Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education
Dean of Undergraduate Education
Michael Miller is Dean of Undergraduate Education in the College of Letters & Science, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education at UC Santa Barbara, and Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
Dr. Miller received his BA in Psychology from San Francisco State University in 1994. He then began his doctoral training in Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis where he won the Achievement Award for College Scientists. After joining the lab of Dr. Michael Gazzaniga, he transferred to Dartmouth College, where he received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience in 1998. In 1999, he became an assistant professor at the Department of Psychological & Brain sciences at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 2002, he joined the faculty at UCSB. His publications studying the cognitive neuroscience of human memory, decision-making, and individual differences have utilized various techniques including functional magnetic resonance imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, patient testing, and signal detection analysis.