Chen-Nee Chuah, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Child Family Professor in Engineering, has been appointed co-director of the AI Center in Engineering. A UC Davis faculty member since 2002, she focuses her research on large-scale networked systems and learning-driven information processing, computation, and control. She is also interested in applying data science and machine learning techniques to different application domains.
Dr. Chuah is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she majored in electrical engineering. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences form the University of California, Berkeley.
Chimène Keitner, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, has been named director of the Center for International Law and Policy. She is a leading authority on international law and civil litigation, previously serving as counselor on international law at the U.S. Department of State. She is the author of two books, including The Paradoxes of Nationalism: The French Revolution and Its Meaning for Contemporary Nation Building (State University of New York Press, 2007).
Dr. Keitner is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she double-majored in history and literature. She holds a juris doctorate from Yale Law School and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University in England.
Afra Afsharipour, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, has been named the inaugural director of the Center for Business Law and Society. She recently served as the senior associate dean for academic affairs at the UC Davis School of Law from 2018 to 2024. In her research, she examines comparative corporate law, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and transactional law. Her scholarship has been featured in several law reviews and books, including Comparative Corporate Governance (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).
Professor Afsharipour is a magna cum laude graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She earned her juris doctorate from Columbia Law School in New York City.