University of California, Merced

Merced, CA
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    212 faculty · 100 courses · data as of 2026-07-02

    Psychology, General32 faculty avg h-index 22.6 #55 of 89 in Psychology
    Martin Hagger, Distinguished Professor of Health Psychology; Graduate Group Chair h-index 100
    Determinants of health behavior; theories of social cognition and motivation; theory integration; behavior change; meta-analysis Bio: Martin Hagger is Distinguished Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Psychological Sciences at UC Merced. He is
    Notable: “Ego depletion and the strength model of self-control: A meta-analysis.” (2010) · 2,264 citations
    Linda Cameron, Professor of Health Psychology h-index 55
    Notable: “The Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ-R)” (2002) · 2,962 citations
    Deborah Wiebe, Professor of Health Psychology; Director Health Sciences Research Institute h-index 46
    Notable: “Children's Appraisals of Maternal Involvement in Coping With Diabetes: Enhancing Our Understanding of Adherence, Metabolic Control, and Quality of Life Across Adolescence” (2005) · 273 citations
    Jan Wallander, Distinguished Professor Emeritus h-index 45
    Professor Wallander is retired and no longer accept new graduate students to work with him. Health psychology focused on children and adolescents. Quality of life and wellbeing in childhood, especially in vulnerable groups due to chronic illness, poverty, and
    Notable: “Effects of Pediatric Chronic Physical Disorders on Child and Family Adjustment” (1998) · 684 citations
    Biology27 faculty avg h-index 24.5 #22 of 68 in Biology
    Axel Visel, Adjunct Professor h-index 79
    Human functional genomics and enhancers in development and disease
    Notable: “Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain” (2006) · 5,970 citations
    Chris T. Amemiya, Professor h-index 64
    Understanding the development and evolution of novelties in vertebrates; EvoDevo, Genomics, Immune System, Developmental Biology
    Notable: “The genomic basis of adaptive evolution in threespine sticklebacks” (2012) · 1,937 citations
    Clarissa J. Nobile, Professor h-index 49
    Molecular and mechanistic bases of medically relevant microbial communities; Microbiology, Genetics, Biofilms, Transcriptional Regulation, Infectious Diseases
    Notable: “Candida albicans Biofilms and Human Disease” (2015) · 1,043 citations
    Zhong Wang, Professor h-index 43
    Notable: “RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics” (2008) · 13,398 citations
    Mechanical Engineering24 faculty avg h-index 23.4 #50 of 70 in Mechanical Engineering
    YangQuan Chen, Professor h-index 98
    Mechatronics Control systems - Unmanned aircraft systems - Cyber-physical systems - Applied fractional calculus Education: - Ph.D., 1998 — Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - M.S., 1989 — Beijing Institute of Technology, China - B.S., 1985 — Unive
    Notable: “A new collection of real world applications of fractional calculus in science and engineering” (2018) · 1,733 citations
    Reza Ehsani, Professor h-index 42
    Engineering systems for agriculture - Automation and intelligent machines for production and postharvest of agricultural crops - Precision agriculture technology - Sensors for biotic and abiotic plant stress detection - Mechanical harvesting machines and ro
    Notable: “A review of advanced techniques for detecting plant diseases” (2010) · 1,335 citations
    Po-Ya Abel Chuang, Professor and Vice Chair (ME) h-index 30
    PEM fuel cell - Heat exchanger - Thermal management - Two-phase heat transfer and fluid flow - Loop heat pipe - Porous material - Carbon fiber Education: - Executive MBA, 2009 — Rochester Institute of Technology - Ph.D., 2003 — Pennsylvania State University
    Notable: “New insights into evaluating catalyst activity and stability for oxygen evolution reactions in alkaline media” (2017) · 297 citations
    Min Hwan Lee, Associate Professor h-index 29
    Electrochemical energy conversion and storage (e.g., fuel cells and batteries) - Next generation non-volatile memory (e.g., resistive switching memory) - Electrochemical nano-patterning - Nanoscale electrochemistry - Nanoscale material interface and surface
    Notable: “Three-Dimensional Nanostructured Bilayer Solid Oxide Fuel Cell with 1.3 W/cm2 at 450 °C” (2013) · 203 citations
    Cognitive & Information Sciences23 faculty avg h-index 27.8 #43 of 88 in Computer Science
    Ming-Hsuan Yang, Professor and Graduate Chair, EECS h-index 144
