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Aldo Antonelli (Ph.D.
Philosophy,
University of Pittsburgh) Professor of Social Science. Research
areas: knowledge representation an non-monotonic reasoning;
non-standard
set theories, especially Quine's "New Foundations."; logical
foundations
of game theory and applications to distributed artificial intelligence.
Pierre F. Baldi (Ph.D.
Mathematics,
California Institute of Technology) Professor/Director, Institute
for
Genomics & Bioinformatics, Information and Computer Science.
Research areas: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Probabilistic
Modeling,
Machine Learning.
Jeffrey
Barrett (Ph.D. Philosophy, Columbia University) Associate
Professor
of Social Science. Research areas: philosophy of science; theory of
knowledge;
philosophy of physics.
William
H. Batchelder (Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford University)
Professor
of Cognitive Sciences. Research areas: Mathematical modeling and
measurement
methodology in the social sciences.
Michael Birnbaum,
(Ph.D. Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles) Professor of Psychology, Cal State
University, Fullerton. Research areas: Human judgment,
decision-making, and utility measurement.
John
P. Boyd (Ph.D. Communication Sciences, University of Michigan) Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology. Research areas: Algebraic models of
social
relations, quantitative methods, and sociobiology. William A. Branch
(Ph.D. Economics, University of Oregon) Assistant Professor of
Economics. Research areas: Macroeconomic Dynamics. Myron
(Mike) Braunstein, (Ph.D. Psychology, University of
Michigan). Professor of Psychology,
University
of California, Irvine. Research areas: Visual Perception,
especially depth and motion perception.
David Brownstone
(Ph.D.
Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics, University of California,
Berkeley)
Professor of Economics. Research areas: Computer-intensive analysis
of
statistical estimation strategies and applied econometrics.
Jan K. Brueckner
(Ph.D.
Economics, Stanford University). Professor of Economics. Research
areas: Urban economics, Public Economics, Industrial
Organization, Housing Finance. Michael
Burton, (Ph.D. Anthropology, Stanford University) Professor of Anthropology,
University of California, Irvine, Research areas: Economic and Spcial
Anthropology. Carter
Butts (Ph.D. Sociology, Mellon University) Assistant Professor
of
Sociology. Research areas: Social networks, Bayesian methods,
informant
accuracy, strategic behavior
Charles
Chubb
(Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, New York University) Professor
of Cognitive Sciences. University of California, Irvine.
Research areas: Vision, perception,
information
processing.
Linda
Cohen
(Ph.D. Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology) Professor
of Economic. University of California, Irvine.
Research areas: Political Economy, public choice, and government
regulation of business.
Rui De Figueiredo (Ph.D. Applied
Mathematics, Harvard) Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
and Mathematics. Research areas: Mathematical foundations of neural
networks,
contextual feedback models of automated image understanding.
Art
De Vany, (Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Los
Angeles). Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of
California, Irvine. Research areas: Models of industry
organization, health, analysis and policy of extreme events,
information processing and market institutions.
Barbara
A. Dosher (Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, University of Oregon) Professor
of Cognitive Sciences and Dean, School of Social Sciences. Research
areas:
Memory, visual perception, depth from visual motion.
Michael
D'Zmura (Ph.D.
Psychology,
University of Rochester) Professor of Cognitive Sciences.
Research
areas: Vision, color, attention, image understanding, virtual reality.
David A.
Eppstein (Ph.D.
Computer Sciences, Columbia University) Professor of Computer Sciences. Research
areas: Computational geometry and graphalgorithms, including finite
element meshing, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths, dynamic graph
data structures, graph coloring, graph drawing, geometric optimization,
computational robust statistics, and geometric optimization.
Jean-Claude
Falmagne (Ph.D. Psychological Sciences, University of Brussels) Professor
of Cognitive Sciences. Research areas: Assessment of knowledge,
measurement
theory, psychophysics, mathematical psychology.
Katherine
Faust (Ph.D. Social Science, University of California, Irvine) Professor
of Sociology. Research areas: Mathematical,
computational, and conceptual models to study complex phenotypes.
