DToD Faculty

SHANKAR SASTRY

Affiliations: PI, Academic Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies, DevEng, EECS, UCB
Disciplines: Artificial Intelligence, control, intelligent systems, and robotics, cyber-physical systems and design automation, security, signal processing

ANNALEE SAXENIAN

Affiliations: Co-PI, I School, DevEng, UCB
Disciplines: Regional economic development, entrepreneurship, political science, city planning

DANIEL FLETCHER

Affiliations: Co-PI, BioE, DevEng, UCB
Disciplines: Biochemistry, cell motility, signaling, and host-pathogen interactions, optical microscopy, force microscopy, and microfluidics, infectious diseases

CHARISMA ACEY

Affiliations: Co-PI, CRP, DevEng, UCB
Disciplines: Sustainable urbanism in the U.S. and the developing world, political economy of poverty reduction and access to basic services, social equity and participatory decision making, public participation GIS and spatial analysis

MATTHEW POTTS

Affiliations: Co-PI, CNR, DevEng, UCB
Disciplines: Food-energy-water systems, nature climate solutions, co-production of ecosystem services, land-use planning and policy, environmental and resource economics

JOSHUA BLUMENSTOCK

Affiliations: Co-PI, I School, DevEng, UCB
Disciplines: Development economics, data science, Machine Learning, Econometrics, ICTD

REDIET ABEBE

Affiliations: Co-PI, DevEng, EECS, UCB
Disciplines: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS), Theory (THY)

ZIAD OBERMEYER

Affiliations: Co-PI, SPH, UCB
Disciplines: Medicine, machine learning, health

KOSA GOUCHER-LAMBERT

Affiliations: Co-PI, ME, UCB
Disciplines: Product design, artificial intelligence, cognition, sustainable design

KRISTIN BASS

Affiliations: Lead External Evaluator
Disciplines: Educational Research and Evaluation

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