Affiliated Faculty

Daniel M. Kammen

Professor
Energy and Natural Resources

Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is a Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, with parallel appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy where he directs the Center for Environmental Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL; rael.berkeley.edu), and was Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center from 2007 – 2015.

Sonia Katyal

Associate Dean; Professor
Law

Professor Sonia Katyal’s work focuses on the intersection of technology, intellectual property, and civil rights (including antidiscrimination, privacy, and freedom of speech).

Professor Katyal’s current projects focus on artificial intelligence and intellectual property; trademark law, branding and advertising; the intersection between the right to information and human rights; and a variety of projects on the intersection between art law, cultural heritage and new media. As a member of the university-wide Haas LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster, Professor Katyal also works on matters...

Supreet Kaur

Associate Professor
Economics

I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley. I am a development economist, with overlap in my work with behavioral and labor economics. The first strand of my research focuses on the functioning of labor markets in poor countries. My work documents frictions in labor markets, studies the causes of unemployment, and examines the impact of inequality on labor productivity. The second strand of my research explores how psychological forces--such as the limits of human cognition and social norms--can affect individual behavior and market equilibria....

Asma Kazmi

Associate Professor
Art Practice

Asma Kazmi is a research-based artist who combines virtual and material objects to explore simultaneity—a tug of more than one time and place. Her work involves long term engagement with cities, architecture, plants, animals, stones, and other matter to locate vestiges of relations forged by the legacies of colonialism and post-colonial contexts.

Umair Khan

Visiting Faculty
L&S Arts and Humanities Division

Nora Koa

Lecturer
South and Southeast Asian Studies

Nora Koa works as a Lecturer of Hindi language and literature in the Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies. She studied Hindi, Sanskrit, and Second Language Teaching in Czech Republic and Germany. She taught Czech language and literature at Delhi University, and Hindi language and literature at Charles University in Prague. At present, her research focuses mainly on Second language teaching and acquisition. Her other research interests and publications center around Early Modern languages and literature of North India, and modern Theravada Buddhism.

Zachary Lamb

Assistant Professor
City and Regional Planning

Zachary Lamb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning. His research focuses on the role of urban planning and design in shaping uneven vulnerability and resilience in the face of climate change. In 2018, Professor Lamb completed his PhD at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His dissertation focused on the role of design in shaping urban flood infrastructure and the changing spatial politics of urban flooding through two case study cities, New Orleans, Louisiana and Dhaka, Bangladesh. His current book project, Making and Unmaking the Dry...

David I. Levine

Professor
Business Administration

David I. Levine is a Professor of Business Administration at Berkeley Haas. Dr. Levine’s research focuses on understanding and overcoming barriers to improving health in poor nations. This research has examined both how to increase demand for health-promoting goods such as safer cookstoves and water filters, and how to change health-related behaviors such as handwashing with soap. He has also written extensively on organizational learning (and failures to learn).

Aprajit Mahajan

Associate Professor
Energy and Natural Resources

Aprajit Mahajan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Aprajit's research interests are in development and econometrics with a regional focus on India.

Ayesha S. Mahmud

Associate Professor
Demography

Ayesha Mahmud is a demographer, who is broadly interested in the interplay between human population changes, environmental factors, and infectious disease dynamics. Her research draws on theory and methods from demography and disease ecology, to answer questions such as - why do outbreaks occur at certain times of the year? How and why does the mortality burden of infectious diseases vary over time? How do population travel patterns drive the spatial dynamics of outbreaks? How will global environmental and demographic changes alter the landscape of infectious disease burden in the future?...