Steven
A. Frank (Ph.D. Biology, University of Michigan) Professor
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Research areas:
evolution of social behavior; design of reliability. Linton
C. Freeman, (Ph.D. Sociology, Northwestern University). Research
Professor of Social Sciences, University of California , Irvine .
Research areas: Cognition of social structure, social networks.
Michelle Garfinkel
(Ph.D. Economics, Brown University ). Professor of Economics,
University of California , Irvine . Research areas: Strategic aspects
of Monetary and Fiscal Policies.
Amihai
Glazer (Ph.D. Economics, Yale University) Professor of
Economics.
Research Areas: Public Choice, especially concerning commitment
problems.
Bernard
Grofman (Ph.D. Political Science, University of Chicago) Professor
of Political Science Research areas: Models of group decision
making,
models of individual choice, electoral competition.
Donald
Hoffman (Ph.D. Computational Psychology, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)
Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Information and Computer Science.
Research areas: Formal theories of perception, human and machine
vision,
recovery of depth from images.
Geoffrey
Iverson (Ph.D. Theoretical Physics, University of Adelaide,
Australia;
Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, New York University) Professor of
Cognitive
Sciences. Research areas: Psychophysics, vision, statistical
estimation
and testing of ordinal models.
Marek
Kaminski (Ph.D. Government and Politics, University of Maryland) Associate
Professor of Political Science. Research areas: Political systems
and
economics in transition, Formal models of voting, Political
consequences
of electoral laws, Models of allocation and social choise.
L. Robin
Keller
(Ph.D. Management Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles) Professor
of Administration and Social Sciences, Graduate School of Management.
Research areas: Individual decision making, risk analysis, decision
problem
structuring.
Igor
Kopylov (Ph.D. University of Rochester) Assistant Professor of
Economics.
Research areas: Microeconomic theory, decision theory, and game theory.
Natalia Komarova
(Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona), Assistant Professor, Department of
Mathematics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.
Research areas: Mathematical modeling and
biology, virus dynamics, cancer modeling.
Michael
David Lee
(Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Adelaide), Assistant Professor, Department of
Cognitive Sciences. Research Areas: Mathematical and
computational models of stimulus representation, categorization,
memory, decision-making and problem-solving.
R. Duncan
Luce (Ph.D. Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology,
Cambridge) 
NAS Member and
Founding Director of the Institute for Mathematical
Behavioral Sciences, Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive
Sciences,
and Research Professor of Economics. Research areas: Measurement
theory,
measurement, game theory, audition, psychophysics, decision theory,
response
times.
Mark Machina (Ph.D.
Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Professor
of
Economics, University of California, San Diego. Research
areas: Utility, decision making, risk behavior.
Penelope
Maddy (Ph.D. Philosophy, Princeton) UCI Chanceller's Professor
of
Logic and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics. Research areas:
philosophy
of mathematics, especially the philosophy of set theory.
Michael McBride (Ph.D.
Economics, Yale University) Assistant Professor of
Economics.
Research areas: Microeconomics, gametheory, and political economy.
Anthony
McGann (Ph.D. Political Science, Duke University) Associate
Professor
of Political Science. Research Areas: party systems,
democratic
theory, formal models of political systems, European government
Louis
Narens
(Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles) Professor
of
Cognitive Sciences, and Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Graduate
Advisor
for IMBS. Research areas: Measurement theory, foundations of
science,
decision theory.
Andrew
Noymer
(Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Berkeley ) Assistant
Professor
of Sociology, Research Areas: Medical Demography,
Mathematical Sociology, Quantitative Methodology. Richard S. Palais
(Ph.D. Mathematics, Harvard University) Adjunct Professor
of
Mathematics: Research Areas: Mathematical Visualization and
more specifically to continue the development of Macintosh program
3D-Filmstrip (now called 3D-XplorMath).
Dale Poirier (Ph.D.
Economics, University of Wisconsin), Professor of Economics.
