Director.
Jeff Burke is Professor In-Residence in the Department of Theater and Associate Dean, Research and Technology in the School of Theater, Film and Television at UCLA. He was the Founding Executive Director of UCLA REMAP. Burke’s research and teaching explore how emerging technologies can be designed to serve expressive and social goals. He has created, designed, managed and/or produced performances, films, software projects, installations and new facility construction.
From 2006-2012, he was area lead for participatory urban sensing at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, which helped define a new application arena for mobile devices. From 2014-2020, he served as Assistant and, later, Associate Dean for Technology and Innovation in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
Since 2010, he has been a co-PI and application team lead for the Named Data Networking project, a multi-campus effort supported by the NSF and an international consortium to develop a future Internet architecture, most recently supported through a joint Intel/NSF award for research on advanced platforms for augmented reality.
Burke was recently profiled in the UCLA Optimist campaign.
He is currently working on Entropy Bound, an original play incorporating machine learning, introduced in this recent UCLA Magazine article.