Leadership
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Don Norman
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Mai Thi Nguyen
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Michèle Morris
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Nadir Weibel
Faculty
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Camille Nebeker
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Clemence Idoux
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David Kirsh
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Edward Wang
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Eliah Aronoff-Spencer
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Elizabeth V. Eikey
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Eric Hekler
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Haijun Xia
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Jim Hollan
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Keolu Fox
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Laurel Riek
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Lilly Irani
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Lisa Cartwright
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Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
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Michael W. Meyer
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Nadir Weibel
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Parinaz Naghizadeh
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Philip Guo
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Pinar Yoldas
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Scott Klemmer
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Steven Dow
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William Griswold
Staff
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Elysia Mac
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James White
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Kevin Popović
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Matthew Morris
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Nivardo Valenzuela
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Olivia Gale
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Sheila Oberrecht
Researchers
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Brian Hempel
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Brian McInnis
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Jane E
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Nan Renner
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Scott McAvoy
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Vera Khovanskaya
Graduate Students
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Ava Fascetti
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Chen Chen
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Clarissa Chevalier
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Colin Barry
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Cora Coleman
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Coral Pereda Serras
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Devamardeep Hayatpur
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Emilia Rosselli-del-turco
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Fuling Sun
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Hayden Mctavish
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Hui Xin Ng
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Jessica De Souza
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Joe Riley
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Junghwan Park
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Lian Song
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Louis Gutierrez
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Lu Sun
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Mary Anne Smart
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Matin Yarmand
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Matthew Beaudouin-Lafon
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Nancy Liu
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Nazanin Sabri
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Paul Wynns
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Peiling Jiang
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Poorva Satish Bedmutha
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Rima (Yining) Cao
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Robert Kaufman
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Sinan Xie
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Srishti Palani
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Tone Xu
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Tony Cho
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Tony Li
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Udayan Tandon
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Varun Viswanath
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Verónica Uribe del Aguila
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Yinan (Tom) Xuan
Alan Card, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics
Alison Moore, Professor, Medicine and Psychiatry
Amy Alexander, Professor, Visual Arts
Ben Bergen, Professor, Cognitive Science
Bobby McElver, Acting Associate Professor, Theatre
Christo Sims, Associate Professor, Communication
Haojian Jin, Assistant Professor Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI)
Imani N. S Munyaka, Assistant Professor, Jacobs School of Engineering
Jordan Crandall, Professor, Visual Arts
Wayne Yang, Professor, Ethnic Studies; Provost of John Muir College
Keith Pezzoli, Director of Bioregional Center for Sustainability Science, Planning and Design
Kevin Patrick, Professor Emeritus, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences
Kristen Vaccaro, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Kyong Park, Professor, Visual Arts
Linda Hill, Clinical Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Sciences; Director, UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency
Memo Akten, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Michael Kurisu, Director, UCSD Center for Integrative Medicine and Clinical Training – Osteopathic Center San Diego
Michael Yip, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mirle Rabinowitz-Bussell, Academic Director, Real Estate and Development
Morana Alac, Associate Professor, Communication
Nate Delson, Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ricardo Dominguez, Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Sarah Aarons, Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Susan Peerson, Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning
Victoria Petrovich, Professor, Theatre
Current
Bill Fulton, Visiting Policy Designer, (July 2023 – Present)
Giwon Choi, Korea University Ansan Hospital, (September 2023 – Present)
Zofia Bednarowska-Michaiel, University of Warwick, (September 2023 – Present)
Past
Andrea Alessandrini, Visiting Scholar, University of Dundee (July 2016 – September 2016)
Aurelien Tabard, Visiting Scholar, Université Claude Bernard Lyon (July 2017)
Byron Fergerson, Associate Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology
Dan Russell, Visiting Scholar, Google (May 2015, May 2016, May 2017)
Eric von Hippel, Visiting Scholar, MIT Sloan School of Management (January 2018)
Jan Borchers, Visting Scholar, RWTH Aachen University (October 2016 – March 2017)
Kristian Borup Antonsen, Visiting Researcher, Aarhus University (September – December 2018)
Lawrence Herzog, Visiting Scholar, UCSD Urban Studies and Planning (August 2021 – Current)
M.C., Schraefel, Visiting Scholar, University of Southampton (November – December 2018)
Maria del Mar Martinez (November 2020 – December 2023)
Max Mühlhäuser, Visiting Scholar, Technical University of Darmstadt (June 2022 – September 2022)
Mor Shilon, Visiting Scholar, Israel Institute of Technology (November 2020 – December 2023)
Norbert Streitz, Visiting Scholar, Smart Future Initiative (August 2015)
Paul Hekkert, Visiting Scholar, Delft University of Technology (February 2017)
Peggy Zwolinski, Visiting Scholar, Grenoble INP – Génie Industriel (December 2017 – April 2018)
Pieter Jan Stappers, Visiting Scholar, Delft University of Technology (July 2015)
Sheng-Feng Qin, Visiting Scholar, Northumbria School of Design (November 2016 – March 2017)
Teja Rot, CEC ArtsLink Visiting Artist, (October 2023 – December 2023)
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