84 faculty and 31 courses in Computer Science at University of California, Irvine.
- Pierre F. Baldi, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Director Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics h-index 118
Notable: “Assessing the accuracy of prediction algorithms for classification: an overview” (2000) · 2,150 citations
- Gene Y. Tsudik, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science h-index 81
Notable: “A security architecture for computational grids” (1998) · 1,251 citations
- Xiaohui Xie, Professor of Computer Science and Developmental and Cell Biology h-index 78
Notable: “A Bivalent Chromatin Structure Marks Key Developmental Genes in Embryonic Stem Cells” (2006) · 5,420 citations
- Michael Carey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 76
Notable: “Score Normalization for Text-Independent Speaker Verification Systems” (2000) · 700 citations
- Amir M. Rahmani, Professor of Nursing and Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 74
Notable: “Internet of Things applications: A systematic review” (2018) · 584 citations
- Jing Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Biological Chemistry h-index 72
Notable: “Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)” (2021) · 604 citations
- Sameer Singh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Language Science h-index 68
Notable: “"Why Should I Trust You?"” (2016) · 15,279 citations
- Sven Koenig, Chancellor's Professor and Bren Chair of Computer Science h-index 67
Notable: “Ridesharing: The state-of-the-art and future directions” (2013) · 881 citations
- Ramesh Chandra Jain, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 65
Notable: “Content-based multimedia information retrieval” (2006) · 1,524 citations
- Nikil D. Dutt, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Sciences and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 64
Notable: “EXPRESSION” (1999) · 408 citations
- David A. Eppstein, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science h-index 62
Notable: “Finding the k Shortest Paths” (1998) · 1,375 citations
- Mark Steyvers, Department Chair and Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science and Psychological Science h-index 59
Notable: “Finding scientific topics” (2004) · 6,027 citations
- Vijay Vazirani, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science h-index 58
Notable: “Random generation of combinatorial structures from a uniform distribution” (1986) · 1,003 citations
- Sharad Mehrotra, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science h-index 54
Notable: “Relevance feedback: a power tool for interactive content-based image retrieval” (1998) · 1,770 citations
- Rina Dechter, Associate Dean for Research and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science h-index 54
Notable: “Temporal constraint networks” (1991) · 1,800 citations
- Aditi Majumder, Professor of Computer Science h-index 54
Notable: “Volume graphics” (1993) · 518 citations
- Charless C. Fowlkes, Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Sciences h-index 51
Notable: “A database of human segmented natural images and its application to evaluating segmentation algorithms and measuring ecological statistics” (2002) · 8,007 citations
- Ian G. Harris, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 50
Notable: “Updated high‐resolution grids of monthly climatic observations – the CRU TS3 .10 Dataset” (2013) · 6,303 citations
- Alexander Berg, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 48
Notable: “ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge” (2015) · 40,223 citations
- Carter Butts, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Computer Science h-index 48
Mathematical Sociology; Social and Biophysical Networks; Computational, Bayesian, and Applied Statistics; Simulation and Computational Methods; Molecular Modeling and Analysis; Human Judgment and Decision Making; Disasters Websites Networks
Notable: “ergm: A Package to Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks” (2008) · 1,298 citations
- Mohsen Imani, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 46
Notable: “Deep Fingerprinting” (2018) · 532 citations
- Xiangmin Xu, Chancellor's Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 41
Notable: “DehazeNet: An End-to-End System for Single Image Haze Removal” (2016) · 3,258 citations
- Mohammad Al Faruque, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 41
Notable: “Energy Management-as-a-Service Over Fog Computing Platform” (2015) · 289 citations
- Athina Markopoulou, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Computer Science h-index 40
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Notable: “Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs” (2010) · 685 citations
- Stanislaw M. Jarecki, Professor of Computer Science h-index 39
Notable: “Dynamic Searchable Encryption in Very-Large Databases: Data Structures and Implementation” (2014) · 674 citations