    Computer vision - Pattern recognition - Machine learning Education: - Ph.D., 2000 — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - M.S., 1994 — University of Texas at Austin M.S., 1992 — University of Southern California - B.S., 1991 — National Tsing-Hua Univ
    Notable: “Robust Recovery of Subspace Structures by Low-Rank Representation” (2012) · 3,659 citations
    Dong Li, Associate Professor h-index 41
    High performance computing - Fault tolerance/resilience in large-scale parallel and distributed systems - Power-aware computing - Performance modeling and optimization Education: - Ph.D., 2011, Virginia Tech Departments: Computer Science & Engineering (CSE
    Notable: “Ergodic Capacity of Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Communication Systems With Phase Errors” (2020) · 195 citations
    Shawn Newsam, Professor h-index 35
    Image processing - Computer vision - Pattern recognition - Machine learning - Content-based information retrieval - Digital libraries, data mining and knowledge discovery in spatio-temporal, multimedia and scientific datasets Education: - Ph.D., 2004 — UC S
    Notable: “Bag-of-visual-words and spatial extensions for land-use classification” (2010) · 2,888 citations
    Stefano Carpin, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs h-index 33
    Robotics - Motion planning - Cooperative multi-robot systems - Urban search and rescue & service robotics - High fidelity robot simulation - Artificial intelligence Department: Dean's Office Education: - Ph.D., 2003 — University of Padova - Italy "Laurea" d
    Notable: “USARSim: a robot simulator for research and education” (2007) · 423 citations
    Civil & Environmental Engineering22 faculty avg h-index 31.5 #7 of 17 in Civil Engineering
    Roger Bales, Professor Emeritus h-index 71
    Ecosystem climate solutions; Water resources; Hydrology
    Notable: “Mountain hydrology of the western United States” (2006) · 749 citations
    Samuel Traina, Professor Emeritus h-index 60
    Chemical transformations of pollutants in soils, surface and ground water Education: Ph.D., 1983 — University of California, Berkeley B.S., 1978 — University of California, Berkeley Departments: Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE
    Notable: “Schwertmannite and the chemical modeling of iron in acid sulfate waters” (1996) · 1,050 citations
    Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Professor h-index 57
    Effect of climate changes on storage and stabilization of soil organic matter - Nano-scale biogeochemistry of iron oxides - Erosion and terrestrial carbon sequestration - Political ecology of land degradation and ownership Education: - Ph.D., 2006 - Univers
    Notable: “Soil and human security in the 21st century” (2015) · 1,462 citations
    Joshua Viers, Professor h-index 43
    Agroecology and Conservation Agriculture Planning and Implementation - Climatic and Hydrological Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Strategies - Ecosystem Service and Biodiversity Inventory, Assessment, and Restoration - Geospatial Technologies
    Notable: “Threats and biodiversity in the mediterranean biome” (2008) · 403 citations
    Sociology19 faculty avg h-index 13.4 #9 of 39 in Sociology
    Tanya Golash-Boza, Professor h-index 29
    Notable: “Latino immigrant men and the deportation crisis: A gendered racial removal program” (2013) · 490 citations
    Nella Van Dyke, Professor h-index 24
    Notable: “Structural Social Change and the Mobilizing Effect of Threat: Explaining Levels of Patriot and Militia Organizing in the United States” (2002) · 330 citations
    Laura Hamilton, Professor h-index 23
    Notable: “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape” (2006) · 497 citations
    Paul Almeida, Professor & Graduate Program Chair h-index 21
    Notable: “Opportunity Organizations and Threat‐Induced Contention: Protest Waves in Authoritarian Settings” (2003) · 394 citations

    Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Partial — enrichment ongoing.

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    About University of California, Merced. University of California, Merced in Merced, CA reports an overall acceptance rate of 90.5%, an early-round acceptance rate of 90.5%, an SAT middle 50% of 1010–1230, a class size of 2,093, and a yield of 7.0% based on the most recent Common Data Set filings. Test-blind UC campus. Newest UC (founded 2005), rapidly growing. Research-focused with small class sizes and high faculty accessibility.