Renata Durães Ribeiro
Mario Colon
After 4 years with the La Kretz Center, Mario is moving to UC Santa Barbara to pursue a Master of Environmental Science & Management at the Bren School- where science, management, law, economics, and policy are integrated as part of an interdisciplinary approach to environmental problem-solving.
Education
2013 – B.S. Environmental Science, UCLA
Research Interests
Dedicating my time to animal conservation has always been important to me. Herps in particular interest me because of their undeniable roles in all ecosystems. Within and beyond our concrete jungles, reptiles and amphibians are everywhere; yet people misunderstand them, shy away from them, and ultimately fear them. By working with the La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and first-hand researchers associated with the La Kretz Center I hope to help conserve herps and by association other species in the greater Los Angeles area and beyond, as well as help the public understand their crucial roles in ecosystems.
Jason Cong
Jason Cong received his B.S. degree in computer science from Peking University in 1985, his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Currently, he is a Chancellor’s Professor at the Computer Science Department of University of California, Los Angeles, director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), co-director of UCLA/Peking University Joint Research Institute in Science and Engineering, and co-director of the VLSI CAD Laboratory. He also served as the department chair from 2005 to 2008.
Dr. Cong’s research interests include computer-aided design of VLSI circuits and systems, design and synthesis of system-on-a-chip, programmable systems, novel computer architectures, nano-systems, and highly scalable algorithms. He has published over 300 research papers and led over 30 research projects in these areas. Dr. Cong received a number of awards and recognitions, including t the Ross J. Martin Award for Excellence in Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, the NSF Young Investigator Award in 1993, the Northrop Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award from UCLA in 1993, the ACM/SIGDA Meritorious Service Award in 1998, and the SRC Technical Excellence Award in 2000. He also received five Best Paper Awards selected for the 1995 IEEE Trans. on CAD, the 2005 International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), the 2005 ACM Transaction on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, the 2008 International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), and 2009 IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP) respectively. He was elected to an IEEE Fellow in 2000 and ACM Fellow in 2008.
Dr. Cong has served on the Technical Advisory Board of a number of EDA and silicon IP companies, including Atrenta, eASIC, Get2Chip, Magma Design Automation, and Ultima Interconnect Technologies. He was the founder and president of Aplus Design Technologies, Inc., until it was acquired by Magma Design Automation in 2003. Currently, he serves as the Chief Technology Advisor and Chairman of Board of AutoESL Design Technologies, Inc.
Dr. Cong has graduated 26 PhD students. A number of them are now faculty members in major research universities, including Georgia Tech., Purdue, SUNY Binghamton, UCLA, UIUC, and UT Austin. Others are taking key R&D or management positions in major EDA/computer/semiconductor companies or being founding members of high-tech startups.
Charles Corbett
Charles Corbett, Ph.D., is professor of Operations Management and Environmental Management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds a joint appointment at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.
Throughout his career, Corbett has been drawn to newly emerging research areas in operations management. “Once a domain becomes well-established, it gets the attention of many scholars who are much smarter than I am, so it’s time to move on to unplowed territory.”
A hallmark of Corbett’s research approach is adapting perspectives and methods from other disciplines. Early in his career, Corbett was one of the first researchers to model the conflicting interests of supply chain participants using game theory. He is among the pioneers studying environmental issues in operations and supply chains, which continues to be his main focus. More recently, Corbett is beginning to study operations of small businesses and entrepreneurs, another relatively unexplored area in operations management.
Working with CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project) in London, the leading collector of data on firms’ greenhouse gas emissions and climate change strategies, Corbett and colleagues are analyzing the carbon footprint in global supply chains of large firms to identify opportunities for cleaner, more sustainable processes. “Just measuring something like carbon footprint will often lead to improvements,” he says.
Corbett was the founding faculty director of Anderson’s Easton Technology Leadership Program (now the Easton Technology Management Center) and of the award-winning interdisciplinary UCLA Leaders in Sustainability graduate certificate program. He served as associate dean of the MBA program and, from 2009 to 2012, as faculty chairman and deputy dean for academic affairs at UCLA Anderson.
Corbett has worked with teams of MBA students to study emerging areas such as green building, carbon foot printing in global firms and eco-labeling, and with Ph.D. students on many of his research projects. In the classroom, Corbett’s objective is to get students to think about processes, no matter what they do or where they do it — though in 21st-century technology, once-familiar processes, like a physical assembly line, take the “invisible” form of information and ideas.
Education
Ph.D. Production and Operations Management, 1996, INSEAD
Drs. Operations Research, (M.Sc. equivalent) 1992, Erasmus University
Elected Fellow of the Production and Operations Management Society, 2013
Citibank Teaching Award, UCLA, June 2008
EMBA Class of 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award, June 2006
George Robbins Assistant Professor Teaching Award, 2002
AT&T Faculty Fellow of Industrial Ecology, 1998–1999
Randall Crane
Some of Professor Crane’s studies are applied planning problems, such as the provision of urban services in poor countries, governance reform, and transportation policy. Others involve more basic research on the costs and benefits of public policies, such as the influence of taxes on urban structure or the measure and meaning of sprawl. Recent projects include a study of water governance alternatives in the San Francisco Bay area, municipal governance and urban development strategies in Yemen, housing trends among low-income households in the U.S. (especially California), municipal capacity building and decentralization in Indonesia, the linkages among housing, transportation, and labor markets in growing cities, and the state of academic research on sprawl and smart growth.
Dana Cuff
Dr. Cuff holds her primary appointment in the Department of Architecture and a joint appointment in Urban Planning. She is the founding director of cityLAB, a research center at UCLA that explores the challenges facing the 21st century metropolis through design and research. Cuff’s work focuses on urban design, affordable housing, modernism, urban sensing technologies, and the politics of place. She has published widely on these topics, including the books Fast Forward Urbanism (edited with Roger Sherman, Princeton Architectural 2011) and The Provisional City (MIT 2000), a project supported by both the Getty and the National Endowment for the Arts. Through cityLAB, Cuff has expanded her studies of infrastructure, postsuburban Los Angeles, and new formulations of green design, most recently through funded research about the urban design implications of proposed high speed rail. She organized the design ideas competition called WPA 2.0: Working Public Architecture which attracted 400 submissions from students and design professionals around the world in 2009. Dr. Cuff teaches various courses related to the profession of architecture as well as special seminars on cultural issues, architectural theory, and urbanism.