- Jeffrey L. Krichmar, Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science h-index 39
Notable: “Evolutionary robotics: The biology, intelligence, and technology of self‐organizing machines” (2001) · 642 citations
- Kwei-Jay Lin, Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Computer Science h-index 37
Notable: “Efficient algorithms for Web services selection with end-to-end QoS constraints” (2007) · 1,165 citations
- Fadi J. Kurdahi, Director Center for Embedded Computer Systems and Associate Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 37
Notable: “MorphoSys: an integrated reconfigurable system for data-parallel and computation-intensive applications” (2000) · 855 citations
- Michael S. Franz, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 37
Notable: “Power reduction techniques for microprocessor systems” (2005) · 389 citations
- Eric D. Mjolsness, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics h-index 36
Notable: “The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium forrepresentation and exchange of biochemical network models” (2003) · 3,150 citations
- Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Professor of Computer Science h-index 35
Notable: “Mobile Cloud Computing: A Survey, State of Art and Future Directions” (2013) · 384 citations
- Alexander T. Ihler, Professor of Computer Science h-index 34
Notable: “Fast collapsed gibbs sampling for latent dirichlet allocation” (2008) · 567 citations
- Erik B. Sudderth, Professor of Computer Science and Statistics h-index 34
Notable: “Nonparametric belief propagation” (2003) · 422 citations
- Shuang Zhao, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 34
Notable: “Matching Real Fabrics with Micro-Appearance Models” (2015) · 522 citations
- Alexandru Nicolau, Professor of Computer Science h-index 31
Notable: “Efficient utilization of scratch-pad memory in embedded processor applications” (1997) · 245 citations
- Marco Levorato, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 31
Notable: “Edge Learning for B5G Networks With Distributed Signal Processing: Semantic Communication, Edge Computing, and Wireless Sensing” (2023) · 590 citations
- Chen Li, Professor of Computer Science h-index 30
Notable: “Digital Twin for rotating machinery fault diagnosis in smart manufacturing” (2018) · 523 citations
- Marios Papaefthymiou, Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean and Professor of Computer Science h-index 30
Notable: “Precomputation-based sequential logic optimization for low power” (1994) · 314 citations
- Richard Futrell, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Language Science h-index 29
Notable: “How Efficiency Shapes Human Language” (2019) · 461 citations
- Hung Cao, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 29
Notable: “Power Approaches for Implantable Medical Devices” (2015) · 422 citations
- Daniel Epstein, Associate Professor of Informatics and Computer Science h-index 28
Notable: “A lived informatics model of personal informatics” (2015) · 494 citations
- Tony Givargis, Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science h-index 28
Notable: “A Survey on Concepts, Applications, and Challenges in Cyber-Physical Systems” (2014) · 388 citations
- Magda S. El Zarki, Professor of Computer Science and Informatics h-index 28
Notable: “SIR-based call admission control for DS-CDMA cellular systems” (1994) · 294 citations
- Dennis F. Kibler, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 26
Notable: “Instance-Based Learning Algorithms” (1991) · 4,118 citations
- Milena Mihail, Professor Emerita of Computer Science h-index 26
Notable: “Random walks in peer-to-peer networks” (2004) · 531 citations
- Richard H. Lathrop, Professor of Computer Science h-index 25
Notable: “Solving the multiple instance problem with axis-parallel rectangles” (1997) · 2,888 citations
- George S. Lueker, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 23
Notable: “Testing for the consecutive ones property, interval graphs, and graph planarity using PQ-tree algorithms” (1976) · 1,498 citations
- Jennifer Wong Ma, Vice Chair of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Teaching of Computer Science h-index 23
Notable: “Assessment and management of polycystic ovary syndrome: summary of an evidence‐based guideline” (2011) · 374 citations
- Qi Alfred Chen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 23
Notable: “A review of visual SLAM methods for autonomous driving vehicles” (2022) · 236 citations
- Brian Demsky, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 23
Notable: “Automatic detection and repair of errors in data structures” (2003) · 203 citations
- Wayne B. Hayes, Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 21
Notable: “Reducing storage requirements for biological sequence comparison” (2004) · 588 citations
- Yanning Shen, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Computer Science h-index 21
