Ziad Matni
Assistant Teaching Professor
He/Him/His
ziad.matni@ucsb.edu
1123 Harold Frank Hall
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Education
PhD, Rutgers University, 2018
MSEE, University of Southern California, 1996
BSEE, University of Southern California, 1994
Bio

Ziad Matni received his PhD in Information Science from Rutgers University, where he also taught as an adjunct faculty member before joining UCSB. Before his work in academia, he held multiple engineering and management positions in the semiconductor, computer systems, and data communication industry for over a decade.

 

Research

Dr. Matni's research is in the field of information-seeking behavior in networked communities and makes use of computational analysis of large data sets (Big Data). This is often interdisciplinary work that brings together areas of computer science and the social sciences. His research also includes work on computer science pedagogy and human-computer interaction design.