Boundary Spanning Faculty.
The MDes is an interdisciplinary program. That means its faculty are not from one department; they come from across the university. The researchers who teach in this program work on AI and automation, public health, urban equity, and civic design, among other areas.
Program Leadership
Assoc. Prof. Michael W. Meyer
MDes Program Director, Associate Professor of Design and Rady School of Management
Research: design-driven organizational transformation and design pedagogy.
Prof. Steven P. Dow
MDes Associate Program Director · Professor, Department of Cognitive Science
Research: human-computer interaction, social computing, creativity support, and civic design.
Design Lab Faculty
Eliah Aronoff-Spencer
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health)
John C. Arroyo
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
Lisa Cartwright
Professor, Visual Arts
Elizabeth V. Eikey
Assistant Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Sciences
Eve Eure
Assistant Professor, Literature
Keolu Fox
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Futures
William Griswold
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Philip Guo
Associate Professor, Cognitive Science & Computer Science & Engineering
Eric Hekler
Professor & Associate Dean, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Sciences
Jim Hollan
Distinguished Professor, Cognitive Science & Computer Science & Engineering
Clemence Idoux
Assistant Professor, Economics
Lilly Irani
Associate Professor, Communication
David Kirsh
Professor, Cognitive Science
Scott Klemmer
Professor, Cognitive Science & Computer Science & Engineering
Parinaz Naghizadeh
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Camille Nebeker
Associate Adjunct Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Sciences
Mai Thi Nguyen
Director, Design Lab, Professor of Urban Studies & Planning
Heather Ponchetti Daly
Assistant Professor, History
Laurel Riek
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
Edward Jay Wang
Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Nadir Weibel
Associate Faculty Director, The Design Lab; Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Teo Wickland
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
Haijun Xia
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science
Megan Ybarra
Associate Professor, Communication
Pinar Yoldas
Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Affiliated Faculty
Sarah Aarons
Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Emily Aiken
Assistant Professor, Global Policy & Strategy
Memo Akten
Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Morana Alac
Associate Professor, Communication
Amy Alexander
Professor, Visual Arts
Ben Bergen
Professor, Cognitive Science
Alan Card
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Global Health Program)
Michael Coblenz
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Caroline Collins
Assistant Professor, Communication
Jordan Crandall
Professor, Visual Arts
Nate Delson
Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Ricardo Dominguez
Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Bill Fulton
Professor of Practice, Urban Studies & Planning
Linda Hill
Clinical Professor, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Sciences
Haojian Jin
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute & Computer Science & Engineering
Michael Kurisu
Clinical Instructor, Family Medicine & Public Health
Sam Lau
Assistant Professor, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Bobby McElver
Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance (Acting)
Alison Moore
Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology & Palliative Care
Imani N. S. Munyaka
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Kyong Park
Associate Professor, Visual Arts
Kevin Patrick
Recall Faculty, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health & Human Longevity Sciences
Susan Peerson
Lecturer, Urban Studies & Planning
Victoria Petrovich
Professor, Theatre & Dance
Keith Pezzoli
Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
Nadia Polikarpova
Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Mirle Rabinowitz-Bussell
Associate Teaching Professor, Urban Studies & Planning
Mattheus Ramsis
Assistant Clinical Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
Christopher Sims
Associate Professor, Communication
Kristen Vaccaro
Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
K. Wayne Yang
Provost, Ethnic Studies