Notable: “Pattern-Coupled Sparse Bayesian Learning for Recovery of Block-Sparse Signals” (2014) · 282 citations
- Solmaz S. Kia, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “Distributed convex optimization via continuous-time coordination algorithms with discrete-time communication” (2015) · 695 citations
- Alexander Veidenbaum, Professor of Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “A configurable simulation environment for the efficient simulation of large-scale spiking neural networks on graphics processors” (2009) · 185 citations
- Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Professor of Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “Surface Reconstruction based on Lower Dimensional Localized Delaunay Triangulation” (2000) · 215 citations
- Iftekhar Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Informatics and Computer Science h-index 20
Notable: “Accessibility issues in Android apps” (2020) · 135 citations
- Lubomir Bic, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 19
Notable: “Estimation of Multimedia Inorganic Arsenic Intake in the U.S. Population” (2002) · 109 citations
- Scott A. Jordan, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science h-index 18
Notable: “Throughput in multiple service, multiple resource communication networks” (1991) · 72 citations
- Isaac D. Scherson, Professor of Computer Science h-index 18
Notable: “An analysis of diffusive load-balancing” (1994) · 91 citations
- Michael B. Dillencourt, Professor of Computer Science h-index 17
Notable: “A general approach to connected-component labeling for arbitrary image representations” (1992) · 508 citations
- Ardalan Amiri Sani, Vice Chair of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Computer Science h-index 15
Notable: “Graspan” (2017) · 72 citations
- Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Professor of Computer Science h-index 15
Notable: “Physically-aware HW-SW partitioning for reconfigurable architectures with partial dynamic reconfiguration” (2005) · 109 citations
- Roy Fox, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 14
Notable: “RLlib: Abstractions for Distributed Reinforcement Learning” (2017) · 331 citations
- Kalev Kask, Continuing Lecturer of Computer Science h-index 14
Notable: “Unifying tree decompositions for reasoning in graphical models” (2005) · 97 citations
- Ioannis Panageas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 13
Notable: “First-order methods almost always avoid strict saddle points” (2019) · 148 citations
- Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 12
Notable: “Morpheus: towards automated SLOs for enterprise clusters” (2016) · 172 citations
- Sang-Woo Jun, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 11
Notable: “BlueDBM” (2015) · 145 citations
- Raymond O. Klefstad, Associate Professor of Teaching of Computer Science h-index 11
Notable: “A distributed, scalable, and synchronized framework for large-scale microscopic traffic simulation” (2005) · 61 citations
- Faisal Nawab, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 10
Notable: “Blockplane: A Global-Scale Byzantizing Middleware” (2019) · 39 citations
- David G. Kay, Senior Professor Emeritus of Teaching of Informatics and Computer Science h-index 9
Notable: “Total recall” (2004) · 37 citations
- Thomas Yeh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 7
Notable: “Fast and fair” (2005) · 58 citations
- Sergio Gago-Masague, Assistant Professor of Teaching of Computer Science h-index 6
Notable: “Pain buddy: A novel use of m-health in the management of children's cancer pain” (2016) · 139 citations
- Michael Shindler, Associate Professor of Teaching of Computer Science h-index 6
Notable: “Fast and Accurate k-means For Large Datasets” (2011) · 136 citations
- Habiba Farrukh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science h-index 6
Notable: “FaceRevelio” (2020) · 29 citations
- Dan S. Hirschberg, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science h-index 3
Notable: “Low power address encoding using self-organizing lists” (2001) · 30 citations
- Alexander W. Thornton, Continuing Lecturer of Computer Science
- Irene Gassko, Continuing Lecturer of Computer Science
- Magnus Egerstedt, Stacey Nicholas Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Computer Science
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- Michael T. Goodrich, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
- Padhraic Smyth, Vice Chair Computing Division and Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science
- Sandra S. Irani, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Computer Science
- Scott Mahlke, Professor of Computer Science
- Shannon L. Alfaro, Senior Continuing Lecturer of Computer Science
- Stephan Mandt, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Statistics
Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.