Faculty Members
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
Yen-Sheng
Chiang (Ph.D. Sociology, Washington University), Assistant Professor of Sociology.
Research areas: Social Networks, Group Behaviors, Simulation Modeling
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.
Simon Huttegger (Ph.D.
Universität Salzburg), Assistant Professor of
Logic and Philosophy of Science Science. Research areas;
Probability Theory; Philosophy of Probability; Induction, Decision
Theory, Social Philosophy, Dynamical Systems.
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.
Simon
Asher Levin (Ph.D. Mathematics, The University of Maryland,
college Park) Director, The Center
for BioComplexity, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology,
Princeton University. Research Areas: Dynamics of populations and communities; spatial
heterogeneity and problems of scale; evolutionary ecology; theoretical
and mathematical ecology; biodiversity and ecosystem processes.
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.
RESEARCHERS
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.
Institute for Mathematical
Behavioral Sciences
NAS Member and
Distinguished Professor of Economics and
Mathematics. Research areas: mathematics
and application of
dynamical
system to social sciences.