rsprasher@ibl.gov
    Yang Yang
Co-Director, UC Solar
Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
UCLA
yangy@ucla.edu
 

Faculty

 
Sarah Kurtz - Professor - School of Engineering UC Merced Sarah Kurtz
Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
skurtz@ucmerced.edu
  Alberto E. Cerpa
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
acerpa@ucmerced.edu
         
YangQuan Chen
Associate Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
ychen53@ucmerced.edu
  Steve DenBaars
Professor
College of Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
denbaars@engineering.ucsb.edu
           
Nael El-Farra
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
UC Davis
nhelfarra@ucdavis.edu
  Sayantani Ghosh
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced
sghosh@ucmerced.edu
         
Qinghua Guo
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
qguo@ucmerced.edu
  Linda S. Hirst
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced
lhirst@ucmerced.edu
         
Ali Javey
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley
ajavey@berkeley.edu
  Sungho Jin
Distinguished Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC San Diego
sujin@ucsd.edu
         
Zhaowei Liu
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC San Diego
zhaowei@ucsd.edu
  Jennifer Lu
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
Jennifer.lu@ucmerced.edu
         
Yanbao Ma
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
yma5@ucmerced.edu
  Patrick E. Mantey Patrick E. Mantey
Professor Computer Engineering
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
UC Santa Cruz
mantey@soe.ucsc.edu
         
Ashlie Martini
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
amartini@ucmerced.edu
  UC Merced James Palko Assistant Professor School of Engineering James Palko
Assistant Professor

School of Engineering
UC Merced
jpalko@ucmerced.edu
         
Sayeff Salahuddin
Assistant Professor
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley
sayeef@eecs.berkeley.edu
  James Speck
Professor
College of Engineering
UC Santa Barbara
speck@mrl.ucsb.edu
         
Daniel Sperling
Professor
Civil Engineering and Environmental Science and Policy
UC Davis
dsperling@ucdavis.edu
  Jian-Qiao Sun
Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
jqsun@ucmerced.edu
         
Chunchih Tung
Assistant Professor
School of Engineering
UC Merced
ctung@ucmerced.edu
  Sadrul Ula
Research Faculty
College of Engineering
UC Riverside
sula@cert.ucr.edu
         
Jerry Woodall
Distinguished Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UC Davis
jwoodall@ucdavis.edu
  Ming Wu
Professor
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley
wu@eecs.berkeley.edu
    
Eli Yablonovitch
Professor
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley
eliy@eecs.berkeley.edu