Research
areas: econometrics, both theoretical and empirical, specializing in
Bayesian
econometrics
. David M.
Riefer, (Ph.D. Psychology, University of California, Irvine).
Professor of Psychology, California State university at San
Bernardino. Research areas: Memory, cognitive science, and
mathematical Psychology.
A. Kimball Romney (Ph.D.
Social
Anthropology, Harvard University) NAS Member and Professor
of Anthropology.
Research
areas: Cognitive anthropology, cultural consensus, informant accuracy,
quantitative
methods.
Stergios
Skaperdas (Ph.D. Economics, Johns Hopkins University) Professor
of
Economics. Research areas: Economic Theory and Political
Economy.
Brian
Skyrms (Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh) NAS Member and UCI Distinguished
Professor of Social
Sciences, Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and professor of
economics.
Research areas: Probability, induction, causation, rational choice.
Kenneth
A. Small (Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Berkeley) Professor
of Economics. Research areas: Urban, energy and transportation
economics, econometrics.
Padhraic Smyth (Ph.D.
Computer
Engineering, California Institute of Technology) Professor of
Information and Computer Science. Research areas: Statistical
pattern
recognition, probabilistic learning, information theory, artificial
intelligence,
image and time-series modeling.
George
Sperling (Ph.D. Psychology, Harvard University) NAS Member and Distinguished
Professor of Cognitive
Sciences. Human information processing, vision and visual
perception,
computer vision and image processing.
Ramesh
Srinivasan (Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University) Assistant
Professor of Cognitive Sciences. Research areas: Perception,
development
and cortical dynamics.
Hal Stern (Ph.D.
Statistics,
University
of California, Irvine) Professor of Statistics. Research areas:
Bayesian
methods, model diagnostics, statistical computing.
Mark
Steyvers (Ph.D. Psychology, Indiana University) Assistant Professor
of Cognitive Sciences. Research areas: Computational models of
memory,
reasoning and perceptions.
Rein
Taagepera (Ph.D. Physics, University of Delaware) Research Professor
of Political Sciences. Research areas: Quantitatively predictive
models; electroral and party systems; Finno-Ugric area studies.
Carole
Uhlaner (Ph.D. Political Science, Harvard University) Associate
Professor
of Political Science. Research areas: Rational actor models and
statistical
analyses of political behavior, especially participation and voting;
decision
theory; comparative politics.
Christian
Werner (Ph.D. Geography, The Free University of Berlin) Emeritus
Professor
of Mathematical Geography. Research areas: Network theory, graph
theory,
operations research methods, models of geographic linkages and
distributions.
Douglas
White (Ph.D. Anthropology, Social Theory, University of Minnesota)
Professor
of Anthrolology. Research areas: social networks, longitudinal
social
demography, cross cultural, quantitative methods.
Charles
E. (Ted) Wright (Ph.D. Psychology, University of Michigan) Associate
Professor of Cognitive Sciences. Research areas: motor processing
and control, visual
search,
handwriting
Jack Xin
(Ph.D. Courant Institute, New York University) Professor
of Mathematics. Research areas: Partial Differential
Equations (PDE), Asymptotic Analysis, Scientific Computation, and their
Applications in Fluid Dynamics, Voice Signal Processing, Biology,
Nonlinear Optics and Geoscience. John
I. Yellott (Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford University) Emeritus
Professor
of Cognitive Sciences. Research areas: Vision, probabilistic choice
models.
Hongkai Zhao (Ph.D.
Mathematics, UCLA) Associate Professor
of Mathematics. Research areas: Applied and computational
mathematics with applications in physics, engineering, imaging science
and computer vision. Kimberly
Jameson, UCI Project Scientist
Vladimir
A. Lefebvre (Ph.D. Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University) Researcher
for Cognitive Sciences. Research areas: Human reflexion,
mathematical modelling of the human inner world, military psychology.
NAS Member and
Distinguished Professor of Economics and
Mathematics. Research areas: mathematics
and application of
dynamical
system to social sciences.