San Diego State University
San Diego, CA·Public
13 labs on PI Pages. It spends $182M a year on research and awards 142 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 42,660: 36,724 undergraduates, 5,936 graduate
- Postdocs
- 112
- Faculty
- 1,012 full-time
- Campus
- Residential
Labs here
Sanjay Behura
Materials Science
Assess the translation potential of a room-temperature quantum sensor based on optically addressable spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride, light-readable flaws in an atomically thin material, through I-Corps customer discovery.
Xin Zhang
Computer Science
Establish diagnostic theory tying spatial-temporal tokenization, cross-modal representation alignment, and distributional drift to the conditions under which LLM-based urban forecasters generalize or break down, producing measurable criteria usable before deployment.
Sarah Mattson Weller
Psychology
Measure how accurately the FASD-Tree, a web tool recording physical and behavioral features, and BRAIN-online, a web-based cognitive test, classify children aged 6–17 with FASD, alone and combined, by sensitivity and specificity.
Nicholas Shikuma
Microbiology & Immunology
Identify and functionally test NF-κB homologs needed for bacteria-induced metamorphosis in the tubeworm Hydroides elegans, using RNA interference and gene expression analysis.
Iana Castro
Public Health & Epidemiology
Map the food environment of Imperial County, California, by building a Geographic Information System (GIS) of food retailers and auditing stores in person to find gaps in healthy food access.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.